Sheffield History Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 What buildings do you think should be absolutely OFF LIMITS when it comes to being knocked down, totally redeveloped or removed from the city over coming years/centuries? Can be city centre buildings or out of town - let's see what buildings are close to everyone's hearts Obviously Town Hall and City Hall should be in there but what others? And how about the oddities and curiosities that should be preserved forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lysanderix Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 The Cutlers Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Many such buildings are listed anyway, so will not get touched. So this thread really should be about the ones that are NOT listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 2 hours ago, History dude said: Many such buildings are listed anyway, so will not get touched. So this thread really should be about the ones that are NOT listed. ...except that many of us won't know which ones are. I'll vote for the Midland Station, the scene of many hours' happy train-spotting for the young Athy, and an imposing reminder of the days when railways were fashionable and important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 26 minutes ago, Athy said: ...except that many of us won't know which ones are. This will answer that: Listed Buildings in Sheffield 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinR Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 You can always find listed buildings from this map. I've just had a quick look, my old school, Carterknowle, is a listed building! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Not listed, so far as I can see, Shiregreen United Reformed Church, Valentine Crescent…..built in 1933 and still serving its community ….in many ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManoutotCity Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 I say, immediately, that with a few exceptions , I’m generally no lover of modern architecture.... however and sadly, I present my arguments too late for this one example ....the now obliterated Sheffield Register Office in Surrey Place. Colloquially referred to by some as ‘The Wedding Cake’ it’s apparently, summary, demolition/ site clearance represented the serious loss of a unique, good looking and very functional, civic structure the like of which was not to be seen elsewhere. Unlike many ROs which hide within other buildings- often town halls, Sheffield’s short-lived DEDICATED, design was attractive, very spacious and very functional, situated as it was within its own grounds with and incorporating its own car parking, whilst providing formal, good -class photogenic facilities for assembling wedding parties in a very distinctive location in the heart of the City Centre. It offered superb state -of -the -art facilities ..without weddings cascading onto the public footpath as in the more common and less thought out situations and arguably, more importantly, provided respectful, sensitive, arrangements for those attending for its not always happy, non-marriage functions . I had close association with the place for several years during the mid/late ‘70s and so have a good understanding of its large amount of plusses and yes, it’s ( thankfully) far fewer shortcomings. A graphic condemnation of a Council ‘turning its coat ‘ .....doubtless placing the value of land before community needs and the possession of a very well used civic structure placing the on The National, if not international, map. A building certainly worthy of a formal preservation order in my view...had it been allowed to serve for the many more years it deserved. Bravo to its designers/ initiators and shame on those who brought about by its own, untimely, death. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 One building that isn't currently listed, but definitely should be is the Moorfoot building, Sheffield's own ziggurat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopman Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I'd want to add the Diamond Building at the University of Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 13 hours ago, Alastair said: One building that isn't currently listed, but definitely should be is the Moorfoot building, Sheffield's own ziggurat. Oh I"m the opposite opinion and would have that flattened TODAY if I could 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Manout, your description of the Registry Office is so convincing that, if it was for sale, I'd buy it. Have you got a photograph of this splendid edifice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 I seem to recall that the Registry Office was found to have been built over a disused well….thus making the structure potentially unsafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 30 minutes ago, Lysanderix said: I seem to recall that the Registry Office was found to have been built over a disused well….thus making the structure potentially unsafe. Not heard that one! That's definitely worth researching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 see eldomsmith's post - "site of well, former Eyre St Brewery" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManoutotCity Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Sorry Athy, I’m afraid I never took any photos of the (now, ‘old’) Sheffield Register Office.....aside from it being my place of work fir sone years, I suppose it never occurred to me that I’d ever need to comment about the building in the past tense and by way of epitaph....it’s unique design assuring its future and preservation ....I’m sure if asked at the time, I’d have said it would be likely to be included on lists of protected architecture...both local and national. How wrong I would have been! But back to photos of the place......there must be scores, hundreds, if not thousands of shots in individual collections .....particularly those of the very many people married there ......just put a shout out.....I’m feel sure that they’ll start to appear! Hope a bit of help to you, apart from my further comments..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 This is the one I got married in, you entered via the door on the left to happiness or misery, one of which unfolded as time went on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinR Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Does "This is the one" have a name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 56 minutes ago, MartinR said: Does "This is the one" have a name? As far as I’m aware it was just The Registra Office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManoutotCity Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 5 hours ago, tozzin said: As far as I’m aware it was just The Registra Office Sorry Athy, I’m afraid I never took any photos of the (now, ‘old’) Sheffield Register Office.....aside from it being my place of work fir sone years, I suppose it never occurred to me that I’d ever need to comment about the building in the past tense and by way of epitaph....it’s unique design assuring its future and preservation ....I’m sure if asked at the time, I’d have said it would be likely to be included on lists of protected architecture...both local and national. How wrong I would have been! But back to photos of the place......there must be scores, hundreds, if not thousands of shots in individual collections .....particularly those of the very many people married there ......just put a shout out.....I’m feel sure that they’ll start to appear! Hope a bit of help to you, apart from my further comments..... 5 hours ago, tozzin said: As far as I’m aware it was just The Registra Office Yes it would simply be The Sheffield Register Office.....at least that’s where I think it is though you don’t say; certainly when I left the City almost a decade ago, the Surrey St / Surrey Place area had already been radically redeveloped ... though as a building, that looks like it might have had a preservation order on it....maybe still there serving another function? From contacts I still have, certainly the present Sheffield RO is now contained inside the main Town Hall building in Surrey St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinR Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 OK, thanks. From the outside it looks like a non-conformist chapel - possibly Methodist which is why I asked (they do weddings in such places). There were quite a few Methodist chapels sold off during the 1950s and I wondered if it was a case of reuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 On 11/05/2022 at 14:38, tozzin said: This is the one I got married in, you entered via the door on the left to happiness or misery, one of which unfolded as time went on. Pretty sure that was The Sheffield Central Deaf Club in later years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 12/05/2022 at 13:02, MartinR said: OK, thanks. From the outside it looks like a non-conformist chapel - possibly Methodist which is why I asked (they do weddings in such places). There were quite a few Methodist chapels sold off during the 1950s and I wondered if it was a case of reuse. Just looked in the old Directories' and these are the entries below, in 1862 on the length of Norfolk Lane it held 32 different businesses and manufacturers but the building in the photo could be one of Nos 88 past Norfolk Lane. 1901 Whites Directory NORFOLK LANE 88 Hay & Son & Son, wine & spirit merchants 88 Woollen & Co. Limited, printers 94 MASONIC HALL; Frank Shelton, steward 94 Sheffield Masonic Hall Co (registered office) ; Reginald. Webster, sec 1898 Whites Directory NORFOLK LANE 88 United Friendly Societies Club; Henry Pearce Steward Sheffield Masons Amateur Dramatic Society; David Flather Secretary Freemasons Hall; Robert Turner hall keeper 1879 Whites Directory 2 Wilson & Clayton, solicitors 4 Cadman Mr Thomas Watson 4 Cadman :Mr Peter 4 Rollason Abel & Son, German silver manufacturers; Joseph. Bevan, agent 6 Branson Henry J., M..D. physician 10 Smith Charles, M.D. physician 10 Thompson John, boarding house 14 Hargreaves Wm. weighing machine manufacturer 14 Wilson John, die sinker 16 Townsend William & SOD, printers Norfolk lane 20 Cooke Edward J., B.A., M.D. surgeon FREE MAS0NS' HALL; Chas. Brett, hall keeper Eyre street 25 Thomas Edward, surgeon 26 Leach Matthew, M.RC.S. surgeon !862 Directory 1862 Surrey Street. 1 Shearman Chas. J., M..D. 5 Hoyland and Son, tailors 7 Merryweather H., dentist 9 Elam Charles, l\I.D. Free Public Library Mechanics Institute Music Hall Naylor W. H., auctioneer • Sheffield Library Literary and Philosophical Society United Methodist F. C. Chapel Medical Hall 2 Wilson Fredk. W., solicitor 4 Cadman Wm.& Peter, Esqs Rollason A. and Sons, metal warehouse 6 Crosland Mrs. Harriet Crosland George, architect Mosely Simeon, dentist 10 Thompson J., apartments Smith Charles, l\I.D. Wilson John, die sinker Hickman Henry, chaser • 12 Townsend W., bookbinder Cowan John, tailor 14 Sherwin James, dentist 26 Arden Septimus, surgeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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