This is just a selection from my Sheffield collection of pictures, which
can be worked into a personalised collection of Sheffield pictures, or indeed
blended with images from other cities to create an artwork which is entirely
meaningful and relevant to the individual.
For further information, please either email
neil@neilroland.co.uk or telephone
07792 365 437
Please note that the size, colours and quality of the pictures on
this page have been reduced for web viewing and do not accurately represent the
detail and vivid colours of the actual photographs
Sheffield: The White Building
Look up above the shop fronts
in Fitzalan Square in the centre of Sheffield, and the most sensational wall
sculptures appear worked into the façade of 1908-built The White
Building. The faience façade boasts 10 figures by Alfred and William
Tory, depicting Sheffield trades.
Sheffield Shades of White
l-r: The Sheffield Lyceum Theatre;
The clocks depicting the unsurprisingly similar times in Rotherham, Barnsley,
Doncaster and Sheffield in the B|lue Moon vegetarian café by Sheffield
Cathedral; Sheffield train station; the Sheffield Co-Operative at Castle House;
The Globe Pub, Howard Street; chandelier at Sheffield Cutlers' Hall.
The Cutler's Hall Sheffield
Sheffield's magnificent Cutlers'
Hall opposite the city's cathedral boasts superb chandeliers, brought from RMS
Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic; contemporary elephant door handles
(elephants feature on cutlers' halls in Sheffield and London to denote the
ivory traditionally used for knife handles; a glorious silver relief plate
depicting the façade of the hall itself and the extraordinary Norfolk
Knife with its mother of pearl carving.
Green City Sheffield
l-r: 1930s wall light in entrance to
Sheffield City Hall and reflecting the Sheffield coat of arms; floral
interpretation of Sheffield's trades outside the town hall ; The Grapes pub,
Trippet Lane; polar bear stained glass at Sheffield Cathedral; Police box at
Town Hall; Thomas Boulsover sculpture, inventor of old Sheffield plate, outside
the Graves Art Gallery.
Sheffield Sapphire and Ruby
l-r Blue Moon vegetarian
café in the former auction House, the Eadon, Lockwood and Riddle
Building; Sheffield steel; porch floor of The Cutlers' Hall; Sheffield coat of
arms on the Sheffield Fire and Police Museum and former Fire Station on West
Bar; Sheffield Cathedral stained glass; Sheffield mosaic fountain at Sheffield
Hallam, Howard Street; The Millenium Square.
Sheffield Gold
l-r: paradise Street: reflection of the City
Hall; The Graves Art Gallery and Library; figures of Atlas on the original
Sheffield United Gas Light Company building on Commercial Street (now Canada
House - 1874). : HMS Sheffield bell in Sheffield Cathedral; Reflection on the
water of the Royal Exchange Buildings, Lady's Bridge, Sheffield; Sheffield
Winter Garden.
