Month: March 2023

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Old bridge, new construction

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This old iron bridge – I’m not actually sure if it’s officially named Iron Bridge as well – crosses the River Don at Nursery Street. It’s flanked on either side by modern concrete bridges carrying vehicular traffic across the river. From the viewpoint in both pictures you’re looking approximately southwest towards the city centre, which lies around half-a-mile distant.

The two new buildings under construction will be, most likely – although, again, I don’t know for sure – more apartment developments. I like how the one on the left currently looks like a very tall, thin castle.

Old crossing
Cranes

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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The Flood

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This memorial stands beside the River Don in Sheffield and remembers those who lost their lives in the 1864 flood which resulted from the collapse of the Dale Dyke dam up near the top of the Loxley valley which released 700 million gallons of water.

Flood memorial

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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A nice pub for nice people

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Depite many, many pub closures in recent years (well, recent decades actually) there are still some that have been around as long as I remember. This pub, The Big Gun, is situated on The Wicker just at the edge of Sheffield city centre.

It’s seems it’s always been there, but I’ve never been inside – I know it mainly by the fact that the bus I used to catch into town when I still lived with my parents (and the first home I lived in when I left) drove down The Wicker on the outbound and return journeys, so pubs, shops and other things (not just on this street, but along the whole route) became imprinted on my mind over the course of thousands of separate trips.

A nice pub for nice people

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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The Best

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I thought I’d post this shot today as it kinda got a preview in yesterday’s picture already. It’s another example of the sort of mundane scene that often draws my attention. The colours caught my eye on this day, with the soft warm tones of the building’s rendering against the blue of the morning sky. But it’s also details like the metal shine of the anti0vehicle posts in the foreground, the shadow of the tree against the building, the graffiti, and that big tangle of cables on the side wall.

The Best

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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Au Village

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Nice light and strong colours are an obvious draw when shooting colour film and the reds and whites of the shutters on this African bar and restaurant caught my attention on the morning I took this photo. I also like the way the shadow of the out-of-shot street-sign is cast into the centre of the white shutter.

Au Village

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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Seating indoors and out

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I must apologise for what is likely to be a series of pretty sparsely wrtten posts this week. Something came up at work and has resulted in longer hours and less time to get everything else done.

Slightly less sparse posts will resume in due course. 🙂

Red leather seats
Outdoor seating

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.

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The Two Rivers

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The building to the left of the frame here is The Two Rivers restaurant and bar. It sits where Blonk Street and Castlegate meet and is unusual because the building sits atop the confluence of the rivers Don and Sheaf. It’s also slightly unusual in that it is a re-purposed building. I wonder how many of the people visiting know that it used to be a public convenience?

It’s not the only re-imagined public toilet in the city either. There is a former gent’s toilets on Surrey Street wgich is now a cocktail bar named Public (pun no doubt intended). A public toilets in Handsworth, one of Sheffield’s districts a few miles from the city centre has a former public toilets now housing a barbershop. And I expect that there will be more.

While it’s good to see these places put to new life, I do wish that there were more actual public toilets around. They serve a very useful purpose and stop people having to use the facilities in cafes and bars where they might also be expected to buy food or drinks for the privilege. As much as it seems a humorous topic – particularly here in the UK where toilet humour is pretty much a curriculum subject – well maintained public toilets are a mark of a civilised society, I think. We all need to spend a penny now and then.

Castlegate

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400. Lab Developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 February 2023.