A Raid on Dore

In the News: Sheffield's Cunning Plan?

Derby Daily Telegraph - 3rd of October 1927.

The title of this article suggests violence afoot but in actuality the ‘raid’ was on land in Dore. The article predates the inclusion of Dore into Sheffield. Dore was still firmly within Derbyshire until the mid-1930s. To quote directly from the newspaper this is what was said :

‘Most people know that Dore is a Derbyshire suburb of Sheffield, to which the well to-do classes of that city resort for residential purposes. Dore is rather exclusive, and, it is said, somewhat inclined to give itself airs. But a cold shiver has been sent through the place by the rumour that the City Council contemplate building a large number of houses for the working classes on land they have acquired there for this especial purpose.

If that be true, it will be a great blow to the Dore that has grown up in the last generation, and that prides itself on its social amenities and general attractiveness. The point is of some interest to Derbyshire, for Dore is, of course in our County. What is threatened is that when the new block of working-class houses is completed, Sheffield will go to Parliament for an extension of boundaries that will wipe Dore off the map of Derbyshire once and for all.’

And as they say - the rest is history.