🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your UA-cam video player :) Good evening! And welcome to a walk around the spectacular Steel City: Sheffield! A city full of history, there are a number of things that we didn't have time to cover on our walk, but I'd like to add to them here. First, at the end we briefly mentioned Sheffield's role in the history of association football. Now Sheffield FC, founded in 1857, styles itself as the world's first football club. In truth, there's more to it than that, and Sheffield FC is more accurately described as the oldest surviving active football club, having played the game for 165 years, although they're now actually based in Dronfield over the border in Derbyshire. For much of the club's early history, it played football by the 'Sheffield Rules', a code that developed separately to the rules of the FA that eventually came to form the sport that we know today - although the Sheffield Rules were highly influential, introducing corners, free kicks, heading and goalkeepers to the sport! Another thing we talked about is how Sheffield lies just north of the border that one could argue divides England's north and south. The existence of the Midlands notwithstanding, one important piece of evidence for this argument is that the Saxon-era Sheffield Cross, which we mentioned stood on the site now occupied by the Cathedral, was actually built in a Mercian, not Northumbrian style - and it's the northernmost example ever found of a Mercian-style Saxon cross - putting Sheffield right on the northern tip of Mercia, and the southern tip of Northumbria.
I was a Born in Sheffield 136 Upper Valley Rd Meersbrook in my Nanans House in 1964 ...I left Sheffield in 2004 and have never been back ...too many sad memories...
Sad to hear about sad memories. I've actually lived on the same road and now live not far from there. The city has changed a lot but it's still only one of two places I'd live in this country. It's a great place.
Great video 👍 When talking about the castle, you didn’t actually go down and show where the castle site where the famous Lady’s Bridge is. Also, Millennium Gallery is inside the Winter Garden, another fantastic new Gallery where there is a display of steel making.
Born and raised in Sheffield for 45 years.. it was a fantastic place 20 - 30 years ago but now it's just full of homeless people, graffiti, closed down and demolished famous shops.. Sheffield city council don't give a shit about the place anymore.. the story about the bells missing from the town hall and never completed proves my point
There will always be that one person that says the place they lived in was 'better in the 90's'. I see you didn't mention the great development of The Moor or the other improvements...
@@da14a49 "please" you're talking about a half mile stretch of the Sheffield city centre.. what about fargate, thriving 30 years ago, now it's just full of bums sleeping in doorways
@@da14a49 Believe me , this video has cherry picked it's focal points. Chris Thomas is absolutely correct about the current state of the city and the suburbs (apart from the ones that fall in the Diocese of Hallam of course). High street is shameful and dangerous, Castlegate is even worse, we won't mention the Wicker, and the Moor is a vapid , soulless simulacrum of what it was in the seventies/ eighties. The Council DON'T care about anyone over the age of forty, the bus services are less reliable than a politicians promise, rubbish and graffiti are rife,. It's a shabby, dirty, retail poor dump and it's set to get worse.
You should have walked round Leopold square. Loads of history and a lovely part of the city as well as division street, Devonshire green and West Street. Would have also been good to walk round kelham island. Loads of history, restaurants and bars.
Great video. Sheffield City Centre is undergoing massive regeneration at the moment with lots of building going on. It should hopefully look even better in the next 5 years. Sheffield absorbed some parts of Derbyshire (being a Totley lad, I’d know) and I’d say Nottingham is where the North/South divide is… although you make a fair case. Thanks for a very informative video.
You skipped over sheffields greatest landmark. Tank night club. On a more serious note, we Sheffielders consider ourselves as northerners. I’d say Nottingham is the divide.
Loved watching this video, even tho a lot has changed I still knew where we were going. I left Sheffield as an 18yr old back in 1969, Dad worked for Firth Vicker's Stainless Steel and was going to be made redundant, so we emigrated to Australia as £10 Poms and Dad returned to his former trade as a Carpenter. His very 1st job working on the Sydney Opera House!!! Must say having read a lot of your comments mum and dad made a wonderful decision to leave Sheffield BUT what you are talking about.... Covid, homeless people, Grafiti, shops closed etc, this is everywhere in the World not just in Sheffield. I will always have my memories of my hometown and a good life of 18years and hoping soon to return to reminisce
I got depressed living here after just a year, the worst experience of my life, it's boring as fck, not much to do, the city feels like a small town, got bored after 2 months. It's filled with crack heads pissing and shitting in daylight street, old factory buildings converted into apartments, the exterior of these buildings are in shitty condition and too old to be repaired. Noisy, overpopulated and too much congestion on the road. Air quality is next to worse compared to London. I couldn't sleep at night and developed insomnia because most of the apartments are built near the main road and have sirens that usually kick off every second especially at weekends throughout the night/early morning. I'm born and raised in London and thought my town was bad. I had to move back, not in favour of London either but still much better off here.
Wrong about the area where the castle was.not at castle house at all.try lady's bridge. next time you venture to our glorious city get your facts right lots of errors in your narrative.i will take you round and show you the hidden gems all around Sheffield not just in the city centre.not a bad effort though dude.
@@chrisnumnuts8671 Just to give you a bit more trivia, there is a bronze of Mercury (messenger of the Gods) on the top of the old Telegraph and Star building on High Street.
why did you miss out cutlers hall and paradise square also the hospital that used to be on west street, kelam island etc, breweries including the elephants used during the war
I love these walking videos as I call them I have subscribed to a few I knew this was Sheffield as soon as I seen the thumbnail you are my no 1 and walk with Tim is my number 2 and gimble is my number 3
I've lived in Sheffield 14 years. im from London, im a adopted son they told me in Yorkshire regiment, :p but just want to say I love northerners you have a grate sence of humour and know how to have a good time lol and welcoming, love respect
I left because I didnt like being intimidated by drug users around the Cathedral and tram stop. Also a man used to walk up high street with an imaginary machine gun firing into groups of people, I remember waiting in Sainsburys while the same man was waving an imaginary pistol firing at individuals outside. Meanwhile, when the pub called Ask had its windows open one summer, a man was leering in though the window shouting something like aaaarrggh yer bastids arrgh at a table of diners. I was sitting in the wetherspoons pub one sunday afternoon drinking a rather dubious pint, when the sun broke through the clouds, and upon shining onto my pint glass illuminated the filthy rim, brown guff, bits of white stuff, and general gunk. I fled , never to return. Love from the EU and Gran Canaria.
My grandparents took my father and two sisters over there during Depression, where my father did his 11pluses, before heading back to NZ. Grandpa actually got married there around 07or08.
@@graemenicol6377 my son is a Newcastle fan he went to the university of Northumberland in Newcastle city centre the Sheffield comment was just a joke I knew you we're not a fan lol
🎤 To watch with subtitles, please click the 'CC' button on your UA-cam video player :)
Good evening! And welcome to a walk around the spectacular Steel City: Sheffield! A city full of history, there are a number of things that we didn't have time to cover on our walk, but I'd like to add to them here.
First, at the end we briefly mentioned Sheffield's role in the history of association football. Now Sheffield FC, founded in 1857, styles itself as the world's first football club. In truth, there's more to it than that, and Sheffield FC is more accurately described as the oldest surviving active football club, having played the game for 165 years, although they're now actually based in Dronfield over the border in Derbyshire.
For much of the club's early history, it played football by the 'Sheffield Rules', a code that developed separately to the rules of the FA that eventually came to form the sport that we know today - although the Sheffield Rules were highly influential, introducing corners, free kicks, heading and goalkeepers to the sport!
Another thing we talked about is how Sheffield lies just north of the border that one could argue divides England's north and south. The existence of the Midlands notwithstanding, one important piece of evidence for this argument is that the Saxon-era Sheffield Cross, which we mentioned stood on the site now occupied by the Cathedral, was actually built in a Mercian, not Northumbrian style - and it's the northernmost example ever found of a Mercian-style Saxon cross - putting Sheffield right on the northern tip of Mercia, and the southern tip of Northumbria.
As a sheffield native i found this very informative thankyou and well done.
Watching from Australia... Thanks for another great video!! Always wonderful.
I was a Born in Sheffield 136 Upper Valley Rd Meersbrook in my Nanans House in 1964 ...I left Sheffield in 2004 and have never been back ...too many sad memories...
Sad to hear about sad memories. I've actually lived on the same road and now live not far from there. The city has changed a lot but it's still only one of two places I'd live in this country. It's a great place.
Don't be sad Sheffield is a snake pit now...
@@tufty7663 as is with people like you in it.
@@garymorton8315 ha ha another middle class no body..by the way another two shootings today,,
I was a student of Sheffield hallam university ..miss this place
Sheffield Hallam University!!! Love it.
Great video 👍 When talking about the castle, you didn’t actually go down and show where the castle site where the famous Lady’s Bridge is. Also, Millennium Gallery is inside the Winter Garden, another fantastic new Gallery where there is a display of steel making.
I really enjoyed this! I was born in Sheffield, it nice to see the city again.
Born and raised in Sheffield for 45 years.. it was a fantastic place 20 - 30 years ago but now it's just full of homeless people, graffiti, closed down and demolished famous shops.. Sheffield city council don't give a shit about the place anymore.. the story about the bells missing from the town hall and never completed proves my point
Ah. That famous Sheffield self depreciation (try living in Rotherham)
There will always be that one person that says the place they lived in was 'better in the 90's'. I see you didn't mention the great development of The Moor or the other improvements...
@@da14a49 "please" you're talking about a half mile stretch of the Sheffield city centre.. what about fargate, thriving 30 years ago, now it's just full of bums sleeping in doorways
@@da14a49 Believe me , this video has cherry picked it's focal points. Chris Thomas is absolutely correct about the current state of the city and the suburbs (apart from the ones that fall in the Diocese of Hallam of course).
High street is shameful and dangerous, Castlegate is even worse, we won't mention the Wicker, and the Moor is a vapid , soulless simulacrum of what it was in the seventies/ eighties.
The Council DON'T care about anyone over the age of forty, the bus services are less reliable than a politicians promise, rubbish and graffiti are rife,. It's a shabby, dirty, retail poor dump and it's set to get worse.
Sounds like most cities in England to be honest
Wrong about parts of Sheffield being absorbed into Derbyshire - it was the other way round.
Highlight at 07:30. Unfortunate view of the woman flinging her litter all over the lawn of the cathedral.
I know that women.....
Eagle eye. Must be those Japanese from Arts Tower. She will be cursed.
Yeah, I noticed that. Tramp!!!
You should have walked round Leopold square. Loads of history and a lovely part of the city as well as division street, Devonshire green and West Street. Would have also been good to walk round kelham island. Loads of history, restaurants and bars.
Great video.
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Great video!
Castle House was not the site of Sheffield Castle. The site was where the now demolished Castle Market was sited by the side of the River Don.
Great video. Sheffield City Centre is undergoing massive regeneration at the moment with lots of building going on. It should hopefully look even better in the next 5 years.
Sheffield absorbed some parts of Derbyshire (being a Totley lad, I’d know) and I’d say Nottingham is where the North/South divide is… although you make a fair case.
Thanks for a very informative video.
I would say Nottingham is where the North and South divine is
not Sheffield
You skipped over sheffields greatest landmark. Tank night club.
On a more serious note, we Sheffielders consider ourselves as northerners. I’d say Nottingham is the divide.
Best city in England ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
We need more basketball courts and tennis courts like Nottingham!
Loved watching this video, even tho a lot has changed I still knew where we were going. I left Sheffield as an 18yr old back in 1969, Dad worked for Firth Vicker's Stainless Steel and was going to be made redundant, so we emigrated to Australia as £10 Poms and Dad returned to his former trade as a Carpenter. His very 1st job working on the Sydney Opera House!!! Must say having read a lot of your comments mum and dad made a wonderful decision to leave Sheffield BUT what you are talking about.... Covid, homeless people, Grafiti, shops closed etc, this is everywhere in the World not just in Sheffield. I will always have my memories of my hometown and a good life of 18years and hoping soon to return to reminisce
The home of the pop combo
The human league
Should've never got rid of castle market ruined it
Queen Victoria opened the town hall without ever leaving her carriage.
I got depressed living here after just a year, the worst experience of my life, it's boring as fck, not much to do, the city feels like a small town, got bored after 2 months. It's filled with crack heads pissing and shitting in daylight street, old factory buildings converted into apartments, the exterior of these buildings are in shitty condition and too old to be repaired. Noisy, overpopulated and too much congestion on the road. Air quality is next to worse compared to London. I couldn't sleep at night and developed insomnia because most of the apartments are built near the main road and have sirens that usually kick off every second especially at weekends throughout the night/early morning. I'm born and raised in London and thought my town was bad. I had to move back, not in favour of London either but still much better off here.
Wrong about the area where the castle was.not at castle house at all.try lady's bridge. next time you venture to our glorious city get your facts right lots of errors in your narrative.i will take you round and show you the hidden gems all around Sheffield not just in the city centre.not a bad effort though dude.
Where are the black people?
Just a point; The Statue of Vulcan is atop the Town Hall, not on the side of Castle House.
thats what i fort
@@chrisnumnuts8671 Just to give you a bit more trivia, there is a bronze of Mercury (messenger of the Gods) on the top of the old Telegraph and Star building on High Street.
@@thewomble1509 but according to the history books the Vulcan is on the side of castle house .if not what statue is it we may have more than 1
@@chrisnumnuts8671 There are two, which was news to me. The one on the Town hall was made in 1897 by an artist called Raggi.
The one on Castle House is also supposed to be Vulcan. Used to be known by some as "Spock"
why did you miss out cutlers hall and paradise square also the hospital that used to be on west street, kelam island etc, breweries including the elephants used during the war
You’re quite right. What a good opportunity for you to start your own UA-cam channel.
@@ecosseza4030 Why not follow your own advice and teach people how to make pointless, redundant comments on YT?
I love these walking videos as I call them
I have subscribed to a few
I knew this was Sheffield as soon as I seen the thumbnail
you are my no 1 and walk with Tim is my number 2 and gimble is my number 3
Fantastic work! I am born and still live in Sheffield and did not know a lot of this, thanks!
Hello lets walk enjoying your fantastic vidio and the other videos too have you ever been to Blackpool in your life take care stay safe from Lynn xx
I've lived in Sheffield 14 years. im from London, im a adopted son they told me in Yorkshire regiment, :p but just want to say I love northerners you have a grate sence of humour and know how to have a good time lol and welcoming, love respect
I left because I didnt like being intimidated by drug users around the Cathedral and tram stop. Also a man used to walk up high street with an imaginary machine gun firing into groups of people, I remember waiting in Sainsburys while the same man was waving an imaginary pistol firing at individuals outside. Meanwhile, when the pub called Ask had its windows open one summer, a man was leering in though the window shouting something like aaaarrggh yer bastids arrgh at a table of diners. I was sitting in the wetherspoons pub one sunday afternoon drinking a rather dubious pint, when the sun broke through the clouds, and upon shining onto my pint glass illuminated the filthy rim, brown guff, bits of white stuff, and general gunk. I fled , never to return. Love from the EU and Gran Canaria.
My grandparents took my father and two sisters over there during Depression, where my father did his 11pluses, before heading back to NZ. Grandpa actually got married there around 07or08.
that all that left history of Sheffield there no true industry no more Sheffield died along with the coal mines sad realy
A bustling metropolis? 😂
Smashing video. Job well done.
I've got a friend who lives in Rotherham he says Sheffield is a shite heap especially United's football stadium
Rotherhams an actual hellhole sheffield is almost decent these days
you're friend has the audacity to call Sheffield a shit heap compared to actual Rotherham. ROTHEHAM. R O T H E R H A M. LOL
So I reckon you're a Sheffield fan then lol
@@jackwatsonepic626 no I live near Peterlee County Durham and I'm a Newcastle fan
@@graemenicol6377 my son is a Newcastle fan he went to the university of Northumberland
in Newcastle city centre the Sheffield comment was just a joke I knew you we're not a fan lol
Beautiful video 😍 Hello from Sheffield 👋