Sheffield, The City Hall c.1955
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Designed by E Vincent Harris in the classical style featuring a Corinthian columned entrance, the City Hall was built using Darley Dale stone and completed in 1932. Inside is the Oval Hall, where up to 2800 people can be seated for concerts. The front of the hall still bears the scars of the night during World War Two when a bomb landed to the side of the War Memorial, destroying a static water tank into the bargain.

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I have very vivid memories of the war years as it was coming to an end. I was born in Cambridge Street in The Sportdman's public house, which up to the present time is the only pub left on Cambridge Street. Where the John Lewis store now stands on the corner of Barkers Pool/ Cambridge St there was a firm called, The Steel City Works, that got bombed, oh don't I remember the sounds around that night!!!. I remember ...see more