Sheffield's geography depends not only upon its rivers but also its prevailing winds. The wind blows from south west to north east. So, over the years, the wealthy moved to the south west, where the winds blow from the Pennines, leaving the poor to live in the north east where the winds picked up industrial pollution.
Therefore, you will see from the diagram, the Lower Don Valley was the most polluted area. Of course, much of this was remedied during the 1960s when Sheffield boasted it was the cleanest industrial city in Europe.
The main access to the Lower Don Valley is along Wicker and through the Wicker arches. (Wicker has no definite article, but the arches do!) These symbolically access not only the main industrial area but also the poorer areas of Sheffield. They form a symbolic line between the richer and poorer areas of the city, just as the Brandenburg Gates, between 1961 and 1989, formed a barrier between east and west Berlin.
These arches actually comprised over 50 arches of various sizes and original functions. Sadly some have been demolished but at the time this was a significant piece of architecture and even today once you twig its extent, it is still impressive. The arch in the picture carried the railway line from Sheffield's Victoria Station (long gone) and Manchester's station of the same name.
If you look through the main arch, behind the bus, you will see the road forks and the left hand fork is Spital Hill. This is the main route into Pitsmoor, so it is not unreasonable to to see this arch as the gateway to Pitsmoor.
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