Never before seen archive pictures revealed showing Sheffield's amateur dramatic groups going back more than a century

Working with Sheffield City Archives, Picture Sheffield we have some great photographs of am dram from years gone by.

The first picture dates from 1917 and shows groups through the decades all the way to the 1980s.

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