Vintage Sheffield | Aerials of Sheffield | Finding out | 1980 

Sheffield and South Yorkshire all depend and support each other though industry's Rotherham and Sheffield had Steal to make machines so more coal could be mined this coal was mined in Doncaster and Barnsley Doncaster could use it to help locomotive repairs and could transport more steal to export it was perfect example of Co Operation between industry and business each town also had its market most notable Doncaster Market and Castle gate market public transport was put first and public goods there was a feeling of youthful modernism as Sheffield is known for its university Doncaster is known for Locomotives and new design think your A4 Pesiffc (Marlad) sadly problay the reason we don't feel the same anymore is because industrialisation unites people to work together seversis only divide

Hated it.

Yep the city is just a mess now it's lost it charm and purpose

Rebels was the best club in town, Wapentake the beat pub, Sheffield will never be the same without these.

@@leggy6234 Yes, I remember the Wapentake. It was close to the Anvil cinema. They played heavy rock in there at ear splitting volume.

@@Anybloke They certainly did, they also had plastic glasses in the only pub I never saw any trouble, also the only pub I could touch the ceiling from a standing position!!.

I remember there used to be a couple of shops actually inside it - there used to be a little record shop and a shop that sold general housewares. Maybe a little newsagents/tobacconists counter as well? **Sigh**... The centre's all very posh now, but it doesn't have nearly as much character as it used to have.

I don't agree. The city we have now isn't the place i remember it being. It's like being in another country.

@@thewomble1509 Well, IF I was ONLY commenting on the City Centre, i might agree with you. My comment was about Sheffield as a whole, not just the Centre.! Lot's of suburbs have remained unchanged since the 1900's. Walkley, Totley, Grenoside etc.

@@AMikeOnLine Nonsense. Just one example, the Little Mesters workshops that wee an intrinsic part of nearly all those communities. Sometimes I think I live on different planet to everyone else. There is NO comparison, socially, industrially, or any other metric between Sheffield today and the place 150 years ago.

@Trill 1 No one asked you , you big brave twat. Say it to my face or not at all.

@Trill 1 mmm, you've gone quiet.

the smell a shit did it

Bleedin' slippy old cobbles..

Lol

Cortina Mk1. Wish i had one today.

Wet cobbles bloody lethal , but quaint

That's not Park Hill ... it's the Kelvin Flats that were built along Infirmary Road. They had a very similar design to Park Hill. Here is a YT Video about the place .... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeQqRUqWWFw.html

I’m from Sheffield and first saw Threads when I was 12. It absolutely scared the shit out of me.

It was quite a powerful and shocking piece of television, what an era.

Threads is still to this day the most realistic nuclear war and the aftermath of it to this day

It's because Threads is set in Steel City

Hi Letty. There was a fish tank. If this link works, you can just see it on the right in the picture. There's quite a few photos of the shops too on the Picture Sheffield site. picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v03565&prevUrl=

Really? I get that high street retail has dropped off with the economy and meadowhell but its a lot better now

​@@visg8303not really, just clearing all the buildings doesn't make it better, all the anticar and the silly towers and other such rubbish has made the city unattractive I don't like what my city has become.

So do i

@@kentcyclist I was born in Sheffield, lived in Kent, and now in Newcastle. Must have missed you all on the M1 :)

I grew up in Sheffield but moved to London 1979. I visit my sister up there once or twice a year.

Who asked you?

yep,strange thing is I loved 'oyl in roowed an'all' but my mum and grandad hated it,used to say don't go down there,tha'll get mugged.different generations have different ideas I suppose.

@Zak Jansen one of the reasons that it was filled in was because s c c couldn’t keep it maintained to any reasonable standard. It was certainly a good advert for Sheffield at the beginning

It stank of piss

Lol. ...it did stink of piss! Used to have posters warning about aids and Heroin. Alcoholics and druggies sat about begging. ...Prostitutes and Skinheads. ...but for some reason my heart doesn't half ache that it has all gone!

Undesirables were starting to frequent it, to the stage no one wanted to use it anymore. Shops became abandoned & even it's main attraction the fish tank wasn't enough to save it. It's fate was finally sealed with the coming of 'Supertram'.

LoungeJay remember reading about that, any idea what area he was caught in? I heard it was burngreave or something but that could be a tale

Trill 1 talk about getting caught in the act 🤣

@@sonny199 he was caught in Pitsmoor to be exact i remember we lived there and the police came to warn people not to go out and not answer their doors the whole area was on lockdown till they got him.

@@sonny199 thought it was in eccleshall but i could be wrong

@@sonny199 He was caught in Broomhill

That isn't a wall I believe it's the hyde park flats complex there was a bigger complex a mile away called the park hill

That ' wall 'was Kelvin flats pulled down around 95/96

Sh Br : Nothing as far as I can see, sadly.

The Egg Boxes have gone. That’s an improvement.

The cars are better and they filled the hole in thd road lol

They annoy miserable sods like you, so that's good.

Down in London busy guilting people into having their culture and history destroyed and getting paid shitloads by Newspapers to do it . Maybe.

Labour council for you

@@Secret19977 sounds about right.😂

​​​@@TheRetroManRandySavageit's always been labour. What's your point they did a great job until the immigrants took over the council. So blame them