But the city’s heritage doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves, with no official blue plaque scheme here like the one run by English Heritage in London to show the places where notable figures from the past lived and worked.
At The Star, we’ve come up with our alternative blue plaques.
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We could have focused on the more obvious choices, from the former site of Sheffield Castle to the world’s oldest football ground and the factories and workshops which made Sheffield the centre of the global steel industry.
Instead, we’ve gone for some more leftfield selections, from the food and drink institutions beloved by Sheffielders but often little know beyond the city limits to those places which played a key role in the city’s proud musical heritage or which simply have a quirky story to tell.
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Below are our choices but we’d love to hear your suggestions.
9. Blake Street
Sheffield is a famously hilly city but this road which featured on The Full Monty, takes the biscuit. Blake Street in Upperthorpe, Sheffield, has a whopping 16.6 gradient and in 2019 was officially named the steepest in the city and the third steepest anywhere in Britain. Thankfully, the road has a pub at the top - the Blake Hotel - where walkers can catch their breath and quench their thirst after taking on the epic climb. Photo: Colin J. Farrant
10. Old Crazy Daisy nightclub
There are lots of old nightclubs in Sheffield which could easily make this list. But the former Crazy Daisy nightclub, seen here in 1981 below GT News on High Street, in Sheffield city centre, has a special claim to fame. The Human League's Philip Oakey once told how he had been looking for a female backing singer when he walked into the Crazy Daisy and his search ended. "The first thing I saw was Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley dancing," he told the Guardian in 2021. "They somehow looked like a unit while being clearly different individuals. I knew they were right." The building is today occupied by the German Doner Kebab restaurant. Photo: Sheffield Newspapers