History
This grade II listed building was built between 1894-96 and altered in 1931 and 1967. The building was designed by G E T Lawrence and the large children's mural was designed in 1931 by Herbert Wood.
Source:
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1323735
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A recently closed Working Men's club with planning permission pending for its demolition and the construction of 14 three storey town houses, to which several people have objected.
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History
A short culverted section of the Sough Dike outfalling in to the River Don, in Oughtibridge, near Sheffield. The infall has concrete reinforcement but the primary construction is stone. The water has worn a channel through the middle with many holes and water leaking in from all sides. Erosion is so bad that in the middle there is a large pool too deep to pass.
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A now disused water pipe in a tunnel built around 1892 to supply water to Edlington/ Warmsworth from Thrybergh Reservoir, running through Denaby and Conisbrough.
The tunnel consists of various types of construction, running for around 1200 metres, is around 3-4 ft wide by around 4-7 ft tall and features 4 ventilation shafts.
The pipe itself is around 30cm in diameter, with each joined section being around 3 metres long.
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The tunnel was built in 1849 for the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Company. The head engineer was Charles Bartholomew of the River Don Company. It consists of Gritstone voussoirs and rock-faced sandstone walling. Quoined buttresses flank a horseshoe arch with rustication below the impost band and roll-moulded hoodmould. Roll-moulded cornice breaks forward over the buttresses; blocking course steps up at centre. The line was opened on 10th November 1849 and linked the Midland and Great Northern networks; after 1864 it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which itself became the Great Central Railway in 1897.
Source:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/cadeby-tunnel-conisbrough-august-2015.t98553
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