I look at photos of Sheffield 1940s thru to 2000s hoping to see family members, particularly me mum and dad, sadly no longer here..I never see them..but I always wonder where they were on the day the photo was taken, where they were going? What they were doing that day? I guess what I would really like is a delorean time machine, head down the parkway at 88 miles per hour into the Sheffield of my past, go home and knock on the front door, surprise them, spend one more afternoon with them chatting over a cuppa and slice of mums awesome Christmas cake... That would be so nice (tears)...would I come back to 2020? Probably not, the past seemed to make more sense to me, this mad world feels like someone else's life not mine. Thanks for posting the video
I hope that you are Ok and contented with where you are. But I understand what you mean ,looking back can be emotional .I am sure they thought of you too .Be at peace now and forever
We went live in Sheffield in 1959 when my Dad left the RN. He got a job at Bassets and worked there until he retired in 1986. I don't recognise the city now, it has changed so much since I left in 1971. The place was black with industrial pollution back then but soon became a lovely place to grow up. I remember the 'hole in the road' being dug and now they have filled it in again. My brother and his sons and their families are still living there. happy memories of a great town to grow up in.
What a great film , notice how clean the streets used to be, and everyone well dressed . Great to see all the places i know so well. Thanks for sharing such a well made film.
Beautiful music, thanks for putting the names for them on ! I was born in Sheffield and currently working there, so much has changed. I love looking at all the old photos. THANKYOU!
A very emotional journey for me. better times for some of us. A better world. Really enjoy this kind of thing. they call it progress today, but I call it vandalism. All those lovely places we knew, now gone. How things have changed. thank you so much for sharing. Tommy wards elephant looking magnificent, just wonderful. Loved the music too.
I love looking up history of our livelihood .I saw a housing history of Sheffield the other day one tower block was amazing .As soon as a tenant would come out of her flat there was quite alot of room to move .This encouraged niebours to congregate and chat .Not so isolated , During the video it showed a mikman dropping off milk bottles by the flat doors . One of its kind in those days I would say!
@@bertcert991 You are joking ? my Grandmother was bombed out during the war and they were still clearing the destruction in the late 50s early 60s . Two massive land mines were dropped in the cluster of the cities steelworks and my Ma picked up a big piece ,it"s still kicking around in a drawer somewhere ! . The thing they were after was the big drop hammer that made Spitfire crankshafts ,but they never got it .
Thanks lived in Sheffield from birth for 78 years. Lovely pics and sham about Old Tram service being abolished I used them for many years to go to work and what a good service they were
I was on the last [old] tram in the city in 1960 ,lived near British Steel in Templeborough ,it was 4 old pence to Sheffield center and 2 old pence to Rotherham center .Still got the old penny I placed on the line and it was well and truly squished ,Brian Jones ,from the Rolling Stones was a big Tram fan and he was on the Tram ,but of course nobody knew him then ,just a little tit - bit of history - good job on the video ,well done ! .
Who would have thought today that my birth place was one of the greatest industrial cities in the world once upon a time. I grew up in Deepcar/Stocksbridge near the old Samuel Fox steelworks and use to hear the heavy forging going on there through my bedroom window every night as a kid. Absolute Magic!
I was never taught that at school though. Never realised what a great steel-making city Sheffield was till I was ready to leave school in the early 60’s.
that was absolutely fantastic, thank you so much It's heartbreaking to look back on it really is but so nice to be able to look back on. I can't believe how nice the peace Gardens looked to what it does now ❤
I used to enjoy walking through the ‘Hole in the Road’ as a short-cut to some-where. Sadly, it was spoilt by the drug users & dealers in the late 70’s. Little wonder it was closed & filled in.
Fantastic collection of images. Brought back many happy (and some not so) memories. Sad to see so many of the places I frequented as a child demolished and gone forever. Great video!!
I adored living in Sheffield as a student in the late 1970s. I remained for a few years afterwards until the lack of jobs forced me to move to "the Smoke" which I hated. My grandfather worked with Abercrombie on a civic survey for a major overhaul of Sheffield in the 1920s, only some of which happened due to red tape & funding, and then came the War, of course. But it meant my dad was born in Sheffield because Grandad lived there while working on the Survey Plan. Interesting to look through the numerous pages of the Survey at the Central Library. Lots of photos of Sheffield in the early 1920s plus street layouts that never happened.
I used to deliver milk for express dairies in 70s on Hyde Park flats,milk float used to go in service lift then along balconies to far end then in lift to next floor ( 7 in total on main block) besides milk we did groceries. Good times & some lovely people lived there.But some of the things thrown over the balconies TVs settees any thing, l remember one sad fri night collecting a young man throw himself off as I remember he’d come all the way from Lincolnshire I have lived in N Wales now since 1977 but do miss the old Sheffield l still call Sheffield home & am still a Yorkshire bloke
Can't believe I've lived up jordanthorpe batemoor area nearly 46 years and never knew that trams came all the way up here. Brilliant footage of a route I use often and to see it as it was all those years ago is brilliant. Just goes to show that the world keeps turning but you can always see something familiar that seems stuck in time
Don’t forget Coles Corner. Always met lads there for the first date before you told them where you lived. I used to get off my bus outside the Star & Telegraph building & just cross the road to the old Cole Bros shop corner. Seeing Peter Robinson shop brought back good memories of the clothes I bought in the swinging 60’s.
Sheffield FC too, the world's oldest club. As well as its heritage, the birthplace of stainless steel, Sean Bean, the Full Monty, The Human League, East 17, Def Leppard, Arctic Monkeys, Bring me the Horizon, Malevolence...I think the Niche subgenre was also conceived in Sheffield too. And thats probably not an exhaustive list.
A fascinating history of my home city. I remember the trams (just) the hole in the road before it got abused and the rise of all those blocks of flats.
Great video, some brilliant pictures and memory's here. Looking back on the old photo's their use to be far less traffic on the roads and more people milling about. I'm from Sheffield so a lot of the pictures look familiar, it saddens me tho because times have changed and the whole world has gotten Into a rush. A rat race. Things were simpler once upon a time.
Very good....I'm not from Sheffield but from Doncaster, some memories there for me though....I remember the hole in the road.....used to busk down there in the 90's lol
I Almost fell off my chair when I saw the Challenge supermarket on Manor Top. I grew up around there and have very fond memories of the shops in that area.
I'm 70 and apart from a few months in 76, I have lived in Sheffield all my life - albeit at several different addresses - I can see two of them in one photograph (lived in many years apart), taken quite some time back, and effectively just round the corner from one another. I don't recognise a lot of the places shown here although I do recognise most, but there will be people much younger than me who won't have a clue. I notice there are captions on some photographs as to where they are so wasn't it possible to do it on each photo, also the year - if known - in which it was taken? Anyway, thanks for posting. I love local history.
I came to Sheffield in 1990 during my 9 day adventure travelling to different parts of the UK, Sheffield was one of the locations and I remember The Moor, it was still passable by traffic, as I remember passing through on the bus. When did they pedestrianise The Moor?
I grew up in Nether Edge in the 70s and went to school in Millhouses. My Aunt lived on Millhouses Lane in a big stone villa. I live in Derbyshire now, not too far away. I must pop back and go through Millhouses Park again.
I can remember going to the Carlton cinema on Eastern Avenue as a lad with my Mum Dad and elder brother. Half way through the film stopped and a notice came on screen asking the owner of the car reg number BPO 192 to move it as it was blocking someone in. It was my Dads car. As the Cinema was full you can imagine the cheers and foot stamping as Dad got up to move it. I slipped down in my seat . At the time I was so embarrassed but now I think it quite funny . It must have left an impression on me as that and the first car I ever had are the only two registration number I can remember ☺☺☺☺☺☺
... Born and brought up in Sheffield and had some goods nights out. The days when you could go out without getting stabbed . It has not improved for the better i moved out 13 yrs ago as there is nothing there for me anymore I continued to work there until june this year.
Good ol' Redgates, used to be Sheffield's answer to Hamley's!! Happy Days. Used to remember going to YEB shop wi' mi Mam to pay 'lectric bill and I'd look at the gadgets and why we had to fill in t' oyl in 't road is beyond me!!
Some great shots but it’s a shame they’re not in any kind of order. It would have been great to see it move through time or geographically from one side of Sheffield to the other.
All changing now because of covid my shop MIRROR MAD Abbeydale Road now closed after 34yrs have moved to Langton's Antiques Centre Picture Framing again love sheffield ..crazy daizy, bluebell etc ..
I'm pretty certain that the first picture is not Sheffield. It's too flat, Sheffield is much hillier than that. Born and bred Sheffield, I don't recognise any of those buildings.
Left when about 18 months, left country after 2 years old; never been there since. Destruction from other image collections makes me wonder about the various loonie left councils. What is the round thing below the road, that is later seen being demolished?
Since I sawMusic documentary ,so I feel it’s kind of a release that the young people there now have other choices rather than destinied to be steel factory worked....but you know ,somearea replace this job,choice of staying or leaving is still ther
They shouldn't knock down that great cinema beside John Lewis at the first place,such grant building with unique art deco design in details.Should have safe the front and rebuilt at the back. Many years later,they knock the current ugly steal building at the site,and replace it with lame square shoe boxes like building.I wonder how many years this new build will last before they want to knock it down again...
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When Sheffield city was nice and had heart and soul, glad I moved away 20 years ago, whenever I visit I hardly recognise it now! Such a shame 😢
Red gates was such a magical place to visit
I look at photos of Sheffield 1940s thru to 2000s hoping to see family members, particularly me mum and dad, sadly no longer here..I never see them..but I always wonder where they were on the day the photo was taken, where they were going? What they were doing that day? I guess what I would really like is a delorean time machine, head down the parkway at 88 miles per hour into the Sheffield of my past, go home and knock on the front door, surprise them, spend one more afternoon with them chatting over a cuppa and slice of mums awesome Christmas cake... That would be so nice (tears)...would I come back to 2020? Probably not, the past seemed to make more sense to me, this mad world feels like someone else's life not mine.
Thanks for posting the video
Me too
Exactly the same! Mum died when I was 15 (nearly 40 now) and always watch these wondering what she was doing at the time xxxxxxxx
I feel just the same, i could have cried watching that film, happy memories came flooding back.
I hope that you are Ok and contented with where you are. But I understand what you mean ,looking back can be emotional .I am sure they thought of you too .Be at peace now and forever
That music is just too wistful.
Makes you want to cry for what we lost.
I grew up in this city front 1947 was such a great place to live the best of times .Not now
We went live in Sheffield in 1959 when my Dad left the RN. He got a job at Bassets and worked there until he retired in 1986. I don't recognise the city now, it has changed so much since I left in 1971. The place was black with industrial pollution back then but soon became a lovely place to grow up. I remember the 'hole in the road' being dug and now they have filled it in again. My brother and his sons and their families are still living there. happy memories of a great town to grow up in.
Yes indeed .I lived in Cheadle Hulme Manchester in the 60s and I think communty of tenants were closer friendlier .
What a great film , notice how clean the streets used to be, and everyone well dressed . Great to see all the places i know so well. Thanks for sharing such a well made film.
Beautiful music, thanks for putting the names for them on ! I was born in Sheffield and currently working there, so much has changed. I love looking at all the old photos. THANKYOU!
A very emotional journey for me. better times for some of us. A better world. Really enjoy this kind of thing. they call it progress today, but I call it vandalism. All those lovely places we knew, now gone. How things have changed. thank you so much for sharing. Tommy wards elephant looking magnificent, just wonderful. Loved the music too.
Couldn't agree more!!!!! 🌻
Don't know if you'll read this, but I agree 100%
My Mother used to talk about the elephant.....
@@AYTAZED thanx mate.
@@robertp.wainman4094 cheers.
Absolutely FANTASTIC. I can't praise these films enough.
I love looking up history of our livelihood .I saw a housing history of Sheffield the other day one tower block was amazing .As soon as a tenant would come out of her flat
there was quite alot of room to move .This encouraged niebours to congregate and chat .Not so isolated , During the video it showed a mikman dropping off milk bottles by the flat doors . One of its kind in those days I would say!
Absolutely brilliant, I'm a scotsman who came to Sheffield in 1984,really liked the video
feeling very nostalgic and perhaps a little sad watching this...Great video
Beautiful video accompanied by beautiful music, thank you .
Feeling very nostalgic. We emigrated to Australia in the 60's but I've never forgotten these places. I was born in Handsworth.
It’s a shit hole now
The only thing to miss Sheffield was the Luftwafe
@@bertcert991 You are joking ? my Grandmother was bombed out during the war and they were still clearing the destruction in the late 50s early 60s . Two massive land mines were dropped in the cluster of the cities steelworks and my Ma picked up a big piece ,it"s still kicking around in a drawer somewhere ! . The thing they were after was the big drop hammer that made Spitfire crankshafts ,but they never got it .
Brilliant video miss the old sheffield
I lived in Sheffield till 2015
Thanks lived in Sheffield from birth for 78 years. Lovely pics and sham about Old Tram service being abolished I used them for many years to go to work and what a good service they were
I was on the last [old] tram in the city in 1960 ,lived near British Steel in Templeborough ,it was 4 old pence to Sheffield center and 2 old pence to Rotherham center .Still got the old penny I placed on the line and it was well and truly squished ,Brian Jones ,from the Rolling Stones was a big Tram fan and he was on the Tram ,but of course nobody knew him then ,just a little tit - bit of history - good job on the video ,well done ! .
Who would have thought today that my birth place was one of the greatest industrial cities in the world once upon a time.
I grew up in Deepcar/Stocksbridge near the old Samuel Fox steelworks and use to hear the heavy forging going on there through my bedroom window every night as a kid.
Absolute Magic!
I was never taught that at school though. Never realised what a great steel-making city Sheffield was till I was ready to leave school in the early 60’s.
@@minkgin3370 Sadly, there's a lot we weren't taught at school about Sheffield and the various aspects of it that really, we ought to know.
@@bridgetdoman1386I wonder why
that was absolutely fantastic, thank you so much
It's heartbreaking to look back on it really is but so nice to be able to look back on.
I can't believe how nice the peace Gardens looked to what it does now ❤
When Sheffield was such a fantastic city sadly in 2021 a former shadow of itself
I used to enjoy walking through the ‘Hole in the Road’ as a short-cut to some-where. Sadly, it was spoilt by the drug users & dealers in the late 70’s. Little wonder it was closed & filled in.
Fantastic collection of images. Brought back many happy (and some not so) memories. Sad to see so many of the places I frequented as a child demolished and gone forever. Great video!!
Great video, thank you. So nice to see the hole in the road, always loved that and it's fish tank!
Fantastic film of days gone by never to be repeated sadly better place then than now ☺️👍
I adored living in Sheffield as a student in the late 1970s. I remained for a few years afterwards until the lack of jobs forced me to move to "the Smoke" which I hated. My grandfather worked with Abercrombie on a civic survey for a major overhaul of Sheffield in the 1920s, only some of which happened due to red tape & funding, and then came the War, of course. But it meant my dad was born in Sheffield because Grandad lived there while working on the Survey Plan. Interesting to look through the numerous pages of the Survey at the Central Library. Lots of photos of Sheffield in the early 1920s plus street layouts that never happened.
I used to deliver milk for express dairies in 70s on Hyde Park flats,milk float used to go in service lift then along balconies to far end then in lift to next floor ( 7 in total on main block) besides milk we did groceries. Good times & some lovely people lived there.But some of the things thrown over the balconies TVs settees any thing, l remember one sad fri night collecting a young man throw himself off as I remember he’d come all the way from Lincolnshire I have lived in N Wales now since 1977 but do miss the old Sheffield l still call Sheffield home & am still a Yorkshire bloke
Used to go to Redgates wi mi mum and Dad. bless em. Lay toys away and pay weekly. Suggs was on the corner.
Can't believe I've lived up jordanthorpe batemoor area nearly 46 years and never knew that trams came all the way up here. Brilliant footage of a route I use often and to see it as it was all those years ago is brilliant. Just goes to show that the world keeps turning but you can always see something familiar that seems stuck in time
A charm and character like no other.
Brilliant, thank you so much
Remember the fish tank? That was the meeting place for a night out. That and the co op doorway. Best time of my life.
I concur.
i believe this british cities have now lost the charm from the fifties or sixties!
I used to have to put my hands round my eyes against the glass to see the fish as the water was that dense! Fantastic memories
Don’t forget Coles Corner. Always met lads there for the first date before you told them where you lived. I used to get off my bus outside the Star & Telegraph building & just cross the road to the old Cole Bros shop corner. Seeing Peter Robinson shop brought back good memories of the clothes I bought in the swinging 60’s.
Some history, some real memories...loved seeing Tommy Wards elephant.... Thanks.
Love it. Thank you so much for putting this together.
Almost like viewing an obituary to a once great city
Brilliant compilation. Thank you for sharing.
Sheffield was a truly mighty city.
Is x
That's because it has the mighty magnificent Blades ⚔️
And the amazing owls 🦉
Sheffield FC too, the world's oldest club.
As well as its heritage, the birthplace of stainless steel, Sean Bean, the Full Monty, The Human League, East 17, Def Leppard, Arctic Monkeys, Bring me the Horizon, Malevolence...I think the Niche subgenre was also conceived in Sheffield too.
And thats probably not an exhaustive list.
@@mrnewton86 As I keep saying, there's loads Sheffield is famous for.
Excellent. Great memories. Thanks. Tim's mum. 64 years old
Nice vid - was there in the 70's - as a student - great city....
Really good. Haunting !
Brilliant video and effortlessly put together. Thank you for the time and effort that you gave this video.
If all old buildings where still standing it would be a better place
A fascinating history of my home city. I remember the trams (just) the hole in the road before it got abused and the rise of all those blocks of flats.
Lovely photos, Sheffield is my birth place, (Jessops hospital), it’s great to see images of my favourite city before my time up to present!.
Great video, some brilliant pictures and memory's here. Looking back on the old photo's their use to be far less traffic on the roads and more people milling about. I'm from Sheffield so a lot of the pictures look familiar, it saddens me tho because times have changed and the whole world has gotten Into a rush. A rat race. Things were simpler once upon a time.
Very good....I'm not from Sheffield but from Doncaster, some memories there for me though....I remember the hole in the road.....used to busk down there in the 90's lol
This video is superb.
it would be nice to see a location name at the bottom of the screen, and a date. interesting video.
I used to live in the lion hotel on the wicker and spent many hours round the castle market and the hole in the road many happy memories
Good sharing this Vidio abouth memorial this country
I Almost fell off my chair when I saw the Challenge supermarket on Manor Top. I grew up around there and have very fond memories of the shops in that area.
Great pictures, even better to see my old school St Barnabas on Cecil Road.
@@ProgressivePsyche St Barnabas had their 100th centenary year when I was there 1973.
I'm 70 and apart from a few months in 76, I have lived in Sheffield all my life - albeit at several different addresses - I can see two of them in one photograph (lived in many years apart), taken quite some time back, and effectively just round the corner from one another. I don't recognise a lot of the places shown here although I do recognise most, but there will be people much younger than me who won't have a clue. I notice there are captions on some photographs as to where they are so wasn't it possible to do it on each photo, also the year - if known - in which it was taken? Anyway, thanks for posting. I love local history.
Great video. Really enjoyed watching it.
I came to Sheffield in 1990 during my 9 day adventure travelling to different parts of the UK, Sheffield was one of the locations and I remember The Moor, it was still passable by traffic, as I remember passing through on the bus.
When did they pedestrianise The Moor?
Excellent video!
very nice set of images
Great job Nick!
I left Sheffield with my parents in the 50s. I don't recognize anything, but still miss the Mill-houses area very much.
I grew up in Nether Edge in the 70s and went to school in Millhouses. My Aunt lived on Millhouses Lane in a big stone villa. I live in Derbyshire now, not too far away. I must pop back and go through Millhouses Park again.
Nice one. Interesting choice of opening music. Whisper of a Thrill (theme tune to the film Meeting Joe Black). Well done!!
Ton.s memories from my sheffy from back in day
I can remember going to the Carlton cinema on Eastern Avenue as a lad with my Mum Dad and elder brother. Half way through the film stopped and a notice came on screen asking the owner of the car reg number BPO 192 to move it as it was blocking someone in. It was my Dads car. As the Cinema was full you can imagine the cheers and foot stamping as Dad got up to move it. I slipped down in my seat . At the time I was so embarrassed but now I think it quite funny . It must have left an impression on me as that and the first car I ever had are the only two registration number I can remember ☺☺☺☺☺☺
Born lived and loved in Sheffield until 1963. How many of the steelworks still exist?
I don't think any are sadly.
... Born and brought up in Sheffield and had some goods nights out. The days when you could go out without getting stabbed . It has not improved for the better i moved out 13 yrs ago as there is nothing there for me anymore I continued to work there until june this year.
Was there 91-2002. Great great city. Not quite the place it was. Hole in the road brings back vivid memories. ...
Good ol' Redgates, used to be Sheffield's answer to Hamley's!! Happy Days.
Used to remember going to YEB shop wi' mi Mam to pay 'lectric bill and I'd look at the gadgets and why we had to fill in t' oyl in 't road is beyond me!!
Some great shots but it’s a shame they’re not in any kind of order. It would have been great to see it move through time or geographically from one side of Sheffield to the other.
I would like to know what the new estates of housing were too. I remember the Gleadless Valley being newly built but no-where else.
Sky edge do you remember that?
8:10 > A crowd disaster waiting to happen. There but for the Grace of God goes any of us that ever attended a football match before 1989.
Great video,sadly Sheffield has not improved IMHO.
Good Job Pal
its a pity that i not have seen such wonderful british cities at earlier times,now as older man and in corona times it is not the same experience!
I saw the flats on nor flock park get blown up
All changing now because of covid my shop MIRROR MAD Abbeydale Road now closed after 34yrs have moved to Langton's Antiques Centre Picture Framing again love sheffield ..crazy daizy, bluebell etc ..
Covid used as excuse to change it...all big con.
good video remember Rex picture house at the bottom of intake
I lived in Sheffield till 2015
Please can someone tell me the name of the first piece of music? What a lovely arrangement
I'm pretty certain that the first picture is not Sheffield. It's too flat, Sheffield is much hillier than that. Born and bred Sheffield, I don't recognise any of those buildings.
I remember using the hole in the road and the woodhead route electric trains
Sheffield A City on The Move
Left when about 18 months, left country after 2 years old; never been there since. Destruction from other image collections makes me wonder about the various loonie left councils. What is the round thing below the road, that is later seen being demolished?
9:44 is very much still standing just unused & flytip pilling up next to it
Most of old England is gone to ordirany people, Old England is still available to rich ones😢
14:56 oh i remember the egg box building .
Sexy Rexy's I had forgot!
I really want a picture of Hammonds bakery on landsdown Road if anyone has it ?
Parts of Sheffield are now destroyed. Some places are like the 3rd world terrible
Hole in road go down on Sunday's with skate boards they were the day's. jump on open back bus
8:16 blusetone school brilliant days
I still think getting rid of The Hold in The Hole in Road was a nog mistake...it was unique. By the way, love Erik Satie! Cx
😂!! Cx ' scuse errors!
🕒 'O'range site re-enactment, years back now, but......?
REDGATES TOYS YOU FORGOT NICK THE BEST BIT OF 1970s
Always used to have toys laid away. my mum and me.
Whatever happened to the dynamism and optimism of the 1960s?
Just goes to show how town planners can f... Things up eh!
Whats the music please ?
Kerry Ogman it’s by Thomas Newman and some of it is the theme from Meet Joe Black. wonderful music.
@@mhoppy6639 thanks hunni x
where is that place at 3:12 ?
Its the hole in the road, Castle Square
meaning currently thats where the castle square tram stop is?
cheers pal
Since I sawMusic documentary ,so I feel it’s kind of a release that the young people there now have other choices rather than destinied to be steel factory worked....but you know ,somearea replace this job,choice of staying or leaving is still ther
They shouldn't knock down that great cinema beside John Lewis at the first place,such grant building with unique art deco design in details.Should have safe the front and rebuilt at the back.
Many years later,they knock the current ugly steal building at the site,and replace it with lame square shoe boxes like building.I wonder how many years this new build will last before they want to knock it down again...
Pat Hemsworth
Next Stop By Request Will Be... OLD SHEFFIELD, I LIKE NEW SHEFFIELD
I know it means a lot to people but stop with the hole in the road stuff lol. In all seriousness though, great slide show.
dam music cant stand it
Christ it's always been a hell hole