This retro photo gallery captures Sheffielders at work during the 80s and 90s, from the city’s steelworks to its schools.
These nostalgic images celebrate Sheffield’s proud industrial heritage, showing staff grafting away in the city’s cutlery factories, and ‘Little Mesters’ displaying their skilled craftsmanship.
But working life in all its variety is depicted, from the market stalls and hospitals to bars and restaurants, and even one of the rag and bone men who were once a common sight on the city’s streets.
Can you spot yourself or a work colleague in this photo gallery? Does it bring back any workplace memories for you?
1. School crossing
Lollipop ladies on Sharrow Lane, Sheffield, in July 1986 | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
2. Richardson's
Staff in the packing deprtment at Richardson's cutlery factory, Sheffield, in June 1987 | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
3. Pollards
Weighing for a customer at P. and J. Pollard, tea and coffee dealers, Charles Street, Sheffield, in the 1980s, with coffee bean dispensers in the background | Picture Sheffield/Mr. G. Sweetman Photo: Picture Sheffield/Mr. G. Sweetman
4. Sheaf Market
Staff at Granelli's confectionery stall at Sheaf Market, Sheffield, in August 1985 | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd