Tunnels under Sheffield

[black eyes]

Many of the tunnels are tram power line cables

[A wilson]

Aparently, there are many tunnels under Sheffield, proportedly under the queens head pub. And I'm sure I've heard about a nuclear bunker under manor top area somewhere.

[Dave-Clarke]

I will be presenting an illustrated talk on 'Sheffield's greatest mystery - the legendary underground tunnels beneath the city centre: folklore & fact' at the Friends of Sheffield Castle public meeting @ the Central United Reformed Church on Thursday 22 September, 2016, starting 7.30-9pm (book in advance on 0114 234 6669 or via FOSC website).

I have been collecting stories about them since when, as a teenager, I was shown the entrance to the tunnel in the cellar beneath the Cross Keys pub at Handsworth. Since that time I have been busily collecting stories about them.

Anyone who has contributed to this thread (now standing at 893 posts since 2003!) will be interested in the results of my research... and I would be grateful to receive any information relating to knowledge of tunnels (past and present) in the city and further afield.

[kickstart12]

i can remember there was a tunnel at the side of ,a smith motorcycles on spital hill,you went in the back yard over a wall and this gave you access i never went down it but a few of the lads who worked there did

[stpetre]

I believe there is a tunnel from The Sheffield castle and goes under the Pitsmoor estate linking the old castle that used to stand in the area were Pye Bank School and the Pitsmoor estate is now.

 

Really? that feat of supposed engineering would (if a tunnel) would have to go at some point under the River Don, maybe at Lady's Bridge. By the time it got to Pitsmoor's highest point-Pye Bank- which is a couple of hundred feet or so above the river level.

 

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i can remember there was a tunnel at the side of ,a smith motorcycles on spital hill,you went in the back yard over a wall and this gave you access i never went down it but a few of the lads who worked there did

 

That tunnel is 'Fiery Jack' which ran from the Wicker Goods Yard (Saville Street) under Spital Hill to Bridgehouses near Brunswick Road. Not used since around 1948 but hardly a secret as it was British Railways property.

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[Meltman]

A workmate of mine used to work at Hetheringtons on Carlisle street and said there was a tunnel that went from a company next door all the way to attercliffe in a straight line! It was a sort of service tunnel with very thick electric cables running through it, It must have gone under the River Don to get to Attercliffe!!

 

 

Biggsy

 

I think the tunnel (or one of them!!) you mention was used to feed power to Firth Brown's Atlas furnace from the sub-station on Garter Street.I went into the tunnel after the fire which shut down the Atlas site and the huge cables were all oozing droplets of liquid due to the heat of the fire. I was told this liquid was Sulphuric acid...and don't touch! This was a relatively modern tunnel, made of square concrete sections but i suspect earlier ones were made of brick.

[goodgriffn]

I think you are talking about Megatron. The name given to e storm drains under Sheffield. Look it up on Google by typing in Megatron Sheffield. You will be amazed.

[Paul dicko]

im wondering if anybody can help me find the entrance to this tunnnel and is it accessable many thanks would love to explore

 

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thank you guys for quick responds anybody can pm me easy location access to any be much appriciated

[Jon26]

If you look on YouTube a guy called Patrick Dickinson has done a video on it.

[only_me]

Im sure it has been mentioned before on SF that there were tunnels at Handsworth

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/picture-this-is-what-demolition-crews-found-underneath-former-sheffield-social-club-1-9034862