Switching on the Christmas lights outside the City Hall by Lord Mayor, Alderman James Wilfred Sterland
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Title:Switching on the Christmas lights outside the City Hall by Lord Mayor, Alderman James Wilfred Sterland
Location:Sheffield_City_Centre
Date:1961
Date Period:1960-1979
Photographer:Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
Copyright::Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
Notes:

This was Sheffield's first year of illuminations (with lights on loan from Cleethorpes). The lights ran from the end of London Road all the way along the Moor and Fargate to High Street down to Haymarket.

From the Star Lights Souvenir, 9 Dec 1961 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1580 L)

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