I was a brand new Constable working out of Whitworth Lane police station in 1960. I was born on't Manor. Attercliffe in 1960 was no 'Garden of Eden' and it's a mistake to look at it through rose coloured spectacles. I left for Canada in 1966 and never regretted it.
I was about seven years old when I used to catch the tram with my Grandma; such lovely memories and all I wanted was to be with her, nothing more. She was a treasured part of my early life.
My Dad was born down Attercliffe and my family come from there my Dad was born in 1925 on Trent Street it was a very tough, hard place and was called the East End back then there was some hard fightin men came from there its sad and a huge shame when you see the shithole it is today compared to back then !!
Hard to imagine this was a thriving area back then when you see it now, deserted streets, houses demolished to put people in pigeon huts in the sky, all those pubs and shops destroyed when they took the people away, tram service that ran all round the city, destroyed.
The trams were taken away to force people onto the buses, then the bus service had a monopoly and became a bad service & expensive. One-man buses got rid of more jobs and made it slower. Tho' billed as progress it wasn't progress it just got worse.
Well before my time, I’d trade today for then, you can see and from video clips and what older relatives say how much nicer Sheffield was back then and the uk was a nicer place, I’ve seen it go downhill rapidly in my lifetime, change is said not always a bad thing, but change is not always good thing either!
@@martinproud8813 definitely and the world saw reasonably without this woke we have today , I would think the queue for a time machine would a long one, count me in if it became possible.
That was amazing.Born a couple of years after this, lived on Shortridge st then Cave st, a little way up Staniforth rd. Remember it with fondness, thanks for posting..
I sometimes wished all UK cities had kept their old tramways and tram cars instead of replacing them with polluting desil buses,perhaps design new tram vehicles
It's like a second city centre in many ways there, kind of like Hillsborough is today, odd how it never maintained this sort of status and now it's a mess.
Life and times to look back on. As it was then, what we see thesedays is not a patch on how it was, progress and decline, it's a fine line between em. Great bygone footage, thanks for sharing it 👍
me too, cant remember a third of the shops open in the 70s,80s,90s etc lol, only bit i knew is where you turn up to darnall where corona fashions used to be, and on the right was take 2 club......long after this tho, interesting
The Norfolk Bridge junction @ 0:45 is absolute MAYHEM, with cars attempting suicidal dashes across to the other side of Attercliffe Road to their chosen road entrance. Utterly crazy and all because of no traffic lights.
Incredible footage thanks for posting. If you took away the cars and trams you would think it was 1860! Just watched a film from this area filmed a couple of years ago and seems unrecognisable now with just mainly open spaces with "industrial estates" (use the term loosely) and sex shops and McDonald's and restaurants
The re-building for the World Student Games in 1992, who remembers that now? They said it would take thirty years to pay for it on Poll Tax, then Don Valley Stadium is demolished! Take away the people & transport & its a wilderness. Even the ice rink is not the same as the old Mecca on Queens Road, its too hard to get to.
Poor people lived in attercliffe when this film was made and to all the pricks who are calling it a 3rd world if it was that brilliant to live in the area why did you or your relatives move out?.
Don't think many had a choice. Successive councils forced people out and into new build council estates around the suburbs so they could rip the beating heart from tight knit communities rase the "slums" and erect concrete steel and glass eyesores
I was a brand new Constable working out of Whitworth Lane police station in 1960. I was born on't Manor. Attercliffe in 1960 was no 'Garden of Eden' and it's a mistake to look at it through rose coloured spectacles. I left for Canada in 1966 and never regretted it.
I was about seven years old when I used to catch the tram with my Grandma; such lovely memories and all I wanted was to be with her, nothing more. She was a treasured part of my early life.
My Dad was born down Attercliffe and my family come from there my Dad was born in 1925 on Trent Street it was a very tough, hard place and was called the East End back then there was some hard fightin men came from there its sad and a huge shame when you see the shithole it is today compared to back then !!
Its now a mini "shithole country", not my words, Trumps words ;)
@@pumpkinking365 Trump the jew puppet.
Hard to imagine this was a thriving area back then when you see it now, deserted streets, houses demolished to put people in pigeon huts in the sky, all those pubs and shops destroyed when they took the people away, tram service that ran all round the city, destroyed.
The trams were taken away to force people onto the buses, then the bus service had a monopoly and became a bad service & expensive. One-man buses got rid of more jobs and made it slower. Tho' billed as progress it wasn't progress it just got worse.
My family from Liverpool Street
Love it. The little boy watching the tram at the end is about 60 today.
Andy Bell I'm 62.
Could be my dad, he's 65 this year and grew up in the area, amazing footage.
Well before my time, I’d trade today for then, you can see and from video clips and what older relatives say how much nicer Sheffield was back then and the uk was a nicer place, I’ve seen it go downhill rapidly in my lifetime, change is said not always a bad thing, but change is not always good thing either!
Well said I wish I could live in those days and I bet you could have a laugh with out offending anybody. Please give me a time machine.
@@martinproud8813 definitely and the world saw reasonably without this woke we have today , I would think the queue for a time machine would a long one, count me in if it became possible.
Sheffield is a city that has literally gone backwards over time.
That was amazing.Born a couple of years after this, lived on Shortridge st then Cave st, a little way up Staniforth rd. Remember it with fondness, thanks for posting..
I sometimes wished all UK cities had kept their old tramways and tram cars instead of replacing them with polluting desil buses,perhaps design new tram vehicles
It's like a second city centre in many ways there, kind of like Hillsborough is today, odd how it never maintained this sort of status and now it's a mess.
Life and times to look back on.
As it was then, what we see thesedays is not a patch on how it was, progress and decline, it's a fine line between em.
Great bygone footage, thanks for sharing it 👍
Wow, it looks so different, busy and vibrant. Its a dump now.
Can't believe how busy and bustling with life attercliffe road was back then.
me too, cant remember a third of the shops open in the 70s,80s,90s etc lol, only bit i knew is where you turn up to darnall where corona fashions used to be, and on the right was take 2 club......long after this tho, interesting
Love this thank you for sharing.
The Norfolk Bridge junction @ 0:45 is absolute MAYHEM, with cars attempting suicidal dashes across to the other side of Attercliffe Road to their chosen road entrance.
Utterly crazy and all because of no traffic lights.
It really is!
Fantastic stuff
I bet in those days people had everything . Now we have nothing 😥☹
I was there stood outside Banners on the Cliff as we called it.
Anyone remember the Boston Shoe Company in Attercliffe? My Mother's first job was there!
Lived there as a kid on bright st,,its like kyber pass now
A few years ago, i saw a giant tram depot near Sheffield, all i remember it was near Tinsley 3 Magpies Pub,
Incredible footage thanks for posting. If you took away the cars and trams you would think it was 1860! Just watched a film from this area filmed a couple of years ago and seems unrecognisable now with just mainly open spaces with "industrial estates" (use the term loosely) and sex shops and McDonald's and restaurants
The re-building for the World Student Games in 1992, who remembers that now? They said it would take thirty years to pay for it on Poll Tax, then Don Valley Stadium is demolished! Take away the people & transport & its a wilderness. Even the ice rink is not the same as the old Mecca on Queens Road, its too hard to get to.
Ahhhh.....those were the days......mmmm
From a thriving community to what it is now ! I’m not saying it was easy living there but it had a sense of life now it’s just dead!
Now it's a shit-hole and dead.
Attercliffe looks a thriving place back then
Is there a drive through without the missing bits on this excellent video?
Attercliffe was bustling when banners was open
Anyone got any footage of spring heeled jack? 😆👍😈
Drop me off at Sharps Models.
2:22 Spot the foreign car!
Ecky thump
Poor people lived in attercliffe when this film was made and to all the pricks who are calling it a 3rd world if it was that brilliant to live in the area why did you or your relatives move out?.
Don't think many had a choice. Successive councils forced people out and into new build council estates around the suburbs so they could rip the beating heart from tight knit communities rase the "slums" and erect concrete steel and glass eyesores
@@chrisorme5504 spot on