hiya,

ive seen a 3 bedroomed house to rent with garden & garage for £395 per month in Manor area.

This seems awfully cheap to have garage too.

Im suspicious! what is wrong with the Manor area?
Everyone on the poll voted it was the worst area, but didnt say why!

Reasons please!

The Manor has a reputation of being a somehwhat 'rough' estate, but I dont feel it deserves to be 'the' worst area. Maybe one of tho.

Having never lived ther, I can only go by reputation only.
High car crime, street robbery, burglery etc.

Some poeple live there for years and find it great, others want to move out soon after moving in.

Chloe is from Manor Park you could locate her on the memberlist and send her a PM for more Q's if you like.

DB :D

Hey am here! Honest, there's nothing wrong with the place! What other place doesn't have car crime? Street robbery? That's not happened recently and it was further out than the Manor. People's opinion is more often than not based of what they've heard and not what they've experienced. I'm here if you need any help!
Chloé

I asked the same question and went and had a look. I suggest you do the same. It depends where it is, there are two (what i would call) very bad housing developments near there. Probably the most depressing looking ones i have ever seen (and Leeds has some bad ones).

If you close it does resemble a war zone (or it did when i was there). Dirty messy and loads of gangs of kids hanging round.

Having said that i don't know what the boundaries of the manor are, it does seem to be surrounded by some nice places. I guess it depends on how close you are to the developments.

basically if you've grown up with crime etc. on the manor you are used to it, but if you move from a leafy suburb to the manor... well you are in for a shock ;)

as with most places im sure its the minority ruining it for the majority

i wouldnt live there personally, but thats just my opinion

OOhhhhh, you "Manor Slaters" do get on my nerves sometimes!! Trust me when I say that there's nothing round here that bad!! You get groups of kids hanging around in all places too, not just the Manor. We have 'Power Rangers' who patrol the streets. Can I ask you what developments you meant then BACK2BASICS because most of them round here have come on extremely well and don't resemble a war zone at all! Did you go at the beginning of the development by any chance and just see the first 2/3 bricks laid? The houses are there now and some very well off people are living there. I love it here, for flip's sake give the place a chance!
Chloé

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I'm just eager to find out where katey has been offered the house.
Chloé

i think a lot of the trouble with the Manor is people are still thinking it was like it was about 5 or 10 years ago. Things have improved immeasurably in the last few years - most of the really terrible houses have been demolished and theres loads of small new private developments which they have no problem in selling.
This regeneration has been going on a long time now and is really taking effect. My friend who far from being anyones fool got a council house swap from Shire Green to the Manor because the houses themselves are so much more modern in his area

As for mugging etc Broomhall (right on the doorstep of affluent areas like Broomhill) surely has the worst reputation for that if anyones unwise to walk through there at night.

Finally Id have to disagree with you Back to Basics when you say that theres nowhere as bad in Leeds - Ive myself lived in at least 2 areas of many that are worse in Leeds and Cross Green (down on the side away from the industrial estate) makes the Manor look like Dore or Fulwood!

I am just saying it as i saw it. I am not sure what they are called. There is a huge block of houses all linked together, surrounded by a big field right at the top of the hill they are like a white(ish) color. Just looking at it was depressing, but there was all sorts of stuff strewn all over the road and field everywhere. Glass all over, broken bottles, smashed window in a buss stop, all points to bored kids. I am sure when my girlfriend reads this she will post the exact streets for you.

As i said if you move away from that area back down the hill, or really in any direction it immediately get's better. I would suggest the actually street out to see EXACTLY where it is. I would also say that there were quiet a few of the properties (when you move down the hill) being developed by builders, which is also a good sign.

I don't hate the manor, i just wouldn't live where those housing developments are, and maybe this person wouldn't either. It's all subjective, the best advice is to go and look for yourself.

So we have 2 people who say it's fine and a good few (in the worst area thread) who don't. I am not saying it's the worst, i heard Pitsmore is. As i said go see for yourself.

Also i think i said the most depressing place. The housing development and the huge block of flats on the hill (the ones linked by bridges) are the worst examples of housing developments i have ever seen, they would be very depressing to live in. As has been shown many times those developments have a negative effect on the people (who are often forced) who live in them. I lived in Seacroft and Gipton in Leeds (which are the biggest council house estates in Europe), and for me they are not as depressing, they are housing estates for a start. Block of flats and huge communal housing blocks don't work, we know this for the 70's. This is why (and the rest of the world) don't build them anymore and are repidly trying to remove the ones we have.

i have to admit it is a pretty depressing place to live, all the houses look virtually the same, and from the sky it can only be described as a maze ;) id never be able to find my way if i lived in the center :o

Those flats are actually being knocked down, that's why they look like they do. As people have said, it's not the area, or the housing for that matter, it's the people they put in them! I don't see the point in putting young people (early 20s) in flats that are for the older generation (70+ years.) Also, the council seem to work £R$E up round here. I live on the Manor Park, a quiet area with mostly old people, most over 70 some over 80 and some very young people. Recently, a middle aged couple moved out of the house next door but one to us to move into a flat, is it me being selfish or is it normal that they put an old aged couple into this house a month or so after??!! No offence to old people, but to me it seems weird for them to go into a house with say 14 steps to get upstairs to bed or whatever, when in a couple of more years they'll more than likely not be fit enough to walk up them. It would make more sense to put the younger ones in houses (who may have children) and the older ones in bungalows or flats.
Chloé

RPG.. it's because there's that many cul-de-sacs around here that it looks like a maze from the sky! It's not a bad thing though, things are quitening down around here lately.
Chloé

If those flats are being knocked down i personally beleive that is a very good area to buy. It's close to the city and as i said, apart from that (and the problems they create) it looks like a decent area.

Do you know when they are due to be removed?

Any time now I guess. Are we on about the same ones now?? Were they on view from the Parkway, down the road from Waltheof school or what? If it's the ones I'm on about it's very soon, people are getting clearance keys and what have yer and being moved about.
Chloé

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Were you on about the Park Hill flats then?? Well I'm sorry but that's not even near the Manor! It's city centre!
Chloé

There's an absolutely fantastic park being built on the area called Deep Pits, behind Fairleigh, and spreading out down the back of City Road. It features Sheffield's own Stonehenge, and the maddest railings you're likely to see. The new houses there will go for a bomb. Fairleigh also has a wildflower project that has transformed it and is unique in the world for the techniques used to create it - it has global visitors.
The Green Estate is moving across the Manor Lodge and Manor Farm and will be making that wonderful, bright and sparkly too. Manor is moving on. Time to let go of your preconceptions. There are projects being set up there that will be the envy of the rest of Sheffield.:D
Besides, I lived on the Manor, and compared to Shiregreen and Burngreave (other places I've lived) it was great. Actually quite a strong sense of community, and I never had any trouble at all.
Good on you Chloe for standing by Manor.

Deep Pits... they are the ones at the bottom of the Manor field, near the cemetary aren't they? I don't get all these new names coming out for em, lol. I know where the stone henge thing is as I live round the corner but where's the railings? I go up to the cemetary a lot so if you can explain where it'd be good.
Chloé

Dee Pits is the actual name given to Manor Fields/ Manor Woods on OS Maps.:D
The railings are all around the stonehenge bit of the park! Set on the wibbly walling...if you look at the park from Fairleigh you really can't miss them:lol:

The only problem is lack of active policing, but thats the same all over the town. The only time u see foot patrols are in the town centre on weekend evenings and match days.

It amazes me that the americans have got it right and now put a oliceman on every corner in new york and the crime rate has dropped by 87%

WE INVENTED THAT!

We just dont do it anymore :(

wow! thanks everyone, ive really been converted to the manor area. I walked down city road the other day away from the park hill flats, and the area up there has some really nice houses.

Unfortuantly someone else also realised that it was a good area and the house has gone!

so if anyone knows of 2+ bedroomed house with drive or garage to rent, please let me know!!

I posted the following before, but I think it got lost. Is the area around Ravencar Road and Stanground Road still an estate? The last time I looked at a map on-line, there were no streets shown in that area! My aunty used to live on Stanground Road, but that was almost 50 years ago. I also had family lived up the hill that was at the end of Stanground Road, I think it was Hastilar Road. Just before it met Prince of Wales road, there was a road went to the left, and there was some vacant land, sort of a little valley on the right that went all the way to the Manor top, where PoW Road met City Road. My Uncle Walt lived on the left if you walked up that valley to Manor top, his back garden would look out onto the school at Hastilar Road and PoW Road.. (I know my directions are bad, but it HAS been 45 years!!) Is this the area that you all are talking about? Is the big pub (I think it was the Springwood) still at the bottom of Hastilar Road? The last time I was in that area I was driving the #3 circular bus from Darnall in 1964! This of course was long before drugs, skinheads, hippies, and all the low lifes, if there was crime in any area of Sheffield, it was kept very quiet. Of course, the only local media was the Star newspaper, no local radio at all. Only one TV channel, then Granada came in, but we never heard about crime in Sheffield. Pitsmoor and Attercliffe were 'seedy' places, but as a kid I roamed all over the place, never any problems. Of course, we had 'local' bobbies back then, and a kick in the arse from him, or my dad, was not called 'child abuse', it was just 'necessary discipline'. Even when I got out of the RAF in 1963, there was no place I couldn't go for a pint, the few pubs that had a 'reputation' I stayed away from. I always lived in a council house in Sheffield, so I have no idea about prices, is the council estate a thing of the past? I lived on the Foxhill Estate just up the hill from Halifax Road, a pleasant working class area, good childhood there, fairly close to Beeley Woods and Grenoside, from my bedroom window I could see Southey Hill, Middlewood, Crookes and Stannington. Did any of you ever walk on the 3 'Back Edges' to the Wharnecliffe crags? I heard many scary rumours about the crags, so as a kid I never went that far. Used to steal peas from the lorries waiting to unload at Batchelors, got many a stomache ache from that! I think the statute of limitations has expired on that, though! It's sad to read about the state of things in Sheffield now, I remember it as a pleasant place, although I left to better my situation, which I did. I am still a bus driver in Canada, but own my own house, two cars, and all the conveniences that I probably would not have been able to do had I stayed, I heard that Sheffield bus drivers are among the lowest paid in England! I am only now missing the place, I've never been back!

Those houses on City Road have amazing back gardens too, massively long, I havent seen many others in Sheffield with half so much space. But what are they planning on doing with where the flats all were across the back of city road and norfolk park?

That area isnt classed as Manor though normally is it? It seems to be listed as Norfolk Park, Arbourthorne or just City Road by all the estate agents.

Having been brought up on the manor, there is nothing wrong with the estate and nothing wrong with the majority of people on it. It is the criminal minority that is the problem, just the same as anywhere else, you get a bad few that can make life hell for the decent people.

It was just the same where my friend used to live at Meadowcroft gardens on the Westfield Estate, most of the citizens there were decent but just a few made life miserable for the majority.

Perhaps, for the sake of saving time and space, this thread should be renamed: "What ISN'T wrong with the manor?"

Wow, nice read..

I personally agree with the last couple of posts, theres nothing wrong with the manor AT ALL!, lived there for 19-20 years...i'm only 22 ffs...moved to parson cross..BUT, i still go to the manor most days/weekends, as i still have strong connections with the place, ie, family and friends etc...

All the new housing etc being built on the bottom half of windy house lane, queen mary, and raynald road is looking great...if not 'better' than what it was.....

time's-a-changin.. give it a few more years, and it'll be like dore/totley and the likes of posh people :D

The only problem is lack of active policing, but thats the same all over the town. The only time u see foot patrols are in the town centre on weekend evenings and match days.

It amazes me that the americans have got it right and now put a oliceman on every corner in new york and the crime rate has dropped by 87%

WE INVENTED THAT!

We just dont do it anymore :(

The new Safer Neighbourhood Area policing team for Manor should be operational by April. This will be a dedicated team of police officers for the Manor area.

Note: all areas of the city are getting dedicated Safer Neighbourhood policing teams.

I shall be chairing a public meeting in a few months time to look at ideas for the Manor Top Shopping Centre and City Road corridor. Local residents will
receive notification of date, time and venue in due course. In addition, there will be an exhibition, probably at Manor Social Club. Arrangements for the public consultation are currently being finalised.

Part of the problem on the manor when I lived there was the council housing employee's at fair lee?
When you had any trouble from other residents and went to see them they were about as much use as a chocolate fire guard especially one senior housing officer called Jones, in fact fairlee was so carp I had to get a solicitor to force them to do the job they were employed to do, and as for Attercliffe police well they always been a joke... letting a police attack dog loose on an 11 year child with learning problems is disgusting

basically if you've grown up with crime etc. on the manor you are used to it, but if you move from a leafy suburb to the manor... well you are in for a shock ;)

as with most places im sure its the minority ruining it for the majority

i wouldnt live there personally, but thats just my opinion

Im sorry but you never get used to crime and you shouldnt have to

It seems the Manor is not that bad to live in - as all the scum go elswhere to commit their crimes.

Guy who broke into my mates car on West street (who we caught in the act) - from Manor.
Lads who nicked another mates motorbike - from Manor
Different lads who nicked his bike again - from Manor
Junkie caught trying to break into a friends house - from Manor

I see a trend here....

(and no, not that people from Manor make rubbish criminals cause they keep getting caught:hihi: )

and it'll be like dore/totley and the likes of posh people :D


Then all the Manor residents will be on at the council about removing grass verges:D

I've lived on the Manor for over a year now, and its definately not as bad as what people make it out to be.

I think South Yorkshire Police's continuous efforts to improve the Manor Estate have paid tenfold.

I lived on the estate as a nipper, and I was used to the odd Stolen car crashing into my front garden, or the odd Large fire nearby to my house (usually cars or bikes on fire).....

But Syp put together a task force team specifically for that area, and allthough it was probably a long and painful effort, it looks like they've finally got to grips with them estate and good results are starting to show!

Increased police activity has been set up in the area, meaning people are less likely to carry out a crime!

Also a new Street Warden scheme has been set up around the area, meaning more people are deterred from getting upto no good!

plus.....

Youth clubs are being set-up in the area, to keep the young-un off the streets and get them into a safe environment!

It seems the Manor is not that bad to live in - as all the scum go elswhere to commit their crimes.

Guy who broke into my mates car on West street (who we caught in the act) - from Manor.
Lads who nicked another mates motorbike - from Manor
Different lads who nicked his bike again - from Manor
Junkie caught trying to break into a friends house - from Manor

I see a trend here....

(and no, not that people from Manor make rubbish criminals cause they keep getting caught:hihi: )

It's also like the time some little d@@k tried to take my ariel from my car late one night. The guys were trying to be all big playing their phones loadly which made me go to the window (shows how brainy they are, making all that noise prior to trying to rob my ariel). So, like I said I went to the window (you don't rest to easy when you live this close to the Manor) to see one of the kids, prob about 15 unscrewing my ariel. I open the window and shout to him for it to leave it alone so his mate breaks my window!

Now obviously the brave bunch run off, I get ready and head off in the direction I expected to find them. Keeping in mind they have a good head start I head towards the bridge that spans the Parkway and I see a lad and a lass and ask them if they had seen them knowing that they would have. They point me in the direction of the Parkway markets.

Now, these two were also from the Manor so I knew they were lying because their mouths were moving, so I ignored them and headed towards the Manor. And surprise that's where I found them. But by this time I was too tired to chase them when the ran off yet again.

Also, it was about 12:30 and it was like daylight with the amount of kids there, some looked about 4!!

i spent over 30 years on the manor and woodthorpe, i called back last week after 20 years,it looks all modern now,although i did notice a few gangs of kids but they were just hanging about as kids do.

the secret of living on an estate is to give as good as you get,dont poke your nose where its not wanted and you will be ok, of course the manor has always been a rough estate but to be fair its no worse than others,ive friends and reletives on there who wouldnt move away if you paid them,and not one of them has a police record,before any one thinks they are all criminals that live on these estates and look after each other.

if you are interested in renting the house go and view it,then go again at night and at the week ends and then you can make your mind up

I lived on the Manor for 19 years and never really had any trouble at all. The gangs that people keep chirping on about can be found on any large housing estate in the country. No matter where i am, i find a friendly "Hiya Chaps" as i'm walking through them generally gets a few "Alreight"s in return.

The Manor Fields (it'll never be deep pits to me :wink: ) provided 1000s hours exploration and fun for me and all my mates when we were younger.

Now the whole area seems to be looking better and better every time i go through it. Once the old properties have been knocked down it will look very nice indeed.
I also think people are getting a little confused with the boundaries of the Manor. Park Hill is a full estate away from the Manor. Only a small part of City Rd is classed as the Manor. I'm not 100% sure that Manor Park is still classed as the Manor and once you hit the Parkway you are certainly not on the Manor any more.



It seems the Manor is not that bad to live in - as all the scum go elswhere to commit their crimes.

Guy who broke into my mates car on West street (who we caught in the act) - from Manor.
Lads who nicked another mates motorbike - from Manor
Different lads who nicked his bike again - from Manor
Junkie caught trying to break into a friends house - from Manor

I see a trend here....

Why do i not believe that? :suspect:

Why do i not believe that? :suspect:

You need to take your blinkers off ;)


Its all true im afraid.

Im doing a bit of exploring on the Manor myself due to a suitable house having come up, in the new build part. I will be going there at different times of day and night to check it out. I suppose I ought to also check out the local shops too. Yes if I had the money and opportunity I would be looking elsewhere, but I dont. Who knows, it might be up and coming in years to come!

Its a bit disheartening though, when you drive round and see all the road signs broken off, so you dont quite know where you are. It reminded me of old WW2 films!

What sort of investment is taking place in terms of community and youth centres, amenities etc to go with the new houses?

I moved out off the fairleigh area back in March due to demolition of the houses there. I first lived there with my parents from about 1988 and it was fine, never had any trouble. When i was pregnant with my daughter (1996) i was offered a house on the exact same street and i accepted and i never had any trouble all the time i was there. I wouldnt say it was bad at all. I am now at Norfolk Park and its fine here too.:)

I'm not sure either if the Manor Park is part of the Manor, it's hard too tell where one start and the other finishes. If it's not part of the Manor then I know another area as bad as the Manor, Manor Park.

Could anyone tell me if the cemetary is part of the Manor only in Sept 05 my son put a birthday balloon on his nan's grave only for me and the wife to go there the next day to find some inbred had stolen it?

P.S

Don't get me wrong, I know it's the minority that are giving areas a bad name. I've lived on a few 'rough' ones and it's only the ones that give the area a rough name that seem to be noticed, not those that are trying their best to live a peaceful life.

I live on the manor park which is nicer than the manor but the only problems with manor overall is the groups that hang around on the streets but are you suprised there is nothing for them to do im only 15 myself but id much rather stay in my nice warm house than hang on the streets.They dont cause trouble very often from what ive seen is they will cause trouble if you go out nit pikin at them for pulling a leaf of your privet ect.....but i like it on manor park and lived here for all the 15years ive lived:)

If you start shouting and P***ing ppl off on the manor then u will probably not be liked there but if your a keep yourself to yourself type of person you'll get on fine.

There are much worst areas IMO.

No matter where i am, i find a friendly "Hiya Chaps" as i'm walking through them generally gets a few "Alreight"s in return.

You say "Hiya Chaps" and don't get beaten up? The Manor has improved!

im only 15 myself but id much rather stay in my nice warm house than hang on the streets

even with yer dad in the same house?


by the way does he get banned from the house as often as on here?

Well i spent 19 years on there without any trouble. Back in the day of Troggy walking round with his wheelbarrow.

There's an absolutely fantastic park being built on the area called Deep Pits, behind Fairleigh, and spreading out down the back of City Road. It features Sheffield's own Stonehenge, and the maddest railings you're likely to see. The new houses there will go for a bomb. Fairleigh also has a wildflower project that has transformed it and is unique in the world for the techniques used to create it - it has global visitors.


Could you describe exactly where this is please? (road names etc) I would be very interested to see it.

I'm not sure either if the Manor Park is part of the Manor, it's hard too tell where one start and the other finishes. If it's not part of the Manor then I know another area as bad as the Manor, Manor Park.

Could anyone tell me if the cemetary is part of the Manor only in Sept 05 my son put a birthday balloon on his nan's grave only for me and the wife to go there the next day to find some inbred had stolen it?

P.S

Don't get me wrong, I know it's the minority that are giving areas a bad name. I've lived on a few 'rough' ones and it's only the ones that give the area a rough name that seem to be noticed, not those that are trying their best to live a peaceful life.

The Cemetery probably covers Manor Park one side and Norfolk Park on the city road side. You also get scallys from Wybourn hanging around there, going through the Harwich road entrance.

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Originally Posted by cosywolf
“There's an absolutely fantastic park being built on the area called Deep Pits, behind Fairleigh, and spreading out down the back of City Road. It features Sheffield's own Stonehenge, and the maddest railings you're likely to see. The new houses there will go for a bomb. Fairleigh also has a wildflower project that has transformed it and is unique in the world for the techniques used to create it - it has global visitors”.

Perhaps they'll go for a bit more than other houses in that area, but the truth is people will only buy in the Manor area because they can't afford to buy somewhere nice.

No offence intended, I have relatives on the Manor and my grandparents lived there so I remember it as a kid, and even 30-40 years ago it was an utter toilet, but back then there were still some morals and social standards left over from the older generation. Now it's declined dreadfully, some parts of the Manor look worse than Beirut and the sort of people you see loitering on the corners look as though they’d be too rough to live on a gypsy site.

Some people may think it’s okay, but I guess it’s what you’re used to that sets your personal standards. To the majority of the local population the Manor is seen as being a real hell-hole where the council puts a lot of its ‘bad apples’ to keep them all together, rather than putting them on some of the nicer estates where there are more law-abiding respectable tenants.

The council estates used to be populated by a proud working class who kept their hedges trimmed and worked for a living. Increasingly now places like the Manor contain too many of an ever-growing social underclass of benefit-dependant parasites whose only effort to secure an income is through crime or black market labour.

That’s a great shame for the many respectable, working people who have to share these estates with them.

even with yer dad in the same house?


by the way does he get banned from the house as often as on here?

I have my own little house up here in my bedroom so theres no need to worry about my dad as hes more or less outside in the conservo

I wouldnt say he gets banned from the house.....we have a womens room and a mens room a great solution to all lifes problems:thumbsup:

Just seen this thread on The Manor. My son lives on the Manor, one daughter at Winn gardens and one daughter at Totley. We live just up from Firth Park. ALL these areas have their good and bad points. I was brought up on Manor Park when it was first built and went to Pipworth Rd school and my children were brought up here. Non of us thank goodness have ever suffered any ill doings by the so called "elements" except my daughter at Totley when her husband had his motor bike stolen from a secure lock up. It happens anywhere and doesn't make any estate a bad place to live. It's the odd people that get the bad name for the majority of law abiding citizens. Just don't let 'em win.

the problem is in the design. the rat-run style of these large estates lend themselves to crime unfortunately.

Non of us thank goodness have ever suffered any ill doings by the so called "elements" except my daughter at Totley when her husband had his motor bike stolen from a secure lock up. It happens anywhere and doesn't make any estate a bad place to live. It's the odd people that get the bad name for the majority of law abiding citizens. Just don't let 'em win.
Probably nicked by someone from the Manor :o

Sweeping generalisation, i know - but still quite plausible!

Probably nicked by someone from the Manor :o

Sweeping generalisation, i know - but still quite plausible!

Nah, its was someone up totley way from the naughty boys home, he caught them red handed :suspect:

Nothing wrong with the manor. I lived on the manor and so do my friends still and we have never had no trouble even now when i go visit. IMO i seen more of the nosey neighbours that get into fights just because can not keep noses out of one another busniess, If you keep yourself to yourself like i did for many years and dont poke your nose were it is not wanted then you be ok. As for crime it was not difernt to any other area i lived in.

2 all u manor slaters av a wander round pitsmoor n burngreave then voice ya opinions thats if ya not bin shot 1st

When I was visiting someones house on the Manor I was quite intrigued by the "Happy Shoppers" (as my hostess referred to them). I suppose its the local black economy. People who come door to door selling stuff - who knows where it came from. Ive led a bit of a sheltered life, and did question the source of the items, and wondered if a purchaser could get done for receiving stolen goods!

I'm sorry but after my experience last night i wouldn't want to live there.. i was driving home from work and took a wrong turning and ended up on a dead end road. As I was turning my car around a group of kids appeared out of nowhere and the next thing i saw is one of them running towards my car with a pole in his hand about to put it through my car window... I put my foot down and made a quick getaway..

what bothers me most is all the kids where about 5 years old, who and where do they get this kind of behaviour from they must have seen it done before by others to even think about doing it themselves...

2 all u manor slaters av a wander round pitsmoor n burngreave then voice ya opinions thats if ya not bin shot 1st


Well said lad...well said :thumbsup:

I'm sorry but after my experience last night i wouldn't want to live there.. i was driving home from work and took a wrong turning and ended up on a dead end road. As I was turning my car around a group of kids appeared out of nowhere and the next thing i saw is one of them running towards my car with a pole in his hand about to put it through my car window... I put my foot down and made a quick getaway..

what bothers me most is all the kids where about 5 years old, who and where do they get this kind of behaviour from they must have seen it done before by others to even think about doing it themselves...


Computer games init, i imagine them playin' gta an pretending to be all "gangsta"... one thing i do wish for, is for them to start playin manhunt...kidnap you, then stab you repetedly with an action man combat knife!! STOP SLATING THE MANOR FFS! :rant:

Manor is a lot worse than Pitsmoor imo, but I still dont think its bad.

Manor is a lot worse than Pitsmoor imo, but I still dont think its bad.


Bulls*hit, how many people get shot in pitsmoor compared to the manor????:loopy:

Manor is a lot worse than Pitsmoor imo, but I still dont think its bad.
Can't agree with you there Spyro me old mate. I would much rather be stuck on the Manor in the middle of the night rather than Pitsmoor.

Is this what we have come to ? People are competeing with each other to see who is the vilest?
This is Maggies 'classless society' writ large

Bulls*hit, how many people get shot in pitsmoor compared to the manor????:loopy:


You dont have to agree.

I live on the manor and it is bad, but I agree I would rather be left there in the middle of the night then be left at pitsmoor.

I live on the manor and it is bad, but I agree I would rather be left there in the middle of the night then be left at pitsmoor.

i agree too!

Well its not a competition is it. I personally think Pitsmoor is a lot better, but thats not really the point.

I dont think Manor is all that bad. I used to live on the Park Centre. Its not the best place in the world, but its got a non deserved repittion. It really isnt that bad.

Computer games init, i imagine them playin' gta an pretending to be all "gangsta"... one thing i do wish for, is for them to start playin manhunt...kidnap you, then stab you repetedly with an action man combat knife!! STOP SLATING THE MANOR FFS! :rant:


Scarby.. threatening comments like that are not called for if your from the Manor and thats the attitude you've got then that says it all..... nuff said.

Scarby.. threatening comments like that are not called for if your from the Manor and thats the attitude you've got then that says it all..... nuff said.
innit. :hihi:

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