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