{"id":655488,"date":"2025-12-26T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:02:15","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-sheffield-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655488\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Sheffield Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final stop on the tour is a &#8220;time capsule&#8221; &#8211; a ladies&#8217; lavatory block that has been untouched since its closure in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The gentlemen&#8217;s conveniences have been converted into a cocktail bar, but the ladies&#8217;, facing the Peace Gardens, have been left exactly how they were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The basement toilets are accessed via moss-covered stone steps behind a street food truck, and the payment machine with its 20p fee is still on the wall outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are still nappies in the vending machine, a kettle in the attendant&#8217;s room and a 2012 Olympics souvenir edition of Hello magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped that the redevelopment of this fascinating jewel in Sheffield&#8217;s crown will make it as popular a stop on the tourist trail as Kelham Island, the Crucible Theatre and the Peak District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For now, those on the tour will sense the ghosts of the city&#8217;s past walking beside them &#8211; from the steel barons to the Sheffield Pals, who enrolled in the council chamber to serve in World War One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final stop on the tour is a &#8220;time capsule&#8221; &#8211; a ladies&#8217; lavatory block that has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-655488","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\/115784826655156155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655488","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=655488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}