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Sheffield Street Art Book by Hedley & Jim



Pictures of Sheffield Old & New are pleased to announce that group creator, Hedley Bishop and photographer, Jim Lambert have combined forces to launch a new book documenting the ever changing face of Sheffield Street Art.

The book takes you on an aesthetic journey around the streets of Sheffield loo…

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Feature on BBC Look North, Yorkshire

We're very pleased to announce that Pictures of Sheffield Old & New was featured on BBC Look North, Yorkshire tonight (14/04/11), looking at how people use social media and Facebook.

*Click here to watch the feature*

 

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Co-op Castle Street display

The group's new exhibition for February, in the shopfront windows of the Co-op building on Castle St is now almost fully completed and today we had a visit from councillor Paul Scriven, a long time supporter of the group.

Councillor Scriven spent an hour with the group members getting updated about …

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CHANGING FACES

Jim Lambert, Hedley Bishop and fellow group member Mark Wallis have been asked to include photographs in an exhibition entitled "CHANGING FACES " at The Riverside, Mowbray St starting on the 29th September.

The collection, curated by Lorelle Hill, will also include  submissions by Berris Conolly, …

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Winter Gardens Display

                                                                                         
Some of the group members had a little get together in the Harlequin pub on Nursery St on the 12 July and brought along a …

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Radio Sheffield

Hi,

I am going to be interviewed on Radio Sheffield about the group and the Winter Gardens display. The interview will be on weds 23rd June at 2.30pm with Paulette Edwards. We look forward to meeting members at the Harlequin pub on 12/07/10.

Hedley

Pictures of Sheffield old and new in the Winter Gardens

We are very pleased to inform you that our display will be moving to the Winter Gardens on August 8th for around one month. We will keep you updated when we get more information.

Hedley.

The final week of the current display at Castle Market

The current display finishes next Saturday (3rd April). The new display will begin on 5th April at the Showcase on Cambridge Street. We thank everyone who has supported the Castle Market display.

Hedley

Market Display update

The market display has now been updated with a whole new bunch of pictures, among which are some absolutely stunning pictures of Sheffield in the sixties and seventies taken by Harry Ainscough shown with the permission of his son David Ainscough.

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Harry Ainscough's pictures of Sheffield in the…

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Councillor Paul Scriven visits the market display

Yet another red letter day for the group display with the visit of Council leader Paul Scriven. Mr Scriven showed a genuine interest not only in the pictures, but in the  members also and had plenty of questions for us to answer with regard to the history of the group, how the display had been conce…

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Thankyou

Thankyou all for your amazing support with this project. we are so proud and pleased that the group has brought together all kinds of people from many cultures and walks of life. Let's hope that the spirit on this group continues for many years to come.

So we  thankyou all for sharing our passion.…

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The Lord Mayor's visit

The Lord Mayor visited the display yesterday. We had a great day, we would like to thank everyone who came and helped to make it a very memorable day.

Thanks, Hedley

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From Strength To Strength

The market display continues to surpass all that we had hoped it was going to be, we always had faith that it would be well received but we weren't quite prepared for just how much interest it has generated. This week we have been visited by Joe Scarborough who spent quite a time chatting to us and…

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The Lord Mayor

The Lord Mayor will be coming on Friday 19th Febuary at mid day.

Hedley

Joe Scarborough

It was a great honour today when Joe Scarbourough visited the display and spent time talking to members of the group. Pictures below courtesy of Lillian & Brian Hatch.

 

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The Lord Mayor of Sheffield

Hi all

The Lord Mayor of Sheffield will be visiting the display soon!

The Next Exhibition

From the 4th April 2010 the public display will be moved into the show case on Cambridge Street in Sheffield's City centre. We will be there for around a month.

Up and running

We are very pleased that the display is now up and running, there has been al ot of interest already. We will now be having the display for ten weeks. Here are some pictures below, come down and see us sometime!

Hedley

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Radio Sheffield

I will be on the Radio Sheffield news bulletin tommorrow morning talking about the display.
www.bbc.co.uk/sheffield

Hedley

Its time!

Hi

Thanks to the people who have contacted us via this site recently your support is greatly valued. We will be setting up the display this Sunday from 10.00 in the Castle Market you are welcome to join us. I am so proud to be involved in such an exciting project and must thank all those who have gi…

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