Tag: hidden sheffield
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Sheffield Botanical Gardens.
If I feel like I need a bit more of a walk to work some mornings I will always take the back streets until I reach The Sheffield Botanical Gardens. I’ve previously written about the bear pit here but I wanted to write a bit more about the gardens themselves as they are quite beautiful.…
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The Bear of Sheffield.
I love the little oddments that survive in every town. Those strange places that once had a use and a reason for being there but seem just odd to us these days. Those bizarre things from a bygone age that serve no purpose but to remind us of what an strange place the past was.…
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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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The Crucible Fountain. Sheffield.
At the bottom end of the Moor in Sheffield lies this sad looking forgotten sculpture. It’s given name is The Crucible (or Crucible Fountain), though most people refer to it as The Moorfoot Sculpture. It was commissioned by the Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment, and was erected in front of the Manpower Services…
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Wharncliffe Fire Clay Works
In the centre of Sheffield lies this rather unique and wonderful building. It’s the one time shop and showroom for Wharncliffe Fire Clay Works. The works itself where the tiles were made was in Deepcar which is about 10 miles outside of Sheffield. The Deepcar Works from the air. Taken in 1937. The building was probably…
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Hole in the Ground.
So big and sort of round it was…. After the death of Bernard Cribbins recently I found myself recounting the tale of the time I regaled Bernard by playing and singing Hole in The Ground to him on the Kazoo and some spoons. He was so happy that I had remembered a song that he…
The History Hunter 