I am afraid you are right Tim. It is not just shoppers buying online but a much more complicated dynamic of staying in, drinking less in public, lockdown, money haemorraged from councils, money siphoned off for vanity projects. It is managed decline. They don't want us out.
Happening the country over, from small towns to big cities,something needs to come and put the brakes on this.We our History and people are getting special priority for removal.
Love the videos tim,shocking how town is now,(reason why I no longer go there and just stay local where I live S35),some lovely old buildings in town.glad I lived in the best times 1980s.(born in 65).so sad to see the decline of what was once a thriving place full of shoppers,but now no longer safe..all the best Tim,thanks again for the videos
Hi tim great video mate like a ghost town back in the day used too be packed solid Sheffield centre couldn't see the pavements... Shops are poor .... No vibe in the city no more mate its gone never ever get it back.... Sheffield council wrecking our city
What an awful place Sheffield has become. It's terrible to see how our once beautiful city has been destroyed. It's absolutely unrecognisable now Tim. Happy New Year.
@timawells we are becoming like Chyna,cheap plastic facade built on top of a crumbling country. They won't be happy until our History is gone buildings people the lot. It's ( insert expletive) disgrace that this is being forced.
@@timawells Centre for Retail Research predicts another 18,000 retail shops to close in 2025. It's controlled ruination. A long-in-the-plan looting programme. Capital being drained from the West to the East. Western currencies devalued by huge expansions in the money supply by the central banks. Pensions and savings diluted to worthlessness. All the hallmarks of a banana republic. Except it's a banana monarchy with the British Crown in bed with the globalist junta.
Same has happened down the road in Derby. Too many 'new british', dead shops, horrendous architecture, everything seems to be sacrificed for student shite. They are removing all the parking and wondering why people aren't shopping there anymore.
One way to see the dramatic difference over the past 10 or 15 years is to use Google Maps as Street View function, which they normally send the vans around once every one or two years going back to about 2007. You can really see the deterioration. It's extremely dramatic and depressing. The end of West Street, past Aslan's outside the old Turkish baths, in 2010 it looked like a trendy spot. There were several small bistros, and wine bars, and artisan shops. Now, it's all vape shops, and several takeaways. It's dirty. It looks like a completely different place. It's astonishing to me that it's the same street.
The pubs used to be elbow to elbow with Sheffield characters full of storys and nostalgia, people who grafted in industry all with individual storys to tell. How can you sit in a cafe at kelham with a set of yuppies and have a conversation with someone whos tapped a keyboard all his life 😂
@@timawells anyone in the world can play on a computer. These clowns couldn't check their engine oil. It takes skill handed down through apprenticeships to manufacture by hand world class goods. Look at the detail on old buildings and goods, nobody can tell me these people were not happy and proud at work.
Fred Dibnah often remarked how ornate and detailed the copings were on a 300ft high chimney, they then had a roast beef dinner on top as a topping out ceremony!
The pump and moorfoot tavern were heaving all day, people you knew, enjoying themselves. Now you go in town and you are met with faces from all corners of the globe who look at you with contempt and distrust. Jabbering away in their own tongue, enriching their lives not ours.
Sheffield has half a railway station almost inaccessible except on foot,some of the worst dirtiest slums,a history of creating vast deserts with nothing to attract anyone,a council hot in pursuit of net zero courtesy of membership of a net zero plus organization and a so called development and transport strategy/committee for want of a better description completely deluded.Buses go nowhere near where people want and the silly little inner city bus service is a joke.How did we get here?
I've heard some blame China for taking over the steel market. What's Sheffield without steel? The council seem to think Henderson's sauce and Arctic Monkeys tourism are enough to float the economy, but it's obviously failing. So now all we have are universities (both just re-education centres to teach intellectuals and lost souls anti-british values and woke agendas, despite what the advertisements say).
Crying shame I have renamed thus city Shitfield, the once proud city is now the pits. I hope whoever had a hand in the demise of the city is proud of themselves...... 😢
As a kid, (born 63) I remember standing on the corner of the hole in the road, watching the lord mayor's parade, shopping trips were a treat, town bustling and vibrant, great department stores, it felt safe, now it's a multicultural s#! T hole, glad I've moved, not too far, but still feels a little how town's and cities used to feel, what a mess and what a shame😢
When I was 18 I worked at Pizza Hut which is now an empty unit below what is the new food court. I had a bedsit on Abbeydale road and would walk up to Moor to work. It was full of decent stores and it had what appeared to be a good local nightlife, not just students. I guess back then Pizza Hut was quite new but it was soooooo busy. It would be packed later in the week and evening weekends. I’m willing the centre to do well and survive but it just isn’t a that pleasant a place to be. I know we all clutch our pearls about it but John Lewis shutting was a real blow to the centre.
This once great city is now depressing all the great stores are closed and its not really worth the time or effort. Not been in the city for years and pleased that Atkinsons is still in business albeit not as it once was.
Why are places like crystal peaks meadowhall and park gate thriving ? Free parking and loads of shops All City and town centres need to do is emulate this in the centre, build a big shopping centre and offer free parking maximum stay 3 hours and then charge for every hour after that If you build it they will come
Payed in cash on Friday, out shopping Saturday day and clubbing Saturday night. 10p on the bus. Never imagined it would be regarded the glory days. Where did everyone go?
1:09 correct Tim, that was the Setts Market a few outdoor stalls that was the travesty after closing the Rag n'Tag. There was a big demand for outdoor stalls and that wasn't sufficient because the indoor new Sheaf market was never popular and many generational market traders did not move there. The Labour council could get more to use it as a car park which it was for thirty years.
The last time I've been to Sheffield was just before covid in 2019, and although I wasn't particularly impressed it was definitely in much better shape ! The decline in 5 short years is shocking!
20:04 and here we have it , these works on Fargate have been in place for ages ,you are funneled through small gaps that are directly monitored by cameras .
Sheffield centre must be the capital for second hand phone and vape shops ! All with no customers but lights blaring all seem to be on there phones ! How do they keep paying the high rent and rates for being on the supposedly prestigious high street and fargate ???
5 in Fargate alone. These get council grants to set up in empty shops in Fargate. Used to be £50k now it's £35k but still plenty of empty shops and many close down after 6 months. Your thumbnail also shows a phone accessory shop on High Street and the former Auntie Anne's cafe kiosk down The Moor is also now a phone accessory shop.
We discovered the 'sculpture' at Moorfoot cost £30,000 the price of a house at the time, as you say Tim. The frieze outside the public conveniences cost a similar amount, not a bad pension fund for the artist - the fountain has not worked in decades.
The only time we go to Sheffield now is if we want to go to Fred Aldous or the Asian food supermarket, and we sometimes go in Atkinson's, there's no longer any other reason because the same shops are in parkgate which is closer. How many events areas and coffee shops do we need? There used to be independent shops everywhere and thriving markets,.
Great video, I used to come here a lot in the 80s and 90s and it was vibrant and bustling with loads of decent quality shops. I think amazon is the biggest culprit here but obv there's other factors. Best bet at this point is to convert some of it into housing imo
The biggest culprit is Sheffield city council. Everyone slates Amazon as the high street killer, Amazon is a selling platform for..............small businessess! A lot of stuff on Amazon and I mean a lot is sold by small independents, look at the seller next time you order, then Google that business. If I'm wrong I'll run up Fargate in my birthday suit 👍
55:35 Brentford Nylons famously advertised by Alan "Fluff" Freeman was on the other end of the block; middle was the BT phone shop with coloured phones in the window in the 'Seventies, long before mobiles; the now Roxy ballroom was the Genevieve nightclub owned by Max Omare, with the Mona Lisa upstairs featuring the Birds of Paradise dance troupe. By the 'Nineties the name had changed, i think to something Egyptian, but can't recall.
It's bad and would be so so much worse if it didn't have two universities in the centre. Most of the apartment blocks built in the centre will look like castle gate in 20 years time. There is nothing of real quality being built in Sheffield.
Building Meadowhall was a colossal mistake. Sheffield had more department stores than anywhere apart from London. It didn't neeed an out of town shopping mall! Returning to Sheffy for the last time in 1995 was a haunting experience but I'm glad I left.
The pump tavern was on side street off the moor between new market and ee shop or on road where eeshop is? Cineplex cinema was in charter row below where the old grosvenor hotel entrance was and past the monk shop.
There was, wasn’t it on the row of shops kind of underneath the Grosvenor hotel? I’d just moved to Sheffield in 88 and my brother took me to see Rivers Edge, an 86 film with Keanu Reeves. It was quite basic but remember loving it. At least we have the Showroom.
It's really sad to see from 99s to early 2000s town use to be rammed plenty of shops open they were a spark in town now its lost its spark it's soul I don't go to town anymore the government and the councils have destroyed towns and city's let's be honest about it
How can Fargate still be a building site after all these years?? It would take a team of builders 1 week to sort. Absolute waste of money. What do visitors think when they visit for the snooker??
Studied my masters in Sheffield, amazing city if your a student but when its time for end of year .its dead .. it seems the only people that bring life is students. Soo many companies go bankrupt.
I think you are a bit harsh on the city centre. I moved away for 20 years and I actually think it's improved. That area of town has been shabby and quiet since the market went. It's never been the nicer end of town anyhow.
Improved??? In what way dude? I'll meet anyone in the city centre and they can show me what's improved. Is it ok if I thumb over my collection of old Sheffield books and bring one with me? Thanks 👍
@@richardburns1287 Sheffys the biggest ghost town in the country. I left Sheffy in 1988 for Liverpool. Returning for the last time in 1995 was a haunting experience but I'm glad I left.
I have been very kind. I brought my dad in one day and looked around shell shocked and he had seen my videos so was prepared. What exactly has improved?
This is the only Sheffield I have ever known. Born here about 2 decades ago, and legends of a better time are folklore to my generation. I can't say I knew of a pleasant Sheffield, but I can say it certainly keeps getting worse, especially in the north-east quarter. Do you think the city will recover, or is it more sensible to pack my bags and leave?
I mentioned the lack of shopping in the city centre to another videographer and was fobbed off that Meadowhall is 20 minutes away. I want decent shops in the city that I pay Council Tax for not Student bars for peeps who don't.
There was an old police box on yhe corner of halifax road and southey green roag and that was green. The base is still there but the police box went years ago.
All they wanted do was stand around doing nothing, even went I pointed out those lying on the floor and drinking outside the old Claymore on Arundel gate.
tim do you not agree that abuse of children is wholly wrong no matter who the perpretaters are, when you speak of FOI and sheffield or rotherham council, do you not agree that it should be at much higher establishment than them ,ie have you enquired with the government at all bering in mind this has been on the agenda for many many years,,also i can remember the days when Sheffield was a vibrant city along with most other cities and towns ,alot has changed since those days mainly out of town shopping and retail parks,,i can also remember when sheffield had the best public transport system in the country yet mrs T still deregulated it ,personally i think that was the beginning of the end for sheffield also just having been to leeds and manchester it looks like they are introducing traffic pollution measures , rightly or wrongly who knows
Manchester and Leeds will go the same way as Sheffield if they introduce their CAZ. Deansgate had some serious issues in Manchester. I agree all child sexual abuse should be important, I believe there is a massive abuse of young lads we hear nothing about. I spoke to a guy Christmas eve who was staying in a hotel as his wife beat him up.
@ and that’s another good point you make about men being abused, it’s one of those subjects that doesn’t get a lot of coverage,in an ideal world all of this would stop
@@PAULLUNN-f2t It easier to see abuse when its bruises, but when woman emotionally beat men up its harder to identify and laughed at. This guy had been glassed in his eye, he showed me the picture.
We obviously don't need city centres in the same capacity for as we once did for offices or shopping. Inner city living isn't a natural or healthy environment for residential living and will just lead to slums. Personally I would knock down most of the buildings built after the war and green over it. If anyone wants/ needs to build in the city from then on it should be in aesthetically pleasing traditional old styles like they're doing in Hungary.
I think you should take into consideration that it's the first weekend after Christmas and the New Year, but yes, the small selection of shops and overall disrepair around Sheffield City Centre has no appeal.
Some of my relatives used to sell shoes on the outdoor market on Wednesdays n Saturdays. They then opened up Le Chambre on Attercliffe Rd until the scamdemic forced them to shut down
I am afraid you are right Tim. It is not just shoppers buying online but a much more complicated dynamic of staying in, drinking less in public, lockdown, money haemorraged from councils, money siphoned off for vanity projects. It is managed decline. They don't want us out.
Started with the lockdown down Michelle. Join the dots. Serious alcohol issues went up.
Sheffield born and bred. Glad we got out 21 yrs ago. Moved to Adelaide South Australia.
You guys got hammered badly by your own government in lockdown, our police would never dare do that to us.
@@timawells that was then, now we jail people for mean tweets and release serious criminals to make room, times have changed.
@timawells not sure what you mean..
@@BladeinOz Your country was under a total police state in lockdown. No way would I have wanted to be there.
@@timawells yes, it was a total polic state. Anyway, I'd hate Christmas on the beach.
Depressing, utterly depressing for a city.
It really is Leon. Walking along Pinstone st now Christmas market has gone reminded me of the lockdown.
Happening the country over, from small towns to big cities,something needs to come and put the brakes on this.We our History and people are getting special priority for removal.
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 They are erasing us. I feel like a foreigner in my own country.
@@timawells I think this is a national feeling mate,sigh
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 But Leeds and Manchester are far more alive.
Love the videos tim,shocking how town is now,(reason why I no longer go there and just stay local where I live S35),some lovely old buildings in town.glad I lived in the best times 1980s.(born in 65).so sad to see the decline of what was once a thriving place full of shoppers,but now no longer safe..all the best Tim,thanks again for the videos
Thanks. I was born in 64 so ditto.
Hi tim great video mate like a ghost town back in the day used too be packed solid Sheffield centre couldn't see the pavements... Shops are poor .... No vibe in the city no more mate its gone never ever get it back.... Sheffield council wrecking our city
What an awful place Sheffield has become. It's terrible to see how our once beautiful city has been destroyed. It's absolutely unrecognisable now Tim. Happy New Year.
@myra6087 agree 💯
Sadly, I don't think they are finished yet, in fact I think there's a heck of a lot more coming.
Yes in the new year more shops will disappear from the High St.
@timawells we are becoming like Chyna,cheap plastic facade built on top of a crumbling country. They won't be happy until our History is gone buildings people the lot. It's ( insert expletive) disgrace that this is being forced.
@@timawells Centre for Retail Research predicts another 18,000 retail shops to close in 2025. It's controlled ruination. A long-in-the-plan looting programme. Capital being drained from the West to the East. Western currencies devalued by huge expansions in the money supply by the central banks. Pensions and savings diluted to worthlessness. All the hallmarks of a banana republic. Except it's a banana monarchy with the British Crown in bed with the globalist junta.
Same has happened down the road in Derby.
Too many 'new british', dead shops, horrendous architecture, everything seems to be sacrificed for student shite.
They are removing all the parking and wondering why people aren't shopping there anymore.
Ditto.
Sheffield is no more...dead R.I.P
One way to see the dramatic difference over the past 10 or 15 years is to use Google Maps as Street View function, which they normally send the vans around once every one or two years going back to about 2007. You can really see the deterioration. It's extremely dramatic and depressing. The end of West Street, past Aslan's outside the old Turkish baths, in 2010 it looked like a trendy spot. There were several small bistros, and wine bars, and artisan shops. Now, it's all vape shops, and several takeaways. It's dirty. It looks like a completely different place. It's astonishing to me that it's the same street.
That is third world culture.
Sheffield has fallen for a while now and we are at the end stages as well
The pubs used to be elbow to elbow with Sheffield characters full of storys and nostalgia, people who grafted in industry all with individual storys to tell.
How can you sit in a cafe at kelham with a set of yuppies and have a conversation with someone whos tapped a keyboard all his life 😂
Absolutely. Snooty middle class with zero life experiences and no GDP.
@@timawells anyone in the world can play on a computer. These clowns couldn't check their engine oil. It takes skill handed down through apprenticeships to manufacture by hand world class goods. Look at the detail on old buildings and goods, nobody can tell me these people were not happy and proud at work.
Fred Dibnah often remarked how ornate and detailed the copings were on a 300ft high chimney, they then had a roast beef dinner on top as a topping out ceremony!
@@richardburns1287 Like you mentioned Richard the upside down head brigade are clowns.
The pump and moorfoot tavern were heaving all day, people you knew, enjoying themselves. Now you go in town and you are met with faces from all corners of the globe who look at you with contempt and distrust. Jabbering away in their own tongue, enriching their lives not ours.
I remember Sheffield. What a wonderful place to live in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. Such decline 😢
Sad isn't it Catherine.
Sheffield has half a railway station almost inaccessible except on foot,some of the worst dirtiest slums,a history of creating vast deserts with nothing to attract anyone,a council hot in pursuit of net zero courtesy of membership of a net zero plus organization and a so called development and transport strategy/committee for want of a better description completely deluded.Buses go nowhere near where people want and the silly little inner city bus service is a joke.How did we get here?
I've heard some blame China for taking over the steel market. What's Sheffield without steel?
The council seem to think Henderson's sauce and Arctic Monkeys tourism are enough to float the economy, but it's obviously failing.
So now all we have are universities (both just re-education centres to teach intellectuals and lost souls anti-british values and woke agendas, despite what the advertisements say).
People vote Labour, Liberal and Green.
Moved out in 86 and visited every few years. Seen it turn to a horrific jungle. All by design imo
Absolutely. My parents moved us out in 66 and we end up coming under RMBC.
Crying shame I have renamed thus city Shitfield, the once proud city is now the pits. I hope whoever had a hand in the demise of the city is proud of themselves...... 😢
@@chrislee1155they are making it vibrant. I though it was vibrant in my youth; now it's dead and decaying.
@@chrislee1155 Its all planned as they import more migrants and turn these into indoctrination centres.
The pub was the Brunswick and the nightclub was Turnups. And the wallpaper shop was Blaskeys. There was also Bunker and Pratleys electrical.
As a kid, (born 63) I remember standing on the corner of the hole in the road, watching the lord mayor's parade, shopping trips were a treat, town bustling and vibrant, great department stores, it felt safe, now it's a multicultural s#! T hole, glad I've moved, not too far, but still feels a little how town's and cities used to feel, what a mess and what a shame😢
Same era as me as I was born in 64. Yes I remember town totally packed for the Lord Mayors parade.
When I was 18 I worked at Pizza Hut which is now an empty unit below what is the new food court. I had a bedsit on Abbeydale road and would walk up to Moor to work. It was full of decent stores and it had what appeared to be a good local nightlife, not just students. I guess back then Pizza Hut was quite new but it was soooooo busy. It would be packed later in the week and evening weekends. I’m willing the centre to do well and survive but it just isn’t a that pleasant a place to be. I know we all clutch our pearls about it but John Lewis shutting was a real blow to the centre.
I remember going in that Pizza hut, but all the shops around it were first class.
This once great city is now depressing all the great stores are closed and its not really worth the time or effort. Not been in the city for years and pleased that Atkinsons is still in business albeit not as it once was.
Atkinsons doesn't give me a lift like it once did. Seems like any other modern shop.
So depressing and demoralising. They are doing it on purpose. ☹
Absolutely. Its going to get worse. Wait for next year.
Why are places like crystal peaks meadowhall and park gate thriving ?
Free parking and loads of shops
All City and town centres need to do is emulate this in the centre, build a big shopping centre and offer free parking maximum stay 3 hours and then charge for every hour after that
If you build it they will come
Payed in cash on Friday, out shopping Saturday day and clubbing Saturday night. 10p on the bus. Never imagined it would be regarded the glory days. Where did everyone go?
Its very sad.
1:09 correct Tim, that was the Setts Market a few outdoor stalls that was the travesty after closing the Rag n'Tag. There was a big demand for outdoor stalls and that wasn't sufficient because the indoor new Sheaf market was never popular and many generational market traders did not move there. The Labour council could get more to use it as a car park which it was for thirty years.
I have a video inside The Moor market. Someone tried to stop me filming but the manager shut them up, as she was standing there.
The last time I've been to Sheffield was just before covid in 2019, and although I wasn't particularly impressed it was definitely in much better shape ! The decline in 5 short years is shocking!
They used the lockdown. Shut down Leopold st and Pinstone to buses.
20:04 and here we have it , these works on Fargate have been in place for ages ,you are funneled through small gaps that are directly monitored by cameras .
Never thought about that.
Nobody is going into town to events park, it's markets and shops what the city centre needs. Sheffield has fallen
We don't want the woke nonsense Paul
Sheffield centre must be the capital for second hand phone and vape shops ! All with no customers but lights blaring all seem to be on there phones ! How do they keep paying the high rent and rates for being on the supposedly prestigious high street and fargate ???
5 in Fargate alone. These get council grants to set up in empty shops in Fargate. Used to be £50k now it's £35k but still plenty of empty shops and many close down after 6 months. Your thumbnail also shows a phone accessory shop on High Street and the former Auntie Anne's cafe kiosk down The Moor is also now a phone accessory shop.
We discovered the 'sculpture' at Moorfoot cost £30,000 the price of a house at the time, as you say Tim. The frieze outside the public conveniences cost a similar amount, not a bad pension fund for the artist - the fountain has not worked in decades.
Yes my 2 bed detached was £23K at the time.
Threads was bad but that was just fiction. This is worse.
You horror!
I used to work in steel works went drinking on London road west street and town centre great pubs packed out loved the nelson and Buccaneer
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The only time we go to Sheffield now is if we want to go to Fred Aldous or the Asian food supermarket, and we sometimes go in Atkinson's, there's no longer any other reason because the same shops are in parkgate which is closer.
How many events areas and coffee shops do we need? There used to be independent shops everywhere and thriving markets,.
miserably looking place
Great video, I used to come here a lot in the 80s and 90s and it was vibrant and bustling with loads of decent quality shops. I think amazon is the biggest culprit here but obv there's other factors. Best bet at this point is to convert some of it into housing imo
The biggest culprit is Sheffield city council. Everyone slates Amazon as the high street killer, Amazon is a selling platform for..............small businessess! A lot of stuff on Amazon and I mean a lot is sold by small independents, look at the seller next time you order, then Google that business.
If I'm wrong I'll run up Fargate in my birthday suit 👍
That's what they are pushing but we didn't want our city centre as a university student campus and blocks of studio flats.
Thanks. Its planned to create an indoctrination centre and for cheap foreign Labour.
Manchester and Leeds are humming as you say Richard.
Absolutely not.
Sheffield is dead and the council killed it
Yes
"The Lights are always on but there's nobody home" sounds like the planners at Sheffield Council!
Yes. I find it strange the Old Wilko building is brightly lit inside.
55:35 Brentford Nylons famously advertised by Alan "Fluff" Freeman was on the other end of the block; middle was the BT phone shop with coloured phones in the window in the 'Seventies, long before mobiles; the now Roxy ballroom was the Genevieve nightclub owned by Max Omare, with the Mona Lisa upstairs featuring the Birds of Paradise dance troupe. By the 'Nineties the name had changed, i think to something Egyptian, but can't recall.
Some on mentioned Kikis
A lot of the buildings down the old market could do with a lick of paint to make them look less run down
It never used to be like this.
@timawells a lot of the centre could do with a lick of paint so depressing and grimy
@@retrorambles517All Coppard is interested in is his toy trams. He's wasting another £500m on them when the money could be better spent elsewhere.
@@retrorambles517 Its plastic on rotten wood.
It's bad and would be so so much worse if it didn't have two universities in the centre. Most of the apartment blocks built in the centre will look like castle gate in 20 years time. There is nothing of real quality being built in Sheffield.
Building Meadowhall was a colossal mistake. Sheffield had more department stores than anywhere apart from London. It didn't neeed an out of town shopping mall!
Returning to Sheffy for the last time in 1995 was a haunting experience but I'm glad I left.
I think the Universities in the centre are causing it, as they drive for Net Zero.
The pump tavern was on side street off the moor between new market and ee shop or on road where eeshop is? Cineplex cinema was in charter row below where the old grosvenor hotel entrance was and past the monk shop.
Pump Tavern is now El Paso.
Close to where I thought it was.
That alleyway on the right at about 17 mins in, didn't Radio Hallam used to be up there?
2:13 how apt - that building is called OBLIVION!
The vintage shop at the top corner of king st is not. Its a snide clothes shop run by the other team, everything is new tat 👍
Seem to remember that there was an "alternative" cinema - The Anvil close to The Wapentake. They screened arthouse films by the likes of Derek Jarman.
There was, wasn’t it on the row of shops kind of underneath the Grosvenor hotel? I’d just moved to Sheffield in 88 and my brother took me to see Rivers Edge, an 86 film with Keanu Reeves. It was quite basic but remember loving it. At least we have the Showroom.
It was two smaller cinemas and ITV from what I remember.
It's really sad to see from 99s to early 2000s town use to be rammed plenty of shops open they were a spark in town now its lost its spark it's soul I don't go to town anymore the government and the councils have destroyed towns and city's let's be honest about it
Yes its been destroyed on purpose.
Old Tudor building was that the Brunswick pub
No Brunswick is higher up the hill.
How can Fargate still be a building site after all these years?? It would take a team of builders 1 week to sort. Absolute waste of money. What do visitors think when they visit for the snooker??
It was embarrassing at Christmas.
I left Sheffield in 2004 it looks like everybody followed me can't believe how dead it is
My Christmas eve night video was shocking Chris.
Studied my masters in Sheffield, amazing city if your a student but when its time for end of year .its dead .. it seems the only people that bring life is students. Soo many companies go bankrupt.
It never used to be like this in the 90s. It was after 2000 it changed.
Have you done any foi requests to the council about how many people have come to Sheffield just to make negative videos ?
There's loads recently
I did contact them when I did Page Hall and mentioned videos were going viral and they needed to do something to stop the need.
I think you are a bit harsh on the city centre.
I moved away for 20 years and I actually think it's improved.
That area of town has been shabby and quiet since the market went.
It's never been the nicer end of town anyhow.
Improved??? In what way dude? I'll meet anyone in the city centre and they can show me what's improved. Is it ok if I thumb over my collection of old Sheffield books and bring one with me? Thanks 👍
@@richardburns1287 Sheffys the biggest ghost town in the country.
I left Sheffy in 1988 for Liverpool. Returning for the last time in 1995 was a haunting experience but I'm glad I left.
Ditto Richard.
I have been very kind. I brought my dad in one day and looked around shell shocked and he had seen my videos so was prepared. What exactly has improved?
50:00 it's pronounced monki not monkle
But I've seen the article saying it's closing but I think that's a lot of stores not just the Sheffield one
It's owned by H & M who also own the shop next door to Monki, it's daft signage, can't read it easily.
The L or what ever it is is confusing.
This is the only Sheffield I have ever known. Born here about 2 decades ago, and legends of a better time are folklore to my generation. I can't say I knew of a pleasant Sheffield, but I can say it certainly keeps getting worse, especially in the north-east quarter.
Do you think the city will recover, or is it more sensible to pack my bags and leave?
It's finished mate but everywhere is the same or going that way. If I was young I'd be looking at emigrating.
Get into the countryside.
Its the same world wide, there is an agenda globally .
I think the pub where you went downstairs on Leopold Street was the Buccaneer.
I knew it as the Fountain Bar, Buccaneer was the name when it was the Grand Hotel.
I mentioned the lack of shopping in the city centre to another videographer and was fobbed off that Meadowhall is 20 minutes away. I want decent shops in the city that I pay Council Tax for not Student bars for peeps who don't.
Manchester has the Trafford centre.
University taken over everything,got all the best buildings.
They knocked down a listed part of Jessops and built a cubic eyesore.
There was an old police box on yhe corner of halifax road and southey green roag and that was green. The base is still there but the police box went years ago.
I still think they were painted Green due to the council after they became vacant.
@timawells you might be right because I'm talking 70s
@@sean5811 I have never heard of police boxes being Green, but the google narrative says they were, which I don't believe.
Sheffield was murdered years ago
1994.
I think it started the decline in the 80s with burger vans down The Moor.
Meadowhall murdered Sheffield, that out of town abomination.
The two things that wrecked Sheffield city centre Meadowhall and the stupid supertram
The council shut down all the cheap car parking at the bottom of the Parkway.
HI Tim looks like Rotherham on a larger scale , anyway keep going with the videos
Thanks.
Crazy daisy became the geisha bar
I thought it did, but nights back then were hazy.
About the 13:00 mark with the junkies
They pretty much stay at that vus stop all day drinking dealing and taking drugs and usually causing a scene
I reported them to the police outside Market place. They weren't bothered. They just wanted to stand around doing nothing
So what was excuse for cops not being there xmas eve? What did they say?
All they wanted do was stand around doing nothing, even went I pointed out those lying on the floor and drinking outside the old Claymore on Arundel gate.
tim do you not agree that abuse of children is wholly wrong no matter who the perpretaters are, when you speak of FOI and sheffield or rotherham council, do you not agree that it should be at much higher establishment than them ,ie have you enquired with the government at all bering in mind this has been on the agenda for many many years,,also i can remember the days when Sheffield was a vibrant city along with most other cities and towns ,alot has changed since those days mainly out of town shopping and retail parks,,i can also remember when sheffield had the best public transport system in the country yet mrs T still deregulated it ,personally i think that was the beginning of the end for sheffield also just having been to leeds and manchester it looks like they are introducing traffic pollution measures , rightly or wrongly who knows
Manchester and Leeds will go the same way as Sheffield if they introduce their CAZ. Deansgate had some serious issues in Manchester. I agree all child sexual abuse should be important, I believe there is a massive abuse of young lads we hear nothing about. I spoke to a guy Christmas eve who was staying in a hotel as his wife beat him up.
@ and that’s another good point you make about men being abused, it’s one of those subjects that doesn’t get a lot of coverage,in an ideal world all of this would stop
@@PAULLUNN-f2t It easier to see abuse when its bruises, but when woman emotionally beat men up its harder to identify and laughed at. This guy had been glassed in his eye, he showed me the picture.
Used to get haircut No3 .Bottom of Moor 99p .
We obviously don't need city centres in the same capacity for as we once did for offices or shopping. Inner city living isn't a natural or healthy environment for residential living and will just lead to slums. Personally I would knock down most of the buildings built after the war and green over it. If anyone wants/ needs to build in the city from then on it should be in aesthetically pleasing traditional old styles like they're doing in Hungary.
This is all about control and indoctrination centres
I think you should take into consideration that it's the first weekend after Christmas and the New Year, but yes, the small selection of shops and overall disrepair around Sheffield City Centre has no appeal.
Time was when it would be bustling with the January sales.
I expect a bit less but even The Moor was struggling. The rest was deserted.
The old peace gardens was lovely
Yes Chris, it was all about maintenance. This is awful.
Very multicultural
That is the issue on top of the homeless.
Used to be r8 good town it’s serious shit hole now
Some of my relatives used to sell shoes on the outdoor market on Wednesdays n Saturdays. They then opened up Le Chambre on Attercliffe Rd until the scamdemic forced them to shut down
The Moor or Haymarket?