Qualla: Globe Works https://qualla.com/globe-works en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/globe-works-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Globe Works https://qualla.com/globe-works Globe Works: Introduction https://qualla.com/globe-works/ Photo credit Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0. Look at the front of the Globe Works on Penistone Road and you can see the trick. Two storeys of coursed stone, nine windows wide, a pedimented centre rising half a storey higher than the wings - it looks like a townhouse pretending to be a public building. The architects Henry and William Ibbotson built it that way in 1825 because their patron, the edge-tool maker Ibbotson & Roebank, lived in one corner of his own factory. The grand classical façade was, in part, his front door. Behind it stretched a working courtyard, an octagonal chimney, and rows of workshops where the little mesters - Sheffield's freelance craftsmen - bent over grindstones and forges. The Globe was something new in 1825: arguably the world's first purpose-built cutlery factory, gathering steel-making, forging, grinding, hafting and finishing on a single site driven by steam.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/globe-works-wp/gcqz-globe-works-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Globe Works: The Men Who Walked Out https://qualla.com/globe-works/ Photo credit Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two future titans of British industry came up through these courtyards as apprentices. Charles Cammell worked at the Globe for Ibbotson Brothers from 1830 to 1837 before leaving to co-found Johnson, Cammell and Company, a firm that would in time become part of the Cammell Laird s...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/globe-works-wp/gcqz-globe-works-the-men-who-walked-out.mp3 0:06 2 full Globe Works: Knives, Bowies, and a Saw Grinders' Bomb https://qualla.com/globe-works/ Photo credit Graham Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Globe's trade ran wide. In 1830 Thomas Bishop was granted his own assay mark there to produce Old Sheffield Plate - copper sheet fused with silver and worked into salvers, candlesticks, teapots. In 1852 John Walters moved his firm in, specialising in bowie knives for the Amer...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/globe-works-wp/gcqz-globe-works-knives-bowies-and-a-saw-grinders-bomb.mp3 0:06 3 full Globe Works: Saved From the Bulldozer https://qualla.com/globe-works/ Photo credit Dave Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the 1970s the Globe was tired and unfashionable. In 1970 Sheffield's Town Planning Committee actually requested that the building be removed from the listed buildings register so it could be demolished to make way for an urban motorway. The request was rejected, but the works ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/globe-works-wp/gcqz-globe-works-saved-from-the-bulldozer.mp3 0:06 4 full Globe Works: What Lives Here Now https://qualla.com/globe-works/ Photo credit Foto43, CC BY 2.0. The Leadmill Association went insolvent in 1994 and Velocity Estates bought the site in the mid-1990s, completing an 18-month, multi-million-pound refurbishment. Today the building is the Globe Business Centre, home to around 22 small companies behind a façade that has not really...

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