But we have used artificial intelligence apps to inject some colour into iconic pictures of the city dating back from the early 20th century, and into the 1960s, showing new, colourised versions of some famous black and white images of the city.
The idea is to make them look a little more like the world people really saw at the time.
We did this by putting archive pictures, many taken from The Star’s 1988 book, Sheffield since 1900, through a modern computer program, designed to bring them to life with colour.
They range from the Sheffield Blitz to the Beatles at City Hall.
The results? Some are stunning. Browse through our gallery and see what you think.
1. Old Sheffield in colour
Picture shows half a picture of the Beatles at City Hall before colourisation, and half after. We have put together a gallery of 16 iconic old black and white pictures of Sheffield - and added a dash of colour using an artificial intelligence program Photo: Submitted
2. Beatles at City Hall
These pictures of the Beatles at Sheffield City Hall in 1965 have been brought to life by artificial intelligence adding colour to the original black and white Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
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Colour has added a new dimension to this picture taken in Crosspool, in 1952 Photo: Snow in 1952
4. Sheffield City Battalion
This picture of the Sheffield City battalion training at Redmires Camp during World War One has been colourised from the original black and white. PIcture from Sheffield Since 1900 Photo: Sheffield newpapers