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Photo: Chemical Engineer, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Founded in 1943 by Prof. W.E.S. Turner, this is a significant collection of 19th- and 20th-century glass. It has pieces by all the major European and American glassmakers. There is even a glass wedding dress, worn by Turner's wife! Wheelchair access is limited.
The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, in England. It is in the Sir Robert Hadfield Building with the entrance from Portobello Street. It contains examples from ancient Egypt and Rome but mainly from major European and American glassworkers, with a particular focus on those from the 1920s to 1950s.
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by Pete McKee
An elderly couple embracing passionately.
by Mila K
Only visible when the e-cig shop is closed and the shutter down.
'Fog' by Tellas / mural by Phlegm
Fog is grey, white and indistinct, just like the weather phenomenon. The Phlegm mural just up the street is an impressive representation of a city. On the other side of the street is the imposing façade of the former Mount Zion hospital chapel.
An atmospheric deconsecrated churchyard complete with heavily-weathered gravestones and mature trees around the 1826 neo-gothic former church, now University of Sheffield lecture theatre and student accommodation. In spring and summer, a pair of peregrine falcons can usually be seen nesting and raising chicks high on the church tower. While you're there, you might as well look at some of the university buildings around it, most notably the grade-II listed Sir Frederick Mappin Building is an imposing example of Edwardian architecture, while the striking metallic Diamond is either a modern masterpiece or a hideous carbuncle, depending on whom you ask.
by Trik9
A touching, if unintentionally comical, non-likeness of Ziggy Stardust.
by Phlegm
The Reader decorates the front of Rare & Racy book shop. There is more Phlegm behind the shop on Westhill Lane.