SHEFFIELD Past & Present

and their fabulous library of sheffield images and information
I wish all towns had such a good collection – makes my research much easier!

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[shirleysmith]

Had my tonsils out at Sheffield Royal Hospital in 1964, l was 6 years old. Thanks for showing 👍🏻

[SimonClay-pj]

Extremely well done. Fascinating even for someone who doesn’t know Sheffield all that well.

[JackBlack-ghyf]

A heart-breaking reminder of just how much we've lost.

[JonathanJubb]

74 yrs ago I was born in Sheffield. Thank you for sharing this, it brought back many memories and a couple of tears....

[timawells]

Best video I have seen Sheffield, only 176 views what is going on. I have been dismayed with the destruction since I was born in 1964, but this takes it to another level. I will share around and get you more views.

[magdahearne]

Great video, some lovely old pics of Sheffield, thank you for sharing, Sheffield really was very beautiful back in the day, with some stunning buildings full of character.... The old pics of Snig Hill that I've seen previously from engravings have it looking very Dickensian & full of charm.
Also a big well done Sheffield city council, who over the years have taken a charming, often quaint city, and demolished beautiful old buildings full of character & charm & replaced them with absolute tripe, or worse still, nothing at all.... Concrete, glass, steel & brick in their modern form all look soulless at the side of what was there. I understand that the Germans did their bit in WW2 where replanning our city was concerned, (& some areas may have been more slum like than others & in need of a bit of makeover), but that's nothing compared to the criminal act of vandalising the city in the name of progress by our dear council. To paraphrase Jane Austen's Mr Knightly.... "Badly done, Sheffield Council".... It looked better before all the "men of vision" had a hand in it from the Victorian/post modern era onwards. I can never understand why many towns & cities in the UK manage to keep their old buildings & refurbish them, but that ours in Sheffield have to be got rid of for no reason that it's people can see, other than because some city planner wanted to leave their mark. Dogs leave their mark too, but it doesn't mean any of us would want to step in it!

[neilthewheelio]

Fantastic video, thanks for your hard work. Unfortunately it shows how a wonderful city has been turned into a soulless shell of it's former glory.

[johndurrans]

fascinating how sheffield has changed not always for the better, great look at times past

[misscoutts]

Agreed Tim, it is shocking what has happened. So many beautiful buildings demolished and for what?

[michaeldeakin]

That is the best video I have seen showing then and now well done it’s a work of art 😊😊

[BILLYBLOODTOOTH]

Absolutely amazing video one of the best iv seen on YouTube ever and not just cus it's my city but to see it that far back amazes me I'd do anything to be able to go back even 120 years ago and walk round sheffield even try find my family and say hello great grandad I'm from the future 😂😂😂

[Blind-Ghost-]

That was fantastic. I'm relatively new to Sheffield, only 11 years, and to see how it's changed over time is a great lesson. One of the best videos I've ever seen on YouTube. Thank you for taking your time to compile this. It's getting saved to my favourites, and I will watch it often. Bravo 👏👏👏

[lindahanley]

Fantastic video, I’ll be watching this a good few times more

[benpodziewski]

Great video, informative and some rare shots of the city ☺️

[jiniyogini]

Background music works very well. Thanks for putting this together. Fascinating.

[janeshipley]

what a prize for the people of sheffield!

[tdoran]

One thing I notice about Victorian and Edwardian photos are people would be photographed outside their work or home but that isn’t a practise that’s done anymore on such a large scale.

[crispybits]

The Luftwaffe did a job, but they were amateurs compared to what the council demolished in the post war period. Such a shame really. We could have had a charming and beautiful old city centre if more of this had been kept, instead of being replaced by brutalist monstrosities.

[rubydazzler]

This is well researched, must have taken ages to put together. Thanks for sharing, I thought I knew a lot about my home city, but I learned some new things today :D

[timawells]

Love change alley where Arundel gate is. So much was demolished when I was born in 1964. How they got away with demolishing Cole’s is criminal. 😢