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Sheffield City Hall, the Glossary

Sheffield City Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Sheffield, England in Barker's Pool, one of the city's central squares.^[1]

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Buildings by Vincent Harris
Culture in Sheffield
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AEG Ogden

AEG Ogden was an Australian company that managed sports venues and convention centres in Australia and Asia.

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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Barker's Pool

Barker's Pool is a public city square and street in the centre of Sheffield, England. Sheffield City Hall and Barker's Pool are Sheffield City Centre.

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Ettingshall

Ettingshall is an area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, and is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council.

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Henry Willis & Sons

Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845.

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John Barbirolli

Sir John Barbirolli (Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist.

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Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh singer.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer and actress.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

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Manual (music)

The word "manual" is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand-operated keyboard on a keyboard instrument that has a pedalboard (a keyboard on which notes are played with the feet), such as an organ; or when referring to one of the keyboards on an instrument that has more than one hand-operated keyboard, such as a two- or three-manual harpsichord.

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Matlock, Derbyshire

Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Organ pipe

An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is driven through it.

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Organ stop

An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council is the local authority for the City of Sheffield, a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield City Trust

Sheffield City Trust is a registered charity in the United Kingdom that owns and/or manages fifteen entertainment and sports venues in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield International Venues

SIV (formerly known as Sheffield International Venues) is a facilities management company based in Sheffield, England that operates a number of sporting and entertainment facilities in that city.

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Tarmac Group

Tarmac Group Limited was a British building materials company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Hallé

The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England.

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The Nice

The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s.

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Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Vincent Harris

Emanuel Vincent Harris (26 June 1876 – 1 August 1971), often known as E. Vincent Harris, was an English architect who designed several important public buildings in traditional styles.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_City_Hall

Sheffield City Hall, the Glossary

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See also

Buildings by Vincent Harris

Culture in Sheffield

Exhibition and conference centres in England

Sheffield City Centre

References