Women of Steel

Women of Steel is a bronze sculpture that commemorates the women of who worked in the city's steel industry during the First World War and Second World War.
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Photo: Artaxerxes100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: sculpture by Martin Jennings

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sheffield City Hall and Crucible Theatre.

Theater building
is a Grade II* listed building in , England in Barker's Pool, one of the city's central . It was built and is owned by Sheffield City Council.

Theater building
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , or simply The Crucible, is a theatre in , , England, which opened in 1971. Its name refers to crucible steel, which was developed in Sheffield in 1740 and drove the industrialisation of the city. is situated 1,300 feet east of Women of Steel.

Memorial
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The also known as Sheffield Cenotaph, is a Grade II* listed war memorial located at Barker's Pool, , standing to the south of , which is also Grade II* listed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sheffield city centre and Heart of the City.

Suburb
is a district of the and is covered partly by the City ward of the City of Sheffield. It includes the area that is within a radius of roughly 0.75 miles of and is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and completed in 2007.

Quarter
Photo: Dave Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The was a £130 million major re-development in Sheffield, England begun in 2004, and completed in 2016 and one of the 12 official quarters of Sheffield City Centre.

Quarter
The is one of 's city centre quarters, located around and named after the . It is bound by Tenter Street to the northwest, West Bar to the north, Snig Hill to the north east, Angel Street to the east, High Street and Church Street to the south and Townhead Street around its western corner.

Women of Steel

Latitude
53.38048° or 53° 22′ 50″ north
Longitude
-1.47264° or 1° 28′ 22″ west
Inception
2016
Open location code
9C5W9GJG+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4869825521
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data ID
Q28921880
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