Sheffield retro: Photos taking you back in time up city's steepest streets

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00:00 Sheffield, like Rome, is famously built upon seven hills, but it's fair to say it feels

00:07 like a lot more than that when you're navigating the city by foot or by bike. Blake Street,

00:13 linking Upper Thorpe at the bottom with Walkley at the top, is officially Sheffield's steepest

00:17 street, with an energy sapping gradient of 16.6 degrees. The road, which featured in

00:24 the full Monty film and has a railing along most of its length to help anyone making the

00:28 ascent, is one of the tallest in the UK, though it's less punishing on the calf muscles than

00:34 Bale Street in Bristol with its 21.81 degree gradient.

00:40 Sheffield's second steepest street is Jenkin Road in Winkerbank, with an 11.02 degree gradient,

00:47 which cyclists had to contend with when the 2014 Tour de France visited Yorkshire. Some

00:53 of Sheffield's other steepest streets include Hag Hill in Riverlyn, Conduit Road in Crookes,

01:00 Myrtle Road and Kent Road in the Healy and Mearsbrook area. They all feature in this

01:06 retro photo gallery, taking you from the 1920s up to the 1990s, and showing pubs past and

01:15 present, lost shops and how the city's industrial landscape has changed. They are shared courtesy

01:22 of Picture Sheffield.

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