Argh! There's a jump cut between the roundabout at Firth Park and Lane Top so I didn't see the house I grew up in on Hereward Road opposite the top of Stubbin Lane 50 years ago... So frustrating!
You are right. People could use their common sense then now we rely on algorithms to tell us what to do. Now we're stuck in traffic. Where's the common sense lol 😜
Capt Chaos Less traffic on the road. Today driving is like putting your life on the line! No-one cares about stop signs, making left turns from the right hand side. Too many older people driving and they are unaware of what they are doing. Just a couple of observations.
At 2.03 I was riding my bike home to Dronfield. I tried to cross a tram line, but the angle was too acute; my front wheel lodged in the groove and I went flying over the handlebars. I wasn´t hurt, so carried on cycling.
When civic buildings still functioned as civic buildings. They're quite imposing...majestic almost. Now they are just empty shells of what they once were.
1960, just as the modernists came crashing in destroying the heart of many British city centres. 10 times more damage than the Luftwaffe ever managed. Buildings of incredible quality demolished for trash which is also now coming down, total waste of resources.
Wish they could have got more of woodseats in. Interesting to see the abbey pub with the house at the back which now a carpark. I also get on the bus where the first bit of the film shows.
Sheffield now has trams once again. It seems silly however that they got rid of them in the 60s and then they rebuild them in the 90s... I think it’s because they thought cars were the future but it turns out they were wrong and just 30 years later they realised their mistake in many cities and rebuilt their trams with more modern systems
@@tobeytransport2802---Dear Tobey Transport, Thank you for your reply. I understand that the old tram system was a little old fashioned when compared to modern trams. However, I have traveled around the world, including the current Sheffield system, and have not discovered any transport system that is superior, or covered so many suburbs more conveniently than the old Sheffield tram system did. One can only wonder who decided to make the changes and got away with it ?
@@tobeytransport2802 the tram now only benefits those who live on the route, it closed many businesses during the building of it. The old trams ran throughout the whole city.
Sheffield was the last city to get rid of trams and the second city to get them back. So I'd imagine that was the shortest period between two tram systems. Obvs Blackpool never got rid of theres but that doesn't really count
Why did they remove all of the old tram routes? Sheffield was well connected and the current tram system only covers certain areas. Same with Birmingham where there used to be an extensive tram network covering every area and it was removed only to be replaced with the Birmingham metro which only covers a small section of the city. Does anyone know the history why so much of Britain's old tram routes seem to have disappeared?
In a word: cost. Buses are cheaper. Also, then as now, the motoring lobby is very powerful. They mounted an influential campaign against 'old fashioned' trams in the middle of the road delaying the traffic. Now of course everything moves at a crawl - because there are too many cars!
Oil was very cheap so it was economical to scrap a well established transport system that didn't pump fumes into the streets . Huddersfield and Bradford did the same scrapping electric trolley buses for diesel buses
For modern purposes the tram system would have needed to be replaced anyway. Today's traffic couldn't tolerate this. Stopping in the middle of the road to pick up passengers, who virtually have to cross the street to board the tram? Can you imagine the casualties from impatient drivers overtaking a stopped tram on the inside?
Another sacrilege to get rid of those iconic red phone boxes to replace with a metal Booth with no door, someone benefitted from the scrap iron they were made of cast iron.
Well Before my time but Sheffield looks a much nicer place back then. And not heaps of unnecessary and poxy traffic lights 🚦 which cause congestion of which they’ll charge for!
Yes it's seen its fair share of industrial decline which is what caused it to 'go down the toilet' as another comment says. Seemed more liveable back then and 'knife town' referred to making them!
@@danielsellers8707 can anyone honestly say it's better now? Our grandparents would be shocked. A big 'mistake' was pedestrianisation: now its gone the whole hog.
