Can you remember the ‘Egg Box’ – and when Sheffield’s Peace Gardens used to look like this? RETRO PHOTO GALLERY
Love it or loathe it, for several decades the Town Hall extension – dubbed the Egg Box – loomed large over the city’s Peace Gardens.
By Darren Burke
Published 22nd May 2019, 12:26 BST
Updated 22nd May 2019, 15:36 BST
We’ve dipped back in time to see how the Peace Gardens and Pinstone Street have changed over the years – including the demolition of the Egg Box in the early 2000s. Can you remember when the city centre looked like this?
17. Egg Box and Peace Gardens
Christmas lights in Pinstone Street in 1985. Photo: Julia Armstrong