Tag Archives: sheffield

Half A World Away

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2012

On the day the UK’s clocks went forward – which always makes it seem closer – and the temperatures in Cape Town were a mere 5C warmer than Sheffield, there were also a couple of similar poses on display in the respective cities:         That’s me watching the boy swim and my Dad enjoying [...]

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192 Shoreham Street

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2012

Wow. I love this conversion of an old warehouse near Sheffield city centre. “The upward extension replaces a pitched roof, creating three duplex studio offices within a powder-coated steel volume that both overlaps and bites through the original brick structure. A new restaurant and bar occupies the double-height warehouse space below, where it benefits from light through the [...]

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Thinned Sheffield Sky

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2011

Earlier today, I was wandering around arepeejee’s flickr (you may remember him from such blog posts as What were the skies like when you were young? and Eccy Rd Hoff Stolen), having seen a link to this masterpiece. It was there that I saw the full version of this superb photo: “Sheffield Sky” …which I have thinned [...]

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Comedians like Sheffield

By 6000 | 6000 | June 10, 2011

And they’re not being funny, either. Who could forget Alexander Armstrong’s kind words about my hometown last year? And those were followed up by Michael Legge last month, which were emailed to me by regular reader, Darthfarter. I would probably have got to this sooner, but I only found it by chance in my deleted [...]

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Don’t sit down…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 12, 2011

Feels like someone should have suggested that for me this week. Busy. But no, this is the new one from the Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys: Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair. I’m getting heavy Beatles, I’m getting dark Oasis and there’s a soupçon of The Smiths and a hint of The Pixies in there [...]

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