Why more should be done to protect one of Sheffield’s ‘finest relics of its industrial past’ - letter

Cementation Furnace on Doncaster Street is one of the city’s finest relics of its industrial past.

However, unless something is done this summer, there is a risk that in a few years it will be reduced to a pile of bricks, especially if we have bad winters.

There are what appear to be self-seeded buddleias growing all over it and all it needs is an application of glysophate to kill the young ones and maybe an application of stump killer for the larger ones.

If this is not done this summer and the rains and frost penetrate this winter, a job which may cost just a few hundred pounds now will become one which will cost a few thousand pounds.

Covid is no excuse and, as for funding, if Sheffield Council is that short, I’ll pay for one of my builder clients to do it.

Nigel C. Robinson

Lowfield S2