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ARE YOU BEING SERVED?

Walsh's Dept Store with The Hole In The Road

ARE YOU BEING SERVED? If you’re aged under 50 that headline won’t mean much to you, so do what you usually do and Google it. Basically it was a long running sit-com featuring an old fashioned department store run by

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BRASSED OFF

95 Mary Street - front elevation

Once upon a time, Sheffield had a Britannia Brass Works (unusual for a steel town). Built in the 1870s for Messrs Searle and Gazzard it had a short life however and by 1905 it had been abandoned and by 1910

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ON A MISSION

St Vincents Boys School with St Vincent's Church tower in the background

The St Vincent’s Quarter is fast becoming another Kelham and is currently one vast building site especially in the Hollis Croft area which we featured in the ‘Improvements at St. Vincents’ Blog. Recent details in the press tell us that

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WALLS OF JERICHO

Joels Yard and Arts Tower

Town Fields is an area of Sheffield that you’ve probably never heard of, but that’s what it was known as a couple of hundred years ago, which explains why. No doubt this is where one of the street names ‘Daisy

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SOUR GRAPES

Mottrams Builders. Trippet Lane 10-02-2016 02-09-49. Trippet Lane

One of the most delightful and original hostelries in the centre of town is The Grapes which is tucked away in the little backwater of Trippet Lane. Adjoining the pub is a vaguely interesting red-brick building dating back to the

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A TALE FROM FIR VALE

St Cuthbert's Church Fir Vale

Lack of respect was the response of the Conservation Advisory Group and quite rightly so for a scheme which has been submitted for the third time since 2005. It was a reference to the proposed designs and if you saw

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EBENEZER HUMBUG

Ebenezer Chapel Walkley

Students are getting fussier and fussier nowadays and somewhere just to lay their heads down is no longer good enough for them. A prime example of this faddiness can be found in the ‘once upon a time’ student area of

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SHEFFIELD’S VERY OWN HIGHGATE

General Cemetery old print

At long last some money is going to be thrown at one of Sheffield’s hidden gems – and not before time. We refer to Sheffield General Cemetery which, according to Pevsner, is possibly the best of its date outside London.

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MORE MAYFIELD MAYHEM

Old Mayfield School

Everyone if familiar with the Bennett Cottage saga which looks set to run and run, and just when you thought things couldn’t get worse another similar application for just down the road has been slapped in. The design is not

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88 LISTED IN 88

Wharncliffe Works. Kelham

The 88 referred to in the title is 88 Green Lane and better known as Wharncliffe Works. Built c1861 for Steel & Garland, manufacturers of stoves, grates and fenders. At some stage it is believed that Bowie knives were once

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