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    Default Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    Visited with BIAA on the off chance we would suceed after recent rumours of it being sealed etc...

    Im going to put it out there that this is in my top 5 explores ever-its got everything. Stairs, Peeley paint, Unique features, colours, more stairs, cells, corridors, character and plenty to see. My pictures do not do it any justice at all-the place is so photogenic its a piss take.

    Some info stolen from Wakey Lads report recently:

    "It started off in 1808 as a Town Hall and courts for the Petty Sessions (now known as Magistrates' Courts) and Quarter Sessions. The city was growing enormously at this time. In 1866 it had to be extended by the Sheffield architects Flockton and Abbott. That firm of architects built the police offices just across from here, at the back of Castle Green, at the same time. Incidentally these might be brought back into use as Police offices. By the 1890s the building had become too small again, and a whole new Town Hall was built on Pinstone Street.

    That one opened in 1897 around the time that Sheffield was given city status. From then on the building on Waingate became an even larger courthouse and the police court. The law quarter of Sheffield is still based around this area, with the current Law Courts and many solicitors offices in this area too. It remained a courthouse and police court until the late 1990s when Sheffield High Court and Sheffield Crown Court moved to new premises behind the High Street so a lot of people over a century and a half have been in and out of this building for good reasons and bad.

    Since that point, the old Town Hall on Waingate has been derelict, so much so that in 2007 the national charity The Victorian Society placed it on their list of most at-risk buildings in the whole of the UK. The present owners have had the old Town Hall since 2004 but it has stood empty since then. It is Grade II listed and was supposed to go to auction in October 2008, but the auctioneers hadn't been paid their fees so it couldn’t go under the hammer."


    Im sure BIAA will get hers up ASAP but here is my take on this amazing place, I hope you enjoy and as usual there is a bit of HDR so be warned....




















    Complete set on my Flickr. Thanks

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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    thats is fantastic
    yesterday is history.tomorrow is a mystery. today is a gift thats why is called present

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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    Some of the best pics yet from here, top notch Tobes
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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    I totally bummed this place, its the bollocks. Epic shit.

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    "A LITTLE GIRL WITH TROLL SHOES" la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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    Nice one boss, tis a reet good place.

    BTW your link points to derp.

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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    Super good glad its open again! Is very good


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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    Super duper

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    Default Re: Crown Courts - Sheffield - November 2012

    Think these are gonna be all the pictures because I'm about to launch two laptops out the window and I also don't like a single one of mine
    But that may be due to the overwhelming urge to throw two laptops out the window

    Too derp though
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    Do like the look of this place, you make brilliant HDR
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