Sheffield Is An Exceptional And Remarkable Place.

[RichardB]

Sheffield is an exceptional and remarkable place. Everything in Hallamshire is full blown and in excess.

Montgomery and Ebenezer Elliott were much ahead of everybody else, though in different lines.

Sheffield drunkenness and Sheffield revivals, Sheffield rowdyism and Sheffield wealth and intelligence, Sheffield's equal proclivity to bankruptcy and to the shortening of human life, Sheffield's impartial encouragement of meeting houses and publichouses, Sheffield's patronage of the fine arts and dog fighting.

Sheffield's huge gooseberries and bread riots - all these things are its local peculiarities, and in Sheffield you must expect to find things strange, anomalous, excessive and extreme.

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My favourite post in a long time; especially the gooseberries ! he he