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  • Elsecar Heritage Centre
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    Elsecar Heritage Centre - Elsecar, United Kingdom
    The Elsecar Heritage Centre (08.08.2007 09:16)
    The Elsecar Heritage Centre is situated in the small, former mining village of Elsecar about 12 kilometres to the south of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. It is described as a Heritage and Craft Centre and since it opened it has won numerous awards. I often try and make a point of visiting such attractions as I find that it is an excellent way to learn about the local area and since entry into [more...]
  • Jumbo Chinese Buffet
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    Jumbo Chinese Buffet - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    The Jumbo Chinese Buffet (23.07.2007 18:20)
    The last few years have seen a trend of "All you can eat" style buffet restaurants appearing in Sheffield where I live and to my knowledge there are now at least three Chinese and one Indian restaurant of this type within the city centre. The Jumbo is a large Chinese buffet restaurant and it was the also the first of the bunch to appear about five years ago. It is in direct competition with [more...]
  • Graves Art Gallery
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    Graves Art Gallery - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    The Graves Art Gallery (20.07.2007 21:51)
    The Graves Art Gallery is one of several galleries in Sheffield that is owned by the City Council and because of this access is and always has been free. It is located right in the heart of Sheffield City Centre, above the City's library on the third floor, just around the corner from one of the City's other galleries, the Millennium Galleries. Together these two galleries now form a part of the [more...]
  • Beauchief Abbey
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    Beauchief Abbey - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    Beauchief Abbey (20.07.2007 20:20)
    Beauchief Abbey lies 5 miles (8 kilometres) to the south of Sheffield City Centre, on a north-facing hillside. Mature woodland and two large golf courses surround it, and although only the remains of the Abbey exist today it is well worth a visit here just for the beauty and tranquillity of its setting. Robert FitzRanulf de Alfreton founded Beauchief (pronounced bee-chiff) Abbey in either 1176 [more...]
  • Kelham Island Museum
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    Kelham Island Museum - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    The Kelham Island Museum (20.07.2007 14:15)
    The Kelham Island museum in Sheffield opened in 1982. I remember first visiting this place when I was at school when I guess I was about 12 or 13 years old, which would have made it around this date, although at the time I never realised that it was newly opened. The objective behind this museum was to provide a home and a permanent display for all of the articles, objects and pictures which [more...]
  • City Hall
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    City Hall - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    The Sheffield City Hall (20.07.2007 13:41)
    Sheffield has some amazing architecture and magnificent Victorian buildings and the City Hall which dominates the centre of the city is one of the grandest buildings of them all, yet surprisingly this building is not Victorian at all, but instead it is actually late Edwardian. The first stones, which came from the local Darley Dale quarry in Derbyshire, were not laid until the very end of the [more...]
  • Don Valley Stadium
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    Don Valley Stadium - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    The Don Valley Stadium (17.07.2007 20:18)
    The Don Valley Stadium is a large leisure complex that is located 2 miles (3 kilometres) east of Sheffield City Centre. It opened in 1990 in time for the World Student Games, which took place in the City the following year. Since this time it has become a popular venue for sporting events, music concerts and exhibitions. It is also now well and truly established as a landmark in the City. The [more...]
  • Roche Abbey
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    Roche Abbey - Maltby, United Kingdom
    Roche Abbey (17.07.2007 09:13)
    Roche Abbey lies approximately 13 miles (21 kilometres) to the east of Sheffield and 9 miles (14.5 kilometres) to the west of Doncaster in Maltby Beck, in South Yorkshire. Although the Abbey is now in ruins it is a place that is well worth a visit if you are ever in the area, and though it was one of lesser known Cistercian Abbeys of its era it is nonetheless a very typical example of a 12th [more...]
  • Haddon Hall
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    Haddon Hall - Bakewell, United Kingdom
    Haddon Hall (16.07.2007 19:35)
    Haddon Hall is an imposing English Country House situated near Bakewell, in the heart of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. It is probably the finest example of a fortified medieval manor house in existence, yet unlike the majority of similar houses this is not in the hands of the National Trust, but instead it is still owned and lived in by the same family that has owned it since [more...]
  • Rother Valley Country Park
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    Rother Valley Country Park - Sheffield, United Kingdom
    Rother Valley Country Park (15.07.2007 18:46)
    The Rother Valley Country Park lies on the South Yorkshire and Derbyshire border between Sheffield and Rotherham. It covers an area of 740 acres which consists of lakes, woodlands and open spaces. The idea behind RVCP dates back to the 1960's and in 1972 a full feasibility study was undertaken during which the National Coal Board's plans for open cast mining in this area was discussed. [more...]
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