Challenge Works

c. 1883

94, Arundel Street

Sheffield

According to Harman and Minnis, this building, which has a “narrow yard behind for single-storey tool forges” (139), was built for Louis Osbaldiston & Co, which manufactured saws and files.

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Related material including other Sheffield workshops

• Robbed of “twenty-five years of existence” — The Trades of Sheffield and their dangers to worker's health
• “A Broad Hint for a Broad-Head” (on the Sheffield “Outrages”)
• Columbia Works
• Truro Works
• Butcher Works
• Grange Works
• Liberty Works
• Sylvester Works
• Venture Works
• Works at Charles Lane and Arundel Street
• Remains of a factory complex, Matilda Street
• Row of nineteenth-century works, Matilda Street

References

Sheffield. Harman, Ruth, and John Minnis. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004.

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