Sheffield in Days Gone By- Chapter 1.wmv

Views of a Sheffield long gone - when the heavy industry coated the buildings with a layer of soot - but where there's muck, there's brass. What do we have now? Huge shopping centres instead of steelworks, selling anything that China wants to sell us, not selling cutlery proudly bearing the legend 'Made in Sheffield' but skills lost and people looking for work. We can't turn back the clock, but we can see what this once proud Industrial City used to look like.

[@cliftonmerritt9607]

I'm an American, and live in Memphis. I had thought that it was only in my country that old and beautiful things are torn down and replaced with the ugly. Enjoyed watching.

[@annricknosowska5111]

I just love this. Brings back wonderful memories of a great city and of all my family who helped to make it so. Very moving. Thank you.

[@phylliselias]

Delighted to hear you enjoyed it. It makes all the work of collecting the photos and putting the work together worthwhile

[@phylliselias]

Thank you Kevin. I am so glad you enjoyed them.

[@blunderbuss74]

Very interesting. Nice to see my hometown like this.

[@kidneystone53]

Thank you Phyllis for sharing this this. I really enjoyed it. The music you chose was perfect.

[@KevinStones]

Enjoyed those. Great stuff

[@marioandrikopoulos2158]

I like the Old time!

[@rowenasimpson6604]

You are certainly right about the fact that the council finished off what the German bombing did. Sheffield used to be a city to be proud of, not anymore. To much change and none for the better. Just my opinion mind, other Sheffield folk might think differently. Very interesting video of Sheffield bygone era.

[@phylliselias]

It was a wonderful place to grow up in (or near, as I am really a Rotherham lass by birth) - let's hope it returns to being the pride of South Yorkshire soon.

[@gama3302]

Wonderful! It's unfortunate how Sheffield has changed so much. Sheffield city Council doesn't seem to care much Sheffield's heritage. Any opportunity they get to make money replacing once great buildings with beautiful architecture either with monstrous office blocks or car parks.

[@phylliselias]

Perhaps the City Council has too many people on it (or the Officers at least!) who were not around when Sheffield was wonderful and cannot see what they are destroying (or worse, don't care in the rush to grab developers money!). I was born during the war so remember clearly the bomb sites in the Centre of the City but it still became a fantastic place to go to shop and be entertained in the 1950s and 1960s. I am glad you enjoyed the compilation, though. Many thanks for commenting.

[@highspeedgaz]

Well Done Phyllis , Tha,s dunus Proud Lass !!!!!!!

[@adriankemble840]

My Great Grand dad was born and lived in one of the triangles, he moved to South Wales to the pits, new cheap houses, gardens, free coal, and more money.

[@doravernon1511]

My understanding is that the Corn Exchange was not bombed. There was a fire in 1947 but it survived and could have been saved. It was demolished circa 1962.

[@doyoumind9356]

A lot has changed since 1900

[@MINIV70]

2nd Photograph is not the City Grammar. Opposite the building shown were the Education Offices and the City Grammar School was next door with the entrances on Orchard Lane.

[@misscoutts6193]

That's what I thought. So what was that building that is now the All Bar One. 🤔

[@glennpickard2239]

I see the Grand Hotel. I met Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers in there at the bar ! They had been at City Hall.

[@chrisfawcett9775]

Brilliant

[@phylliselias]

Thank you so much, Chris. I enjoyed putting it together, and am really happy that you enjoyed it too.

[@ArashMoto2000]

I wish I had someone with local knowlage next to me

[@timeyre-swain9484]

My mum says wonderful.

[@phylliselias]

That makes me so happy. Thank you.

[@smfvmd]

5:18 Now Parthenonas Greek restaurant.

[@doravernon1511]

At 1:25 Wilson Peck made big mistake relocating to Charter Row.

[@misscoutts6193]

It's even worse now on Charter Row the Lighting Shop that took over when Wilson Pecks retired and could not find a buyer has now closed down.

[@misscoutts6193]

Fantastic photos, it is unrecognisable now, all the character has gone. Things are NOT better now, they are WORSE.

[@glennpickard2239]

nobody loves the old Sheffield more than me, born there at the General hospital. Went to three of its schools. But we must move with the times, all the other cities in England and the UK are doing so. I was raised in a house with no bathroom, an outside toilet , no hot water and a tiny kitchen that was crowded with two people in it. Yes it was home, but it is the people there I miss so much, not the old infrastructure. I want today's Sheffield children to be raised in cleaner, hygienic, larger spaces with good education and career opportunities. And I would like to see Sheffield in charge of its own budget, not Westminster