Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
Sheffield theatres
Month: December 2025
Hidden in plain sight
The picture in today’s post is of Black Swan Walk, a dead-end street in the middle of Sheffield city centre. It has the air of a really old street and if you squint a little it looks almost like rows of the overhanging Tudor storefronts that you can see in places like The Shambles in York. It actually dates back to the late 19th century and, on close inspection, it really looks nothing like The Shambles.
Because it’s a dead-end, at the bottom it widens and there still exists the remains of a turntable and it’s mechanism where carriages would once be turned around so they could exit the narrow street after depositing their goods. There are also stories of ghostly carriages being witnessed entering the street before vanishing!
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
At the bottom of the steps
These steps lead up to what used to be the central post office in Sheffield. The post office closed a long time ago but the building has since been acquired by the university and now houses the art department. I think some of the students were let loose to decorate the steps..
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
Outside the Winter Gardens
I think I kinda take the Winter Gardens for granted somewhat. I don’t go in there all that often – often using it as a short-cut rather than a destination – but it’s a really nice space. Not only is there the large wood-framed glasshouse full of tropical plants, but off-shot from the main structure are the Millennium Galleries, which have a mixture of permanent and temporary exhibitions, often very interesting.
If I still worked in the city centre then I’d visit it more often.
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
A leaf in the Winter Gardens
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
Shadow lines
These fence shadows caught my eye when walking through town early one morning. They reminded me both of a running track, and also of sheet music (without any notes). There are probably the wrong number of lines for both, but the sense of them remains.
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 12 September 2025
Mirror selfie
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
The Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge
The Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge is one of only five surviving bridge chapels in the UK. It dates to 1483 and survived as a chapel for 64 years before being closed during The Act of Dissolution in 1547. In 1569 it became an almshouse until, just over 200 years later in 1779 it became a dwelling for the deputy constable, and a jail. 109 years after that it became a tobacconists / newsagents.
In 1901 a petition by Rotherham residents was raised to restore the building back to a place of worship. Sir Charles Stoddart purchased the tobacconist’s business twelve years later, subsequently closed the shop, and proposed to restore the building. However, Sir Charles passed away before the repairs could be completed. In his will, he left £500 to be invested, with the income intended to support the maintenance of services in the Chapel on the Bridge.
Following the end of World War One, the work was completed, and the chapel was re-consecrated in 1924. Services are still held there to this day.
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 7 September 2025
The Bridge Inn
Built in the 1930s using stone from the original Bridge Inn (dating to the 1700s), this Rotherham town centre pub is now (like so many others) permanently closed.
It’s not a pub I’ve ever visited and I only photographed it as I was visiting the new cinema on the other side of the road, and the light was nice. Despite being built in the 1930s, the use of the older stone makes the building look much older.
The X-Fujinon 50mm lens is pretty sharp!
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 7 September 2025
There are foxes messing about by the bins again
Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 6 September 2025
Steel City Snapper photography 