How 200 love letters became my time machine to Victorian Sheffield

They met on a summer’s day in 1878 in Bowden Houstead Woods

Good afternoon members — and welcome to Tuesday’s Tribune.

Today’s story is by Ingrid Birchell Hughes, a writer whose great-great-grandparents Fred and Janie fell in love in Sheffield in the 1870s. Ingrid first began writing about their relationship after inheriting the love letters Fred and Janie wrote to each other. More recently she has begun producin…