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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 work- shops, stables

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

This park was laid out for the benefit of working people to give them a break from the dust and grime of industrial Sheffield.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them.

A small boy watches the antics of the Frith cameraman as he positions his camera for this picture of the main road to Sheffield.

The keel next in line carries the top and mainsail rig of a Sheffield-size craft, while the third keel is sloop-rigged.

For an industrial city, Sheffield has some very attractive suburbs with interesting buildings.

The lake at Crookes Valley Park is in fact one of Sheffield's older reservoirs, converted for use as a boating lake and for fishing.

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

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

This view across what is now known as the Peace Gardens towards the mock-Gothic spires of Sheffield's Town Hall has not changed significantly since this photograph was taken.

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 work- shops, stables

Stone from here was used to build Sheffield's Wicker Arches that carried the Manchester railway line from 1848 to 1969.

This view looks towards Barker's Pool, where Sheffield's first reservoir was built in 1434 to collect water from several springs on the hillside above West Bar.

Mock Tudor villas were just beginning to spread out from the suburbs of Sheffield on to the former green fields of Hathersage when this photograph was taken.

The Leeds system closed in 1959, Sheffield in 1960 and Glasgow in 1962.

The rates varied according to distance; 5d to Leeds, 4d to Sheffield, 6d to Chesterfield and 11d to London.

In the mid-1950s Sheffield was one of only a handful of cities that still had faith in its tramway system.

Owned by the Duke of Norfolk, the 52 acres of Norfolk Park had been open to the citizens of Sheffield since 1841.

For a couple of decades or so Sheffield's public parks became the focal point for local Whit-Sunday celebrations.

The Park Hill estate towers above Sheffield Midland station.

The Park Hill estate towers above Sheffield Midland station.

This view looks towards the village from the Sheffield road.