Sheffield on Film Maps out the Many Roles the City’S Streets and Buildings Have Played on Film, Dating As Far Back As 1903
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It’s twenty years since The Full Monty came out, following hot on ‘71 (2014) the heels of that other Sheffield ‘classic’, When Saturday Comes. 1 Park Hill, South Street, S2 5PN Through the universal language of cinema, these globally successful but very localised films showed the world a city determined to get 2 Underbank Outdoor Activity Centre, on with it after the economic devastation of the 80s. Oaks Lane, S36 4GH As you’ll see, they weren’t the first pieces of cinema made in The Battle of Orgreave (2001) or about Sheffield. This is a place of many stories and varied 1 3 Orgreave, S13 landscapes, a city of grit and inventiveness. But since their release, Sheffield has become a lively place for film. 2 Four Lions (2010) Independent production company Warp Films set up here in ROTHERHAM4 Kebabish, 27 Wicker, S3 8JQ 2002, giving us pioneering, cutting-edge modern British cinema. 5 Library Theatre, Surrey Street, S1 1XZ 3 Key industry organisations like the South Yorkshire Filmmakers’ 11 6 Meersbrook Park, Network, the BFI’s Film Hub North and Cinema For All are based Chesterfield Road, S8 9FB 4 here, as well as Sheffield Hallam University’s well-respected film studies course and countless talented film-related individuals. Wincobank The Full Monty (1997) 5 There’s been an explosion of opportunities for watching films, from quality independent cinemas like the Showroom to 7 Jobcentre, 112 West Street, S1 3SY 65 international film festivals like Doc/Fest and Sensoria, and a 8 Crookes Cemetery, thriving community cinema scene. Headland Road, S10 5FY 7 9 Ruskin Park, S6 3QA We think Sheffield’s hills are more than a matchOwlerton for Hollywood’s. Carbook 10 Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, Bacon Lane, S9 1 8 11 Shiregreen Working Men’s Club, 136 Shiregreen Lane, S5 6AD 2 9 CAFE 18 12 Skye Edge, Skye Edge Road, S2 5HA ROTiTHnsleyERHAM 10 Walkley 3 Kill List (2011) 11 After the strain of Neepsend 11 13 DoubleTree Hilton, making Performance (1970),9 4 Chesterfield Road, S8 8BW 12 James Fox gave up acting, converted to a Christian evangelical Wincobank 14 Royal Victoria Hotel, 5 10 sect called The Navigators and 4 14 Victoria Station Road, S4 7YE AL went to live in Oughtibridge. He CO 15N OTSt Swithun’s Church, 2 Cary Road, S2 1JP 65 2 19 had a few odd jobs but eventually LE 8 Crookesmoor DO 13 returned to acting,3 still a 17 5 Looks and Smiles (1981) 7 committed2 believer with very 7 31 3 14 Owlertonhappy memories City 1 Carbook 22 16 Bramall Lane, S2 4SU of Sheffield. Centre 8 Fargate, S1 2HE 15 29 26 12 17 9 Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and CAFE 16 18 16 Tinsley Supermarkets (2014) 10 Midlands 17 Walkley Sharrow glamrockers Slade 25 27 1 Park Hill, South Street, S2 5PN 11 filmed scenes in 18 Sheffield Arena, Broughton Lane, S9 2DF Neepsend 15 Walkley for their 1975 9 18 musical Flame. Intake 12 Nether Edge This is England series (2010-2015) Heeley10 19 4 14 19 Bolsterstone, S36 3ZA 30 AL CO W20oodhous Gleadlesse Valley, Gleadless Road, S12 2LG 28 NOT 2 19 LE 13 8 Crookesmoor 1724 DO 21 John O’Gaunt, 20 6 20 151 Blackstock Road, S14 1FX 7 31 5 3 14 City 1 1 Park Hill, South Street, S2 5PN 21 22 Centre Meersbrook 21 22 Royal Hallamshire Hospital, 15 29 26 22 12 Glossop Road, S10 2JF Woodseats 23 St James Church, 16 23 16 Norton Church Road, S8 8JQ 17 25 Sharrow 24 27 Threads (1984) 15 24 Abbeydale Road, S7 2BH 18 Intake 25 Endcliffe Park, Rustlings Road, S11 8TF Nether Edge 23 Heeley 26 The Moor, S1 19 30 28 Woodhouse Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? 24 (1999) 20 6 20 13 27 Sharrow Vale Road, S11 8ZP 21 Meersbrook 21 When Saturday Comes (1996) 22 To the west 16 Bramall Lane, S2 4SU of the city, the glorious Woodseats 23 Peak District is a natural habitat X+Y (2014) for period dramas. Chatsworth House CAFEhas starred in two Keira Knightley films: 28 High Storrs School, 24 The Duchess and Pride and Prejudice. In the High Storrs Road, S11 7LH latter, Knightley’s Elizabeth Bennet also gets 29 King Edward VII School, windswept over Mr Darcy on Stanage Edge, Glossop Road, S10 2PW on the boundary between the national park 23 and Sheffield. Meanwhile Haddon Hall was 30 Rails of Sheffield, used as the backdrop for three adaptations 27-29 Chesterfield Road S8 0RL of Jane Eyre – most recently the 2011 31 Sheffield Town Hall, Surrey Street, S1 2HH one with Mia Wasikowska – and it played Prince Humperdinck’s castle in The Princess Bride. 13 Sheffield’s kebab shops, working men’s clubs and Woolworths CAFE have been the film locations for everything from a hostage situation to an ex-steelworkers’ striptease to nuclear peril. Its modernist architecture has passed for 1970s Belfast, and its Town Hall once played the part of Cambridge Uni. Sheffield on Film maps out the many roles the city’s streets and buildings have played on film, dating as far back as 1903. Get the popcorn ready, and revisit some of the Steel City’s finest moments on the silver screen. Sheffield on Film is a joint publication by Our Favourite Places and Magic Lantern Film Club. Our Favourite Places is the Sheffield city guide with a creative heart. Its Sheffield guidebook, online culture guide, prints and tours are together a celebration of our city: the people, the places, the hills. ourfaveplaces.co.uk SHEFFIELD Magic Lantern is a community cinema that, since 2011, has popped up in the most interesting and unexpected places across Sheffield. Its main base is now the mini cinema in pizza and ping-pong bar Picture House Social. magiclanternfilmclub.org ON FILM 3 4 5 6 The Battle of Orgreave Four Lions (2010) Short documentary (2001) In this jihadi terrorism satire, Omar New Towns for Old (1942) A year-long community art project and his incompetent crew make a shows Sheffield in the raw conceived by artist Jeremy Deller general mess of their attempts to and is scripted by poet and filmed by director Mike Figgis bring down the system. Locations Dylan Thomas, who called recreated the infamous 1984 include Meersbrook Park and Sheffield ‘Smokedale’ clash between miners and police surroundings, the University and because of its extremely in S13. In contrast to the hot June the Library Theatre. Kebabish awful pollution. of the original event, the day of the on the Wicker does a fine job re-enactment was overcast and standing in for a London kebab rainy. Ex-miners, professional re- shop at the end. enactors and stuntmen made up the 400 miners and 500 police. 28 29 30 31 X+Y (2014) Locations in X+Y, a drama about a maths prodigy who comes of age when he represents Britain at the International Mathematics Olympiad, include High Storrs School, Rails model train shop and King Edward VII School. The interior of the Town Hall stands in for Cambridge University. 16 17 13 14 15 7 8 9 10 11 12 Looks and Smiles (1981) Kill List (2011) The Full Monty (1997) You’ll find a huge chunk of vintage A hitman thriller that descends The life-affirming tale of Sheffield shot in glossy black and into dark horror, and the ex-steelworkers turned strippers white in this social commentary breakthrough hit for daring opens with a 1972 promo film naturalistic drama from veteran British director Ben Wheatley. showing Sheffield in its heyday. British auteur Ken Loach. There’s The film features external shots The Full Monty was filmed all over the much-missed Hole in the of The Royal Victoria hotel the city, in places like Skye Edge, Road in action, complete with down by Victoria Quays, while Crookes Cemetery, Ruskin Park, escalators, High Street before other scenes were shot at Langsett School, on the Sheffield the Supertram, the old fountain at the Doubletree Hilton and St and Tinsley Canal by Bacon the top of Fargate with the Egg Swithun’s Church in Manor Top. Lane bridge in Attercliffe, and Box (RIP) in the background, outside the Jobcentre on West and a match at Bramall Lane. It 1 2 Street. Look out for some lovely was released with subtitles so shots of the (now-demolished) everyone could understand the ’71 (2014) Tinsley Towers. That final scene thick accents. Loach and writer Sheffield impersonates early 70s takes place in Shiregreen Barry Hines collaborated on two Belfast. Park Hill’s modernist Working Men’s Club, although other Sheffield-set films: The concrete is dark, shadowy and the club exterior was actually The Gamekeeper (1980) and The threatening, but equally a place Regency on Idsworth Road. Navigators (2001). of safety for British soldier Gary, who spends a long night trying not to get killed. The soldier training at the opening of the film, meanwhile, was shot at Underbank Outdoor Activity Centre near Stocksbridge. The incomparable Monica Vitti came to Simon Beaufoy, town in La Ragazza con la Pistola (1968) chasing buoyed from his success 27 writing The Full Monty, 24 25 26 her fleeing lover to a very devised Among Giants (1998), a Whatever Happened to smoggy Sheffield peopled Threads (1984) by cockneys. The film also rom-com about painting pylons with Harold Smith? (1999) Pete Postlethwaite and Rachel Griffiths. A disaster film on the biggest stars Stanley Baker, A British farce with Tom It features since-demolished monuments scale (nuclear holocaust, South Corin Redgrave and Courteney, Lulu and Keith the Tinsley Towers and Neepsend Yorks style).