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4 unusual facts about Sheffield Telegraph


Keith Farnsworth

Keith Farnsworth, author and journalist, is best known as a former sports editor of the old Morning Telegraph, Sheffield, and the author of 18 books on football, cricket and social and industrial history, etc.

Recruited by the Sheffield Telegraph in December 1963, he later had spells with the Birmingham Post and the Sheffield Star before rejoining what was now the Sheffield Telegraph as a sports writer/sub editor in April 1966, and becoming sports editor in 1971.

SolidWorks

The Sheffield Telegraph comments that Solidworks is the world's most popular CAD software.

Weston Park, Sheffield

The park was opened to the public on Monday 6 September 1875 with the following day's Sheffield Daily Telegraph reporting: "The weather was fine. The Park looked in its gayest Summer dress. The walks were freshly graveled, the flower beds were trim and well ordered." In 1882 the Weston Park Weather Station was erected privately by the curator of the adjacent museum; it is the official climatological station for Sheffield and since 1937 it has been run by the museum's staff.



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