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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

As Sheffield expanded, a number of turnpike toll bars which had once been in the country were now located within built-up areas.

St George's was one of three churches built in Sheffield between 1825 and 1830 that were originally district chapels belonging to the parish church of St Paul's.

The George, a former coaching inn, has stood at the junction of the Grindleford Road and the Sheffield Road in Hathersage for about 300 years.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses at the end of the street.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses seen at the far end of the street.

car is registered in nearby Sheffield.

The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth College and the Technical School.

The ridgetop village of Bolsterstone stands at nearly 1,000 feet above the sea on the edge of the Peak District moors north-west of Sheffield.

The Albany was the only temperance hotel in Sheffield to be mentioned alongside the likes of the Royal Victoria (rooms from 3s 6d, dinner 5s), the Midland, the Talbot and the Wharncliffe.

The museum contains a collection of cutlery dating from the 16th century and the world's finest collection of Sheffield plate.

The Albany Hotel was the only temperance hotel in Sheffield to be mentioned alongside the likes of the Royal Victoria (rooms from 3s 6d, dinner 5s), the Midland, the Talbot and the Wharncliffe

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Chesterfield Road c1955 Eckington township is situated 6 miles north-east of Chesterfield and 7 miles south-east of Sheffield, and may be the place mentioned in the early 11th- century will of

The simple spire of St Peter's Church, Sheffield is typical of many such post-modern churches, which were built as large new council housing estates were erected in the suburbs of 'the Steel City', now

This 29-arch viaduct carries the Sheffield to Huddersfield railway over the River Don.

Hoyland, properly Hoyland Nether, is a large former coal mining village between Sheffield and Barnsley.

Following the end of the Second World War, a large number of returning servicemen and women opted for a university education, and by 1947 Sheffield university's student population had more than doubled

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

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

Rugby had become an important railway junction with routes radiating out to Birmingham, Nuneaton, Leicester, Sheffield, Northampton, Warwick and Marylebone.

Beauchief Abbey lies four miles south of Sheffield.

Beauchief Abbey lies four miles south of Sheffield.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and