Can anyone give me a brief history of the Hillsborough area?
i.e. industry,community, housing developments, memories of the area? etc
Whats it like to live there now? Thanks

Try this website for a start - some excellent community history sections...

http://www.burtonstreet.org.uk

I can recommend "The Complete Hillsborough by Her People" by Mick Drewry - it should be available locally, and in any event can be purchased from amazon.co.uk. Hillsborough is a good place to live, less than 3 miles from the city centre and with open country a stone's throw away. It has a sizeable shopping centre (with a big Morrisons, also B & Q, Wilko etc.) and some good watering holes. I grew up in Hillsborough in the 50s and moved half a mile up the hill in the 1980s; I have no desire to live anywhere else.