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Roscoe View, SHEFFIELD, S6 5PR

The lane extends from Rivelin Valley Road to Stannington Road. Centre of frame is it at its junction with Rivelin Park Crescent.

The former Bell Hagg Inn, that closed in 2005, can be seen on the northern side of the A57 (the main Sheffield -Manchester Road), near Crosspool. It finally closed in 2005 and has now been converted into a seven-bedroom family home. It is believed that the original building was erected in 1832 as a five-storey house for a certain Dr Hodgeson who had built it as a folly to antagonise the Vicar of Stannington after the incumbent turned down the offer of a generous donation from him because Hodgeson had made much of his fortune from gambling. Before becoming a pub the building was used as a tea room by workers associated with a former quarry opposite it (that is now occupied by the Valleyside Garden Centre), and also by travellers between these two northern cities.

A view of Stanwood Methodist Church at the junction of Stannington Road (the B6076) and Stanwood Road. A pedestrian can be seen on Stanwood Road. This church, which cost approximately £33,000 to build in the early 70s, superseded the Primitive Methodist establishment known as Woodland View Chapel (1860-1972) that was situated near the junction of Stannington Road and Wood Lane. Before this new church was built a row of prefabricated bungalows existed along the length of Stanwood Road.

This sculpture of a steel chair by Jason Thomson sits on a small island where once was a weir in the River Rivelin.

An ornamental chair appears in the River Rivelin, north Sheffield.

“An ode to the long lost  bodgers, coppice workers and steel workers of the Rivelin Valley.” (J. T. Thomson.) This upstream-facing fantasy chair of iron is situated on all that remains of the New Dam weir in the middle of the River Rivelin. It was created in 2011 by Sheffield artist Jason Turpin Thomson as part of the Second Nature project, which aimed to promote natural play in Sheffield’s woodlands. The New Dam, built in the 1850s, was the last mill dam to be constructed in the Rivelin Valley and because it was built for the sole purpose of increasing the water supply to Spooners Wheel (the next one downstream) it had no water wheel or associated workshops.

This gnarly chair situated on a small island in the River Rivelin under Liberty Hill would make a nice spot to sit and relax providing the river isn't in flood.

In the centre is Hollins Drive, which leads off Hollins Lane, which is visible - top right. In the early 1900s Stannington was a village. It became a part of Sheffield in 1974. The suburb enjoys clean air from fresh westerly winds, which kept City's industrial smoke away.