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PEAK DISTRICT A pocket guide to our friendly, hilly city Coffee and cocktails in old cutlery works. Art exhibitions in transformed factories. A lot Vintage treasures line the streets in one corner of the city; in another, an inviting, international array of restaurants extends for a mile. The happens biggest – and best – theatre complex outside of London is just down the road from one of within Europe’s biggest indie cinemas. Festivals of art, film, music, the great outdoors and literature bring the city to life, whatever the season. Sheffield’s Get to know Sheffield: the friendly, hilly, multicultural city that around 564,000 people seven hills. – including 58,000 students – love to call home. This booklet is written by Our Favourite Places in collaboration with the University of Sheffield. Our Favourite Places is an independent guide to the creative and unconventionally beautiful city of Sheffield, here they have highlighted some of their best loved places in the region. www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk 4 Botanical gardens University – Firth Court The Peak District University – Arts Tower Sectiontitle University – Information Commons London Road Devonshire quarter City centre Peace Gardens Railway station 5 Our city – how to get here The big northern cities of Leeds, Manchester and York are less than an hour away by train. Within two Where is hours, you can make it to Liverpool to the west, Newcastle to the Sheffield? north, and Hull to the east. Getting to Sheffield: Getting around Sheffield: By train By tram Trains connect Sheffield directly to The Supertram is the handiest way most major British cities, as well to get around the city, with stops as outlying suburbs, Meadowhall at the University, the station, the shopping centre, and the nearby Cathedral, and more. Edinburgh Peak District. Once you arrive, the 190 miles away, Doncaster heart of the city is a short uphill By bus as the crow flies. 25 miles to the walk from Sheffield station. Across the road from the railway closest airport. station, Sheffield Interchange By coach is the best place to get to grips National Express coaches regularly with the city’s bus routes. Buses Cleethorpes pull up at Sheffield Interchange lead in all directions from here, Nearest beach: in the city centre, while Megabus including to Meadowhall and the an hour and drops off and picks up at Peak District, and most buses offer Peak District a half away by Meadowhall, a tram ride away. cheap fares to students. The 5th-biggest SHEFFIELD train. national park in the By road On foot country. One third Central Sheffield’s one-way Yes, Sheffield’s hilly – but don’t let of Sheffield lies routes are notoriously tricky for that put you off. The city centre is within its borders. newcomers, so make the most compact enough to walk around of the Park and Ride options at fairly quickly and easily, and you’ll Nunnery Square, Meadowhall and soon acclimatise to the inclines. Middlewood, where you can hop London on a tram into town. 2 hours’ train ride to the capital. 6 7 Our city 8 9 Many a maker and doer has set up Small galleries dot the area known their creative home in Sheffield. as the Cultural Industries Quarter. The current crop of artists, Meanwhile the main cultural musicians, filmmakers, developers attractions – including the biggest Culture and designers continue the city’s and best theatre complex outside long tradition of making, and make of London – gather near urban life for the rest of us here that bit tropical paradise the Winter more exciting. Garden. 99 Mary Street Image: Nynke Wierda. Photography, courtesy of 99 Mary of Street courtesy Photography, Wierda. Image: Nynke 10 11 Culture – theatre Lyceum Theatre Delicatessen Theatre top 5 A fairy tale Edwardian theatre, Unlocking creative potential the Lyceum reopened just over in the most unlikely places is twenty-five years ago, yet it’s hard something Sheffield’s particularly to imagine Sheffield without it. good at, and Theatre Delicatessen Its programme of ballet, musicals is a shining example of that. The and family-friendly drama deserted Woolworths turned complements that of its younger artspace makes room for emerging sibling, the Crucible next door. theatre groups to develop and sheffieldtheatres.co.uk stage new work – anything from immersive theatre to improv Lantern Theatre comedy to celebrations of queer A wealthy industrialist originally culture. built the Lantern as his own theatredelicatessen.co.uk private theatre in 1886. In the leafy suburb of Nether Edge, this tiny Crucible Victorian theatre now hosts local The leading light of Sheffield amateur groups and the occasional theatreland since 1971, the musician. No matter what’s on Crucible, with its starry ceiling stage, its charm won’t fail to woo and thrust stage, is iconic. An you. impressive lineup of actors lanterntheatre.org.uk regularly tread the boards and, once a year, it goes snooker The Library Theatre loopy as it plays host to the A secret in the city centre, the World Snooker Championship. Library Theatre is hidden away 16- to 26-year-olds can often get in the basement of Sheffield’s art tickets for a fiver, and it’s always deco Central Library. Programming worth checking what’s on the here is eclectic: one day it might smaller Crucible Studio stage for be a wrestling match, the next a less conventional, more thrifty burlesque cabaret. theatre-going. sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/ sheffieldtheatres.co.uk librarytheatre 12 13 Culture – art WEST ST 1 S1 Artspace s1artspace.org Contemporary art trail 2 Site Gallery (closed Starting at S1 Artspace in Park Hill 1 for refurbishment – Sheffield’s iconic, brutalist 1960s Park Hill 2017-18) housing experiment – this trail calls Theatres sitegallery.org A6 in on small galleries specialising in 1 8 3 SIA Gallery everything from screen printing to ST shu.ac.uk/sia/ digital art. It ends with Millennium 9 Gallery, the city’s largest exhibition events/gallery space, and the splendid 1930s SOUTH 4 APG Works Graves Gallery, home to permanent apgworks.co.uk displays from the city’s collections. E AT 5 99 Mary Street G L 99mary.st HUBS ST UNDE 6 R N B&B Gallery A 2 OW bandbgallery.com DEL ST BR N 7 RU Bloc Projects A blocprojects.co.uk 3 8 Graves Gallery museums-sheffield.org.uk 4 ST E E A61 9 Millennium Gallery R N ST EY Cholera museums-sheffield.org.uk E LA Monument R EY Moor Market N EY D 7 SI 5 Gallery opening hours 6 vary so please check websites ST MA RY for times. 14 15 Culture – museums Kelham Island Museum Alfred Denny Museum In what once was the heart of The University’s very own cabinet industrial Sheffield, this museum of curiosities. The Alfred Denny is a history lesson in what opens the first Saturday of made the city we know today – every month, when its grinning cutlery, steel, hard graft – and a skeletons, pickled critters and celebration of all things Made in fossils fill visitors with awe and Sheffield. wonder. simt.co.uk sheffield.ac.uk/alfred-denny- museum Weston Park Museum Weston Park is pretty much the University’s back garden, rolling out to the side of Firth Court, Western Bank Library and the Arts Tower. Its blossom trees, duck pond and Victorian bandstand make it ideal for a calming study break, but the curious will want to head inside to its museum. There you’ll find out about significant events in the city’s social history – the floods, the miners’ strike, and so on – and meet Snowy the polar bear. museums-sheffield.org.uk Weston Park Museum 16 17 Culture – music Music Me The Horizon, Drenge, Slow (Picture House Social), trading Sheffield is home to: For many, Sheffield music is Club, Toddla T and The Sherlocks. co-ops (Regather) and, during synonymous with early-80s Tramlines festival weekend, pretty 465 bands synthpop chart-botherers The Venues include the legendary likes much everywhere. And you can put 65 recording studios Human League, Heaven 17 and of the Leadmill and the art deco on your dancing shoes most nights 70 venues ABC. The city’s nourished a varied City Hall. There’s music in former of the week at places like Plug, bunch of musicians since then warehouses (Hope Works), on Corporation, the Students’ Union, though: from Pulp and Moloko in trains (Folk Train), in pubs (The and the bars and clubs around the 90s, to, more recently, Arctic Harley and The Greystones, for Division Street and West Street. Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Bring starters), basement ballrooms Yellow Arch Studios Image: Ali Heath-Cook courtesy of Yellow Arch Yellow of courtesy Image: Ali Heath-Cook 18 19 Culture – festivals Festivals Music, zines, food, documentaries, heritage, the great outdoors, books. There’s a festival for all of them, and more, in Sheffield. See ourfaveplaces.co.uk/festivals for details. February June Sheffield Zine Doc/Fest (film) Fest July March Sheffield Pride Outlines Tramlines (music) (music) Sheffield Beer Week August The Outdoor Sheffield Fayre City Weekender September April Festival of the Art Sheffield Mind (biennial) (biennial) Heritage Open Sharrow Days Lantern October Carnival Off the Shelf Multi-story: (literature) the Sheffield Sensoria Library Festival (music & film) May Sheffield Design Open Up (art) Week Sheffield Food November Festival Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios Tramlines Tramlines Image: Simon Butler. Courtesy of Tramlines of Courtesy Image: Simon Butler. 20 21 Culture – urban landscape The urban landscape Keep your eyes peeled as you Sheffield’s visual landscape is wander the city’s streets and nothing if not varied. alleyways, for signs of Sheffield’s past or murals by some of its The city does concrete really resident artists.