9. Stocksbridge funicular
What better than a European-inspired cable car, or funicular, to help people cope with one of Sheffield's famous hills? Sadly proposals for just such a scheme to help people manage the steep incline leading to Fox Valley shopping centre in Stocksbridge fell through earlier this year. Businessman Ian Sanderson and butcher John Crawshaw worked closely on the proposal, which would have been funded as part of the £24m Stocksbridge Town Deal. As well as being a practical means of transport it was hoped the funicular, running on a 27-metre long track, would become a tourist attraction luring more visitors to the picturesque valley. But the plans were grounded as it was deemed to be too complex to secure the land needed to deliver the funicular in time. Photo: Welcome to Stocksbridge
10. Sheffield Tower
This building would have become Sheffield's tallest - in this case rising to 37 storeys on Sheaf Street, where it would have soared above visitors arriving at Sheffield station - had it ever been constructed. Sheffield Tower, as it was called to keep things simple, was proposed by Sheffield Hallam University in 2018 and would have featured a five-star hotel, 200 flats, restaurants and a conference hall. But the university said in 2020 that it had tested the market and the proposed tower had not proved viable in the way it envisaged. Photo: Sheffield Hallam University