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That other thing: the paternoster lift in the Arts Tower? You missed out.

David | 19.10.18 - 9:10 a.m. | #

Dang it! David beat me to it! Suspect the paternoster lift will be dear to your target audience’s heart DG.

Marc | 19.10.18 - 9:17 a.m. | #

Interesting that you found your revisit to the cathedral much smaller than you remember it as a 10 year old.
I revisited my primary school about 30 years after leaving, and the assembly hall which I thought was huge as a 10 year old was tiny.

scrumpy | 19.10.18 - 9:47 a.m. | #

You always manage to cram in so much more to your town/city visits than I am able to achieve, even with detailed prior planning!

Re: your recent travelogues (with the unintended risk of sounding stalker-ish) I'd be interested to learn if you visited Sheffield for just a single day, and if so how early did you depart London, and how late did you return?

dg writes: Just a day - see third sentence. I was out of the capital for about 12 hours.

Frank F | 19.10.18 - 9:48 a.m. | #

It wouldn't be the DG comments page without a pointlessly pedantic correction, so here goes:

The police box on Surrey Street is mentioned in Jodie Whittaker's second Doctor Who episode (The Ghost Monument) which, unlike her first, isn't set in Sheffield.

OK, now that's out of the way, I loved the article. You've really captured the feel of the place, and thanks for the heads up about the Turner Glass Museum. I'll have to check that out next time I'm in Sheffield.

solar penguin | 19.10.18 - 9:49 a.m. | #

I think Sheffield is a lovely city, and when I've been sent around it on assorted family duties, I've found the people there very friendly and helpful. They do not beat about the bush, though.

Malcolm | 19.10.18 - 10:31 a.m. | #

Well done, a very productive day. If you had been sampling the very nice Kelham Island Brewery ales, you might not have done so much!

Bit depressing that freshers at the Uni weren't born when that building opened as the National music museum...

Mikey C | 19.10.18 - 11:31 a.m. | #

An aside to Sheffield:

I see Diamondgeezer.com has rebranded. It is now Comparethediamond.com.

Does this mean DG will have less hits on his site, as result of people looking for jewellery, or less people looking for his blog ending up buying rings and bracelets?

Personally I think the new name does not quite have the same ring to it (no pun intended)

MO | 19.10.18 - 12:59 p.m. | #

I was wondering what That Other Thing could be - will we ever know? I was in the Arts Tower yesterday, but as I only had to ascend one floor, I took the stairs. I was very wary of the Paternoster at first, until someone said 'I suppose it's a bit like getting on and off a boat' - which it is, and I've loved it ever since. Although it did once grind to a halt just after I got off, leaving my colleague stranded between floors. I cross the Ponderosa on my way to work every day, I've done the Five Weirs Walk (and beyond), I've drunk in the Fat Cat, but so far I have never managed to find the Kelham Island Museum open - but it sounds as if it's worth persevering. The best thing I learnt in the Millennium Galleries is that only knifes are properly called cutlery; forks and spoons are flatware. Oh... and not all students are eighteen. I'd be out of a job if they were :-)

Sarah | Homepage | 19.10.18 - 2:55 p.m. | #

Oh, and looking at the tram picture - while it's fabulous to have a stop called Halfway, it takes a stroke of genius to make it the terminus.

Sarah | Homepage | 19.10.18 - 3:02 p.m. | #

Just had an email from Sheffield Theatres entitled "The Messiah comes to Sheffield".
They probably spotted him taking pictures outside the Crucible...

2d53 | Homepage | 19.10.18 - 7:38 p.m. | #

Ah my hometown. Still scrubs up well but nothing like what is happening in my adopted Manchester though I live just over the border in Derbyshire.

Sarah I believe it was called the area of Halfway is that it is halfway between Chesterfield and Rotherham.

Rick | 19.10.18 - 8:52 p.m. | #

I'm not sure it's right to say 'formerly in Hallamshire'; Hallamshire was never a county, or a local government area of some other kind, just a name for the district, so as far as I can see Sheffield is still there.

Andrew M | 19.10.18 - 10:57 p.m. | #

Having been a keen reader of this blog for at least ten years it feels very odd (in a good way) that DG was actually stood outside my flat on Tuesday (I live in the apartments on the photo of Kelham Island).

Anders | 21.10.18 - 1:01 p.m. | #











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