http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sheffield Posts tagged with 'sheffield' at MetaFilter. Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:26:59 -0800 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:26:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77411/Ayup%2DBatman <a href="http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news2/Holy-Christmas-crusader--It39s.4782718.jp">Christmas Caped Crusader</a> Tis the season for heartwarming news filler, perhaps, but the video of this guy at the children's hospice makes me think he's the real deal. When the cameras stop rolling, though, do stunts like this make people give more deeply or more often to charity? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77411 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:26:59 -0800 batman charity christmas hospice sheffield Grrlscout http://www.metafilter.com/77263/The%2DGreat%2DSheffield%2DFlood%2Dof%2D1864 <em><a href="http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/flood.html">Gunson looked up to see a breach appearing in the top of the dam</a>. Feeling a sudden, violent, vibrating of the ground beneath his feet, he quickly scampered up the side of the embankment, luckily just in time, as a few seconds later there was a total collapse of a large section of the dam, unleashing a colossal mountain of water which thundered down the valley and on to the unsuspecting population below. For <a href="http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/h/extracts/dead.htm">two hundred and fifty people</a> who lived in Sheffield and the hamlets in the valley below the dam, this was to be their last night on Earth. Six hundred and fifty million gallons of water roared down the Loxley valley and into Sheffield, wreaking death and destruction on a horrific scale.</em> Mostly forgotten today, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Great_Sheffield_Flood.jpg">bursting of the Dale Dyke Dam</a> resulted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll#Flood_disasters">the worst man-made flood</a> in British history. Samuel Harrison's detailed account, <a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=pWYuAAAAMAAJ">A Complete History of the Great Flood at Sheffield</a>, was written in the months after. The damage went far beyond the immediate toll on life and <a href="http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/h/extracts/may1864.htm">a special act of parliament</a> resulted in <a href="http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/">one of the largest compensation claims of all time</a>. Claimants ranged from servants <a href="http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/claimDetails.cfm?claim=3-2654">whose gardens were ruined</a> to an author and publisher <a href="http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/claimDetails.cfm?claim=4-4061">whose autobiography was swept away</a>. Even <a href="http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/claimDetails.cfm?claim=11-4262">the army claimed</a> for damages to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_Barracks">Hillsborough Barracks</a>, where the waters breached three-foot thick walls and <a href="http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/book/w-page13.html">drowned two of the Sergeant Paymaster's children</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77263 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:46:55 -0800 1864 flood history sheffield xchmp http://www.metafilter.com/52824/Music%2Dfor%2Dthe%2DMasses <a href="http://www.streetpianos.org/Story.htm">When an accident becomes a community attraction...</a> It's not one of <a href="http://www.steinway.com/steinway/catalogue/models.shtml">these,</a> but when some lads from Sheffield couldn't fit their piano into their house, they inadvertently created a new concept - the 'street piano'. Start your own <a href="http://www.streetpianos.org/GetInvolved.htm">street piano community</a> today! tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52824 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:18:46 -0800 piano sheffield streetpiano uk altolinguistic