Edward Bury FRS
(1794-1858)
locomotive engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society, locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway, Great Northern Railway general manager, founder of Sheffield steel firm Bedford, Burys and Co, inventor of the bar frame locomotive, pioneer of standardisation in engineering, locomotive designer, and pioneer locomotive builder with the London and Birmingham Railway (1838-1846)
Commemorated on 2 plaques
Edward Bury Between 1852 and 1860 Hillsborough Hall was occupied by the family of Manchester born Edward Bury F.R.S. (1794-1858), pioneer locomotive builder with the London and Birmingham Railway (1838-1846), one-time locomotive superintendent and general manager of the Great Northern Railway, and subsequently co-founder of Sheffield steel firm Bedford, Burys and Co, of the Regent Works. Bury invented the bar frame locomotive, universally adopted by American railroads, and was a pioneer of standardisation in engineering.
Hillsborough Hall (now library), Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom where they lived
Hillsborough Hall Hillsborough Hall was built in 1779 in the Adam style as the home of Thomas Steade. It was thus called as a mark of respect for Lord Downside of Hillsborough, County Down. Hillsborough subsequently became the name of a Sheffield suburb and a world famous football club ground. Nineteenth century occupants of the hall included three celebrated manufacturers; the Rodgers family of cutlers, the locomotive designer and engineer Edward Bury, and James Willis Dixon and his son of the same name who were silversmiths. It was James Willis Dixon jnr. who in 1899 released the ten acre site north of the hall which was to become Hillsborough football ground. He eventually gifted the hall to the people of Sheffield and it took on a new role as a public library in 1906.
Hillsborough Hall (now library), Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom where they lived