HeyJaredHidden In Open Sight with Calvin Payne
Sheffield is even more interesting than you thought! Places and stories from the city and surrounds.
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‘Hidden In Open Sight’ update (opens the original)
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This month’s update is both about my tours and an upcoming positive change to this page. Firstly I’ll be running my city centre tour every Sunday in October, starting from the back of the Town Hall at 11am. The walk grew over the summer as extra detail was added, and now lasts two and a half hours (this isn’t as long as it might seem - we don’t go very far, and it is relatively flat and easy). Full details can always be found on my Facebook page;https://www.facebook.com/events/1118223920892003/1
Ecclesall Bierlow Vestry Hall (opens the original)
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(This post was originally commissioned by the ISRAAC community centre in 2025)When the Sheffield General Cemetery was extended after 1846 the original entrance on the Ecclesall Road side was no longer sufficient, and a new access road was built on the opposite side of the grounds - Cemetery Road. The cemetery was first laid out in 1836 on land described as open countryside, so the road was a blank canvas ready to inevitably be filled in. On the 1855 Ordnance Survey map of Sheffield there is only
From the archive: Furnival Street (opens the original)
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From the air: Tenter Street Depot (opens the original)
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Broomhill (opens the original)
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(This post was originally issued to paid subscribers in April 2026)I have written before about the various derogatory things that have been said about Sheffield over the centuries. Monarchs and writers alike have often found plenty of negative words about our industrial environs in the past. One notable exception is the famous quote from Sir John Betjeman in 1961 about Broomhill which said in full; ‘I thought of the leafy district of Broomhill on the western heights of Sheffield, where gabled bl
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