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.
In 1980 privately owned Hadfields steel works resisted joining the national steel strike.
A large area of Tinsley was demolished to make way for the viaduct which carries the M1 over Sheffield.
Completed in 1968 the two tier, steel viaduct was the first motorway structure of its kind in Britain.
Tinsley Rolling Mills Co Ltd existed on the same site from around 1838 - 1962.
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.
Loved by many, hated by some, these landmark structures were synonymous with arriving home to Sheffield.
Tinsley Marshalling Yard opened in 1965 and with its state-of-the-art computerised wagon control system handled around 3000 wagons a day.
W.T. Flather Ltd moved from Love Street to their new Standard Steel Works on Sheffield Road, Tinsley, in 1911
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.
Ron Wright’s work, Vantage Point is a study of the Tinsley area as an interpretation of time, space and place.
Ron Wright’s work, Vantage Point is a study of the Tinsley area as an interpretation of time, space and place.
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.
An autonomous slot-car race track with 20-55 race cars micro-simulating patterns of behaviour within congested traffic systems
Babel is a 3D projection of a simple closed-system created within a game engine. The work depicts an infinitely expanding highway system.
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.
There have been a series of masterplanning documents recognising the potential transformative effect of national and regional infrastructure projects to the Don Valley area.
A 1980 Souvenir Brochure describing the Tinsley Marshalling Yard.
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
A Georgian folly, built as as a shooting lodge by Thomas Howard 3rd Earl of Effingham on the summit of Canklow.
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.
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.