No one would have thought that a building in Sheffield could have such a chequered history as the above title infers, but we can assure you that there is one. Castle House has stood at the side of Lady’s Bridge
HORSES, ELEPHANTS and MUSHY PEAS
Why has Sheffield Council cancelled the Castlegate Conservation Area consultation?
Hallamshire Historic Buildings is gravely concerned at the abrupt cancellation of the public consultation on the proposed Castlegate Conservation Area. Until very recently, Council officers and some Councillors were looking forward enthusiastically to finally getting this process off the ground.
Cementation Conservation
CEMENTATION CONSERVATION Now that the ugly 1950s HSBC office block on Hoyle Street at Netherthorpe has bitten the dust the rare Grade II listed cementation furnace behind it has been exposed and this Scheduled Monument will now be restored to
HoC2 (formerly New Retail Quarter/Sevenstone) consultation
Heart of the City 2 consultation Please take two minutes to email your thoughts (even just a very brief response is better than nothing) or fill in the online questionnaire, telling Sheffield Council what you think of proposals for inner
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
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
BRASSED OFF
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
ON A MISSION
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
WALLS OF JERICHO
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
SOUR GRAPES
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
A TALE FROM 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