1. An Introduction
OK, so there's been a bit of lead time in me sharing this explore (29 years to be exact). But hopefully people will find it interesting. Here's a bit of background.
Back in 1989 the East End of Sheffield, Attercliffe and Brightside, resembled something out of 'Apocalypse Now'. It was a very sad fall from grace for the area of a city that was once the powerhouse of the industrial revolution and home of Benjamin Huntsman who pioneered the crucible steel process back in 1740 and Harry Brearley who discovered stainless steel in 1912. The year of 1989 was a particularly grim one for Sheffield. The city, already reeling from the terminal decline of its once proud steel industry, then endured the horrors of the Hillsborough Disaster. You could almost taste the desolation in this part of the city.
In 1989 I was doing my "City and Guilds in Photography". For my Black and White Photography module I chose "Dereliction" hence took a number of pictures of the city's decaying steel industry. The thing that struck me when I went down the East End was the sheer scale of dereliction: factory after factory waiting to be knocked down. The other startling thing was the complete lack of people in this once prosperous part of the city. And it wasn't just industrial dereliction. All the pubs, cafes and shops that supported the armies of steel workers also slipped into a terminal decline.
Please excuse the quality as these are taken from the old neg scans.
2. The Pictures
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A couple from Neepsend:
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OK, so there's been a bit of lead time in me sharing this explore (29 years to be exact). But hopefully people will find it interesting. Here's a bit of background.
Back in 1989 the East End of Sheffield, Attercliffe and Brightside, resembled something out of 'Apocalypse Now'. It was a very sad fall from grace for the area of a city that was once the powerhouse of the industrial revolution and home of Benjamin Huntsman who pioneered the crucible steel process back in 1740 and Harry Brearley who discovered stainless steel in 1912. The year of 1989 was a particularly grim one for Sheffield. The city, already reeling from the terminal decline of its once proud steel industry, then endured the horrors of the Hillsborough Disaster. You could almost taste the desolation in this part of the city.
In 1989 I was doing my "City and Guilds in Photography". For my Black and White Photography module I chose "Dereliction" hence took a number of pictures of the city's decaying steel industry. The thing that struck me when I went down the East End was the sheer scale of dereliction: factory after factory waiting to be knocked down. The other startling thing was the complete lack of people in this once prosperous part of the city. And it wasn't just industrial dereliction. All the pubs, cafes and shops that supported the armies of steel workers also slipped into a terminal decline.
Please excuse the quality as these are taken from the old neg scans.
2. The Pictures
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A couple from Neepsend:
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