J. Edward Vickers MBE

Made in Sheffield Dot Com has been greatly assisted in our research by J. Edward Vickers MBE, a well known Sheffield historian.

He was born in 1917 and studied art and architecture at the Sheffield School of Art. Enlisting with the Hallamshire Battalion of the Territorial Army in 1938, he was called to the colours immediately the Second World War began. He served throughout the war, seeing service in Norway, Iceland, North Africa, Italy and Austria. He married his wife, Ruby, in 1941 and they have three sons and a granddaughter.

After the war he was a tutor of Sheffield History for Adult Education until retirement. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and of the Hunter Archaeological Society. As a founder member of the Hallamshire Historic Buildings Society and now its Vice President, he has assisted in the saving of many of the historic buildings of the city.

For his work on the history of Sheffield and the conservation of many of its buildings he was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 1994.

Books by J. Edward Vickers:

• A Popular History of Sheffield.
  
• Old Sheffield Town.
  
• The Unseen, The Unsightly and the Amusing in Sheffield.
  
• Tales and Legends of Ancient Sheffield.
  
• From Horses to Atlanteans, the history of Sheffield's Transport.
  
• The Ancient Suburbs of Sheffield.
  
• Old Sheffield, Its Streets, People and Stories.
  
• The Old and Historic Buildings of Sheffield.
  
• Saving our Heritage.

Photograph of J. Edward Vickers receiving his MBE reproduced with the subject's kind permission.