Sheffield in the mid 1970's

Here is an old super 8 film my father took in what looks like the mid 1970's
Check out my comparison with Sheffield in 2014 at • Sheffield Then and Now...

[@BevMattocks]

Very familiar. I moved to Sheffield in 1976.

[@daveclarke68]

Amazing! This is where I grew up and around the time it was filmed - thanks for posting!

[@daveclarke68]

Amazing film! This is where I grew up and around the time it was filmed - thanks for posting!

[@125or200px]

Sorry you lost your father my friend. Its amazing how somebody can just stand there with a camera and capture the look and feel without any sound needed. Imagine doing this now with a handheld,people would be very dubious about you doing it. Im glad your Father did this,and thanks for converting it to KZbin. I am guessing this film is in two parts,the begining around `77 then moving onto around `83.

[@jpalmz1978]

been looking for footage like this thanks for converting n uploading :-)

[@shinysheff]

I really enjoyed this clip. I moved into my first house on Owlthorpe when I got married and then Fox Lane. So I have got some good memories around this part of Sheffield.Many thanks for sharing this film.

[@mr.vancouver007]

Brings back good memories

[@patricklinsley8873]

Definitely post 1980. At 0:10 there's a shot looking down The Moor towards Moorfoot where you can see the former Manpower Commission building - now owned by the DWP. That was built in late 1979-1981. I was on that site when they built it. I left Sheffield in Aug 1980 and it was still a shell. From the shot it looks like the building is finished.

[@daveburgan4083]

good film and no take aways in sight better times

[@rjds1800]

That's a valuable bit of footage. I actually recognize alot of those places.

[@Killamarshian]

Check out my other video as it shows a comparison with a more modern Sheffield.

[@syphonmaster1]

Great video, I think this is mor early to mid 80's.

[@125or200px]

Sorry you lost your father my friend. Its amazing how somebody can just stand there with a camera and capture the look and feel without any sound needed. Imagine doing this now with a handheld,people would be very dubious about you doing it. Im glad your Father did this,and thanks for converting it to KZbin. I am guessing around `83 this was shot..

[@sheffieldarchives]

love this film, shame there are so few of them. i grew up in the 70's in sheffield and it was a different city to what it is today

[@Killamarshian]

@donkeywarmer Thanks, I wasn't sure of the date. I think my father got his first video camera around '82, So you are probably bang on. I can't ask my father, he passed away 3 weeks ago, That is why I am converting his movies.

[@simplyandrew7063]

It's about 81 onwards in first part, I saw a mk2 Vauxhall cav in car park lol

[@TheBladesunited]

I remember getting off the last bus from my terminus at 7PM and exiting on the Moor before it was pedestianised. It would be Xmas Eve late seventies and there were people in sleeping bags waiting outside Atkinsons for the sale which began on Boxing day! Proper buses with regular times and cheap fares.Proper roads which you could drive both ways on and proper sales!

[@MegaAtlantean]

This is the very early 80`s at most. There was a Dennis Dominator double decker, they didn`t appear en-masse til 1981.

[@ArashMoto2000]

Thanks

[@matthewbrunswick]

There is the back of a mini metro at 3:01 - so it must be 1980 at least.

[@merkybeam]

Some of the shots of hackenthorpe are from the late 80s. There used to be a lovely farm with cattle on the right of the shot down Sheffield road before the crappy housing estate was built.

[@damiendye6623]

this is 1980 because owlthrope is under construction so this dates the film between 1983 and 1985

[@greggbarnes8177]

Hackenthorpe shops haven't changed one bit, still like 1980 up theea

[@jetpigeon8758]

Definitely after 1977, because that was when the Town Hall Extension (Eggbox) was built.

[@wotyagot]

Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane still with floodlights

[@SBxRC]

The ford cargo delivering to hacky shops didn't come out till 1981. But nice to see all the same.

[@TheGBs1972]

Looks like Burley/ Hackenthorpe are. Occupation lane maybe? WAWAW

[@MrBarmybob]

I recognise the parade of shops behind the HOG'S HEAD pub in Hackenthorpe.

[@Killamarshian]

@morgansifer82 Yes some of it is Frecheville

[@AYTAZED]

Can't be mid 70s, at 0:16 There's a mini metro van. Not released until 1980.

[@watchmanuk74]

i gruw up in Sheffield this era is crap so wanna go back

[@marcnews75]

The flood lights at the lane

[@matsols1974]

Hi, WOuld I be able to use this footage for a documentary im making about Def Leppard?

[@Killamarshian]

Feel free, a credit would be nice. Howard Longden

[@Dziugenonas]

Fuck that sound!

[@aria-SSS]

fuck you

[@fradaja]

yes too right and when did they pedestrianise the moor?

[@chockybob]

Late 70s

[@fradaja]

1980 i rekon! mini metro van! the moor wasn't pedestrianised in mid 70's nice footage tho

[@Jay-ru3mu]

Whats with the Machine gun :) :)

[@Killamarshian]

it is the projector, check out the better vid in the description