Graves Building - Sheffield
On Thursday we went on an Architectural Tour of this fascinating building, which is opposite the Winter Gardens and holds the library and an excellent art gallery.
The tour was absolutely fascinating. The building was designed at the end of the 1920's when the news was full of the discovery of the tomb of King Tut and this had influence this imposing sculpture.
Had no idea before the tour even that the building was such an usual shape with a single storey, glass-roofed Reading Room in the centre. Along one of the corridors joining the two sides of the building small rooms had been created to allow people to go and clatter on new-fangled typewriters, so as not to disturb readers!
During the war staff had worked in shifts manning fire watching stations on the roof, the downstairs was full of information tables for people whose homes had been bombed, and the wonderful art collection had been hidden in a nearby coal mine!
Graves Building - Sheffield
On Thursday we went on an Architectural Tour of this fascinating building, which is opposite the Winter Gardens and holds the library and an excellent art gallery.
The tour was absolutely fascinating. The building was designed at the end of the 1920's when the news was full of the discovery of the tomb of King Tut and this had influence this imposing sculpture.
Had no idea before the tour even that the building was such an usual shape with a single storey, glass-roofed Reading Room in the centre. Along one of the corridors joining the two sides of the building small rooms had been created to allow people to go and clatter on new-fangled typewriters, so as not to disturb readers!
During the war staff had worked in shifts manning fire watching stations on the roof, the downstairs was full of information tables for people whose homes had been bombed, and the wonderful art collection had been hidden in a nearby coal mine!