TIMETravel

It was never pretty, but Sheffield’s “Hole In the Road” was certainly a city centre landmark. Formally Castle Square, it was built in 1967 when streets still scarred by the Blitz were cleared for a new dual carriageway.

Basically it was a hollow roundabout with a central area open to the sky, underground walkways, pungent toilets, shops and (bizarrely) a fish tank built into a wall. By 1995 it had been filled in and covered with tracks for the city’s whizzy new Supertram.