A blast from the past, a Shopaholic's Guide to 1970s Sheffield Evening

[Concerts 10]

Those interested in Sheffield history, may enjoy the following. Do come along and share with us your own experiences of Sheffield in the 1970s.

 

Thursday 03 June, 19:30

Sheffield Cathedral

The Reel Monty and a Shopaholic's Guide to 1970s Sheffield

 

THE REEL MONTY

 

The Reel Monty comprises of two short films which documented Sheffield in its `boom and bust´ era of the 1970s. "City on the Move", and "Sheffield International City" shows Sheffield depicted as a swinging city of tourism and commerce. It boasts long-gone icons like the Hole in the Road (an award-winning subterranean, pedestrianised area with shops, tropical fish tank and all-weather escalators), The Fiesta nightclub (the biggest in Europe at the time), the Sheffield Show in its heyday, Millhouses Park lido and Park Hill's 'streets in the sky.´

 

A SHOPAHOLICS GUIDE TO 1970s SHEFFIELD

 

The mere thought of a Meadowhall in the seventies would have been laughed off the high street, it wouldn´t have stood a chance as Sheffield city centre offered a shopping experience like nowhere else in the land. The Shopaholics Guide to 1970s Sheffield revisits the era of department stores like Pauldens, Cockaynes, Walshes and Redgates and the time the city boasted Christmas illuminations to rival Blackpool! The City Centre's retail heritage is remembered in an illustrated talk by Neil Anderson (author of a book with the same title), packed with rare photos and memoirs of the people that made the forgotten era when the Steel City was renowned as the shopping capital of the North!

 

Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions), £2 (students/unwaged)

 

Evening as part of Sheffield University and Sheffield Cathedral Summer Music and Arts Festival 2010.

 

More info at www.musicandartsfestival.co.uk