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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 ...
This prospered and in 1762–65 Hancock built the water-powered Old Park Silver Mills at the confluence of the Loxley and the Don, one of the earliest factories solely producing an industrial semi-manufacture. Eventually Old Sheffield Plate was supplanted by cheaper electroplate in the 1840s. In 1773 Sheffield was given a silver assay office. [64]
The Sheffield Walk of Fame in the City Centre honours famous Sheffield residents past and present in a similar way to the Hollywood version. [212] Sheffield also had its own Ferris Wheel known as the Wheel of Sheffield, located atop Fargate shopping precinct. The Wheel was dismantled in October 2010 and moved to London's Hyde Park.
Jeremy Schmidt, left, with his father, Wally, in days gone past. Wally Schmidt died Sunday at age 65 after collapsing on the sideline at the Lions/Bears game in Chicago that morning.
Mi Amigo memorial. A grove of ten scarlet oak trees (Quercus coccinea) was planted on 30 November 1969 as replacement trees to honour the crew, [1] [2] and on the same day a pair of memorial plaques attached to a large boulder were unveiled in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Alderman Daniel O'Neill; the Bishop of Sheffield, John Taylor, and Major General John Bell ...
The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time. At least 240 people died [ 1 ] and more than 600 houses were damaged or destroyed by the flood.
Sheffield United vs Manchester United, on the opening day of the Premiership Season in 1992 . From 1990, Sheffield United were in the top division of English football for four seasons – including the first two Premier League campaigns. They failed to win any of their first 17 league games in 1990–91 and seemed set for an immediate return to ...
Jasvinder Khosa, 64, said he had worn the T-shirt for the past five years without issue but, on 15 January, a member of staff at the Virgin Active in Nether Edge, Sheffield, asked him to take it off.