{"id":590380,"date":"2025-11-24T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590380\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:03:15","slug":"work-begins-on-vital-repairs-to-historic-sheffield-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590380\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on &#8216;vital&#8217; repairs to historic Sheffield dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Work has got under way on long-term repairs to a damaged dam at a key industrial heritage site in Sheffield.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two years ago, water burst through the dam walls at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and a temporary fix was put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hamlet is regarded as an important example of how Sheffield made its name around the world for steelmaking, and water power is at the site&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welcoming the \u00a31.3m repair scheme, the hamlet&#8217;s Pamela Cunningham-Hayes said: &#8220;The repairs are vital. This is a water-powered site. The water is taken from the River Sheaf and is held in this huge dam, and we need that water to power our machinery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work has got under way on long-term repairs to a damaged dam at a key industrial heritage site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-590380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115603636473200329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}