I was one of the last geocachers to try to find the previous cache listed here, entitled "Sheffield's Heritage - Brightside Press". Unfortunately by this point the cache had disappeared. When I noticed that it had been archived in June 2014, I thought it would be nice to resurrect the cache because it's a really interesting artefact to visit but one which most people probably pass by without even noticing.
The plaque in front of the artefact explains that it is a Firth Brown five-ton steam hammer, manufactured by the Brightside Engineering Company in 1947. A team of five or more men would have worked the hammer to manipulate red-hot steel ingots. The hammer was bought by the Kelham Island Industrial Museum in 1984. It was then restored and placed on this site in 1994.
Stand back and look at the press and imagine what it would have been like for local people to live with the repeated thumping of steam hammers like this one echoing day and night, shaping not just steel but Sheffield's pre-eminent place in the national and international steel industry.
The cache container itself should be quite easy to find, although please take care when extracting and replacing it because it's dark and dirty in there - and the roads are teeming with muggle drivers! The cache is large enough to hold small swapables, geocoins and TBs.