Kelham Island Museum

 

Taken on 27th June 2010 with Pentax K10D 8mm Samyang Fisheye

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The Kelham Island Museum is an industrial museum on Alma Street, alongside the River Don,  it was opened in 1982. The museum houses exhibitions on science and Sheffield industry, including examples of reconstructed little mesters' workshops and England's largest surviving Bessemer converter . The museum gives tours to local schools and has regular demonstrations of the 1905 River Don Engine, a 12,000 horsepower (9 MW) steam engine, which originally powered a local armour plate rolling mill. The engine is remarkable for its ability to change direction very quickly, a facet that was necessary for the efficient rolling of heavy steel. The engine rolled steel for nuclear reactors towards the end of its life (it was last used in production in 1974 at the River Don Works). The museum is operated by the Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust.

Alma Street - Kelham Island Brewery and Museum

 

Taken on 27th June 2010 with Pentax K10D 8mm Samyang Fisheye

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The Kelham Island Brewery is an independent brewery. The brewery currently owns one public house in Sheffield, the Fat Cat. The brewery was opened in 1990 on purpose-built premises on Alma Street by the owner of the Fat Cat public house, and has acquired a reputation for producing fine cask ales such as Kelham Gold and Pale Rider. Pale Rider won the "Champion Beer of Britain" award at the 2004 Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) organised Great British Beer Festival. It is also being brewed at a different brewery affiliated with the Kelham Island Brewery to cope with the heavy demand for this beer after winning the title. The brewery is situated next to the Kelham Island Industrial Museum.

The Globe Works - Penistone Road

 

Taken on 27th June 2010 with Pentax K10D 8mm Samyang Fisheye

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The Globe Works are a former cutlery factory situated on Penistone Road / Green Lane.  The Works are a Grade II Listed Building which in the late 1980s were renovated to provide modern office space. It is part of the Kelham Island Conservation Area. The Globe Works were built in 1825 by the architects Henry and William Ibbotson for the edge tool manufacturers Ibbotson & Roebank. The Works are one of England’s oldest surviving cutlery and tool factories and were possibly the World’s first purpose built cutlery factory. When opened the Works produced steel, tools and cutlery on the one site in an integrated process driven by steam power. The Works has an ornamental façade frontage built in coarse square stone and brick in the Classical Revival style. The façade has two storeys with nine windows on each storey, the middle section is pedimented and this gives an additional half a storey to this section. Behind the ornamental façade were furnaces, a manager’s residence and a courtyard which was surrounded by many small workshops in which numerous Little mesters were employed.