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WALK YOUR WAY ROUND SHEFFIELD’S FOOTBALL HISTORY Sheffield is well and truly the home of Association Football and we have the pictures to prove it. Photographs from Sheffield Libraries, Archives and Information that show the beginnings of football in the city from 1857 onwards have been incorporated into a new smart phone app that maps the key places involved in the creation of the world’s number one sport. The archives team has worked with local historians Martin Westby and John Wilson and Sheffield tech company Llama Digital to create an app which takes
people on a walking tour of the historic places in our city that played their part in making football the game that it is today. The ‘Sheffield: The Home of Football’ app introduces users to the places and people that made Sheffield the home of football. It’s a walking guide to the heritage of Sheffield football covering the rich history of the city’s four remaining clubs (out of the 95 that existed between 1857 and 1889) and the Sheffield & Hallamshire County F.A. (England’s first County Football Association). The walk is just over 4-and-a-half miles long
and has 10 stops en-route with an audio guide throughout read by local actor Roger Bingham. The walk can be done at any time and should take around 90 minutes. People should allow another 30 minutes of ‘extra time’ if they want to stay longer at the various points of interest. The app uses historic images and so-called maps mash-ups showing Sheffield in the 1850s and today, meaning walkers will be transported back to the Victorian era when the world’s first football club started in Sheffield. The journey covers the second half of the 19th century telling the stories
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of the first ever football derby, the world’s oldest football cup, the first floodlit game at Bramall Lane and the ancient football grounds where the games were played, many of which are now long gone. The walk begins at the tomb of Nathaniel Creswick at Heeley Parish Church, the cofounder of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC, then winds its way into the city centre past sites of the early grounds and significant events which shaped the game that was to become the most popular sport in the world. It finishes at
Highfield Library, the site of Sheffield Wednesday’s first ground. For those who are not keen on walking, or are unable to, they can still view these historic sites from their armchair or anywhere in the world just by using the free app. The app has been downloaded over a hundred times in its first week and the number of users is growing.
The app is downloadable at https://situate.io/ homeoffootball and there is a group on Facebook set up to support those using the app. Just search ‘Sheffield Home of Football’.
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