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For help and advice on any aspect of visiting the University and the city, call the Visitor Information service on 0114 222 1255 . If you’re on campus, pop in and see us at Level 4, University House. www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors Our This publication is available in alternative formats. Visitors’ To request a different format: T: 0114 222 1303 E: disability.info@sheffield.ac.uk Guide. Copyright © The University of Sheffield 2007 SRAM 0296 Campus Landmarks Campus Landmarks Secret city “ If I’m not mistaken Watson, that was the Dore and Totley tunnel through which we have just come, and if so we shall be in Sheffield is a city of contradictions and surprises . It’s a well Sheffield in a few minutes.” known fact and an open secret. It’s quirky, mysterious and green. Sherlock Holmes It’s arty, down to earth, clever and funny. It’s poetic, romantic, northern and strong. It’s quiet and busy, the world’s biggest small town. Sheffield welcomes warmly and brings out the best. This is a city that makes friends and influences people. This is a city where people work, study and have fun together. This is a city where people know each other and say hello to each other in the street. Make yourself at home. Green city Winter Garden Peace Gardens The Botanical Gardens Surrey Street Pinstone Street Clarkehouse Road Open daily 8am– 6pm Open 24 hours. Admission free Admission free. Another prime example of what Sheffield does effortlessly, that is The largest temperate glasshouse A city-centre oasis for office to maintain more attractive, in any European city is home to workers, shoppers, students and green, public spaces than any more than 2,000 plants from families, with some interesting other city in the UK. around the world, many of which features, including the Bochum Opened in 1836 and recently wouldn’t look out of place in Bell, donated by our German twin restored to their former glory Jurassic Park. The building is an city, and a memorial in Welsh with support from the Heritage architectural spectacle in its own slate to the Sheffield men who Lottery fund, the 19 -acre gardens right. It’s connected to the fought fascism in the Spanish Civil are a short walk from campus. Millennium Galleries by the War. From Pinstone Street, walk The Grade II listed glass pavilions gallery shop, and the Surrey through the square towards the are some of the earliest of their Street entrance overlooks the mirrored-orb sculptures and kind ever built. The gardens were Sheffield Theatres complex. you’ll find yourself at the the concept of Robert Marnock, alternative entrance to the who clearly knew a good picnic Winter Garden. spot when he saw one. Marnock later designed the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society in London’s Regent’s Park. Go out Nirmal’s Glossop Road. Authentic Indian. The East One noodle bar Division Street and West Street West One complex. Ten minutes’ walk from campus. Fast and very good value. It’s worth checking this area out La Mancha while you’re here, as the variety of West Street. restaurants, bars, cafes, Good service and value. independent shops and student Moco and Lounge accommodation make it the hub West Street. of student social life in the city Nice places for coffee and a centre. You’ll find Italian, Spanish, quick lunch. Mexican, Thai, Indian, Lebanese and traditional pub food here, Of course, the green city lunchtimes and evenings. also does pubs very well. The Frog and Parrot Division Street. Friendly, smart, no-nonsense. Hearty food and dry humour. Bungalows and Bears Division Street. Quirky, comfy, long bar, armchairs, sofas, big tables. The Devonshire Cat Wellington Street. So many international beers they need their own room. The Red Deer Off Mappin Street. An old fashioned pub – in a very good way. The Bath Hotel Victoria Street. Small but perfectly formed real ale pub. Heart of the city Amble along West Street or Division Street for a further five minutes or so and you’re in the heart of the city. The Blue Moon Next to the cathedral. Busy, cheerful, for vegetarians and vegans. Gusto Italiano Church Street. Great coffee, paninis and the like. Ha!Ha! Peace Gardens. Broomhill Ecclesall Road Alfresco tables. Ten minutes’ walk from campus. A pleasant, short walk from Head up Whitham Road or campus via the Botanical Glossop Road away from the city Gardens, this is a hugely popular centre. Broomhill is a major student suburb of the leafy student centre, and close to the variety lined with cafes and Endcliffe Village, so you could do restaurants. Mediterranean, worse than go and have a look. Mexican, American, including: Nonnas, Thyme Cafe Cafe Rouge, Variety and atmosphere. Uncle Sams . Vegetarians well catered for. The Fox and Duck pub London Road Straightforward and fun – bring Close to Ecclesall Road, your own fish and chips. not leafy, but just as popular. Bright lights and a seemingly limitless choice of restaurants including: Wasabi Sabi , Vietnamese Noodle Bar. Music Sheffielders are taught from an early age to recite their city’s musical history to anyone who A fistful of venues will listen. So, if you ask someone Dulo Cemetery Road for directions to a gig, don’t be The Grapes Trippett Lane surprised if they tell you they The Boardwalk Snig Hill used to be in a band with Jarvis The Leadmill Leadmill Road Cocker, or try to explain the The Washington Fitzwilliam Street evolutionary links between Cabaret Voltaire and Aphex Twin. Shufflefield When you’re in the Division Street Arctic Monkeys area, every third person is in a Fluorescent Adolescent band and they are carrying flyers Jarvis Cocker with their MySpace address on Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time them. Even the traffic wardens. Kid Acne Probably. South Yorks The Long Blondes Our Union of Students is one of Giddy Stratospheres the biggest venues in the city, Bromhead’s Jacket running club nights every night of What Ifs and Maybes the week, alongside a programme Richard Hawley of live bands. The Hallam FM The Ocean arena and Don Valley Stadium Heaven 17 bring in the biggest stadium-filling Temptation names in the world. City Hall and The Human League the University host regular Don’t You Want Me Baby programmes of classical music. Pink Grease Carlights Moloko Sing It Back Pulp Disco 2000 C90 at the Dove and Rainbow. Clubs Cinema Theatre Ten evocatively named club nights Hedkandi Adelante Jump Around Shuffle Fuzz Frouk Cheek Drop The Showroom Cinema Crucible, Studio, Lyceum Touch Paternoster Row Tudor Square Social Intercourse A constantly inventive programme With three distinctive venues as of classic, modern, art-house and his canvas, artistic director Sam Sheffield is at the forefront of Gatecrasher One foreign cinema makes the West is consolidating Sheffield’s developments in the Arundel Street. Showroom a haven for everyone reputation as the most important field of clubbing. Dance music utopia. who has ever had a life-affirming theatre centre outside London. Plug experience in a darkened room. Family musicals, new interpret- Clubs used to be places where Matilda Street. More than that, the cinema has ations of the classics, contem- gentlemen smoked pipes in Three-rooms. Electrifying become an important cultural porary drama and controversial, armchairs by log fires. Then they DJ sets and live bands. centre, for the region and for the groundbreaking work run side- became places where people went Tuesday Club country – major film festivals are by-side in the busy programme. to dance, but it was impossible to Union of Students. held here ever year. have a civilised conversation. The national institute of hip-hop If you’ve never been to the Nowadays, clubs are quite and drum and bass. The restaurant bar is a popular theatre in Sheffield, you have sophisticated again, so you can venue in its own right, hosting an recently missed Shakespeare’s As dance or have a conversation as More eclectic weekly programme of DJ You Like It , Chekov’s Cherry the mood takes you. But you can’t www.the-plug.com sets and live music. Orchard , an adaptation of the smoke a pipe. www.sheffieldvision.com Daphne Du Maurier horror classic www.bbc.co.uk/southyorks/ www.showroom.org.uk Don’t Look Now , the Northern clubbing/clubbinguide Ballet’s Three Musketeers , Chicago The Musical , and Make Way For Noddy and Friends . www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk Romantic city Campus landmarks Firth Court The Edgar Allen Building (map ref D3 105) (map ref C3 106) Roger McGough’s love poem to Opened by King Edward VII in Opened in 1909 by the Prince of Sheffield , unveiled in the Winter 1905 , and named after local steel Wales, later King George V. By the Garden on Valentine’s Day 2006 , magnate Mark Firth. Back then, 1950 s, this unique octagonal red- evoked something we have always this imposing building housed all brick and sandstone building was known in our hearts: that this the University’s departments too small for the ever-expanding could be the most romantic city except those in the Faculty of University. The modern, in the world. Take a moonlit boat Engineering. Today it’s occupied altogether rectangular Main ride along the canal from Victoria by just two – Molecular Biology Library (map ref D2 103), was Quays, put Richard Hawley in the and Biotechnology and opened in 1959 by eminent man of CD player, and forget Paris. Biomedical Science. letters TS Eliot. Now a Grade II According to a recent Times listed building, it’s a striking survey, the Winter Garden and Arts Tower example of what at the time was the Botanical Gardens are two of (map ref D2 104) considered daring cutting-edge the top 50 places in the UK for This 22 -storey Grade II-listed design.