How Sheffield learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
This city was once a ‘nuclear-free zone’. A lot has changed.
Victoria is an investigative reporter, who has written extensively about Sheffield's music and hospitality sectors. She was previously the editor of the Waltham Forest Echo.
This city was once a ‘nuclear-free zone’. A lot has changed.
Plus, the true story behind an iconic piece of graffiti
'Ultimately, we made the decision to close and find another way to work, rather than change'
‘For quite a few months, it was uncertain whether or not the mission would go ahead’
‘My people are being wiped out and I can do nothing’
A venue in this iconic building has failed before - what makes things different now?
‘He’s probably one of the most famous ponies in the country and we still can’t find him’
An editor’s edition by Victoria Munro
'I don’t want to be here anymore. This building is cursed.'
‘An hour-long exam should be devoted to copying out that first sentence over and over, like a Victorian schoolchild’
In 2021, it was ‘one of Sheffield’s biggest employers’. Now, the firm has crashed and burned
‘They took away our work space and left us, they’re wolves in sheep’s clothing’
‘I have got spies in their camp who might not be what they seem’
‘I'm genuinely afraid of an empty diary, where I would become bored, literally, to death’
‘It’s one of those things people maybe don’t expect a council to be working on’
‘We’re unlikely to go back to Sheffield cutlery being on every table in the world, but why limit our ambition?'