Pond Street

Pond Street used to be central to everyday life in Sheffield as the bus station is sited there and most people traveled by bus. Sheffield City Council was famous for heavily subsidizing bus travel and when I started work, in 1970, buses were frequent and cheap and continued to be so until Thatcher arrived.

The Pond Street development probably dates from the late 60's and incorporated a multistory car park, ballroom, cinema and a few shops. The bus station has morphed in to an Interchange but otherwise, the development has changed little in 50 years.

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The architecture was "clean" and "modern" and one of the first pictures, of which I was proud, was taken there about 40 years ago, when things were starting to look a bit run down.

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My lunchtime ramblings took me back there last week, when the sun was shining brightly, and I enjoyed myself with leading lines and geometric framing. Most of the walls are faced with white rectangular tiles and some of the images have a sense of a post-nuclear desert about them.

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