This view of the Sheffield Peace Gardens, an inner city square in Sheffield, England, UK, shows one of the colourful cascades that have been placed around the outside, representing the flowing molten steel which made Sheffield famous.
The Peace Gardens front onto Sheffield's gothic town hall and has won many awards. The gardens were first laid out in 1938, fronting onto Sheffield's gothic town hall, and were originally named St Paul's Gardens after the demolition of St Paul's Church. However, they were almost immediately given the nickname Peace Gardens marking the signing of the Munich agreement (in September 1938, when Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, met Adolf Hitler at his home in Berchtesgaden. Hitler threatened to invade Czechoslovakia unless Britain supported Germany's plans to take over the Sudetenland).
The Gardens were originally intended to be replaced by an extension to the Town Hall, but due to World War II, this was never happened and in 1985 the area was formally renamed the Peace Gardens.
The site contains several memorials for Sheffield citizens who served in various wars, as well as a memorial to Hiroshima.
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