Carborundum Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Originally posted by slh73 The siren goes off at 1pm everyday to remind office wrkers that its time to go back to work. And yes, they are knocking the Leopold Street buildings down. Wow does any other city have this facility - I have not seen it in London or Manchester. Do sheffielders really require to be reminded to go back to work in this day and age - and what if you take your lunch break from 1 to 2 pm ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemma86 Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 Originally posted by Patrick2000 Wow does any other city have this facility - I have not seen it in London or Manchester. Do sheffielders really require to be reminded to go back to work in this day and age - and what if you take your lunch break from 1 to 2 pm ? Then you'll be late:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy C Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Maybe no-one knows how to switch the damn thing off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strix Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 There's probably a royal charter governing the thing PS - Edinburgh fire a cannon at 1pm every day, but that's the nearest thing I can think of. In Liverpool there's the midnight foghorns on the ships at new year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owdlad Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Sounding of sirens used to be a regular thing in areas of rural Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, where the workers in the sugar beet factories were alerted by the siren 10 minutes before work was due to start in the mornings, and ten minutes before the end of the lunch hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw9wj Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 For details of the Leopold Square development check out: http://www.leopoldsq.com/intro.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_fordo Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 "Like the vibrant spaces in Barcelona." Brilliant. Every time I arrive back at the station I think, yep, how like Barcelona.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw9wj Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Originally posted by tom_fordo "Like the vibrant spaces in Barcelona." Brilliant. Every time I arrive back at the station I think, yep, how like Barcelona.. It's that sort of mindset that holds Sheffield back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopT Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 What a good idea to save an old architectural quality shell of a building and build a modern interior. I'm afraid we are about 50 years late in this thinking. Whilst we have seen a lot of our heritage pulled down over the last years Germany, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia and other european countries have completed their's years ago and are very proud of their cities. We have finished up with a load of ill matched buildings that were never built to last, you've only got to look at The Moor, ex Norfolk, Claywood, Parkhill and even buildings in the very centre. It is only in this last few years that someone has started to think but you can forget our heritage of buildings they an only be seen on archive photos. Sad day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Well said Pop. And if people would look ABOVE the modern shop frontages in the city centre, they'd notice just how attractive some of these older buildings were architecturally. North side of High Street, some of Fargate and Norfolk Street to name just a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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