Chapel Flat Dyke Boat
In March 1963, during work at the Steel Peech and Tozer factory in Tinsley, a long piece of curved oak was discovered at Chapel Flat Dyke.
Conflict
In 1980 privately owned Hadfields steel works resisted joining the national steel strike.
Demolition
A large area of Tinsley was demolished to make way for the viaduct which carries the M1 over Sheffield.
Viaduct
Completed in 1968 the two tier, steel viaduct was the first motorway structure of its kind in Britain.
Rolling Mills
Tinsley Rolling Mills Co Ltd existed on the same site from around 1838 - 1962.
Terminus
Terminus is an exhibition of installation works by David Cotterrell with commissions by Ron Wright and Michael Day exploring the legacy of the Tinsley Cooling Towers site.
Towers
Loved by many, hated by some, these landmark structures were synonymous with arriving home to Sheffield.
Marshalling Yard
Tinsley Marshalling Yard opened in 1965 and with its state-of-the-art computerised wagon control system handled around 3000 wagons a day.
Flathers
W.T. Flather Ltd moved from Love Street to their new Standard Steel Works on Sheffield Road, Tinsley, in 1911
Main Commission
This commission is for a major public artwork in the Tinsley Locks / Blackburn Meadows area of Sheffield with a total fixed budget for design and realisation of £450,000.
Vantage Point 4
Ron Wright’s work, Vantage Point is a study of the Tinsley area as an interpretation of time, space and place.
Vantage Point 2
Ron Wright’s work, Vantage Point is a study of the Tinsley area as an interpretation of time, space and place.
Urban Design Week
On 20th October 2014, Andrew Skelton, Kevin Logan and David Cotterrell led an exploratory walking tour of Blackburn Meadows and hosted a discussion on the possibilities for the area.
Automotivation
An autonomous slot-car race track with 20-55 race cars micro-simulating patterns of behaviour within congested traffic systems
Babel
Babel is a 3D projection of a simple closed-system created within a game engine. The work depicts an infinitely expanding highway system.
Invisible Layers
Michael Day’s looped animation Invisible Layers (2015) takes as its starting point the mismatch between experience of the infrastructural landscape and the way this landscape is imaged.
Sheffield Rotherham Initiative Zones
There have been a series of masterplanning documents recognising the potential transformative effect of national and regional infrastructure projects to the Don Valley area.
Tinsley Souvenir Brochure
A 1980 Souvenir Brochure describing the Tinsley Marshalling Yard.
On England's Pleasant Pastures Seen
Filmed from the E.ON biomass power station’s chimney over the course of a day, On England’s pleasant pastures seen documents the sweeping vistas of the Tinsley Viaduct
Boston Castle
A Georgian folly, built as as a shooting lodge by Thomas Howard 3rd Earl of Effingham on the summit of Canklow.
Relay : Eon
The first in a series of panoramic films made from locations with line-of-sight connections to the Blackburn Meadows and Tinsley area. The panoramas will iteratively form a relayed link from Rotherham to Sheffield.
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Tinsley Art Project
Tinsley Art Project is an exciting £450k public art project in the Tinsley Locks/Blackburn Meadows area of Sheffield. This website provides some the background to the commission.
- You can explore the map by clicking on the markers and change the view to satellite or street view
- You can hear people views about the area and the project
- You can submit material to be added to the map
- You can have your say on what you think the artwork should be
- You can look at the archives of David Cotterrell's Terminus exhibition that offers both a resource and a challenge to those wishing to apply for this commission
- You can learn about the major commission competition