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Maxine Duffus bus sector trailblazer. Qualified as first black woman bus driver in South Yorkshire in 1983
, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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The Sheffield rules of football were agreed & adopted here 1858. Members of Sheffield FC met to agree and adopt their first rules, regulations and playing lawson 28th October 1858 at the Adelphi Hotel which stood at this location
Tudor Square, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Cemetry road church football club, The worlds oldest football club to originate from a church was formed in the south west corner of this car parkadd a plaque
Cemetery road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Sir Nathaniel Creswick KCB 31st July 1831 - 20th Oct 1917 C0-founder of Sheffield FC in 1857 His Solicitors office was located here Creswick used there offices to support the development and administration of the world's first and oldest football club Local pioneers gathered here to discuss innovations which helped to shape the evolution of modern football.
9 East Parade, Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Cemetery Road Church Football Club The World's Oldest Football Club to originate from a church was formed in the south west corner of this car park 1861.
Nuffield Health Napier St, Sheffield, S11 8HA, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Brian Alcock BEM Born 1942 Sheffield's last jobbing grinder Worked here 1979-2023
Beehive Works, Milton Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Brendan Ingle MBE 1940 Dublin - 2018 Sheffield. Formed St Thomas' Boxing Club, Wincobank in October 1965. Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue.
Ingle Boxing Gym, Newman Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Jarvis Cocker musician sustained broken leg due to clambering out of a window above this site. 1985
Division Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #222
Frank Mottershaw (1850-1932) pioneer of film production based in the city [full inscription unknown]
Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
William Marsden (1796-1867) was born in a house close to this site in August 1796. As a young man, he left Sheffield to study at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827. In 1828, he founded the country's first free hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, which was base don the principle "the disease and poverty should be the only claims for admission" In 1851, following the death of his wife from cancer, he opened a cancer hospital which is now known as the Royal Marsden.
Watson's Walk, Angel Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Attercliffe Library, Leeds Road. Attercliffe Library opened in 1894 in answer to local public demand and closed in 1986. As well as lending books it was one of the first places in Sheffield to display lists of job vacancies.
Attercliffe Library (former), Leeds Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Attercliffe Baths, Attercliffe Road. Attercliffe Baths, built in 1879, provided both swimming and washing facilities for the area at a time when bathrooms at home were unknown. this was also Attercliffe's Speakers Corner, especially 1900-1939.
Attercliffe Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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River Don Works, Brightside Lane. River Don Works, founded in 1863 by Naylor Vickers, has long specialised in the heaviest forgings and castings for the shipbuilding, energy and defence industries. This tradition continues.
River Don Works, Brightside Lane, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Broughton Lane / Attercliffe Common. Spence Broughton the highwayman, was hung in chains near here in 1796 close to the scene of his crime. He is thought to be the last man in England to be so punished.
Broughton Lane, Carbrook, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Carbrook Hall, Attercliffe Common. Carbrook Hall was once a much larger house, this wing being added in 1620. Here lived Colonel John Bright, famed for his part in the taking of Sheffield Castle by Parliament in the Civil War.
Carbrook Hall, Attercliffe Common, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Hillsborough Hall Hillsborough Hall was built in 1779 in the Adam style as the home of Thomas Steade. It was thus called as a mark of respect for Lord Downside of Hillsborough, County Down. Hillsborough subsequently became the name of a Sheffield suburb and a world famous football club ground. Nineteenth century occupants of the hall included three celebrated manufacturers; the Rodgers family of cutlers, the locomotive designer and engineer Edward Bury, and James Willis Dixon and his son of the same name who were silversmiths. It was James Willis Dixon jnr. who in 1899 released the ten acre site north of the hall which was to become Hillsborough football ground. He eventually gifted the hall to the people of Sheffield and it took on a new role as a public library in 1906.
Hillsborough Hall (now library), Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Samuel Osborn Samuel Osborn (1826-1891) was one of the city's greatest industrialists, becoming Master Cutler in 1873 and Lord Mayor in 1890. The plaque marks the site of his company's Clyde Works, purchased in 1868 from Shortridge Howell and Co. It was here, during the late Victorian period, that the production of R.F. Mushet's self-hardening steel was perfected. This became a Sheffield speciality, making the name Samuel Osborn synonymous with the highest quality tool steel.
Clyde Steel Works, Wicker, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Edward Bury Between 1852 and 1860 Hillsborough Hall was occupied by the family of Manchester born Edward Bury F.R.S. (1794-1858), pioneer locomotive builder with the London and Birmingham Railway (1838-1846), one-time locomotive superintendent and general manager of the Great Northern Railway, and subsequently co-founder of Sheffield steel firm Bedford, Burys and Co, of the Regent Works. Bury invented the bar frame locomotive, universally adopted by American railroads, and was a pioneer of standardisation in engineering.
Hillsborough Hall (now library), Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Tinsley Tramsheds, Sheffield Road. Tinsley Tramsheds were built in 1874 for the first horse drawn tram service in Sheffield. In 1899 they were extended to house electric trams. In 1960 the last Sheffield tram terminated here.
Tinsley Tramsheds, Sheffield Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
1939-1945 On the night of December 15th 1940 this lock was severely damaged by enemy action during an air raid on the city This plaque is dedicated to the workforce of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company who stove to keep the waterway open under hazardous and extremely difficult conditions throughout the war
Tinsley Flight - Lock No 5, Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Bessemer House (1901) Former offices of Bessemer Steel Co. Across the road Henry Bessemer in 1859 established the first commercial Bessemer melting shop in Britain, leading to the worldwide introduction of cheap bulk steel
Bessemer House, Carlisle Street East, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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River Don Engine A three-cylinder 12,000hp engine with Joy Valve Gear, one of the most powerful surviving steam engines in the world. Built in 1905 by Davy Brothers of Sheffield, and installed at Cammell's Grimesthorpe Works to drive an armour plate rolling mill, this engine was transferred to the River Don Works of English Steel Corporation where it remained until Easter 1978.
Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
World's First Prototype Cast Steel Node The world's first cast steel node made in 1978 at the nearby foundry of River Don Castings, now part of Sheffield Forgemasters. Used to join the tubulars of offshore oil platforms, the design in cast steel represented a significant milestone for both the development of casting technology and offshore structures.
Sheffield Forgemasters (roundabout outside works), Brightside Lane, Sheffield, United Kingdom
The Bessemer Converter In recognition of the outstanding contribution to the steel industry by Sir Henry Bessemer through his invention of the Bessemer Process for steelmaking as embodied in this last remaining example of the Bessemer Converter.
Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Bramah Hydraulic Press Presented in recognition of the outstanding contribution to mechanical engineering made by Joseph Bramah in laying the foundations of fluid power engineering, as embodied in this last remaining example of a Bramah Hydraulic Press.
Kelham Island Industrial Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Hecla Works, Newhall Road. At Hecla Works Robert A Hadfield developed manganese steel, one of the first 'special' steels. Hadfields once employed 15,000 here and at East Hecla Works, Tinsley
ex-Hecla Works, Newhall Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Site of the historic Wham Bar location of the first live performance by the Human League June 12th 1978 (site has been redeveloped, so plaque may be missing)
Psalter Lane campus, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom