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What are those buildings on Charter Row/Moore St


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There were a number of such sets in the 1950's such as the Ever-Ready Sky Queen, They used a 90 volt HT battery and a 1.5 volt LT battery for the directly-heated valves which had a 1.4 volt filament (except the output pentode which had a center-tapped 1.4/2.8 volt filament normally connected for 1.4 volt). Perhaps some of them had the filaments connected in pairs running from 3 volts?

The valve codes were something like DH** DF** & DL** and they had B7G all glass bases.

I remember playing with and repairing them, the valves were subject to poor emission due to the tiny filament and the frequency-changer was always favorite if the set stopped working. I also remember the earlier 2 volt directly-heated valves such as the HL2 with a B4 base. And yet I've still got a full head of dark hair !

HD

That sounds exactly like the type of valve I was describing.

Nice thing about this particular radio was that instead of MW cutting off at about 1700kHz and losing sensitivity as most radios did it was very sensitive in this region and went down (in wavelength that is) to about 2200kHz, so could pick up some unusual MW stations in this region with ease (Algiers) could pick up the amateur top band and occasionally a few mobile communications in what I suppose would have been the "trawler band"

All great stuff for playing around with.

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Is the Charter Row picture the Milton House and is it still used by BT?

Sorry U/l missed your post

The Charter Row photo is Eldon House and yes its still in use by BT.

Milton House is the next building up Charter row it has been refurbished in recent years, I believe William Hill have their call centre there now, previously various companies have been in the building including Freemans mail order before they moved to Attercliffe.

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Sorry U/l missed your post

The Charter Row photo is Eldon House and yes its still in use by BT.

Milton House is the next building up Charter row it has been refurbished in recent years, I believe William Hill have their call centre there now, previously various companies have been in the building including Freemans mail order before they moved to Attercliffe.

Freemans moved to Attercliffe in 1995.

Since then they have bought and sold several times by other (mainly foreign) companies and they have provided services for other mail order catalogues such as Debenhams, Grey & Osborne, Wit and The Look. Wife worked there for over 25 years until earlier this year.

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Picture Sheffield Links to Charter Row

1 Looking down Charter Row, from about where telephone House is now, the building on the right with the scaffold is Eldon House under construction, therefore early to mid 1960's

2 Looking up Charter Row from Eldon House

3 Again Looking up Charter Row, Pauldens (Debenhams) under construction to the right

4 Atkinsons and the Richards factory

5 Another view of Eldon House

6 Looking Down Charter Row from Grosvenor Hotel

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Electricity Sub-Station Moore Street.

This 'orrible building is meant to be lit by coloured lights apparently.

If anyone is passing, I'd like to see a picture.

(Architect Bryan Jefferson)

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Electricity Sub-Station Moore Street.

This 'orrible building is meant to be lit by coloured lights apparently.

If anyone is passing, I'd like to see a picture.

(Architect Bryan Jefferson)

Not sure what this is about ..

Moore Street Sub-Station - Architectural Lighting.

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/council-meetings/officer-decisions/2008/4th---10th-september-2008/moore-street-sub-station

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There was something on Look Leeds the other night, it looks very colourful

Yes, unusually for Look Leeds they did a countdown to show the lights being switched on LIVE, in SHEFFIELD!!!

There are several hundred thousand LED's lighting it up.

LED's are low power consumption energy friendly devices.

But as the building they are lighting up is an electricity sub station I don't suppose there will be much of a shortage of power will there.

Look Leeds also spoke to an old man who had been the architect who had designed this building.

Although considered "a monstrocity" by many it is a typical 1960's "concrete block" construction building.

Let us not forget that buildings like this were once very common and are rapidly dissapearing because of peoples attitude to their appearance and desire to replace them. However, the fewer there are left the more desirable the remaining ones become as "preservation pieces"

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Just taken these shots from my bathroom window,

please excuse the tree branches and the high-rise in the foreground. :rolleyes:

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So that's the building the Star were touting as 'Sheffield's Ugliest'. In my opinion it should be listed Grade I, it is an amazing piece of Brutalist architecture and something that we in Sheffield should be extremely proud of.

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Does this mean the University will have it demolished

That's correct. They are planning on replacing it with a large concrete, glass and steel building....

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" A shocking paroxysm of a building, an expression in re-inforced concrete, a bunker built with an aesthete's attention to detail. a building which is genuinely Brutalist in both senses of the term."

Owen Hatherley

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

( via Wikipedia)

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That's correct. They are planning on replacing it with a large concrete, glass and steel building....

But with Edwardian features perhaps? They should have a few spares lying around...

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According to the English Heritage report the top floor of the sub-station is now empty.

It was originally planned to be twice the size with an extension at right angles, but this was never built.

The top floor was built to house bus-bars to connect the two sections of the equipment together.

In the event the second part of the sub-station was not required and the bus-bars removed or never installed.

The huge size of the thing is because of the large amount of air space required around the open 275kV conductors.

A similar sub-station built later at Neepsend is much more compact because it uses bus-bars in sealed tubes but surrounded by SF6 (Sulfer Hexafluoride), a gas with a much higher voltage withstand than air.

Nowadays extensive use is made of SF6 switchgear right down to the 11kV breakers in local substations. Of course the green brigade are trying to ban it's use because of a possible effect on the environment.

Not a lot you could do with a spare space the size of a cricket field but with extremely high electromagnetic fields coming from just below.

HD

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