Gateway Business Centre, Attercliffe – Candidate – Sheffield Design Awards People’s Award 2012
Confirm your vote for the Gateway Business Centre in the People’s Award 2012.
SPACES has restored and converted the Attercliffe Baths and Library to create the Gateway Business Centre, which provides business spaces for SME companies on the approach to the city. Their regeneration work and passion for this once neglected district has delivered nine G buildings with 30 tenants. Exciting times are ahead – the Attercliffe Action Plan has been endorsed and people are starting to realise the development potential of this part of the city.
Gateway Business Centre
Join us for Wildlife Trust’s Centenary Riverside Walk – 5.50pm Friday 4 May 2012
Thanks to the Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham please join us next Friday evening for a trip to Centenary Riverside, its urban wetland nature park.
We’ll meet at Sheffield bus station at 5.50pm on Friday 4th May before travelling to and from the site by bus.
On the outward journey we’ll take the following bus: Number 69 (First) – 6.05 pm from Sheffield Interchange, arriving at Ickles, Sheffield Road/Bradmarsh Way 6.40pm. The return journey will be: Number 69 (First) – 8.21pm from Ickles, Sheffield Road/Fullerton Road, arriving back at Sheffield Interchange for 8.48pm. We then intend to retire to The Sheffield Tap for a pint!
Please tell your friends. We look forward to seeing you!
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Centenary Riverside - Thanks to wildlifetrusts.org
The I Love You Bridge
Who wrote ‘Clare Middleton I Love You Will U Marry Me’ on a Sheffield bridge? Daring grafitti written at Park Hill 130 feet above the ground has inspired many stories but the truth turns out to be tragic and bittersweet. Here’s the link to the BBC Radio 4 programme, The I Love You Bridge first broadcast in August 2011
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Lover's grafitti now encapsulated in neon at Park Hill
The Clash’s first ever gig was in Sheffield!
The Clash played their first gig at The Black Swan pub in Sheffield on 4 July 1976 along with The Buzzcocks supporting The Sex Pistols. The band played a four song set that night, which included Protex Blue – later to feature on their debut album The Clash (released on 8 April 1977). The line-up for the Black Swan gig was Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonen, Keith Levene and Terry Chimes.
The Black Swan ('Mucky Duck')
The Black Swan (‘Mucky Duck’) on Snig Hill played host to numerous perfomers over the years including, amongst others, Joe Cocker, AC/DC and Genesis.
In its more recent incarnation as The Boardwalk, it continued as music venue until it closed in November 2010.
Local groups like the Arctic Monkeys and Little Man Tate honed their considerable talents here too.
Follow @sheffcivictrustSheffield – City of Peace
City of Peace - Photograph and Sculpture by Richard Bartle
Next time you are in the Peace Gardens look up at the chimney over the Ha Ha Bar 8-12 St Paul’s Parade. You’ll see a stainless steel sculpture, by Sheffield based artist Richard Bartle, which features seven life-size doves. Richard’s work is inspired by Pablo Picasso’s visit to Sheffield for the Second World Peace Congress held at Sheffield City Hall in November 1950.
During his visit to Sheffield, Picasso arrived at Sheffield Midland railway station carrying a bouquet of chrysanthemums and wearing an old raincoat and blue beret. He was welcomed by members of the local communist party, the press, and the public, and taken on a tour of the city. He ate a bacon sandwich at Thorpe’s cafe in Fargate; had his hair trimmed at Peckitt’s barbers, and drew a ‘dove of peace’ on a napkin in Butler’s Dining Rooms.
The Congress was to be a special debate on the Korean War, but the Government at the time refused to allow important speakers into the country and it was abandoned. However, Picasso gave a short speech at the City Hall, recalling that he had learnt to paint doves from his father, and ending by saying “I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war.”
Later whilst returning to London he drew another Dove of Peace on a napkin, which he gave to the bodyguard who had accompanied him around the city. This drawing is part of Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust’s collection and is on permanent display at the Weston Park Museum.
Arts Funding
When Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and he was told that there were going to be major cuts in arts and culture because of the mounting costs of World War II, he responded with a simple reply, ‘Then what are we fighting for?’”
Europe’s ‘Greenest City’ is also one of its most economically successful … and a great place to live. How did it get there?
Freiburg: Sonnenschiff - Sustainable homes and employment space
Public Lecture by Prof. Wulf Daseking, Head of Urban Planning, City of Freiburg followed by discussion (Friday 16 March 4pm – 6pm Peak Lecture Theatre , Sheffield Hallam University)
Freiberg in South Germany is often cited as Europe’s ‘greenest city’ for sustainability with extensive low-energy housing, a strong commitment to use of renewable energy and very high use of public transport, walking and cycling built from a compact, city with a beautiful historic core. It also enjoys a very strong economy based in part on solar power and an enviable quality of life which attracts talented people to study and work. How has this been achieved and what can business and local government in the Sheffield Region learn from it?
Wulf Daseking has been the Head of Urban Planning for the City of Freiburg since 1984 and is a key figure in shaping the city. He is also an entertaining and persuasive speaker on the social and economic benefits of planning for a low carbon future. He will describe the experience of Freiburg and introduce the Freiburg Charter – which has distilled the lessons of its experience and how they can be relevant to others.
Representatives of the Council, Sheffield Civic Trust, Academy of Urbanism and the Universities will be invited to respond before throwing the floor open to general questions and discussion in what promises to be an inspirational and highly informative event.
Friday 16th March 4 .00 – 6.00 pm
Peak Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard St
Discussion chaired by Professor Brian Evans: Mckintosh School of Art, Glasgow
FREE ADMISSION with refreshments after.
Presented by Sheffield Urban Think-Tank:
Sponsored by: Sheffield City Council, Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, Universities of Sheffield and Hallam, Sheffield Civic Trust, South Yorkshire Forest & Integreat Plus.
Follow @sheffcivictrustAdela Pankhurst – International Women’s Day 2012
To mark International Women’s Day celebrations, we are pleased to confirm that a street party will take place between 11am and 1pm this Saturday (10 March 2012) in Marlborough Road, Sheffield by the Moor Oaks Triangle Residents Save No 45 Campaign.
45 Marlborough Road
The event will see the unveiling of a plaque at 12 Noon to record Adela Pankhurst‘s occupation of the house between 1910 and 1911. Adela, who was a suffragette and a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union founded by her mother and sisters, lived in Sheffield before moving to Australia in 1914.
Follow @sheffcivictrustRobinson in Ruins (2010) at the Showroom
Come and see Robinson in Ruins (2010), the next in Sheffield Civic Trust’s Building Visions film series, which will be shown at the Showroom at 6pm tonight (Thursday 21 July 2011).
Patrick Keiller‘s follow-up to London and Robinson in Space, has his voyeur Robinson released from prison and journeying across the countryside in the South of England. Through Vanessa Redgrave‘s narration, Robinson comments on events that have taken place in that context before speculating on our collective future.
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A Celebration of Sheffield’s Brutalist Legacy
‘Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy’ on Friday 9 September (11am – 7.30pm) is an exploration of Sheffield’s six best Brutalist buildings (Park Hill, Castle Markets, the Electricity Substation on Moore Street, The Holy Cross Church on Spotswood Mount, Norton Water Tower and Psalter Lane Art School.
The event at the Site Gallery will open with guided walks to some of the buildings, followed by a series of presentations, a book launch and reception that will explore proposals and enquiries, speculations, and flights of fancy based around the position that these Brutalist buildings hold in Sheffield today.
Norton Water Tower
In his book ‘A Guide to The New Ruins of Modernism’ architectural commentator and Guardian journalist, Owen Hatherley, says that Sheffield ‘just doesn’t seem to know how good it is’ and that its modernist architectural heritage is ‘what makes Sheffield different from Leeds, or Manchester, or Birmingham’.
Twenty artists and writers from Sheffield and Berlin have been invited to contribute, to consider the position that these buildings hold now and to speculate on their possible futures. These extraordinary buildings are sometimes forgotten, often reviled, loved, misunderstood, and contested, but form a vital part of Sheffield’s architectural heritage.
Speakers include:
Owen Hatherley (Guardian journalist, Author of ‘A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain’ & ‘ Uncommon” a book on Pulp)
Steve Pile (Professor of Human Geography, the Open University and author of ‘Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life’)
Professor Jane Rendell (Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL, architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer)
Tickets for the event are £20 or £10 for concessions.
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