This is how they mow the 'windows' at landmark Sheffield city centre building

Pictures show workmen on the scene carrying out the job

Pictures show how workmen appear to mow the windows at a landmark building in Sheffield city centre.

The massively changed building which was known to generations as The Gaumont, Odeon or the Kingdom nightclub , on Barker’s Pool, is now home to a bar called Box.

Workmen mow the windows at the building on Barker's Pool, Sheffield city centre. Photo: David Kessen, Iconic Mediaplaceholder image
Workmen mow the windows at the building on Barker's Pool, Sheffield city centre. Photo: David Kessen, Iconic Media | Iconic Media
Workmen mow the windows at the building on Barker's Pool, Sheffield city centre. Photo: David Kessen, Iconic Mediaplaceholder image
Workmen mow the windows at the building on Barker's Pool, Sheffield city centre. Photo: David Kessen, Iconic Media | Iconic Media

But when it was transformed into its current identify, huge green ‘windows’ were installed in the site, in which plants grow out of the site of the building.

Today, Sheffield got to see what happens when the ‘grass’ gets too long - as men with a cherry picker arrived on the scene, looking like window cleaners

Pictures how they the took industrial hedge trimmers and used them to hack away the overgrown greenery, sending it falling onto the pavement below.

The area next to the building had been fenced off from pedestrians with temporary plastic fencing.

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