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2021.03.03** PART 1 - Refer to 'yellow' photographed map. Start on SE Bank of The River Don at Hadfields Weir next to Meadowhall Centre and South of the the Railway / Tram / Bus Interchange, Generally the The Five Weirs Route is Sign Posted and follows the River Don (where possible), One river path section was closed (SK371.889 to SK372.883) making a road detour necessary to rejoin the route. Some way after passing the fifth weir - Walk Mill Weir - we crossed under the old Railway Line (to Manchester - still goes to Stocksbridge) which runs parallel to the A61 road, and then found our way to the Sheffield-Tinsley canal terminus Victoria Quays (Basin) at SK361.877. PART 2 - We followed the canal back to Tinsley Tram stop SK396.910 then followed the River Don ~NW / W / SW back to the start. Effectively Stuart Bloom led the walk using a tablet with GPS positioning capacity pinpointing our positions.

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PART 1 - FIVE WEIRS WALK ALONG RIVER DON - MEADOWHALL TO SHEFFIELD ('reverse' direction upstream)

1.Map cut from display board - shows the part of  '5 weirs' walked 'in reverse order' from Meadowhall Interchange into Sheffield to Victoria Basin

2 Hadfield's Weir

3 Note fish-ladder added some years ago

4 Display Board at Hadfield's Weir

5 Through sign - Sheffield Forgemasters

6 Brightside Weir

7 Display Board - Brightside Weir

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9 Sheffield Arena

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13 Hecla Works / Robert A Hadfield / developed Manganese Steel

14 more on Hecla Works - print probably too small to enlarge and read?

15 Hecla Works?

16 Attercliffe Cemetery

17 The stone used in this cemetery for tombstones is very resistant to weathering

18 fisherman from afar

19 an adventurous non armchair fisherman (see later)

20 bridge repairs

21 'a needle' viewed from the riverside path - stainless steel 'descriptive' plate at path difficult to read

22 Sanderson's Weir

23 Display Board - Sanderson's Weirt

24 local train - diesel - electrification unlikely for a carbon neutral environment?

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26 Royds Mill

27 seagulls hovering above food waste being unloaded

28 zoomed into Sikh Temple

29 Salmon Pastures

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32 Salmon Pastures Schools - still in existance?

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35 Sheffield Incinerator

36 Burton Weir

37 Burton Weir

38 Norfolk Bridge

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41 Permission to fish and where seems to be a complicated & restricted pastime

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44 Walk Mill Weir? No descriptive Display Board? But apparently close to Wicker Arches -pictures 45 &47 and Bailey Bridge picture 42

45 Suspended Walkway (known as Cobweb Bridge) under Wicker Arches part of railway viaduct crossing River Don (see also picture 47)

46 the old and the new?

47 suspended walkway (cobweb bridge) above The River Don - see picture 45

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49 Hotel built near? / part above? the once railway station serving Sheffield to Manchester

50 probably writing too small to enlarge & read

51 The normal start point but our 'end' point of the 5 weirs walk done in reverse direction

 

PART 2. SHEFFIELD (Victoria Basin) TO TINSLEY (M1 motorway viaduct) CANAL

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53 Victoria Quays area (the start of the Sheffield Tinsley Canal
54 map above slightly enlarged
55 Victoria Quays
56 looking down canal Tinsley direction
57 The Canals and Rivers Trust are the successors to British waterways and look after infrastructure
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61 Cadman Bridge 1819
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65 Bacon Lane Bridge
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71 riveted bridge superstructure reflected in canal
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73 Tram runs near canal from Sheffield to Meadowhall (& then on to Rotherham)
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76 The back of Sheffield Arena passed on 5 Weirs part of this walk

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79 can you identify the type of ducks?

80 a once bascule bridge over the canal

81 Tinsley flight of locks -the first reached from Sheffield

82 Tinsley Marina

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84 a long deep sided rail bridge from the riveted era - sides possibly erected in two lifts?

85 Some work being done by the Canal and River Trust to assist manual lock operation

86 This canal was operated by The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company during the 2nd World War - damage to a lock recorded here.

87 a lock required to get under this bridge

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89 The double decked Tinsley Motorway viaduct for the M1 and local access

90 Tinsley Waterside

91 G.B. Ward

RETURNED FROM TINSLEY ALONG RIVER DON TO START AT MEADOWHALL INTERCHANGE

92 The Meadowhall Interchange near The River Don

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