Amazing video brings back memories of Sheffield's bendy buses and famous Hole in the Road
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But a video uncovered by archivists has revived these lost aspects of city life in full colour.
The footage has been shared by the Sheffield City Archives on Twitter, after it was posted on social media by the team behind the Sheffield History forum.
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Hide AdStarting on Arundel Gate, looking towards C&A from a viewpoint above the Hole in the Road, the video cuts to a radically different Peace Gardens where – instead of the replacement Goodwin Fountain and the stone landscaping of today – there is simply an expanse of lawn and many benches.
Behind the Peace Gardens is the controversial ‘Egg Box’, so-called because of its unusual appearance. This was built in 1977 but was demolished in 2002, having gained a reputation as a concrete eyesore.
After another look inside the Hole in the Road, which was filled in during the mid-1990s, there is the chance to watch an early bendy bus – an articulated, extra-long vehicle – making its way through the city centre.
Finally, there is a shot of passengers boarding an equally retro-looking bus with a brown and cream-coloured livery on Pinstone Street.
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Hide AdThe Sheffield City Archives on Shoreham Street are closed to the public to help enforce social distancing measures during the lockdown period.
However, the building’s staff are still taking part in the annual #Archive30 challenge, which involves archivists posting on Twitter about a new topic each day throughout April.
Another recent find was a cutting from The Yorkshire Telegraph and Star – as The Star was known from 1898 to 1937 – which told the story of a joint of meat that, when the piece was published, had hung in a butcher’s shop on Sheffield’s Fitzalan Market for 70 years. The ‘septuagenarian rump steak’, the writer said, was held aloft on a specially allotted hook and became something of a tourist attraction.