Kelham Island is one of

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's eleven designated Quarters. Formerly an industrial area, the island itself was created by the building of a

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, or mill race, fed from the River Don to serve the water wheels powering the workshops of the areas' industrial heyday. The quarter was named after the island, however, the boundaries extend beyond the physical island created by the river and goit. The Quarter is roughly diamond in shape, and is bordered by Shalesmoor and Gibraltar Street to the south-west; Corporation Street to the south-east; Mowbray Street, Harvest Lane and Neepsend Lane to the north-east, and Ball Street and Cornish Street to the north-west. The

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Works sit just outside this quarter, to the north-west. Green Lane and Alma Street form the main spine roads of the area. The

Green Lane Works The Green Lane Works are a disused industrial facility situated in the City of Sheffield, England. The entrance gate to the works is particularly ornate and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner called the gate ''� ...

(Grade II*

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) and the

Brooklyn Works The Brooklyn Works is a former site of steel, saw and file manufacture, it is situated on Green Lane in the Kelham Island Quarter Shows map of Kelham Island Quarter. of the City of Sheffield, England. In recent years the works have been convert ...

(Grade II listed) are both important industrial heritage sites. A great deal of

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is evident in this area, as residential and social uses are mixed into this former industrial area. The area is home to an industrial museum, the

Kelham Island Museum The Kelham Island Museum is an industrial museum on Alma Street, alongside the River Don, in the centre of Sheffield, England. It was opened in 1982. The site The island on which it is located is man-made, resulting from the construction of a ...

, including the famous River Don Engine
The Chimney House
for events and occasions and five pubs: the

Kelham Island Tavern The Kelham Island Tavern is a public house in Sheffield. It is the only pub to have become the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) National Pub of the Year two years running. The pub lies on Russell Street, in the Kelham Island area of the city. ...

(twice

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), the Fat Cat, The Wellington, the Ship Inn and The Milestone. It is also host to the

Kelham Island Brewery The Kelham Island Brewery was a small independent brewery based in the Kelham Island Quarter area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It closed down in May 2022. In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) ...

(brewers of Pale Rider, amongst others). The area is the only area in Sheffield with its own dedicated ap
This Is Kelham
that supports independent businesses, regeneration and aids the funding of community projects. The Quarter housed one of Sheffield's last traditional hand-made scissor makers, Ernest Wright and Son Limited, until their relocation to premises closer to the city centre in 2011.

Residences

One of the residences in Kelham Island is Central Quay, a student residence owned by Host. On 11 November 2007, Tesco opened an Express store in the back of the building, facing onto Corporation Street. Kelham Island has started to be redeveloped in recent years (2019). More and more students are starting to live here as more flats are created.

Little Kelham

Citu, a Yorkshire based sustainable property developer acquired an area in Kelham Island in 2012, to create a low carbon development. The development was name
Little Kelham
and used triple glazed windows, high standards of insulation and air-tight building design to create zero-emission homes powered entirely by renewable electricity. The scheme has involved the re-generation of some key landmarks in Kelham Island, such as the

clock-tower.Sheffield Star: Sheffield's own 'leaning tower' has been restored
This regeneration was completed in 2017. The development is on-going, and 53 homes have been built to date (Jan 2018).

Kelham Riverside

Kelham Riverside is a mixed use riverside development by Raven Group in collaboration with Sheffield-based architects AXIS Architecture, involves the creation of new mixed use buildings forming apartments, bars & restaurants, and commercial space on the riverside site of former workshops, long since demolished. The development is part of an ongoing regeneration of the area by AXIS and others, which started in the 1990s with

. This development is intended to create a desirable place to live with a brand new public square, and continuation of the Don riverside walk project. The apartments of the development enjoy riverside views and occupy buildings named

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, and

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after the famous bridges. This area and Sheffield as a city has supplied much of the steel for some of the greatest bridges in history (e.g. the

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References

External links

This Is KelhamThe Milestone websiteThe Fat Cat Public House websiteThe Chimney House websiteKelham Riverside websiteAXIS ArchitectureNprime Limited

Sources for the history of Kelham Island
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