Dom's World: April 2007

The Winter Gardens

This weekend I went up to see my family in Sheffield and while I was there I took a walk around the town centre. It's the first time in a few years that I have been around the centre and the changes made there are tremendous.

One of the most impressive things is the Winter Gardens: the blurb tells me that this is one of the largest temperate greenhouses to be built in the UK during the last 100 years and who am I to argue?

The view from the Peace Garden entrance

This is from inside looking at the same entrance as the picture above

One of the scenes inside the Winter Gardens.

Outside of Sheffield train station

For years there wasn't too much to look at when you got off the train. These days there is a wonderful water display with a curved waterfall down one side and a stepped waterfall on the other.

This is one of the first things you see arriving from the station.

Note my old university in the background, a place where I spent many hours toiling hard into the night.

This is the waterfall, in the distance is the independent cinema.

Another view of the waterfall.

Inside The Winter Gardens

The first view inside The Winter Gardens

A flower

This is a poen by Roger McGough that hangs on the wall in The Winter Gardens
Roger McGough also wrote -

The Time I Like Best

The time I like best is 6am

when the snow is 6 inches deep

which I'm yet to discover

'cause I'm under the covers

fast, fast asleep.

Sheffield Town Hall and City Hall

The original Sheffield Town Hall

And again

And this is Sheffield City Hall

The Frog and Parrot

This place used to brew its own beer, I’m not sure if it still does. When I was a student in Sheffield we never really used this place but when we did it was always a good place to be.

This place used to be called “The Bombay”, years ago me and my mate, known as Hedgehog, used to go to the pub after work and end up in here. I think I had my first ever Indian meal in there.