In the late 1990s it developed a partnership with the University of Sheffield's Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science ( SCEOS ), which researched interferometry.

The opening sequence of the Sheffield promotion film from 1972 is taken from City on the Move, a film commissioned by Peter Wigley, Sheffield's first ever publicity officer, to convince people that Sheffield was a centre for tourism and commerce.

Boosted by critical praise, on 12 June 1978 the band played their first live gig together at Bar 2 in Sheffield's Psalter Lane Art College ( now Sheffield Hallam University ; a plaque now commemorates the spot in what is now a computer suite.

Over the last decade a concerted effort by ARCUS and the University of Sheffield has led to Sheffield's 18th and 19th century history as a steel producer being revealed.

The only time Sheffield Park received a substantial number of passengers was when Lord Sheffield entertained the Australian cricket team, with a match between them and Lord Sheffield's own team.

Furthermore, the university is ranked amongst both the UK's and world's Top 100 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong ( SJTU ) and Times Higher Education ( THE ) World University Rankings, and the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise found 41 submissions out of 49 of Sheffield's research to contain more than 50 % of " world-leading " and " internationally excellent " research, which made Sheffield among the Top Ten in the Russell Group.

Just three universities nationally have more than Sheffield's 30 top-rated subjects for teaching excellence and only five have a greater number than the 35 subject areas at Sheffield deemed to have conducted world-class research in the most recent ratings.

Sheffield Attercliffe has been the name of one of Sheffield's Parliamentary constituencies since 1885, but it is due to be renamed Sheffield South East for the next general election.

Even now, inhabitants of Sheffield are split on the matter of Park Hill ; many believe it to be a part of Sheffield's heritage, while others consider it nothing more than an eyesore and blot on the landscape.

It becomes the Sheffield Parkway ( built in 1974 ), Sheffield's main route to the M1, meeting a roundabout.

It is probable that Sheffield's parish church, a satellite of Worksop Priory, was constructed here in the twelfth century by William de Lovetot at the opposite end of the town to Sheffield Castle.

In 1970 Sheffield's other main station, Sheffield Victoria, was closed and its remaining services, from Penistone, were diverted until 1981 via a cumbersome reversal.

The Sheffield Chinese community is pressing for the street to be formally labelled Sheffield's Chinatown.

Opened in April 2001 as part of Sheffield's Heart of the City project, it is located in the city centre close to the city library, Sheffield Hallam University, and the city's theatre district.

The gallery is divided into four sections: the Special Exhibition Gallery hosts touring exhibitions from galleries like the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Craft and Design Gallery shows the work of past and present craftsmen and designers, the Metalwork Gallery is designed to showcase Sheffield's metal industries, and the Ruskin Gallery hosts the collection of the Guild of St George, which was established in Sheffield by John Ruskin in the 19th century.

Sheffield's old tramway stretched from Sheffield city centre to Woodseats and Heeley was at a time the terminus.

This district of Sheffield is home to a large percentage of Sheffield's ethnic minority population as these statistics from the 2001 census show:

In 1960, Parson Cross contained 10, 000 houses, which were home to a total of 50, 000 people — one-tenth of Sheffield's entire population, and together with the Shiregreen estate formed “ Sheffield 5 ”, Europe ’ s largest social housing conurbation.

: Lord Sheffield is governor of Januli and Selana Sheffield's father.

: Selana Sheffield is Lord Sheffield's daughter and William Escobar's fiancée, though the two don't care much for each other or their politically motivated marriage.

Warp's third record, " Testone " ( 1990 ) by Sweet Exorcist ( Richard H. Kirk and Richard Barratt ), defined Sheffield's bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's " Computer Game " ( 1978 ) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ).

Sheffield's Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet has preserved a water-wheel powered, scythe-making works dating from Huntsman's times, which is still operated for the public, several times per year using crucible steel made on the Abbeydale site.

There are numerous stations in Sheffield's suburbs, of which Meadowhall Interchange is the busiest.

Sheffield's near neighbour, Hallam, was formed in 1860 and in the same year the two clubs first played each other in a local derby which is still contested today.

The large hall dominates Barker's Pool, one of Sheffield's central squares, which also contains the city's War Memorial.

Van Dyk took up a residency at Sheffield's Gatecrasher and declared himself anti-drugs, which led to home-made " No E, Pure PvD " T-shirts, also a sly note to journalists that his surname contained no " E ".

Walker's first foray into broadcasting was co-presenting two shows on the University of Sheffield's Sure FM student radio station-the midweek sports-themed evening show and ' Dan & Edd In The Afternoon ', for which he and co-presenter Ed Hoyland were nominated for a BBC Radio One Student Radio award.

Sheffield's bill placed virtually the entire state ( with the sole exception of the Aleutians, starting just west of Dutch Harbor ) into the Yukon Time Zone ( which was then renamed the Alaska Time Zone ).

Sheffield's early success in steel production had involved long working hours, in desperately unpleasant conditions which offered little or no safety protection.

Until June 2004 Sharrow was also the name given to one of Sheffield's electoral wards which included Sharrow proper and a number of surrounding districts.

She is secretly a member of the Shepherds, though she doesn't believe in their cause and only sees them as a means by which she can solve House Sheffield's financial troubles, using them kidnap the Imperial Consort and holding him for ransom.

Hernández was seen landing several punches to Sheffield's head, which left him bloodied.

He was also associate director of Sheffield's Crucible Theatre for two years.

They also celebrated their northern roots with phrases like " Made in the Designers Republic, North of Nowhere " and " SoYo " ( referring to Sheffield's county of South Yorkshire ) — affirming they were not from London's design community in Soho.

They also performed live for charity on Sports Relief, Macmillan Cancer Support, Croí, Western Alzheimer ’ s, O ’ Dwyer Cheshire Home, Mayo Cancer Support Group, Marie Keating Foundation, Outward Bound Trust, ChildLine, Children in Need, Sheffield's Children Hospital.

In 1844, William Jeffcock was succeeded as Sheffield's Mayor by his first cousin, Thomas Dunn, who was also a Handsworth resident.

Sheffield's 500th home run was his first career home run with the New York Mets, the first time that a player's 500th home run was also his first with his franchise.

They also followed Sheffield's lead in restricting handling of the ball by the goalkeeper to his own half.

MacGregor also played in the Home Nations Championship in 1891 and 1893, missing the 1892 tournament as he was out in Australia with Lord Sheffield's cricket team in 1892, and in 1894 he played against England and Wales.

As well as the annual World Snooker Championships, hosted by Sheffield's Crucible Theatre since 1977, this venue also has a Squash court installed each year for the English Open competition.

Thatcher appeared on Living TV's Most Haunted on February 13, 2007 as a celebrity guest alongside presenter Yvette Fielding and Medium David Wells as well as Sheffield's Joanne Gregory to search for paranormal activity at Tatton Hall in Cheshire.