Stephen Cater, of the University of Sheffield, shared the following glowing endorsement of Portland Works with us:
"At a time when Yorkshire Forward and Sheffield City Council are justifiably proud of the efforts they have made to establish a high technology metalworking cluster on the Advanced Manufacturing Park [AMP] at Orgreave, I am dismayed to find that they may be willing to extinguish an existing, and equally important centre of excellence in metalworking at Portland Works.
I am currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Sheffield, studying the historical role of steel and developing new techniques for processing it. Nowhere else, not even at the university or the AMP, can I find the necessary skills required to help me in my work. I can only find them at Portland Works. I can take metal ingots there, have them indelibly engraved with reference numbers, have the same ingots worked down to strips, and then have those strips made into tools and cutting edges all under the same roof.
I am not the first to use their services: almost a hundred years ago Harry Brearley took his first stainless steel ingots there to have test cutlery manufactured. Does Sheffield really want to throw away such a heritage?"
Stephen Cater, University of Sheffield, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Now Then magazine, Sheffield's own Arts and creative industries magazine. The October issue (download here, look for page 4 on the pdf) has an article about the share issue for the upcoming purchase of the works.
Here are a couple of links to films of events we have hosted at
Portland Works after dark! http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICROOMS#p/u/22/TF8TShSBz0I
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICROOMS#p/u/20/NTuoQ3RiKtU
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICROOMS#p/u/28/kT3oeRuWARw
http://www.youtube.com/user/HARMONICROOMS#p/u/27/3VawPJcbBYU Best
wishes,
Fiona x
I thought these links may be of interest. A chapter from the Urban Design Compendium (English Partnerships et al.), which details the different options for building management structures: http://www.urbandesigncompendium.co.uk/Establishingmanagementstructures And an HLF THI case study of Butcher Works: http://www.hlf.org.uk/ourproject/Documents/Sheffield%20Quarter.pdf All the best, Si --- Mr Simon Parris
The Naples project is also covered in this website of case
studies looking at
> social innovation in urban projects as part of an
international research
> project.
>
> http://users.skynet.be/frank.moulaert/singocom/index2.html
>
> The site is (very) clunky to look at and use, but I think it
might be a useful
> starting point to look at what you might want to do...they
cover organisation
> structure and funding well I think, and their categories are
clear (Why? How?
> What? How Long? Resources etc) but obviously could do with
more, and better,
> images, and maybe some diagrams!
>
>
> Anna Holder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8635000/8635300.stm Listen to the audio and flick through the photo essay- they're fab!
http://www.studiopolpo.com/index.php?option=com_content& ;view=article&id=99%3Aportland-works&Itemid=56
http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/sheffield-gallery-six-%28a%29.htm From Luis Arroyo
