Category: Buildings
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Power For The People.
On the roundabout at the bottom of Ecclesall Road in Sheffield is this large concrete block. It’s a perfect example of 1960’s brutalism but what is it actually for? This is the Moore Street Energy Substation. What is a substation? Well the actual definition of a substation from The National Grid webpage says: Transmission substations…
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Centre Point.
At the bottom end of Oxford Street and just next to Tottenham Court Road station is a 34 storey tower by the name of Centre Point. It’s a very distinctive building that is instantly recognisable. Centre Point was designed by George Marsh in a very distinctive style and construction started in 1963. The building was…
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An Unassuming Bandstand.
Some days while on my morning walk to work I pass this beautiful bandstand in the middle of Weston Park in Sheffield. There were once two bandstands like this in Sheffield, the second being in Hillsborough Park. The Hillsborough one is long gone which makes Weston Park’s bandstand the last surviving Victorian Bandstand in Sheffield.…
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Memling Cinema, Bruges.
When most people go abroad the first thing they search for is restaurants, supermarkets, museums etc. Me? Well, I look for abandoned and closed down cinemas. Bruges was no exception. I’d started hunting down old cinemas in Bruges a couple of weeks before I even got there. There was just one. The Memling Cinema. In…
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A Rare (and Racy) Thing.
In 1969 a shop opened on Devonshire Street in Sheffield that offered second hand books, records and art. Over the years it became a well loved shop and a place for like minded people to hang out. People would come to buy, sell and exchange their stuff for all over Sheffield and sometimes even further.…
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Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield.
Before Christmas I went to see a comedy play at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield and was amazed by how beautiful it was inside and out. I’ve seen it so many times while walking past but never really stopped to admire it until I’d seen the inside. On this site in Sheffield there has been…
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New Tivoli Cinema, Sheffield.
Just across the Peace Gardens from the Town Hall in Sheffield is this building that I’ve been meaning to find out more about for ages. I’ve walked past here many times each time making a mental note to find out more. This time I did. The building always seemed a odd fit for a Browns…
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A Visit to the Military History Museum, Budapest.
I love a good museum and I’m always on the hunt for one that will entertain, educate and inform me. The Military History museum in Budapest fulfilled all those things. On a cloudy Saturday morning, following a very wet Friday, I headed over to the Buda side to find the museum. The subway journey was…
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Buda Tower.
They say that you should do something every day that scares you. With that in mind I climbed many, many stairs to find myself at the top of a huge tower that I walked past after leaving the Military Museum in Budapest. I have a huge fear of heights by the way. Little did I…
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