The 1968 tour of British new-build shopping precincts continues, and today we pitch up in Sheffield. I've already explored the modern-day C...

The 1968 tour of British new-build shopping precincts continues, and today we pitch up in Sheffield. I've already explored the modern-day Castle Market in a previous post, and Unmann-Wittering took some great pictures of the covered market and signage on Found Objects. C.E. Fudge paid the place a flying visit and I like seeing it when it was less neglected. Approaching from Castle Street, the market looms up out of the road like the island of an aircraft carrier. Some good swastikas in the…

Pond Street Panoramic View - posted in SHEFFIELD TRANSPORT: just found this wich i thought i would share with you all, can anybody tell me the year it was taken?

Image from promotional booklet produced by Sheffield City Council entitled 'Sheffield, City on the Move'. It was designed to showcase the best of 1970s Sheffield. See also 'Sheffield, City on the Move' the promotional film (featured at the start of The Full Monty) which was commissioned by Sheffield City Council in 1970. According to the 'Sheffield Spectator', May 1971 the idea for the film grew from the misrepresentation of Sheffield in a German television film of 1965 entitled 'People in…

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Photo by David Morris [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Aw, just look at it. It's like the keep at Conisbrough Castle would be if the Plantagenets had ever heard of Brutalism. You could see it from the end of our road when I was little. Then again, you can see it from the end of plenty of roads, as it's up on a hill near the outskirts of town. Back in the good old days, you used to be able to go up it and use its viewing platform, and I once had the pleasure of doing just that. Sadly…

Once, one of Sheffield's premier knocking shops. Sadly now (almost) demolished. [ATTACH] And another which has seen its share of action. Now derelict...

Photos of Walkley, Sheffield, UK, during the 1970s. Streets, shops. schools, parks.

WAINGATE - SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE LOCATION Running from Haymarket to Ladys Bridge INFORMATION Short section of road that was home to the original Town Hall and Law Courts. It is part of the Castlegagte Quarter which is one of the oldest parts of Sheffield. The site of the old Norman fortress and t...

Blades fans in Leeds 1985. I'm sure that's me towards the back :) [IMG] Might get done but never run Leeds . Yeah fucking right