Where is Beehive Works?

Beehive Works is in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.3757°, -1.4793°.

Gardens · East Midlands

Beehive Works

Beehive Works — a garden in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.

The Devonshire Cat, Sheffield - geograph.org.uk - 1927416 — Graham Hogg — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Beehive Works is a garden of interest in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Beehive Works are a purpose-built cutlery works located on Milton Street in the Devonshire Quarter area of Sheffield city centre. The works were built in stages in the second half of the 19th century and are designated as a Grade II* listed building with English Heritage stating that they are of special architectural and historic interest as an examples of buildings associated with Sheffield's metal manufacturing and metal working trades. The works stand adjacent to the Taylor's Eye Witness Works and together they make Milton Street one of the best places to gain an impression of Sheffield’s former cutlery industry.

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Background

History

It is thought that the first phase of building took place in the late 1850s or the early 1860s. The buildings were initially known as the Milton Works, with B. Mathewman and Sons being the first known occupants. The Works expanded quickly during the 1880s and 1890s with the addition of more grinding wheels and forges; the steam power plant was also enlarged to drive this extra machinery. By 1888 the Atkinson Brothers had taken over the works as manufacturers of steel, cutlery, files and electro plate products. The Atkinsons had considerable success as a company using the trade mark "In Mind". They exhibited at the 1894 Antwerp World's fair, becoming a registered company on the stock…

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