Have We Lost Sheffield?
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Episode 12 - Death of the High Street / Sheffield
The Alternative Store,
A massive shout out to www.thealternativestore.co.uk/ for the class interview and proving that independent business is the way forward. Do check them out.
Cutlers Hall,
Also to cutlershall.co.uk/ for the wonderful tour and sharing your history with me. It really did completely change the out look for this video to one of positivity.
This video has brought me to Sheffield, the steel city. I’ve been told by loads of you that the high street is struggling so I was keen to get across and have a look. I was also excited to delve into the history of steel, and see its evolution which has played such a strong part in the fabric of the modern world.
There seems to be so much redevelopment happening all over the city so it will be interesting g to revisit at a later date, as I’ve never seen that much work being done anywhere. Lots of demolition planned and I can only hope they protect a lot of the important landmarks that do remain.
But ultimately, I was buzzing to see so many independents surviving. Sheffield definitely was up there with the most friendly of places I’ve been, everyone was up for a chat and sharing there story.
Until next time,
W.T
#sheffield #steel #madeinsheffield #explore #hoghstreet #decay #urban #town #city #industry #wander
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 !!
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 families.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The actual head Cutler. That’s so cool.
I know right
Oh man, nostalgia central. Best years of my life spent in Sheffield 😢
Me too
Nostaglia....sadness at lost joy
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.
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.. 👍
Sheffield is just down the road from me, I love visiting although the decline is obvious and saddening. the place has become another student hell, blocks of flats built to house people with no connection to British culture or social life, which explains why so many city centre bars and clubs have closed, we've been sold out for foreign money and folk. It's well worth visiting the Industrial Museum at Kelham Island and the surrounding area.... there's much to see there.
Keep up the good work !!
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.
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.
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
Raconteur, teller of tales, spinner of yarns. A lovely story again Mr Turnip, with a nice poetic ending 🤟
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.
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 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.
This guy is the best.
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! 😊
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. 😀👍💚
A CZcams content creator actually providing a source for the information given? Well thats a first! Good job!
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
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
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!
I have been Vlogging on Sheffield city centre every week since the lockdown in 2020. Its a tragedy created by the council. If I had known I would have come out with you and given you all the info.
Vlog name? Council corruption I would believe.
Sheffielder in exile here (Hong Kong for 22 years)
Really moved to see Sheffield in your video.
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.
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.
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.
SHEFFIELD WAS ALSO FAMOUS FOR THE FULL MONTY.
Yes!! 😁👍 Have watched it several times..
But the director(writer?)was a Bradfordfordian ..similarly the history boys via Leeds..
And Tony Currie.
Lol.😉
@@SuzanneO707 ITS TRUE SUZAANNE.
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.
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
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.
53 , disabled , born n raised Sheffield. This city is dead , heavy engineering gone , heavy construction gone. Famous , beloved children's shops.. gone , general stores.. gone. All that's left is Poncey , high priced restaurants , fast food takeaways , charity shops , pharmacies and supermarkets. The city panders to students now , I haven't been into the centre more than twice in a decade.
Children’s stores… do you remember Redgates Toy Store. It was one of our pre-Christmas treats to go there to choose a toy and see the displays. I’ll never forget this magical feeling as a 5 year old going in and seeing mobiles, race tracks and train sets all lit and whirling round. Like a little boy’s heaven.
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,!
The Alternative store looked really cool - so nice to see independant shops surviving the sky high rent on the high street
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.
@@buy.to.let.britain 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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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.
Nice, my home city. Thanks for covering that. 👍
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
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
Fantastic video mate, lots of information and history, well done 👍
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
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
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.
Thank you for the video, was looking forward for it. I am happy you found at least one chimney there🙂
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. 🤗
What a great video, and great enthusiasm, very informative. Subscribed and looking forward to future content ❤
Loved this! What a good channel!
Thanks for this vlog enjoyed it immensely. Keep up the great work.
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!
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 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
Magnificent, so well presented. Quality and intelligent, very well done. Thank you
Your passion to cover this stuff, just the opening scenes, awesome. Love your channel man.
Just what I needed 🎉
My home town, great memories 👍🏻😀. Thanks for showing 👍🏻😀☀️
Keep up the good work! Mint film, thanks
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 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 CZcams ads are annoying 👍👍
Nah, mate, not irony at all. I literally did get through the whole vid with no interruptions, and that's on CZcams standard. The only ad was at the beginning.
Oh nice that’s great
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
Great video, such a young lad so enthusiastic about local history… definitely I will visit soon
Love watching your videos and even more when it's my home town . Keep up the great work
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.
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
Love your enthusiasm in this, I felt you have upped your game recently and I honestly think you’ll be great at the ‘made in Britain’ series. Looking forward to watching these. Keep up the good work mate.
Thank you, David for the brilliant history lesson on Sheffield! You’ve out done yourself on this one! Looking forward to more lessons!
Thanks for another great video!
Wow thank you so much 😀😀
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.
WOW! A fantastic watch. Absolutely captivating presenting and content. Love Sheffield. Thank you for posting.
That's a really great informative interesting vid WT, love your Death of the High St series 👍
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!
Have a listen to Joe Cocker’s 1982 album “Sheffield Steel”. It’s one of his best albums. Excellent, strong music.
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 . . .
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 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 . . .
Thanks!
Good on you lad .... Great stuff as always!
So great that you met the master cutler ! Thank you for showing me around this bit of sheffield !
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.
Carry on doing what you are doing brother
I’m from Boston Massachusetts and have seen a lot of changes in the city, but I can’t imagine my city dying like these British cities. So incredibly sad.
They aren't dying. There's some empty shops but trust me there's all sorts going on in Sheffield and a lot of money being spent there.
One of my favourite cities…. very informative and great viewing … cheers :)
The Hall is incredible. TFS ❤️🏏🎸
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.
Very enjoyable watch and looking forward to your Made in Britain series.
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
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.
Somebody just mentioned that Elephant to me the other day. Poor old thing.
Brilliant vid. Brought back loads of memories from my time living in Sheffield between 1985 and 2000. Many thanks. 🙂
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!
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Another excellent piece.
Can’t wait for the made in Britain series, which I’d imagine Sheffield steel could feature.
I think those of us with cutlery marked with made in Sheffield will vouch for its quality and longevity, as with most other products still made in Britain.
Very polished video. Well done man 👍🏿👍🏿
Giday , I still use my grandparents bone handle Sheffield steel cutlery canteen , love it , thanks for this mate.