A rainbow of differently coloured buses in Sheffield - each colour represents a different bus company - because of bus deregulation it is allowed for just about anyone to buy some (often pre-used) buses and operate bus services.
I can remember all this so vividly - cant believe 20 years have passed. Whoever filmed this also managed to capture the Haymarket area when it was still a fairly credible shopping area. It's quite shocking to think of how little investment there has been in this area since.
Defintly the START OF THE 90s lived in Sheffield all my life awsome video brings back some good memerios and look no mobile phone in site heaven wish I could go back to the 90s this new decade sucks
I am not really interested in the buses,I watch to see if I recognise a face from the past. My brother took his life age 24 in 1994,and I would love to see him on film. I know that's a bit sad,but I still miss him very much. Things have changed horribly in that particular area of town now. It is so rundown and you just don't see this much activity anymore. Especially now because of all of the lockdowns. It really is a very depressing world these days. I suppose that is called progress. Lol. I still love Sheffield though,its just very different in a lot of ways. A time machine would be a useful gadget dont you think?
So many memories from way back when we had the Bendi Buses on City Clipper route,just running around Sheffield with the vidimat ticket machines.The machine was very strange,you would drop in your fare (no change given) and the ticket was an actual print out showing the coins, sometimes even washers and buttons were used by the people who took advantage -)
Great vid, always amazing to see how things were. The vid is from the end of 1990 or begining of 1991, there is a Mk5 Ford Escort at 2:13 and it was launched at Sep 1990. Cheers from Brazil!!
Look at the number of services available too. Now theres one every hour if you're lucky and they cost a fortune only for a driver to have a nark at you for no reason. The worlds gone to hell.
Thank you - I used a Panasonic plug-in stereo microphone which was designed for use with my Panasonic camcorder, the sound quality was significantly better than was achieved with the on-board microphone
@Chevelli Hi Chevelli, Yes its sometimes around that, or even 1992. I also filmed some of the early stages of the construction of the Sheffield Supertram. Greetings from London.
@morgansifer re: the Haymarket area, perhaps its demise is also related to the popularity of Meadowhall? Despite living in London whenever I'm nearby I like visiting Meadowhall, as it has a nice family friendly ambiance. Simon (who filmed everything in this video).
@Klingl3r sorry for the delayed reply - I don't know and was hoping that someone else would answer for me! In those days articulated buses were very rare in Britain.
Sheffield was rainbow city back then.-) We had Mainline (red & Yellow,and a few still in cream & brown)) Sheffield Omnibus (cream & blue) Yorkshire Terrier (Yellow & green) Andrews (yellow & blue) Sheafline (white,red,blue). Also operating in Sheffield was Mick Groves,using old London buses with conductors,Sheffield And District Hulleys of Baslow.Way too many to list,sorry if i forgot any.
remember that south Yorkshire transport had another halfarsed livery in between the toffee and cream and the mainline yellows in sheffield. the beige darkorange and toffee when they put a red apostrophe and S at end of south yorkshire [s] transport and new syt logo.. shown in this video where the mainline sticker isnt pasted over
@JeffOrnstein01 Hi Jeff, I live about 3 hours away and rarely go to Sheffield, so am not sure about the present-day situation. However I would expect that there are fewer bus companies. Since the early 1990's Britain's bus industry has seen much consolidation with mergers, takeovers etc so that nowadays there are a handful of large companies which cover most of the country plus some smaller local companies. Simon
who thought pale blue and tangerine a a good colour scheme? we had them in Liverpool when i lived there in the 90's......briefly until fareway were bought out by first group along with a few others . now you have a monopoly again .but not the national bus co ....which was the whole idea of de- regulation in the first place . to break the monopoly of the national bus company
thetrashman1 it was more amber than orange. Andrews were bought by YTC. along with sheff omnibus and yorkshire terrier the amber and green uns. sheafline was taken over by SYT(mainline)
Grade separated crossings would have avoided traffic / pedestrian conflict problems and created a place that is dry in wet weather plus shielded from cold winter winds and the hot summer sun.
Remember all those buses back in the day. It certainly was a crazy time. Such a variety but was never a fan of the Eager Beavers even if I did like the name. By then the dodgier Fleetline Sheafline busses I think had been taken off the road. Always liked the Yorkshire Terriers and Andrews for the colour and bus type. Now it's all First and Stagecoach, it's rather bland.
baseballfan99 the buses in the 80s were always brand new or no less than a few years old .. only 2 companies south Yorkshire transport and yorkshire traction ..buses served the cc not a couple of scots tax dodgers in the carribean(first/stagecoach).. and fares were no more than 10p.. pre- de reg ..
@@doravernon1511 yes the original 7 that ran via Norfolk Park was affected as passengers got picked up by the tram also towards middlewood and malin some routes got withdrawn as the trams started going there .
hardly a golden era for buses. there were less buses as compared to pre privatisation .fares increases ten folds. the small private company's used old buses from the 60s and 70s and the main company's SYT and YTC went into decline. added to that everyone of those small company's were bought by the 2 main South Yorkshire bus company's. ytc and syt were later bought out themselves by 2 massive transport conglomerates stagecoach and first. Pre privatisation is more like the golden era of transport. worth bringing back.
It was absolute BOBAR, to coin a phase. As you say - the fare increases ( getting rid of the SY County Council subsidies ) and utter confusion, with stories or rival company drivers blocking others and other silliness. Today, the fares are kept sky-high due to phony climate change pressure on bus companies to fork our for unreliable hybrid vehicles.
Meadowhall is a nice place to visit but I agree with you, it sucked so much retail business from Sheffield city centre that it has virtually died as a retail destination. At least Meadowhall can be reached by tram and train.
@morgansifer re: the Haymarket area, perhaps its demise is also related to the popularity of Meadowhall? Despite living in London whenever I'm nearby I like visiting Meadowhall, as it has a nice family friendly ambiance. Simon (who filmed this video).
