OK have you moved here from somewhere else.
Do you class yourself as a Sheffielder?
Have you been adopted as a Sheffielder?
Or are you an outcast?


Here IMHO are a few famous people who have been adopted as Sheffielders.

Dave Bassett - Londoner - Still lives here after managing United

Chris Waddle - Geordie - Still lives here after his spell at Wednesday

John Riley - Scouser - Boy On a Dolphin Singer lives here after moving here to work at Cole Bros before forming his band.


There are loads more, put em down or let me know if you have been adopted by the friendly folk of Sheffield.

I consider myself as a Sheffielder these days - first moved here in '85, and apart from 2 years away in Bradford/Halifax have been here ever since. Not sure if that's long enough to become an honorary Sheffielder though....

I don't know about being adopted as a Sheffielder but when I told someone I was moving to Walkley they said I couldn't do that as I was a Crookes-ite.

Does that count?

Mike
I hereby grant you honorary membership of the most elite club in the world.
Certificate is on its way and the presentations will be made at the annual Forum get together.

Anymore?????

I hear Simon Groom ex Blue Peter now lives around here.

Awwww! I feel all warm inside :D

Originally posted by "mikey"

Mike
I hereby grant you honorary membership of the most elite club in the world.
Certificate is on its way and the presentations will be made at the annual Forum get together.

Anymore?????

I hear Simon Groom ex Blue Peter now lives around here.

Simon Groom has a farm out Matlock way. I believe he breeds pigs (the spotty ones). He originates from up here and came back 'home' from London (having lived in London myself for 3 years I can't say that I blame him).

I came to uni here in 1997 and stayed on. If someone asks me where I'm from I say "Sheffield" ... but that's normally followed by "well, originally from Bolton, but I moved to Sheffield"...

There's no Yorkshire / Lancashire divide as far as I'm concerned :wink:

My theory is that people who have lived in Sheffield all or most of their lives don't appreciate what makes Sheffield really special, compared to those who have moved here recently and have yardsticks to measure it against.

I didn't fully appreciate the warmth of Sheffield people until I spent a decade in Liverpool (big mistake)

Originally posted by "Abby"

My theory is that people who have lived in Sheffield all or most of their lives don't appreciate what makes Sheffield really special, compared to those who have moved here recently and have yardsticks to measure it against.

I didn't fully appreciate the warmth of Sheffield people until I spent a decade in Liverpool (big mistake)

Perhaps that explains the people on this forum who have negative views of Sheffield, its council and its less salubrious areas. It would be an interesting exercise to list the negative posters and those born and bred here and see if there is any correlation.

I've only spent 60% of my life, so far, in Sheffield which may explain why I think Sheffield is great.

Looks like we have 2 more potential members to the club.

Tony may need a few more years yet :D :D

Originally posted by "mikey"

Looks like we have 2 more potential members to the club.

Tony may need a few more years yet :D :D

Moi? I was born here mate! (and my two sons as well - didn't want them growing up with Scouse accents)

Originally posted by "mikey"

Looks like we have 2 more potential members to the club.

Tony may need a few more years yet :D :D

Well, start chalking them up - cos I reckon I'm here to stay! :wave:

Originally posted by "maxt"

Perhaps that explains the people on this forum who have negative views of Sheffield, its council and its less salubrious areas. It would be an interesting exercise to list the negative posters and those born and bred here and see if there is any correlation.


I have only been here 2 years, and I think Sheffield is great. However we also have some serious problems and the attitudes of our Council is one of these. I don't think duration of stay in Sheffield has anything to do with why so many are complaining about the Council. Are you implying that those who have recently moved here find the Council great?

The complaints about the council are related purely to the fact that they are inept and class-obsessed and have no realistic long-term vision.

I just find that the people who bang on about the council are the same ones who have negative views generally. I wasn't implying the council is great just using it as an example of the negativism found on this forum.

I've been here 3 1/2 months and already I think I wanna stay. Couldn't really call myself a Sheffielder yet. Haven't got the accent or anything. When will I qualify? Is there some sort of passing out ceremony...?

Originally posted by "maxt"

I just find that the people who bang on about the council are the same ones who have negative views generally.

This is really an argument by intimidation (i.e anyone who criticises the council does so because they are horrible and negative). I don't have "negative views generally" (whatever that means) but uphold my right to be negative about things which are negative.

Sorry abby you are in mate,

Tony Ok then you can be in too, sounds positive that you wanna stay

E man - at least 12 months reqd, then you have to pass the test, before ceremonial ordainment by the Forum Members

How about me - 11 straight years. Never tempted to leave. About to marry a sheffield man. Have a Sheffield dog :lol: Protect Sheffield against my mother's scorn, and have written many nice things about Sheffield on this forum :D My work has always been deeply community based (being a community worker and all lol) and I know more Sheffield history than many Sheffielders.
Can I be a Sheffielder please?

Don't see why not...would your mother like to join as well...?

Genuine chromium plated, made in sheffield!!!

SheffieldLady3 wrote
I have only been here 2 years, and I think Sheffield is great. However we also have some serious problems and the attitudes of our Council is one of these. I don't think duration of stay in Sheffield has anything to do with why so many are complaining about the Council. Are you implying that those who have recently moved here find the Council great?

The complaints about the council are related purely to the fact that they are inept and class-obsessed and have no realistic long-term vision.
Madam, I've been studying Sheffield history for a while and I'm sorry to say that Sheffield has had an incompetent city council for at least a couple of hundred years.

What do you mean about the Council being class-obsessed? I doubt this makes a difference to the quality of service received

Originally posted by "halevan"

Genuine chromium plated, made in sheffield!!!
Chromium?

CHROMIUM??

Surely genuine Sheffield Plate, made in Sheffield?

I moved here in 99 and feel that if not adopted, I am at least being fostered here. I do love this city already, and have alwasy liked it since my first visit in about 1989.

I have developed a real enthusiasm for finding out about and getting involved in my adopted city, in a way I never have before. I think it is the strong antiauthoritarian and socialist streak that seems to permeate the city that invigorates me.

Originating in Hampshire, I enjoy the look of incomprehension turning to wonder as my southern friends visit and discover Sheff (this end at least) to be an arboreal paradise with stunning inner city views and out of city rambles, groovy little cafes, galleries, intimate winding roads, stunning gothic mansions, twee victorian roundabouts, space age trams and music being made in bedrooms and front rooms everywhere.

But my son, born in the shiny new Jessop Wing, will almost certainly grow up with an accent and be a real Sheffielder, which leaves me with mixed feelings as I grew up with no overriding national or provincial identity, being an alien almost wherever I went.

Originally posted by "Phanerothyme"


I moved here in 99 and feel that if not adopted, I am at least being fostered here. I do love this city already, and have alwasy liked it since my first visit in about 1989.

But my son, born in the shiny new Jessop Wing, will almost certainly grow up with an accent and be a real Sheffielder, which leaves me with mixed feelings as I grew up with no overriding national or provincial identity, being an alien almost wherever I went.

I know how you feel. I have always had the freedom to choose my home, as it were...first this country, and now this city. It's an odd feeling to think that my children would be Sheffielders from the year dot, along with my partner, while in some ways I will always be an incomer and an alien. Odd too, that I wouldn't want to change the fact that I didn't start with a heart-home and had to find one myself. But i reckon that makes it an even more precious commodity, because i chose it for myself.

Yes PRM. CHROMIUM PLATED over the top of sheffield plate HA.HA.Oh and by the way you do go on don't you? Waxing lyrical and going all funny with your romantic notions of SHEFFIELD.

Please calm down or you will have me doing the same, sheffield is far far better now than I ever remember it. What a transformation compared to the old days, smokey chimneys, black smoke, smog, bronchitis, asthma, I still suffer today due to those appalling conditions.

though i've lived here since i was 2 (does that make me a sheffielder? i've always considered myself one), my best mate is from canning town in east london (also lived in elephant & castle and later croydon which is worse) and i often jokingly tell her she's an honorary sheffielder. i know she likes to hear that cos she loves this city, scars and all, and hates london more than i did (i lived there for 2 months remember) - she had to live there for the first 15 years of her life so i know she appreciates sheffield more than most.

sorry, this was a bit o.t. i guess we're both abit too young to really know that much about sheffield council's history, though there are a good few problems. but really nowheres perfect and sheffield is the best place i've ever been. i love travelling about but i always come home to sheffield and am glad to be back. places like croydon are nationally reviled but there are less jibes about sheffield, and for good reason: it's a good place, the people are more than decent, and it's the perfect cross between city and greenery with green places to walk around on your doorstep.

so can my best mate be a sheffielder-please? :wink:

Leev it out mayte, once a Londaner always a Londaner, guvner.

I have moved from Sheffield to Australia some 20yrs ago but a part of me will always be there

Originally posted by "halevan"

Yes PRM. CHROMIUM PLATED over the top of sheffield plate HA.HA.Oh and by the way you do go on don't you? Waxing lyrical and going all funny with your romantic notions of SHEFFIELD.

Please calm down or you will have me doing the same, sheffield is far far better now than I ever remember it. What a transformation compared to the old days, smokey chimneys, black smoke, smog, bronchitis, asthma, I still suffer today due to those appalling conditions.

Halevan! Chromium plated it is then - you shining man!

Sure, I do go on. I happen to like waxing lyrical, especially about Sheffield, because it has so many positives.

I am also conscious of the fact that Sheffield is a city like many others, and I have had some very unpleasant and frightening experiences here already, but I find to dwell on them makes me a scared and angry person, rather than a confident happy one.

In some ways I feel my understanding of sheffield will always be incomplete because I never came here in the height of industrial pollution and dominance of heavy industry, so I will always be an arriviste I think. But the Sheffielders I know well have laways made me feel welcome and a part of their city, despite the fact I speak like a BBC continuity announcer (or so I've been told).

Hi PRM,
What! you speak the Queens english as well, it is enough to make the old sheffielders turn in their graves, anyhow, speaking posh is the dizzy heights, the ultimate, for a sheffielder to reach for.

Then one could say, one has attained ones goal in life, something I have always reached for but sadly have failed to attain, however, I do not hold it against you PRM. and I for one welcome you to this lovely city, the more culture we have and the better.

Sorry, just pullling your leg if you don't mind, I am in a joking mood today. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Come on any more adopted Sheffielders?

Are you Born and Bred Hal? You must have seen some changes in your time?

Any more famous adopted Sheffielders?


PS all you others

Cycleracer - Do you still class yourself as a Landoner mate? Do you want to put all that in the past and join the club?

Cosywolf - 11 years I think you are committed, and it looks like you have done your bit for the city.


Phan - You have already sown your seed here :D With offspring born here, you want to be one? (Sheffielder)

Dead Poet - You can be one too if you like. :D

Hi Mikey,
Yes, I must plead guilty to the charge stated you honour, born and bred here and lived on it (bread) when I was a child, in poverty through my father falling ill with a terrible grinders disease, he died when I was three years of age.

This City is not the same place that I knew, everything is different, the two blitz we had during the last war destroyed a lot of Sheffield, Fargate and the Moor had buses and the old tramcars running up and down them and at peak periods you took your life in your hands shopping on dark nights such as at Christmas time.

I remember us looking forward to the introduction of the clean air act which cleared the terrible smogs ( smoke and fog) that we had always been used to with lots of people ( me included ) suffering from asthma and bronchitis.

Originally posted by "Phanerothyme"



But my son, born in the shiny new Jessop Wing, will almost certainly grow up with an accent and be a real Sheffielder, which leaves me with mixed feelings as I grew up with no overriding national or provincial identity, being an alien almost wherever I went.

This explains everything :wink:

I moved up about 5 years ago from North Kent, and I wouldn't move back!

In North Kent everything is dominated by London. Healthcare, Entertainment, Jobs - you have to go to London to get decent standards of them.

I commuted for 7 years to London, costing thousands each year in fares, and taking up to 2 hours to get there. Now I have a 20 minute walk to work, and transport costs of exactly nil.

My 8 year old son is special needs, and has had exemplary specialist medical care in Sheffield. Thanks to the Rygate and Children's hospitals we now have a proper diagnosis of his condition.

He's picking up a sheffield accent, and I don't mind as long as he speaks using proper grammar.

My 2 year old daughter was born in Sheffield, no doubt she'll get a sheffield accent too, but to tell you the truth the Sheffield accent is much nicer than the awful estuary english that's spoken in North Kent.

Been here 5 years now...Moved here from Northumberland. I like it a lot but the Northumbrian in a fella dies hard. :D

Originally posted by "Skyclad_Jihad"

Been here 5 years now...Moved here from Northumberland.

I see that Northumbria is up towards Scotland. I hope you find the climate here more continental 8)

Parts of Scotland is in the gulf stream as is Torbay and cornwall and gets quite mild weather all year round such as the wesr coast.
If you go on the Ayrshire coast you can see plenty of palm trees. 8)

I'm an adopted Sheffielder - originally from a little village called Pinxton which is just down the road, between Mansfield and Derby - I moved here to go to Uni 3 years ago and I love the place now, and would class myself as an adopted Sheffielder - I certainly dont have any intentions of moving out any time soon :D

moved here about 10 years ago.......although the people talk a bit funny and drink too fast, it's not bad......i won't be dying here though

I'm an Essex boy - been here 25 years.
Can't think of a better standard of living anywhere else.
Get sick of still being called a Cockney though.

I moved to Sheffield as a student 10 years ago and have stayed ever since. I lot of my friends from University have done the same, I believe Sheffield has a high retention rate for students which may reflect the attraction of the city.

Lived in Yorkshire (not just sheffield) about 10 years now - and I love it two decent sized cities (shef/Leeds) and the best country in England and right on the doorstep not like in London when to get to proper country you havv to travel about 100 miles!

Having said that I dont think you can change where you're from and theyll always be a part of me thats proud of coming from the London area. Also i think when you move here you cant go telling local people how to run their city....after all youre still basically a guest and I know how annoying it is from back home on the edge of the Smoke where half of the people are incomers from the rest of the country and they live there five minutes, put the prices of the houses even further up and then try to tell the locals (who incidentally are confined to the council estates) how to live their lives.

I've been here just under two years, and all I can say is that I'm a city girl...
And Sheff seems as good as Nottingham where I grew up.
If not better, coz it's newer to me

It is an honour to be a Sheffielder, born and bred or aquired, be proud to wear your badge, stick your chest out, male or female.

Originally posted by halevan
It is an honour to be a Sheffielder, born and bred or aquired, be proud to wear your badge, stick your chest out, male or female.

I totally agree! :D
Although I wish I was still living in Sheffield! :(
My parents moved over to Standish Nr'Wigan when I was 5. I dont know, there's something about it I dont like even tho ive spent most my life there. Everytime I come over to Sheffield it always feels like home :) No disrepect to people who come from Wigan or surronding area's but, well its cr**! But I wear my Sheffield United shirt with pride over there, regardless of the blank looks! Im getting stick from mates who are Latic fans but Im going to proove them wrong :lol: come the start of the new Fitst Division season!

Scouser, moved here in 1986 from Lancashire and I do consider myself a Sheffielder. I left to go to University in '88 and since then I've lived in Sheffield off and on for the last 15 years.

Am I accepted as a Sheffielder? Who knows, all I know that I love the city. I've worked (and lived) all around the country but Sheffield is the place that I consider and feels like home.

Originally posted by Morte
Scouser, moved here in 1986 from Lancashire

But Scousers don't come from Lancashire!

I lived in Liverpool for a decade, and I learnt the hard way that anyone coming from beyond Junction 5 of the M62 is a 'woollyback'.

I moved from Tarleton in Lancashire...a small (then) market garden village.

So you're not really a Scouser then?

Yep I'm a scouser originally...like all good scousers my family moved away...first of all to Lancashire and then to Sheffield.

I've lived here for 8 years, and definitely consider myself an adopted Sheffielder. Having lived in other cities in th UK, Sheff has a friendly vibe like no other I've encountered.

Of course, like any city, there are rough places and nasty people about, but compared to Manchester it's like living in a village (in a good way).

Originally posted by Abby
Moi? I was born here mate! (and my two sons as well - didn't want them growing up with Scouse accents)

nothing wrong with scouse accents mate!

Originally posted by Abby
But Scousers don't come from Lancashire!

I lived in Liverpool for a decade, and I learnt the hard way that anyone coming from beyond Junction 5 of the M62 is a 'woollyback'.

Liverpool used to be classed as being in Lancashire..

I'm from Wirral so get called a woolyback - even though i'm closer to liverpool cuty centre than a lot of people who live in places like Rainhill for instance :)

Originally posted by Red 2
Liverpool used to be classed as being in Lancashire..

I'm from Wirral so get called a woolyback - even though i'm closer to liverpool cuty centre than a lot of people who live in places like Rainhill for instance :)

Forget Rainhill! That's for wannabee nutters who are too psychotic to live in Liverpool anymore.

Isn't there a mental hospital up there :twisted:

Originally posted by Red 2
nothing wrong with scouse accents mate!

Depends what part of Liverpool it's from - if they spoke like they're from Walton, I'd probably put them down for adoption (or elocution lessons)

Ringo Starr has what id call the "best" liverpudlian accent

probably because i grew up on Thomas the Tank :lol:

Originally posted by RPG
Ringo Starr has what id call the "best" liverpudlian accent

probably because i grew up on Thomas the Tank :lol:

Err... don't you mean Thomas the Tank Engine ;)

Originally posted by RPG
probably because i grew up on Thomas the Tank :lol:

most people bring there kids up on formula milk and farleys rusks:banana:

Originally posted by Abby
Err... don't you mean Thomas the Tank Engine

lol, yes.

I always seemed to shorten it to either "Thomas" or "Thomas the Tank"

ah well ;)


Originally posted by mikey
most people bring there kids up on formula milk and farleys rusks

hah, everyones a comedian ;) :lol:

Mmmmm Rusks... did you know they are stopping making them, and Heinz have taken Farleys over :o

Originally posted by mikey
OK have you moved here from somewhere else.
Do you class yourself as a Sheffielder?
Have you been adopted as a Sheffielder?
Or are you an outcast?

I've been living in Sheffield for a few years now and feel very much part of the place. The city centre is a fascinating place to be.

Sheffielders are friendly, sociable, salt of the earth types in the main. I've always felt welcome here. I chose to make this city my home and I don't regret it one bit.

I moved to Sheffield from Middlesbrough in 1997......

..I used to always say up until a few years ago I was going home for the weekend if I was planning a trip to the Boro.....Now I say I am going up to Middesbrough to see the family etc I refer to Sheffield as 'my home' :D

I am very settled here and have no intentions of moving back to the North East.

Sheffield folk have been very welcoming and friendly !!

I have never felt like an outcast but very much part of the community!!

When I am on holiday I say I am from Sheffield although some people have questioned that ie., I don't have a Sheffield accent but I explain this is my home although I was born/raised in the Boro!!

:thumbsup:

came here from a wee scottish village way back in 1978
showed my Sheffield husband 'his' city
the beautiful parks..the cathedral...the crucible
whats so special about the place???
the people are so friendly
you can relax and be yourself
you can be in a green area in 10mins
smashing food: meat and tatta pie, yorkshire puddings thankfully my 'mam'showed me her secret recipes
you can smile at people in the street without being considered a weirdo
you can still ask to look at a baby in a pram without the parents being frightened to death
we took the dog to Parkwood Springs yesterday what a view hard to believe you live in a city
does this make me a Sheffielder or am i still a sassanack

Ive been here since 1989 and lived on the same street now for over 10years - do I count as a Sheffielder now then:D My 2 boys are proper Sheffielders though;)

LisaH xxx

I have been here for 13 years but don't consider myself a Sheffielder...I like the place but as someone has already said, I wouldn't want to die here.
As a footnote, I have been harrassed and even beaten up just for being Welsh....told to f**k off back to my own country as I am taking an Englishman's job......this is a minority though.....there are mindless idiots wherever you live

I've been in Sheffield 3 years and don't consider myself a Sheffielder one bit (unless i'm in Meadowhell n bl**dy tourists just stop slap bang in the middle of where you want to go, noticed most Sheffielders practically run round the place lol!) My son's a Sheffielder although he won't be growing up here, he'll be either brought up in Leeds or back home which is in between Hull and York!

Afternoon all,

I moved up from Surrey with my wife (who is from Sheffield) and daughter, nearly 4 years ago. Unfortunately we are splitting up but I am staying in Sheffield as I have really enjoyed living here. I have made some really good friends and much prefer living here to Surrey.

I've lived here 5 years since moving from sunny Rochdale. This year I have definately felt more like a Sheffielder, I think the Forum may even help. :clap:
I love it here, although saying that a move to anywhere from Rochdale is a big step up. ;)

It's not where you're from, it's where you're at!!

How true, Feargal.

I am going to apply for the position of adopted Sheffielder right now - natives, please consider my application and let me know!!

Moved here in 1997 intending to stay for a year while my then partner finished his MA.

Lived in Meersbrook for 7 years, had ups and downs, was often on the verge of moving back to Nottingham, where I'm originally from, thinking that Sheffield was a little too quiet for me.

Then (speaking of quiet) last year I moved out to the Peak District. HATED IT!!! LOATHED and DETESTED the fact that I lived in the middle of nowhere, there were no pubs and no shops within walking distance, I couldn't just nip out and be in the middle of a throng of people - or indeed see any people - nothing but fecking SHEEP!!!!! I had no idea I would react like this - I do love the peaks, and yes, it was beautiful, but god, how I missed my friends and the warmth of Sheffielders. And that's when I realised how much I love this city!!!

Moved back to Meersbrook this year and haven't looked back. Clearly it all went horribly wrong the moment I lost sight of the park, and I won't be making that mistake again!!!

So - what do you reckon? Adopt me! Adopt me!! Go on . . . :thumbsup:

JfG
applicant for adopted Sheffielder status

Go on then, but have you yet had your Sheffield tattoo done? You can choose from:

Bottle of Hendersons
Owl/Blade/Steeler Dan (or all three)
Sheffield City Council logo

Originally posted by feargal
Go on then, but have you yet had your Sheffield tattoo done? You can choose from:

Bottle of Hendersons
Owl/Blade/Steeler Dan (or all three)
Sheffield City Council logo

Ummm . . . great choice there; you ask a high price feargal . . . . nice orange and black tat coming up for me then!!!