Name: Neepsend Walking Tour
Start: 2023-11-26T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-07-19T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Outside the The Gardener's Rest

This walk brings to life the story of Neepsend's growth from a small hamlet, to a thriving working class community, and on to today
About this Event

This walk brings to life the story of how Neepsend grew from a small hamlet by the river to a thriving working class community. Today it is still a vibrant part of Sheffield, but its past is still there to see if you know where to look.

On this walking tour you will learn the fascinating stories of a typical Sheffield working class community with its houses, pubs, shops, cinema, swimming baths, and churches. It isn't glamorous, it doesn't have the spectacular architecture of areas like Kelham Island, but it's life in industrial Sheffield. It's factories that made (and in some cases still make) screws, saws and polish, it's the brewers, the typographers, the railway workers, the gas works and it's also of course a story of steel.

This is a walk about today as well. It'll show you the recording studios (that inspired the Arctic Monkeys), the artists, and the items that are still being produced in the area today.

Neepsend. It may not be glamorous, but it's a story of industrial Sheffield and how the city has adapted and changed. It also includes a visit to hidden underground stables that you can't normally access.