The Roberts tramcars only had 10 years of use before being scrapped, only 2 has survived in two tram museums in Crich and East Anglia transport museum both in running order, I've been on both of them, very smooth ride, very comfortable seat, lino flooring and very light and airy upstairs with extra windows in the ceiling. They made a massive mistake getting rid of them.
It is so nostalgic. I left with my parents in 1952, and think about Sheffield often. One wonders how many of those wonderful people I knew, and see in the video, are still with us ?
Yer if council didn't get rid of old buildings it would be still like that now with sheffirld memories for true sheffield people that have a long family history from sheffield new commers ruined sheffield old buildings are still the most popular
Heartwarming to read so many positive memories of the city built on 7 hills. Special thanks to the photographer, and uploader for preserving a moment in time. Ee-by-gum! Gone down lane t offie for summit to drink.
brill film lovely too see old Sheffield i remember it in the 80s how busy it was though in 1960 so many more shops and some even i remember, brill film.
Wow I loved the trams especially the old ones that rattled down the hill at Banner cross I lived at my parents antique shop from 1945 till 1957 they sold it to a Bank about 1962 now it is closed ex pat age 82 in City of Kawartha Lakes Ont
I wasn't born in Sheffield, but was young when moved their. Now in my late adulthood moved away, and it's shocking how it is now, compared to the city back then.
I lived in Sheffield for 10 years until 2007 and loved every minute there. My parents live there now but I don't really get to see the city centre anymore. Has it changed much?
Everything had character then, including the motor vehicles, now most cars are just a 'silver' box on wheels, most beautiful buildings demolished for 'progress', pedestrianised but now there aren't any 'pedestrians', the iconic Hole in the Road filled in as "not safe after dark"! Who remembers the Goodwin Fountain, with its' coloured lights in the water, donated to the city by Sir Stuart Goodwin for the enjoyment of the people, taken away so long ago its forgotten, and now the Cascades are also turned off.
Everything's soulless now with a futuristic dystopian bland feel about the buildings and vehicles. Trains and buses now look depressing and soulless (as I said very futuristic like a scene from Metropolis or Logan's Run), everything's becoming automated, surveillance cameras are everywhere (supposedly to stop terrorism or crime - yeah right), smart roads and motorways (tracking where you are going), bollards everywhere particular in front of shopping centres, unnecessary road barriers, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and signs. People walking around like robots with their smart phones in their faces, little human interaction. All deliberate IMO. Add the Covid nonsense where you can't do bugger all because the Boris says and everyone's walking around with face naps on. And my kids are going to have to grow up in this nightmare world.
@@Embracing01 you are so right: yes it is now unrecognisable. Haymarket destroyed: first 'mistake' was to get rid of the fantastic Rag n' Tag, then bustling Dixon Lane fruit stalls gone, Snig Hill ruined when Bridge Street bus station taken away, Angel House Co-Op had the best Santa's Grotto with moving sleigh: restaurant with waitresses in black dresses & white apron, High Street ruined when the iconic Hole in the Road filled in, Fargate now dead, Chapel Walk just a ghost walk, The Moor with department stores finished, just empty megalith buildings no-one wants. Who remembers the fountains behind Debenhams? Wilson Peck mistake moving to Charter Row from Leopold Street, demolition of the Grand Hotel with loss of The Buccaneer bar, empty office blocks, yet they build more. All this BEFORE lockdown !
@@doravernon1511 I grew up hearing stories of the Rag and Tag from my Mother. Apparently her brother ran home to Attercliffe so excited after seeing someone with a chinchilla - and desperately wanted one! Also, wasn't there a lady who guessed your weight? I believe she was never wrong. Shopping is boring in comparison nowadays.
This is before my time as I was born in the 70s, but it makes me nostalgic for this period. It's criminal how the council bulldozed so much of the old architecture that can be seen here, especially at the top of The Moor., but also the old bank in Fitzallan Square. They finished the job the Luftwaffe started, and changed the feel of the city forever. Some interesting stuff came from the re development though, such as the wonderful Hole in the Road, the numerous underpasses, and the old Castle Market, all of which have now disappeared themselves, and which I miss.
@@Embracing01 wow a whole lifetime gone by.I was 2 when this video was shot.That girl gives a faint smile as she walks by.I wonder if she is still with us?
Ha! I moved here 2 years ago, and last few months thinking: "Chapel Walk scaffolding has been up 2 years, are they almost done!?!?!?" But it's really been 60 YEARS???!!???
It's down now but hardly anything open, does anyone remember the Bead shop that sold joss sticks and the Sidewalk Cafe, also Cann the Music Man & Richard Shop fashions? Fantastic footage of a world now gone. Getting rid of the trams and pedestrianisation was the nail in the coffin.
beautiful , our family moved up into the north east south shields in 71 0r 72 my grandparents were daniel and dorothy cox my grandad knew jimmy jewel, as a child i only remember the market and redgates toy store , there home was stocksbridge originally and my mum was chatted up by joe cocker in a bar , and she turned him down lol
KEEP THESE IMAGES FRESH IN YOUR MEMORY BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL THAT WE HAVE LEFT OF THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WE ONCE HAD AND CALLED OUR HOME....... ENGLAND IS FINISHED.
The progressive Liberal types hate films like this, it totally exposes what they have been encouraging for decades. If the same forced ethnic replacement operation was instigated in an African state they would scream "genocide".
Wonderful to see this kind of archive, it's the Sheffield I remember and it's still a fantastic city! Sad to read all the negative immigration comments, 2019 is a different era from then, globalization in the norm! As a proud lad from Sheffield, I too immigrated for better pastures away from the UK. Does that count!?
USA SS-1.........the difference is you integrated into your better pastures..................and 3rd world immigrants coming to the UK do not......islamic grooming or rape gangs in the UK is not integration and the islamic community hardly says two peeps speaking out about it.
Immigration is the least of your worries with all this Covid nonsense going on. And I wouldn't get too excited about it ending soon because it won't. These restrictions and rules are here to stay unless people wake up to the fact that this is a scam to control people. All they need to do to keep this going is to say there's a new strain of virus etc.
@This is England you should of stayed in your own county too you're an anglo Saxon defendant leave England go back to Germany you ruined England and the original English celtics!!! Booo
My family was a part of Sheffield for centuries, but sadly, it no longer exists. Most of the buildings and huge numbers of buildings have vanished. I could see the end coming, that's why I moved away twenty-five years ago. The foreign country that has replaced it is grotesque and menacing. The atmosphere totally different to the days of real Sheffielders ,before the disgusting brown sludge infestation. It used to be a beautiful city with pride and extremely high standards.
It is very hard to watch these clips without mentioning the ethnicity of the people that frequented the city back then as to some it will be nostalgic due to its lack of 'diversity'. I myself see a white society with some fondness due to my own ethnicity, although I did grow up in an an acceptant familily and one who has many many close friends (and family) that are not 'anglo saxon' white english folk. The Sheffield, and UK that I grew up in is no more, but the past is the past and I love these vids for the memories where life was a simpler way of life withought the complexities of worrying about the political correctness and white subdued life style that we have in this day and age. My own Gran had a black labrador called 'Blackie' that would not be acceptable today but it was not named in any predudicial way but becuse of its coulour and acceptance. I hope these clips help other non indigionous folk to this country understand where any 'potential' deep predudice may stem from. We are all different and our past in some way defines us all. This 'was' Sheffield. Today 'We' are Sheffield.
If Meadowhall hasn't finished off the city centre the Internet will. Like the current immigration numbers issue or nett zero nobody asks the people or gives logical explanation. Do as I say not do as I do.
I would have loved to have seen Fargate and the Moor before they were pedestrianised and before the Muslims took over Sheffield. Would also love to have seen the trams up and down the Wicker
Mohamad matar what a small minded human your are .. you stay in dubai and we will stop in sheffield city .. everyones happy then no need for the horrible nasty comment all
The Roberts tramcars only had 10 years of use before being scrapped, only 2 has survived in two tram museums in Crich and East Anglia transport museum both in running order, I've been on both of them, very smooth ride, very comfortable seat, lino flooring and very light and airy upstairs with extra windows in the ceiling.
They made a massive mistake getting rid of them.
It wasn't a mistake it was a travesty: done to make people use the buses, cheap then, once they had a monopoly it went downhill.
Some of the best looking trams ever built!
It is so nostalgic. I left with my parents in 1952, and think about Sheffield often. One wonders how many of those wonderful people I knew, and see in the video, are still with us ?
This is the Sheffield I remember, so lovely to see this video of a great clty. I also left in the late 1950's.
Yer if council didn't get rid of old buildings it would be still like that now with sheffirld memories for true sheffield people that have a long family history from sheffield new commers ruined sheffield old buildings are still the most popular
I played this on a dementia unit and the mood settled straight away it’s great therapy and the music is beautiful 🤩 thank you 🙏
Heartwarming to read so many positive memories of the city built on 7 hills.
Special thanks to the photographer,
and uploader for preserving a moment in time.
Ee-by-gum! Gone down lane t offie for summit to drink.
I loved visiting Sheffield as a young boy in the 1960's - such a mighty City. (Also the best looking buses and trams!)
brill film lovely too see old Sheffield i remember it in the 80s how busy it was though in 1960 so many more shops and some even i remember, brill film.
Wow I loved the trams especially the old ones that rattled down the hill at Banner cross I lived at my parents antique shop from 1945 till 1957 they sold it to a Bank about 1962 now it is closed ex pat age 82 in City of Kawartha Lakes Ont
I love how the building at the entrance to Chapel Walk had Scaffolding on it then as it has now.
Its recently been removed and it appears the 'work' is done 😁
Just dosn't look the same though 😂
Spoilt the scaffold look.
Oh boy this is Beautiful!
Thank you so much for this look into my past.
I wasn't born in Sheffield, but was young when moved their. Now in my late adulthood moved away, and it's shocking how it is now, compared to the city back then.
I lived in Sheffield for 10 years until 2007 and loved every minute there. My parents live there now but I don't really get to see the city centre anymore. Has it changed much?
Allways wanted to be born in Sheffield. You have a beautiful city.
Everything had character then, including the motor vehicles, now most cars are just a 'silver' box on wheels, most beautiful buildings demolished for 'progress', pedestrianised but now there aren't any 'pedestrians', the iconic Hole in the Road filled in as "not safe after dark"! Who remembers the Goodwin Fountain, with its' coloured lights in the water, donated to the city by Sir Stuart Goodwin for the enjoyment of the people, taken away so long ago its forgotten, and now the Cascades are also turned off.
Everything's soulless now with a futuristic dystopian bland feel about the buildings and vehicles. Trains and buses now look depressing and soulless (as I said very futuristic like a scene from Metropolis or Logan's Run), everything's becoming automated, surveillance cameras are everywhere (supposedly to stop terrorism or crime - yeah right), smart roads and motorways (tracking where you are going), bollards everywhere particular in front of shopping centres, unnecessary road barriers, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and signs. People walking around like robots with their smart phones in their faces, little human interaction. All deliberate IMO. Add the Covid nonsense where you can't do bugger all because the Boris says and everyone's walking around with face naps on. And my kids are going to have to grow up in this nightmare world.
@@Embracing01 you are so right: yes it is now unrecognisable. Haymarket destroyed: first 'mistake' was to get rid of the fantastic Rag n' Tag, then bustling Dixon Lane fruit stalls gone, Snig Hill ruined when Bridge Street bus station taken away, Angel House Co-Op had the best Santa's Grotto with moving sleigh: restaurant with waitresses in black dresses & white apron, High Street ruined when the iconic Hole in the Road filled in, Fargate now dead, Chapel Walk just a ghost walk, The Moor with department stores finished, just empty megalith buildings no-one wants. Who remembers the fountains behind Debenhams? Wilson Peck mistake moving to Charter Row from Leopold Street, demolition of the Grand Hotel with loss of The Buccaneer bar, empty office blocks, yet they build more. All this BEFORE lockdown !
@@doravernon1511 I grew up hearing stories of the Rag and Tag from my Mother. Apparently her brother ran home to Attercliffe so excited after seeing someone with a chinchilla - and desperately wanted one! Also, wasn't there a lady who guessed your weight? I believe she was never wrong. Shopping is boring in comparison nowadays.
@@robertp.wainman4094 I was very young then but it was an exciting time. Despite so-called progress and technology, it was better then.
@@doravernon1511 True!
Great City, I was 16 then and Sheffield was swinging
swinging?Like London?
I love Sheffield 😢
Shown this to me grandfather. He recognised the areas straight away
i ve studied and graduate from sheffield hallam university 2004 . was very interesting two years in my life. I like the city center. WOW Old and Now
SO NICE TO SEE THIS .YEAR OF MY BIRTH MY FIRST LEGO FROM RED GATES ORIGINAL STORE 1966 WOW
What a great toy shop!
Beautiful.
This is before my time as I was born in the 70s, but it makes me nostalgic for this period. It's criminal how the council bulldozed so much of the old architecture that can be seen here, especially at the top of The Moor., but also the old bank in Fitzallan Square. They finished the job the Luftwaffe started, and changed the feel of the city forever. Some interesting stuff came from the re development though, such as the wonderful Hole in the Road, the numerous underpasses, and the old Castle Market, all of which have now disappeared themselves, and which I miss.
Like seeing ghosts.
yes as they ride on their motor bike, board the tram and go about their daily lives in 1960.Captured forever on film.
like the good ghosts,
I love this, the buildings, the vehicles and the atmosphere. Just beautiful. And what is the music please?
My my it sure brought back memories to me we have to hold on to those because times have changed
fabulous,thankyou !
I like the girl smiling as she walks by at 2:10.A moment in time frozen.
I know. She'd probably be in her 70s now.
@@Embracing01 wow a whole lifetime gone by.I was 2 when this video was shot.That girl gives a faint smile as she walks by.I wonder if she is still with us?
It's really a special video, best wishes for your channel and mine ❤👍🙏
Thanks I was born in Sheffield in 1963 ❤👍
I t would be 8 years before I came to steel city ,the very best place to be xxx
Only got to know Sheffield from 1970 through my work in the steel industry, never knew they had trams as late as 1960. Nice memories.
YES THEY DID THE ORIGINAL TRACKS WERE STILL ON WEST STREET WHENTHEY LAID THE NEW ONES IN THE 80'S
The old tram lines are buried beneath the tarmac, the ones in Angel Street and Snig Hill for sure
The trams ran thro' the whole city, what a loss to the people of this once great city.
WOW 2020 WATCHING THIS YET CANNOT EVEN WALK DOWN STREET.I USED TO DREAM ABOUT 2020 BOY WISH IT WAS 1960
Sheffield foreva in my heart
when you could drive round town.
haunting music.
Happy days. Thanks
Happy Days
British place those times
Very comical Przemek!
Chapel Walk still has that scaffolding up! Think it's about time they got around to finishing it. It's not the Sagrada familia you know!
😁
Ha! I moved here 2 years ago, and last few months thinking:
"Chapel Walk scaffolding has been up 2 years, are they almost done!?!?!?"
But it's really been 60 YEARS???!!???
It's down now but hardly anything open, does anyone remember the Bead shop that sold joss sticks and the Sidewalk Cafe, also Cann the Music Man & Richard Shop fashions? Fantastic footage of a world now gone. Getting rid of the trams and pedestrianisation was the nail in the coffin.
It's really gone to shit down the Waingate end of town. It gets worse by the year.
Beautiful vid thank u
What is this beautiful music
Bob Guido - Leaving the World Behind
I were born in North London in 1960 and moved to Sheffield in 2003.
Awesome sound track!
beautiful , our family moved up into the north east south shields in 71 0r 72 my grandparents were daniel and dorothy cox my grandad knew jimmy jewel, as a child i only remember the market and redgates toy store , there home was stocksbridge originally and my mum was chatted up by joe cocker in a bar , and she turned him down lol
Thank you 😊 poignant for me 😍😍
Visit to Grindle Fort ( England) HD Photos
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Joe Elliot was living here and was 1 year old at the time!
Is similar like 1970s Hong Kong
KEEP THESE IMAGES FRESH IN YOUR MEMORY BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL THAT WE HAVE LEFT OF THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WE ONCE HAD AND CALLED OUR HOME....... ENGLAND IS FINISHED.
Visit to Grindle Fort ( England) HD Photos
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The progressive Liberal types hate films like this, it totally exposes what they have been encouraging for decades. If the same forced ethnic replacement operation was instigated in an African state they would scream "genocide".
I love Sheffield but hating on city centre at min beggars and tramps and scroungers every 30 yards
In recent years Sheffield has had more than its fair share of 'cultural enrichment' from benefit tourist and fake asylum seekers.
@@Abornazine Well Brexit should have stopped that shouldn't it? Although it doesn't seem to have yet...
@@stevehartley621 Anyone who thought that Brexit would stop fake asylum seekers is deluded. However, it has had an effect on benefit tourists.
@@Abornazine Yeah, there was a bit of irony intended there though...
Wonderful to see this kind of archive, it's the Sheffield I remember and it's still a fantastic city! Sad to read all the negative immigration comments, 2019 is a different era from then, globalization in the norm! As a proud lad from Sheffield, I too immigrated for better pastures away from the UK. Does that count!?
USA SS-1.........the difference is you integrated into your better pastures..................and 3rd world immigrants coming to the UK do not......islamic grooming or rape gangs in the UK is not integration and the islamic community hardly says two peeps speaking out about it.
geoffdundee , well said sir . God bless
What planet did you move to ?.
Immigration is the least of your worries with all this Covid nonsense going on. And I wouldn't get too excited about it ending soon because it won't. These restrictions and rules are here to stay unless people wake up to the fact that this is a scam to control people. All they need to do to keep this going is to say there's a new strain of virus etc.
@@Embracing01 ever worked a shift on a covid ward pal?
And now in 2023 the trams are back and the blades are once again Sheffields premier club
The tram destroyed our High Street but is now bankrupt.
Magical - the demolition of Barclays Bank Fitzalan Square was an act of vandalism.
As a child I saw a lot of people being pulled out of the cop and terraces at Bramall Lane covered in blood.
Love the video! Do you have a business enquiry email that I can use to get in contact with you?
This is not the Sheffield I remember, but would have been what it is like for my mum when she was working at the Grand Hotel.
Grand Hotel demolished in I973 for a block of offices.
Do you have an email address I can contact? Have a question about this footage. Thanks
The video was made by the BBC and was called Sheffield the last trams.
When Sheffield City Centre was Alive.
Fab.
If only...
The old what was called the Zebra crosswalks!
Zebra crossing
Not a foreigner in sight happy days ..
Do you mean not a person who isn't white in sight?
@This is England im black not brown tf is brown 😂
@This is England my great grandad was born in England and was likely a slave decent hence yall brought me from my homeland against my will
@This is England oh it's you mr racist boomer after I destroyed your racist irrational bigot full take you probably won't answer
@This is England you should of stayed in your own county too you're an anglo Saxon defendant leave England go back to Germany you ruined England and the original English celtics!!! Booo
My family was a part of Sheffield for centuries, but sadly, it no longer exists. Most of the buildings and huge numbers of buildings have vanished. I could see the end coming, that's why I moved away twenty-five years ago. The foreign country that has replaced it is grotesque and menacing. The atmosphere totally different to the days of real Sheffielders ,before the disgusting brown sludge infestation. It used to be a beautiful city with pride and extremely high standards.
Think I was born in the wrong era this is lovely to watch compared to our now rundown poor excuse of a city centre
Looks to have so much character, Modernity is a plague.
It is very hard to watch these clips without mentioning the ethnicity of the people that frequented the city back then as to some it will be nostalgic due to its lack of 'diversity'.
I myself see a white society with some fondness due to my own ethnicity, although I did grow up in an an acceptant familily and one who has many many close friends (and family) that are not 'anglo saxon' white english folk.
The Sheffield, and UK that I grew up in is no more, but the past is the past and I love these vids for the memories where life was a simpler way of life withought the complexities of worrying about the political correctness and white subdued life style that we have in this day and age.
My own Gran had a black labrador called 'Blackie' that would not be acceptable today but it was not named in any predudicial way but becuse of its coulour and acceptance.
I hope these clips help other non indigionous folk to this country understand where any 'potential' deep predudice may stem from. We are all different and our past in some way defines us all.
This 'was' Sheffield. Today 'We' are Sheffield.
id of been proud too live there at that time 1960, nowadays ruined by blair/ brown government
If Meadowhall hasn't finished off the city centre the Internet will. Like the current immigration numbers issue or nett zero nobody asks the people or gives logical explanation. Do as I say not do as I do.
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I would have loved to have seen Fargate and the Moor before they were pedestrianised and before the Muslims took over Sheffield. Would also love to have seen the trams up and down the Wicker
Pedestrianisation destroyed it.
There were flagpoles down the centre of The Wicker in I966 for the World Cup. The flags were left up for years.
Sheffield was a great city, now it’s a multicultural nightmare . 😞
Now it’s a complete joke and full of cunts (with the odd exception)
@@PaulTaylor80 👍🏻
What a difference to the same city today, nearly 60 years later. Not a muslim or a burka anywhere to be seen.
David Rayner+ And no BNP/EDL animals either :)
There also isn't you to be seen which i'd say is a good thing by the sounds of it
Wow...pretty low calibre of thinking. I was looking at my lovely city until i read that comment
Yes indeed. You seem to have stirred up the mass replacement cult followers here.
NONE IN THE SCHOOLS IN THE 60'S EITHER
its look ugly city
I am from Dubai , so this is shit to me who lives there !
At least you can kiss your loved one here in public without getting locked up unlike in Dubai
good! stay in Dubai !
WalayatFamily + Fuck off.
Mohamad matar what a small minded human your are .. you stay in dubai and we will stop in sheffield city .. everyones happy then no need for the horrible nasty comment all