Revisiting

I guess that if you keep blogging long enough, you will eventually return to places and topics you have covered before. 

Thirteen years ago, I visited Sheffield's Cholera Monument and blogged about it here. Erected in 1835 in memory of recent cholera victims, the rocket-like  stone monument overlooks the very heart of Sheffield. I went up there again today in lovely autumn sunshine. Sitting on a park bench beneath the monument I captured the image shown  above of jumbled modern buildings west of the city's main railway station.

Below, the restored monument on a ridge east of the city centre. It was funded through public subscriptions:-

Leaving the little  park where the monument is located, I walked along leafy Norfolk Road to its corner with Fitzwalter Road - shown below. Both street names are associated with sixteenth century English history and Sheffield's special links with Mary Queen of Scots. She was incarcerated here for several years,

On the way home, I stopped at Berkeley Precinct  off Ecclesall Road to take  this photograph of a newly-finished mural that celebrates the city's proud historical  position in the history of football. The player in that red and black kit is wearing the colours of the oldest football team in the world - Sheffield F.C. - formed in 1857.