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In July 1905, when the king and queen came to Sheffield to open the university, tramway takings during the visit were a staggering £6664.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Hymn singing in Sheffield's public parks was allowed on Whit Sundays, and in 1912 a special dispensation was granted for a memorial concert in aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund.

Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.

The Ladybower Reservoir, the last in the series of three which flooded the Upper Derwent Valley, was built to provide water for Sheffield and the East Midlands.

The hydro operated its own coach and four to Sheffield and back several days a week.

Also featured is the Sheffield War Memorial, designed by Charles Carus Wilson and unveiled in October 1925.

Also featured is the Sheffield War Memorial, designed by Charles Carus Wilson and unveiled in October 1925.

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

The church was restored in 1861 by Sheffield architect Joseph Mitchell.

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.

Now in private hands, up until the 1950s it and much other property in the village was owned by the Sheffields of Normanby Hall.

The restored cross in the centre of Woodhouse, a South Yorkshire village east of Sheffield, stands on an ancient stepped base and now features a sundial and a weathervane.

The first cricket match was played at Headingley in 1890, and Yorkshire County matches transferred to to the ground from the previous county pitch at Sheffield.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

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.

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.

Beauchief is now a northern suburb of Sheffield, but it was once part of Derbyshire.

Dronfield lies midway between Chesterfield and Sheffield, and has developed as a commuter town for both.

Eckington is another north-east Derbyshire town which formerly depended on the collieries which surrounded it, but which now is finding a new focus as a commuter town for Chesterfield and Sheffield.

These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth

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

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