Tag: Sheffield history
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The Cementation Furnace. Sheffield.
This odd structure sits just off the main road where I live on a road called Doncaster street. Named, not after the nearby city, but after the steel factory which once stood here. It’s even more of an oddment now as it stands in the middle of derelict land which is awaiting development. There were…
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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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Museums of The World: Weston Park Museum.
Weston Park museum is just a short walk from home for me so this is a kind of regular haunt of mine. In the middle of Weston Park the museum was once a mansion house that housed the art collection of John Newton Mappin, a Rotherham buisnessman. Thusly the name above the original entrance of…
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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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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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Hunting History But Not Finding Much. Volume 1. The Pagoda Bank.
Sometimes, just sometimes, I find a place that looks interesting and might possibly have a great history. So I take photos, prepare a page on WordPress then get to work trying to find out the history of the building. I took some photos of this building back in November and could find very little about…
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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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