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Sheffield
is world famous for its steel and silver
plate, but it also is where stainless steel,
the folding umbrella and the spring tape
measure were invented.
The city is ideally situated for the milling
of steel, with a local supply of coal, timber
and rivers for power. It grew like other
Victorian towns into a city during the Industrial
Revolution when the cutlery industry was
already more than 300 years old. The crucible-cast
method of making steel, invented by Benjamin
Huntsman made Sheffield Britain's centre
for tool-steel manufacture. Later in the
18th century, Thomas Boulsover method of
silver plating made Sheffield a centre for
tableware. Supplanted by modern electrolysis
plating, examples of Boulsover's old plating
is now prized by collectors. Not surprisingly,
the City Museum has the world's finest collection
of Sheffield Plate on display.
Things to see and do in Sheffield include
the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, a working
18th century water-powered steelworks, several
museums of note including the Mappin Art
Gallery, the Graves Art Gallery and the York
and Lancaster Regimental Museum. There is
also the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul,
the Bishops House and Beauchief Abbey...all
worth a visit.
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