Preparations for the Northern office’s fifth birthday seminar are now well underway and have sparked an interesting project for our two placement students, Emma Hook and Sam Bromage, from the University of Sheffield.
Visitors to the Northern office, in Sheffield, often ask about the history of the Sheaf Bank Business Park, so the students are acquiring new research skills whilst tracking down some answers. So far we have discovered that the original ‘Sheafbank Works’ complex was built in 1855 and manufactured shovels, forks, picks and garden tools through until the late 1970s.
The students have been to the Local Studies Library to gather further information and images and have photographed the buildings as they are now. The images and information uncovered will form the basis of an informative poster, due to be unveiled at the seminar.
By Andrea Burgess