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Considerable bomb damage occurred in the street behind - Westbourne Road - during the December 1940 Sheffield Blitz. The name 'Broomhill' is often taken to refer to the parade of shops on Fulwood Road which includes Sheffield's oldest independent cafe Vittles, a collection of takeaways, four pubs, a Morrisons supermarket and many other local ...
The district is in the south west of the city of Sheffield, and covers the areas Broomhill, Crookes, Crookesmoor, Crosspool, Fulwood, Lodge Moor, Nether Green and Ranmoor, and part of Broomhall. For neighbouring areas, see listed buildings in Sheffield City Centre , listed buildings in S3 , listed buildings in S6 , listed buildings in S11 , and ...
The parish of Broomhill & Broomhall has increased in area and population size over the years. In the 1970s, the parish boundaries expanded to include the university area and the neighbouring St George's Church was closed. Later, in 2000, another neighbouring church, St Silas, Broomhall, was also closed.
The most famous resident was the editor and poet James Montgomery who lived at number 4 from 1835 until his death in 1854. Other well known people who lived at The Mount included, Walton J. Hadfield, the City Surveyor who lived at number 2 from 1926 to 1934, James Wilkinson, the iron and steel merchant who lived at number 6 from 1837 to 1862 and George Wostenholm, the cutlery manufacturer, who ...
Hallam Towers is a fifteen-storey, 48 metres (157 ft) apartment building completed in 2022 in the Broomhill area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.It was constructed on the site of an externally similar thirteen-storey former hotel of the same name, which existed on the site between 1963 and 2017.
The Children's Hospital, Sheffield from the south west entrance of Weston Park, on Western Bank. The hospital first opened on 15 November 1876 as a children's infirmary in Brightmore House, on Brook Hill in Sheffield. [1] Two years later it moved to its current site on Western Bank where it was accommodated in a pair of semi-detached houses. [1]
St Silas Church in 1901. The church was built in the Victorian era in a Gothic revival style of masonry which was a popular architectural movement at the time. [8]A large four-panelled stained glass window on the northern facade of the church tower depicts four stories from the Bible and three archangels. [9]
Broom Hall is a historic house in the City of Sheffield, England that gives its name to the surrounding Broomhall district of the city. The earliest part of the house is timber-framed; it has been tree-ring dated to c1498, [1] and was built by the de Wickersley family, [2] whose ancestral home was at Wickersley. [3]