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Looking across Brook Hill (A57) towards the Dainton Building and the Richard Roberts Building which house the University's Chemistry Department. See Image] for a similar view taken 40 years previously. As well as the obvious changes to the far (Richard Roberts) building, the bus stop outside the Dainton building has been moved, the metal fencing has been extended and the road has also acquired double yellow lines so the modern picture doesn't have any parked cars.

Looking across Brook Hill (A57) towards the University's Chemistry Department in April or May, 1972. See Image] for a similar view taken 40 years later. As well as the obvious changes to the far (Richard Roberts) building, the bus stop outside the Dainton building has been moved and the metal fencing has been extended (presumably to discourage students from vaulting the concrete central barrier as a short cut to Marge's Cafe and the Students' Union buildings). The road has also acquired double yellow lines so the modern picture doesn't have any parked cars.

Housing the Department of Chemistry.

When descending the Brook Hill dual-carriageway section of the A57 in a city-bound direction it is almost impossible not to be struck by the differing ages and architectural styles of the two wings of the Dainton Building. The older wing is named after Sir Frederick Dainton (1914-97), the Sheffield-born academic chemist and former Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and the newer east wing, after Sir Richard Roberts (born Derby, 1943), a biochemist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp. Note the damage to the paintwork and railings caused by the traffic-related chemical deposits in the atmosphere arising on this normally busy stretch of road; a somewhat poignant chemical reminder outside these buildings.

The Arts Tower is a building at 12 Bolsover Street in Sheffield belonging to the University of Sheffield and opened in 1966. English Heritage has called it "the most elegant university tower block in Britain of its period". At 255 feet (78 m) tall it is the second tallest building in the city, after the 101 m, St Paul's Tower on Arundel Gate, which was topped out in 2009. It is also the tallest university building in the UK. Viewed from the temporary Sheffield Wheel on Fargate in October 2010.

Across the road is the Dainton Building and the Richard Roberts Building.

In the foreground is a 'tower' on the War Memorial Hall ... in the background is a telecom aerial on the Hicks Building ... Image Image Image

The former private club 197 for University Staff is now a public house http://newsweaver.co.uk/sheffielduni/e_article001035646.cfm it is well worth a visit.