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Hillsborough Park, looking over the fishing lake and tennis courts towards the A61

Sheffield Arts & Culture

The best of Sheffield’s Parks and Green Spaces: Finding beauty in the Urban Jungle

Sheffield, the “Steel City,” is often associated with its industrial heritage, but there’s more to this South Yorkshire metropolis than factories and steelworks. Nestled...

James Hargreaves18 October 2023

Sheffield Arts & Culture

The Music Scene in Sheffield: A Journey through our Musical Heritage

Sheffield, a city with a rich industrial past and vibrant cultural present, has carved a distinctive place for itself in the annals of music...

James Hargreaves17 October 2023

Sheffield City Centre Skyline taken from South Street above the amphitheatre

Sheffield Arts & Culture

Sheffield’s Thriving Tech and Innovation Scene

In the heart of South Yorkshire, Sheffield is a city renowned for its rich industrial history, but it is quickly gaining recognition for its...

James Hargreaves16 October 2023

Sheffield History

The Limit: Sheffield’s Greatest Nightclub?

The list of gone-but-not-forgotten nightclubs in Sheffield is huge. One of the most fondly remembered is The Limit. A huge, dark former basement club...

James Hargreaves27 May 2020

Sheffield History

Fletchers Bakery Vans: The Shop On Your Street

Competitive supermarkets and online shopping have all but killed off the humble local shop nowadays. But in the days of personal service and localised...

James Hargreaves26 May 2020

Sheffield History

Sheffield Cablevision: Pioneers Of Local TV

The city now has its own local TV station in Sheffield Live! TV. But did you know the Steel City had its own Sheffield...

James Hargreaves25 May 2020

Sheffield History

Redgates Toy Shop: A True Sheffield Legend

Before soul-less, cavernous warehouses of Toys-R-Us killed the mystique of the toy emporium, Sheffield had Redgates: the toy shop of all toy shops. The...

James Hargreaves25 May 2020

Sheffield Food & Drink

Sheffield Breadcakes/Fishcakes: The Definitive Word

We think everyone else has got cakes wrong. Forget the sweet stuff, in Sheffield we have breadcakes (and fishcakes)! Lets get one thing straight right...

James Hargreaves25 May 2020

Sheffield Cableway: A Cable Car solution for the Steel City?

Sheffield Lifestyle

Sheffield Cableway: A Unique Idea For City’s Transport

Sheffield has been the subject of many crazy transport proposals in the past. Suggestions range from minicab stations to a monorail system — and even a...

James Hargreaves25 May 2020

Embankment at Dale Dyke Dame following its collapse

Sheffield History

The Great Sheffield Flood: Full Story Of The Tragedy

The Sheffield Guide takes a comprehensive look back at devastating accounts of the Great Sheffield Flood. A number of floods have hit the country...

James Hargreaves24 May 2020

Sheffield Ski Village's abandoned slopes

Sheffield History

Sheffield Ski Village: An Olympic Dreams Wasteland

Half of Team GB’s 2014 Winter Olympic freestyle skiing team trained at Sheffield Ski Village, now it’s an abandoned mess... It was the turn...

James Hargreaves24 May 2020

Sheffield Arts & Culture

California Love, From Crookes. Sheffield’s Joe Cocker: A History

Sheffield’s Joe Cocker lives on with later generations through his music. Did you know he has been sampled by the likes of Tupac Shakur...

James Hargreaves23 May 2020

The Sheffield Monorail going over the Hole in the Road

Sheffield History

Sheffield’s Aborted Monorail Plans: What Happened?

Long before Supertram, Sheffield planned a Minitram monorail system. Back in the 1970s, Sheffield Metropolitan District Council explored methods to better connect various parts...

James Hargreaves22 May 2020