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The Sheffield I remember as a boy. Gone forever.

i miss my old home town, i remember it vividly as a child right down to the rainbow coloured door handles of the c&a building int ole in road to sliding down the bits at the side of the stairs inside the crucible. I feel i was so lucky growing up there. I still hold the place close to my heart sheffield is a very special place to me. Ive watched some recently videos and i can spot some things that havent changed but its so different now.

Much like the rest of England things were so much better in Sheffield back then. It’s incredible how many places are crumbling to nothing right in front of our eyes. So sad to see a country get so much worse steadily throughout my life. Where will it all lead to in the end. God help us.

Can I have my city back please sigh 😢

Excellent video, if a little short. Sheffield was much better then in many ways, less pedestrian ways, less students, better parking and many of the old stores etc still there such as Walsh's, Cockaynes ( AKA Schofields ), Redgates, Crazy Daisy, Fiesta etc etc. No Sports Direct, coffee bars and such.

@michaelroberts7374

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy Daisy waheyy

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Have you checked out the Sheffield History website? There's features on all of those! sheffieldhistory.co.uk

@samuelkirby6221

3 жыл бұрын

I totally disagree. I was born and bred in Hillsborough and I love my home town but my god the university has been marvelous for the city.

@allangibson4354

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelkirby6221 Whilst I fully support any opposing opinion, I do not think it is appropriate to use expletives when disagreeing with someone's views. I too was brought up in Sheffield some 68 years ago at Southey Green, I am very familiar with the Hillsborough area. As you I am very proud of my hometown and it's extensive history.

@samuelkirby6221

3 жыл бұрын

@@allangibson4354 yep thats a fair shout Allan. I'll edit out the unnecessary expletive.

I remember the egg boxes. Quite liked them

Good old days

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah things seemed so much simpler back then eh Simon! Thank you so much for watching my channel I really do appreciate it ♥️

I am Malaysian..n... Study at Sheffield University 1980-1983. Love that city and nice people those days. Tq vm.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear from you - come back soon!

Yup I was there in the 80s. Missed the bus rides, iconic traffic round about..

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Very iconic - true!

@michaelroberts7374

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the 75 and 76 all the way to lowedges from burngreave. Lovely

Gosh - I can remember when it all looked like this.

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Me too - happy times!

@Yunator

4 ай бұрын

Ur lucky

I miss the hole.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

It was a bit grim at the end though

Great video, loved it and so many memories.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Thank you for watching!

Great video, brought back lots of happy memories of much better

@SheffieldVideos

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

My mum's (well, actually, bloody mine when you think about it!) waters broke, in the hole in the road. I think that probably makes me about as Sheffield a Sheffield lad can be! Also, I feel old

@SheffieldVideos

Жыл бұрын

Crikey - that's got to be as Sheffield as it gets!

Recognise some of it from THREADS 😁 Did anyone see the woman fall over at the start?

The trafic flow in the town centre was far more correct back then. Compaired to the computer controled shite in the modern days.

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Way more traffic on the roads now though

@mrwilfredmyers7566

4 ай бұрын

Yep. But still Makes them Money, and making it harder for us motorists only hurts us more.@@SheffieldVideos

Hope that woman’s alright 30 seconds in LOL

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Good spot!

Eee Chuddy, those were the days, our teenage years. Miss you amigo

Brilliant

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

👍

Great video uncle stayed there so paid many visits there over the years

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jean!

@1:47.....The wipers on the bus knew what was coming....!

Thanks for the memories!

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

You're really welcome - thank you for watching my channel - it means a lot ♥️

Nice sharing

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Noticed a lot of things that aren't there anymore, hole in road, egg boxes, police

Great images of the Sheffield I knew as a teenager, would have preferred a soundtrack reflecting our music scene than the piano track though

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Can't get the copyright to do that sadly otherwise I would have done 👍

Am posting the links to some of these videos to an old school friend who lives in California, moving out there 1988, so these will bring back some memories for her. Although she has been back to Sheffield a few times since, she hasn't had chance to see all the changes so she can see some of them here and show the videos to her children. I am also posting the links to my son and his partner who left Sheffield over 11 years ago to show them what Sheffield used to be like and some of the changes made since.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic - thank you so much for sharing them and showing the world!

Grew up in Sheffield too late to see any of this so it's cool to see what it was like back then, I always wanted to know what the hole in ground looked like ahaha, still a great city to this day forget god's own county it's god's own city

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Well said Jacob

@visg8303

2 жыл бұрын

@@Secret19977 get help

@visg8303

2 жыл бұрын

@@Secret19977 I agree with the council actually they're useless, but multiculturalism isn't a bad thing, there's good and bad eggs from everywhere.

@visg8303

2 жыл бұрын

@@Secret19977 I agree but thats usually be cause they're poor not because they're multicultural, crime has always been a thing and the face of it just keeps changing. These lot are just the most desperate at the mo

@andrewwalker8382

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@visg8303I disagree. The so called poor as you say have better threads, cars and houses than me. It’s not a racist viewpoint; it’s an observation. Take a look at the little old couples shuffling around the moor while multi culture take the piss. That’s Sheffield.

Loved this. What is the track in the background? Sounds like Einaudi.

@SheffieldVideos

4 жыл бұрын

Good question - I can't actually remember! Shazam is your friend with this one Thank you for watching my channel I really do appreciate it! 👍

Awesome. Used to pass by that underground spot everyday. It was filled in by the time I lived there but had no idea what used to be until now. Why did they get rid of it?

@SheffieldVideos

4 жыл бұрын

It was growing unsafe. It was unsafe from a building point of view, but also unsafe to go down the corridors to it (you'd get mugged or spat at or abused) Also they had to build Supertram over it so it was doomed at that point

@harrytheaker

3 жыл бұрын

Due to a lack of Vision, of valuing and maintaining the brilliance that was - the hold in't rd as an architectural modernist phenomenon & cultural asset - Sheff City Council filled it in. There was a more lucrative opportunity looming with Meadowhall shopping complex.

@vimalb88

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrytheaker meadow hall reason makes a lot of sense. A new bigger project with capital behind it must have turned heads. Was prob a winner for all in the short term but the result was a dead city centre in the long run. If it was not for the city campus, there would be even less life. Very sad indeed.

@shauncharlton961

3 жыл бұрын

Lived in Sheffield all of my life..was born in the 90's so I never got to see most of this or if I did I was too young to remember but God it looked so beautiful then compared to nowadays! How does that happen over the span of 40 years? Can turn a beautiful jaw dropping city in to a dingy one!

@misscoutts6193

3 ай бұрын

​@@SheffieldVideos big mistake filling it in for what we have now.

Back when Sheffield was important

@SheffieldVideos

3 ай бұрын

It still is! Sheffield is a city on the UP!

@highgreen6452

3 ай бұрын

@@SheffieldVideos wish I could share your enthusiasm..my first port of call into Sheffield was on the 75/76 bus Waingate back in 70s/80s try looking at Waingate now

Nice to see paradise square back before the crack heads

1980s

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

Look at Sheffield now overcrowded and a stinking polluted mess. Dross.

@SheffieldVideos

2 жыл бұрын

Not really? Are you sure you're looking at Sheffield?

@lawrencevincent1

2 жыл бұрын

@@SheffieldVideos City centre full of druggie homeless people and a council that cares zero. Look mate I have been a Sheffielder for nearly 60 years so I know what I am talking about. Lack of investment, crumbling empty buildings, e vapor shops, noodle bars nothing useful or classy here. The good old days have gone forever. No mention of mentally ill people walking the streets with no one to help them get back on their feet. You're joking, right? Lewis and Debenhams and Woolworth are all gone forever. Small pockets of Sheffield only survive where the £50 millionaires live so how can you say not really. It's a NO BRAINER. It's a socially deprived city and the situation is only going to get much worse. 100 years into the future and possibly imagine the overcrowding then if you have the insight which I doubt.

@lawrencevincent1

2 жыл бұрын

The desperately needed resources do not exist for this city. Failed politicians give nothing back to communities no one can thrive under these conditions and prosper.

@LHRTW

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsmith3585what happened to British owned and operated bank HSBC Centre behind Cathedral ??

Just before it all got vaporized in "Threads" 😕

@SheffieldVideos

11 ай бұрын

ha ha yes!

Personally I think a lot of the places shown aren't all that different now. Especially in the first half of the video, e.g. paradise square. Although the hole is pretty cool. I moved to Sheffield 4 years ago and still live in the centre.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Paradise Square is pretty much exactly the same isn't it!

@misscoutts6193

3 ай бұрын

​@@SheffieldVideosno, it used to be solicitors offices now it's more flats and graffiti.

The same era when threads 1983 was maded in sheffield

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! That’s one scary and depressing film isn’t it!

@TinTin-jx4jf

3 жыл бұрын

@@SheffieldVideos yes but I was born in 1986 in sheffield 3 years after it was maded too

@tingtongraas

4 ай бұрын

Me and my pal were 2 of the extras in the hospital scenes. The threat was real back then. Adverts on TV about how to make a fall out shelter and the like!

Ah the “egg box” town hall extension, what a monstrosity that was.

@SheffieldVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy looking building wasn't it!

@damiendye6623

Жыл бұрын

Better than what's currently occupying that same plot.

Park Hill . The History of Modern Britain .

The old farts saying its worse now male me laugh. It is far better now. Beautiful modern towers, removed much of the awful 60s buildings a tower blocks. Im old myself and this city is on the up after the gloomier days in the 20th century.

@SheffieldVideos

Жыл бұрын

YES! Well said - that's it bang on

@damiendye6623

Жыл бұрын

In your opinion, am in my 40s and prefer how it was. To many towers that will not last and date the city worse than the 60s stuff ever did

@hazelholmshaw9415

6 ай бұрын

I'm 83 and definitely not an old fart,just for saying it was better then,

@johnsilverton639

5 ай бұрын

Bang on It is much better now

@misscoutts6193

3 ай бұрын

​@@hazelholmshaw9415you are right.