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Sheffield in the Seventies (Illustrated History)
Sheffield in the Seventies - Illustrated History Author:Peter Goodman, "Sheffield Star" Any Sheffielder under 35 probably won't remember Fargate when traffic ran through it, the landmark Grand Hotel on Leopold Street, Davy's famous restaurant, the Vogue Cinema at Sheffield Lane Top, or the jingle of sixpences and threepenny bits in your pocket as you set off for a night out Neither will they recall the days before the Parkway linke... more »d the city to the MI or the industrial problems and power shortages which led to television having to finish at 10.30pm and a 50mph speed limit. Not to mention Billy Smart's circus, Yorkshire cricket at Bramall Lane and the artistry of Tony Currie and Willie Henderson as they thrilled crowds at Sheffield United and Wednesday respectively. In Sheffield in the Seventies, readers' memories from The Star and around 400 fascinating photographs from the paper's archive recall the era.« less