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243 events this week548 places1,320 charities91 commemorative plaques recorded around Sheffield Open Plaques and Wikidata278 Sheffield landmarks have a Wikidata record Wikidata4,449 listed buildings around Sheffield, 70 of them Grade I Historic England358 scheduled monuments protected by law Historic England30 registered parks and gardens covering 2,750.2 hectares Historic England19 museums and galleries in Sheffield, on one map Wikidata and OpenStreetMap15 of them record free admission OpenStreetMapGraves Art Gallery has been open since 1934 WikidataSeptember 2026 in Sheffield: mean maximum 19.8 °C, 2.0 °C above the 1991-2020 average Met Office21 Sheffield sites on Historic England's 2025 Heritage at Risk Register Historic EnglandThis week in 1852: Named in a notice (painter) The Gazette, OGL v3.017 old pictures of Sheffield in the Wellcome Collection, free to reuse Wellcome Collection

Photograph: Shane Rounce on Unsplash

Sheffield History

Sheffield has been making things, and arguing about things, for a very long time. This is the part of the site that looks backwards: who was born here, what was photographed here, what was written about here and what is still standing.

None of it is written by us. It is pulled from the places that already keep this record properly: Wikidata and Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Open Library, the V&A, the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Historic England, Open Plaques and the National Library of Scotland's scanned Ordnance Survey sheets. We just put it in one place and say where every line came from.

It updates on its own. The birthdays change daily, the most read Sheffield articles change weekly, and the rest changes whenever the archives do. If something looks wrong, it is almost certainly wrong at the source, and the credit line under each block tells you where to go and fix it.

  • 1,585 people from Sheffield have a Wikidata record.
  • 402 digitised items about Sheffield are in the Internet Archive.
  • 4,449 buildings and monuments around Sheffield are listed by Historic England.

Looking for something that is still happening? What is on · Local areas · The old maps on the live map · A timeline of Sheffield · Where all this comes from

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Worth a look

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Met Office historic station data

Sheffield's weather since 1883

The Met Office weather station at Weston Park has kept a monthly record since January 1883: 1,725 months of readings so far. Here is September 2026 set against every September before it. The September 2026 figures are provisional and may change when the Met Office finalises them.

Mean daily maximum
19.8 °C+2.0 against the 1991-2020 average of 17.8 °C · 10th of 141 Septembers on record
Mean daily minimum
11.9 °C+1.4 against the 1991-2020 average of 10.5 °C · 6th of 141 Septembers on record
Rainfall
38.4 mm-24.7 against the 1991-2020 average of 63.1 mm · 89th of 144 Septembers on record
Sunshine
127.0 hours-7.8 against the 1991-2020 average of 134.8 hours · 48th of 98 Septembers on record

September records at Weston Park

  • Warmest September: 189521.0 °C mean daily maximum, in records from 1883
  • Wettest September: 1918178.5 mm rainfall, in records from 1883
  • Sunniest September: 1999190.7 hours sunshine, in records from 1929

Mean daily maximum by decade

Average of each month's mean daily maximum temperature in degrees Celsius, by decade. Darker cells are warmer for that month.
DecadeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
1880s5.96.66.910.714.518.520.019.716.711.88.96.6
1890s5.76.89.011.614.818.519.419.417.312.39.36.3
1900s6.46.18.511.514.517.620.119.016.913.09.06.6
1910s6.27.38.111.515.918.119.419.616.912.68.87.1
1920s7.17.19.311.115.117.620.118.716.913.18.76.8
1930s7.06.68.911.314.918.920.320.517.412.79.36.7
1940s5.05.99.012.915.718.920.520.017.513.49.27.4
1950s5.96.19.011.815.418.320.019.517.213.79.27.3
1960s5.75.88.511.815.219.219.219.017.213.88.36.0
1970s6.26.18.511.015.418.620.320.417.113.59.27.2
1980s6.16.08.811.715.718.320.820.017.713.39.37.5
1990s6.87.910.312.516.118.421.521.217.213.19.36.9
2000s7.57.910.013.216.519.620.820.818.113.910.17.0
2010s6.77.410.113.416.619.421.920.718.114.19.68.0
2020s7.18.811.314.017.821.022.121.819.014.410.48.1

Values marked * are Met Office estimates for months with a few missing days. Sunshine was read from a Campbell-Stokes recorder until an automatic sensor took over, so the two series are not strictly alike. Ranks count only years with a reading for that month.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, from Met Office historic station data for Sheffield (Weston Park). Checked 12 Oct 2026. Historic station data · Sheffield file · All data sources

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Old Sheffield in the Internet Archive

402 digitised books, maps, pictures and recordings about Sheffield, most from before 1950.

1900s (24)

1910s (34)

1920s (23)

1940s (25)

1970s (86)

2010s (30)

Digitised books, maps, pictures and recordings from the Internet Archive. Thumbnails are linked from archive.org; each item states its own rights on its page. More on archive.org

On this day

Dates from Wikidata, CC0.

People from Sheffield

1,585 people born in, living in or working in Sheffield are recorded on Wikidata.

Birthdays in October

112 more birthdays this month on Wikidata.

By occupation

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0). Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA and is linked, not copied. Portraits are hot-linked from Wikimedia Commons and belong to their uploaders under the licence shown on each file page. Wikidata

Trending Sheffield on Wikipedia

Sheffield articles whose readership rose most this week compared with the week before.

  1. Park Hill, Sheffield 4,479 views, +323% on last week
  2. Bramall Lane 4,862 views, +307% on last week
  3. Doncaster Sheffield Airport 5,646 views, +144% on last week
  4. Sheffield Wednesday F.C. 13,588 views, +13% on last week
  5. Henderson's Relish 814 views, +12% on last week
  6. Pulp (band) 6,271 views, +9% on last week
  7. Sean Bean 39,296 views, +8% on last week
  8. University of Sheffield 2,013 views, +4% on last week

Daily views from the Wikimedia pageviews API, CC0. Wikimedia REST API

Books about Sheffield

300 works about or set in Sheffield are listed on Open Library.

Book records and covers from Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive. More on Open Library

Sheffield on the old maps

Two scanned Ordnance Survey series sit under the live map, so you can put a Victorian street on top of the one that is there now.

Historic maps: Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, CC BY 3.0.

Blue plaques and memorials

91 commemorative plaques are recorded around Sheffield, each marking someone or something the city decided to remember. See them on the map

  • Archibald Leitch and John Street Stand red plaque Red plaque · Archibald Leitch, John Street Stand 1901 The world famous Archibald Leitch John Street Stand, a landmark in football, opens
  • Attercliffe Baths, Sheffield and Speakers Corner, Attercliffe blue plaque Blue plaque · Attercliffe Baths, Sheffield, Speakers Corner, Attercliffe Attercliffe Baths, Attercliffe Road. Attercliffe Baths, built in 1879, provided both swimming and washing facilities for the area at a time when bathrooms at home were unknown. thi…
  • Attercliffe Library blue plaque Blue plaque · Attercliffe Library Attercliffe Library, Leeds Road. Attercliffe Library opened in 1894 in answer to local public demand and closed in 1986. As well as lending books it was one of the first places in…
  • Barry Hancock bronze plaque Bronze plaque · Professor Barry Hancock OBE Prof. Barry Hancock OBE Cancer Specialist
  • Bath Hotel, Sheffield blue plaque Blue plaque · Bath Hotel, Sheffield The Bath Hotel by virtue of historic interest merits the title A Heritage Inn
  • Bessemer Converter grey plaque Grey plaque · Bessemer Converter · erected 2004 The Bessemer Converter In recognition of the outstanding contribution to the steel industry by Sir Henry Bessemer through his invention of the Bessemer Process for steelmaking as e…
  • Black plaque № 10155 Black plaque The Francis Newton This building is the former Broombank House, which was built in the 1820's for the wealthy cutlery manufacturer, Francis Newton, for whom this pub is named. In 1…
  • Blue plaque № 10164 Blue plaque Tinsley Tramsheds, Sheffield Road. Tinsley Tramsheds were built in 1874 for the first horse drawn tram service in Sheffield. In 1899 they were extended to house electric trams. In…
  • Blue plaque № 10195 Blue plaque Vickers Building, Brightside Lane. This imposing building was built in 1907 as the head office of Vickers, the steel, engineering and munitions giant. Later English Steel, British…
  • Blue plaque № 10196 Blue plaque River Don Works, Brightside Lane. River Don Works, founded in 1863 by Naylor Vickers, has long specialised in the heaviest forgings and castings for the shipbuilding, energy and de…
  • Blue plaque № 66336 Blue plaque · erected 2024 The Sheffield Rules of Football were agree and adopted here – 1858 – Members of Sheffield FC met to agree and adopt their first club rules, regulations & playing laws on 28th Octob…
  • Blue plaque № 70461 Blue plaque · erected 2024 John Charles Shaw 1830-1918 Founder of Hallam FC, the second oldest football club in the word in 1860. His business and residence were located here on Norfolk Row. Winning Captain…

Heritage and landmarks: Wikidata, CC0; Wikipedia text CC BY-SA. Plaques: Open Plaques, Public Domain (PDDL 1.0). Listed-building grades are as recorded on Wikidata; check the National Heritage List entry before relying on them.

Protected heritage

The National Heritage List records 4,449 listed buildings around Sheffield: 70 at Grade I, 252 at Grade II* and 4,127 at Grade II.

  • 🏛️ 4,449 listed buildings
  • 🗿 358 scheduled monuments covering 1,014.9 hectares
  • 🌳 30 registered parks and gardens covering 2,750.2 hectares
  • Sheffield has none of the remaining designation types the list holds: no registered battlefields, protected wreck sites or World Heritage Sites.

Grade I on the list: Administration Building at Monk Bretton Priory · Barlborough Hall · Baslow Bridge · Bolsover Castle · Bridge on Main Approach to Chatsworth House · Brodsworth Hall · Chapel of Our Lady · Chatsworth House

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS data contained in this material was obtained from the National Heritage List for England; the most up to date data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk. Released under the Open Government Licence. Historic England

Sheffield museums and galleries

19 museums and galleries inside the city, from the trust sites to the one-room volunteer collections, and 24 more just outside it.

Every Sheffield museum on the map

Museums from Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors). Listed building grades come from the Historic England National Heritage List under the Open Government Licence. Opening hours and admission come from OpenStreetMap and are only as current as the last local edit; check with the museum before you set off.

21 Sheffield sites are on Historic England's 2025 Heritage at Risk Register (10 listed buildings, 8 scheduled monuments, 2 conservation areas, 1 registered park and garden): the protected buildings, monuments, parks and conservation areas the national body judges to be at risk from neglect, decay or inappropriate change. An entry is a call for help, not a verdict on the owner.

On the 2025 register
21
Places of worship
5
Added since 2021
3
Left the register since 2021
6

Between the 2021 and 2025 registers 3 Sheffield entries were added and 6 came off. A site leaves the register when its condition improves or its future is secured, and sometimes when a designation changes, so the two counts are not simply rescues and losses.

Heritage at Risk Register © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. Checked 12 Oct 2026. Heritage at Risk Register · All data sources

Official notices that placed Sheffield in this same week of a year in the 1800s: bankruptcies, dissolved partnerships, patents, estates and new chapels. We name the kind of notice, the trade and the street; the people stay on the page scan.

  • 1843 Bankruptcy in SheffieldRecorded in The Gazette, issue 20274, 31 October 1843 · page 3536 scan
  • 1852 Named in a notice: painterRecorded in The Edinburgh Gazette, issue 6225, 29 October 1852 · page 909 scan
  • 1868 Named in a notice: table knife manufacturerRecorded in The Edinburgh Gazette, issue 7897, 27 October 1868 · page 1303 scan
  • 1871 Bankruptcy in SheffieldRecorded in The Gazette, issue 23790, 31 October 1871 · page 4453 scan
  • 1874 Patent in SheffieldRecorded in The Gazette, issue 24146, 30 October 1874 · page 5166 scan
  • 1893 Named in a notice: hosier, Fitzallan SquareRecorded in The Gazette, issue 26454, 31 October 1893 · page 6134 scan
  • 1896 Estate notice in SheffieldRecorded in The Gazette, issue 26789, 27 October 1896 · page 5859 scan
  • 1899 Named in a notice: builderRecorded in The Edinburgh Gazette, issue 11141, 31 October 1899 · page 1024 scan

The notices are read from the page scans by machine, so a trade or street can be missed, and the kind of notice is worked out from its wording.

Historic notices from The Gazette, published by TSO for The National Archives, Open Government Licence v3.0 (the licence does not cover personal data). Checked 29 Oct 2026. The Gazette data · All data sources

Science Museum Group collection · Beta

Made in Sheffield: a museum collection pilot

Twenty objects recorded as made in Sheffield, selected from the Science Museum Group export dated 9 April 2025. This is a fixed pilot selection, not a live catalogue or an exhibition listing. Follow each link for the museum record and its current details.

More from this selection (14)
  • Surveying chaincirca 1900 · J. G. Chesterman · Made in Sheffield · Y2002.19.44.1
  • Adjustable squarecirca 1960 · Moore and Wright (maker) · Made in Sheffield · 1961-27

Collection metadata: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. No collection images or descriptions are reproduced. CC0 1.0 (selected metadata). Snapshot saved 13 Oct 2026. About the source.

Prints, engravings and photographs of Sheffield work and Sheffield buildings from the Wellcome Collection in London, with the city's health reports and hospital records it holds. Every picture here is free to reuse under the licence shown with it.

  • Working condition in engineering shop, Sheffield, 1957Working condition in engineering shop, Sheffield, 1957Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0
  • Working Conditions in engineering shop, Sheffield, 1957Working Conditions in engineering shop, Sheffield, 1957Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0
  • Institution for the Blind, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Wood engravingInstitution for the Blind, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Wood engravingWellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School, Sheffield, Yorkshire: panoramic view. Wood engravingWesleyan Proprietary Grammar School, Sheffield, Yorkshire: panoramic view. Wood engravingWellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Engraving by J. Rogers after N. WhittockShrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Engraving by J. Rogers after N. WhittockWellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Heavy machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Photograph, 1957Heavy machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Photog…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 18…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • [Newspaper cutting about multiple births ('Ten children at a birth') in Blackburn (1786) and Sheffield (1833)][Newspaper cutting about multiple births ('Ten children at a birth') in Blackburn (1786) a…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. WalkerSheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R.…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Pattern shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction, 1957, of a pre. 1914 photographPattern shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Smith's shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction, 1957, of a photograph of ca. 1910Smith's shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction, 1957, of a photograph of ca. 1890Machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield: a man is shown operating heavy machinery. Photograph, 1957Machine shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield: a man is sho…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • Heavy erecting shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Reproduction, 1957, of a photograph of ca. 1880Heavy erecting shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Ltd., Park Iron Works, Sheffield. Repro…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street.…The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right)…Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark

Sheffield runs in the collection

Books, films and ephemera about Sheffield

Everything filed under Sheffield at Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data from Wellcome Collection, CC0. Pictures under the Public Domain Mark or CC BY 4.0, as credited. Checked 29 Oct 2026. Wellcome Collection catalogue API · All data sources

People from Sheffield on Wikidata, by decade of birth
People from Sheffield on Wikidata, by decade of birthPeople from Sheffield on Wikidata, by decade of birthPeople born040.581121.51621710s1750s1790s1830s1870s1910s1950s1990s
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1710s1
1720s0
1730s0
1740s2
1750s1
1760s3
1770s9
1780s6
1790s14
1800s11
1810s20
1820s19
1830s20
1840s12
1850s19
1860s39
1870s36
1880s59
1890s65
1900s76
1910s61
1920s100
1930s116
1940s132
1950s113
1960s162
1970s140
1980s137
1990s111
2000s29
Most common occupations of people from Sheffield on Wikidata
Most common occupations of people from Sheffield on WikidataMost common occupations of people from Sheffield on WikidataPeople0124.3248.5372.8497Association football playerUniversity teacherPoliticianWriterActorCricketerMusicianPainterComposerEngineer
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Most common occupations of people from Sheffield on Wikidata
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Association football player497
University teacher86
Politician66
Writer66
Actor64
Cricketer62
Musician48
Painter38
Composer23
Engineer21
Digitised items about Sheffield in the Internet Archive, by decade
Digitised items about Sheffield in the Internet Archive, by decadeDigitised items about Sheffield in the Internet Archive, by decadeItems021.54364.5861780s1820s1860s1900s1940s1980s2020s
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Digitised items about Sheffield in the Internet Archive, by decade
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1780s1
1790s2
1800s1
1810s2
1820s8
1830s8
1840s11
1850s7
1860s14
1870s16
1880s14
1890s15
1900s24
1910s34
1920s23
1930s19
1940s25
1950s3
1960s6
1970s86
1980s9
1990s19
2000s23
2010s30
2020s1
Daily Wikipedia views of the most read Sheffield articles, last 14 days
Daily Wikipedia views of the most read Sheffield articles, last 14 daysDaily Wikipedia views of the most read Sheffield articles, last 14 daysSean BeanMichael PalinDef LeppardArctic MonkeysSheffield Wednesday F.C.Sheffield United F.C.SheffieldPulp (band)01670.83341.55012.366832026-10-152026-10-172026-10-192026-10-212026-10-232026-10-252026-10-27
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Daily Wikipedia views of the most read Sheffield articles, last 14 days
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Sheffield museums and galleries by the kind of collection they hold
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Sheffield museums and galleries by the kind of collection they hold
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Museum19
Independent museum7
Historic house museum2
Art gallery2
Local museum2
Local authority museum2
Industry museum1
Firefighting museum1
Computer museum1
University museum1
Art museum1
Heritage centre1
Sheffield entries on the National Heritage List, by designation type
Sheffield entries on the National Heritage List, by designation typeSheffield entries on the National Heritage List, by designation typeEntries on the list01112.32224.53336.84449ListedbuildingsScheduledmonumentsRegisteredparks andgardensRegisteredbattlefieldsProtectedwreck sitesWorld HeritageSites
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Sheffield entries on the National Heritage List, by designation type
PointEntries on the list
Listed buildings4449
Scheduled monuments358
Registered parks and gardens30
Registered battlefields0
Protected wreck sites0
World Heritage Sites0