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Sheffield
Sapling's City Gateways bring together all our content relating to specific cities in the UK and Ireland. This Gateway features links to web sites that are relevant to Sheffield and South Yorkshire, as well as details of local books, events and news.
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Sapling Bookstore (4)
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The Peak District: Landscapes Through Time
John Barnatt
(2004)
Paperback - 158 pages
Windgather Press
ISBN: 0954557557
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The book explores the Peak's prehistoric sacred landscapes; we learn how the builders of the great henge at Arbor Low may have viewed the world. It also covers the dramatic impact on the land over the centuries of farmers, miners and quarrymen. As well as new interpretative maps (of, for instance, Chatsworth Park), this edition also includes an updated gazetteer of sites and a comprehensive bibliography. It is an indispensable guide to the area's archaeology.
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Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield
Ruth Harman, John Minnis
(2004)
Paperback - 320 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300105851
Synopsis by publisher:
This detailed and comprehensive guide provides an unrivalled account of Sheffield's architecture from medieval to modern. Walks, exploring both city centre and suburbs, reveal not only the city's renowned industrial heritage and its handsome Victorian buildings, including the Town Hall, but also surprising survivals of the medieval town and the lesser-known architecture of Georgian Sheffield. Majestic surroundings provide the setting for memorable mansions and villas, home to the city's industrial magnates, and some of the most innovative public housing of post-war England, while the prize-winning Peace Gardens, magnificent Millennium Galleries, Winter Garden and the outstanding Persistence Works represent the city's twenty first century renaissance. A lively introduction, colour illustrations, maps and plans make this guide an invaluable companion.
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The Buildings of England - Yorkshire: The West Riding
Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe
(2002)
Hardcover - 656 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096623
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A vast area, incorporating most of present day South and West Yorkshire, the West Riding embraces the industrial landscapes of Sheffield and Barnsley (steel and coal), Leeds, Bradford and the Pennine valleys (engineering and wool), the beautiful sheep country of the Dales, and rich arable acres in the east, each of them with its own strong and distinctive building tradition. Of individual buildings, Ripon has the only English cathedral with substantial Saxon work surviving; Fountains Abbey, set in eighteenth-century landscaped grounds, is arguably the most beautiful ruin in England; twelfth-century Conisbrough marks the climax of the development of the keep in military architecture and the house at Wentworth Woodhouse manages, extraordinarily, to be both Baroque and Palladian at the same time. Huddersfield has an early railway station in the purest Corinthian, Leeds town hall embodies Victorian civic pride, while Halifax has the unique Piece Hall, a vast eighteenth-century cloth market.
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Sheffield in the Sixties
Peter Goodman
(2001)
Hardcover - 192 pages
Breedon Books
ISBN: 1859832350
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Welcome to the magic carpet ride that was the Sixties - a stimulating, soul searching decade bursting with vitality and creativity. A livewire world of new ideas and optimistic experimentation, a time when boys' hair grew longer... and girls' hair grew shorter. The music, the dancing, the fashions - the ingedients were all there for a cultural explosion that was to sear our young senses and leave us with a legacy we never grow tired of talking about. Sheffield in the Sixties recaptures the atmosphere and magic of the city and South Yorkshire throughout that incrediable decade. Readers of The Star helped by submitting their own photographs. These, and the memories which accompanied them, form an important part of the book because they, after all, are an integral part of the Sixties.
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