It was the year George Orwell visited Sheffield and famously went on to say it 'could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World'.
This retro photo gallery transports us back to 1936. While some images, like a row of derelict shops in Neepsend, perhaps justify the author's bold claim, others suggest he should have taken a better look around.
They include a bustling Langsett Road, where a pair of elegant trams are pulling alongside one another; a bucolic scene in Oughtibridge, looking towards the river and the rolling countryside beyond, and an ivy-clad house on leafy Fulwood Road in Broomhill.
Dore, meanwhile, appears picture box pretty in the snow, Ranmoor is looking particularly desirable and Castle Street is lined with fine buildings and equally stylish shop fronts.
Esewhere, the old Theatre Royal is shown in the year it was pulled down following a fire, while Norfolk Street, Lodge Moor Hospital and Attercliffe Common all feature.
Sheffield has certainly come a long way since then, even if some or the more modern architectural additions continue to divide opinion.
It's time to make your mind up about whether Orwell's judgement of the Steel City back in the 1930s was fair or he was just having a bad day.
They include a bustling Langsett Road, where a pair of elegant trams are pulling alongside one another; a bucolic scene in Oughtibridge, looking towards the river and the rolling countryside beyond, and an ivy-clad house on leafy Fulwood Road in Broomhill.
![Leppings Lane Bridge, in Hillsborough, Sheffield, in 1936](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/12/13/0/15/1936%20Leppings%20Lane.JPG.jpg?trim=0,75,0,77&width=800)
5. Leppings Lane
Leppings Lane Bridge, in Hillsborough, Sheffield, in 1936 | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield
![Crookes, taken from Lydgate Lane, looking towards Crookes Road, with the Old Grindstone Inn on the left, in around 1936](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/12/13/0/20/1936%20Crookes.JPG.jpg?trim=0,31,0,0&width=800)
6. Crookes
Crookes, taken from Lydgate Lane, looking towards Crookes Road, with the Old Grindstone Inn on the left, in around 1936 | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield
![Demolition of nos 870-872, Attercliffe Common and Brightside and Carbrook Co-op, Kirkbridge Road, with a Black Cat Cigarette Vending Machine on the extreme left of picture, in 1936](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/12/13/0/59/1936%20Attercliffe%20Common.JPG.jpg?trim=0,43,0,0&width=800)
7. Attercliffe Common
Demolition of nos 870-872, Attercliffe Common and Brightside and Carbrook Co-op, Kirkbridge Road, with a Black Cat Cigarette Vending Machine on the extreme left of picture, in 1936 | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield
![Derelict shops on Harvest Lane, Neepsend, Sheffield, in 1936](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2023/12/13/0/14/1936%20Harvest%20Lane.JPG.jpg?trim=0,0,0,91&width=800)
8. Harvest Lane
Derelict shops on Harvest Lane, Neepsend, Sheffield, in 1936 | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield