A-Z of Sheffield

Places-People-History

Melvyn and Joan Jones

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445681849
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The city of Sheffield has long had a worldwide reputation as 'Steel City', the home of steel products of every description from cutlery to special steels for the nuclear, petrochemical and aerospace industries. But this city of more than half a million people contains much more than the evidence of its industrial past and present. From the Lower Don valley in the east, the city extends into the hills and up the river valleys that stretch from the Pennine hills and moors and in this largely post-industrial age it has gained the reputation of being Britain's greenest city with woodlands, moorlands, parks, gardens and other open spaces that are the envy of other urban areas. It is a city studded with remarkable evidence of its past stretching into the prehistoric period. Well-known local authors Melvyn and Joan Jones take the reader on a fascinating alphabetical tour of Sheffield: its places, its people and its history. Illustrated with 100 photographs, it should be of lasting interest to long-established residents and to relative newcomers alike.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
• Beauchief Abbey, Botanical Gardens and Bradfield Village
• Cementation Furnace, Cholera Monument and the Cutlers’ Hall
• Dale Dyke Reservoir and Dore Village
• Ecclesall Woods and Ecclesfield Church, Churchyard and Priory
• Firth Park, Fitzalan Square and Fulwood Old Chapel
• Grenoside
• Hill Fort at Wincobank
• Interesting Inn Names
• Jawbone Hill
• Kelham Island Industrial Museum
• Lady’s Bridge and Loxley Common
• Manor Lodge, Meersbrook and the Millennium Galleries and Winter Garden
• National Emergency Services Museum and Norton
• Oaks Fold Cruck Barn and the Old Queen’s Head
• Porter Valley
• Quarry Gardens at Whinfell
• Railway Station
• Sheffield Cathedral and Sheffield City Hall
• Tinsley Viaduct and the Town Hall
• Underbank Chapel and the Universities
• Victoria Quays
• Weston Park, the Wicker and Woolley Wood
• eXtolling the Beauty of Sheffield in the Peak
• Yarncliffe
• Zion Graveyard
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors