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I held my engagement party there in 1987

That's the first time I've seen something about the Shefgield Blitz. When there have been documentaries about the Second World War...they always mention London and Coventry...but just a passing comment on the Sheffield Blitz....odd that. An excellent presentation...Cx

Nice one thanks Andy

ABC was the one I went to as a child, every Saturday morning, good times.

My great nana survived the blits

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Love the videos, wish I had your type of voice comes over well.

Thankyou Mavis for your story.

Justice for Orgreave.

Ohh you’ve just covered that bit!!

Seeing the old bridge just reminded me of it. I’m sure when I was younger (early 90s) the old bridge was a one way due to the weight of the vehicles. I didn’t even realise it had been replaced 😂😂

Really interesting. I’d have love to have seen around the old Asda. Had the building totally gone? I remember how steep the car park was.

Wonderful

My auntie worked for the owners

Amazing memory. Amazing woman . This generation were hard as nails. Nothing seemed to bother them they just soldierd on .and never complained (shall i swear) So cute and from an innocent tome when people had manners still and ladies still wore gloves and were ladies . Coukd listen to this woman txlk for hours

As far as i know this is an amateur interviewer showing us how an interview should be done. The emphasis is on Mavis and her story, touching and very moving. The interviewer treats Mavis with respect and lets her tell us her story without interrupting her. My mother lived through the war and the stories she told were sometimes horrific and sometimes amusing. It was obviously a very strange time for everyone and i have huge respect for all the people who lived through it. Thank you for this wonderful upload and congratulations on creating a marvellous account of this period directly from a genuinely lovely lady.

I remember visiting Sheffield in 1947 and seeing all the skeletal buildings.

Excellent documentary. I was brought up on the Ballifield estate nearby and some of my neighbours worked at either Rotherwood sidings driving the Electric Train engines, The Pit, or the coking ovens. I remember walking through the Coking ovens many times and over the river Rother ( which was spectacularly polluted , always, because there were 2 other coking ovens upstream ) In hindsight it seems mental that Children could walk through a large industrial site with steam and various hot liquids oozing from pipes etc, and trains pulling wagons too and fro. The Slag heap was still being dumped on, and it caught fire some summers. All this seemed normal! Also, Orgreave Hall was still occupied , as was the farm nearby where you could buy unpasteurised milk . Another memory was climbing all over the soon to be scrapped Steam Engines on Rotherwood sidings one summer ( 1967?) . Another one was setting fire to the grass bank next to the bridge on Orgreave lane and getting chased by the police down to Woodhouse. I went back to look at the area a few years ago and it depressed me how little remained .

Yes,I was born in that blitz.a landmine took out the block of houses in Meadowhall road we were in them at the time in a shelter

Brilliant account and such a lovely lady , god bless Mavis

Fantastic video.

I use to live down the road from the blake pub where Gerald is sat in the park,that was bloor Street..I lived there about 1967 all terraced houses with entry's, there was 3x houses in our yard and the toilet was across the yard up three steps and backed onto the wall of the yard.. Oh and the house we lived in was haunted too

My mum told me of this, she was a girl when this happened, my grandad a 1st World War veteran worked for the gas board and had to be out all night. She said there was a rumour a downed airman or men got thrown into a smelter, I doubt that was true but rumours spread, she said the mines made a hell of a bang

Bloody hell I love the full monty. I wish Sean Bean was in it. Because Sheffield was his hometown lol

Great video mate.

Theres a photo somewhere of the old mine workings dug out by hand where the maclaren factory is

How interesting 😢

I was one of the many using Trams for work. How I missed them after October 1960 It was said by some Sheffield died when they disappeared. It was certainly a very sad time for many people

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New subscriber awesome video really did enjoy it 😊

I find it almost impossible to believe that Sheffield authorities could destroy such a wonderful public transport system. Unfortunately I was wrong.

The yellow sheds/workshops, the one nearest the chimney would be a sand drying room, a fire under the chimney would dry the sand so it could be put in the tram to aid adhesion in inclement weather. the next one along may have been another sand store but certainly would explain the chimney and sheds alongside it.

My grandad was a young bloke working in the steel works. He lived 7 miles outside the center of Sheffield but remarked on having to step over the bodies to get into work in the aftermath.

My nan was a similar age in Sheffield during the raids. She said they were in the tin shelter at the bottom of the garden when a bomb landed in their garden. She said it was a dud though and never went off.

Hi there! I've just come across this video and thought that I would give it a watch. And I'm so glad that I did. This is outstanding work! I was 17 when the battle of Orgreave took place and I was actually a passenger in a friends' car driving through Orgreave heading for the M1 just a few days before that shocking event. Young and stupid I had no idea of the magnitude of the events about to unfold during that summer. There were thousands of striking miners that I saw that day and the suffering and uncertainty that they went through was scandalous and more needs to be made known of this in my opinion. The loss of Coal Mining (and to a lesser degree, steel manufacturing) in South Yorkshire is another sad legacy of the demise of the UK as an industrial superpower. I see Waverley rising up from the old Orgreave site as I drive down the Parkway and its incredibly sad that kids today in South Yorkshire are still being taught such things as irrelevant American pish in their History classes when History is here, at home, all around them and far more relevant to the life's that they're leading here in South Yorkshire! Superb work mate.... New subscriber gained.

My mum, myself & my daughter who was thirteen at the time, went to see this on the stage at 'The hall for Cornwall' in Truro. 'Gaz' was played by one of the lead actors from the Bill & it was fantastic! My daughter had seen the film several times with both me & her Father who was well know for being a miserable git. I didn't think he'd let her go, but did. We got some odd looks in the interval, but seeing the happiness & huge grin on my daughters face, made everybody around her smile as well. The funniest part was when 'Guy' with his back to the audience pulled his trousers down & 'the lunch box' landed at the level of his knee's! The whole audience of mostly women of a certain age literally screamed in hysterical laughter. This was followed by the interval. During one performance the lights behind the actors meant to spare their blushes didn't come on. Apparently, the cast literally chased the lighting guy out of the theatre & down the street, but not at our show unfortunately.... or not! How I'd explain that to my ex husband God only knows!

A crying shame . I had many of a bottle of nukie brown in there 😢

I used to go in there,absolute shit show because of the building next to it

I’m hooked Joe,👍,S41.

So sorry for the news of this ladies passing .Thank you for making this record of what happened during the blitz. Hearing from people who witnessed things first hand ads so much to the history .Condolences to the ladies family.

Lovely lady who reminds me of my mum and what they all wen through xxxx

I knew a lady, a friend of my grandmother, who remembered the Zeppelin raids over Sheffield during the First World War. She was interviewed, I believe, by one of the local radio stations. My own mother, born in 1926, recalled her memories of the Second World War in Sheffield. She lived in Glencoe Road with her parents and was bombed out of their home until the property could be made safe. The King and Queen paid a visit and somewhere we have a black and white photograph of their visit amidst the devastation.

i rember

Went to the Ritz as a boy in the 50s, still remember the cigarette smoke curling up in the light from the projector and the smell of women's perfume. Migrated to Aust in 1957, still have strong, fond memories of the time.

Its a shame. As a Sheffield lass and long term rock fan I spent many hours in there. Knew several eras (including when Chloe Newsome owned it and it was a gay bar) My main era was in the early 90s in my teenage years. Just before it was demolished my friend John was the landlord. They absolutely could have secured the building through underpinning it reinforcing the back wall but I guess it didn't fit in with the 5 star hotel they are building (because Radisson Blu is way more important than 1700's architecture!!) I can critique SCC, they are shocking, at times! Im just also glad they didn't knock down the Salvation Army citadel, just round the corner, that was built in 1894 buy has been empty since 1999. There is planning permission on that. I also know about the Manchester pub, as my mate worked there in her student days at Salford. I went to it before, they moved it but have been since. They moved it when they built the 'new' Arndale, which is huge. But good on 'em. Manchester is way more caring, they've even put their buses back into public ownership. Sheffield, as proud as I am, of my city, has a lot to learn!!

I bet the water is dirty and contaminated with the filth what sheffield has become especially in recent years

the pub in manchester is the oyster pub/bar and somewhere else ive had many happy hours over the years

had a lot of happy days there