Tag: Sheffield
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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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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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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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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.…
The History Hunter 