SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE | The ultimate full Sheffield City Centre tour [Yorkshire England]

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Also watch our tour of beautiful Whitby! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4K6eYiCiax4mdE

[@alinatalat515]

Hi

[@sextoncardew903]

I left Sheffield with my parents 71 years ago and went abroad. I can hardly recognize the city center today. However, I love Sheffield and would love to visit there, if I was a little younger. Great video.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thank you so much it's changed so much hasn't it!

[@McRik-1]

This is wonderful. Grew up in and around Sheffield in the 70s and 80s. I live abroad now and haven't been back to my home city in 10 years. A couple of glass boxes here and there but it's fantastic to see it generally on the up. Thank you so much for doing this.

[@tonysmall3863]

It’s not on the up. If anything it’s getting worse. SCC are only interested in taking government cash for allowing all the imports to flock here. The city centre is a disgrace. Full of cheap shops and Greggs. Impossible to drive around and park.

[@davidwright793]

Thanks. You walked miles! Yeah, Sheffield is a great City . Sad to see so many familiar places now boarded up but It's a city of resilient people.

[@jozefbrownell3164]

Left the City in 1957 for Australia, I was only a young boy and most of my memories were of a dark , drab, wet and smoke stained landscape. The City looks absolutely wonderful now. I have never been back but often travel around where I was born on Google Earth.

[@bexhil7]

Another great & fantastic video of SHEFFIELD | The ultimate full Sheffield City Centre tour [Yorkshire England]🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

[@mgreentin1811]

Lovely video. Clean city, with gorgeous period buildings. Not as hilly looking as many people have informed me.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

The hills are around the city mostly The city centre is mostly flat ❤️

[@Melanie-qr5wg]

aww my home town too.......forever the 80's for me.....used to meet my late friend Robert at the SWFC near the Co op then under the hole in the road to the cinema next to Cole Brothers.....Happy days

[@tkaravind]

I lived in this wonderful city between 2010-2016 and it changed so much even in these 6 years. Most important being the old Castle market ! The new one in Moor lacks in character that the old one exuded in abundance! Plus The new Tesco in Saville street (not so new anymore) I can see the city centre has changed a bit even from the time I left !

[@Zeekless]

Man, this is heartwarming! Thank you!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

My pleasure! Sheffield is a city on the UP!

[@bluestreety]

I'm loving this Neil. I've mentioned to you before, but I doubt you'd remember, how we moved from Sheffield in 1962, when I was just short of my 7th birthday. We only moved over the hill to Glossop. 'My Sheffield' is a far cry from the one you show on here and even further from Mum and Dad's. My Sheffield was Redgates, obviously I suppose and then as I got older and we would come over on the train to Victoria or the bus into Pond Street, I loved Suggs. I also remember a great shop on Leopold Street, where I could buy my Subbuteo stuff from. I wonder what my parents and even my grandparents would make of the city now. I often wonder what my life would have been like, had we stayed on Manor Lane. I do think it's a great place.

[@owlman9297]

Trust me you did the right thing in moving.🙂

[@sandrahardy1208]

Good to see you have arrived home for a bit. You obviously love your city.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

I love it!

[@KH-vt4op]

Nice to see my home city again as I left Sheffield in 2006. Every time I see it on KZbin it upsets me to see how it's been changed and the shops I knew have long gone. I said one day I would come back to live in Sheffield but I am not so sure now as I don't like change. But thanks gimbal for showing me how it as changed, I had some very happy times way back in the 60s and 70s in the Sheffield I knew, but it's changed that much I don't think I would find my way round the city centre let alone the pubs I use to visit. You do a sterling job with your videos gimbal

[@thebeautifulrainbow]

Great video thank you. The city looks really cool

[@eclectictraveller]

My home city too thank you. It's very quiet, early Sunday morning perhaps.

[@janetmartin6999]

Great city loved walking with you on this one

[@FatherZed696]

Best city in the UK and unappreciated never seen on the Map .. Buildings are lush It's been 29 years ❤

[@daniella309]

Looks even cleaner and better than london to me. So green.. maybe it’s time for a move up north

[@FatherZed696]

Go for it ❤

[@dehewitt341]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I use to live in Rotherham. I would get tram at Meadow Hall and visit Sheffield. Some places haven't changed others looks so much better! The place for the new market looks great! Lots of light, and room too! Good for you Sheffield for improving and growing retail too! :)

[@andrewdavis9223]

It's changed since I worked there shaws Motor shop 76 81 Abbey dale rd archer rd 😊

[@cheemengkennytee3651]

Thank you for the video. Those great memories and nostalgic. Used to study in Sheffield Hallam University back then in 2012. Nice to see all the shops and building are still preserve very well.

[@susan3804]

Another brilliant video. Sheffield is my favorite hands down. 🤟

[@kirstenmarieofficial8481]

This made me feel sick.. I'm 24 in June and its been a full decade since I left Sheffield. I recognise the town hall with the gardens and water fountain, the big tkmaxx and then near the end sainsburys and greggs hasn't changed... but everything else I couldn't recognise. I feel so old 😅

[@mrgonk871]

I used to go to the classic cinema on fitzalan square when I was a kid. It was next to wigfalls tv shop until they burnt down. Best shop though for me in Sheffield was Redgates, the best toy shop ever. Once a great city but now can’t compete with Manchester and Leeds which are booming in comparison. I’ve got a set of six books which the Sheffield star released titled ‘do you remember Sheffield’ which tell the history of the city and how it grew. I’ve also got a drawing they released of Sheffield as viewed from castle hill (where the Hyde park flats are now) which was originally drawn in 1750 when it was not much more than a small town. It overlooks Fitzalan square.

[@leonelvin285]

Ye mate carnt lie ssheffiled full of roadmen and nittys g

[@e_saleh8042]

I have been living in Sheffield for 25y I came here when I was 17 I love Sheffield it’s my city ❤️

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Well said - great city

[@billybudd5854]

The appearance of the city centre would greatly improve if the council made some effort to get rid of the graffiti on so many of the buildings.

[@chrisogrady28]

Street art is great, and Sheffield has a lot of famous artists and work around. The problem are the shitty low effort tags

[@joemamma5304]

i like how it makes the city culturally diverse. So many different people from all walks of life

[@rhiannonhopkins6876]

Thank you so much for this. I lived in Sheffiled for around seven years in the mid 90's to early 2000's and only left because of family reasons. I love that city so much, stlll recognised almost every street before the name was shown and guessed the route you were taking. Thanks for the visit home.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Briliant stuff - thank you so much Rhiannon!

[@simonrolfe5528]

I do believe what spoilt Sheffield was Meadowhall, probably why it is so quiet in the city centre now.

[@airscrew46]

Thanks Mr GWTV. This new walk round my hometown has convinced me that I have no need to go there.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

👍🏻

[@TerbangSaja]

Thanks for the video. It gave me a good nostalgia visiting that place during my staying at sheff.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Our pleasure!

[@harbin1956]

Used to love going to Sheffield great mix shops and stores sadly like many other places a lot have gone so much for progress, nice to see Atkinsons is still there did some plastering there many years ago nice perk free lunch in the canteen, used too be a pub looked like courtyard with a glass roof can't remember the name though, and who can't remember the hole in the road

[@karenlavender6234]

It was the Stonehouse pub

[@db5698]

Pub was the stonehouse

[@melvinlaycock8851]

Wow what a video I am a Sheffield lad born and bred .it brought so many memories back for me the city has changed so much . It looks so airy made me feel so proud to come from Sheffield.I now live in Tenerife this video was very well done.I lived in walkley when I lived there please make more videos .This video was so good we watched this instead of normal tv Melvin

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thank you so much for such kind words If you check KZbin for the Sheffield Videos channel too that’s my other channel where I do Sheffield ones 👍👍❤️

[@starbryt6300]

Nice 👌 and clean

[@fionapentith1955]

Wonderful video. I was a student in Sheffield early 1970s and the last time I visited was at least 20 years ago. Astonishing to see how it has changed - for the better. Sad the Hole In The Road is no longer there. It was built 1967 under the Castle Square roundabout. I think there was a fish tank built into one of the walls. It was a meeting place for all and sundry.

[@angel-ru4qp]

Bellissimo video complimenti

[@williamstarling8167]

Well what a wonderful surprise Sheffield was to see! we just loved the old buildings ect..thank you.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

You’re welcome 👍👍

[@leonelvin285]

@@GimbalWalkTV mate it's not as good as u think fam. It's full of bar roadmem g

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@leonelvin285 ok

[@leonelvin285]

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[@LETTYONLY1]

I’m from Sheffield and honestly I didn’t Keven recognise that opening shot - looks fab down there now

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It does doesn’t it!

[@karengill8234]

Super walk about Neil, Sheffield has certainly changed since I was last there. Many thanks to you. …..

[@GimbalWalkTV]

You're welcome Karen! Thank you so much

[@daniella309]

is Sheffield safer than London overall ? I'm looking to relocate to another city with lots of green spaces so Sheffield looks great.

[@letni9506]

I would think much safer. It's as safe as a city can get tbh. Never had any bother at all in the centre even on a Saturday night. Apart from when I was about 15 and ice skating Charlie from silver blades tried to tax me on fargate 😀

[@martinthornalley1919]

i remember Sheffield being really run down and the buildings falling to bits graffiti was all over the place and lots of druggies and muggers around? looks like it has totally been transformed now though

[@martinthornalley1919]

2 questions? how far is the waitrose store from the train station and is there a santander bank in sheffield?

[@mahavilima7883]

It's Very calm

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It is!

[@VRbible]

Love Sheffield, lived here all my life. I've just opened a racing simulation place up on Church Street near the Cathedral.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Oooh I need to see this Im a Sheffielder who lives here and that sounds right up my street!

[@DeathblowMateria]

The greatest city in the UK! ❤️

[@GimbalWalkTV]

YES!! Well said From another Sheffielder!

[@Tajdeer]

Sheffield City luv ❤❤❤ 4 real you feel safe 100% even if you stranger.

[@murilo_melo]

such an incredible peacefull lovely city

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It really is!

[@samcatalous515]

fantastic camera ..

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Just my phone!

[@nicolechan9695]

Thank you for your sharing.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

You’re welcome 👍👍

[@howardrutter7423]

Great video, didn't realise the city centre was so big , changing for the better, shame about the graffiti!..how about doing a video of the historic city of Lancaster.lovely place..really enjoy your vlogs.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yeah done Lancaster but will deffo be back up there very soon!

[@jasonfearnley1744]

I can't see no spiceheads about how can we expect to win spiceheads in bloom with this showing 🤔

[@thembinkosincube7396]

BEAUTIFUL CITY

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It really is!

[@shanehumberstone5262]

Nice to see my home city again,I live in norfolk now and don’t get back there at all

[@brianbates4514]

Hi Another Music Star was Dave Berry, still going strong the Crying Game etc. It’s a new City as it was heavily bombed in the last war. Looks fab it is a shame about the Graffiti but it’s the life style we live .

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Ah yes Dave Berry!

[@victorianoeli5139]

I absolutely loved it ❤

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thank you 🙏

[@kayraakin5759]

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[@andywright3450]

Hey mate my home town this Sheffield no where as good as it used too be gone down hill big time 💯💯😊

[@owlman9297]

It's a shame, compare this to days from the eighties when you couldn't move cause the streets were rammed. Sheffield is a ghost town compared to other big cities. Hey ho we still have meadow hall.🤣

[@vegascad]

Would love to see more of Sheffield like Firth Park or Concord Park or the Football stadiums.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Will do my best for you! Check out the 'Sheffield Videos' channel - that's my sheffield specific channel so will pop oin there!

[@bradleykvermeulen]

Please take a video of when the city center is done

[@GimbalWalkTV]

I will

[@raytwigg6881]

Holidayed with couple from Sheffield years ago , friendly salt of the earth

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Oh definitely! Very friendly people

[@bridgetdoman1386]

Have never seen the Castlegate/Haymarket areas looking so busy. As for the old town hall building, it's been empty and dilapidated for as long as I can remember.

[@suelewis913]

👍 really enjoyed the tour, I’m a sheffielder but haven’t been to the City for a long time. Can believe how much it’s altered.😎

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Changed a lot eh!

[@tufty7663]

Hi Page hall is nice.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@tufty7663 ok

[@nicolechan9695]

Thank you for your sharing

[@GimbalWalkTV]

👍👍👍

[@tonysmall3863]

The fact that there’s a Mecca bingo hall in the town centre speaks volumes. Sheffield council have ruined not only the centre but the whole city. Stuck in the past, full of spice heads and imports. Most of the shops are shut apart from phone shops and Greggs. Miles behind Leeds and Manchester. It’s a dump. Well done SCC

[@GimbalWalkTV]

People say that about every city I go to

[@annbrown9422]

Was this shot on a Sunday morning? there aren't very many people around

[@tylerwessling3402]

I’m heading to Manchester for 8 days in April and was wanting to take day trips to other cities within an hour or so of Manchester by Tram. Would Sheffield be a good day trip spot? Enough to do to keep my day entertained lol 😆

[@GimbalWalkTV]

You might be better off in Liverpool maybe? More to do there for sure

[@markcollinson5665]

What's happening with Castle Market, is it being demolished or redeveloped? Fargate looks awful right now. Any plans to regenerate that?

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Yes both of those areas are going to get totally redeveloped It’s already started on fargate

[@alinagabi6280]

i love this town

[@GimbalWalkTV]

❤️

[@rodericstanley2258]

I left Oughtibridge in the 60s and occasionally come home from Texas to visit the bank, and see the Owls. The city centre has changed a lot. Recall the cream and blue buses and trams, the two railway stations (Victoria and Midland). When I was very young, I would watch my dad rolling steel by hand at Samuel Osborns in't Wicker (weer twatter flows over't weir). ,

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Lovely stuff - everywhere is so different now isn't it. I guess towns and cities move on eh!

[@rodericstanley2258]

It was a dirty old place back then because we were a steel forging city and the Owls were a good team. I was there when they beat Spurs 2-1 at S-6. We used to go to the fish market on Saturdays and I'd have 4d-worth of whelks while my parents bought fish. We didnt have a fridge back then, and we had only just bought a black and white telly.

[@wiccancraft1]

Miss having a burger from Chubby's best cheese ever.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Oh yes

[@mahavilima7883]

What is the part-time job market like? without english there are jobs like cleaning and others?

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Lots yes!

[@jasonfearnley1744]

The tories tried to decimate our economy but we just evolved come back stronger pretty much won the olympics and oh did I mention football was born here 😉

[@andywright3450]

Mate didn't know you were ex Sheffielder 💯💯💯

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Oh yes

[@andante6704]

What time was this taken? Literally nobody around, seems strange?

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Good question - think from memory it was around 11am?

[@ddunn3489]

Great walk !! And Music History .👍👍But I had to take an alka seltzer when you walked by KFC and Domino's 😂😂😂😂

[@GimbalWalkTV]

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[@lindawatts5102]

I'm from Sheffield it's not like it use to be.. Sorry but I'm not longer impressed with it so I moved. Nightlife in Sheffield was great back in the day but sadly gone down hill fast and a violent city like most Towns and cities in UK. Personally I don't not feel safe in towns and cities now due to the idiots that frequent them why cant people just enjoy themselves with making trouble for others this is not just Sheffield but all over

[@GimbalWalkTV]

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[@highgreen6452]

There's a video of sheff in the 80's on utube.. have a look people there's people on that one

[@GimbalWalkTV]

ok

[@johntimbrell]

Oh! dear. Am I a miserable old man or do I have an insight on to the reality that I see. I remember Sheffield as a very dirty place.Dirty because of the smoke from the factories. BUT I loved it. The streets were full of people going about their own interests. What the video shows to me is a place without people. The large number of buses and trams don't contain passengers.The streets are vitually empty. What is the point of all these smart buildings? So I'll go back to watching the few old videos of Rotherham and Sheffield to wallow in a time when there were no grooming gangs of child abusers. OK the newspapers were full of police corruption but that corruption was for their own greed not to cover up the grooming gangs whose origins were far from Yorkshire. Who is to blame. I say those nice people I so admired. They were so full of their own lives that they allowed those in control to create an urban desert.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

You need to stop reading the papers John 🤣

[@johntimbrell]

@@GimbalWalkTV I don't read the papers. I just use my eyes. Are you saying that the reported police corruption is not true? Guess what, I speak as a retired constable. OK if you are happy in Sheffield then I'm happy for you. The area around the city and its industrial heritage I find fascinating, but the present towns of Rotherhan and Sheffield has lost its soul.That is the opinion of many older residents.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@johntimbrell That's because older residents have just got older Same as when parents always used to complain about their kids music (and still do) Just because people get older doesn't mean they should start criticising the city or town It's just change - and all towns and cities change As people get older Some things are better, some are worse - how's it's always been. I used to love some things in the old Sheffield City Centre, but I didn't like the risk you took going in the hole in the road at night Didn't like the skinheads spitting on people from the gallery at the Castle Market Didnt' like the no-go area of the Peace Gardens Didn't like how so much of the city centre smelt of pee It's just life, change, evolution I'm getting older but I'd never dream of slating Sheffield just because I'm a few years older than I was. Life it what you make it

[@johntimbrell]

@@GimbalWalkTV Sorry Neil. I now understand what you are trying to do. I profoundly disagree with your assessments but guess what? My concept of reality makes me miserable whereas your view amplifies pleasant things and presumably makes you happy. I too have a wonder in the things that surround me and I hate to see that wonder destroyed. If you can make money selling your view of your surroundings then best of luck.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@johntimbrell . Things change my friend. Time passes us by. The people before me and you were saying the same things you are saying You are just clinging onto your time growing up and not allowing the younger generations coming through to be proud of their city and enjoying their time growing up as you’re trying to insist that everything should go back to how it was Could you imagine the hole in the road being put back, or Kelvin Flats with all their problems being rebuilt, or how about the underpasses around the city centre being reinstalled to be an unsafe way of getting from a to b? Sometimes you have to just accept that many views from older generations like you and I can be very rose tinted Visitors to Sheffield LOVE the city these days My children are proud of it and appreciate the improvements and recent changes. People buy online these days so the days of Sheffield being a busy retail hub are over and the city must evolve into something else where more people move into and live in the city centre and enjoy more leisure things there like concerts and coffee shops (like the 50s and 60s) I can accept your opinion that you personally preferred the old Sheffield - that’s fine But the old Sheffield simply couldn’t operate successfully in the modern world

[@theoisaac9948]

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[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thanks Theo!

[@theoisaac9948]

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[@andrewhammond4819]

My city Sheffield big old place

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Great city!

[@stephenatkin4367]

Knife crime of the scale , drugs everywhere, lovely city

[@letni9506]

I've lived here 45 years and never been affected by knife crime. As far as cities go its got to be one of the safest. No city is without serious crime.

[@jamunalover1765]

Princess Diana University Hospital Is real or fake?

[@SA-kj1jo]

My home City and now a City of decay , smackheads and cheap throwaway shops . It will be years until it can compete with Manchester or Leeds .

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Not quite true (I live here)

[@SA-kj1jo]

@@GimbalWalkTV so do I (50 odd years and counting) . The filth and decay is there to be seen !!!!

[@paulbullock276]

@@SA-kj1jo not on this video it wasn't. Do your own video to highlight your negative points and I'll do one of Leeds, Manchester & certainly London. Sheffield is on the up and there are many more areas of the City centre and surrounding areas that are beautiful and brilliant! And that's aside from the third of greater Sheffield within the Peak District.

[@theyorkshireman2467]

lived here all my life, beautiful city but most the people ruin it for us which is pretty sad! making it not a very safe place anymore smackheads and spice heads everywhere!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

The City Centre is ok now though (as you can see in the video)

[@theyorkshireman2467]

@@GimbalWalkTV not from what i saw two days ago mate, show us down all the ally ways and behind the buildings plus this is the morning time clearly with how quiet it was most the druggies are looking to make money somewhere for their daily fix.

[@35rhodes]

Our city streets is empty..

[@GimbalWalkTV]

😮😮😮

[@ronnieroo3391]

If you could go back 40-50 years ago then Sheffield city centre was worth going to to do your shopping but not now, it's a bit of an eyesore. Like they say Hitler made a better job of it than the council Planning department.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It's on the way up again now though - the new buildings are very exciting!

[@ronnieroo3391]

@@GimbalWalkTV But it's not a city centre for shopping anymore it's a city centre of hotels, pubs and restaurants.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@ronnieroo3391 that’s what’s needed though Retail is dead as we all buy online (or from Meadowhall) so we need the city centre to be apartments, residential and leisure