2008/07/18 Public Art I
Sheffield FridayNightRide
Friday 18 July 2008
Public Art in Sheffield city centre
Meet 6.30 Barkers Pool
Finish Late – bring lights!
Join a bike ride from the city centre to the Botanic Gdns, Weston Park and back and around the city centre to view and enjoy the large number of art works in parks, streets, on walls and buildings with social stops on the way!!
This was the second Sheffield FNR. I didn’t do maps and stuff but I did have a route and took it with me. Being anal I had it on disc and here it is with what to see besides it. I’ve recreated the route on Google maps and the link is
Barkers Pool – benches, bollards, fountains, bins, war memorial
The Moor poem in the road
Moorfoot mural, sculpture, gates
LondonRd Jarvis Cocker lyrics, Mural, Locarno ballroom
Cemetery Rd, Sculpture outside Greens
Wards brewery vi Waitrose hops, hops and barley
Park after the Vine railings,
Pomona St Bow works gates, back of Norwich Union
Botanic Gdns Pan, bear, frogs and sapawn, dinosaur footprints
Broomhill Weston Park Hospital sculpture
Mushroowm Lane Ponderosa Gates
Weston Park and MuseumSykes, bandstand, war memorial, Elliot gates university end
Firth Court escutcheons
Hallamshire Ars Longa vita brevis
Glossop Rd to Jessops – window decorations
Mapping st Mappin building, RNIB gone!
West st Tiger works Carver St gates on the chapel/walkabout
Divison St back to Fountain precinct horse and rider
Leopold St and Leopold St Buildings with bas-reliefs for Firth College
Church St Cutlers hall, cathedral
Campo lane, bank st – steelworker mural, markets entrance arch, sculpture on coop building
Castle Sq griffins, railings, rams
Fitzalan Sq Edward VII, Little Mesters
Pond St to sstion via Eric Mensforth Building and its gates
Station Sq
Paternoster row up to Rutland, Arundel St back via Heavy plant sculpture to Shu sq with sculpture and water features – mural of vultures
Over to Surry St library walking man Tudor Sq, Boulsover plaque round Lyceum to stage door
Norfolk Row up chaple walk – hancock galleries
Yourkshire bank back to Unitarian chapel Fullard sculpturesx
Town Hall and Peace Gdns
Down division st to Devonshire green past fire station and then over to the Bath Inn
Ride report. I never did one for this ride. I think six or seven of us turned up and we took a halfway stop in the Bath Inn from which only three emerged to try and finish the ride which ended in cool drizzle – yuk!