Editing Malin Bridge (section)

===The Great Sheffield Flood===
In 1864 Malin Bridge was devastated by the [[Great Sheffield Flood]] with 102 people killed and 20 houses destroyed in the area. Whole families were wiped out with eleven people killed at the Stag Inn including eight members of the Armitage family as the inn was swept away. Seven members of the Bisby family were killed as the Cleakum Inn was inundated and swept away. The stone-built bridge was also carried off by the raging torrent and many of the industrial workshops were destroyed. Samuel Harrison wrote: ''"The populous village of Malin Bridge experienced the full fury of the flood, and suffered to an extent which is truly appalling...A bombardment with the newest and most powerful artillery could hardly have proved so destructive, and could not possibly have been nearly so fatal to human life."''<ref name="test3">{{cite web|url=http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/photogal/picflud4.html|title=Sheffield Flood – The Trail of Destruction (4)|first=Michael|last=Armitage|website=Mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="test4">{{cite web|url=http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/book/w-page10.html|title=Web Page 10: The Great Flood at Sheffield|first=Samuel|last=Harrison|website=Mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref>

Malin Bridge expanded with the building of [[Victorian era|Victorian]] terraced housing; it became a terminus for the [[Sheffield Tramway]] with a route from the city centre commencing on 19 May 1908. Buses could be then caught at Malin Bridge for travellers continuing to Bradfield or Stannington. At that time Malin Bridge was a busy shopping area and increasing traffic meant that the original narrow bridge over the Loxley to Stannington was replaced by a wider and stronger structure. The tram route from the city centre was taken over by buses in 1952, but reinstated in 1995.
[[File:Mousehole Forge, Malin Bridge.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Mousehole Forge, part of the old buildings has been converted into a private dwelling.]]