What does Sheffield look like at 4am?

Take a photo of the city in the early hours of the morning You may have heard of the Birmingham-based 4am project that aims to gather a collection of photos from around the world that were taken at 4am. The project is building up to 4 April 2009, where the plan is to get people [...]

Sheffield’s helter skelter office

Opening night at the Electric works On Friday it was the launch party for the city’s most high-profile office building, the Electric works in the Sheffield digital campus. Guests were able to tour the building, view a design exhibition and play Wii, as well as enjoy a drink from the sky bar (with not-so-panoramic city [...]

Steel city blues BBC documentary

A snapshot of the Owls and Sheffield in the 1980s This 1984 BBC film documents Sheffield Wednesday’s promotion to Canon league one with the demise of the Sheffield steel industry during the same period. It will probably be of most interest to Wednesdayites, but the elements of social history it covers give an insight into [...]

The story of Sheffield film for Sheffield storytellers event

Another promotional video commissioned by Creative Sheffield Just thought I would post this in case anyone missed it last summer. It is a two-minute film  for ‘Sheffield Storytellers’ launch event at Sheffield City Hall in June last year. City development company Creative Sheffield commissioned creative agency Human to produce it.

Support your local record shop

…before Record Collector itself becomes a collectors’ item Last month I sent a tweet linking to a blog post bemoaning the lack of record shops in town. As predicted by the author Rad, Zavvi has now closed its doors leaving only HMV as the only dedicated record shop in the city centre. Growing up I [...]

Top posts on sheffieldblog.com

One year on, which are the most popular posts? I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the most viewed posts during the first year of this blog. According to WordPress, this is the 83rd post, which makes an average of about 1.5 a week. I’d like to write more often but don’t always have [...]

Sheffield on Twitter – update four

March 2009 update Here are the latest additions to the Sheffield Twitter users page. If you want to be listed on it then follow @sheffieldblog, get in touch or comment below. Plus – are you in the top Sheffield Twitter users on Twitter Grader? Grow Sheffield – urban food enthusiasts http://twitter.com/growsheffield Craft Candy – a [...]

Electric works slide on CBS news

Coverage of the Sheffield office building in Britain and beyond Over the last few days, the Electric works slide has appeared all over the UK media. Although a bit of a gimmick, it looks like the ‘building with a twist’ (as it has been called in most reports) is succeeding in further promoting the city, [...]

Sheffield city on the move film

Promoting 1970s Sheffield The full version of City on the move, the film that appeared at the start of the Full monty, is now available to watch online. It has been split into four parts, each of which is worth watching if you have time. It still feels like a spoof, with the quaint commentary [...]

Pirates flash mob in Sheffield

Buccaneers descend on town for fake Fargate fighting Following the success of the day Sheffield stood still in January, the city centre played host to another flash mob yesterday afternoon. The theme this time was pirates, with instructions issued to meet outside the empty Zavvi shop on Fargate at 2:00pm for an invisible two-to-three minute [...]

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