Halifax Road in Sheffield was cordoned off by South Yorkshire Police from Kilner Way retail park to Southey Green Road on Thursday afternoon (29th October) after an 18 year old was stabbed in the leg and his scooter taken from him in a reported robbery. Police say the investigation is on going and are appealing for anyone with information to contact them. The young mans injuries are not life threatening.
Part of the London poppy display from the Tower of London massive art installatio,n marking 100 years since the start of the First World War. The Arch segment, also Know as “The Wave” has been installed on The Yorkshire Sculpture Parks Cascade Bridge. The installation was opened to the public for the first time on September 2015 and will remain in place until January 2016.
A World War Two German Sd.Kfz 251 Halftrack named “Magda” that appeared in the new AA advert had to be towed away when one of its front wheels fell off in front of a packed audience at the “Yorkshire Wartime Experience” on Sunday Afternoon (5 June 2015). The event is billed as “The North’s Premier Military Vehicle & Re-enactment Event” and its venue at Hunsworth Lane Hunsworth West Yorkshire was also the location where the AA’s first new television commercial in almost ten years was filmed.
Weighing in at almost 8 Tons, the post war Halftrack, of the type that would have been used as German troop carrier, required a fellow collectors Scammell explorer, aptly named “Dooleys Dragster”, to drag the disabled armoured personnel carrier from the arena. When asked by the shows commentator about calling the AA vehicle owner Paul Hilditch replied “No I should have done” No one was hurt in the incident.
When Tweeted about the incident Edmund King President of the AA responded
“Wheel fell off WW2 German Halftrack that appeared in AA Ad https://t.co/qU5Ssjc59e” via @NWW2A Should have called AA out. #wefixanything”
— Edmund King (@AAPresident) July 7, 2015
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Rotherham Armed Forces Day June 20th
Doncaser Sexy Statue, a risqué sculpture of two naked, embracing lovers which caused outrage in 1967 when first erected in Doncaster’s Arndale shopping centre, found a new home in Doncasters Waterdale Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon (June 19 2015). St. Modwen Properties a British-based property investment and development business that specialises in regenerating urban areas, discovered the statue in storage and in need of repair, after purchasing Waterdale in 2013. Constructed from fibreglass and damaged after years in storage in the underground car park St. Modwen got together with Artfuel, a local art group, and took the decision to make a ‘considerable investment’ and have the artwork restored.
After repairs and restoration including the re construction of hands, feet, re-welding of the internal structure and recolouring the artwork Doncasters ‘Lovers’ sculpture returned in all it’s glory
to public view, almost 30 years after it disappeared. It now stands on a soon to be flood lit glass canopy in the Waterdale Shopping Centre close to the Staff Of Life public house.
Made by Cake Artist Rose Dummer and depicting the Yorkshire Man of steel (a planned 35m high landmark sculpture overlooking junction 34 of the M1 and Meadowhall in South Yorkshire) this impressive Double Death by Chocolate Man of Steel Cake was produced for Oak Furniture Land to mark the opening of their new store at the Foundry Retail Park in Rotherham. At an in store celebration breakfast on Wednesday 3rd June the Yorkshire Man of steel, with the chocolate heart, was donated to Rotherham Hospice. His next appearance will be during the Hospice Summer Gala at Phoenix Sports & Social Club on the 7th June, where he will help raise funds for the Hospice
A Chemical spill in an Asda Superstore Car Park at Chaucer Road, Parson Cross, Sheffield resulted in customers being evacuated, road closures and some customers being sent home in Taxis.
The incident was attended by Police, Firefighters, Decontamination Support and Ambulance crews on Friday Afternoon
The Blues Legend BB King died in Las Vegas on Thursday May 14, 2015. He was born in Itta Bena, Leflore County, Mississippi on September 16th 1925 (odly that same day my mum was born in Sheffield South Yorkshire) He was a self taught guitarist who entered the music industry in the 1940s released his first single in 1949, won his 15th Grammy in 2009. Three years earlier in March 2006 on the opening night of his European Farewell Tour I was fortunate enough to get the chance to meet and photograph him back stage with some competition winners at Sheffield Arena. What really sticks in my mind about that night is how genuine he was. He was a true gentleman who influenced not only a plethora of great musicians probably everyone who met him. Below are some of the photographs I shot that night.
The Blues legend died in his sleep on May 14, 2015 at age 89 .King and Lucille playing on the opening night of his European Farewell Tour at the Hallam FM Arena Sheffield 29 March 2006 Photography by Paul David Drabble