Anyone know any unusual - interesting facts about Sheffield?

[00Soul 10]

His family still live in Sheffield (some of them)

 

I learn something new every day. Thanks for that.

[miniminch 10]

Sheffielders eat above average amounts of cress per annum

[hillsbro 33]

There is a dormant ( for 2,300 years) underground volcano situated underneath the beaucheif area. A biggy to boot.

 

Hmmmm... Just when Mrs hillsbro and I are thinking of buying a bungalow on Abbey Lane. Maybe we should get a seismic survey done, to ensure that we are not on top of the dormant vent?

[StarSparkle 10]

Sheffield is reputed to have as many hills as Rome (7)

 

And Edinburgh

[Spruce 10]

And Edinburgh

 

....and Rio.

[StarSparkle 10]

There is a dormant ( for 2,300 years) underground volcano situated underneath the beaucheif area. A biggy to boot.

 

A doormat?

 

I don't think that'll help much when the volcano blows...

 

StarSparkle

[Spruce 10]

A doormat?

 

I don't think that'll help much when the volcano blows...

 

StarSparkle

 

.....what?

[JoeP 11]

And San Francisco.

 

Apart from that.....Goerge Orwell reputedly spent 3 days in Sheffield in 1936.

[StarSparkle 10]

.....what?

 

Never mind...

 

StarSparkle

[medusa 16]

Any chance that this thread can get back on topic?

[damo 10]

liqourice allsorts were invented here as was bertie bassett!

 

the steal used in the brookyln bridge was forged in Sheffield

[hillsbro 33]

The worst civilian disaster in Victorian England occurred in Sheffield in the early hours of 12 March 1864, when the newly-built Dale Dyke dam burst and over 250 died as a result of the flood that occurred - see http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/flood.html