Day 232, Stone arch, scene shift, relic

Here's a stone arch at the bottom of Holberry Close.  An inner-city street in Sheffield, England.

Holberry Close is just below Holberry Gardens, both of these streets were formerly known as Havelock Square but were renamed in the 1980s.  The name change was one element of a much wider process instigated by the City Council to change the nature of the area due to it having a bad reputation.  The area had become a red light district and was rather run down.  It also happened to be where Peter Sutcliffe picked up his last potential victim on the night he was apprehended.

The streets were renamed in honour of Samuel Holberry, the Sheffield Chartist activist.

This 1950s map of the area also shows the arch at the bottom of the Square.  The road layout changed enormously in the late 1980s as many houses were demolished to clear the path for Hanover Way.  Hanover Way is on the other side of the new builds shown in the above picture.

So far a search for information on what the stone archway originally belonged to hasn't revealed anything.

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