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The stone façade of Sheffield station, added in 1905. The Park Hill flats are in the background. The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders. [3] It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre.
Historic fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays National Videogame Museum: Sheffield Sheffield Technology A unique museum where you can play, explore and create videogames. Moved from Nottingham in December 2018, and was renamed from the National Videogame Arcade to the National Videogame ...
The museum is home to one of the longest serving weather stations in the country, providing data on Sheffield's weather since 1882. [5] Weston Park museum receives around 250,000 visitors a year and was nominated for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize in 2007. In 2008 the museum won The Guardian's Family Friendly Museums award. [6]
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, trading as Museums Sheffield, was a charity created in 1998 to run Sheffield City Council’s non-industrial museums and galleries. Museums Sheffield managed three sites in the city: Graves Art Gallery, Millennium Gallery and Weston Park Museum. [3] Its offices were located at Leader House on Surrey Street ...
Weston Park is a public park with an area of just over 5 hectares in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It lies immediately west of the City Centre, alongside the Weston Park Museum. It is situated next to the University of Sheffield Library, Geography and Firth Court buildings, and across the road from Sheffield Children's Hospital.
The station in the early days of the Bluebell Railway (1961) Sheffield Park is the southern terminus of the Bluebell Railway and also the headquarters of the line. It is located on the southern bank of the River Ouse (which the line crosses just beyond the platforms) and is also situated on the Greenwich Meridian.
The museum forms part of a former steel-working site on the River Sheaf, with a history going back to at least the 13th century. It consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe -making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works.