My home city. My beloved Sheffield. The place where I had some of the best times in my life. The wild stories my mum told me of Mojos, The Fiesta & Josephine's & where I spent my childhood in the working mens clubs of the of the 70's & 80's & where I clubbed throughout the brilliant nightlife of the 90's..The Leadmill, The Drop City Hall, Cairo Jax, Niche & where I spent all my Saturdays walking round all of the vintage clothes shops, record shops, Castle Market & The Forum. Sheffield has a very special place in my heart. So I'm probably going to watch this & cry. If anyone has a time machine, I'd like to go back to Sheffield in about 1991 thanks........
@@pimpozzaYou're welcome. My head could explode watching this lol. So many memories. I'm watching it saying, "omg that shop used to be this & that & that building was the Yorkshire Bank" hahahaha. I must must make a visit to Sheffield asap after watching this
@@rosieHolliday5887 My reply disappeared for some reason.. It's just so nice to read such a positive comment and I hope you get back for a visit soon! 👍🙋🏻♀️
Thought I'd stop by as a local lad to drop some insider information to explain a lot of whats been shown on this fantastic video, I know I'm a bit late but hope some of you see this! So Sheffield is essentially in a massive transition period, us as the gritty northerners we are tend to drag our heels a bit when it comes to redevelopment and we found ourselves a decade behind Leeds and Manchester, this is all in the process of changing. Let me take you back a decade. The first long shopping street he walked down, Fargate, was the bustling hub of the town centre, every shop filled with a big named brand with the offshot streets (like the one he said he liked that led to the theaters) being the home to fantastic local independent businesses to give the best of both worlds. On the other side of town (bare in mind sheffield City centre is tiny in comparison to most) about a 10 minute walk away is The Moor which at the time was the rough end, a lot of crime, a lot of rough characters hanging around. To curb this the local council did a massive redevelopment of The Moor and suddenly most of the name brands moved to there, H&M, Primark, a huge cinema complex with restaurants. Even the city centre market moved there. As such the local council successfully transformed it into the new centre of Sheffield City life but as a result they removed their focus from Fargate which then fell into compete disrepair, massive spice epidemics fuelled by widespread homelessness meant that Fargate became a pretty awful place to be but the issue is that the city centre was developed in the mindset that Fargate was the central hub with the trams running up to it, the cathedral, even the cutlers Hall he showed is just round the corner so Sheffield became quite disjointed, to get to any of the major shops you now had to walk. This meant that most people elected to do their shopping online or if they were going to shop in person would usually, quite begrudgingly, go to the ever busy Meadowhall. The last part of the video takes place in Kehlam Island, my personal favourite place in Sheffield, this area is everywhere from the road he commented was hard to cross all the way round and through the Alfred becket building. Kelham is a strange mix of vibrant modern living, a huge multicultural safe space and the capital of northern vibrancy alongside the old disused factories, shadows of the former steel industry infrastructure (like the kiln) The perks of this was that most of these disused buildings were bought up, partitioned and transformed into rentable spaces, very cheap rentable spaces, as such this became, in my opinion, England's Primary location for upcoming bands and musicians, this is seen through Sheffields ongoing monopoly over the worlds music scene, artists such as Def Leppard, Pulp, The human league, Arctic monkeys, Bring me the horizon, While she sleeps and more currently bands such as Malevolence have all practiced in these sort of places, you can't walk around Kelham without the amazing sound of hundreds of new bands, dreaming big, writing what could be the music of the new generation. A decade ago Kelham was the red light district and certain disused parts still are but that's the true testament to how an area can change in a small space of time. So what now? As you saw in the video there are huge redevelopments, a whole are called "the heart of the city 2" has opened which us a 400 million pound development, this includes Europe's largest purpose built food hall, cambridge street collective (where I currently work) along with amazing recreational areas, new leasure sites. a new flagship raddison blu hotel (which was one of the first big developments on this video) and this is the start of Sheffield catching up but in true northern style. In 5 years time everything seen on this video will be redeveloped, bringing Sheffieldd up to to the same standard as Leeds and Manchester but with a huge focus on preserving a lot of what has always made Sheffield amazing, lots of opportunity for independent businesses, independent musicians, independent artists, alongside the return of massive high street brands. Come drop by some time, watch a local gig, drink some local ale, chat to us all cause we're a nice bunch and soak up Europe's greenest city in true gritty style. It's grim up north but remember... Anything south of Sheffield is France 😂
No way, finally someone who actually knows what they’re on about. I honestly get so sick of old people complaining about Sheffield when apart from fargate it’s probably the nicest it’s been in like 20 years at least
@@nottingham1 crippled economy, corrupt government, dying culture, i assume that the people in this comment section want to blame it all on foreigners but it runs a lot deeper than that
Whatever your political views tends to skew your views on government corruption. So can you give very specific examples of a dying culture and please don't say boarded up shops if you do any online shopping. Also there are many countries which have had downturn in their economy and an increase in inflation so how is the UK different from them precisely?
I moved to Sheffield 6 years ago from USA & I love it! I've been to many cities in UK but for me Sheffield is the best. South of city center you didn't go, but it's full of artists, cool shops, and beautiful green neighborhoods great for alternative minded people. Friendly and lovely place on the edge of the peak district.
@@ParksRecThere seems to be a lot of British youtubers at the moment just going around the world parts of a city, or the worst town in the whole country and acting like that is what everything and everywhere looks like. You'd think we lived in the third world country if you took these peoples word for it.
Being a Aussie, and loving British bands I used to be so jealous hearing about all the popular British bands back in the 60, 70s and 80s, playing in all these English towns.
Got loads actually from Sheffield too; Pulp, Human League, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, and more recently Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, While She Sleeps, Reverend and the Makers and loads more! It’s a very musical city
@@Rostern.Instruments Fantastic !!! I'd hate to see all that magic disappear especially with all the unrest going on over there. Nobody and I mean nobody can beat the British music scene.
Sheffield and Pittsburgh (my home city) were sister cities, I think, and shared a similar fate: Deindustrialization. It’s hard to recover after all the jobs and industry go far away.
@@Greeny_303 Pittsburgh has recovered somewhat through technology and healthcare. There are still very affluent, beautiful neighborhoods, but some near suburban boroughs like Wilkinsburg, the Rox, Aliquippa are as hood and dangerous as it gets. Also as an undergrad my Senior thesis looked a Cutlery Mill in Beaver Falls, (outside of Pittsburgh) founded by a religious Commune. They recruited workers from Sheffield, but when the workers resisted pay cuts and went on strike, the owners secretly brought in Chinese workers to break the strike.
My mum got me a really nice Richardsons chef's knives set (made in Sheffield) a couple of years ago when I moved house. We're belgian, but my mum said "it's made in Sheffield so it's good quality!". So the reputation lives on :)
Once we produced quality cutlery, tools and steel all stamped proudly with MADE IN SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND. The goods went allover the world, the wild west in America was "won" using Sheffield knives and farming tools.
Too right ! People can't win at a Betting Shop. It literally can only exist because it pays out, substantially less than it takes in. They are an utter scam facilitated by local and national governments designed to strip money out of the poorest people of all.
@@muffinman4544 Top Bet365 takes an annual pay cut of £27m but still earns £271m. Some reports say she earns up to £469m but I'm not too sure about that.
Love Sheffield, one of my favourite cities after Liverpool and Newcastle, strong identity, rich history and culture (think of all the bands from the place, Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Arctic Monkeys, Def Leppard, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Pulp, Bring Me the Horizon, Living in a Box, Thompson Twins, good people too, infamously called “the UK’s biggest village” iconic landmarks like the Park Hill Flats standing as a surviving testament to the 20th century dreams of living.
As a semi-retired furnace engineer and metallurgist, I really enjoyed and appreciated your video. Well done🇬🇧 I have fond memories of Sheffield and of the skill and friendliness of the people.
I love this video. I spent 4 years at uni here and I never knew any of this. Keep doing what you're doing, the UK needs its history preserved and people will look back on this in 20 years and be grateful. Thank you.
The Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster was 20 miles solid with forges, furnaces, and factories, all leveled in the 1980s. When you made the train journey through it it was like passing through a land devastated by a nuclear war.
Yes I remember that. I went along the Don valley by train in the mid 80s. I came from a West Yorks textiles area with plenty of abandoned mills etc. But the Don valley was something else.
Yes. My mum (in the 40s/50s) used to walk past two foundries in her home town (Knottingley) on the way to school. This is the days before industry was shut off from the public, in the way that started in the 70s/80s, so she could see men working and flames would belch out as they fed the furnaces. She said the night sky was red, the other thing is the foundries and glassworks in Knottingley worked three shifts so day or night there was manufacturing activity.
I grew up on the edges of the valley next to where meadowhall is and as a kid I spent most my youth playing in those derelict factory buildings before they got leveled and meadowhall built
The Furance is a Grade 2 listed building and can never be knocked down. The gates at the front are locked and the key can be obtained from Kelham Island Museum to look around it. It is the last standing furnace of its kind in the country. It is supposed to be maintained but clearly hasn't been.
No worries, it is a shame that the repairs haven't been kept up on it. I'm sure it is the museum that is responsible for it. I might do a few checks to see.
The Brown Bear on Norfolk Street is a pub stuck in time, one of the stipulations to being Landlord is that you Cannot alter it, its my favourite pub in England.. from all the ones ive been in
My dad’s family were from Sheffield, my grandad was police superintendent, we have our own carving knives made by our Relatives-T Makin, lovely bit of history, and some incredible stories about the steel and coal industry, horrific injuries and death. Lovely, friendly, hard, stoic, historical city. I’m going over with my sister soon to recce and say goodbye after my dad’s death in 2022.
The shiny sign that fronts the Savoy in London is Sheffield 'Stay Brite' steel. The cutlery i use everyday are by Joseph Rodgers . Sheffield is a cracking place. Loved going to the Leadmill on a sat night in the 90's. Anyone remember the shop Pippys ?? Thankyou my good man. You did the city proud 👍
Was pippy's on Cambridge Street? We used to go in before we went to the record shop on the top corner I can't remember it's name. Then into sportsman for a few pints.
I was born in Sheffield 58 years ago and have witnessed many changes over the years. I would say most are for the better. While Sheffield is well known for its steel it is less well known for the major disasters it has endured. On December 12-15th my father was in the city center when the Luftwaffe tried to halt the steel making process. They mistakenly dropped their bombs along the Moore, a busy shopping area within the city center, killing around 650 and injuring a further 1,500. If you look at the building you will see a mixture of old beautiful buildings mixed with those built in the 50's, these newer building show the path of the bombers. In total six George medals were awarded to Sheffielders for their actions in the aftermath of the two day bombing raids. After the war prefabricated houses were quickly built to house those whose homes were lost during the war. However in 1962 many of these homes were destroyed in the Great Sheffield Gale. Winds of around 100mph hit Sheffield causing the government declaring a state of emergency since approximately two-thirds (150,000) of the cities housing was destroyed. During the incident 4 people died and 400 injured. Elsewhere in the UK the storm claimed a further 5 people were killed. Long before the war Sheffield was devastated by a major flood caused by the total collapse of the newly Dale Dyke Dam. Around 700 million gallons of water poured through the Loxley valley, Malin bridge and Hillsborough. 240 people lost their lives that night many of which died in their beds.
We only became South Yorkshire in the 1970s. My dad went into Sheffield during the 2nd World War with his dad and he says you could see the thick black smog as you were approaching the city and that the whole city was enveloped in thick black smog, so it wasnt that long ago. They are replacing the track for the trams in Sheffield which is why there are so many road works.
Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, David! I'm really looking forward to this one.. a town I know but will no doubt learn a lot of stuff I didn't know, thanks to this great channel! Thank you.. 👍
Hello! Missed you visiting! Glad you enjoyed the trip. I moved here in 2006, university, like a lot of folk that stayed on, cos it is a lovely city. 😀👍💚
I have lived and worked in Sheffeild for the last 7 years, I grew up in Scunthorpe in a steelworking family so I kind of feel at home in Sheffield. I work in the city centre and live in one of the bigger suburbs. I like that the place has so many trees and parks and interesting places to visit. It will be interesting when all works on the heart of the city and on fargate are completed to see if there is any uptake in retail and hospitality.
The Dalesman's Litany - a poem written by Frederic William Moorman around 1900 has a great verse about Sheffield. It later became a well known folk song in West and South Yorkshire. The relevant verse is - I’ve walked at neet down Sheffield lanes, ’t was the same as bein’ in Hell; Furnaces thrust out tongues of fire that roared like wind on t’ fell; I’ve sammed up coil in Barnsley pits wi’ muck upto me knees. (sammed up = picked up) From Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, good Lord deliver me.
What an absolutely wonderful video. All your videos are so well-made, insightful and absorbing, and this one is an absolute gem. I've lived in Sheffield for 26 years, and you've given it a fresh perspective; thank you so much! 😊
Now I want to go and watch again (after 20+ years) The Full Monty. Specially that opening sequence. I can hear in my head that voice saying -A city...on the move!-. Great video. Big fan of this channel. Cheers!
There’s a massive new advanced manufacturing park they’re still building in Sheffield called Waverley with a bunch of big companies like McLaren, rolls Royce and Boeing
Having lived in Manchester 22 years at age 53 and coming from a little village in Rural Republic of Ireland, I see the parallels between the decline of big U.K. cities and the decline of Rural Ireland, over my 30 years in supermarket retailing in both the U.K. and Ireland, where Irish emigration was once a big thing, even in my teens in the 1980’s - I still have extended family in Rural Ireland and they are currently finding it ever more economically difficult to remain living there in favour of moving to big cities like Dublin, as rural banks, post offices and even Rural Broadband in Ireland has been gradually been removed - since Covid, even emigration is no longer a viable option for young Irish people - while here in the U.K. is definitely in decline including here in Manchester, I do think that Rural Irish towns and villages are in an even faster rate of decline than even rural U.K. towns and villages and this decline is definitely by deliberate design of the globalist deep state via government policies that are intentionally creating this decline
Moved to Sheffield from Newcastle for uni in 2015 and only just left this January. Although I will always have pride in my geordie heritage the passion I have for Sheffield city is unmatched. Steeped in such amazing, important history and the community feel where everyone is in it together and pulls together. The wonderful green spaces and respect for the environment and the arts and all the diversity. From the sunset reflecting off park hill flats, to the sound of the trams rolling by. From the poem on the side of hallam uni to Phlegms street art. Tear up when I miss it 😪 Sheffield will always have a special place in my heart. quite fitting that my family name is Steel 😂 great content mr turnip! Love your energy and your attitude! The fact the original high street is now derelict but sheffielders have made a community event space in the middle shows how forward thinking this city is. Whilst other high streets may fall into the past I can see sheffield leading the way into how to rejuvenate our city centres
Nostalgia beyond words. Brilliant video. The UK led the world in many inventions and developments and steel was just one of those things. I've been to Sheffield a few times and always found the people very friendly, and the guy at the old building that gave you a tour shows this. He seemed proud of what the town has achieved and so he should be. Once all the reconstruction of the city center has finished it would be nice to see all these historical places given a special place and maybe even a tour.
as a Sheffielder - at 14:58 when you say "I wonder what this was" - it's not a was, it still is. those are the blacked-out windows for the staff changing rooms for Bungalows & Bears (where I used to work). but thanks for an epic video on my city's history & current state - I can't help but share in your decrying the state of our current high streets but really appreciate the attention to detail in walking through how our city helped shape the modern world. Rare & Racy used to be my go-to shop for pre-owned books! but I never knew about Lizzie the elephant - sick factoid. really glad you visited Kelham too (even if I'm disappointed you didn't pop in for a pint at The Gardener's Rest, you were right across the road!)
I’m from Barnsley also in South Yorkshire. What you see in this video is county wide. One of the most industrial counties of the UK having most of its industry pulled in the space of a few years with no replacement put in place has been devastating
There's so much to see in Sheffield. Lots of students who come to the universities choose to live there when they've got their degrees etc. Kelham Island is a must place for you to visit with your love of industry. Your made in Britain series hopefully give Sheffield a mention
Yes I was wondering if he'd make it to Kelham Island... looks like he didn't. That steam engine there is incredible, The most powerful working steam engine in Europe,!
Interesting to see what Sheffield is like in 2024. Growing up in the Cold War 1980’s, all I knew about Sheffield was Threads! Still the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.
😂😂 Same! I was terrified for years after watching that! I'm laughing at your comment because everyone I know that saw that says the exact same... I'm in Sheffield..think we all suffered trauma! ☮️
I moved to Sheffield in 2022, it’s been the most amazing time for me, lots of things to do here, lovely Peak District walks 20 min drive from my house, lots of shopping options, great nightlife scene I moved here alone and iv been very welcomed here
Great Video mate. I left the UK about 7 years ago now, but Lived in Sheffield for 30 before that. Great Memories and good to see that there is still development going on. Friendliest people in the world in Sheffield, it was truly a great place to grow up. Keep the videos coming, they're a brill watch.
The Hallamshire district in Sheffield has wages higher than most of the South East, like all Northern cities and London, the variations between rich and poor are incomprehensible. This is replicated in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. Sheffield is the most Northern of the Northern cities to me. They tried lumping it in with the East Midlands once, good luck calling Sean Bean a Midlander.
Anywhere west of Eccleshall Road, Abbeydale etc. is (mostly) very des-res; Dore, Totley, Whirlow and all the way out to the Peak are very nice and VERY expensive neighbourhoods!
Back in the 70s (and prolly earlier) the blades of choice for competitive figure skaters were from Sheffield. As a kid I remember seeing the name Sheffield stamped on my mom’s skate blades. A big deal and expensive to import them to the USA back then.
what a great presenter you are!! i did once see a documentary on Sheffield steel, explaining that stainless was accidently made from a worker who added the wrong sequence of ingredient's to the furnace, when the boss saw the outcome of the pour, he was livid and threw the steel outside, after a few weeks they realised it was not corroding hence stainless steel!!! the said worker lost his job, but it was said they give his job back....sad to see the city's in decline. keep up the good work. subbed!!!
People often think that the biggest cause of city decay is the internet which has crowded out retail but it's not only that. A very major part is higher education. UK cities thrived from the 1970s because of the expansion of universities. Students needed bars to go to where they could meet people to shag. It created an industry of good times but like any industry education sought new avenues for expansion. The result of this became grotesque as it sold itself internationally. Today we now have a higher education sector that sucks in money and people from China, India and Nigeria and those students live insular lives away from the nightclubs, pubs and restaurants that used fed the university towns. Now, across the UK these towns and cities have become wastelands fed by people using Deliveroo to buy bottles of water and mushrooms from Sainsbury's Local. It's a far more complex form of decline that most people don't notice. We've created a pretend city economy across the country. The universities have cash and the cities they are in are utterly fucked.
This is brilliant. I'm a Sheffield lass and I loved this video! I'm so glad you enjoyed our fair city. The Cutlers' Hall is beautiful (my friend C McKay was Master Cutler a few years ago!). Thanks for showing the thriving independent shops and the city's industrial heritage too. Great job. I watched your Scarborough video too - my favourite place, and you were so respectful about it. A new subscriber here!
Another great video. you need to pop to the Millennium Gallery where they have the Metalwork Collection (13,000 items, thought to be the most extensive grouping of Sheffield-made cutlery) also go to Kelham Island Museum as they have a Bessemer Converter outside. Loads of stuff to see in Sheffield
Yeah I was wondering if he'd make it to Millennium Gallery when he was mentioning wanting to see some Sheffield made items. He was right next to Winter Garden it in the beginning he just missed it!!
Haha is that irony? I don’t have any control about ads unfortunately. I want put any in myself as I like to be independent as possible, but I do understand RUclips ads are annoying 👍👍
Nah, mate, not irony at all. I literally did get through the whole vid with no interruptions, and that's on RUclips standard. The only ad was at the beginning.
Really enjoyed watching this 1 Turnip. I grew up in Chesterfield, just to the south of Sheffield, and remember the 70's and the massive industry of Sheffield steel and it's influence on it's surrounding area too. Nice 1 lad. Hope to see many more walkabout videos in 2024. Take care
Brilliant video of my home city, I remember the hammer sound from the steel works on woolly wood bottom sending me to sleep as a young lad....I used to work at William cookes as well in the core shop. It's a massive contrast from where we were to where we are now. The roadworks and all the building is constant and has been for years all while the shops and pubs have closed....
The odd thing, a lot of shops are owned by people who have never stepped foot in the area and have no care for it. We looked at five shops in the area, three of them were owned by a trust in Cornwall, it would take two weeks to get a response, most responses were "We'll get back to you" and after a few months of messing about we ended up taking another shop. We've been in the current shop 18 months, and all of the Trust shops are still empty, even the motel they bought has closed down.
We used to have electro-plated nickel silver (EPNS) forks in the 1960s. The coating wore off and they tasted HORRIBLE if your tongue touched them - a nasty sort of tang. It seems to me that our cities are becoming all bars, student housing and Airbnbs. I don't know how on earth the economy can keep on that way. Of course all the industry has moved to China now. God knows what conditions are like for workers. The Road To Wigan Pier could be rewritten to look at their lives, if someone could get access. Or it could be rewritten to look at the poor in England now.
Thanks, so much , for coming to our city. I've been feeling down about the city center since the loss of John Lewis and Debenhams but your film helped me to see that we still have a lot to be proud of. Great history, independent businesses and most of all the friendly, positive people that Sheffield is famous for. A lovely film, maybe your best so far, but I am biased!
only non productive people like welfare or pensioners will accept it. i dont think cbdc will work at all. if anything, it spells the final end of the west.@@AnonAtry
like the covid farce, only goons will fall for it. if you are smart enough to hold a responsible or skilled job, you can understand they are stealing your labour for worthless scrip. skilled people will simply leave the west, or revert to non skilled work.@@AnonAtry
Great video - loved the history you've shown us. Sheffield was a fabulous city and although still is, it's a shadow of what it once was. I was working in Sheffield in the late 80's, just as the steel industry was dying, that industry supported hundreds of small engineering companies where you could get anything made. It was sad to see all that end, it was the end of an era.
Another fantastic video..what a amazing history..another place to add to my bucket list to visit when I come back home ..very very interesting. Thank you.
I grew up in Attercliffe back in the 60's , we used to walk to Sheffield town centre with the lads most Saturdays and play in the Castle Market . I remember playing in the shopping centre called the hole in the road it had a big fish tank full of fish . When we got hungry we walk back to Attercliffe , it would take a good hour or so . Those were the day's !
Hole in Road was a funny place. I remember it more as a pedestrian subway below an open roundabout. There were entrances into the lower levels of shops off the different exits. It was a handy way of getting about as a pedestrian, out of the way of traffic. There was a bit of a network of passageways and walkways from Pond Street to Castle Square. They filled it in to run the Supertram across it.
I have the wooden boxed set of Sheffield Cutlery given to my grandparents as a wedding gift in the 1920s. It’s magnificent and must have been so special back then. The craftsmanship is superb. As for the iron and steel industry now, it might be less ‘mass’, longline, factories but still produces many high end, exotic alloy materials and products today. Kelham Island Museum shows the history of the city and how even into the C20th many grew up without ever seeing the sun due to the atmospheric pollution ( a BBC R4 presenter said the same of his childhood in Stoke-on-Trent even in the 40s). I visited one of the last original workshops still operating, the Phoenix, just before it closed, sadly. Now a pub iirc. Original wheels and mechanisms are on show in museums.
I was just telling my mum about your channel! She’s in Sheffield I’m in Canada now and couldn’t believe you uploaded Sheffield today! Thank-you so much! Live your vids!
The largest departament store chain in México is called Liverpool, is like Macy’s o Selfriged’s, It was founded in the mid 1800, is named after the city because it started as a small shop in México City owned by a french guy who sold imported goods from Europe, fabrics specially, and they use to ship everything from the port of Liverpool.
I moved to Sheffield on whim and love it here, the city Center is really sad. Lots of poverty, empty shops etc. but the suburbs are so vibrant and full of independent shops and amazing places to eat and drink. I live in Hillsbrough and have been looking for a shop unit to move my business and they just get snapped up so quickly. Sheffield really is just a collection or small towns and villages all with their own identity and shops. Everyone is friendly, we have wonderful parks and countryside. The Center is dead but Sheffield isn’t. I can’t wait for all the building works to be finished though it’s a bloody maze trying to get from one shop to another, I hope once it’s finished it will encourage more shops. Meadowhall has been the death of Sheffields city Center more than anything I think.
I think this is your best video so far! What made it so good was the research you put in before doing your walk. I watched spell bound. The people you interviewed added a lot of interest, and gave the urban landscape a friendly human touch. I do hope you will produce many more videos of this high quality.
Thank you mate i appreciate that. I am really trying to get better at spending longer with people on camera, especially with my coming ‘made in Britain’ series 👍
I don't want to get all earnest and heavy, but I think these videos are probably quite important. In the '70s and '80s my dad made documentaries about British coalmine closures - if he hadn't, I suspect the social and cultural life surrounding the pre-Thatcherite UK mining industry would have been largely forgotten. My hubby lives in Norton in Teesside. I hoped to learn about the foundry in Norton where they cast the original bell "Big Ben" for the Westminster clock-tower (it eventually cracked and was recast for the current replacement). Today, as far as I could discover, all trace of the Norton foundry is gone (although there are Victorian photographs remaining). We're at risk of losing an important part of Britain's industrial heritage if things carry on as they are; I wonder how many generations it'll be before Redcar and Port Talbot are completely forgotten as having been one-time industrial powerhouses.
Fully agreed. These should be archived. Watching the old features on the BFI, BBC Archive Films sites and others is fascinating but I imagine many made are now lost.
Can’t wait to put them out, I’ve got some ace episodes already. It’s just a bit harder as it’s not just me and my camera, I’ve realised they take more planning and conversations so I want to get them right. But keep an eye out, coming very soon 👍👍
@@wanderingturnipHere is another idea: A documentary about the london docks, imagening how they where in their heyday with pubs and taverns full of sailors from all over the world….. cheers
I'm from Australia and am looking forward to it too. I know that anything made in Australia, Britain and Germany is going to be quality goods. Sadly, it is becoming harder to find as it is predominately 'Made in China'
I guess is Port Talbot (Steel city) next ? also interested in seeing you visiting some of the Welsh valley town, there is nothing like it in the UK. so unique
Moved to Sheffield in 1984 from rural Shropshire and have never felt the slightest desire to leave. The loss of retail in the city centre is unfortunate but inevitable as people's shopping habits have increasingly moved online. So some things will change, as they always have, and the city centre will likely become more residential/leisure attuned. However the thing that truly makes Sheffield great, and hopefully won't change, is its people. Proud to live in the largest village in England.
Loved listening to guy talk about the history of the cutlers and Sheffield, feels so rare to find people who are not just knowledgeable on their history but have a sense of pride about it to.
I'm based in Dartford and our high street is shocking, yet we have non-stop new builds going up with retail units attached to the bottom, even though we have loads of existing retail units empty for many years, a shopping centre with half it's units closed for many years. Does anyone know why this is happening? Guessing there must be some tax benefits to the property developers?
Its all to do with tax write offs. The tax system needs to concentrate on converting empty buildings to residential and stop the developers from scamming the system.
Do you remember when it was going to be a Tesco town? Loads of shops already closed in Lowfield Street, more followed and they allowed the area to become really run down. We waited years for this Tesco "regeneration" , not that many really wanted it, and then TescI pulled out. More years passed and the degradation got worse. Now it's all being torn down to be replaced with massive, ugly blocks of flats, proper eyesores, towering over the park, blocking out sunlight. Really lovely.
@nelliemelba4967 it's such a shame, the high street has been left to rot due to bluewater and meanwhile the council continue to approve flats everywhere and waste money on vanity projects that do nothing to improve the high street...
Born and bred Sheffield, lived here for 56 yrs, love this video..👍👍👍 Pretty sure the Cementation Kikn is being preserved and student apartments are being developed round it, bit like the chimney you visited in Kelham...
I was a clubber in the 90s and Sheffield had gatecrasher and subliminal.. which at the time were the best clubs in the whole country, I was in Sheffield at least 2 weekends of every month… epic city back in the day
Hi all, I was an international student at the University of Sheffield in the year 2021. For me Sheffield was the place to be because it was not as fast as London or Manchester nor slow as some old towns. It was just right. This video clearly shows that council has room for improvement to make their high street filled with life. The major problems for boarded up shops are online shopping. People really don't want to go outside and buy stuff. Even if some people want to buy things from physical shops the rent for shops is eye watering. Due to low sales and high rent businesses are bound to fail. But that's the only one side of the story. On a positive note I want to say Sheffield is also building new stuff. I mean if you see the part near Kelham island it is just so beautiful. New businesses are also coming up which will put a new life into high streets. I think we should not see things in a grim way. Government and governing bodies have to take responsibility. I love Sheffield ❤.
Another fine video. As a owner of a retail business it's so said to seethe high street in such a state it is. Looking forward to made in Britain. All the best to you
Next places you need to visit are Port Talbot and Scunthorpe ..due to " climate change " the blast furnaces are being closed and this will make thousands redundant ..apparently electric arc furnaces are more " climate friendly " ...tell that to the workers losing good jobs..
As a born and bred Sheffielder, I can tell thee na that the same road works never end, they finish them then 6 months later they're changing it. Our council is well known for wasting money on things not needed and neglecting what is. We're still the best northern city, full of the friendliest people and as an ex steel worker you did our story proud.
Such an interesting dive into the city. My partner and I moved to Sheffield in 2019 and we've seen the city weather, then emerge from the pandemic. Things have definitely been picking up in pace over the last year. Lots of redevelopment work in the city centre and there are strong pockets of success in places like Division street where you have a variety of independent retailers and eateries. From my observations as someone living here, the main decline has been along Fargate and The Moor. After the pandemic we lost a couple of the bigger shops and they left huge empty spaces in the high street that can't realistically be filled by any single business. The Debenhams site remains empty because it's just massive. It'll need a well planned redevelopment to fill it. These seems to be a constant issue. Big sites just aren't getting filled until someone figures out how to fill them with multiple businesses. So we've seen this decline along what were the main shopping thoroughfares, but we're seeing consistent growth in areas where there's a strong showing of independent businesses. Out of the city centre we have Ecclesall Rd, which is lined with shops and cafes, there's constant work going on in Kelham Island and Neepsend and Hillsborough continues to be a busy hub. The green spaces are a key element in the city these days as well. I can walk in almost any direction from my house and be in a large green space within 10 minutes, which is something I love about living here. There's currently redevlopment work going on in Parkwood springs, the old ski village site, to expand its paths for both walking and mountain biking. A key thing we've noticed since living here is that there are a lot of active communities of various kinds. I'm pretty sure Sheffield has the highest density of climbing gyms per member of the population of any city in the world. This place has a huuuuuge climbing community because of the gritstone edges being so accessible from the city. There's also a massive running community for the city size as well. We have some of the largest running clubs in the country, including one of the largest Fell Running clubs. As somewhere to live, I feel like it ticks most of my boxes. The city has weathered a lot of storms and it's people are ready to keep forging ahead no matter what. If you're ever back here, I'd reccomend checking out Church - Temple of Fun. It's a restaurant and bar owned by the frontman for Bring Me the Horizon, Oli Sykes. He also owns an alternative clothing company which is housed in the same building as the restaurant. The building itself is really interesting but it's also just a great example of a thriving Sheffield born and bred business.
My home city also, lots of positives about Sheffield not least the fact it’s the greenest city in Europe! Being on the edge of the Peak District is a huge blessing however the small city centre has gone into disrepute - apart from kelham island and the odd little pocket of rejuvenation, the city continues to rot away and is a place many avoid for good reason 😢
Honestly mate, another great video! You've made me want to visit Sheffield which I've always thought of as the middle of nowhere to be honest. Can't wait to see where you bimble to next . . .
Another great video! I always really enjoy your stuff. Your enthusiasm for local history and industry really reminds me of late Uncle who took me all over the north showing me buildings, factorys, towers, chimneys, steam engines and so much more. I've mentioned this before, but your videos always bring back some great memories for me. Thanks mate and if you ever find yourself in Runcorn, Widnes or Liverpool again and I see you about I'll gladly buy you a pint!
I'm surprised you didn’t go to Sheffield's biggest abandoned attraction. Just on the other side of Kelham Island is an abandoned ski village that got burned down about 15 years ago, you can get a great view of Sheffield from the top & just below it is an abandoned brewery that me and my mates also used to go into
That was fantastic! Liked and subscribed. I have done a fair few drainage jobs in Sheffield, mainly for site redevelopment (student flats and such). I found some wonderful underground cellars, rivers and some manholes were like red brick cathedrals when you got inside them; the craftsmanship second to none. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I enjoyed the Crucible / 'big break'through line.
My home town came in to my teenage yrs in 1970 great place fab night life millions of pubs n clubs plenty of green spaces ..it’s a shame how high street is looking now days but I love Sheffield and it’s history ...well done you for researching the history ..kelham island was a industrial area now a up and coming cocktail bars and eating places
Brilliant video of my hometown city Dave .I now live i Kent but i really miss the Sheffield that I once knew it was awsome in the 80s/90s . So glad you came across that kiln your face was a picture you are not on your own there are plenty of us who love all that industrial history mate PS I was a wet grinder for 25years and am now 60 so I feel very blessed now ! ha ha . once again love your channel keep up the good work ta very much👍
My home city. I'm a descendant of what was at one point the biggest steel makers in the country, at the time. My mum told me that Henry Steel (her great great grandad, or something, probably missing another great or two) was rumoured to have the biggest bank account in Westminster. But just like Shef, we are an awful lot poorer in modern times. There are some lovely spots in and around the city and there are some that have fallen on hard times too - it's a mixed bag. A few nicknames for Sheffield are the steel city, the green city and the city of seven hills.
Great video round my home town - heart breaking viewing to be honest, especially as you show the old record tools building waiting for demolition, the place I did my engineering apprenticeship. Thanks for taking the time to make the film of great memories, not sure we’ll ever see Sheffield in the same light in my lifetime but we can remember, thanks
Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Politicians are happy to weaponise patriotism and jingoism to further their own ambitions and promote their own brand. When it comes to actually protecting British heritage, British history and British communities, again and again they chose to sell us down the river.
My home city. My beloved Sheffield. The place where I had some of the best times in my life. The wild stories my mum told me of Mojos, The Fiesta & Josephine's & where I spent my childhood in the working mens clubs of the of the 70's & 80's & where I clubbed throughout the brilliant nightlife of the 90's..The Leadmill, The Drop City Hall, Cairo Jax, Niche & where I spent all my Saturdays walking round all of the vintage clothes shops, record shops, Castle Market & The Forum. Sheffield has a very special place in my heart. So I'm probably going to watch this & cry. If anyone has a time machine, I'd like to go back to Sheffield in about 1991 thanks........
I love this comment, Rosie.. 👍
@@pimpozzaYou're welcome. My head could explode watching this lol. So many memories. I'm watching it saying, "omg that shop used to be this & that & that building was the Yorkshire Bank" hahahaha. I must must make a visit to Sheffield asap after watching this
It's just so lovely to read such a positive comment! You absolutely MUST go back for a visit! 👍🙋🏻♀️@@rosieHolliday5887
@@rosieHolliday5887 My reply disappeared for some reason.. It's just so nice to read such a positive comment and I hope you get back for a visit soon! 👍🙋🏻♀️
I think we would all like to go back to 1991. Those were the raving days !!
Thought I'd stop by as a local lad to drop some insider information to explain a lot of whats been shown on this fantastic video, I know I'm a bit late but hope some of you see this!
So Sheffield is essentially in a massive transition period, us as the gritty northerners we are tend to drag our heels a bit when it comes to redevelopment and we found ourselves a decade behind Leeds and Manchester, this is all in the process of changing.
Let me take you back a decade. The first long shopping street he walked down, Fargate, was the bustling hub of the town centre, every shop filled with a big named brand with the offshot streets (like the one he said he liked that led to the theaters) being the home to fantastic local independent businesses to give the best of both worlds.
On the other side of town (bare in mind sheffield City centre is tiny in comparison to most) about a 10 minute walk away is The Moor which at the time was the rough end, a lot of crime, a lot of rough characters hanging around.
To curb this the local council did a massive redevelopment of The Moor and suddenly most of the name brands moved to there, H&M, Primark, a huge cinema complex with restaurants. Even the city centre market moved there. As such the local council successfully transformed it into the new centre of Sheffield City life but as a result they removed their focus from Fargate which then fell into compete disrepair, massive spice epidemics fuelled by widespread homelessness meant that Fargate became a pretty awful place to be but the issue is that the city centre was developed in the mindset that Fargate was the central hub with the trams running up to it, the cathedral, even the cutlers Hall he showed is just round the corner so Sheffield became quite disjointed, to get to any of the major shops you now had to walk.
This meant that most people elected to do their shopping online or if they were going to shop in person would usually, quite begrudgingly, go to the ever busy Meadowhall.
The last part of the video takes place in Kehlam Island, my personal favourite place in Sheffield, this area is everywhere from the road he commented was hard to cross all the way round and through the Alfred becket building.
Kelham is a strange mix of vibrant modern living, a huge multicultural safe space and the capital of northern vibrancy alongside the old disused factories, shadows of the former steel industry infrastructure (like the kiln)
The perks of this was that most of these disused buildings were bought up, partitioned and transformed into rentable spaces, very cheap rentable spaces, as such this became, in my opinion, England's Primary location for upcoming bands and musicians, this is seen through Sheffields ongoing monopoly over the worlds music scene, artists such as Def Leppard, Pulp, The human league, Arctic monkeys, Bring me the horizon, While she sleeps and more currently bands such as Malevolence have all practiced in these sort of places, you can't walk around Kelham without the amazing sound of hundreds of new bands, dreaming big, writing what could be the music of the new generation.
A decade ago Kelham was the red light district and certain disused parts still are but that's the true testament to how an area can change in a small space of time.
So what now?
As you saw in the video there are huge redevelopments, a whole are called "the heart of the city 2" has opened which us a 400 million pound development, this includes Europe's largest purpose built food hall, cambridge street collective (where I currently work) along with amazing recreational areas, new leasure sites. a new flagship raddison blu hotel (which was one of the first big developments on this video) and this is the start of Sheffield catching up but in true northern style.
In 5 years time everything seen on this video will be redeveloped, bringing Sheffieldd up to to the same standard as Leeds and Manchester but with a huge focus on preserving a lot of what has always made Sheffield amazing, lots of opportunity for independent businesses, independent musicians, independent artists, alongside the return of massive high street brands.
Come drop by some time, watch a local gig, drink some local ale, chat to us all cause we're a nice bunch and soak up Europe's greenest city in true gritty style.
It's grim up north but remember...
Anything south of Sheffield is France 😂
Very nice way of putting it
Fella went out of his way to only show the more run down sections.
No way, finally someone who actually knows what they’re on about. I honestly get so sick of old people complaining about Sheffield when apart from fargate it’s probably the nicest it’s been in like 20 years at least
Unfortunately, it's the death of a country 😞 more than death of the high street ! Another good episode lad 👦 👏 👍
@@nottingham1Its true this Nation is being destroyed from with in .🇬🇧💀
@@nottingham1need to open one’s eyes a bit more me thinks.
@@nottingham1 crippled economy, corrupt government, dying culture, i assume that the people in this comment section want to blame it all on foreigners but it runs a lot deeper than that
Whatever your political views tends to skew your views on government corruption. So can you give very specific examples of a dying culture and please don't say boarded up shops if you do any online shopping. Also there are many countries which have had downturn in their economy and an increase in inflation so how is the UK different from them precisely?
Down with whitey, it's all ways his fault 😏 , and there is no great in Britain anymore 😕 just Britain !
I moved to Sheffield 6 years ago from USA & I love it! I've been to many cities in UK but for me Sheffield is the best.
South of city center you didn't go, but it's full of artists, cool shops, and beautiful green neighborhoods great for alternative minded people.
Friendly and lovely place on the edge of the peak district.
He just picks the worst bits .. like all towns didn’t have rough parts
@@ParksRecThere seems to be a lot of British youtubers at the moment just going around the world parts of a city, or the worst town in the whole country and acting like that is what everything and everywhere looks like. You'd think we lived in the third world country if you took these peoples word for it.
As a person born in Sheffield it's a shadow of it former self it's just all about students now.
Alternative families?
@@drsamuelbeckett2998 Yeah, and?
Being a Aussie, and loving British bands I used to be so jealous hearing about all the popular British bands back in the 60, 70s and 80s, playing in all these English towns.
Got loads actually from Sheffield too; Pulp, Human League, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, and more recently Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, While She Sleeps, Reverend and the Makers and loads more! It’s a very musical city
@@Rostern.Instruments Fantastic !!! I'd hate to see all that magic disappear especially with all the unrest going on over there.
Nobody and I mean nobody can beat the British music scene.
Sheffield and Pittsburgh (my home city) were sister cities, I think, and shared a similar fate: Deindustrialization. It’s hard to recover after all the jobs and industry go far away.
yep and both have a team called the steelers (Ice hockey & American foot.. egg ball thing ;)
@@Greeny_303 Pittsburgh has recovered somewhat through technology and healthcare. There are still very affluent, beautiful neighborhoods, but some near suburban boroughs like Wilkinsburg, the Rox, Aliquippa are as hood and dangerous as it gets.
Also as an undergrad my Senior thesis looked a Cutlery Mill in Beaver Falls, (outside of Pittsburgh) founded by a religious Commune. They recruited workers from Sheffield, but when the workers resisted pay cuts and went on strike, the owners secretly brought in Chinese workers to break the strike.
Maggie thatcher destroyed the north in thec80/90s when she sold off our industry. Steel and coal being the north's biggest assets
That is interesting @@marial8235
My mum got me a really nice Richardsons chef's knives set (made in Sheffield) a couple of years ago when I moved house. We're belgian, but my mum said "it's made in Sheffield so it's good quality!". So the reputation lives on :)
Once we produced quality cutlery, tools and steel all stamped proudly with MADE IN SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND. The goods went allover the world, the wild west in America was "won" using Sheffield knives and farming tools.
@@johnd8538they still make stuff in Sheffield lmao. Obviously to a lesser extent but it’s not the same as other uk cities where everything went
Oh man, nostalgia central. Best years of my life spent in Sheffield 😢
Me too
Nostaglia....sadness at lost joy
My dad told me that the tougher it gets the more bookies open up and that was decades ago. Great vids, very interesting.
Your dad is wise
@@RegiyThornton Cheers mate, he was a communist.
Too right ! People can't win at a Betting Shop. It literally can only exist because it pays out, substantially less than it takes in. They are an utter scam facilitated by local and national governments designed to strip money out of the poorest people of all.
@@johngreen6191 maybe not then
@@muffinman4544 Top Bet365 takes an annual pay cut of £27m but still earns £271m. Some reports say she earns up to £469m but I'm not too sure about that.
Love Sheffield, one of my favourite cities after Liverpool and Newcastle, strong identity, rich history and culture (think of all the bands from the place, Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Arctic Monkeys, Def Leppard, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Pulp, Bring Me the Horizon, Living in a Box, Thompson Twins, good people too, infamously called “the UK’s biggest village” iconic landmarks like the Park Hill Flats standing as a surviving testament to the 20th century dreams of living.
agreed , well said
Was Joe Cocker from Sheffield?
@@helenbartoszek243 Yep he was
@@JackMellor498 Thanks
@@helenbartoszek243 I visited Joe's childhood house a few weeks ago, just down the road from me in Sheffield
The actual head Cutler. That’s so cool.
I know right
As a semi-retired furnace engineer and metallurgist, I really enjoyed and appreciated your video.
Well done🇬🇧
I have fond memories of Sheffield and of the skill and friendliness of the people.
My relatives from Yorkshire had ornaments made of Pewter. I think this is what Turnip is talking about at 12.31
He is great. I Love his roaming around and enthusiasm.
My Dad worked at Firth Brown's and told me some stories of the place.
I love this video. I spent 4 years at uni here and I never knew any of this. Keep doing what you're doing, the UK needs its history preserved and people will look back on this in 20 years and be grateful. Thank you.
The Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster was 20 miles solid with forges, furnaces, and factories, all leveled in the 1980s. When you made the train journey through it it was like passing through a land devastated by a nuclear war.
Yes I remember that. I went along the Don valley by train in the mid 80s. I came from a West Yorks textiles area with plenty of abandoned mills etc. But the Don valley was something else.
I recall on the train en route to Leeds at night gazing in wonder at the spectacle of a burning sky.magnificent and eerie
Yes. My mum (in the 40s/50s) used to walk past two foundries in her home town (Knottingley) on the way to school. This is the days before industry was shut off from the public, in the way that started in the 70s/80s, so she could see men working and flames would belch out as they fed the furnaces. She said the night sky was red, the other thing is the foundries and glassworks in Knottingley worked three shifts so day or night there was manufacturing activity.
Like Gaza… but with more Arabs. Say hello to the Houthis, locals! 😂😂😂
I grew up on the edges of the valley next to where meadowhall is and as a kid I spent most my youth playing in those derelict factory buildings before they got leveled and meadowhall built
The Furance is a Grade 2 listed building and can never be knocked down. The gates at the front are locked and the key can be obtained from Kelham Island Museum to look around it. It is the last standing furnace of its kind in the country. It is supposed to be maintained but clearly hasn't been.
Thank you for this
No worries, it is a shame that the repairs haven't been kept up on it. I'm sure it is the museum that is responsible for it. I might do a few checks to see.
25:38 What you stumbled upon there is a cementation furnace! The very last one in the UK! Only 3 left in the entirety of Europe I believe
Can you remember the two big ones in Tinsley? Tindley viaduct I think
The Brown Bear on Norfolk Street is a pub stuck in time, one of the stipulations to being Landlord is that you Cannot alter it, its my favourite pub in England.. from all the ones ive been in
My dad’s family were from Sheffield, my grandad was police superintendent, we have our own carving knives made by our Relatives-T Makin, lovely bit of history, and some incredible stories about the steel and coal industry, horrific injuries and death. Lovely, friendly, hard, stoic, historical city. I’m going over with my sister soon to recce and say goodbye after my dad’s death in 2022.
The shiny sign that fronts the Savoy in London is Sheffield 'Stay Brite' steel. The cutlery i use everyday are by Joseph Rodgers . Sheffield is a cracking place. Loved going to the Leadmill on a sat night in the 90's. Anyone remember the shop Pippys ??
Thankyou my good man.
You did the city proud 👍
Loved going to Pippy’s on a Saturday, I’d always leave with a bottle of patchouli oil, or as my mother referred to it ‘eau de gravedigger’.
Was pippy's on Cambridge Street? We used to go in before we went to the record shop on the top corner I can't remember it's name. Then into sportsman for a few pints.
Yeah, Pippy's on Cambridge Street - Afghan coats, loons, joss sticks
I was born in Sheffield 58 years ago and have witnessed many changes over the years. I would say most are for the better. While Sheffield is well known for its steel it is less well known for the major disasters it has endured.
On December 12-15th my father was in the city center when the Luftwaffe tried to halt the steel making process. They mistakenly dropped their bombs along the Moore, a busy shopping area within the city center, killing around 650 and injuring a further 1,500. If you look at the building you will see a mixture of old beautiful buildings mixed with those built in the 50's, these newer building show the path of the bombers. In total six George medals were awarded to Sheffielders for their actions in the aftermath of the two day bombing raids.
After the war prefabricated houses were quickly built to house those whose homes were lost during the war. However in 1962 many of these homes were destroyed in the Great Sheffield Gale. Winds of around 100mph hit Sheffield causing the government declaring a state of emergency since approximately two-thirds (150,000) of the cities housing was destroyed. During the incident 4 people died and 400 injured. Elsewhere in the UK the storm claimed a further 5 people were killed.
Long before the war Sheffield was devastated by a major flood caused by the total collapse of the newly Dale Dyke Dam. Around 700 million gallons of water poured through the Loxley valley, Malin bridge and Hillsborough. 240 people lost their lives that night many of which died in their beds.
We only became South Yorkshire in the 1970s. My dad went into Sheffield during the 2nd World War with his dad and he says you could see the thick black smog as you were approaching the city and that the whole city was enveloped in thick black smog, so it wasnt that long ago. They are replacing the track for the trams in Sheffield which is why there are so many road works.
Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, David! I'm really looking forward to this one.. a town I know but will no doubt learn a lot of stuff I didn't know, thanks to this great channel! Thank you.. 👍
Hello! Missed you visiting! Glad you enjoyed the trip. I moved here in 2006, university, like a lot of folk that stayed on, cos it is a lovely city. 😀👍💚
Raconteur, teller of tales, spinner of yarns. A lovely story again Mr Turnip, with a nice poetic ending 🤟
I have lived and worked in Sheffeild for the last 7 years, I grew up in Scunthorpe in a steelworking family so I kind of feel at home in Sheffield. I work in the city centre and live in one of the bigger suburbs. I like that the place has so many trees and parks and interesting places to visit. It will be interesting when all works on the heart of the city and on fargate are completed to see if there is any uptake in retail and hospitality.
This guy is the best.
The Dalesman's Litany - a poem written by Frederic William Moorman around 1900 has a great verse about Sheffield. It later became a well known folk song in West and South Yorkshire. The relevant verse is -
I’ve walked at neet down Sheffield lanes, ’t was the same as bein’ in Hell;
Furnaces thrust out tongues of fire that roared like wind on t’ fell;
I’ve sammed up coil in Barnsley pits wi’ muck upto me knees. (sammed up = picked up)
From Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, good Lord deliver me.
Sammeln in German means to collect. Bet Samm comes from same root.
What an absolutely wonderful video. All your videos are so well-made, insightful and absorbing, and this one is an absolute gem. I've lived in Sheffield for 26 years, and you've given it a fresh perspective; thank you so much! 😊
Now I want to go and watch again (after 20+ years) The Full Monty. Specially that opening sequence. I can hear in my head that voice saying -A city...on the move!-. Great video. Big fan of this channel. Cheers!
01:12 yes that was Yorkshire Bank, Sheffield is an awesome city I visit it often
No HSBC is on Fargate, a bit further around from this which is Surry Street corner@@TPH250290
Back in the day, the upper floors were the YMCA, before they built the new accommodation at Broomhall.
Cutlers' Hall - amazing. Sheffield still good for precision engineering.
This is one of your best videos.
There’s a massive new advanced manufacturing park they’re still building in Sheffield called Waverley with a bunch of big companies like McLaren, rolls Royce and Boeing
I went to an awards ceremony in the Cutlers Hall when I was nominated for Radio Sheffield's "Make A Difference Awards" in 2022.
Having lived in Manchester 22 years at age 53 and coming from a little village in Rural Republic of Ireland, I see the parallels between the decline of big U.K. cities and the decline of Rural Ireland, over my 30 years in supermarket retailing in both the U.K. and Ireland, where Irish emigration was once a big thing, even in my teens in the 1980’s - I still have extended family in Rural Ireland and they are currently finding it ever more economically difficult to remain living there in favour of moving to big cities like Dublin, as rural banks, post offices and even Rural Broadband in Ireland has been gradually been removed - since Covid, even emigration is no longer a viable option for young Irish people - while here in the U.K. is definitely in decline including here in Manchester, I do think that Rural Irish towns and villages are in an even faster rate of decline than even rural U.K. towns and villages and this decline is definitely by deliberate design of the globalist deep state via government policies that are intentionally creating this decline
Moved to Sheffield from Newcastle for uni in 2015 and only just left this January. Although I will always have pride in my geordie heritage the passion I have for Sheffield city is unmatched. Steeped in such amazing, important history and the community feel where everyone is in it together and pulls together. The wonderful green spaces and respect for the environment and the arts and all the diversity. From the sunset reflecting off park hill flats, to the sound of the trams rolling by. From the poem on the side of hallam uni to Phlegms street art. Tear up when I miss it 😪 Sheffield will always have a special place in my heart. quite fitting that my family name is Steel 😂 great content mr turnip! Love your energy and your attitude! The fact the original high street is now derelict but sheffielders have made a community event space in the middle shows how forward thinking this city is. Whilst other high streets may fall into the past I can see sheffield leading the way into how to rejuvenate our city centres
A RUclips content creator actually providing a source for the information given? Well thats a first! Good job!
Nostalgia beyond words. Brilliant video. The UK led the world in many inventions and developments and steel was just one of those things. I've been to Sheffield a few times and always found the people very friendly, and the guy at the old building that gave you a tour shows this. He seemed proud of what the town has achieved and so he should be. Once all the reconstruction of the city center has finished it would be nice to see all these historical places given a special place and maybe even a tour.
as a Sheffielder - at 14:58 when you say "I wonder what this was" - it's not a was, it still is. those are the blacked-out windows for the staff changing rooms for Bungalows & Bears (where I used to work). but thanks for an epic video on my city's history & current state - I can't help but share in your decrying the state of our current high streets but really appreciate the attention to detail in walking through how our city helped shape the modern world. Rare & Racy used to be my go-to shop for pre-owned books! but I never knew about Lizzie the elephant - sick factoid. really glad you visited Kelham too (even if I'm disappointed you didn't pop in for a pint at The Gardener's Rest, you were right across the road!)
I’m from Barnsley also in South Yorkshire. What you see in this video is county wide. One of the most industrial counties of the UK having most of its industry pulled in the space of a few years with no replacement put in place has been devastating
There's so much to see in Sheffield. Lots of students who come to the universities choose to live there when they've got their degrees etc. Kelham Island is a must place for you to visit with your love of industry. Your made in Britain series hopefully give Sheffield a mention
Yes I was wondering if he'd make it to Kelham Island... looks like he didn't. That steam engine there is incredible, The most powerful working steam engine in Europe,!
Interesting to see what Sheffield is like in 2024.
Growing up in the Cold War 1980’s, all I knew about Sheffield was Threads! Still the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.
I was 11 and lived in Sheffield when it aired, it was terrifying.
😂😂 Same! I was terrified for years after watching that! I'm laughing at your comment because everyone I know that saw that says the exact same... I'm in Sheffield..think we all suffered trauma! ☮️
I moved to Sheffield in 2022, it’s been the most amazing time for me, lots of things to do here, lovely Peak District walks 20 min drive from my house, lots of shopping options, great nightlife scene
I moved here alone and iv been very welcomed here
Great Video mate. I left the UK about 7 years ago now, but Lived in Sheffield for 30 before that. Great Memories and good to see that there is still development going on. Friendliest people in the world in Sheffield, it was truly a great place to grow up. Keep the videos coming, they're a brill watch.
Sheffielder in exile here (Hong Kong for 22 years)
Really moved to see Sheffield in your video.
Fantastic video mate, lots of information and history, well done 👍
The Hallamshire district in Sheffield has wages higher than most of the South East, like all Northern cities and London, the variations between rich and poor are incomprehensible. This is replicated in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool. Sheffield is the most Northern of the Northern cities to me. They tried lumping it in with the East Midlands once, good luck calling Sean Bean a Midlander.
Anywhere west of Eccleshall Road, Abbeydale etc. is (mostly) very des-res; Dore, Totley, Whirlow and all the way out to the Peak are very nice and VERY expensive neighbourhoods!
The Alternative store looked really cool - so nice to see independant shops surviving the sky high rent on the high street
Back in the 70s (and prolly earlier) the blades of choice for competitive figure skaters were from Sheffield. As a kid I remember seeing the name Sheffield stamped on my mom’s skate blades. A big deal and expensive to import them to the USA back then.
Sheffield built the Best back then ....now Japanese r tops
what a great presenter you are!! i did once see a documentary on Sheffield steel, explaining that stainless was accidently made from a worker who added the wrong sequence of ingredient's to the furnace, when the boss saw the outcome of the pour, he was livid and threw the steel outside, after a few weeks they realised it was not corroding hence stainless steel!!! the said worker lost his job, but it was said they give his job back....sad to see the city's in decline. keep up the good work. subbed!!!
People often think that the biggest cause of city decay is the internet which has crowded out retail but it's not only that. A very major part is higher education. UK cities thrived from the 1970s because of the expansion of universities. Students needed bars to go to where they could meet people to shag. It created an industry of good times but like any industry education sought new avenues for expansion. The result of this became grotesque as it sold itself internationally. Today we now have a higher education sector that sucks in money and people from China, India and Nigeria and those students live insular lives away from the nightclubs, pubs and restaurants that used fed the university towns. Now, across the UK these towns and cities have become wastelands fed by people using Deliveroo to buy bottles of water and mushrooms from Sainsbury's Local. It's a far more complex form of decline that most people don't notice. We've created a pretend city economy across the country. The universities have cash and the cities they are in are utterly fucked.
Steady on mate, if the international students didn't come there'd be no well paid university jobs for anyone, and I'm not talking about the academics.
That's one way of pretending Brexit isn't a fucking disaster.
What a load of bs
@@rain_down_ still sour about Brexit.
always will be @@twistedsister2568
This is brilliant. I'm a Sheffield lass and I loved this video! I'm so glad you enjoyed our fair city. The Cutlers' Hall is beautiful (my friend C McKay was Master Cutler a few years ago!). Thanks for showing the thriving independent shops and the city's industrial heritage too. Great job. I watched your Scarborough video too - my favourite place, and you were so respectful about it. A new subscriber here!
Another great video. you need to pop to the Millennium Gallery where they have the Metalwork Collection (13,000 items, thought to be the most extensive grouping of Sheffield-made cutlery) also go to Kelham Island Museum as they have a Bessemer Converter outside. Loads of stuff to see in Sheffield
Yeah I was wondering if he'd make it to Millennium Gallery when he was mentioning wanting to see some Sheffield made items. He was right next to Winter Garden it in the beginning he just missed it!!
@@Strimbles yes exactly, but it was his first time in Sheffield and there is a lot to see and it’s all spread out. Maybe he will come back again
Abbeydale Hamlet is interesting as well, but quite a way outside the centre. And Shepherd's Wheel.
I love how I can just sit down and watch your fascinating 30 min videos with no adverts every 5 mins. Means a lot, cheers.
Haha is that irony? I don’t have any control about ads unfortunately. I want put any in myself as I like to be independent as possible, but I do understand RUclips ads are annoying 👍👍
Nah, mate, not irony at all. I literally did get through the whole vid with no interruptions, and that's on RUclips standard. The only ad was at the beginning.
Oh nice that’s great
Really enjoyed watching this 1 Turnip. I grew up in Chesterfield, just to the south of Sheffield, and remember the 70's and the massive industry of Sheffield steel and it's influence on it's surrounding area too.
Nice 1 lad. Hope to see many more walkabout videos in 2024.
Take care
Brilliant video of my home city, I remember the hammer sound from the steel works on woolly wood bottom sending me to sleep as a young lad....I used to work at William cookes as well in the core shop. It's a massive contrast from where we were to where we are now. The roadworks and all the building is constant and has been for years all while the shops and pubs have closed....
The odd thing, a lot of shops are owned by people who have never stepped foot in the area and have no care for it.
We looked at five shops in the area, three of them were owned by a trust in Cornwall, it would take two weeks to get a response, most responses were "We'll get back to you" and after a few months of messing about we ended up taking another shop.
We've been in the current shop 18 months, and all of the Trust shops are still empty, even the motel they bought has closed down.
Never set foot in . . .
We used to have electro-plated nickel silver (EPNS) forks in the 1960s. The coating wore off and they tasted HORRIBLE if your tongue touched them - a nasty sort of tang.
It seems to me that our cities are becoming all bars, student housing and Airbnbs. I don't know how on earth the economy can keep on that way.
Of course all the industry has moved to China now. God knows what conditions are like for workers. The Road To Wigan Pier could be rewritten to look at their lives, if someone could get access.
Or it could be rewritten to look at the poor in England now.
Another fantastic video, I do hope they preserve the old kiln, it would be unforgivable to pull that down! Thank you so much for sharing. 🤗
Thanks, so much , for coming to our city. I've been feeling down about the city center since the loss of John Lewis and Debenhams but your film helped me to see that we still have a lot to be proud of. Great history, independent businesses and most of all the friendly, positive people that Sheffield is famous for. A lovely film, maybe your best so far, but I am biased!
Absolutely love the nuggets of history we get from these great historic cities whilst also displaying the downfall of the highstreet
banks are printing themsleves unlimited currency, to buy all the property and assets. its a huge swindle.
@@puppets.and.muppets Don't worry they'll have even more control of the currency once CBDC is introduced. Sad state of affairs.
only non productive people like welfare or pensioners will accept it. i dont think cbdc will work at all. if anything, it spells the final end of the west.@@AnonAtry
like the covid farce, only goons will fall for it. if you are smart enough to hold a responsible or skilled job, you can understand they are stealing your labour for worthless scrip. skilled people will simply leave the west, or revert to non skilled work.@@AnonAtry
@whirled.government
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Great video - loved the history you've shown us. Sheffield was a fabulous city and although still is, it's a shadow of what it once was. I was working in Sheffield in the late 80's, just as the steel industry was dying, that industry supported hundreds of small engineering companies where you could get anything made. It was sad to see all that end, it was the end of an era.
Another fantastic video..what a amazing history..another place to add to my bucket list to visit when I come back home ..very very interesting. Thank you.
I grew up in Attercliffe back in the 60's , we used to walk to Sheffield town centre with the lads most Saturdays and play in the Castle Market . I remember playing in the shopping centre called the hole in the road it had a big fish tank full of fish . When we got hungry we walk back to Attercliffe , it would take a good hour or so . Those were the day's !
Hole in Road was a funny place. I remember it more as a pedestrian subway below an open roundabout. There were entrances into the lower levels of shops off the different exits. It was a handy way of getting about as a pedestrian, out of the way of traffic. There was a bit of a network of passageways and walkways from Pond Street to Castle Square. They filled it in to run the Supertram across it.
You don't want to go back to Attercliffe now!
I have the wooden boxed set of Sheffield Cutlery given to my grandparents as a wedding gift in the 1920s. It’s magnificent and must have been so special back then. The craftsmanship is superb.
As for the iron and steel industry now, it might be less ‘mass’, longline, factories but still produces many high end, exotic alloy materials and products today. Kelham Island Museum shows the history of the city and how even into the C20th many grew up without ever seeing the sun due to the atmospheric pollution ( a BBC R4 presenter said the same of his childhood in Stoke-on-Trent even in the 40s). I visited one of the last original workshops still operating, the Phoenix, just before it closed, sadly. Now a pub iirc. Original wheels and mechanisms are on show in museums.
I was just telling my mum about your channel! She’s in Sheffield I’m in Canada now and couldn’t believe you uploaded Sheffield today! Thank-you so much! Live your vids!
The largest departament store chain in México is called Liverpool, is like Macy’s o Selfriged’s, It was founded in the mid 1800, is named after the city because it started as a small shop in México City owned by a french guy who sold imported goods from Europe, fabrics specially, and they use to ship everything from the port of Liverpool.
I moved to Sheffield on whim and love it here, the city Center is really sad. Lots of poverty, empty shops etc. but the suburbs are so vibrant and full of independent shops and amazing places to eat and drink. I live in Hillsbrough and have been looking for a shop unit to move my business and they just get snapped up so quickly. Sheffield really is just a collection or small towns and villages all with their own identity and shops. Everyone is friendly, we have wonderful parks and countryside. The Center is dead but Sheffield isn’t. I can’t wait for all the building works to be finished though it’s a bloody maze trying to get from one shop to another, I hope once it’s finished it will encourage more shops. Meadowhall has been the death of Sheffields city Center more than anything I think.
I think this is your best video so far! What made it so good was the research you put in before doing your walk. I watched spell bound. The people you interviewed added a lot of interest, and gave the urban landscape a friendly human touch. I do hope you will produce many more videos of this high quality.
Thank you mate i appreciate that. I am really trying to get better at spending longer with people on camera, especially with my coming ‘made in Britain’ series 👍
I don't want to get all earnest and heavy, but I think these videos are probably quite important. In the '70s and '80s my dad made documentaries about British coalmine closures - if he hadn't, I suspect the social and cultural life surrounding the pre-Thatcherite UK mining industry would have been largely forgotten. My hubby lives in Norton in Teesside. I hoped to learn about the foundry in Norton where they cast the original bell "Big Ben" for the Westminster clock-tower (it eventually cracked and was recast for the current replacement). Today, as far as I could discover, all trace of the Norton foundry is gone (although there are Victorian photographs remaining). We're at risk of losing an important part of Britain's industrial heritage if things carry on as they are; I wonder how many generations it'll be before Redcar and Port Talbot are completely forgotten as having been one-time industrial powerhouses.
Fully agreed. These should be archived. Watching the old features on the BFI, BBC Archive Films sites and others is fascinating but I imagine many made are now lost.
Buzzing for the 'made in Britain series'
Can’t wait to put them out, I’ve got some ace episodes already. It’s just a bit harder as it’s not just me and my camera, I’ve realised they take more planning and conversations so I want to get them right. But keep an eye out, coming very soon 👍👍
@@wanderingturnipHere is another idea: A documentary about the london docks, imagening how they where in their heyday with pubs and taverns full of sailors from all over the world….. cheers
I'm from Australia and am looking forward to it too. I know that anything made in Australia, Britain and Germany is going to be quality goods. Sadly, it is becoming harder to find as it is predominately 'Made in China'
Check out si-finds thames larking, he reimagines the history from the items he finds. The pewter tankard episode especially@@mallorca629
My home town, great memories 👍🏻😀. Thanks for showing 👍🏻😀☀️
I guess is Port Talbot (Steel city) next ? also interested in seeing you visiting some of the Welsh valley town, there is nothing like it in the UK. so unique
@sadiequinlan Eight (8) places in the USA named Sheffield:
Sheffield, Alabama
Sheffield, Illinois
Sheffield, Iowa
Sheffield, Massachusetts (NEW ENGLAND)
Sheffield, Missouri
Sheffield, Ohio
Sheffield, Pennsylvania
Sheffield, Texas
@sadiequinlan And it's 15 degrees F/-9.5 degrees C and snow in Liverpool, New York. Brrrrr...
Also Scunthorpe big steel town
The building at 15:00 with the red window frames was once Sheffield's main fire station on West Street.
Your passion to cover this stuff, just the opening scenes, awesome. Love your channel man.
Moved to Sheffield in 1984 from rural Shropshire and have never felt the slightest desire to leave. The loss of retail in the city centre is unfortunate but inevitable as people's shopping habits have increasingly moved online. So some things will change, as they always have, and the city centre will likely become more residential/leisure attuned. However the thing that truly makes Sheffield great, and hopefully won't change, is its people. Proud to live in the largest village in England.
Loved this! What a good channel!
Loved listening to guy talk about the history of the cutlers and Sheffield, feels so rare to find people who are not just knowledgeable on their history but have a sense of pride about it to.
I'm based in Dartford and our high street is shocking, yet we have non-stop new builds going up with retail units attached to the bottom, even though we have loads of existing retail units empty for many years, a shopping centre with half it's units closed for many years. Does anyone know why this is happening? Guessing there must be some tax benefits to the property developers?
Its all to do with tax write offs. The tax system needs to concentrate on converting empty buildings to residential and stop the developers from scamming the system.
New build construction is zero rated i.e. no VAT.
It's a terrible policy when there are now so many old buildings crying out for renovation.
Do you remember when it was going to be a Tesco town? Loads of shops already closed in Lowfield Street, more followed and they allowed the area to become really run down. We waited years for this Tesco "regeneration" , not that many really wanted it, and then TescI pulled out. More years passed and the degradation got worse. Now it's all being torn down to be replaced with massive, ugly blocks of flats, proper eyesores, towering over the park, blocking out sunlight. Really lovely.
@nelliemelba4967 it's such a shame, the high street has been left to rot due to bluewater and meanwhile the council continue to approve flats everywhere and waste money on vanity projects that do nothing to improve the high street...
Born and bred Sheffield, lived here for 56 yrs, love this video..👍👍👍
Pretty sure the Cementation Kikn is being preserved and student apartments are being developed round it, bit like the chimney you visited in Kelham...
I was a clubber in the 90s and Sheffield had gatecrasher and subliminal.. which at the time were the best clubs in the whole country, I was in Sheffield at least 2 weekends of every month… epic city back in the day
Hi all,
I was an international student at the University of Sheffield in the year 2021. For me Sheffield was the place to be because it was not as fast as London or Manchester nor slow as some old towns. It was just right. This video clearly shows that council has room for improvement to make their high street filled with life. The major problems for boarded up shops are online shopping. People really don't want to go outside and buy stuff. Even if some people want to buy things from physical shops the rent for shops is eye watering. Due to low sales and high rent businesses are bound to fail. But that's the only one side of the story. On a positive note I want to say Sheffield is also building new stuff. I mean if you see the part near Kelham island it is just so beautiful. New businesses are also coming up which will put a new life into high streets.
I think we should not see things in a grim way. Government and governing bodies have to take responsibility.
I love Sheffield ❤.
Another fine video.
As a owner of a retail business it's so said to seethe high street in such a state it is.
Looking forward to made in Britain.
All the best to you
What a great video, and great enthusiasm, very informative. Subscribed and looking forward to future content ❤
Thanks for this vlog enjoyed it immensely. Keep up the great work.
Next places you need to visit are Port Talbot and Scunthorpe ..due to " climate change " the blast furnaces are being closed and this will make thousands redundant ..apparently electric arc furnaces are more " climate friendly " ...tell that to the workers losing good jobs..
BREXIT MATE, THE EU WOULD HAVE FUNDED/PART FUNDED REDEVELOMENT
Strange that other EU countries that are heading to net zero are still producing steel. Don't believe the papers and right-wing commentators.
As a born and bred Sheffielder, I can tell thee na that the same road works never end, they finish them then 6 months later they're changing it.
Our council is well known for wasting money on things not needed and neglecting what is.
We're still the best northern city, full of the friendliest people and as an ex steel worker you did our story proud.
Such an interesting dive into the city.
My partner and I moved to Sheffield in 2019 and we've seen the city weather, then emerge from the pandemic. Things have definitely been picking up in pace over the last year. Lots of redevelopment work in the city centre and there are strong pockets of success in places like Division street where you have a variety of independent retailers and eateries. From my observations as someone living here, the main decline has been along Fargate and The Moor. After the pandemic we lost a couple of the bigger shops and they left huge empty spaces in the high street that can't realistically be filled by any single business. The Debenhams site remains empty because it's just massive. It'll need a well planned redevelopment to fill it. These seems to be a constant issue. Big sites just aren't getting filled until someone figures out how to fill them with multiple businesses.
So we've seen this decline along what were the main shopping thoroughfares, but we're seeing consistent growth in areas where there's a strong showing of independent businesses. Out of the city centre we have Ecclesall Rd, which is lined with shops and cafes, there's constant work going on in Kelham Island and Neepsend and Hillsborough continues to be a busy hub. The green spaces are a key element in the city these days as well. I can walk in almost any direction from my house and be in a large green space within 10 minutes, which is something I love about living here. There's currently redevlopment work going on in Parkwood springs, the old ski village site, to expand its paths for both walking and mountain biking.
A key thing we've noticed since living here is that there are a lot of active communities of various kinds. I'm pretty sure Sheffield has the highest density of climbing gyms per member of the population of any city in the world. This place has a huuuuuge climbing community because of the gritstone edges being so accessible from the city. There's also a massive running community for the city size as well. We have some of the largest running clubs in the country, including one of the largest Fell Running clubs.
As somewhere to live, I feel like it ticks most of my boxes. The city has weathered a lot of storms and it's people are ready to keep forging ahead no matter what.
If you're ever back here, I'd reccomend checking out Church - Temple of Fun. It's a restaurant and bar owned by the frontman for Bring Me the Horizon, Oli Sykes. He also owns an alternative clothing company which is housed in the same building as the restaurant. The building itself is really interesting but it's also just a great example of a thriving Sheffield born and bred business.
Have a listen to Joe Cocker’s 1982 album “Sheffield Steel”. It’s one of his best albums. Excellent, strong music.
18'30" rare and racy on devonshire street. this shop was legendary. joe, and his colleague, was an institution. thanks guys.
My home city also, lots of positives about Sheffield not least the fact it’s the greenest city in Europe! Being on the edge of the Peak District is a huge blessing however the small city centre has gone into disrepute - apart from kelham island and the odd little pocket of rejuvenation, the city continues to rot away and is a place many avoid for good reason 😢
Honestly mate, another great video! You've made me want to visit Sheffield which I've always thought of as the middle of nowhere to be honest. Can't wait to see where you bimble to next . . .
Another great video! I always really enjoy your stuff. Your enthusiasm for local history and industry really reminds me of late Uncle who took me all over the north showing me buildings, factorys, towers, chimneys, steam engines and so much more.
I've mentioned this before, but your videos always bring back some great memories for me. Thanks mate and if you ever find yourself in Runcorn, Widnes or Liverpool again and I see you about I'll gladly buy you a pint!
I'm surprised you didn’t go to Sheffield's biggest abandoned attraction. Just on the other side of Kelham Island is an abandoned ski village that got burned down about 15 years ago, you can get a great view of Sheffield from the top & just below it is an abandoned brewery that me and my mates also used to go into
Carry on doing what you are doing brother
Magnificent, so well presented. Quality and intelligent, very well done. Thank you
That was fantastic! Liked and subscribed.
I have done a fair few drainage jobs in Sheffield, mainly for site redevelopment (student flats and such). I found some wonderful underground cellars, rivers and some manholes were like red brick cathedrals when you got inside them; the craftsmanship second to none.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I enjoyed the Crucible / 'big break'through line.
My home town came in to my teenage yrs in 1970 great place fab night life millions of pubs n clubs plenty of green spaces ..it’s a shame how high street is looking now days but I love Sheffield and it’s history ...well done you for researching the history ..kelham island was a industrial area now a up and coming cocktail bars and eating places
Brilliant video of my hometown city Dave .I now live i Kent but i really miss the Sheffield that I once knew it was awsome in the 80s/90s . So glad you came across that kiln your face was a picture you are not on your own there are plenty of us who love all that industrial history mate PS I was a wet grinder for 25years and am now 60 so I feel very blessed now ! ha ha . once again love your channel keep up the good work ta very much👍
My home city. I'm a descendant of what was at one point the biggest steel makers in the country, at the time. My mum told me that Henry Steel (her great great grandad, or something, probably missing another great or two) was rumoured to have the biggest bank account in Westminster. But just like Shef, we are an awful lot poorer in modern times. There are some lovely spots in and around the city and there are some that have fallen on hard times too - it's a mixed bag. A few nicknames for Sheffield are the steel city, the green city and the city of seven hills.
All those empty buildings and there is a housing shortage!! Convert them to residential and bring back the centre of such towns.
Great video round my home town - heart breaking viewing to be honest, especially as you show the old record tools building waiting for demolition, the place I did my engineering apprenticeship. Thanks for taking the time to make the film of great memories, not sure we’ll ever see Sheffield in the same light in my lifetime but we can remember, thanks
Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks for sharing.
Politicians are happy to weaponise patriotism and jingoism to further their own ambitions and promote their own brand.
When it comes to actually protecting British heritage, British history and British communities, again and again they chose to sell us down the river.