My Grandad's eyes used to light up when he talked about Sheffield in the old days and especially when he talked about the trams. It was on a tram where he first met my nan and it took him weeks of being on the same commute to build up the courage to 'court' her. Really hard hitting seeing this tonight as he's currently in the hallamshire recieving end of life care! I can't say how much I wish I'd seen this when he was well enough to watch it. It would have made him so happy!
@@andynightingale7335 thank you. He passed the following day and although I wasn't able to see him my mum and dad have spoke a lot about how well he was cared for!
18:04. What a brilliant shot. The tram turning the corner for the last time, slow and sad, and to add to the poignancy a little boy watches from just outside, curious and daringly taking a small step into the depot. It's scenes like this that make a run of the mill documentary a film gem.
An excellent film, bringing back happy memories of riding this last route. As a 13-year old, my friend and I were trusted by our parents to take the train from Leeds to ride the trams, including on the last day (8 October 1960). I rode on the last service car from Millhouses to Tinsley depot before watching the final procession in the evening, returning home early evening. Because of this, I made sure I rode on the very first service Supertram from Meadowhall to Fitzalan Square on 21 March 1994.
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Great video brought a lot of childhood memories back to me from the 60s ...pond st bus depot cafe buying roast chessnuts from a guy who use to sell from a cart in front of the news stand ...we moved to Australia in 1974 and i havent been back since this brought it all back great video THANKS
So many shops and thriving communities, sadly Sheffield is fast loosing her identity and links with the past. Lovely to see how it once was thanks for posting...up the blades!😁👍
I am now 73 in Worthing. My mother left smoky Sheffield at the age of 16... seeking the fresh air in Worthing! I remember she took me up to Sheffield when I was 4 years old... and I still recall those trams! I can see in my mind’s eye a steep hill with snow upon the ground.... some sort of high viaduct above. That was the only time I came up to see Sheffield... and fortunate enough to enjoy a good ride on a tram!
Yes, I don't blame your mum leaving Sheffield in those days; I've seen photos from the time and it looked like a permanent acrid fog. By the time I was 3, the original Clean Air Act was introduced (1956) and improved in later years (1968 and 1993), so luckily left us with a very tree lined green city with many parks. I remember my mum telling me about the last tram and it's remarkable, 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose' to quote J-M Karr (1849).
I worked in Sheffield in the 80's so well after the tram, but remember these streets well when they were packed with buses chucking out diesel fumes. Why on earth did they get rid of the trams, only to replace them decades later?
The town centre was the beating heart of a once thriving bustling city. The steel industry fed all the engineering firms who made world class products. Everybody was so happy back then. It's sad to see how the city is today. Empty shops, cheap shops selling crap Chinese goods, takeaways and deserted streets. Never to return to how wonderful it was back then.
@@Timathius17 no, both parties were the same sadly Labour and Tories. It was just the way it was - all hail the 'modern' World, cars trucks buses and concrete. Lots and lots of concrete.
yeah but the only way to defeat communism was by giving everyone a house in the suburbs, and a car to use to commute to work in the city - there is no rugged individualism in a tram car
Smashing. Shows how much Sheffield has changed over the years as I remember The Moor and Fargate as pedestrian only and never seeing vehicles on it. Went into the old Classic cinema on Fitzalan Square a few times before it was demolished too
I was a three year old living in one of the new estates in Sheffield when this was filmed. I remember Millhouses park and the views of the centre brought back childhood memories. I now live in the East end of London. Thanks for sharing
A lovely vision of the past. I appeared in Sheffield 14 years after this to do my degree at the university. There were echoes of things I recognized but still no 'oil int road. I am nostalgic for the innocence of the commentary. What a gem of a little story this video was. Thanks.
Absolutely blown away!!. This is my city, born and bred here. Fascinating to see Sheffield in the early days. As I'm only 36, this is way before my time. Thanks for the history lesson 🙂
Same here, but 44. I can’t believe how quiet the roads are, how much some parts of the city have changed beyond all recognition whilst other parts look almost exactly the same.
I was born in 1971 to the North of Sheffield(technically Rotherham but just on the border) I used to love the rare bus trips into Sheffield on the 69 from Rotherham with my parents in the early 80's as you could still see the remnants of Attercliffe as it used to be. I was fascinated by all the steel mills. And then getting off at Castle Markets walking under the hole in the road and down to Redgates toy store on The Moor. Its weird how parts still seem familiar but other parts have changed beyond recognition.
Nice heritage time document - thanks for sharing! But it is also quite sad. Back that time they really thought the changeover to busses is a very good thing, instead to modernize the tram systems. Problems like city pullution, traffic jamms and the oil crisis came far to late to stop this wrong way wordwide. Fortunately more and more towns now returns once closed tram lines back into service in a modern way. Even towns who scrapped its tram systems completely have alredy startet to construct and to operate new and modern systems. And - oh wonder - the number of passenger increases in compoarson to bus operation.
Great video, I remember getting off the tram with my mum at Sheffield lane top. Wonderful carefree days. Sheffield was so much better back then. Well before mass immigration.
The telltale sound of that bell could only come from a tram. Hearing it now it makes me think back sixty plus years. I'm in RSA and we had them too Thank you for uploading. Very nostalgic
My father attended one of the few tram accidents in Sheffield where the tram fell on its side. He was a mechanic for the ambulance service but was a driver for the day due to lack of drivers. The accident occurred on Chesterfield road in the 50's. Travelled the road Beauchief , Millhouses, Tesco only Monday, not changed much but tram track now the into town lane of A621. Nice to see.
My mother regularly rode the Sheffield trams from Attercliffe as a young girl in the 1930's - she always remembered how friendly the conductors were - unlike some of today's grumpy bus drivers.
I love winding up the tram drivers in Sheffield. They think they own the road system in Sheffield. If I can get one to beep or start ranting at me I consider it a win and take even longer! 🤣
I was born in Sheffield March 1956. Unfortunately don't remember trams. Lovely to see footage from Totley via Mill houses down Abbeydale Road. Comprehensive coverage of city centre. Impressed that at that time someone thought to film it in colour. My first ride on a Sheffield tram was at Beamish, also first ride on a steam train. Now glad of the Supertram which gets me from the station to Malin Bridge for the match, foc now, I am a full on pensioner. Live in Leicester now but WTID.
Fascinating! I believe Sheffield started to modernise the system before abandoning it. What I find particularly nostalgic about this film is the cars and lorries, not to mention the 3 wheel Scammel trucks used by the railways.
Quite sad and makes you realise how transient life is. I wonder where all those children are now and what lives all these people had. So full of life but most will presumably be dead now. Sad
I love trains but laughed at my mate growing up for liking busses. This video really helps shows how important his intest actually is so that in years to come, we see how much things have changed. As a lad who grew up in Woodseats, love this video
Wonderful video. I came to Sheffield in 1983 so a long time after the days shown here; but it was fascinating seeing all the old buildings along Abbeydale Road and The Moor as they once were. Most of them still there, of course, just used for different things.
I came to Sheffield to study, seven years almost to the day after the last of these trams ran. Did a summer job at Tinsley the following year. Some familiar street scenes in this film. Well worth watching.
I remember getting on a tram at Middlewood and taking it all the way to Millhouses for 1d. The conductors changed at Snig Hill, so I told them I had only just got on. I would spend the day trainspotting at Millhouses then come back home to Oughtibridge, walking the last bit. Not a bad summer day out with my Ian Allen trainspotter guide for tuppence and bottle of tizer.
Kind of makes me feels sad. Lived in Sheff my whole life and seeing what’s become of it from its glory days like this . Weird seeing Abbeydale road look nice. Wonder what caused the decline . Great video
@@lindalue4504 that doesn't make any sense at all. Surely if someone is "to dumb to know" you'd want to educate them. Why if someone was "to dumb to know" would you withhold information?
Round about the time when this film was made I regularly used to travel with my parents from our home in Smethwick to visit my mother's family in Leeds. No motorway in those days, so it meant travelling via A64 through Sheffield. One Saturday morning we were going down a hill behind a tram, slowly because of traffic, and a little lad decided to jump off the tram before it stopped, right in front of our car. Thankfully my father was able to stop very quickly, and although the little boy was knocked over, he was unhurt. It shook him up quite a lot, though. Shook us up as well. Caused no end of a traffic jam, because the police had to attend. Happy days, though, better than today.
It's been a long time since I stayed in Sheffield since 2012, damn what a nice place to live in, now I went back to my homeland in Germany in Leipzig now in 2019 :,(
The City Centre is terrible now. I must have been there just 9/10 times in 5 years. Best avoided, no.matter how much money the council wants to throw at pretty green spaces.
That was a great watch. Fantastic to see how some of the old buildings remain, yet lost some others. There seems to be more advertising boards them than there are today.
These tram tracks separate from the road were ahead of their time. And it's a shame we can't have double deck trams today, which would take up less space.
I'm so envious whenever I watch this, wishing I was a kid when trams like these were running. Especially when they covered more ground than Supertram can only dream of. Unfortunately I was another 17 years from making my 1st appearance in Sheffield.
Great to see this, I remember it well. I have the video this was taken from, sadly can't play it .....I lived on Bannerdale road this was home territory for me.!
Don't be fooled by all the happy looking people going about their business, driving British cars and enjoying the booming shops. They just didn't realize how much better things would be with another 25 million people and the joy that multiculturalism would bring.
The tram mentioned that has the old trams painted on it (number 510) still exists and after covid you can ride on it again although it lives in Derbyshire now (at Crich tramway village )
What a wonderful, civilised and green mode of transport. Sadly ending a couple of months before I was born. I was still lucky enough to experience Bournemouth's wonderful trolleybuses though.
@@tautliners The tram system isn't useless, maybe the layout and access routes need to be drastically improved,Maybe they could have just copied the old rout system, or would that not be compatible today ?.
@@robharding4028 no, because it destroyed businesses on Infirmary Road during the construction it would destroy everything in its' path. No good to anyone except if you live on the route because buses are rubbish.
This brings back memories of my childhood.Don't remover the trams,but definitely the cream and blue buses.Also how the city was.Totally changed now. Lovely video❤😎👍
7.24 The pheasant, a magical pub since it closed about 6 years ago I've lost touch with all of my family, it was the only pub I went to for years, christenings, weddings, funerals, birthdays everything's, I will never stop missing The Pheasant 😢
I remember well, travelling by tram in Dundee, but older than these "flash" models :-) Seeing the other vehicles of the day, too, was very nostalgic. Great film.
I'm feeling all teary here. I was 8, almost 9-years-old when this was filmed. All those shops, businesses and buildings gone. Noticably not a fatty in sight
My grandmother lived in skinerthouph Road I remember seeing seeing pieces of shrapnel on her fireplace from a doodlebug that hit the next street and shrapnel Lodge the walls of the street, the houses are gone now but the had a alleyway leading to the back yard with outside Loos and a coal hole a celler that the coalman chucked coal in from the street,
Awesome to see these old videos how it used to be not a worry insight . . People was plight and had respect for each other not like today in Sheffield . If only we could turn the clocks. Thank you for sharing my family is well chuffed . ❤️❤️
I remember this service and rode on it many times, as a child it was fun, later as a driver they were more than a bit of a nuisance to other road users, I also remember as a passenger in a three wheeler coming down Woodseats to Abbey Lane and being stuck in the track until we got to the points, scary moment. ... even the old trolley buses whilst a bit easier to cope with were not well loved by many because of the higher speeds and attitude of many (trolley) drivers assuming they owned the road, and dropping passengers in the middle of a busy main road was never a good idea and led to school children running in an out of busy traffic. Road traffic accidents involving passengers were fairly commonplace.
I remember the last night of the trams. Standing opposite Millhouses Park as the last tram headed up to Beauchief. I also remember a couple of years later cycling down the same stretch along the abandond tracks. I got my bike wheel caught in the tracks and nearly fell off!
Ffacsinating old footage, the children at the paddling pool and on the tram will now all be grandparents. I recognise all the old cars and as anyone else noticed the bill board advertising Bristol cigarettes 3/6d three shillings & six pence. (17.5p todays money) how times have changed. I was 14 yrs old in 1960 and lived in Blackpool where similar trams and some that went back to the 1930's not only plied the promenade but looped through the town on Waterloo Rd as well. I agree with the commentator it could be quite hazardous for those catching the bus getting on and off on a busy road especially in rush hour. Enjoyed watching the video as it brought back many memories from my youth.
Great footage. What’s striking and noticeable to me……no litter what’s so ever along the entire circa 5 mile journey. Would be nice if we could have a similar sense of respect and responsibility nowadays
So I wasn’t born until 66 but wow I wish my dad was here to see this ! Dad passed in 1993 , mum has dementia and doesn’t even recognise us half the time… :( well they bought a house at Abbeydale in the 50,s ( five minutes down from the old cinema on the back streets on same side as cinema ) my mum was an usherette at that cinema in the 50,s …. my eldest sister ( If this was 1960 ) would have been around two years old here ( she died in 1977 sadly aged 18 ) so I was thinking my mom , my dad , my sister would have been in my parents little home at Abbeydale literally a few hundred yards away as this tram passed Abbeydale ! I wished I could have jumped into the screen and gone back in time to see them 😢 I went to Abbeydale infant school and the nursery from around 1970 and then Abbeydale grange ( wasn’t shown here sadly and has been demolished now :( .. but the infant school is still there , I was taking in every second of passing Abbeydale on this tram yearning to see my mom , my dad lol .. I live at Totley now! On this route .. btw my mom worked on these trams in the 1950,s doing tickets ! Wished I’d seen her on here she’s 92 now , thank you for this footage it means so much to me !
Great video, incredible footage, such a shame they were scrapped,i suppose its was progress at the time, local authority had the great idea of running down and no maintenance and scrapping a clean and efficient system for smokey, dirty, polluting buses, unreal 😔
There is a photo of the wicker arches I find fascinating, it shows electric Trams underneath while above it is a then very new 1500v dc EM2 express passenger locomotive, the sad fact is the EM2’s lasted barely ten years longer than the trams before being sold as surplus to the Dutch , so much for Sheffield’s bright new future , having travelled on the super trams they are way better than any bus, comfortable roomy and clean , Sheffield should have kept its trams and invested in the system .
Many of the cars on the streets were relatively new - 1958 onwards. There was money around. The tram shown was only 9 years old, with around 20 years of lifespan left. The council were blinded by the low cost of buses, not taking into account their shorter working lives. I used to visit Tommy Ward's (corner of Saville St & Attercliffe Rd and still standing) about 1980. Cheese & Raspberry Jam sandwiches!
My Grandad's eyes used to light up when he talked about Sheffield in the old days and especially when he talked about the trams. It was on a tram where he first met my nan and it took him weeks of being on the same commute to build up the courage to 'court' her. Really hard hitting seeing this tonight as he's currently in the hallamshire recieving end of life care! I can't say how much I wish I'd seen this when he was well enough to watch it. It would have made him so happy!
aw that's sad Craig. Believe it or not, I actually work at the Hallamshire! He will have the best care and dignity.
Wish you and your family well.
@@andynightingale7335 thank you. He passed the following day and although I wasn't able to see him my mum and dad have spoke a lot about how well he was cared for!
@@CuteCoreKayla sorry to hear that Craig. Condolences to you and your family.
@@andynightingale7335 Thank you
18:04. What a brilliant shot. The tram turning the corner for the last time, slow and sad, and to add to the poignancy a little boy watches from just outside, curious and daringly taking a small step into the depot. It's scenes like this that make a run of the mill documentary a film gem.
An excellent film, bringing back happy memories of riding this last route. As a 13-year old, my friend and I were trusted by our parents to take the train from Leeds to ride the trams, including on the last day (8 October 1960). I rode on the last service car from Millhouses to Tinsley depot before watching the final procession in the evening, returning home early evening. Because of this, I made sure I rode on the very first service Supertram from Meadowhall to Fitzalan Square on 21 March 1994.
What a day that last day of the old trams must have been. Very sad I would imagine.
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Great video brought a lot of childhood memories back to me from the 60s ...pond st bus depot cafe buying roast chessnuts from a guy who use to sell from a cart in front of the news stand ...we moved to Australia in 1974 and i havent been back since this brought it all back great video THANKS
So many shops and thriving communities, sadly Sheffield is fast loosing her identity and links with the past. Lovely to see how it once was thanks for posting...up the blades!😁👍
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I am now 73 in Worthing. My mother left smoky Sheffield at the age of 16... seeking the fresh air in Worthing!
I remember she took me up to Sheffield when I was 4 years old... and I still recall those trams!
I can see in my mind’s eye a steep hill with snow upon the ground.... some sort of high viaduct above.
That was the only time I came up to see Sheffield... and fortunate enough to enjoy a good ride on a tram!
Yes, I don't blame your mum leaving Sheffield in those days; I've seen photos from the time and it looked like a permanent acrid fog. By the time I was 3, the original Clean Air Act was introduced (1956) and improved in later years (1968 and 1993), so luckily left us with a very tree lined green city with many parks. I remember my mum telling me about the last tram and it's remarkable, 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose' to quote J-M Karr (1849).
"Be seeing you" 😱 I've heard that phrase somewhere else. 😉 Great video, simply luvvley. Thanks. 👍
spoken by Pat McGoohan in the sixties classic "The Prisoner"
be seeing you 👌
Great video! Well before I was born but fascinating to see Sheffield as it was.
So did you
I must be getting old. Remember every thing in this film. I was a teenager back then. Fond memories.
I worked in Sheffield in the 80's so well after the tram, but remember these streets well when they were packed with buses chucking out diesel fumes. Why on earth did they get rid of the trams, only to replace them decades later?
To force people onto buses.
The population asked for them to be retained but the politicians, as usual, nodding to the petrol and road lobby wanted them gone. I hate politicians.
The town centre was the beating heart of a once thriving bustling city. The steel industry fed all the engineering firms who made world class products. Everybody was so happy back then. It's sad to see how the city is today. Empty shops, cheap shops selling crap Chinese goods, takeaways and deserted streets. Never to return to how wonderful it was back then.
@Chris Kavanagh Colonise half the world and complain when the colonies move in. Hypocrite much, racist prick?
When, instead of stripping paint off metal in acid baths you just dunked it in the river Don for a while
Love it, quiet, non-polluting, efficient. Lets scrap them.
Typical pen pusher fare, get rid of it because we have to be seen to be doing stuff.
@@laurencecope7083 More like backhanders from the motor & road building lobby.
It was part of a concerted govt focus on "modernising" the UK. Trams and trains were seen as old and motor vehicles as the future. Blame the tories
@@Timathius17 no, both parties were the same sadly Labour and Tories. It was just the way it was - all hail the 'modern' World, cars trucks buses and concrete. Lots and lots of concrete.
yeah but the only way to defeat communism was by giving everyone a house in the suburbs, and a car to use to commute to work in the city - there is no rugged individualism in a tram car
Smashing. Shows how much Sheffield has changed over the years as I remember The Moor and Fargate as pedestrian only and never seeing vehicles on it. Went into the old Classic cinema on Fitzalan Square a few times before it was demolished too
I was a three year old living in one of the new estates in Sheffield when this was filmed. I remember Millhouses park and the views of the centre brought back childhood memories. I now live in the East end of London. Thanks for sharing
A lovely vision of the past. I appeared in Sheffield 14 years after this to do my degree at the university. There were echoes of things I recognized but still no 'oil int road. I am nostalgic for the innocence of the commentary. What a gem of a little story this video was. Thanks.
I agree - just a lovely honest commentary.
When tram drivers looked smart and wore caps.
Fantastic old footage. Love it. Seeing Sheffield as it used to be. Thank you for this!
Thanks for this upload made my day ! Seems a less complicated world back then love seeing the vintage trucks brilliant! Love my city of Sheffield ❤️
Absolutely blown away!!. This is my city, born and bred here. Fascinating to see Sheffield in the early days. As I'm only 36, this is way before my time. Thanks for the history lesson 🙂
Same here, but 44. I can’t believe how quiet the roads are, how much some parts of the city have changed beyond all recognition whilst other parts look almost exactly the same.
Same again I'm 39 and this is just strange.,... some scenes exactly the same some unrecognisable. I live on one of the tram roues ... amazing!
I was born in 1971 to the North of Sheffield(technically Rotherham but just on the border) I used to love the rare bus trips into Sheffield on the 69 from Rotherham with my parents in the early 80's as you could still see the remnants of Attercliffe as it used to be. I was fascinated by all the steel mills. And then getting off at Castle Markets walking under the hole in the road and down to Redgates toy store on The Moor. Its weird how parts still seem familiar but other parts have changed beyond recognition.
@@antonycharnock2993I had similar experience... in same time era as you. Wonderful simpler times 👍
Nice heritage time document - thanks for sharing!
But it is also quite sad. Back that time they really thought the changeover to busses is a very good thing, instead to modernize the tram systems. Problems like city pullution, traffic jamms and the oil crisis came far to late to stop this wrong way wordwide. Fortunately more and more towns now returns once closed tram lines back into service in a modern way. Even towns who scrapped its tram systems completely have alredy startet to construct and to operate new and modern systems. And - oh wonder - the number of passenger increases in compoarson to bus operation.
Thank you to who preserved this footage & made available on RUclips, I remember riding on the Tram from Millhouses to Beauchief.
Great video, I remember getting off the tram with my mum at Sheffield lane top. Wonderful carefree days. Sheffield was so much better back then. Well before mass immigration.
The telltale sound of that bell could only come from a tram.
Hearing it now it makes me think back sixty plus years.
I'm in RSA and we had them too
Thank you for uploading.
Very nostalgic
The new Supertram still makes a bell noise along with its little BOOP warning
My father attended one of the few tram accidents in Sheffield where the tram fell on its side. He was a mechanic for the ambulance service but was a driver for the day due to lack of drivers. The accident occurred on Chesterfield road in the 50's.
Travelled the road Beauchief , Millhouses, Tesco only Monday, not changed much but tram track now the into town lane of A621.
Nice to see.
All the trams and cars looked so much better back then :(
Agree, I love the art deco design. They were a so well detailed.
Ok boomer.
Everything was quality. Now it's just a trash throwaway society.
My mother regularly rode the Sheffield trams from Attercliffe as a young girl in the 1930's - she always remembered how friendly the conductors were - unlike some of today's grumpy bus drivers.
I love winding up the tram drivers in Sheffield. They think they own the road system in Sheffield.
If I can get one to beep or start ranting at me I consider it a win and take even longer! 🤣
@Donovan Mauricio Nope, nobody cares.
Always 'changing drivers' keep you waiting stood in rain, no one cares any more and no one looks smart either.
You mean bus drivers who see you coming then close the doors and drive off!
Memory Lane indeed. Thank you!
I was born in Sheffield March 1956. Unfortunately don't remember trams. Lovely to see footage from Totley via Mill houses down Abbeydale Road. Comprehensive coverage of city centre. Impressed that at that time someone thought to film it in colour.
My first ride on a Sheffield tram was at Beamish, also first ride on a steam train. Now glad of the Supertram which gets me from the station to Malin Bridge for the match, foc now, I am a full on pensioner.
Live in Leicester now but WTID.
Fascinating! I believe Sheffield started to modernise the system before abandoning it. What I find particularly nostalgic about this film is the cars and lorries, not to mention the 3 wheel Scammel trucks used by the railways.
Ah! That explains the 3 wheel trucks I saw. Thanks for sharing that tidbit.
Yes the system got new Roberts cars but before the last one entered service it was announced the system was closing it.
Quite sad and makes you realise how transient life is. I wonder where all those children are now and what lives all these people had. So full of life but most will presumably be dead now. Sad
This is 1960 so they will be in there 70's and 80's now, although will not belong before they have all gone, that is true
@@damiendye6623 Thanks. You just cheered this 72 year old grump up no end 👴😂
Absolutely fascinating film!Thank God for the people who took the foresight to capture it for prosperity before everything disappeared!
I love trains but laughed at my mate growing up for liking busses. This video really helps shows how important his intest actually is so that in years to come, we see how much things have changed.
As a lad who grew up in Woodseats, love this video
Until I saw this video I never realised why Abbeydale Road was so wide. It never occurred to me it was for the tram tracks.
Traveled on the Millhouses route regularly as a kid in the 1950's. Great memories.
Brilliant videos especially meadow head lived in meersbrook all my life well done
Wonderful video. I came to Sheffield in 1983 so a long time after the days shown here; but it was fascinating seeing all the old buildings along Abbeydale Road and The Moor as they once were. Most of them still there, of course, just used for different things.
The moor has massively changed with mass demolition and rebuilding so children of today's Sheffield will not know that they was on the moor
I came to Sheffield to study, seven years almost to the day after the last of these trams ran. Did a summer job at Tinsley the following year. Some familiar street scenes in this film. Well worth watching.
Was born there, left in 1956 when my parents came to Canada for two or five years ....
How old are you now ?
I remember getting on a tram at Middlewood and taking it all the way to Millhouses for 1d. The conductors changed at Snig Hill, so I told them I had only just got on. I would spend the day trainspotting at Millhouses then come back home to Oughtibridge, walking the last bit. Not a bad summer day out with my Ian Allen trainspotter guide for tuppence and bottle of tizer.
Kind of makes me feels sad. Lived in Sheff my whole life and seeing what’s become of it from its glory days like this . Weird seeing Abbeydale road look nice. Wonder what caused the decline . Great video
What do you think?
@@lindalue4504 go on.. let’s hear it Linda! I can’t wait for this.
@@wellyftw I know, Linda knows, you know and the entire population knows 😉
@@wellyftw well if you to dumb to know why should I tell you .
@@lindalue4504 that doesn't make any sense at all. Surely if someone is "to dumb to know" you'd want to educate them. Why if someone was "to dumb to know" would you withhold information?
Round about the time when this film was made I regularly used to travel with my parents from our home in Smethwick to visit my mother's family in Leeds. No motorway in those days, so it meant travelling via A64 through Sheffield. One Saturday morning we were going down a hill behind a tram, slowly because of traffic, and a little lad decided to jump off the tram before it stopped, right in front of our car. Thankfully my father was able to stop very quickly, and although the little boy was knocked over, he was unhurt. It shook him up quite a lot, though. Shook us up as well. Caused no end of a traffic jam, because the police had to attend. Happy days, though, better than today.
A61 through Sheffield. A64 runs from Leeds to Scarborough.
9.05 - The registration on the old VW Beetle , MW9, still exists on an Aston Martin..
It's been a long time since I stayed in Sheffield since 2012, damn what a nice place to live in, now I went back to my homeland in Germany in Leipzig now in 2019 :,(
Sheffield shit now
It’s only some of the people that makes it shit
The City Centre is terrible now. I must have been there just 9/10 times in 5 years. Best avoided, no.matter how much money the council wants to throw at pretty green spaces.
@@lindalue4504 Go on Linda! Tell us, who makes it shit? Let's hear it!
Warum sind sie traurig? Ist Leipzig nicht schön?
Ich komme aus Sheffield aber ich will Deutschland besuchen. Besonders Leipzig und Dresden
That was a great watch. Fantastic to see how some of the old buildings remain, yet lost some others. There seems to be more advertising boards them than there are today.
Yes, but remember the internet and TV now forces the adverts back then they only had the bill boards and the then incoming itv
These tram tracks separate from the road were ahead of their time. And it's a shame we can't have double deck trams today, which would take up less space.
I'm so envious whenever I watch this, wishing I was a kid when trams like these were running. Especially when they covered more ground than Supertram can only dream of. Unfortunately I was another 17 years from making my 1st appearance in Sheffield.
Great video. Greetings from Brazil!
Great to see this, I remember it well. I have the video this was taken from, sadly can't play it .....I lived on Bannerdale road this was home territory for me.!
Don't be fooled by all the happy looking people going about their business, driving British cars and enjoying the booming shops. They just didn't realize how much better things would be with another 25 million people and the joy that multiculturalism would bring.
People were not staring at phones and walking in the street with coffee 'on the go' or eating in the street as there were no takeaways.
The tram mentioned that has the old trams painted on it (number 510) still exists and after covid you can ride on it again although it lives in Derbyshire now (at Crich tramway village )
Crich is fantastic!
What a wonderful, civilised and green mode of transport. Sadly ending a couple of months before I was born. I was still lucky enough to experience Bournemouth's wonderful trolleybuses though.
The tram system today is more popular than ever, Funny how progress can be retrospective.
The tram system used today is useless. It doesn't go anywhere people want to go.
@@tautliners The tram system isn't useless, maybe the layout and access routes need to be drastically improved,Maybe they could have just copied the old rout system, or would that not be compatible today ?.
@@tautliners it moved 10,5 millon passengers between 2019 and 2020, so I think that it is not SO useless...
It goes to beighton and meadow hall that's good enough for me !
@@robharding4028 no, because it destroyed businesses on Infirmary Road during the construction it would destroy everything in its' path. No good to anyone except if you live on the route because buses are rubbish.
Bet these two wouldn't have believed the council would ever be bringing teams back again
This brings back memories of my childhood.Don't remover the trams,but definitely the cream and blue buses.Also how the city was.Totally changed now.
Lovely video❤😎👍
Fabulous. I was 18 at the time and lived not far from The Moor and London Road. It is a story of my youth.
Im 46. Sheffield born n bred. I remember some of Sheffield being like this in the late 70s.
7.24 The pheasant, a magical pub since it closed about 6 years ago I've lost touch with all of my family, it was the only pub I went to for years, christenings, weddings, funerals, birthdays everything's, I will never stop missing The Pheasant 😢
I remember well, travelling by tram in Dundee, but older than these "flash" models :-)
Seeing the other vehicles of the day, too, was very nostalgic.
Great film.
Old was gold
Lovely! Thank you for sharing these moments of nostalgia.
So lovely & nostalgic awesome to see! Thank you 😊
Wonderful
A brilliant film of the citys past...
Fantastic
I’m only 41 but I love the old fashioned trams. In my company we have to drive buses for 5 years before we can operate trams. Just waiting my turn.
Magnificent place is Sheffield
I'm feeling all teary here. I was 8, almost 9-years-old when this was filmed. All those shops, businesses and buildings gone. Noticably not a fatty in sight
I do miss those times in Sheffield I honestly do way before my time
My grandmother lived in skinerthouph Road I remember seeing seeing pieces of shrapnel on her fireplace from a doodlebug that hit the next street and shrapnel Lodge the walls of the street, the houses are gone now but the had a alleyway leading to the back yard with outside Loos and a coal hole a celler that the coalman chucked coal in from the street,
My aunty and uncle lived in Skinner Thorpe Road. People did not leave the country with bomb blitz and go as refugees though. 🤔
Awesome to see these old videos how it used to be not a worry insight . . People was plight and had respect for each other not like today in Sheffield . If only we could turn the clocks. Thank you for sharing my family is well chuffed . ❤️❤️
I remember this service and rode on it many times, as a child it was fun, later as a driver they were more than a bit of a nuisance to other road users, I also remember as a passenger in a three wheeler coming down Woodseats to Abbey Lane and being stuck in the track until we got to the points, scary moment. ... even the old trolley buses whilst a bit easier to cope with were not well loved by many because of the higher speeds and attitude of many (trolley) drivers assuming they owned the road, and dropping passengers in the middle of a busy main road was never a good idea and led to school children running in an out of busy traffic. Road traffic accidents involving passengers were fairly commonplace.
I remember the last night of the trams. Standing opposite Millhouses Park as the last tram headed up to Beauchief. I also remember a couple of years later cycling down the same stretch along the abandond tracks. I got my bike wheel caught in the tracks and nearly fell off!
Nigel, we lived in twentywell Lane and walked down too and along abbeydale road to have our pennies bent on the line
That's a lovely video, Thanks for sharing
Thanks for journey into the past remember it all .
The best looking tram livery anywhere!
Those last-built double-deckers were well-proportioned and 'symmetrical': they'd still look 'modern' today.
@@None-zc5vg I agree! A very modern looking vehicle.
Ffacsinating old footage, the children at the paddling pool and on the tram will now all be grandparents. I recognise all the old cars and as anyone else noticed the bill board advertising Bristol cigarettes 3/6d three shillings & six pence. (17.5p todays money) how times have changed. I was 14 yrs old in 1960 and lived in Blackpool where similar trams and some that went back to the 1930's not only plied the promenade but looped through the town on Waterloo Rd as well. I agree with the commentator it could be quite hazardous for those catching the bus getting on and off on a busy road especially in rush hour. Enjoyed watching the video as it brought back many memories from my youth.
Sheffield was very different in those days
Under statement of the century
What a fantastic film, wish there was one like this of Bridgend.
Iam just old enough to remember this
Love these films not just trams but society and old cars ?
The classic cars in the footage fascinate me more than the trams.
Amazing
Great footage. What’s striking and noticeable to me……no litter what’s so ever along the entire circa 5 mile journey. Would be nice if we could have a similar sense of respect and responsibility nowadays
No takeaways then. People also did not feel the need to eat in the street, carry bottles of water everywhere or drink cups of coffee 'on the go'.
So I wasn’t born until 66 but wow I wish my dad was here to see this ! Dad passed in 1993 , mum has dementia and doesn’t even recognise us half the time… :( well they bought a house at Abbeydale in the 50,s ( five minutes down from the old cinema on the back streets on same side as cinema ) my mum was an usherette at that cinema in the 50,s …. my eldest sister ( If this was 1960 ) would have been around two years old here ( she died in 1977 sadly aged 18 ) so I was thinking my mom
, my dad , my sister would have been in my parents little home at Abbeydale literally a few hundred yards away as this tram passed Abbeydale ! I wished I could have jumped into the screen and gone back in time to see them 😢 I went to Abbeydale infant school and the nursery from around 1970 and then Abbeydale grange ( wasn’t shown here sadly and has been demolished now :( .. but the infant school is still there , I was taking in every second of passing Abbeydale on this tram yearning to see my mom , my dad lol .. I live at Totley now! On this route .. btw my mom worked on these trams in the 1950,s doing tickets ! Wished I’d seen her on here she’s 92 now , thank you for this footage it means so much to me !
Great video, incredible footage, such a shame they were scrapped,i suppose its was progress at the time, local authority had the great idea of running down and no maintenance and scrapping a clean and efficient system for smokey, dirty, polluting buses, unreal 😔
Sheffield Transportation Dept. makes for an unfortunate acronym.
@@bingoflangeworthy Developed by the Sam Houston Institute of Technology?
Remember it's now STI
@@LETTYONLY1 Is this the voice of experience? haha
@@rkelsey3341 very funny: that deserves a clap!
@@rkelsey3341 how very dare you 😅😅😅
Never new that trams ever went that way. Amazing
The old trams went everywhere in the city.
When we knew who amongst us.
Better days then much more simpler
Electric trams were a major obstacle to sales of cars and petrol.. so of course they had to go Roger Rabbit style.
'Change at Tinsley Depot for the Meadowhall shopping centre!'
With out advertisements these were the smartest trams to run in the UK
Agreed.
There is a photo of the wicker arches I find fascinating, it shows electric Trams underneath while above it is a then very new 1500v dc EM2 express passenger locomotive, the sad fact is the EM2’s lasted barely ten years longer than the trams before being sold as surplus to the Dutch , so much for Sheffield’s bright new future , having travelled on the super trams they are way better than any bus, comfortable roomy and clean , Sheffield should have kept its trams and invested in the system .
Supertram only benefits a few who live on the route, most do not and it destroyed Infirmary Road businesses in the construction.
Many of the cars on the streets were relatively new - 1958 onwards. There was money around. The tram shown was only 9 years old, with around 20 years of lifespan left. The council were blinded by the low cost of buses, not taking into account their shorter working lives.
I used to visit Tommy Ward's (corner of Saville St & Attercliffe Rd and still standing) about 1980. Cheese & Raspberry Jam sandwiches!
Wish Wish that I could have a time machine.
Don't we all 😢
Me and you both.
Brilliant
I still have several old pennies which we put on the line no Dore for the last tram to run over
Great I love Shefield
The good old corona free days
Just a red rain of iron oxide.
Not many snowflakes in those days, people were much more tougher, flu like symptoms wouldn't have stopped them.
@@PF-gi9vv lol so true
@@PF-gi9vv Flu stopped me pretty good in my freezing Shirecliffe flat.
@@PF-gi9vv apart from the Spanish Flu, that stopped about 50 million of these non snowflake super tough humans.
Electric without carting hefty batteries! What a brilliant idea so let's scrap them!
Weren't they majestic ? Cruising along the roads, what a great way to travel ! Nothing like the modern versions, either.