A lot of intensive re-development has been going on in Sheffield city centre over the last ten years, with many of the industrialised bits being taken down and used for new appartments, (old breweries and warehouses being used for this quite often) and for new office blocks and shops etc. Sometimes the facades are retained while the insides are gutted.
Strange how we like the industrial past to be romanticised; we sit and drink or eat in newly formed pubs that were once the factories which exploited people for their labour.
This opne made me laugh really ... an old silver cutlery factory, directing callers to where the offices are located (opposite.)
But in fact the offices are not there as these have all been knocked down for re-development.
The old water works is now a pub:
(some would say that beer is better to drink than water).
I have only been to this area a few times - at crisis oints in my life. This is where the briefs hang out - in Paradise Square.
It was obviously once associated with different activities than Law, as the name of the square and this plaque suggests:
That's it for today.
2 comments:
Wow Dr Joolz It would be so cool to live in Sheffield.
Since the Arctic Monkeys my kids now want to move which is v. g.
typical, sheffield is getting trendy and happening just as i am preparing to move away.
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