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 Sheffield, Apartments on the River Don 2005 (ref. S108720k) | Sheffield's lowly position in the league table of provincial shopping centres, 18th in the most recent study (December 2003) and far behind regional rivals Manchester (third), Nottingham (fifth) and Leeds (sixth), underlines the problems the city faces if it is to compete successfully with other centres - let us not forget it is the fourth largest city in England. That study was based not only on the volume of retail floor space but also on factors such as the quality and quantity of top retail names and the comfort for the shopper in terms of accessibility by public transport, the amount of safe parking and personal safety. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Botanical Gardens, Glasshouses 2005 (ref. S108722k) | Sheffield's unique woodland resource - the city is the best-wooded city in the country with about 80 ancient woods within its boundaries - also received an important shot in the arm in 1999 when the success of a Heritage Lottery bid to restore 35 ancient woodlands in Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley was announced. The project, called 'Fuelling a Revolution - the woods that founded the steel country,' was awarded £1.5-million to actively manage the woodlands again and to interpret for schools and the general public the region's woodland heritage. 23 of the 35 woods in the project are in Sheffield. An ancient wood is a wood that is known from documentary evidence or from a combination of archaeological, botanical or geographical clues to have been in existence since at least AD 1600. The significance of the date 1600 is that it was only after that date that trees were planted in this country to form woods. What this means is that ancient woods may be sites continually wooded since the last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago. For centuries Sheffield's ancient woods provided charcoal, the original fuel used for iron and steel making. Sheffield is certainly a city on the move, being shaped and re-shaped by public investment and private enterprise, to become a city of the 21st century. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, High Street c1960 (ref. S108110) | Some of these features were already in place at the turn of the century and a number of other prestigious regeneration schemes are at an advanced stage in their development while others are on the drawing board. The Heart of the City scheme has seen the opening of the Millennium Galleries and the Winter Garden and the re-designing of the Peace Gardens. To complete the scheme, in an advanced state of construction are a new hotel and an office block, and a 21-storey apartment block planned to be built on the site of the demolished register office. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Winter Garden 2005 (ref. S108717k) | The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing a Heritage Lottery facelift of nearly £20- million, the entry into Sheffield outside the Sheffield railway station (which has itself undergone an improvement scheme) is planned to be transformed at a cost of £12. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Sheffield Midland Station and Park Hill c1965 (ref. S108222) | Central areas of the city and old industrial districts are being repopulated. There could be as many as 5,000 new apartment homes in and around the city centre in the very near future. Among those already occupied or well on their way to full occupation are the prestigious West One and Royal Plaza developments in the fashionable 'Devonshire Quarter' around West Street and upper Devonshire Street. West One consists of 500 apartments with restaurants, cafes and bars underneath; Royal Plaza boasts a 24-hour concierge service, underground parking and a central garden area. Besides the new developments are a number of interesting conversions including the old Barclays Bank in Commercial Street which is being turned into 56 apartments, and the Pinstone Chambers Building and the Prudential Assurance Building near the Peace Gardens. Further out from the city centre other interesting conversions include the luxury Ward's Brewery complex, called One Eleven, which includes 132 apartments. The Riverside Exchange beside the Don just off the Wicker with 214 apartments and 250,000 square feet of office space is an exciting development in a part of the city formerly dominated by industry, as is the conversion of Dixon's silver plate works at Cornish Place into an apartment complex and the attractive riverside apartments at Beckett's Saw Works off Green Lane. Riverside developments such as the Riverside Exchange and the proposed pedestrianisation of Nursery Street are notable extensions to the Victoria Quays development at the canal basin. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Rivelin Valley c1955 (ref. S108054) | For most of the century the city's parks retained their popularity and were maintained meticulously, only in the last quarter of the century suffering from a lack of management and care. The city council also continued to acquire new parkland through gift and purchase, for example Millhouses Park in 1909, Bingham Park between 1911 and 1927, Graves Park in 1925 and Whirlow Brook Park in 1946. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Moor c1960 (ref. S108087) | The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes took place. Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves Art Gallery in 1933; the College of Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard Square in 1987. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Barker's Pool and Town Hall c1955 (ref. S108057) | The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes took place. Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves Art Gallery in 1933; the College of Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard Square in 1987. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Victoria Hall c1955 (ref. S108004) | The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes took place. Almost every decade saw the construction of a new city landmark: the Methodists' Victoria Hall in Norfolk Street in 1908, Sheffield Newspapers' Kemsley House in High Street in 1916, the City Hall between 1928 and 1932; the Central Library and Graves Art Gallery in 1933; the College of Technology buildings at Pond Street (now the city campus of Sheffield Hallam University) built between 1953 and 1968; the Cole Brothers department store in 1965, the Crucible Theatre in 1971 and Orchard Square in 1987. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Nether Edge Road and the Post Office c1955 (ref. S108059) | For an industrial city, Sheffield has some very attractive suburbs with interesting buildings. Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets. Top right: Ecclesall Church, an important landmark in this sprawling suburb, dates from 1788 and replaced an ancient chapel that was served by the monks of Beauchief Abbey. Bottom left: St Peter's Church, Greenhill, completed in 1965, has an unusual square spire rising from a circular brick exterior. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, aeriel view of St Peter's Church c1965 (ref. S108188) | For an industrial city, Sheffield has some very attractive suburbs with interesting buildings. Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets. Top right: Ecclesall Church, an important landmark in this sprawling suburb, dates from 1788 and replaced an ancient chapel that was served by the monks of Beauchief Abbey. Bottom left: St Peter's Church, Greenhill, completed in 1965, has an unusual square spire rising from a circular brick exterior. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Fitzalan Square 1902 (ref. 48268) | Despite the rapid population growth and relentless outward expansion, the countryside, in the form of ancient woodlands, riverside walks and moorland, was still within relatively easy reach of most late Victorian Sheffielders, at the end of a short tram ride. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Lyceum Theatre, Tudor Square 2005 (ref. S108708k) | But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for the new structure which was replacing the old town hall on the corner of Castle Street and Waingate. Built of Derbyshire sandstone, the new town hall was described by Sir Nicholas Pevsner as a 'large picturesque pile'. Reflecting Sheffield's industrial history there are two friezes carved in stone which depict, among other things, grinders, smiths, smelters and miners, and a 200-foot tower surmounted by an eight-foot high bronze statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and furnaces, with his right foot on an anvil, a hammer in his right hand and pincers in his left hand. It was designed by E W Mountford and built between 1891 and 1896, and was opened the following year by Queen Victoria who was greeted by Sheffield's first lord mayor, the Duke of Norfolk. (Joan Jones) The Lyceum Theatre in Tudor Square was built in 1893, and was completely restored in 1989-90. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Nether Edge Hospital c1955 (ref. S108081) | Some important public buildings also appeared outside the central area. These included the workhouses for Ecclesall Union (in Nether Edge) and for Sheffield Union (at Fir Vale), eventually to become Nether Edge Hospital and the Northern General Hospital respectively. School buildings also made their appearance to the west of the central area: the Collegiate School on Ecclesall Road, built in a number of stages between 1835 and 1911, and the Wesley College (now King Edward VII School) on Glossop Road built between 1837 and 1840 by the Sheffield architect William Flockton. Perhaps most beautiful of all these buildings is the Mappin Art Gallery, built in 1885-87 to a design by Flockton and Gibbs from money left in his will by a wealthy brewer, John Newton Mappin. Mappin also left 150 pictures for the gallery. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Botanical Gardens 1893 (ref. 31974) | Marnock was appointed curator and he laid out the gardens in the fashionable 'gardenesque' style in which each shrub or tree was displayed to perfection in scattered plantings. The design of the glass pavilions is thought to have been the result of a collaboration between Marnock, Taylor, Paxton and leading garden designer John C Loudon. The resulting structure, almost 100 metres long in seven sections, incorporated three early examples of curvilinear glass pavilions. Originally the central pavilion was a tropical palm house with the two smaller pavilions at either end housing temperate plants. The gardens were opened to the public on 29 and 30 June and 4 and 5 July 1836, by ticket only - and until 1898 entry was limited to shareholders and annual subscribers, except for special fetes and galas. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, a Cementation Furnace, Hoyle Street 2005 (ref. S108705k) | Until the second half of the 18th century the steel used by Sheffield's cutlers was either imported or was locally made 'shear steel' which was forged from 'blister steel' made in a cementation furnace. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Sculptured Crucible Teemer outside the Town Hall 2005 (ref. S108706k) | The Crucible Steel-making Process The process of making crucible, or cast steel, as it was sometimes known, particularly the final part of the process which was pure theatre, has taken on an almost mythical quality, celebrated in drawing, engraving, painting, and metal sculpture at Meadowhall shopping centre and a sculptured bedding-plant figure outside Sheffield town hall. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Tomb of George Talbot, Cathedral 2005 (ref. S108701k) | Beyond the far end of Fargate was Balm Green, to the east of the present City Hall, which contained Barker's Pool, a source of fresh water for the town's residents to supplement the supply from public and private wells. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, Fargate c1955 (ref. S108005) | THE TITLE of this chapter was the tribute paid to Sheffield by Charles Burlington in 'The Modern Universal British Traveller' in 1779. The reputation of Sheffield for its cutlery and edge tools grew and grew throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and by the early 19th century it had an international reputation second to none. The first great industrial step forward took place in 1624. In that year the cutlers of Sheffield presented a successful bill to Parliament. The bill - 'An Act for the Good Order and Government of the Makers of Knives, Sickles, Shears, Scissors and other Cutlery Wares, in Hallamshire, in the County of York, and the parts near adjoining' - was passed by the House of Commons in April and by the House of Lords in May. Thus the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire came into being. At the time of the passing of the Act there were 498 master craftsmen in Hallamshire: 440 knife makers, 31 shear and sickle makers and 27 scissors makers. Later in the century other specialist craftsmen were admitted and in 1682, when there were over 2,000 master craftsmen who had become members of the 'communality', they included scythe makers, file smiths and awl- blade makers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sheffield, the Mappin Art Gallery c1965 (ref. S108245) | Sheffield in the Victorian period also saw a very large expansion of its housing stock not only to house the rapidly growing number of workers in the light and heavy steel industries but also to accommodate the growing clerical, managerial and professional population. Reference has already been made to the rapid expansion of Sheffield's east end - Brightside, Attercliffe and Darnall - to accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill and Lowfield to the east. Before the 1860s, the housing expansion for the working classes was in the form of brick-built back-to-backs, usually built around a common yard or 'court' which contained a water pump and privies, with the houses facing the yard being reached from the street by a covered passage called in Sheffield a 'jennel'. By the time the building of back-to-back houses was banned by local by-laws in 1864, there were 38,000 in the town. In Sheffield's east end, housing was of a better quality than that around the pre 19th-century town because most of it was built after 1864. Here, terraces of larger 'by-law' housing with through ventilation were the typical residences of steel workers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
