Vintage Sheffield | Aerials of Sheffield | Finding out | 1980

Vintage Sheffield in South Yorkshire, once famed the world over for its steel and heavy industry.
First Shown: 24/11/1980
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Music: Slow Times Over Here - Music North

[@unionjakjakson]

I queued 24hrs outside that shop" Ratners" winter 1982, to secure the Gold ladies watch they had in the sale(it was a fraction of the normal price). Managed to get it & gave it to my Mum. She still wears the watch to this day & turns 93 next year !. She still has the photograph of me being presented with it by the shop manager!. Happy days, left Sheffield in 1994 but still love the City. Live out the stcks now, don't think i will ever move back, but one of the nicest Cities in the Uk. Love Sheffield, it will always hold a very special place in my heart.

[@stevedickson5853]

80s Sheffield a brill place to have lived in , long gone ,it just doesn't feel the same anymore

[@sglenny001]

Sheffield and South Yorkshire all depend and support each other though industry's Rotherham and Sheffield had Steal to make machines so more coal could be mined this coal was mined in Doncaster and Barnsley Doncaster could use it to help locomotive repairs and could transport more steal to export it was perfect example of Co Operation between industry and business each town also had its market most notable Doncaster Market and Castle gate market public transport was put first and public goods there was a feeling of youthful modernism as Sheffield is known for its university Doncaster is known for Locomotives and new design think your A4 Pesiffc (Marlad) sadly problay the reason we don't feel the same anymore is because industrialisation unites people to work together seversis only divide

[@martinbrannan2803]

Hated it.

[@damiendye6623]

Yep the city is just a mess now it's lost it charm and purpose

[@docmix]

I studied in Sheffield in the 1960's and loved every minute of my six years there. Several years I worked the long vacations as a labourer at Steel, Peech and Tozer during their annual maintenance and other vacations and nights and weekends at jobs in pubs, hotels, factories, Marks and Spencer and the GPO for Christmas sorting, so I came in close contact with many Sheffield natives in all walks of life. I found them all to be friendly, helpful and generous of spirit. What free time I did have, I spent rockclimbing and hiking on your beautiful moors or eating and drinking with other students in the Roman Room. Ah, Happy Days! This video shows me that, unfortunately, the city centre, like my old hometown of Coventry, has lost its old charm. Best wishes from the Land Down Under. 👍🙏

[@Anybloke]

Nice to see this. I had friends at the university in the early 80s and was a regular visitor particularly around 1983-84. I have fond memories of places like Rebels (rock club), The Limit, The Museum pub (demolished in the 80s), The Frog & Parrot, & The Leadmill.

[@leggy6234]

Rebels was the best club in town, Wapentake the beat pub, Sheffield will never be the same without these.

[@Anybloke]

@@leggy6234 Yes, I remember the Wapentake. It was close to the Anvil cinema. They played heavy rock in there at ear splitting volume.

[@leggy6234]

@@Anybloke They certainly did, they also had plastic glasses in the only pub I never saw any trouble, also the only pub I could touch the ceiling from a standing position!!.

[@charlotte9996]

My home town 🥰

[@p1k383]

Wow that took me back thank you so much Thames Tv for uploading this, the hole in the road is a much loved friend that was filled in in the late 90s and was the meeting place for most of the city back in the day but there is so little footage available thank you :)

[@bernblackwell5638]

I remember the hole in the road used to have a large Xmas tree in it at Christmas and had access to the shops and a couple of fish tanks built in if I remember correctly.

[@Xoferif]

I remember there used to be a couple of shops actually inside it - there used to be a little record shop and a shop that sold general housewares. Maybe a little newsagents/tobacconists counter as well? **Sigh**... The centre's all very posh now, but it doesn't have nearly as much character as it used to have.

[@highgreen6452]

Ah I miss the hole in the road and the peace gardens

[@AMikeOnLine]

Brilliant video. A lot has changed since then but Sheffield will always be Sheffield. Nar den dee, ow dee doin pal.

[@thewomble1509]

I don't agree. The city we have now isn't the place i remember it being. It's like being in another country.

[@AMikeOnLine]

@@thewomble1509 Well, IF I was ONLY commenting on the City Centre, i might agree with you. My comment was about Sheffield as a whole, not just the Centre.! Lot's of suburbs have remained unchanged since the 1900's. Walkley, Totley, Grenoside etc.

[@thewomble1509]

@@AMikeOnLine Nonsense. Just one example, the Little Mesters workshops that wee an intrinsic part of nearly all those communities. Sometimes I think I live on different planet to everyone else. There is NO comparison, socially, industrially, or any other metric between Sheffield today and the place 150 years ago.

[@thewomble1509]

@Trill 1 No one asked you , you big brave twat. Say it to my face or not at all.

[@thewomble1509]

@Trill 1 mmm, you've gone quiet.

[@whatamalike]

Literally looks like a living modular synthesizer.

[@morgansifer]

WOW- this took me back.

[@Tmuk2]

Woman trips up getting into her car at 1:40!

[@michaelwalton9528]

the smell a shit did it

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Bleedin' slippy old cobbles..

[@dronespace]

Lol

[@frantrictantric]

Cortina Mk1. Wish i had one today.

[@stevedickson5853]

Wet cobbles bloody lethal , but quaint

[@truefaith96]

it was better than now. i used to live in Sheffield and its getting worse these days : /

[@Bestline7]

Great vid.

[@PaulTaylor80]

Watching videos and seeing pictures of certain things now kind of feels like they were never there

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Them where the days, when you used to be able to get on a bus on Pinstone Street! Just before the pandemic!

[@herrgolf]

This is really cool. I've never been to the UK but Sheffield always just makes me think of Threads.

[@frazerguest2864]

I’m from Sheffield and first saw Threads when I was 12. It absolutely scared the shit out of me.

[@securityrobot]

It was quite a powerful and shocking piece of television, what an era.

[@stevedickson5853]

Threads is still to this day the most realistic nuclear war and the aftermath of it to this day

[@sglenny001]

It's because Threads is set in Steel City

[@jonsykes8780]

Opening aerial shot of Wincobank Hill, where I was born and raised!

[@jogon2485]

brilliant...and r8 at end parkhill!!!! the best

[@57bananaman]

That's not Park Hill ... it's the Kelvin Flats that were built along Infirmary Road. They had a very similar design to Park Hill. Here is a YT Video about the place .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5a0ooWLpryKfNk

[@frazerguest2864]

@3:04 Bendy busses !

[@jasongomez5344]

It looks like classic cars were very popular in Sheffield those days.

[@frazerguest2864]

@2:34 Bloody hell, Ratners on Fargate.

[@dinointhetube]

Hold in the road was part of youth loved the fish tank

[@frazerguest2864]

If the last 40 years is progress, I don’t much like progress.

[@visg8303]

Really? I get that high street retail has dropped off with the economy and meadowhell but its a lot better now

[@damiendye6623]

​@@visg8303not really, just clearing all the buildings doesn't make it better, all the anticar and the silly towers and other such rubbish has made the city unattractive I don't like what my city has become.

[@jessicaantonopulos430]

1er mundo 😍

[@dinointhetube]

Roundabout parkway was off into city centre was a challenge

[@kc1973able]

The Full Monty.

[@jaychadburn5422]

I used to live in Sheffield but live in Kent now with my wife

[@kentcyclist]

So do i

[@AlanGill1]

@@kentcyclist I was born in Sheffield, lived in Kent, and now in Newcastle. Must have missed you all on the M1 :)

[@doyoumind9356]

I grew up in Sheffield but moved to London 1979. I visit my sister up there once or twice a year.

[@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888]

Who asked you?

[@LETTYONLY1]

I remember being a small kids and having this dream like memory of the fish tank and my mum holding my hand. Also think there some shops down there??

[@paulreynolds3582]

Hi Letty. There was a fish tank. If this link works, you can just see it on the right in the picture. There's quite a few photos of the shops too on the Picture Sheffield site. picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v03565&prevUrl=

[@electro-soma]

Had to laugh at the woman stumbling into her car at 1:36 Some dodgy cobbles around Paradise Square.

[@sajidkhanmahmood]

Abbeydale grange school gone but not forgotten

[@richardburns5925]

When you could drive anywhere, park anywhere and traffic actually flowed, what the hell have they done? I dread having to go anywhere now in the car, if I can a avoid it, I will, it's outrageous, when you look how it was.

[@stevedickson5853]

I really miss the hole in the road ,why they filled it all in is beyond me

[@stephencolgrave951]

yep,strange thing is I loved 'oyl in roowed an'all' but my mum and grandad hated it,used to say don't go down there,tha'll get mugged.different generations have different ideas I suppose.

[@traceyhoward1828]

@Zak Jansen one of the reasons that it was filled in was because s c c couldn’t keep it maintained to any reasonable standard. It was certainly a good advert for Sheffield at the beginning

[@MrMogwali1]

It stank of piss

[@douggherkin]

Lol. ...it did stink of piss! Used to have posters warning about aids and Heroin. Alcoholics and druggies sat about begging. ...Prostitutes and Skinheads. ...but for some reason my heart doesn't half ache that it has all gone!

[@speakfreeley4473]

Undesirables were starting to frequent it, to the stage no one wanted to use it anymore. Shops became abandoned & even it's main attraction the fish tank wasn't enough to save it. It's fate was finally sealed with the coming of 'Supertram'.

[@ederkis]

Would have loved a commentary

[@jessicaantonopulos430]

me gusta q lindo

[@loungejay8555]

To think Peter Sutcliffe was at large in 1980 and would be caught in Sheffield January 2nd 1981, sends a shiver down the spine.

[@sonny199]

LoungeJay remember reading about that, any idea what area he was caught in? I heard it was burngreave or something but that could be a tale

[@sonny199]

Trill 1 talk about getting caught in the act 🤣

[@sajidkhanmahmood]

@@sonny199 he was caught in Pitsmoor to be exact i remember we lived there and the police came to warn people not to go out and not answer their doors the whole area was on lockdown till they got him.

[@scottbramhall153]

@@sonny199 thought it was in eccleshall but i could be wrong

[@MrMogwali1]

@@sonny199 He was caught in Broomhill

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Thumbnail : isnt that where the C. Orange lookalikes chucked that elderly geeza, as in over and into ¿? Years ago, now.

[@gibbogt8331]

What was that wall at 4:12

[@paulellis2487]

That isn't a wall I believe it's the hyde park flats complex there was a bigger complex a mile away called the park hill

[@stevedickson5853]

That ' wall 'was Kelvin flats pulled down around 95/96

[@bottletree33]

And the so called improvements have improved what in particular?

[@frazerguest2864]

Sh Br : Nothing as far as I can see, sadly.

[@AndrewOliverHome]

The Egg Boxes have gone. That’s an improvement.

[@peacelovincriminal7488]

The cars are better and they filled the hole in thd road lol

[@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888]

They annoy miserable sods like you, so that's good.

[@mimik5856]

This is pretty Gerald rather saying he sold crap

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Where's Jarvis?

[@Xythantiops]

Down in London busy guilting people into having their culture and history destroyed and getting paid shitloads by Newspapers to do it . Maybe.

[@pappa7t3]

Much safer nicer place back in the day too many stabbings and homless and beggars its gone down hill bad thanks to the shitty council

[@Secret19977]

Labour council for you

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@Secret19977 sounds about right.😂

[@damiendye6623]

​​​@@TheRetroManRandySavageit's always been labour. What's your point they did a great job until the immigrants took over the council. So blame them

[@michaelwalton9528]

call it shitfield now

[@ChadElk88]

Music is inaccurate for 1980.