Digital Hearing Aids Sheffield – South Yorkshire Digital Hearing Aids

Digital Hearing Aids Sheffield – South Yorkshire Digital Hearing Aids 

Sheffield was big in the production of steel; so much so that its nickname is ‘Steel City’.  With that in mind it seems even stranger that this big industrial town is also thought to have more trees per person than any other in Europe.  The total count or actually estimation is well over 2 million and maybe as high as 2.5 million.

With that many trees in the city of Sheffield, it won’t seem so strange to learn that there are also 83 parks here too.  Four of these parks are ‘public gardens’.  Sheffield is a truly ‘green’ city.

Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Sheffield Botanical Gardens house 5,000 plants from around the world.  They were first opened in 1836 and were designed by Robert Marnock.  They include what are now Grade II listed glasshouses, which were restored to their former glory in 2003.

You’ll find the national collection of Weigela here; it’s a well known shrub which originates from Asia.  It is also home to the national collection of Diervilla which is closely related to Weigela.  It is a native of North America and was introduced to Europe by a French Surgeon named ... Dierville.  It is also known as Lornicera maackii and more commonly as bush honeysuckle.

Sheffield’s Winter Gardens
The Winter Gardens have been given several accolades – one of the largest temperate glasshouses built in the last 100 years in the UK, the largest urban glasshouse anywhere in Europe, which was opened by the Queen in 2003 and houses more than 2,000 plants.

It also won eight awards for building and design including the Civic Trust’s Green Award, RIBA Millennium Award, RCIS Pro Yorkshire Award for Design and Innovation and several more.

The Peace Gardens
Created as part of the Heart of the City project, the Peace Gardens sit in front of the gothic Town Hall.  The gardens were originally built in 1938 when a church was demolished.

The fountains commemorate both the five rivers which converge in Sheffield and the flow of molten steel which made Sheffield famous.  There are also several monuments and plaques commemorating Sheffield soldiers and civilians lost in several wars – the Spanish Civil War , The Korean War and of course two World Wars.  The Peace Gardens have also won many awards.

Hillsborough Walled Garden
These gardens can be found at Hillsborough Park which surrounds Hillsborough Hall.  The Park was built by the Dixon family who owned the house in the 19th Century.  The Walled Garden is just one part of the park which also has a boating lake and a bowling green complete with pavilion.  The house is now Sheffield library having been taken over by the City Council.  In the 1990s the Walled Garden was dedicated to the memory of the 96 people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough Disaster.

Hillsborough Stadium was the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday FC.  On the day of the disaster, 15th April 1989, the game was an FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.  Tragedy struck when an exit gate which had been left open gave access to the crowds waiting outside.  The huge crowd surge caused a crash barrier to break and the disaster that ensued.  The game was stopped just six minutes into play.  As well as the 96 fans who lost their lives, another 766 were injured.

The importance of our senses
As one of your key senses hearing is important.  It alerts you to danger and allows you to take the appropriate action.  Our hearing can be affected by many things some of which cause it to deteriorate.

If you think that yours is less effective than it was, let Digital Hearing Aids help.  We can test to see the quality of your hearing in both ears and if necessary explain how a digital hearing aid could help.  Give us a call on 01782 698090 to discuss.

Steel City
For a place to be nicknamed after its main industry shows it must have been pretty big in that area.  Just to give you an idea of how important steel has been to Sheffield over the centuries, here are the main points:

·         Very early on Sheffield was known for producing knives; Chaucer mentions this in The Canterbury Tales which were written in the 14th Century

·         Sheffield was the main cutlery manufacturer in the UK by the beginning of the 16th Century

·         It wasn’t until the mid 18th Century that the production of crucible steel was discovered, but it allowed for a much better quality of steel to be produced

·         In the same period the technique of silver-plating on copper was discovered and was known as Sheffield Plate

·         By the 19th Century, the Bessemer Process helped to reduce the costs of good quality steel production

·         Steel became the preferred materials for ship building and railway lines

·         The UK supplied the US and Europe during the 19th Century, but by the next century the US and Germany had caught up and we were losing our market share

·         Steel is still produced in Sheffield and is an important part of the local economy

Famous faces
With a population of more than half a million, you’re bound to find many famous faces amongst them.  So here are just a few:

·         Authors Malcolm Bradbury, Angela Carter, A S Byatt, Margaret Drabble and Joanne Harris

·         Michael Palin, famous actor, travel writer and one of the original Monty Python ‘group’ was also born here

·         Charles Boot founder of Pinewood Studios was born here

·         As was the businessman best known as a night club owner, Peter Stringfellow

·         And the clever man who founded Thorntons Chocolates, Joseph William Thornton

·         Actors Sean Bean, Lesley Ash, Donald Pleasance and his daughter Angela and Dominic West hail from Sheffield

·         Patrick McGoohan famous for his lead role in the 1960s TV series The Prisoner grew up here

·         Comedian Eddie Izzard attended the University of Sheffield where he discovered his penchant for comedy

·         Just a few musicians have connections to Sheffield including Joe Cocker, Jarvis Cocker and the band Pulp, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Jamie Cook and Matthew Helders of Arctic Monkeys, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Martin Fry of ABC, Paul Heaton once of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, Roisin Murphy lead singer with Moloko, Philip Oakey of The Human League, Martin Ware of Heaven 17 and we could go on ...

And several connected with the steel industry:

·         Manufacturer Benjamin Huntsman who perfected making cast steel i.e. crucible steel

·         Sir Henry Bessemer is remembered for his process – Bessemer Process – for the manufacture of steel

·         Thomas Boulsover perfected silver-plating over a copper base

·         Harry Brearley invented Stainless Steel

Mutt and Jeff
The Cockney Slang for deaf somehow seems a little easier to say than confessing that your hearing is impaired and using the word deaf!  There are many reasons why our hearing can be less effective and none of these are causes for embarrassment.

One thing’s for sure you’ll be pleased if yours can be improved.  So don’t hesitate to give us a call on 01782 698090 for more information or contact us online.