THE city council's current logo features a silhouette of Sheffield's hills cradling the Town Hall, above which the historic clock tower rises commandingly.
It is an effective symbol, suggestive of leadership, care and continuity, of everything in balance and in its place.
As a kid living at High Storrs, I could go to the bedroom window, get out dad's binoculars and read the time off said clock three
miles distant.
Driving down East Bank Road yesterday, I couldn't see any part of it, it had been completely enveloped by Heart of the City developments, the St Paul's complex, the ominous, rumpling ramparts of City Lofts, the dreary brick-built heirs to the 'egg box' and the outlandish multi-storey car park clad in its frigid metallic scales.
The Town Hall is brushing with the destiny of the Winter Garden which, after a brief spell of free-standing dignity, got shoulder-barged into subjection by an overbearing hotel facade.
City Lofts will soon squirt 30 storeys high out of the nucleus of Sheffield, like a gargantuan bull's eye scored bang in the clogged ventricles of our civic heart – which would be a timely point at which to reappraise the council's logo and come up with something a bit more graphically and symbolically up to date.
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