The Quality of Sheffield

[AnnB]

• I'm not sure which forum to put this! I have a soft cover book (covers are in bad shape) produced by the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and called "The Quality of Sheffield". It has a lot of Sheffield history up to 1932 and many, many pages of advertisements . There is one colour picture by Herbert J. Finn called Casting a Big Ingot. This is attached by gluing the top after printing. One of the ads is for razor blades has a small envelope which looks like it originally contained an actual razor blade. There is also a fold out map "Outline Plan of the City of Sheffield" . I think that it was produced to encourage businesses to establish in Sheffield and it seems to be from around 1933.  I wondered if anyone knew more about it. If you  have an interest in a particular business around that time I'm happy to look for it.

[Ponytail]

Remember leafing through many of these bound together into hard backed volumes on the shelves in Local Studies Library. 

The card catalogue had many a reference to the publication. 

An example of which:

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/19357-sheffield-tool-makers/

 

[AnnB]

Thank you. I didn't know if it was a regular publication or a special anniversary edition. I think this one is 1933 (interesting year) as one of the ads claims business history until that year. It's quite battered. Do you think Local Studies would be interested?

[Ponytail]

I'm sure they'd welcome the offer if they don't have it in the collection.