1. The History
Not much history around but this very long brick-built building is what used to be Attercliffe Tram Sheds. It was used for servicing the city’s trams when we had trams the first time around. The system closed on 8th October 1960, so this place has been derelict since the early 60s. The trams returned in 1994 in the shape of Super-tram costing £240 million pounds. Ironically a new Supertram depot sits just over the fence next to the old one.
The building is not that interesting but plays host to what can best be described as one long urban art gallery featuring some of Sheffield’s top graff artists (Coloquix, Mars etc).
2. The Explore
Not the most exciting of sites architecturally but the graff tends to be good. Hence pop in here when I get the chance every 12/18 months to see what’s new on the graff front. It’s an easy in here and a relaxed wander. The graff in the main shed has gone down hill a bit and the nice works by the big names (Coloquix, Mars etc) have, in many cases, been painted over with less meritous works. However, on this visit (my fourth over the years) I managed to find an extra bit of the site that I’d not seen before, making this revisit worthwhile.
3. The Pictures
Nice little pop-up gallery on the way in:
img0620 by HughieDW, on Flickr
In the main tram shed:
img0604 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0603 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0602 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0601 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Shame that Colorquix got painter over;
img0600 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0599 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Not so keen on some of the new stuff that has appeared:
img0597 by HughieDW, on Flickr
But quite like this:
img0595 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0594 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Mr Mars at both ends:
img0593 by HughieDW, on Flickr
End of the main shed with a very big and intact Mr Mars piece:
img0617 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0607 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Mars rock!
img0606 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Round the back to the bit I’ve not seen before:
img0616 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0615 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0613 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0612 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0610 by HughieDW, on Flickr
And some of the best graff of all:
img0609 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img0608 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Not much history around but this very long brick-built building is what used to be Attercliffe Tram Sheds. It was used for servicing the city’s trams when we had trams the first time around. The system closed on 8th October 1960, so this place has been derelict since the early 60s. The trams returned in 1994 in the shape of Super-tram costing £240 million pounds. Ironically a new Supertram depot sits just over the fence next to the old one.
The building is not that interesting but plays host to what can best be described as one long urban art gallery featuring some of Sheffield’s top graff artists (Coloquix, Mars etc).
2. The Explore
Not the most exciting of sites architecturally but the graff tends to be good. Hence pop in here when I get the chance every 12/18 months to see what’s new on the graff front. It’s an easy in here and a relaxed wander. The graff in the main shed has gone down hill a bit and the nice works by the big names (Coloquix, Mars etc) have, in many cases, been painted over with less meritous works. However, on this visit (my fourth over the years) I managed to find an extra bit of the site that I’d not seen before, making this revisit worthwhile.
3. The Pictures
Nice little pop-up gallery on the way in:
In the main tram shed:
Shame that Colorquix got painter over;
Not so keen on some of the new stuff that has appeared:
But quite like this:
Mr Mars at both ends:
End of the main shed with a very big and intact Mr Mars piece:
Mars rock!
Round the back to the bit I’ve not seen before:
And some of the best graff of all:
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I know the feeling. It was only because some artist guy told me otherwise I'd have been clueless & thought there was just the main long building you first see. The other building has some lovely Stog stuff in if you're an appreciater of graffiti
