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PARK HILL FLATS SHEFFIELD | The controversial 'Streets in the Sky' housing estate
PARK HILL FLATS SHEFFIELD - A tour of the controversial 'streets in the sky' housing estate
Park Hill in Sheffield City Centre is an iconic Brutalist landmark, the largest Grade II* listed building in Europe and one of the most controversial buildings in Britain. It’s a vibrant part of our social history, a representative of a time of change and a constant reminder of the mistakes made by the welfare state.
The redevelopment project by Urban Splash commenced in 2005 and continually divides opinion. To save it we have to learn from it, buildings like Park Hill pushed Britain forward at a time in which the country needed it. The new development has reintroduced a hint of optimism during another time of political uncertainty. Park Hill is getting a second chance, in the words of its former caretaker - Grenville Squires “She’s an old lady who’s come on hard times, she’s getting her face washed and putting a new frock on - She’ll soon be out there again.”
Park Hill was previously a site of back-to-back housing, a mixture of 2-3 storey tenement buildings with wasteland, quarries and steep alleyways. The streets were arranged at right angles to each other with continuous terraces connecting up to 100 houses per standpipe. Shared toilets were not connected to mains drainage and the area was colloquially known as ‘Little Chicago’ due to the repeated occurrence of violent crime. Tenants were extremely eager to get out and the council was only too happy to oblige.
The redevelopment of Park Hill has not been without problems. In order to move forward, residents have been rehoused. The regeneration of Park Hill was always intended to provide mixed tenure
Ever since it’s conception in 1961, Park Hill has stood as a monument to Sheffield’s political, cultural and social heritage. There is no denying that this controversial landmark is well and truly embedded in Sheffield’s culture. A City Centre Park Hill shop now displays artworks by local artists and sells Park Hill themed merchandise. Park Hill features as a back drop to an Arctic Monkeys music video - ‘The view from the Afternoon’. It also features in the ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’ musical co produced by Sheffield Theatres with music by Richard Hawley and written by Chris Bush celebrated the uniqueness of Sheffield. The story followed the lives of three consecutive families living in the same Park Hill flat and played to packed houses when it ran for three weeks in March 2019.
Love it or hate it Park Hill is here to stay, which ever camp you stand in, we should learn from previous mistakes and take justifiable pride in our past and a determination to ensure that future generations can enjoy our urban environment like the generations that have done so before. - The old lady has some colour back in her cheeks and she’ll soon be out there again...
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SHEFFIELD | Is The Moor as bad as facebook moaners say?
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The Moor in Sheffield City Centre is the destination for todays Sheffield video as we travel from Moorfoot to the top of The Moor where the old Debenhams building still stands to see what The Moor is really like these days. Is The Moor as bad as people on social media tell you? Well take a look for yourself just how clean Sheffield City Council has kept this famous shopping street. Take a look ...
Sheffield Cambridge Street Collective Food Hall in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | A look around Cambridge Street Collective Food Hall in Sheffield City Centre We visit the new food hall in the newly developed part of the city for a look around it to see where it is, what's in there, and if it's worth a visit for lunch or drinks Come with me as we visit the new Cambridge Street Collective Food Hall which is a short walk from The Moor and Charter Square, and right ...
SHEFFIELD | A walk round Victoria Quays Canal Basin in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | A walk round Victoria Quay Canal Basin in Sheffield City Centre We take a walk round the Sheffield tourist attraction of the canal basin for a look at Victoria Quays, Sheaf Quays and more to see why you should visit when you next travel to Sheffield. From the bars, restaurants and cafes there, to the hotels, the canal boats, boat trips and all the other great features down this part...
SHEFFIELD | Full walking tour of West Street in Sheffield City Centre
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A full walking tour of West Street in Sheffield City Centre. West Street is a lively spot right in the heart of Sheffield city centre. Full of pubs, bars, shops, restaurants and takeaways as well as student accomodation, West Street Sheffield is a place that is famous in the steel city here in South Yorkshire. Here's a rundown of what you can expect if you visit West Street: Nightlife: This is ...
SHEFFIELD | Tour of New Era Square off Bramall Lane
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SHEFFIELD | Tour of New Era Square off Bramall Lane New Era Square is a mixed-use development located in Sheffield, England. It is situated next to the St Mary's Gate roundabout on the Inner Ring Road of Sheffield City Centre. The development includes: Office space: A landmark office building with modern open plan floors, basement parking, and stunning views over Sheffield. Retail and leisure: ...
SHEFFIELD | A walk down The Moor in Sheffield City Centre
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A walk down The Moor in Sheffield City Centre, one of the main shopping streets in the city showing the old Debenhams building, the old Woolworths building, The Moor Markets and more! For more great Sheffield Videos, subscribe to our UA-cam channel here 👉 bit.ly/sheffieldvideos SHEFFIELD VIDEOS UA-cam CHANNEL Sheffield Videos is a brand new UA-cam channel for videos exploring the City of Sheffi...
SHEFFIELD | A tour of Low Bradfield, Sheffield
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SHEFFIELD | A tour of Low Bradfield, Sheffield We visit the countryside village of Low Bradfield near the Damflask Reservoir in Loxley Valley Sheffield, and in the boundary of the Peak District. We take a look around from the post office and village shop and village hall right through to the Plough Pub. Along the way we will see Bradfield Cricket Club, Bradfield Bowling Club, The School Rooms b...
SHEFFIELD | High Street to Fitzalan Square in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | High Street to Fitzalan Square in Sheffield City Centre
SHEFFIELD | Leopold Square and Orchard Square Tour
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SHEFFIELD | Leopold Square and Orchard Square Tour
SHEFFIELD | Life in Sheffield City Centre back in 2018
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SHEFFIELD | Life in Sheffield City Centre back in 2018
SHEFFIELD | Three SECRET HIDDEN places in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | Three SECRET HIDDEN places in Sheffield City Centre
Sheffield | Division Street - Full Tour
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Sheffield | Division Street - Full Tour
Sheffield | West Street - Full Tour
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Sheffield | West Street - Full Tour
SHEFFIELD | A look around the new look Charter Square in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | A look around the new look Charter Square in Sheffield City Centre
SHEFFIELD | Fitzalan Square to High Street via Angel Street
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SHEFFIELD | Fitzalan Square to High Street via Angel Street
Barkers Pool in Sheffield City Centre
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Barkers Pool in Sheffield City Centre
Sheffield City Centre - Leopold Square and Orchard Square tour!
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Sheffield City Centre - Leopold Square and Orchard Square tour!
SHEFFIELD | A walk through Tudor Square and The Winter Garden
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SHEFFIELD | A walk through Tudor Square and The Winter Garden
Sheffield Cathedral #shorts
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Sheffield Cathedral #shorts
SHEFFIELD | Winter Gardens #shorts
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SHEFFIELD | Winter Gardens #shorts
SHEFFIELD City Centre - A tour of WEST STREET!
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SHEFFIELD City Centre - A tour of WEST STREET!
SHEFFIELD | A tour of The Moor and The Moor Market in Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | A tour of The Moor and The Moor Market in Sheffield City Centre
SHEFFIELD | A look at the new look Sheffield City Centre!
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SHEFFIELD | A look at the new look Sheffield City Centre!
SHEFFIELD | Changes in Sheffield City Centre - what do you think?
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SHEFFIELD | Changes in Sheffield City Centre - what do you think?
SHEFFIELD | A walk from Park Square to Pond Street
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SHEFFIELD | A walk from Park Square to Pond Street
SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE | A drive to Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE | A drive to Sheffield City Centre
SHEFFIELD | West Street, Division Street and Peace Gardens Walking Tour | Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | West Street, Division Street and Peace Gardens Walking Tour | Sheffield City Centre
SHEFFIELD | Fitzalan Square to Haymarket and Castlegate
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SHEFFIELD | Fitzalan Square to Haymarket and Castlegate
SHEFFIELD | Walking Tour of Sheffield Canal Basin and Victoria Quays, Sheffield City Centre
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SHEFFIELD | Walking Tour of Sheffield Canal Basin and Victoria Quays, Sheffield City Centre

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  • @nanunanous
    @nanunanous 6 днів тому

    Thanks for this nice walk ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @nanunanous
    @nanunanous 6 днів тому

    So beautiful and so peaceful, isn't it? I love it ❤too much thanks for this walking. Greeting from Oran / Algeria.

  • @ddpeak1
    @ddpeak1 11 днів тому

    It is a Railway Station.

  • @johnbook5545
    @johnbook5545 14 днів тому

    We used to live in Hillsborough but moved away from the UK a few years ago. A couple of weeks ago I suddenly had the sudden urge to do nothing more than this drive, stopping at the Admiral Rodney for lunch and then parking up in HB by the church and walking out into the Peaks. Thanks for posting this!

  • @PeterRichardson-g5m
    @PeterRichardson-g5m 14 днів тому

    The metal ring in the road surface down the Black Swan Walk was a turntable for turning around carriages at the bottom of the lane.

  • @Tony-1971
    @Tony-1971 21 день тому

    Remember walking through there when i was young.

  • @bigmac5859
    @bigmac5859 22 дні тому

    Hillsborough is run down more than when I went there in 2004 with Donny rovers. Shytehole

  • @ahorton6786
    @ahorton6786 25 днів тому

    I wish it was like this now.

  • @keithsmith3534
    @keithsmith3534 27 днів тому

    Like you say “don’t go in the dark 🙈”

  • @johnmorton105
    @johnmorton105 Місяць тому

    I remember standing looking at the fish when I was a child … golden days from a better time

  • @eldavido8249
    @eldavido8249 Місяць тому

    I used to live at 106 Carr road as a child, manh many years ago. Happy memories.

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey Місяць тому

    Enjoy lunch and thank you.

  • @TheDantheman12121
    @TheDantheman12121 Місяць тому

    8:09 i dfor sure know that one.

  • @stuartwray6175
    @stuartwray6175 Місяць тому

    I passed by the canal regularly in the early 1990s. I rented a studio close by. In 1995, I walked along the canal to Meadowhall; it was still undeveloped at that point.

  • @courtneycharlie
    @courtneycharlie Місяць тому

    Sheffielder's aren't daft! The reason no one goes down Black Swan Walk is because there's nowt down there AND IT'S A DEAD END!

  • @carlover-sb8go
    @carlover-sb8go Місяць тому

    I was the milkman for the Sheffield & Ecclesall Co - op on the Park Hill Flats from 1979 to 1988.I had an electric milk float that went along the balconies and used the service lifts to access each floor.I served the nursery school which was called Grace .......... I can't remember the second part of the name. Any one know ? The guy who served Bard Street used to bring me a second load of milk as my small float couldn't carry the full load from the dairy on Archer Road.

  • @wendylee1825
    @wendylee1825 Місяць тому

    My school friends grandma lived on park hill flats,she moved there with her family when their house was demolished,so we knocked around there as 14/15 year olds in 61/62,always wished I lived there.

  • @sherriswihart6672
    @sherriswihart6672 Місяць тому

    Which cities do you think are the safest?

  • @jakemoo7553
    @jakemoo7553 Місяць тому

    Spent many a happy afternoon watching my Mother try and find her way out.........

  • @sherriswihart6672
    @sherriswihart6672 Місяць тому

    I appreciate seeing American businesses in Sheffield!

  • @hazelholmshaw9415
    @hazelholmshaw9415 Місяць тому

    It was not the flats that were the trouble it was the people

  • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
    @edmundblackaddercoc8522 Місяць тому

    Sh9uld have kept it, it was iconic.

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 15 днів тому

      It was a bit of a no-go area before it closed though!

  • @issanmike1
    @issanmike1 Місяць тому

    Thank you for the video very interesting. In 1962 I worked at the co-op butcher shop in the precinct for about six months saw a couple of televisions and boxes come off the the landings, but most of the time I was too busy in the shop. Brought some good memories back of Sheffield in those days as I live now live in Southeast Asia ,good luck to you.

  • @JulieBrewitt
    @JulieBrewitt Місяць тому

    It was a bank the midlands bank.Wetherspoons was a kwiksave back in the nineties.I lived on tadcaster crescent but u didnt get that far

  • @lorenzoscaglione1086
    @lorenzoscaglione1086 Місяць тому

    who is the singer and the title of the song in the soundtrack at minute 13-15 of the video?

  • @nickdarcy8636
    @nickdarcy8636 2 місяці тому

    Interesting video. The Moor does seem better than it was (this latest version anyway), but the new buildings are weathering rapidly, so they'll look old in a couple of years. Not many people about to fill all the shops and coffee shops I notice. I no longer go into the City centre as there is nothing there for me. It's just easier for me to shop, eat and socialise locally.

  • @recuerdameee8700
    @recuerdameee8700 2 місяці тому

    La comunicación humana refuerza las relaciones sociales, enriquece a sus participantes y es el principal agente del desarrollo cultural.[1]​ Su instrumento fundamental es el lenguaje verbal, pero las personas se comunican también por medio de gestos, movimientos, miradas, etc..[1]​ El estudio actual de la comunicación humana se divide en dos ramas: retórica y relacional. La comunicación humana retórica se enfoca primariamente en el estudio de la influencia; el arte de la comunicación retórica está basado en la idea de la persuasión. La comunicación humana relacional se encarga de la comunicación en una perspectiva trasnacional; dos o más personas coexisten alcanzando un acuerdo según la perspectiva.

  • @jeanlennighan1135
    @jeanlennighan1135 2 місяці тому

    I had several friends who lived there in the sixty s they loved it 😂

  • @thebrowns1017
    @thebrowns1017 2 місяці тому

    I was watching someone else's video last night about Page Hall and I've never seen so much litter. At least The Moor looks clean.

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 15 днів тому

      Yes Page Hall needs a bit of help to clean up

  • @keithdagnall7686
    @keithdagnall7686 2 місяці тому

    When you look back to how dangerous those open walkways and staircases were seeing children that could climb over the balconies. I know I was one of them. Shame Park Hill couldn't have been renovated for the original tenants but that is what happens to poor people new slums created by lack of investment

  • @simonmitchell1978
    @simonmitchell1978 2 місяці тому

    Hi. Great video. Thanks. My brother used to lve on there. Also some friedns did too. Although there are people who do not like them. But there are people who do like them too. So can not please everybody. I have seen some photos of the flats inside since they were all done up. They look really nice inside now too from what I saw in the photos.

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 15 днів тому

      Yes they have done a great job doing them up now!

  • @bobhamilton3169
    @bobhamilton3169 2 місяці тому

    I'm sure the new works to renovate Fargate will make it lovely but it seems to be taking an eternity

  • @korean_foot_traveler8655
    @korean_foot_traveler8655 2 місяці тому

    It's such a beautiful place. Thank you for sharing it.❤👍

  • @chrisstones1249
    @chrisstones1249 2 місяці тому

    I had family living on long Henry row across from the pub the Scottish queen my uncles local .

  • @karlsugden4161
    @karlsugden4161 2 місяці тому

    I did a tour around Park Hill. A few months ago, it was very interesting. We were also allowed to go inside one of the residents' flats. i remember the park hill flats before there was renovated.there went on the market for around 1 hundred thousand now you would after pay well over 2 hundred thousand its a very vibrant place to live and some lovely small and medium-sized enterprises thank you for sharing your walk and childhood upbringing best wishes

    • @keithdagnall7686
      @keithdagnall7686 2 місяці тому

      £200,000 plus for a flat and the original scheme cost £2.5 million according to a UA-cam video on the origins of the estate

  • @thebrowns1017
    @thebrowns1017 2 місяці тому

    Very interesting. I led the other shortlisted bid in the regeneration competition for the Park Hill estate that was won by Urban Splash.

    • @GimbalWalkTV
      @GimbalWalkTV 2 місяці тому

      Ah interesting! Must be a huge project that one

    • @thebrowns1017
      @thebrowns1017 2 місяці тому

      @@GimbalWalkTV The bidding process for the regeneration of Park Hill took place back in 2004 and I spent the best part of a year working on it.

  • @alanr1062
    @alanr1062 2 місяці тому

    Back when it was habitable

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 15 днів тому

      Still is! You just have to avoid the moaners!

  • @lmarsh1894
    @lmarsh1894 2 місяці тому

    Wow look what it used to be like. Now it's a mess, rubbish everywhere, all shops shut. They were definitely the good old days

  • @كورد-0
    @كورد-0 2 місяці тому

    Your next to Children’s Hospital NHS

  • @TekkenBasher
    @TekkenBasher 2 місяці тому

    I can't see a reason why a person would want to go to two of these places.

  • @SheffieldSteve791
    @SheffieldSteve791 3 місяці тому

    All that work building it for only 27 years, it would have been easy to keep it and lock it up every night

  • @thenameskrisg
    @thenameskrisg 3 місяці тому

    Compared to only 10 years ago, the Moor is a VAST improvement! The shops, the cinema and restaurants, the bowling alley. People sayung it's worse have short memories.

  • @thenameskrisg
    @thenameskrisg 3 місяці тому

    It's impossible for things to be a bad as social media moaners make out!

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 3 місяці тому

      So true - it's a professional sport on facebook now to see who can be the biggest moaner 🤣

  • @trickydicky90
    @trickydicky90 3 місяці тому

    All of these high-rise apartments are now biting the owners who can no longer pay the service charge. A failed concept with no solution but yet hundreds more planned.

  • @SheffieldSteve791
    @SheffieldSteve791 3 місяці тому

    how could you even begin to think abot demolishing something like this, I mean when the classic burned down in Fitzalan Square it was an accident my mam and aunties cried they worked there since the late 50s, but this place was demolished.. criminal

  • @SheffieldSteve791
    @SheffieldSteve791 3 місяці тому

    Peace Gardens, Crucible, hole in road, Pinstone Street, fargate, Hyde Park, absolutely everywhere looked better than today

  • @KeepCalmAndTravelOn
    @KeepCalmAndTravelOn 3 місяці тому

    Some really bad buskers and some really devoted preachers there, all with some real powerful audio equipment 📢

  • @rob235ioa1
    @rob235ioa1 4 місяці тому

    tou obviously know very little about sheffield none of these places are secret and many people use them

  • @idi0tdetectioninprogress
    @idi0tdetectioninprogress 4 місяці тому

    It will be a lot different once the old manpower and wickes sites are turned into apartments.

  • @JANGLEPOP1
    @JANGLEPOP1 4 місяці тому

    Sheffield has so many bars and restaurants but what about a shopping centre and please don't use the Meadowhell excuse. Top class video, as always.

    • @SheffieldVideos
      @SheffieldVideos 4 місяці тому

      There's Meadowhall - just 20 minutes away on the supertram!