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111 Places in Sheffield That You Shouldn't Miss [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis: 205x135 mm, weight: 490 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Serija: 111 Places
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740800224
  • ISBN-13: 9783740800222
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis: 205x135 mm, weight: 490 g, 111 Illustrations, color
  • Serija: 111 Places
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Emons Verlag GmbH
  • ISBN-10: 3740800224
  • ISBN-13: 9783740800222
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Sheffield is yet to be discovered. Were you aware that football's first professional rule book was written in Sheffield, and that it is home to the oldest ground in professional use? Did you know that climbers the world over come to Stanage Edge for the challenges offered by one of the world's most fearsome millstone grit escarpments? Did you know that the Arctic Monkeys grew up in Sheffield, and that you can see the room at Yellow Arch Studios where they rehearsed as schoolboys and cut their first album? Did you know that the steepest hill in the entire 2012 Tour de France is in Sheffield? Did you know that Sheffield's craft breweries produce some of the finest beers in the world? Did you know that you can walk out of the centre of Sheffield, through parkland, and directly into open countryside? You need this book fast then, don't you, you soft 'aporth!
1 Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Small-scale industry from muscle and sweat
10(2)
2 Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Where delightful journeying never takes you far
12(2)
3 Alfred Denny Museum
The fluorescent glow of Chaetopterus variopedatus
14(2)
4 Armandos Scooters
Vintage Lambrettas and Vespas posing like starlets
16(2)
5 The Arctic Monkeys Room
Where the school kids from High Green practised
18(2)
6 The Bear Pit
Where Victorian roisterers threw buns
20(2)
7 Birdhouse Tea Company
The musical art of tea blending in Nether Edge
22(2)
8 Blue Moon Cafe
Where all the clocks in the world agree
24(2)
9 Bobby's Lock-Up
Surveillance at a slower pace
26(2)
10 Boot's Folly
A lonely tower in a wind-scoured field
28(2)
11 Bragazzi's
Florentine deli with tractor stools
30(2)
12 The Buffer Girls
At the filthy end of the metalworking process
32(2)
13 The Cementation Furnace
At the birth of global steel-making
34(2)
14 The Central Library
Sheffield's street-corner, Art Deco fanfare
36(2)
15 Chantrey's Needle
The greatest portrait sculptor of his age
38(2)
16 Cresswell Crags
It was 27,000 years ago today...
40(2)
17 Cubana
Bringing over those Latino dance rhythms
42(2)
18 The Curzon Cinema
Complete with tour of the bank vaults
44(2)
19 The Cutlers' Hall
Where masters of industry strutted their stuff
46(2)
20 The Cutting Edge
A sculptural greeting in steel and water
48(2)
21 Dale Dyke Dam
The near hidden source of great tragedy
50(2)
22 The David Mellor Factory
Sitting pretty inside a gasometer's footprint
52(2)
23 Derek Dooley's Way
The bobby-dazzler with a foot in both camps
54(2)
24 Derwent Bridge
Rescued from drowning stone by stone
56(2)
25 The Dore Stone
Where England became a political entity
58(2)
26 Ecclesall Woods
Neolithic rock art in ancient woodlands
60(2)
27 Edward Carpenter
Gay activist and pioneering sandal-maker
62(2)
28 Emergency Services Museum
Inside the notorious murderer's dank cell
64(2)
29 Ernest Wright and Sons
Putter-togetherers for five generations
66(2)
30 Forge Bakehouse
Conjuring the Peaks from a storm of flour
68(2)
31 The Famous Sheffield Shop
The gleam and the glint of local metalware
70(2)
32 Frog Walk
The gennel overlooking the ancient snuff mill
72(2)
33 The Front Parlour
Treasures from the waste-nots-want-nots
74(2)
34 The Full Monty
Hot Stuff kicking up a storm
76(2)
35 The General Cemetery
Locals out of love with the catacombs
78(2)
36 The Golden Post Box
Honouring Jessica, history's greatest heptathlete
80(2)
37 Granelli's
Sweets for the sucking since 1874
82(2)
38 The Graves Gallery
Jane Austen's great-uncle in a candyfloss wig
84(2)
39 Heeley City Farm
The child-friendliest of inner-city farms
86(2)
40 Helter-Skelter
A wild, helpless on rush, down and through
88(2)
41 Henderson's Relish
The black stuff that defines the city
90(2)
42 Jameson's Tea Rooms
An entire eighth of a cake to die for
92(2)
43 Jarvis' Hard Night
Mouthing off in public places
94(2)
44 Jenkin Road
The steepest hill climb of the Tour de France
96(2)
45 Kelham Island
Where old grit meets new shine
98(2)
46 The Kelham Island Tavern
Pleasingly adrift on a foaming head of cask ale
100(2)
47 The Lantern Theatre
A gift to a Soho-hungry daughter?
102(2)
48 Laundry
Hair-styling to the odour of warm towels
104(2)
49 The Leadmill
Musical excess on the beery dancefloor
106(2)
50 Legends of the Lane Museum
Troops watch the Blades thrash Chelsea
108(2)
51 The Leopold Hotel
Joe Cocker once sang his heart out
110(2)
52 Manor Lodge
Where Mary, Queen of Scots sewed and schemed
112(2)
53 Marmadukes
Good food spiced with Sheffield wit
114(2)
54 Museum of Gardening Tools
Meersbrook Park's Walled Garden Mess Room
116(2)
55 Music in the Round
Flung headlong into music-making
118(2)
56 The National Fairground Archive
The day Buffalo Bill thundered through Sheffield
120(2)
57 The Old Queen's Head
Sheffield's most venerable, saggy hostelry
122(2)
58 Our Cow Molly
Richest of ice creams from a herd of Friesians
124(2)
59 Owlerton Stadium
Hurtling greyhounds and daredevil riders
126(2)
60 Paradise Square
Where the agitators once gathered
128(2)
61 Park Hill
Reviving the utopian dream of collective living
130(2)
62 Patrick Moore, Stargazer
The painting gangs of Sheffield
132(2)
63 The Peace Gardens
Picasso's doves squat on a chimney pot
134(2)
64 Percy Riley Corner
Where the struggle of the miners is remembered
136(2)
65 Portland Works
All the little mesters under one roof
138(2)
66 Record Collector
Vintage vinyl never stops revolving
140(2)
67 Redmires Training Camp
Where local boys prepared for the Somme
142(2)
68 Ringinglow Roundhouse
Practising the art of snooping in every direction
144(2)
69 The Rivelin Valley Trail
The beautiful afterlife of industry
146(2)
70 The River Don Engine
The muscular force of steam power
148(2)
71 Royal Exchange Buildings
Just a whiff of Amsterdam beside the River Don
150(2)
72 Royal Victoria Station Hotel
Wilde, Pavlova and a chorus line of flappers
152(2)
73 The Rude Shipyard
Food, books and winning conversation over cards
154(2)
74 The Ruskin Collection
Handing beauty on to the working man
156(2)
75 Ryan Mosley's Studio
A day in the life of a Sheffield painter
158(2)
76 Sandygate
The oldest football ground in continuous use
160(2)
77 Scaling the Norman Fort
Keeping the marauders at bay
162(2)
78 Sewer Gas Destructor Lamp
Which flares up brightest at Christmas
164(2)
79 Sharrow Vale Road
A most distinctively local shopping street
166(2)
80 The Sheffield Assay Office
Where precious stuff gets bicycled in
168(2)
81 Sheffield City Hall
Where John Lennon might have met Ziggy Stardust
170(2)
82 The Sheffield Simplex
Bespoke luxury fit for the Romanovs
172(2)
83 The Sheffield Tap
Idling luxuriousness beside Platform
174(2)
84 The Sheffield Year Knife
A bravura wonder in two thousand blades
176(2)
85 Shepherd Wheel
Walking from city park to open countryside
178(2)
86 The Showroom
The most versatile of indie cinemas
180(2)
87 Stanage Edge
The climbers grip on for dear life
182(2)
88 Stanage Pole
An ancient waymarker in the wilderness
184(2)
89 Stanley Cook's House
A poet's window on a strangely familiar world
186(2)
90 St Marie's Cathedral
Pugin's exquisite gift to Sheffield
188(2)
91 St Paul's, Parson Cross
By the architect of Coventry Cathedral
190(2)
92 Strip the Willow
Everything comes in for something
192(2)
93 Tamper: Sellers Wheel
A Kiwi coffee shop wings in from the Pacific
194(2)
94 T.H. Goode
Sheffield's emperor of junk
196(2)
95 Theatre Delicatessen
Chasing after Hamlet and a slice of cake
198(2)
96 The Thryft House Yew Tree
Older than Magna Carta
200(2)
97 Tinsley Canal Walk
Nature's quietly determined fightback
202(2)
98 Two Steps to Heaven
The gentle art of eating fish and chips
204(2)
99 Turner Museum of Glass
Cinderella locked in a Sheffield cabinet
206(2)
100 Upper Chapel Forecourt
Quietly reflecting upon popular dissent
208(2)
101 Upper Wincobank Chapel
A modest slice of New England piety
210(2)
102 Vulcan
Sheffield's forge-master general
212(2)
103 Walking Man
How a gait can define a character
214(2)
104 The Wantley Dragon
The mythical creature with fourteen eyes
216(2)
105 Weston Park Weather Station
Utterly dependable, rain, sleet or shine
218(2)
106 The Wicker Arches
The honey glow of stone from Wharncliffe Crags
220(2)
107 Wincobank Hill
The cleansing of ancient ground
222(2)
108 The Winter Garden
Tropical vegetation in the inner city
224(2)
109 Wisewood Cemetery
The death of a Leppard
226(2)
110 Wortley Hall
Welcome to the workers' stately home
228(2)
111 Wyming Brook
Sheffield's miniature Alpine interlude
230
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, London-based poet, art critic, editor and publisher who has contributed regularly to The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist. He was born in Fir Vale, Sheffield, was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, and read English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has been a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York. His international poetry journal, The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) first went online in 2009. His most recent books are: Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel), Only So Much (his seventh collection of poetry), and Headlong into Pennilessness, a memoir of growing up in Sheffield. Two collections of poetry are coming soon: Hypothetical May Morning and The Book of Extremities.