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Copied from CAMRA https://sheffield.camra.org.uk/2023/12/market-tavern/ Posted on 20 Dec 2023 by Dave Pickersgill "December brought news that the Market Tavern (Exchange Street, S2 5TR) is to be demolished. While asbestos removal work was in progress, it was discovered that the chimneys were structurally unsound. The pub opened in 1797, was rebuilt to follow a new street line in 1909 and then completely rebuilt by Sheffield brewery, Thomas Berry & Co. in 1914. Opinion is divided regarding the origin of the then ‘Rotherham House’ name. Either this was due to ownership by Rotherham-based, Bentleys Brewery, or proximity to the start of the Rotherham tram service. 1961 plans illustrate the installation of a Wimpy Bar on the front of the pub (N.W.Oldfield, Architect & Surveyor for Tennant Brothers Limited: see Sheffield Archives: MC/DC/235 ). Introduced to the UK in 1954, Wimpy is a multinational hamburger restaurant chain. In 1968, the pub became the ‘Old No.12,’ a Berni Inn, one of a chain of British steakhouses, established in 1955. Berni Inns, a forerunner of today’s pub restaurants, provided Tudor-looking false oak beams and white walls. 1982 saw a take-over by Mecca and a change of name to the Garden. In 1995, it was sold to Whitbread and rebranded as Beefeater/Brewers Fayre. The pub closed in 2006."

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Handsworth Sword Dance, First time with females in the line up. Boxing Day 2022.

Not exactly Shop Window Automatons, Weston Park Museum. See the Pawn Broker, File Cutter & Silversmith "work" https://www.fourteenballstoy.co.uk/westonpark.htm Does the Automaton Clock in Orchard Square still Work? Clock Tower (known as a 'clockjack') in Orchard Square shopping centre, where on the hour, moving figures of a grinder and buffer girl appear.w00680