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The big read: Talented photographers aim to bring Sheffield s Park Hill flats 60th anniversary into sharp focus
It is an iconic building that is synonymous with Sheffield – and now a new photographic competition will record history as Park Hill marks its 60th anniversary next week.
Wednesday, 9th June 2021, 3:28 pm
Thursday June 16, 2021, will mark the 60th anniversary of the flats that serve as a ‘welcome home’ symbol for residents from their hilltop position towering over Sheffield’s city centre – as well as being Britain’s largest Grade II listed building.
Park Hill Residents Association, in support with developers Urban Splash and Places for People, are now holding a competition for residents and workers at the complex to mark 60 years since the completion of the sprawling apartment complex that shadows Sheffield city centre’s railway station.
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Singer and lyricist Alex Turner wrote about what he knew, and the lives he saw around him. Nights out, the music scene and everyday quarrels provided the subject matter for songs such as number one hit I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, Fake Tales of San Francisco and Mardy Bum.
And they started young. Turner and his bandmates – guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and original bass player Andy Nicholson, later replaced by Nick O’Malley – formed in High Green as teenagers and would be dropped off by their mums after school for their first proper rehearsal sessions at Yellow Arch Studios in Neepsend, showing up there from around 2003.