In today’s look back to Sheffield in times gone by, we venture back 35 years to what was a memorable year for the city.
The year started off with a thick blanket of snow,
Following its completion in 1990, Don Valley Stadium hosted the World Student Games with an opening ceremony attended by Princess Anne in July
That wasn’t it for Royal ventures to the Steel City that month as Princess Diana and Prince Phillip also visited the city.
After the closure of Sheaf Valley Baths, Ponds Forge Sports and Swimming Complex opened to great fanfare, it was also a key element of the World Student Games taking place in the city.
Sheffield Wednesday had a year of double celebrations. The first was the club's 1-0 victory over Manchester United at Wembley in the Rumbelows League Cup Final in April 1991, followed by promotion to the top flight at the end of the 1990/91 season.
25-years after being opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1966, Hyde Park flats, a massive 1960s brutalist social housing complex was demolished.
What do you remember about life in Sheffield in 1991? Do you recognise any of the faces featured here? Did you attend any of the events taking place?
Take a look at the gallery from what was a momentous year for the city and its residents. If you have a story to share from that year, I’d love to hear it. Send me an email.
33. Team GB
The GB team enter the Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, at the opening ceremony of the World Student Games in 1991
34. Food mountain
Nearly 1,000 people queued for up to two hours in the rain for the Common Market butter and stewing meat at Shiregreen, Sheffield. The Ministry of Agriculture last night threatened to cut off the food supply to the Shiregreen Tenant's Association if it did not toe the Government line. But the group vowed to carry on its policy of distributing the free food to any pensioner or unemployed person living in the area and said it would fight the Govermnment threats. November 6, 1991
35. High Street
High Street, Sheffield city centre, in July 1991, showing Spoils Kitchen Reject Shop and C&A in the distance | Picture Sheffield
36. Printing works
The former Sheffield Corporation Printing Department Works, on Scotland Street, looking towards Methodist New Connexion Chapel (right), in 1991 | Picture Sheffield