I've been living in Fulwood for about 6 months now and I just love that area. It's so peaceful, houses so well kept, plenty of greenery, and the bus is fantastic up there. I have never ever had to wait more than 10 minutes for the 60 bus, on average it seems like every 5 minutes, just second best to number 52 bus. The bus is hardly ever full, as its those new double decker buses.
I used to live in Walkley and waiting for number 95 could be an absolute nightmare!!
Can't praise first buses for much but for no 60 its fantastic!
Its just lovely up here, and not far from town at all, the countryside is 2 mins away.. Only problem is of course the house prices, but judging by the size of them it can be justifiable..
Anyone else lives up this end and could tell me their likes and dislikes about Fulwood?
Thanks

I love it too!
I'm kind of Fulwod-Ranmoor-Nethergreen way, and I just love the fact that there are loads of parks and that you can walk into town within half an hour or so, and similarly can be in countryside with a half hour walk, too.

The house prices are a hideous nightmare, whihc is why I rent a cr*ppy tiny flat here, when I could buy something okayish somewhere else.

It's leafy and lovely, and the whole Fulwood Mast protest was classic!

Well I like Heeley.

The 'roads' are a nightmare, the bus service is non-existant, it's miles from the countryside, but I love it.

So there.

Originally posted by sam_mig
Well I like Heeley.

The 'roads' are a nightmare, the bus service is non-existant, it's miles from the countryside, but I love it.

So there.

lol!

I live on and off in what is termed "Upper Fulwood" but that really is just a posh name for a bit of Lodge Moor. Well, when I say Lodge Moor I mean Redmires I guess, but some of the older people call it "Upper Fulwood" when trying to sound posh in the Post office...

Lived here on and off since 1975 and adore it. Never been any problems round here as far as I know, no gangs on corners (other than the legendary ~Fulwood Mob~ who were less bother than a group of white mice).

I also live in STannington on and off and that is the total opposite, even though both are within eye sight of each other across the valley.

Originally posted by Sony
and the bus is fantastic up there. I have never ever had to wait more than 10 minutes for the 60 bus, on average it seems like every 5 minutes


Funny you shoukd mention that.

At one time when we lived in Firth Park I used to get the 47/48 bus home from work, from Flat Street. The frequency was the same as the No 60..every ten minutes, but while I was waiting for my bus (anthing up to 20 minutes!!) at least three No 60 buses would pass the ever lengthening queue for the 47/48.

Never could understand this until it was suggested that SYPTE in fact put out more buses than required by the timetable on the 60 route to keep the influential toffs of Fulwood off the necks of local councillors. :rolleyes:

Anyway we now live out in the country...not five minutes or half an hour from it, with no noisy, smelly buses at all.

And Fulwood after all is just another housing estate :D

There's no decent Pubs at Fullwood :( The Sportsman and 3 Merry Lads are the only decent pubs and they are full of silver surfers. Apart from that the surrounding area is lovely :)

Poo off with your posh Fulwoodness. Not everybody can afford half a million on a house you know.

absolutely, Rosey - which is why I rent a hovel! :)

Originally posted by J-Blaze
There's no decent Pubs at Fullwood :( The Sportsman and 3 Merry Lads are the only decent pubs and they are full of silver surfers.

Isn't that Lodge Moor? Or am I getting confused?

Yes those 2 pubs are Lodge Moor. Down the road is the horrible SHINY SHEFF, the most boring pub in the Universe...EVER! Further towards town is the PLOUGH INN, again just above Fulwood in Sandygate area...not bad but a bit pretentious..full of middle aged women with laptop computers sipping sherry when I popped in for a very uncultured half of Carling!!!

FULWOOD itself does not really have a pub within its limits. THE RISING SUN is officially "Nethergreen", and THE FULWOOD INN is actually "Ranmoor." Both the RANMOOR INN and the other one 20 yards away, cant remember it now, I dont go in there at all....not really FUlwood. Must be one of the only SHeffield areas that does not actually have a pub within its locally accepted boundaries..perhaps the only one?

And not all houses are half a million in Fulwood. A semi will fetch about £285K although it will need a fair bit of work....ie demolition. And some of the cottages that come up for sale are rarely more than £230K.

Originally posted by snowboarder
I live on and off in what is termed "Upper Fulwood" but that really is just a posh name for a bit of Lodge Moor. Well, when I say Lodge Moor I mean Redmires I guess, but some of the older people call it "Upper Fulwood" when trying to sound posh in the Post office...

Lived here on and off since 1975 and adore it. Never been any problems round here as far as I know, no gangs on corners (other than the legendary ~Fulwood Mob~ who were less bother than a group of white mice).

I also live in STannington on and off and that is the total opposite, even though both are within eye sight of each other across the valley.

Upper Fulwood! Don't make me laugh! Just how exclusively pretentious can a person get.

Upper Fulwood, Christ on a bike! And I live at highest Heeley.

Originally posted by snowboarder
Yes those 2 pubs are Lodge Moor. Down the road is the horrible SHINY SHEFF, the most boring pub in the Universe...EVER! Further towards town is the PLOUGH INN, again just above Fulwood in Sandygate area...not bad but a bit pretentious..full of middle aged women with laptop computers sipping sherry when I popped in for a very uncultured half of Carling!!!

FULWOOD itself does not really have a pub within its limits. THE RISING SUN is officially "Nethergreen", and THE FULWOOD INN is actually "Ranmoor." Both the RANMOOR INN and the other one 20 yards away, cant remember it now, I dont go in there at all....not really FUlwood. Must be one of the only SHeffield areas that does not actually have a pub within its locally accepted boundaries..perhaps the only one?

And not all houses are half a million in Fulwood. A semi will fetch about £285K although it will need a fair bit of work....ie demolition. And some of the cottages that come up for sale are rarely more than £230K.

Oh well, if it's that cheap, I'll just go out and buy me a couple of houses....
:rolleyes:

Well as we live above the snow line I always think of it as Fulwood in the summer and Lodge Moor in the winter.

I've never heard anyone around here call it Upper Fulwood - That's rather bizzare, though I have often heard of Lower Walkley (Hillsborough) :confused: .

Well we've got Heeley Bottom, but as yet no Heeley Top. I suppose I could invent it, though. Yes, I think I will. I'll change my location under my name.


There, I've changed it now. Go on, have a look.

I now live at Higher Heeley, I'm sitting in the East Wing posting this message in my house which is called 'The Gables'.

Lovely.

We've lived in Lodge Moor for 6 months now. I didn't want to move from Penistone but my wife "decided". I love it up here. That's the problem with women, they always know what's best for you :)
Problem is that the mother-in-law came round last week and now she wants to move up here as well.
Doh........

I'm going to drive around there tomorrow in my old, little 'M' reg Micra tomorrow and see what all the fuss is about.

On an old OS map (1855) Heeley society seems to have been much more stratified than it is now. In fact there was Lower Heeley, Middle Heeley and Upper Heeley.

Pubs at that time were, The Ball and The Old Waggon & Horses in Upper Heeley, The Shakespeare Tavern in Middle Heely and the Red Lion and The White Lion Inn in Lower Heeley.

Five pubs, one large Weslyan Chapel and hardly any houses :cool:

Just moved to Ranmoor in April, its nothing to gloat about apart from the obvious lack of chavs that I was used to where I lived before, Nice change to the old car insurance tho.. :D

Bulls Head and Ranmoor Tandoori, am sorted.. well until the lease runs out!

Originally posted by Greybeard
On an old OS map (1855) Heeley society seems to have been much more stratified than it is now. In fact there was Lower Heeley, Middle Heeley and Upper Heeley.

Pubs at that time were, The Ball and The Old Waggon & Horses in Upper Heeley, The Shakespeare Tavern in Middle Heely and the Red Lion and The White Lion Inn in Lower Heeley.

Five pubs, one large Weslyan Chapel and hardly any houses :cool:

Thanks for the research, GB, but I have renamed the area in which my small, comfortable, meagre abode is built in as:

'Higher Heeley'.

Originally posted by sam_mig
'Higher Heeley'.

Sounds OK to me.

Next time you have a party you can invite your mates to a Hooley in Higher Heeley :thumbsup:

Someone once told me that Fulwood has no pubs because it was built on land owned by a monastery, and the sale of alcohol was banned under the land use agreement. It's probably apocryphal, but a good story nonetheless. ;)

The Rising Sun was decent the last time I went in; I hope it still is, as from next month I'll be living round the corner from it!

All together now: There is a house in Nether Green... :D

Fulwood is indeed a very nice, quiet and attractive area, arguably Sheffield's finest. I see house prices being high more as a positive as it filters out the undesirables (e.g. chavs) that you're trying to get away from by moving there in the first place. I've also seen Estate Agents use the term "Upper Fulwood" for parts of Lodge Moor, but that doesn't surprise me in the slightest - afterall, they have a tendancy to refer to the "luxury" apartments on the Wards Brewery site as being "Ecclesall" when Ecclesall is some 3 miles up the road! They also refer to parts of Totley as being Dore, and generally try to make places sound better for obvious reasons.

Oh, t020, we've been through this before... money does not equal class. How many times do I have to say it?

Victoria Beckham. Arguably the most famous chav in the world (apart from the whole of Girls Aloud, obv). Rich but Posh, rather than posh.

Anyway, all I care about in terms of people living near me is that they're not noisy, don't smash things up, and do look after their surroundings. If they do that whilst wearing a Burberry cap then that's fine by me!

Oh, PS, when I was living in another "desirable" area, a family moved in just up the road from us. The reason they could afford it? The father was a porn king. Class.

Deej - surely Ranmoor Inn over Bull's Head?
Sorry, off topic. :)

Obviously you get exceptions, but as the stats show (crime, education, employment status, etc), high house prices are largely an effective chav filter, so your attempt to undermine my argument is flawed.

Originally posted by t020
Obviously you get exceptions, but as the stats show (crime, education, employment status, etc), high house prices are largely an effective chav filter, so your attempt to undermine my argument is flawed.


Wanna bet?

The majority of students at my 6th form live in FUlwood, and they are the hybrid 'designer chavs'. Middle class parents, but all the characteristics of your regular, burberry clad loon, but in Diesel jeans or genuine Burberry.

No, t, it really isn't.

Maybe we use "chav" to mean different things. For me it generally means the Burberry-wearing, townie set. Overt in their displays of "designer" clothes etc. Often to be found offensively drunk in Yates's. Interestingly, in later life, many chavs develop a stoop due to all the gold they've had round their necks in youth.

I'm joking, before anybody decides that I'm classist. I'm totally aware that in many quarters I'd be thought of as a poncey, quinoa-eating, Guardian-reading tw*t. Which might be a fair point. :)

But I digress. Basically, t, I don't use the term chav to mean "generic criminal", as you seem to.

This link is mean but funny:
http://www.chavscum.co.uk

I've seen the link, and from what I can see chavs are meant as the under class, i.e. dole scroungers, criminals, etc. You can't deny the facts, and in Sheffield (and probably the rest of the UK), there is a correlation between house values and the type of people who live there, i.e. in areas with high house prices, there is a trend of lower crime, better education, higher job status, etc. How you define "chav" is irrelevant, and most of the teenagers around here tend to be "skaters" rather than "townies".

Originally posted by t020
I've seen the link, and from what I can see chavs are meant as the under class, i.e. dole scroungers, criminals, etc. You can't deny the facts, and in Sheffield (and probably the rest of the UK), there is a correlation between house values and the type of people who live there, i.e. in areas with high house prices, there is a trend of lower crime, better education, higher job status, etc. How you define "chav" is irrelevant, and most of the teenagers around here tend to be "skaters" rather than "townies".

Believe me, the skaters may think they're 'individuals' and superior to to the 'townies' - I am so sick of hearing my friends saying that 'I'm an individual because i like Korn' or whatever, but the skaters tend to be far more likely to take drugs.

Individuals my arse. They all wear hoodies and big jeans and DC trainers, the chavs wear tracksuits, Ben Sherman and Nikes. It's all the same.

Originally posted by noseyrosie
[Individuals my arse. They all wear hoodies and big jeans and DC trainers, the chavs wear tracksuits, Ben Sherman and Nikes. It's all the same. [/B]

Hehe, yep. Just as funny to watch though!

Lets be honest though... this couple and their baby (http://www.chavscum.co.uk/images/june2004/june041.jpg) would be fed to the hounds if they entered Fulwood ;)

Note the use of the latest Von Dutch trucker hat (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?postid=121533#post121533) to provide an early warning sytem! Also note the carefully concealed love bites and subtle make up. She is a bit of a dog too :)

Originally posted by Tony
Lets be honest though... this couple and their baby (http://www.chavscum.co.uk/images/june2004/june041.jpg) would be fed to the hounds if they entered Fulwood ;)

OMG that's disgusting!

Originally posted by Tony
Lets be honest though... this couple and their baby (http://www.chavscum.co.uk/images/june2004/june041.jpg) would be fed to the hounds if they entered Fulwood ;)

I reckon that's a set-up.
I don't reckon they're really chavs at all, rather some people trying to get into chavscum. Me and one of my friends were thinking of setting up a chav pic, to see'f we could make it on. Only problem is I think I might be allergic to Burberry and Von Dutch. ;)

Originally posted by noseyrosie
but the skaters tend to be far more likely to take drugs.

I'm afraid thats crap. Doesn't matter who you are or what your into chavs and skaters are just as likely to do drugs as each other.

I can see how Fulwood can be a very appealing area to the and i qoute 'older generation' however for someone like myself being a teenager and living in Fulwod can be boring resorting to walking round the numerous suburban streets aimlessly. I would like to see more clubs or places to meet in the area, this would also put a stop to some of the anti-social behaviour caused by fellow teens.

Originally posted by Haza
for someone like myself being a teenager and living in Fulwod can be boring resorting to walking round the numerous suburban streets aimlessly.

But the 60 is a god-like bus! You're in town within ten minutes.

Originally posted by Blissy
Deej - surely Ranmoor Inn over Bull's Head?
Sorry, off topic. :)

Well both do a good pint, don't reckon the Rising Sun is upto much.. anyways, back on topic :P

The SHINY SHEFF pub (Crimicar lane) is TO LET......oooof, the most boring venue in the known universe.

Originally posted by Haza
I can see how Fulwood can be a very appealing area to the and i qoute 'older generation' however for someone like myself being a teenager and living in Fulwod can be boring resorting to walking round the numerous suburban streets aimlessly. I would like to see more clubs or places to meet in the area, this would also put a stop to some of the anti-social behaviour caused by fellow teens.

I'm only 21 but yet appreciate the area so much. When you've been at work all day, in town with all the noise, you appreciate fulwood for the peace and quiet. I certainly would never ever want a club opening in Fulwood.
Fulwood has got a village feel to it so lets keep it that way. And by the way someone said that Fulwood people were snobey, well I found them to be very nice, and very polite and respectful. Then again some people might call that being a snob

Originally posted by Tony
I've never heard anyone around here call it Upper Fulwood - That's rather bizzare, though I have often heard of Lower Walkley (Hillsborough) :confused: .

Upper Fulwood seems like an invention, but Lower Walkley is genuine and distinct from both Walkley and Hillsborough. It's on the A-Z after all - p85 if you care to look! :)

Originally posted by J-Blaze
I'm afraid thats crap. Doesn't matter who you are or what your into chavs and skaters are just as likely to do drugs as each other.

hey, maybe I should have said, this is only from personal experience. I know a lot of 'skaters' and a lot of 'townies'. The skaters experimented with drugs at a far earlier age (one particular boy who I met on Devonshire Green was smoking weed, it turned out he was Y6 at Carfield primary School!!!). of course I'm not going to make sweeping generalisations...like...I....just....did....

Doh!

Well....I know what I mean :smile:

Well I've been to the Ranmoor Inn - not bad. THe plough's ok unless your there at the same time as the chain smoking pipe bod and his pal. Never seen anyone in there with a laptop tho'

3 Merry lads - great pub! Lovely to sit out and watch the climbers across the valley!

The phrase Upper Fulwood was an estate agents invention from the 1960s when the new houses were being built on and above Hallamshire Road. Yes, we used to think it was pretty awful at the time. In fact using the phrase would mark someone out as a recent arrival, one of the 'new people' as they were sometimes called - and there's an equally odious snobbery in that , of course.

However, the old boundaries of Fulwod parish did (do still?) contain what is now often referred to as Upper Fulwood. The cover of the parish magazine used to show a little map, the boundaries of which were Stanage Edge, Ringinglow Road, Redmires Road and Fulwood Church.

The shifting boundaries of the area and the different cultural claims made upon it, may also throw some light on why there are so few pubs in Fulwood. At one time the area, like many others I suppose, was the site of heated religious conflict. Before the church was built, that little area was known as Goole Green (apparently a corruption of Golden Green, possibly referring to Gorse flowers), this is the Green to which Nether Green is.....er....nether! Fulwood being further down towards where the shops are now.

The little hamlet of Goole Green was behind, and to the side of where the Guildhall is, opposite the bottom of Stumperlowe Park Road. The green itself is now the rear garden of some houses at the top of Brookhouse Hill.

At Goole Green there used to be an Ale House, which also served as a meeting house for intinerant religious dissenter preachers. This was at the time when some non-conformist preachers could be imprisoned if found holding services within a certain distance of the town limits. So their activities were a matter of secrecy.

When a preacher was due to visit Goole Green, his imminent arrival would be signalled across the Mayfield Valley by the women of the communty, who would spread bright white sheets out across the fields. The congregation would then gather.

I suspect that the Ale house may have fallen foul of these religious politics, perhaps the dissaproval of the established Anglican Church. Was that why they placed there church there in 1837(?)

This was certainly the fate of another local pub, the Blacksmiths
Arms on Old Fulwod Road. In the early years of the last century the local vicar succeeded in having it turned into a cafe, still called the Coffee House when I was a child.

The tradition of having a pub next to the blacksmiths was quite common and made good sense (for example, The Hammer and Pincers at Bents Green). Very often it was the blacksmith's wife who would have her own business brewing ale. People would come to the blacksmith and wait for their job to be done - a captive market.

There were one or two such operations in the Mayfield Valley and, I believe, one or two farms which brewed. I wonder if they met the same fate as the Blacksmiths arms.

Changing places, changing meanings..

The land on which Fulwwod Church was built at Goole Green, locally called the Round Stubbin', is almost at the centre of a pentagram of Ley Lines , if you believe in that sort of thing.


It is also the place where I was born.

Originally posted by t020
OMG that's disgusting! :rolleyes:

do you know them? er, i don't think so. in fact, i'm sure you'd go out of your way to avoid them, whilst calling them names such as "disgusting".

in fact, you disgust me - with your petty, small-minded, bigoted attitudes to other people and other places in sheffield - none of which are good enough to be associated with you and your money. for someone fortunate enough to live in one of the nicest areas of this city, you sure have a mightily ungenerous attitude towards other residents.

i'm sure (i hope) at least a degree of what you say is deliberately designed to wind up people like me; nevertheless, i'm glad ecclesall is definitely NOT on ecclesall road, but is fortuitously positioned where the majority of us are unlikely to come into contact with you.

:lol: but I wasn't the only one to think the chavs look disgusting.

I like it when these threads get "interesting". But it is better to respect where everybody else lives, as I am sure they would do so when visiting Fulwood....we hope. Unfortunately a lot of the older generation in Fulwood do have a very arragant attitude, likewise some of those in Dore....it seems to go with the territorial instinct. DISCUSS....

Hmmm.. I kind of know what you mean. Wait until I light that garden fire!

I guess that all areas have resident grumps.

Originally posted by ms de meaner
:rolleyes:

do you know them? er, i don't think so. in fact, i'm sure you'd go out of your way to avoid them, whilst calling them names such as "disgusting".

in fact, you disgust me - with your petty, small-minded, bigoted attitudes to other people and other places in sheffield - none of which are good enough to be associated with you and your money. for someone fortunate enough to live in one of the nicest areas of this city, you sure have a mightily ungenerous attitude towards other residents.

i'm sure (i hope) at least a degree of what you say is deliberately designed to wind up people like me; nevertheless, i'm glad ecclesall is definitely NOT on ecclesall road, but is fortuitously positioned where the majority of us are unlikely to come into contact with you.

I don't live in the posh end of town and i thought they looked like dirty chav scrubbers.

That girl should get a wesh!

Originally posted by Umeeksk
Someone once told me that Fulwood has no pubs because it was built on land owned by a monastery, and the sale of alcohol was banned under the land use agreement. It's probably apocryphal, but a good story nonetheless. ;)

The Rising Sun was decent the last time I went in; I hope it still is, as from next month I'll be living round the corner from it!

All together now: There is a house in Nether Green... :D
No way, mate. you'll be wanting the Hunters bar pubs.