Portland Works

[1] Today Portland Works operates a collection of workspaces for traditional and modern craftspeople and is home to more than 30 small businesses.

Three two- and three-storey ranges of brick-built workshops, offices and showrooms lie around a courtyard containing an octagonal chimney and some more recent structures.

[2] In 1914, through a collaboration between Harry Brearley, Ernest Stuart and R. F. Mosley at Portland Works, this became the first place in the world to manufacture stainless steel cutlery and this remains, to this day, one of the site's many activities.

[4] As well as musicians, a number of artists make use of the space at Portland Works, including Mary Sewell and Linda Doughty.

Titled "Life in the Big Village", the painting depicted a cutaway view of Portland Works set within a wider Sheffield city backdrop.

Interiors are being done equally sensitively whilst attempting to provide some degree of modern comforts, such as roof insulation, good lighting and fire alarms.

A shared meeting space has been created from two street-side workshops, for community and educational use, and a small museum has been built in an adjacent room, celebrating the Mosley family cutlery business and the people who worked there.