Standard Measures

For several hundred years, Standard Measures were displayed in a public place so that commerical disputes about Short Measures could be settled conclusively.  This set, originally erected in St Paul's Parade, were not the first in Sheffield by any means but were presented to the City by the Earl Fitzwilliam, then the Lord Mayor, on the occasion of the visit to Sheffield of the British Association for a conference in 1910.

 

The Measures are a symbol of local government, as well as an early example of consumer protection and were one of the first in the UK to incorporate metric as well as imperial measures.  They were relocated to Cheyney Row in 1998.