Hiya, I'm in a discussion elsewhere that is talking about locations and settings for books and films, and I was wondering what people knew about books / films / TV set or filmed in Sheffield, especially if it's science fiction. We've mentioned Threads and Last Train and Full Monty, what else do people remember? And is there anyone here who had a bit part in Threads?

Hiya, I'm in a discussion elsewhere that is talking about locations and settings for books and films, and I was wondering what people knew about books / films / TV set or filmed in Sheffield, especially if it's science fiction. We've mentioned Threads and Last Train and Full Monty, what else do people remember? And is there anyone here who had a bit part in Threads?

I remember this film from the early eighties.
www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105459

There was a film about six years or so ago starring Lulu which was filmed in Sheffield, can't remember the title but you should be able to google it and find out.

There was a film about six years or so ago starring Lulu which was filmed in Sheffield, can't remember the title but you should be able to google it and find out.

that would be "Whatever Happened to Harold Smith"

Sir John Betjeman wrote a lovely poem about Broomhill, allegedly the most lovely suburb in Britain.

"an Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill"

High dormers are rising
So sharp and surprising,
And ponticum edges
The driveways of gravel;
Stone houses from ledges
Look down on ravines.
The vision can travel
From gable to gable,
Italianate mansion
And turretted stable,
A sylvan expansion
So varied and jolly
Where laurel and holly
Commingle their greens.

Serene on a Sunday
The sun glitters hotly
O'er mills that on Monday
With engines will hum.
By tramway excursion
To Dore and to Totley
In search of diversion
The millworkers come;
But in our arboreta
The sounds are discreeter
Of shoes upon stone -
The worshippers wending
To welcoming chapel,
Companioned or lone;
And over a pew there
See loveliness lean,
As Eve shows her apple
Through rich bombazine;
What love is born new there
In blushing eighteen!

Your prospects will please her,
The iron-king's daughter,
Up here on Broomhill;
Strange Hallamshire, County
Of dearth and of bounty,
Of brown tumbling water
And furnace and mill.
Your own Ebenezer
Looks down from his height
On back street and alley
And chemical valley
Laid out in the light;
On ugly and pretty
Where industry thrives
In this hill-shadowed city
Of razors and knives.