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 already on campus, pop in and see us at Level 4, University House. www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors Our This publication is available in different formats. To request an alternative format: T: 0114 222 1303 Visitors’ E: disability.info@sheffield.ac.uk Copyright © The University of Sheffield 2008 SRAM0462 Guide. “If I’m not mistaken Watson, that was the Dore and Totley S e tunnel through which we c r e have just come, and if so we t c i shall be in Sheffield in a few t minutes.” y — Sherlock Holmes ! Sheffield is a city of contradictions and surprises. It’s a well known fact and an open secret. It’s quirky, safe, mysterious and green. 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. It’s historic and futuristic. It’s here and now. Sheffield welcomes warmly and brings out the best. This is a city that makes friends and influences people. This is a city where people know each other and say hello to each other in the street. Make yourself at home. E a s y t o r e a c h Easy to reach National Express Taxi! Tesco every 30 minutes. Return — Booking: 08705 80 80 80 There are taxi ranks at the tickets are £1.50. By train Disabled customers: interchange, train station and You can get a tram from the 0121 423 8479 beside the City Hall at Barker’s South Yorkshire Transport station to the University. Take Coaches drop off at the Pool. A taxi to the University Executive Traveline the blue route towards Malin Sheffield Transport Interchange, should only take about five Information on buses, trains and Bridge. Our campus is the sixth Pond Street. The 40 bus runs minutes but can take longer if trams in the region: stop. Some academic from the interchange, stand D6, traffic is heavy. Expect to pay up 01709 51 51 51 departments are located close to the campus roughly every ten to £6.00. www.sypte.co.uk to the fifth tram stop, West minutes. For central campus, Street. ask for Clarkson Street. For the Tesco Abbeydale Road By air Medical or Dental schools, ask park and ride Manchester, Leeds/Bradford, National Rail Enquiries for the Hallamshire Hospital. Just off the A621 to the south of Nottingham East Midlands and 0845 748 4950 the city. Handy for local visitors. Doncaster Robin Hood airports Textphone: 0845 60 50 600 Buses leave for campus every 30 are all about one hour from www.nationalrail.co.uk minutes between 06.30 and Sheffield. Manchester Airport 09.30. The journey takes 25 has a direct rail link to Sheffield minutes. Between 15.35 and day and night. 17.35 buses leave campus for Green city The Botanical Gardens — Clarkehouse Road G Winter Garden r Another prime example of what e Surrey Street e Open daily 8am–6pm Sheffield does effortlessly, that n c Admission free is to maintain more attractive, i t green, public spaces than any y The largest temperate other city in the UK. glasshouse in any European city Opened in 1836 and recently is home to more than 2,000 restored to their former glory plants from around the world, with support from the Heritage many of which wouldn’t look Lottery fund, the 19-acre out of place in Jurassic Park. gardens are a short walk from The building is an architectural campus. The Grade II listed spectacle in its own right. It’s glass pavilions are some of the connected to the Millennium earliest of their kind ever built. Galleries by the gallery shop, The gardens were the concept and the Surrey Street entrance of Robert Marnock, who clearly overlooks the Sheffield knew a good picnic spot when Theatres complex. he saw one. Marnock later designed the gardens of the Peace Gardens Royal Botanic Society in Pinstone Street London’s Regent’s Park. Open 24 hours. Admission free. A city-centre oasis for office workers, shoppers, students and families, with some interesting features, including the Bochum Bell, donated by our German twin city, and a memorial in Welsh slate to the Sheffield men who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War. From Pinstone Street, walk through the square towards the mirrored-orb sculptures and you’ll find yourself at the alternative entrance to the Winter Garden. Peace Gardens Go out Nirmal’s Of course, the green city also The Devonshire Cat — Glossop Road. does pubs very well. Wellington Street. So many G Division Street Authentic Indian. international beers they need o and West Street East One Noodles The Frog and Parrot their own room. o u Ten minutes’ walk from campus. West One complex Division Street. Friendly, no- The Red Deer t It’s worth checking this area out Fast and very good value. nonsense. Off Mappin Street: an old while you’re here, as the variety Moco and Lounge Hearty food and dry humour. fashioned pub – in a very of restaurants, bars, cafes, West Street Bungalows and Bears good way. independent shops and student Two nice places for coffee and a Division Street. Quirky, comfy, The Bath Hotel accommodation make it the hub quick lunch. armchairs, sofas. Victoria Street: small but of student social life in the city The Old House perfectly formed real ale pub. centre. You’ll find Italian, Division Street. Big chips! Spanish, Mexican, Thai, Indian, Lebanese and traditional pub food here, lunchtimes and evenings. East One Bungalows and Bears Heart of the city Broomhill Ecclesall Road London Road Amble along West Street or Ten minutes’ walk from campus. A very pleasant, short walk from Slightly further afield. Close to G Division Street for a further five Head up Whitham Road or campus via the Botanical Ecclesall Road, not leafy, but o minutes or so and you’re in the Glossop Road away from the Gardens, this is a hugely just as popular. o u heart of the city. city centre. Broomhill is a major popular student suburb of the In the evenings: bright lights t student centre, and close to the leafy variety lined with cafes and a seemingly limitless choice The Blue Moon Endcliffe Village, so you could do and restaurants. of Asian and Caribbean Next to the cathedral. worse than go and have a look. Mediterranean, Mexican, restaurants including Busy, cheerful, for vegetarians American, including Wasabi Sabi and vegans. Thyme Café Nonnas Vietnamese Noodle Bar Caffeteria Variety and atmosphere. Café Rouge Jumeira Church Street. Coffee, paninis Vegetarians well catered for. Uncle Sams. The Mango Tree and the like. The Fox and Duck Ha!Ha! Straightforward and fun. Bring Peace Gardens. Alfresco tables. your own fish and chips. Platillos Leopold Square. Tapas-tastic! Sharrowvale Road There’s a Zizzi and a Vibrant student area, parallel to Wagamama in the square too. Ecclesall Road. There are treasures here, including the legendary Two Steps chippy and Café Ceres (right). Music — “If you want to be in M u a band, no one's s i going to stop you, no c one's going to tell you how you should sound, no one's going to tell you what you can and can't do. If you want to put a gig on, or run a club night, or be a performance artist, you can. Sheffield embraces the individual.” Kate Jackson The Long Blondes “We started the business while we were students, it was natural step for us to go full time in Sheffield. Our plan is to be the best and largest Japanese food supplier and retailer in Yorkshire.” Will and Xin Xin Entrepreneurs Sheffielders are taught from an A fistful of venues early age to recite their city’s The Grapes Trippett Lane musical history to anyone who The Boardwalk Snig Hill M u will listen. So, if you ask The Leadmill Leadmill Road s i someone for directions to a gig, The Washington Fitzwilliam Street c don’t be surprised if they tell Carling Academy Arundel Gate you they used to be in a band with Jarvis Cocker, or try to explain the evolutionary links between Cabaret Voltaire and Aphex Twin. When you’re in the Division Street area, every third person is in a band and they are carrying flyers with their MySpace address on them, even the traffic wardens, probably. www.sheffieldvision.com Clubs — C Sheffield is at the forefront of l u developments in the field of b clubbing. s Clubs used to be places where gentlemen smoked pipes in armchairs by log fires. Then they became places where people went to dance, but it was impossible to have a civilised conversation. Nowadays, clubs are quite sophisticated again, so you can dance or have a conversation as the mood takes you. But you can’t smoke a pipe. Plug Matilda Street. Three-rooms. Electrifying DJ sets and live bands. Tuesday Club “Tuesday Club at the Union of Students. University is my favourite The national institute of hip- place to play in the UK. hop, dubstep and drum and The energy and hunger for bass. new sound is unprecedented in Steel City. In fact I love Ten evocatively-named Sheffield so much I moved club nights here this year.” Hedkandi; Adelante; Jump Mary Ann Hobbs Around; Shuffle DJ and broadcaster Fuzz; Frouk; Cheek; Drop; Touch; Social Intercourse More www.the-plug.com www.leadmill.co.uk www.sheffield.ac.uk/union Cinema — C The Showroom Cinema i n Paternoster Row e m A constantly inventive a programme of classic, modern, art-house and foreign cinema makes the Showroom a haven for everyone who has ever had a life-affirming experience in a darkened room.