Description and History of Site:-
On site of Turner Wheel a 1690s cutlery grinding wheel; weir and watercourse remain (1994). Fronting Holme Lane are ashlar faced offices and two-storey brick-built workshops. To the rear is a yard and another range of workshops. At the west of the site are blue-painted corrugated-sheet clad modern workshops. Burgon & Ball were founded 1866 to make sheep shears patented by James Ball and came here in 1873. Name inscribed in stone on north elevation Burgon & Ball manufacture gardening and agricultural tools & accessories on site (2015). Between 1903 and 1906 they sold 11 cars under the name La Plata. The cars were in fact made by a currently unknown French manufacturer, using De Dion and later Aster engines, "badge engineered" as La Plata and no manufacturing was done by Burgon & Ball. Between 1904 and c1922 they also retailed other makes of cars, such as Talbot and Charron Laycock.

Further Reading and References:-
Bayliss, D (ed). A guide to the industrial history of South Yorkshire. Association for Industrial Archaeology, 1995, entry H05
Myers, S. Cars from Sheffield: the rise and fall of the Sheffield motor industry 1900 - 1930. Sheffield City Libraries, 1986.
Harman, R and Minnis, J. Sheffield. Pevsner architectural guides. Yale University Press, 2004.

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Key Words :- agricultural tool manufacture motor cars shears

Viewing the Site :- Visible from the public highway

Address :- Holme Lane, Malin Bridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S6 4JY
Grid Ref :- SK 32711 89359
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.400049 , Long -1.509497
Local Authority :- Sheffield City Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Site in industrial use
Site Dates :- 1873 -
Record Date :- 6 May 2015

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