| Knives and forks used to have "made in Sheffield" | | | | bit like school really. |
| inscribed in their steel in years gone by but something | | | | Sheffield's former wealth base was iron and steel |
| happened to that steel industry and later, of course, to | | | | which brought the old town life during the Industrial |
| the mines to make people lower and shake their | | | | Revolution and like Coventry, was tasked with |
| heads in grief. Steel started coming from abroad and | | | | providing ammunitions and weapons throughout World |
| many labour-intensive processes became automated. | | | | War II and like Coventry was bombed to smithereens |
| There was also that oddly named football club, | | | | in 1940. Slum clearance followed in the sixties and |
| 'Sheffield Wednesday' that used to crop up in the | | | | seventies and the gaps left by former steelworks and |
| Pools lists, so called, according to my old man, because | | | | flattened terraces were now filled with shopping malls |
| workers used to be let out of steel mills or mines on a | | | | and urban sprawl. Sheffield was not thought to be a |
| Wednesday to get some fresh air and plan games. a | | | | place worth visiting or investing in until recently. |