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Leadmill Road, SHEFFIELD, S1 4SJ

One way street with a contraflow cycle lane. Looking south.

Shoreham Street depot on the former Sheffield Tramway.

Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter as seen from Granville Street. Sheffield has twice the national average percentage of people employed in the creative arts and media. The white building, a former garage is home to Red Tape Studios. This view also gives some indication of the level of building work taking place in the city centre in 2008.

The depot was built c.1910 on the site of an 18th century leadmill. Following the abandonment of the tramway the depot was used as a bus garage until the 1990s. Much of the building has since been demolished but this building on the corner of Leadmill Road survives. (Info from the Wikipedia article on Sheffield Tramways).

Its pair of octagonal towers have been preserved, perhaps to lend a dash of interest to the dreary student accommodation behind. The 1910 depot itself supplanted C18th lead mills.

Student accommodation run by Unite Students.

Mid C19th former cutlery works following the usual formula of polite brick offices to the street with cart entrance to workshops arranged around a courtyard. These would probably have been occupied by individual self-employed craftsmen who rented space and were known as 'little mesters', a term unique to Sheffield. Continuing the tradition up to a point, now small office units, geared towards "charities, social enterprises and voluntary and campaign groups".