This day in Sheffield: 30 October

Written here, checked against a source

Landmarks from the city timeline that fall on this date. Each was checked against the source linked beneath it before it was typed.

1. 30 October 1995

   Pulp release Different Class

   The album entered the UK chart at number one and won the 1996 Mercury Music Prize. Pulp had been going in Sheffield since 1978.

   Why it mattered A record about class, sex and where you go when you have no money, made by a band who had spent seventeen years in the city getting nowhere first.

   Source: Different Class, Wikipedia

Born in Sheffield on this date

From Wikidata, which holds the dates. Every one of these has a Wikidata statement putting their birthplace in this city.

• Sam Reardonborn 2003 · athletics competitor, Olympic competitorplace of birth (P19) is Sheffield (Q42448) on Wikidata
• Reg Stewart1925 – 2011 · association football playerplace of birth (P19) is Sheffield (Q42448) on Wikidata
• Charles Husband1908 – 1983 · engineer, architectplace of birth (P19) is Sheffield (Q42448) on Wikidata

What the archives hold from those years

Not from this date. Archive catalogues hold a year far more often than a day, so these are digitised items published in the same YEAR as something above, which is a different and weaker claim. Each item states its own rights on its page.

Evidenced as Sheffield in South Yorkshire

• 1908 Illustrated catalogue of Mr. Joseph Weintraub's collection of brass and copper, old Sheffield plated ware, Bohemian glass, and miscellaneous objectsplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1908 Old silver platers and their marks. Being a copy of the register of the Sheffield Assay Office of the persons concerned in the manufacture of goods plated with silverplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1908 Sheffield plate, its history, manufacture and art; with makers' names and marks, also a note on foreign Sheffield plate, with illustrationsplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1908 Sheffield plate, its history, manufacture and art; with makers' names and marks, also a note on foreign Sheffield plate, with illustrationsplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1908 Sheffield plate, its history, manufacture and art; with makers' names and marks, also a note on foreign Sheffield plate, with illustrationsplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1925 Bye-law made by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the City of Sheffield under section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, with respect to spitting in public streetslibrary place heading for the city
• 1925 Rare old English furniture, porcelains, silver & Sheffield plate, chiefly of the eighteenth centuryplace heading or Sheffield trade term
• 1995 Central Sheffieldlibrary place heading for the city

Still to come this October

Not today. These fall on later dates this month, and they are here because most days in a city's written record hold nothing at all, and a blank page helps nobody.

Born here

• 31 October Angela Knightborn 1950 · politician