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Steel City Blues BBC Documentart


RichardB

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This 1984 BBC film documents Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion to Canon league one with the demise of the Sheffield steel industry during the same period.

It will probably be of most interest to Wednesdayites, but the elements of social history it covers give an insight into the issues affecting the city in the mid-eighties which many Sheffield people should find interesting.

As you would expect, the soundtrack is provided by Sheffield bands and singers, with ABC, Joe Cocker, the Human League and Def Leppard all featured.

There are also some clips of Wednesday winning the 1935 FA cup which include this priceless line of commentary:

“Inside three minutes, Palethorpe scores for the Wednesday and this makes Sheffield almost a nice place to live in.”

http://sheffieldblog.com/category/history/

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