SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE | This is what Sheffield is REALLY like

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 121

  • @SheffieldTheHomeofFootball
    @SheffieldTheHomeofFootball 9 дней назад +1

    Thank you for highlighting a small part of Sheffield's amazing football heritage!!

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  9 дней назад +2

      You’re welcome
      Up the owls 😮🤣

  • @dehewitt341
    @dehewitt341 Месяц назад +6

    This American spent much time in Sheffield while living in Rotherham for ten years. Many good times there browsing the shops and eating tasty food too! Loved riding the trams to get from point to point, Thanks Neil for showing me how much Sheffield is coming along! Cheers! ;)

  • @gillianbrookwell1678
    @gillianbrookwell1678 12 дней назад

    I haven't lived in Sheffield since 1974, and how it's changed with nice paved walkways and impressive new buildings; I do remember Debenhams but it looked much different back then.

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 Месяц назад +5

    Sheffield is a really nice city with a lot of interesting places to explore
    of course I like seeing the local stores, pubs, restaurants and other
    places like this but I really like Sheffield, until your next video take care
    and thank you see you later.🥛👋🇬🇧

  • @suetaylor
    @suetaylor Месяц назад

    WOW! I love Sheffield and it is looking fabukous! Thank you for the tour.

  • @MickCann-j8o
    @MickCann-j8o Месяц назад +2

    Just watched your video of our city. Wow how much has it changed. I am guilty of not visiting my city centre as much as I used to, and to be fair it had fallen into disrepair for years. But your video has opened our eyes. Well done to you pal, you’ve shown my city in a completely different light 👍

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      Thanks so much - I wish more people were like you. I"ve just been accused by another viewer of using AI to make Sheffield look better in the video 🤣

  • @Blind-Ghost-1980
    @Blind-Ghost-1980 Месяц назад +6

    Sheffield has better outskirts than other cities in the UK. It's an awesome place to live.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      @@Blind-Ghost-1980 agreed!

    • @Abornazine
      @Abornazine Месяц назад +1

      Yes, part of the Peak District falls within the Sheffield boundary.

  • @andywright3450
    @andywright3450 Месяц назад +14

    Hi Neil good walk Sheffield isn't the same no more now it's finished mate no vibe in the city anymore

    • @abdirahimmussa2708
      @abdirahimmussa2708 Месяц назад +1

      I haven’t been to Sheffield ever since 2004

    • @LA90598
      @LA90598 28 дней назад

      @@andywright3450 visited Sheffield in August and I felt the opposite. Was very impressed... City Centre was clean and well maintained. Some lovely new developments such as the Cambridge Street Collective. The Town Hall Peace Gardens area around St Paul's was lovely. Fargate was being repaved so will look great I'm sure. I'm sure there are dodgy areas .... but generally I was very impressed

  • @lotjasmine
    @lotjasmine Месяц назад +2

    Wow, what a lovely and big city Sheffield is! Thank you so much for showing us, really love it...Cheers💐🌼🌺🌹

  • @jeanwood6392
    @jeanwood6392 Месяц назад +8

    Traffic free City Centres , the kiss of death !!!

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      The sensible future!

    • @NightLife-cd6yd
      @NightLife-cd6yd Месяц назад +3

      packed in the 80's practically dead now nightlife too only a few student boozers

  • @MarkCroucherRC4fun
    @MarkCroucherRC4fun Месяц назад

    Great video, my wife is from Sheffield moved to the North East over 35 years ago. While we visit her family it's been some time since we took a walk around the city centre..... Very impressed with the changes.

  • @jackwatsonepic626
    @jackwatsonepic626 Месяц назад +6

    Dixons 🤔 memories, lol & not forgetting tandy's 👍

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Ah yes!
      Tandy's always seemed to stock some really cheap things!

  • @RFS001
    @RFS001 Месяц назад

    Thank you for doing what you do… I don’t often get time to go into The City Centre too much so it’s nice to have a virtual walk around, I appreciate what you do.
    Peace & Love ☮️💜🕉️

  • @rbnhd1144
    @rbnhd1144 22 дня назад +1

    Sheffield is one the best places I've lived and I miss it, it wants for nothing, you really blew me away with this update on the steel city, I'm older and I don't like change but if you don't update things the whole place will look like a dump, its always an ongoing thing with a city centre of this size, I can understand people moaning but they really should be grateful they live in a city that will do these things, I now live in a place where things seem stagnant and shopping malls are closing, everything is Amazon delivery so we don't get out or see people, that's the problem with today, that people connection, I really do agree that the people of Sheffield have always been friendly and funny people, Thanks again Neil.

  • @Sean-ff9rh
    @Sean-ff9rh Месяц назад +1

    I think this city looks very interesting. The beginning is so modern. The planting reminds me a lot of Australia. Grasses, etc and the indoor conservatory has a lot of tropical plants that you would find in Australia's top end. What really shocked me was how quiet the city is.

  • @HistoryTalks-r3v
    @HistoryTalks-r3v Месяц назад

    I haven’t lived in Sheffield for 45 years nor been in the centre for 20. I really enjoyed the video. One can always criticise but at least they seem to be doing something.

  • @greerbullock2085
    @greerbullock2085 Месяц назад

    Great video! Sheffield has changed a lot since I left; it looks nice and clean, and I like the new developments. Brings back a lot of memories too!

  • @rbnhd1144
    @rbnhd1144 22 дня назад +1

    I really enjoyed Leahs yard, that is a super cool idea, that's the brilliant thing about Sheffield, its got your big names but the small business's are there too, I do think Meadowhall killed The Moor and I find that quite sad, its really cool that you worked at House of Frasier in the TV and hi fi Dept, wasn't that Walshes at one time? I do remember Dixon's, The Sony Shop, and Virgin records, oh and Redgates toy shop... thanks again...

  • @TrottieTrue-iw7pv
    @TrottieTrue-iw7pv Месяц назад

    I remember the days when Thursday was half day closing in town. That reminds me of Sheffield early Sunday morning not 10 am on a week day. I remember Sheffield being busy/packed. The Haymarket and Dixon Lane and the Castle, Sheaf, Sets and the Rag and Tag markets.. Hole in t' Road .. Sheffield in it's hey day.. All the characters have gone, new buildings everywhere, expensive shops and food halls. Most people I know couldn't afford to shop and eat there Where's the good old greasy spoons?

  • @karlmaas7233
    @karlmaas7233 Месяц назад

    I like the cheese grater, it's an eye catcher !

  • @sarahillingworth2718
    @sarahillingworth2718 Месяц назад +1

    Sheffield is a great city, I like Barnsley and Doncaster too 👍

  • @Stannington
    @Stannington Месяц назад +1

    As a child of the 60s it's changed a lot since I was a lad. I'm not keen on all the pedestrianised areas, I think it's reducing a lot of trade. I remember cars backing onto Pinstone street to get into Cole Brothers' car park

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      That was ok back then when not everyone had a car
      If they opened up the roads again it would be absolute standstill carnage these days!

  • @ash36230
    @ash36230 Месяц назад +2

    Some of the outer suburbs of Sheffield has a few gems of independent stores, cafes, etc. The city gets a harsher reputation than it perhaps deserves, but it also did suffer from a lot of the same issues plenty of UK cities did during constant regeneration works over the years, and that a lot are suffering today.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Hopefully it will settle down and people will move into the city centre to live again

    • @user-jv9tg2ef5f
      @user-jv9tg2ef5f Месяц назад +2

      Sheffield suffered from the same issues that many cities do. Bad planning from 1960s and suburban expansion. Couple that with de-industrialisation, online shopping, and lack of transport, and bingo dead town centre. It's turning around now though. Been packed the last few weekends especially

    • @ash36230
      @ash36230 Месяц назад

      @@user-jv9tg2ef5f There are attempts to change that (city centre living helps, though turning office blocks into flats I'd argue isn't quite the answer). A lot of European cities haven't met with these issues because the culture and design of cities differs (people go to cafes socially, aren't averse to living in city centres as much, better transport links, etc). Their cities have just been more liveable than ours for much of the past 50 years.

    • @user-jv9tg2ef5f
      @user-jv9tg2ef5f Месяц назад

      @@ash36230 I agree. We all want a semi in the suburbs. Spain has the best cities like you described

  • @simonmitchell1978
    @simonmitchell1978 Месяц назад

    Thank you for another great video and walk around our city. I am too a Sheffielder. Born here and lived all my life here too. So much has changed over the years gone by. Possibly for the good. But some will say different. But as they say, you can not please every body.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Exactly!
      The number of people whinging, moaning and hating is ridiculous

    • @simonmitchell1978
      @simonmitchell1978 Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV it sure is.

  • @GeoffMerrill
    @GeoffMerrill Месяц назад +2

    Really enjoyed this one. Any chance of showing us the Christmas market this year.

  • @callumtew2693
    @callumtew2693 Месяц назад

    Hello Neil I have been round Leahs yard the other week sometimes I sit outside Lloyd's with my friend Sheffield has changed over the years xx

  • @TrottieTrue-iw7pv
    @TrottieTrue-iw7pv Месяц назад

    I'm too young to remember the cinema, I remember it as Top Rank Bingo and YEB next to it. I remember the cinema that was on the corner of FitzAllan Sq that burned down. And the Cine-centre in the multi-story car park and the one on Angel Street and Studio 5-6-7 on the Wicker.

  • @scuseme391
    @scuseme391 Месяц назад

    Thanks, this is so helpful, it's likely I'm moving to Sheffield in the not too distant future to be closer to family. I don't know the city that well so your walks and commentary are really helping me prepare. You mentioned coming back to Sheffield, do you live elsewhere these days? Can you recommend areas of the city? It's a big move and I want to get it right 😊

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Heya,
      Yeh I still live here when I'm not travelling
      It all depends on your budget really but places like Crookes, Dore, Fulwood, Nether Edge, Abbeydale maybe?

    • @scuseme391
      @scuseme391 Месяц назад

      Thank you, I really appreciate it. Looking forward to the move and being back in the north 😊

  • @owlman9297
    @owlman9297 Месяц назад +2

    Sheffield is now an over sized park for foreign students and migrants , Meadowhall is for local sheffield people..Where the moor was once a bustling hell in the 80s , now its meadow hell..😅
    Theres nothing there for local people to want to visit , just a sad fact.
    Ive worked in the city for 40 odd yrs as a bus driver , so ive seen how its declined. Its a center for foreign students and migrants to chill , not complaining its just a fact. I hope they get the balance right between leisure and business otherwise it will fail as did the fast food area a couple of years ago....personally im more for the wild spaces such as the Peak , so doesnt affect me...peace.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Times move on
      The city centre is for the younger generations now to enjoy

  • @jacquelinehelliwell5954
    @jacquelinehelliwell5954 Месяц назад +2

    Henrys wine bar used to be the Barleycorn, and if I'm not mistaken, the outside was clad in creamy yellow tiles. I know life moves on but I think the old buildings had character and have stood the test of time, new builds are so bland and same, same and they won't be there in 200 years. Sorry just my opinion

  • @hollietoronto
    @hollietoronto Месяц назад

    Have considered it for years but really considering moving to Sheffield next year. Would appreciate anyones pros/cons or any kind of feedback on living in Sheffield whether you're from there or have relocated there! :)

  • @pete1w
    @pete1w Месяц назад +6

    Why didn't you head down Fargate? That would have been fun navigating the endless barriers and never ending works. Were you paid by the council to make this video? You like the new buildings but failed to mention most of them are still empty.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +7

      I hope your life is more positive soon x

    • @pete1w
      @pete1w Месяц назад +6

      I'll just pop on a pair of rose tinted glasses.​@@GimbalWalkTV

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      @@pete1wHave a great weekend Pete x

    • @daleharrison8419
      @daleharrison8419 Месяц назад +1

      @@pete1w why don’t you do a video? Actually go to the city centre?

  • @JayneBennett-d8c
    @JayneBennett-d8c Месяц назад +1

    Not many people for a market day . Better than Ramsgate Kent where the floor goes up and down it look walking on a mattress the whole way down it which is so bad and hardly any shops open there x

  • @Karnavcm
    @Karnavcm 22 дня назад

    does it snow in sheffield??

  • @helenab7390
    @helenab7390 Месяц назад +1

    What day and time was this filmed please?

    • @helenab7390
      @helenab7390 Месяц назад

      Where is everyone?

    • @helenab7390
      @helenab7390 Месяц назад

      Film when its busier time of day?

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад

    The Building were Sainsbury is is almost identical to the old Boots chemist building in Plymouth City centre 😮

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад +1

    i Live in Newton Abbot in Devon our town is getting a revamp at the moment 😂

  • @Lee-o8f
    @Lee-o8f Месяц назад

    Over 19m views the format is great part of history some places can't recover technology
    China Russian cities so far advanced
    Sheffield good base for peaks Buxton not too far away

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад

    yes my Dad always bought all his electrical gadgets at Dixons 😂

  • @alanbearder6538
    @alanbearder6538 Месяц назад

    I hope Sheffield gets busy in the afternoon because all those business will close down. I've lived in Sheffield all my life but I've stopped using the city centre because it's so hard to get around by car. Meadowhall is much more popular with locals and visitors.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      I guess car owners have Meadowhall if they want to drive and shop and the city centre can be more for residential and cofffee shop culture moving forwards now!

  • @sarahillingworth2718
    @sarahillingworth2718 Месяц назад

    Nowt wrong with Sheffield I like to have a few drinks here every so often 👍

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад

    kind of Reminds me of the City of Plymouth my place of Birth
    the lay out some of the old buildings are the same 😅

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      I need to go to Plymouth again
      I only visited the Barbican last time

    • @Glory3823
      @Glory3823 Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV i Left in 2013 my hubby and i moved to Newton Abbot 💕we last went back twice in 2017 glad we did my hubby died 30:12:2017
      he was born in Dagenham 💞we were old pen friends 💞married in plymouth in December 1982 💞i was born in Plymouth 💞in 1958!😂i remember the ruins from the blitz 💕

  • @nobutyeh
    @nobutyeh Месяц назад +3

    Sheffield isn't safe anymore especially at night

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      I’ve never had an issue
      Whereabouts do you mean

    • @anotherother
      @anotherother Месяц назад +1

      @@nobutyeh As someone out at least 4 nights a week , tuesdsys till 3am ,its very rare to see trouble and there's thousands and thousands of others too.Keep some balance

  • @user-jv9tg2ef5f
    @user-jv9tg2ef5f Месяц назад +3

    I think Sheffield is headed in the right direction and I like the new developments. Unfortunately many people are extremely negative about the city and seem to want it to be a failure. The 1980s aren't coming back. The way most people work, shop, and entertain themselves has changed massively in the last couple decades. Sheffield got left behind compared to Leeds or Manchester in the last 10 years. There's some growing pains for sure, and not everyone will like it, but the city has to change for the future, not hold on to a past that most working age people don't even remember.

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад

    was wondering were you Lived ❤

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      I'm hardly ever there to be honest!

    • @Glory3823
      @Glory3823 Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV i guess not you travel a lot 💞💞

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      @@Glory3823 Yeh pretty much full time now - it's exhausting!
      Omly get to see Sheffield every now and again for a day now

    • @Glory3823
      @Glory3823 Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV 💞💞i have a friend who lives in deepcar 💞

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад

    Think Debenums had the same Architects for all there Stores as its the same as plymouth 😂

  • @davidbright4539
    @davidbright4539 Месяц назад +1

    do you think there"s a better city than York

  • @roykennie92
    @roykennie92 Месяц назад +2

    If you want to show what Sheffield is REALLY like then make a new video showing some of the areas where people actually live. I had the misfortune to travel to the Northern General hospital and I have to say that some areas are a world away from the modern city centre.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      I literally just did show what Sheffield is really like - the camera never lies!

    • @roykennie92
      @roykennie92 Месяц назад +2

      @@GimbalWalkTV Yes but you only showed "the best part". Not all of Sheffield has been lucky enough to be modernised. To say that the camera never lies may once have been true but nowadays it could be said that the camera sometimes tells the truth - AI and modern software can fool many.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      @@roykennie92 do you think my video is AI?

    • @roykennie92
      @roykennie92 Месяц назад +2

      @@GimbalWalkTV No not at all, I am just pointing out in reply to your statement that "the camera never lies" is an outdated statement and should not now be in use! May I add that I was born and bred in Sheffield and have seen many changes for the better BUT there are many areas that do not live up to the ideal that you have shown in this video. Would you care to take your camera to - for example - page hall road or shirecliffe? Your comments about the city centre being litter free, did you not notice the graffiti towards the end of the video? Having said all that I still think Sheffield is a great place and I would not put off anyone wishing to visit, I just think a little balance is required in coverage,

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад

      @@roykennie92 Here is a list of replies that I get every single time I post a Sheffield video of Sheffield City Centre (without fail I get this from Sheffield people every time)
      1) You only showed the best bits
      2) CGI or AI was involved to make it look better
      3) Graffiti everywhere (which isn't true)
      4) Why didn't you show the homeless/drunks/immigrants?
      5) Why don't you also show Page Hall?
      6) Why didn't you film it at a different time of day/on a different day
      etc
      What I do is film Sheffield City Centre by filming Sheffield City Centre as it is when I'm there filming it - nothing more, nothing less
      e.g the reality!

  • @GillianBeckett-d5w
    @GillianBeckett-d5w Месяц назад

    Love this video of my home city so much has changed though since my last visi 16:54 t, I honestly think I won't know where I am next time I come home, thank you for the memories and inspiring me to take another visit probably 25 years since I last came home

  • @Glory3823
    @Glory3823 Месяц назад +1

    cheese Grater 😂or Borg Ship

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Ha ha yeah!!

    • @Glory3823
      @Glory3823 Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV😂like the Plymouth university building though Plymouth building is creepy it seems to be Alive 😂even more Borg 😂

  • @chrisbatstone9742
    @chrisbatstone9742 Месяц назад

    Hi new subscriber great vlog do u do requests my home town reading Berkshire have u been buddy have a good day to. 😊😊

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      Hi - thanks so much!
      Reading is on my list. I've been a few times yeh!
      I love the railway station there - I think it's great
      Last time I was in Reading I stayed at The Malmaison opposite the station and that was a really nice hotel too.
      My daugher lives and works in Reading so definitely on my way there to film it soon!

    • @chrisbatstone9742
      @chrisbatstone9742 Месяц назад

      😊 Thank you

  • @MarkPickers86
    @MarkPickers86 Месяц назад

    I miss the old Sheffield what we used to have before ( Castle Market ) ( Castle house ) and the sheaf market what we used to have back in 90s as well best days not like now

  • @nonnobisdomine2026
    @nonnobisdomine2026 Месяц назад

    Time will tell if this was a complete waste of money or not

  • @AlexHeim-t3t
    @AlexHeim-t3t 28 дней назад

    Why are you obsessed with everything being flattened?

  • @LionelHeir
    @LionelHeir Месяц назад +1

    Sheffield ...welcome to oceanic council house estates. Hardly much private housing here in comparison. It's a chav heaven and always has been. Population mostly from steel and pits with football being the only cultural activity. If that isn't bad enough it's connected to Rotherham.
    Just passed that ....Barnsley. Sheffielders were so proud of their cooling towers landmark ! I kid you not. Sheffielders are fiercely proud of their city ...I kid you not ! Oh ..it also gave you David Blunket and his "independent Republic of South Yorkshire".

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +2

      We don't do moaning on this channel 👍🏻

  • @johnribble
    @johnribble 16 часов назад

    This is not re development but destruction of sheffields heratige ,the old buildings need updating not pulling down , it’s not the Sheffield I grew up in ,more like a soviet gulag

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  16 часов назад

      You're in the wrong place - You should be on the Sheffield facebook groups along with all the other moaners and whingers 🤣

    • @johnribble
      @johnribble 13 часов назад

      @ just because I don’t share your view on Sheffield don’t be so childish ,iam stating a fact , old historic Sheffield is being demolished and architecture which is just vile being put up , and don’t forget the Chinese backhanders the Labour council are getting for this so called re development ,if it is as you say your home town ?,you are clearly misguided and deluded

  • @rubydazzler
    @rubydazzler Месяц назад

    a spoken commentary would be nice?

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      That’s not what I do on this channel ❤️

    • @marzipom5630
      @marzipom5630 Месяц назад +1

      No, it wouldn't.

    • @rubydazzler
      @rubydazzler Месяц назад

      @@marzipom5630 In your opinion. *shrug*

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV  Месяц назад +1

      @@rubydazzler There's so many channels out there with people jabbering on during their videos - if that's what you want then you literally have hundreds of channels to choose from for that!
      What I do is just have the natural sound and sights of the places - always have, always will! 👍🏻

    • @rubydazzler
      @rubydazzler Месяц назад

      @@GimbalWalkTV ok, I'll unsubscribe, was only interested because it's my home.