Sheffield History Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Zoom in and have a look at this Sheffield staircase. Do you recognise it and know where it was/is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schumac Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 It's the Cutlers Hall staircase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 A fascinating building indeed. Contains a number of salvaged fixtures and fittings recovered from the Triple Screw Steamship Olympic, which was of course, the slightly older sister of the R.M.S. Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carol cooper Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Thought it was the Cutlers Hall. Been to Christmas do's there in the past. Have also been to a Titanic exhibition in Las Vegas where they had a mock up of the Grand staircase and it did look the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Not sure about the recovered materials from the Olympic...but the old HO of T W Ward on Savile Street certainly contained significant quantities of recovered materials from passenger ships Tommy Wards had broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadFarmer Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Ive never been inside the Cutlers Hall. Is there any way of gaining access, or is it just invitees of private functions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 They welcome small parties ( for a fee) with a guided tour and light refreshments...or they did a few months ago. The cutlery collection is amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 21 hours ago, lysander said: Not sure about the recovered materials from the Olympic...but the old HO of T W Ward on Savile Street certainly contained significant quantities of recovered materials from passenger ships Tommy Wards had broken. When the White Star Liner, RMS Olympic was dismantled by Thos. W. Ward Ltd, in 1936, Joseph Ward expressed the wish that some of the panelling would be bought by the Company to provide 'a dignified appearance such as we have not got at present except in the large Banqueting Hall. C.E. Friend, managing director of Johnson and Appleyards, the firm which had refurbished the Mistress Cutler's Room, accompanied J.H. Whitham, the Company's secretary to Jarrow to inspect what was to be auctioned. They acquired the sycamore and mahogany panelling and electroliers (light fittings) from the Olympic's Second Class Library for £250.The panelling was then prepared in Johnson and Appleyards' workshops in Arundel Street before its fitting in the vestibules linking the reception rooms and the large banqueting hall. Source: Mesters to Masters - A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, by Binfield and Hey, Oxford University Press - 1997. A 341 page, hard-back publication, with lots of photograph and available on application to The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, for about £10. Definitely worth asking about the book, an excellent publication, which still seems to be available at 1997 prices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Excellent...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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