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2 hours ago, GOLDEN OLDIE said:

Just wondered what the significance is of the rocks/ stones used as decorations around the new Moor buildings, ie Cambridge Street and Charter Row.  As Sheffield is supposedly a steel city, wouldn't it be better to have steel sculptures incorporated into the designs. Even some statues which are a feature in other cities. What happened to the statues we had in Sheffield in the past?

I think they look great.

 

Don't see the need to have a steel slant on every bit of street furniture.

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Why not bring back that pile of scrap metal, laughingly called a sculpture, that stood at the Wicker end of Savile Street?

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3 hours ago, Unrecordings said:

I think what we need is a GIGANTIC millstone (anyone else call them polo stones when they were little ?) at the top of Fargate - one big enough to walk through the middle

Is that to represent what is hanging round our collective necks, this council

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I don't know what they are supposed to be,  but I do like them.   They make me think of ancient stone circles.

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It's probably the nearest our council could get to delivering Seven Stones shopping centre. Seven stones placed willy-nilly near to where the centre should have been by now (had we had any other council).

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On 24/05/2019 at 11:05, WalkleyIan said:

I think you might need to check a map of the Peak District national park boundary. 

 

https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/maps/constituent-authorities

 

This map shows very little, if any of Sheffield is inside the peak district boundary.

 

pdnpa-map.jpg

 

Angel1.

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On 24/05/2019 at 10:20, lil-minx92 said:

Maybe the rocks signify our close proximity to the peak district / relate to the new branding as 'the outdoors city'. The peaks are quite popular amongst British rock climbers I think

Oh so that's it?  I thought it related to the Flintstones, signifying our outlook on the world.

On 24/05/2019 at 21:08, kaytie said:

I don't know what they are supposed to be,  but I do like them.   They make me think of ancient stone circles.

That's correct Kaytie.  The council are hoping we will dance naked around them on Summer's solstice.  I'm up for it.  I don't fancy doing it on Winter's solstice though!:gag:

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On 24/05/2019 at 09:57, GOLDEN OLDIE said:

Just wondered what the significance is of the rocks/ stones used as decorations around the new Moor buildings, ie Cambridge Street and Charter Row.  As Sheffield is supposedly a steel city, wouldn't it be better to have steel sculptures incorporated into the designs. Even some statues which are a feature in other cities. What happened to the statues we had in Sheffield in the past?

I hate the fact that there is an assumption that everything has to be steel just because of the history of our city.

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Perhaps they could be carved into the busts of Marti Caine, Bobby Knutt and Tony Christie etc, in recognition of this city’s huge contribution to the world of light entertainment.

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19 hours ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

This map shows very little, if any of Sheffield is inside the peak district boundary.

 

pdnpa-map.jpg

 

Angel1.

But this map doesn't show the Sheffield boundary, just the built-up area.

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I like them, they remind me of the northern area of the Peaks which I assume is what they were going for.

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Another excellent contribution to the transformation of Sheffield City centre

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