SHEFFIELD: City Gets Crackier with Every Visit

I'm a veteran architect. Everything he says about these architectural abortions is true. Pure ugly happens when you say the concept of beauty no longer exists. Without beauty and poetry you get UGLY!

Welcome to Shyeffiyeild comrade. Tyek ze pills. Now.

I lived in Sheffield from 1985 to 2000, and it was RAF! I escaped to Cardiff soon after and then Manchester. Phew, what a relief!

So dystopian.

Keep away

I grew up here. Sheffield Shitty Council has destroyed the city. I've not been there for decades. It was bustling in the 50s and 60s.

What brought you to our esteemed shithole?

Filming and mocking someone who clearly is struggling is so lousy. The fact people support this guy is insane.

It's known by proper Sheffield people as the (BIG SH*T HOLE).The Councils Favorited song is (Dig it up and start again) and that is all they have done for the last 30 years waste money

I'm Sheffield born and bred.
The left have christened Sheffield " a sanctuary city ". I don't recall the arrogant bastard’s consulting the natives though.

Vote REFORM…..It’s the only way this country will survive.

Dead city, will all be residential soon

Why do you go round taking the piss out of peoples city’s. Why don’t you fuck off back to where you came from you daft bastard

He's walked about 100 meters in a 10 mins video. Great content 👍. The area is under redevelopment. What a whopper

LOL who the hell came up with the idea to call a place "Snig Hill".

I hope and think you're wrong about Nigel.
I have faith in him, however he needs to figure out a way to ally with TR

We are definitely living in fractured times 🎉

I've lived ere all my life , it's an absolute crock of cack now .

I live in north Sheffield in the bradfield parish that boarders the Peak District far away from the city centre. If you visited there you’d think you was in another country my friend. It’s beautiful and peaceful. That’s because it’s full of native and indigenous people of this glorious land

Stop slagging my city off plz ffs

It’s a right shithole. Go to s9 or s4.. Burngrave that’s a real eye opener

I hate to see muslims walking around Sheffield. Makes me puke.

The Chinese population of Sheffield seems to have increased by about 2000% in the last ten years.

Labour screwed Sheffield.

What a shame, I used to drive down to Sheffield many a weekend to visit my mate and have a darn good night out. Visiting places like, Wapentake, The Leadmill, Yorkshireman Arms, Frog & Parrot with its micro brewery (Roger and Out), Mucky Duck (have I misremembered that one?). Loads of lovely Yorkshire lasses and plenty of beer! 🍻

Snig hill is named so because people used to snig bales up the hill, it’s named after that saying. My family have been in Sheffield since the 1600’s and I can confirm you described it perfectly 😂

I did jury service in that building back in 1995 when it was brand new. They were actually still using the old court building and one of the cases I was a juror on was in the old building, the difference was unbelievable, the old building felt scary, imposing, important, solid, traditional, all the things a court building should be. The new building felt pathetic by comparison, it felt like a cheap, boring office with no soul.
I’m born and raised in Sheffield and I can tell you this place always has had potential, the problem we’ve got is Sheffield is a socialist republic, we have thousands of university students and a relatively large number of middle class champagne socialists who will always vote Labour. There is literally no point voting, the socialist/communists always get in.
I’m 50 years old, all my life the labour council in this city has deliberately wasted money, they simply don’t want progress, prosperity or small businesses doing well. They want us all down at the bottom with them dictating to us on how we should live.
Socialism = poverty.
Capitalism = prosperity.

Meadowhall or meadowhell as we like to call it ,has killed the city centre and Sheffield city council hates cars and every time they make a decision for the city centre ie:- green air tax one way systems blocking roads off to traffic, pedestrian only areas ,cycle routes ,none of it helps the small businesses, and the green tax has, hit the working white van man terribly in Sheffield .😮

Its city centre improvements charle , most of it is being redeveloped, its going to be called 'Heart of the city' project 😊😊

A striking brick mosaic on the side of a building on Castle Street by Paul Waplington. It was commissioned by the council in the 1980s to commemorate the steel industry of Sheffield.
It is based on a real steelworker, but modified so that it would work with the size of the bricks used. As a result the eyes are much bigger than the man the mosaic was modelled on.

Snig Hill – the mystery in its name
Snig Hill, looking down towards Bridge Street. Snig Hill Police Station can be seen on the right.
Mention Snig Hill and most people will attach the name to the police station that has stood here since 1970. But Snig Hill refers to the sloping road between the bottom of Angel Street and West Bar. This was once a bustling thoroughfare but has been slowly downgraded because of traffic flow changes.
It is not an unpleasant place. The ‘grey-to-green’ project has seen the introduction of trees and wildflowers to re-connect the Castlegate area with the rest of the city centre and re-use the redundant highway. And it soaks up rainwater that would have flowed into the nearby River Don, therefore reducing the risk of flooding.
The mystery about Snig Hill is how it got its name. It has mystified Sheffielders for centuries and various suggestions have been put forward.
Snig Hill,
Once upon a time, there was a corn mill at Mill sands, next to the River Don, and to access this, people used a packhorse track running between high banks behind gardens of old houses that stood on what is now the right hand side of Snig Hill going down. According to J.W. Farnsworth in 1939, this became so waterlogged in wet weather with rain and the sewage that drained from the Beast Market, that it earned itself the name of Water Lane (think, Hen & Chickens, now Castle Green).
When Snig Hill was made and cobbled, the ancient lane fell into disuse, and several townsmen built houses. On the opposite side, at what became the Black Swan Hotel, was Costnough Hall which stood just below the Irish Cross at the junction of Angel Street.
The hall disappeared, and Snig Hill became a narrow street, and the projecting upper stories of the houses gave an appearance of still greater narrowness.
J.W. Farnsworth’s sketch of old Snig Hill. Costnough Hall is seen on the left. Image: British Newspaper Archive
And so, to the name. In dialect English, of the word ‘snig’ there were five meanings: (1) To cut or chop; (2) to sneak off; (3) to drag over the ground; (4) close and private; (5) a small eel.
One suggestion was that ‘Snig Hill’ derived its name from the fact that it was the incline up which the ‘trees’ were ‘snigged’ from the lower area (the area down to the banks of the river, say) which no doubt was very well wooded at one time.
A ‘snig chain’ was also the chain used for hauling timber or attaching an extra horse to a wagon. At our Snig Hill, it was said that a horse was once kept to ‘snig’ up the hill any wagon that paid a small fee.
But Sidney Oldall Addy in ‘A Glossary of Words used in Sheffield,’ published in 1888, thought differently.
"To snig a load of anything up a hill is to take up the load in two or more instalments. For instance, a load of timber might be left at the bottom of the hill. Each portion brought up would be called a snig. The incline of the hill is not great, and the hill is small. Snig Hill thus appears to mean Little Hill. I think this is really the meaning, there is no proof that the timber was ever dragged up the hill in instalments.”
But he contradicted himself in ‘The Hall of Waltheof,’ published in 1893.
"The word snug, meaning lying close and warm is identical with the word snig used in this street name. It is not the hill in this case, which is snug, but the narrow old street, and had it been Snicket Hill, the meaning would have been clear.”
Others thought that it took its name from the practice of putting a ‘snig’ or length of wood through the back wheels of carts going down the hill to act as a brake.
Willis Crookes, of Normandale, Loxley, said in 1930 that at the Bridge Street end of Snig Hill, there was a depression in the road, where a pool once existed, and which was really a backwash of the River Don. He told of his boyhood (the 1870s), when he often talked to old men who told him that in their young days it swarmed with eels.
When anybody wanted a fish dinner they took a long stick with a cleft in it, pushed it into the mud of the pool, and dragged out an eel. This useful form of diversion was called ‘snigging.’
A far more likely explanation came about the same time from somebody who said that an old relative had been a stagecoach driver between Leeds and Sheffield. Among stories passed down in his family was one to the effect that the flour ground at Mill sands was put into barrels and were ‘snigged up t’hill.’ He suggested that ‘to snig’ was to roll the barrel up the slope and put it under .
However, it seems that the true meaning of ‘Snig Hill’ may never be known.
South Yorkshire Police at Snig Hill. It was originally built by B. Warren, Sheffield’s Planning Officer and Architect, as force headquarters for Sheffield and Rotherham Constabulary in 1970. It is now the police station covering Sheffield city centre.
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Revised development plans for site on Fitzwilliam Street
Two hundred years of history about to be replaced with apartments
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We in Yorkshire refer Sheffield as The shy tole 😂😂

You have Sheffield pegged. I've lived here since 1982. Yes, the 80s thru to about 2005 were its best years.

Moved over to Sheffield from Manc a few years ago. Sheff city centre can't compete, it doesn't know what it wants to be. Apparently it's a work in progress, but every other area like Abbeydale Rd & Ecclesall Rd are much more populated in its demise. Should visit them next.

Poor veitch exploiting the vulnerable for clicks. Another first, no woman was beaten.

People in Sheffield just keep on voting for Liebour - it beggars belief!
THIS is the result... a socialist dystopian nightmare!

Shocking 😢

I have lived in Sheffield all my life and its a shit hole now!

Thanks Charlie for the reminder of why I left to live in New Zealand 12 years ago. I’ve been feeling homesick but this was the cure!

Shiteville is more like it

What do you think should be done about the debauchery that you describe ?

Looks grim.

Sheffield city centre has gone right down the pan Charlie, I apologise in advance just before I watch. 😂

I don’t no if you new this but the heroin today is mixed with Ketamine . The horse tranquilliser. It’s another deliberate attempt to kill as many drug users as possible. A lot of these addicts have had awful lives so to deaden there day from horrible thoughts of past . Then so be it. But they are being killed through this mix with today’s heroin , so there is now zombie looking folk everywhere

Hi Charlie xx

Ralph has more hair than daddy.... 😂 Only kidding 😬👍🤘

What a cutie Ralph is 😊

Keep on taking the tablets