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Photo here of The Crucible Theatre being built on the site of the old Adelphi Hotel

Anyone remember this far back and remember this famous theatre being built next to The Lyceum Theatre?

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The year was 1970 and the excavation in the immediate foreground shows the basement level of the former Nether Chapel (built 1828 on the site of the earlier 1715 chapel) which site is now occupied by the Central United Reformed Church ( built in 1971 as the new Nether Chapel). There were a number of graves within this site particularly adjacent to Chapel Walk and the Victoria Hall (bottom LH corner of picture).

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Makes me think of The Playhouse.   We very much missed its intimacy when it closed I had to  move out of Sheffield  up to Teesside & we have the Middlesbrough Little Theatre which reminds me very much of The Playhouse.

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On 13/09/2017 at 20:38, Sheffield History said:

 

Photo here of The Crucible Theatre being built on the site of the old Adelphi Hotel

Anyone remember this far back and remember this famous theatre being built next to The Lyceum Theatre?

 

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On 14/09/2017 at 01:09, Voldy said:

The year was 1970 and the excavation in the immediate foreground shows the basement level of the former Nether Chapel (built 1828 on the site of the earlier 1715 chapel) which site is now occupied by the Central United Reformed Church ( built in 1971 as the new Nether Chapel). There were a number of graves within this site particularly adjacent to Chapel Walk and the Victoria Hall (bottom LH corner of picture).

I recall the graves, any idea what happened to them?

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There would have been legislation, covering the exhumation, to comply with which the current Church should be able to provide from their records. Maybe the Sheffield Telegraph featured this at the time as I vaguely remember a newspaper cutting photograph of the inside of the former Church partly demolished. My best guess is that City Road or Burngreave became the reinterment sites. 

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