Sheffield

A very short climb up the hill immediately East of Sheffield railway station reveals this panoramic view			The Park Hill estate, one of Britain's most infamous housing estates. It is also the largest listed building in Europe!
		The courtyard surrounded by the Northern part of the flats is all boarded up and the contents have been cleared. The entire complex is being refurbished and converted into a highly desirable place to live.	Remains of a childrens playground
				Inside the hoardings. It looks like these ancillary buildings are being destroyed
The grafitti on the wall of the hut in the centre says "Abo ceiling". Today's generation of grafitti artists are obviously highly skilled structural engineers	This chimney is behind the Northern block of Park Hill where there is a large boiler house that presumably supplies heat to the entire estate	Inside the Park Hill boiler house		Park Hill and a long-closed pub
Park Hill electrical substation	Side of the boiler house	A bin store beneath the flats	Near the boiler house	Park Hill's electrical substation
This used to be the main entrance to the estate	The first few floors are boarded up to prevent the local Chavs from gaining entry	This complex along Flat Street is very Brutalist. It is built on a slope and contains shops, a car park, a disco hall and a cinema.
The fantastic Mecca Bingo building.			The Crubicle Theatre, a late example of Brutalist architecture that squats in Sheffield city centre	Roxy disco
The Crucible	Roy's disco	Looking across the new-ish bus station towards Park Hill		Inside one of the decks of the Roxy building. The vagrant at the end was still lurking when I returned half an hour later!
This parade of shops includes a great cafe	A staircase in the Roxy complex. The style of this is very similiar to Portsmoutyh's ill-fate Tricorn Shopcentre.	1960s style interior design		Sheffield's very pleasant Winter Gardens
Lyceum Theatre	The Crucible	Inside the Winter Gardens	Balls	Peace Gardens, one of Sheffield's central plazas.
The Winter Gardens	The Peace Gardens with the very imposing Town Hall behind. If you look closely, you can see a wedding party assembled!	Peace Gardens	Town Hall	The Town Hall
New development	A very utilitarian building on The Moor, probably Sheffield's main shopping street	This picture shows a variety of different styles of Modern architecture, some better than others		The Moor
Debenhams, The Moor	Quite why this building boasts a large sign reading 'SHERBET' is anyone's guess	More Postwar architecture, this building is a watered down version of Art-Deco		A pebbledashed NCP car park
Fabulous 50s architecture!			The Moors boasts one of the largest collections of 1950s shops in the same area in the UK
				Atkinson's, an independent department store. While the original interior has been obliterated by bland alterations, the exterior still remains in all its glory.
			View North from the top of the multistorey car park behind Atkinsons	View NE from Atkinsons
	View East	View SE, showing Bramall Lane, Sheffield United's ground	Looking South. This massive building is located at the Southern end of Sheffield city centre and sprawls over it like some kind of massive spider	Looking SW. What on earth is that massive concrete structure at the centre of the pic?
Here it is again...		Back along The Moor	Architectural details	The chain stores along The Moor make way for bargain stores at the Southern end
Royal Bank of Scotland building	Bottom end of The Moor and the last bastion of the fifties architecture			The Yorkshire Bank
The rear of Atkinson's with the car park featured earlier behind. This is obviously a later extension to the original building.	What a strange building. No windows, external walkways and no sign of any entrance. From this angle it almost looks like the back of a supertanker.	Demolition in progress near the concrete bunker	Dereliction	Southern end of the 'bunker'
Flats to the South of the city centre	A back street	What a mess		Still no sign of what it is
Where is the entrance?	It turns out this building contains Sheffield's central electrical substation	Ah, there's the entrance	A car park	Crazy paving
	Sheffield's John Lewis store. Windows were out of fashion when this place was built			A trade union rally protesting against NHS cost-cutting was in progress here
	View from John Lewis' car park			The control panel for one of the lifts in John Lewis. The lift is fully controllable, even the fan and light can be turned on and off by anyone here! There's only one other place in the country where I've seen such an old lift control panel.
City Hall
	The "Sheffield Supertram" stops by Sheffield Cathedral
			Castle House, The Sheffield Co-Op headquarters and also home to a fantastic department store	Fantastic architecture. The top floor contains a restaurant boasting a fantastic lightweight shell roof
Looking towards Castle Market			Stairwell inside the Co-Op	Castle Market, a bastion of 1960s Brutalist architecture
When I first saw this structure, I thought it was designed by none other than Owen Luder, responsible for Portsmouth's now demolished Tricorn Centre as the architectural style is very similiar - however, it isn't.	Near Castle Market	Stairway to Castle Market, clad in swimming pool style blue mosaic tiles	Inside Castle Market.
Castle Market courtyard		Gallery level of Castle Market, sadly rather empty. There used to be a similiar gallery on the other side of the courtyard but it now appears to be gated off.		Castle Market tower
	Roxy Disco complex again	Hoardings near Park Hill		Sheaf Square, outside Sheffield railway station, the recently refurbished station concourse is on the left.
Sheaf Square	Sheffield station	Sheaf Square		'The Hubs', maybe a landmark building but it seems closed unless you are a part of the student elite. Looks like a set of giant teapots anyway.
	Art Deco architecture in action	Sheaf Square, the station and Park Hill

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