Hillsborough lies on the
South Yorkshire Supertram's blue and yellow routes, and is home to a number of industries.
A.L. Simpkin & Co. Ltd on Hunter Road are a manufacturer of
confectionery who have been established in the area since 1921. The district is also a shopping area with a lot of independent shops, some for household goods and clothes and (due to its large residential population) amenities such as
butchers,
green grocers and
off-licences, in addition to a wide range of restaurants, cafés, pubs and bars. Landmarks in the district include the
Hillsborough Barracks, Hillsborough House which is now the Hillsborough branch library,
Hillsborough Arena in
Hillsborough Park,
Owlerton Stadium and
Regent Court flats.
Hillsborough is also the home and name of the
Sheffield Wednesday FC stadium. Hillsborough baths (properly known as the Walkley and Hillsborough District Baths) on Langsett Road were built in 1926 by the Sheffield City architect F.E.P. Edwards on open fields belonging to Rawson Springs Farm. The baths (comprising a large swimming pool and slipper baths) were opened by the Lord Mayor
John George Graves and have a
Neo-baroque stone dressed
façade with some circular windows. The building remained a swimming bath until 1991 when it was replaced by the
Hillsborough Leisure Centre for swimming activities in the area. It then became the “Deep End” bar and live music venue before becoming the Rawson Spring
JD Wetherspoon pub in July 2007. Other pubs in the central area of Hillsborough have more history, The Shakey (formerly The Shakespeare) and The Freemasons both pre-date the 1864 flood in which they were badly damaged. Adjacent to the Rawson Spring pub, next to the bridge over the
River Loxley stands the former
HSBC UK bank branch. The building was built in 1895 for the
Sheffield Union Bank by the local architect
J. B. Mitchell-Withers and completed by his
son after his death. The building which was constructed in the
Italianate style ceased being a bank in 2017 when the branch was closed by HSBC. In 2024 in was converted in eight one and two bedroom apartments known as Bank House which opened in December of that year. There are two schools within Hillsborough, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School on Ripley Street and
Hillsborough Primary School on Parkside Road. Hillsborough has two main churches, the red-brick
Sacred Heart is situated on Forbes Road and is a conspicuous landmark while
Hillsborough Trinity Methodist Church is on Middlewood Road across from Hillsborough Park. There were three smaller churches in the district, however the Wadsley United Reformed Church on Carlton Road (built 1910), formerly known as the Hillsborough Congregational Church was converted into ten luxury one and two bedroom apartments in 2016 and named the Wesleyan Chapel Apartments. The Hillsborough
Baptist Church is on Taplin Road; it originally opened in 1893 although it was rebuilt in 1914 by Chapman and Jenkinson. The Hillsborough Tabernacle in Proctor Place was opened in 1907 after a
tin tabernacle had stood on the site since 1899. It was completely destroyed in the
Sheffield Blitz attacks of 12 December 1940 and was not rebuilt until 1955, re-opening on 7 May. These five are the only remaining churches of the many in Hillsborough at the start of the 20th century. Opened in 1994, Supertram's north-western termini (
Malin Bridge and
Middlewood) are in or near Hillsborough, and in the centre of Hillsborough lies the
Hillsborough Interchange which is a local hub for
buses and trams near
Hillsborough Barracks. ==See also==