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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 17h

The opposite view from the new bridge , carrying the Trans Pennine Trail over the route of the canal restoration. Showing the excavations for the new lock and then the completed lock, through which the canal now extends 400 yards further towards the next goal of Renishaw

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Canal Trusts trip boat Madeline spotted near Staveley. I am guessing they'd been up to see the latest extension to the Chesterfield Canal #Canal

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Keith Ayling Lock is up and running. Some paving work ongoing this afternoon. The newest lock on the canal network is named after the man who was Chair of the Chesterfield Canal Trust from 1991 to 2009.

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stunning to see water in the newly restored section of the Chesterfield Canal at Staveley. Amazing work by Chesterfield Canal Trust and the contractor O'Briens. 👏🏼

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exchange Street looking towards Blonk Street , W.H. Smith and Son Ltd., booksellers, Hambleden House (now Exchange Place) and Alexandra Hotel. Utterly transformed with Grey to Green and a traffic free Castlegate #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

View of the burnt out store after the Luftwaffes incendiary bombs had done their work. Clock tower of Old Town Hall in view #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exchange Street. On the right is the Brightside & Carbrook Co-operative Society flagship department store (known as the City Stores). It only stood for 11 years before being destroyed in the blitz #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Via a friend of my daughters... we are off to Manchester City's ground again, albeit a different one.. and it may be a non-league ground by then 😉🎵🥳🎉

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No Oasis email through so far, so I am guessing none is coming. The consolation prize for being old is I saw them in 1996, for £17.50. Phenomenal they were too #Oasis

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Final Heritage Open Day. A trip to see Birley Spa bath house. Embarrassingly my first visit despite it being on my doorstep. Guided tour with Fiona telling us about the site's past, as well as plans for its future #HOD Birley Spa Preservation Trust have volunteer roles available 🧵

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Great Central Railway War Memorial originally stood outside Sheffield Victoria Station to honour railway workers who died in World War I. After the station closed the panels were relocated to the Wicker Arches, before returning to the station site #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taking advantage of the Heritage Open Days, yesterday I went on a guided tour of Canada House. The future home of @harmony_works 🧵

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

War memorial at Canada House, (the former Sheffield Gas Company offices), Commercial Street. Unveiling 1927. Sadly, the original memorial is missing or is it just boxed in ? The names are replicated on a plaque at Transco House, Junction of Effingham Street #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First breakfast then off to Rivendell with the faithful hounds 😊

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1/2 My parents generation had the JFK moment. Where everyone could remember where they were when the heard he'd been assassinated. 9/11 has that same level of recognition. I was running a stocktake at Virgin on Fargate. Probably the least accurate ever, such was the shock..

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight's film was Pressure. Thoroughly enjoyed, surprisingly moving too.

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There are literally dozens of amazing open days in Sheffield. Access and tours to buildings that you gaze at every day, but can't go in. I've booked three so far, more to follow. Some new only booking closer to the time. Well worth checking the website . share.google/r6v1DAwSjrwM... #Sheffield 👇

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Killamarsh train station, now part of the Trans Pennine Trail. 🚂

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Freedom public house, getting fresh supplies 🍺 No. 26 Walkley Road, pub opposite is, I think the Royal Oak #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Manor Cinema. Opened 12th December, 1927, with a total capacity of 1700. Closed 14th June 1969. Approaching it's 100th birthday, the good news is it appears to have a new occupant incoming. It appears they've made some repairs to the structure. Another positive are the trees, doing there best 👌

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Chesterfield Canal update : Looking back towards Staveley. The new lock currently covered with scaffolding. The route is excavated all the way through to the current 'watered' section. If that's a word. Progress comparison in comments ⬇️

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Chesterfield Canal update : Looking away from Staveley. Towards the new basin and onwards as it drives towards Renishaw. Progress comparison in comments ⬇️

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

View from Galleries, Castle Market, Haymarket looking towards the Old Town Hall, Waingate. Sadly, in an increasingly swift decline. The Davys building left is still there. Home to the Admiral 'casino'. #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump renaming Lake Ontario , Lake America because Canada rejected his trade deal reminded me of this classic.. #Trump #Ontario

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't want to be an arse, but the old well 'discovered' under the tram line on Birley Lane... Appears to be shown on the old Ordnance Survey map. 'Pump' would indicate 'a manual or mechanical water pump used to draw groundwater from a well'. #Sheffield

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I do not understand what toxic thoughts some people have. Walking along today, I passed lots of families, a lot of South Asian heritage. All out enjoying the beauty of the Peak District. Just below the spot where I took this picture, some has written across a signpost. REMIGRATION NOW 😔😡

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Abbeydale Station Hotel, later known as Beauchief Hotel, Abbeydale Road South at junction of Abbey Lane, on a Bank Holiday #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am currently in Toronto. A pilgrimage to see Rush, in their hometown. Today I tracked down where the Moving Pictures album cover was photographed in 1981. Luckily, some fellow fans were recreating part of the scene #Rush #Toronto

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ford wheel from 1925, the pond is dangerously low at the moment. The fish are up on the surface and still disturbing the silt. Angling is suspended. By the way, in the old days if the dam was too low to turn the water wheel, the men would go off to Lincolnshire and work on the harvest. Hard lives

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Cladding finally going up on the CITU block opposite the Fat Cat. Maybe it turns into a uniform rust colour ? I have to say in its present form I am not a fan 😬 #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The old Isabellas, bar and restaurant, is being taken on by the adjacent Bakers Yard bakery #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fantastic turn out from Kelham Island and Neepsend Community Association this morning. They were out clearing weeds on Ball Street bridge and litter picking along the river path to Rutland Road 👏🏼

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I really do not get this culture of entitlement that's taken over , since Covid. People think it's their right to trespass, camp, park, p1ss and sh1t anywhere they want. Leave their rubbish behind and probably boast on social media what a great time they had 😔

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The remains of Sheffield Castle tell a story that’s long been buried. Archaeologists have uncovered what lies beneath Castlegate. Now the city is asking: how can we build something new that remembers what came before? Watch now: bit.ly/46SKyP8 #FestivalOfArchaeology #Castlegate #SheffieldCastle

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of my Dad's old photographs. Taken from what's now Poundland , looking into the 'Hole in the road'. Wetherspoons on the left #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For decades Sheffield has been full of car parks. Not purpose built, but land cleared of old workshops and housing. With nothing to build, we parked cars instead. Crushed brick, tarmac in time. Now the land is coming back to life 🙌 #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Odyssey is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. However, up until tonight that was the extent of my knowledge on the topic. Therefore, I was like a kid in a sweet shop, watching Christopher Nolans film version. Superb.. in fact epic 🎬

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I feared for the worse when Monki closed down, but arguably the unit has had an upgrade #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Family history throws up some amazing stories. My Great Grandfather had a cousin Walter Holbem. Born in 1884, he grew up around Heeley , at 16 he was a table knife grinder. But football was to change his life, initially with Heeley Friends. Later Sheffield Wednesday... 🧵

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

All up and running now. Well done to all involved in the newly named 'Neepsend Pit Stop' 👏🏼👍

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

9 years after the Grenfell fire and the scaffolding finally coming off Wicker Riverside. The final cladding remediation seems to be going on. A slow and painful process , that at one stage saw residents of parts of the block moved out #Sheffield

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Superb home town gig. Wasn't expecting the Depeche Mode and David Essex covers 🎵

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Chesterfield Canal update. On the left the new locks is largely complete, with the gate now on. On the right, huge progress for the canals onward route out towards Renishaw #Canal

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Old Sheffield @oldsheffield.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Starting life as George's Coffee House, acquired by the Sheffield Banking Co in 1831. The building was acquired by the National Provincial Bank in 1919. Later a Nat West and most recently home to Curzon cinema. Sadly, closing its doors due to falling trade #Sheffield

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