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  1. 04-19-2012, 09:41 PM #1
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    Default Has anyone here ever been to Sheffield or Solengin?

    So I was wondering if anyone here ever been to Sheffield or Solengin? For some reason I keep thinking those cities are straight razor wonderlands.. I know they are not.. but I know they do have manufacturing plants for razors and knives there.. If anyone has ever been, do the factories give tours? I would love to go to Solengin so I could go to places like Dovo and Revisor and have a ball buying TONS of razors!! Pictures please if anyone has been!!!!
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    I live about 50 minutes from Sheffield, we go shopping there every once in a while. Most of the steel industry shutdown long ago and I'm not aware of any factory running today that makes razors. You can find some good razors for a reasonable price in the junk shops but not as many as you might think. I'm sure the museum would be a great place to have a wander round but I never have.
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    I also would love to hear of anyones stories....great idea vvti
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    Never been there but I saw something that said the biggest employer in Sheffield is the Govt. Apparently, times are hard there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
    Never been there but I saw something that said the biggest employer in Sheffield is the Govt. Apparently, times are hard there.
    That's about right, Sheffield has one of the highest unemployment rates in the UK at the moment, the area has never really recovered from the foundrys and coal mines closing down. It certainly has a lot of history though.
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    I have found on Russian site short report about excursion to solingen and to the Hans Wilhelm Böker. I translate it with google, so I don't know will it be readable or not. There is not much pictures, but still it something
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    Also here you can read full report where they (site administration) was trying to find old factories in Europe.
    http://translate.google.com.ua/trans...eurotour08.php
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    I live close to sheffield, but as mentioned above the industry is dead now
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonbon View Post
    I have found on Russian site short report about excursion to solingen and to the Hans Wilhelm Böker. I translate it with google, so I don't know will it be readable or not. There is not much pictures, but still it something
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    That was a great read. Thanks Bonbon!
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    Always welcome
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