Anders Hanson

Terrible news for fans of The Full Monty on the front of today’s Sheffield Star with the news that Shiregreen Working Mens’ Club which had a starring role in the film may be demolished for housing. Although the owners of the club deny any plans to sell the building, they have nonetheless applied for planning permission to build houses and flats on the site.

I suppose time moves on and working mens’ clubs are don’t doing as well as they used to (although I understand that the one in Shiregreen is pretty successful).  But it would be a huge shame if a building that is at the heart of the community there and that has been made famous the world over in one of the few major films set in Sheffield disappears.

The Lib Dems in Sheffield have recently put forward the idea that there should be local lists of buildings that are not of sufficient architectural importance to be listed by English Heritage, but are of local historical importance.  Perhaps this is one of them.