SHEFFIELD TIME MACHINE

What is it?

The Sheffield Time Machine is an interactive CD-Rom which allows the user to visit the city of Sheffield in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th.

Using images, maps, text and other printed materials from the extensive collections in Sheffield's Local Studies Library, it allows users to explore Sheffield at their own pace and to discover what life was like in the city.

The full program covers the city centre, from the Wicker Arches in the north to Moorfoot in the south, and from Barker's Pool in the west to the Midland Station in the east.

The program is entirely mouse driven - no keyboard is needed.

Images and text from the program can be printed out.

The CD-Rom contains over 500 images from the more than 60,000 pictures in the collection of the Local Studies Library. It is the result of two years of planning, research and programming by the staff of Sheffield's Local Studies Library.

The Sheffield Time Machine has been produced by Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information.

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