This area, which has been largely rebuilt since the Second World War, was already occupied by industrial buildings by the time of the 1851 OS survey. This plan shows lime kilns, a brewery, and the surviving Canal Street Steelworks all clustered within easy reach of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal, built at the start of the 19th century. Prior to industrialisation this area was within an area of piecemeal enclosures probably formed at the time of the disparkment of Sheffield Park. Late 19th century maps shows that the early industry in this area was soon surrounded by back to back courts of the type typical within Sheffield before the regulation of housing conditions in Sheffield in 1864 (Harman and Minnis 2004). It is the clearance of this housing during the mid twentieth century that seems to have provided the impetus for redevelopment of this area in the 1950s and 1960s.