Looks like I might found a house in Tinsley. Anyone know what the area is like? Close to Meadowhall I believe. I'm visiting there tomorrow, but I'm just really impatient.

Tinsley is very close to Meadowhall and has a very good community sprit

It's close to the M1 as well. Could be a + or a -, a convenience or too noisy! Good luck with the house hunting. We laid our nightmare to rest last September. Boxes everywhere. Never did find the budgie!

Originally posted by mouse
It's close to the M1 as well. Could be a + or a -, a convenience or too noisy! Good luck with the house hunting. We laid our nightmare to rest last September. Boxes everywhere. Never did find the budgie!
Maybe your cat ate it!

Now that would have been a long distance takeaway, she was in Elm Lane fire station at the time as the picket line stray, however.....and I'm sure there is one box still in the shed marked "Billy".

Originally posted by Darkness
Looks like I might found a house in Tinsley. Anyone know what the area is like? Close to Meadowhall I believe. I'm visiting there tomorrow, but I'm just really impatient.

Erm, Tinsley is OK so long as you don't mind run down houses and a very large.....shall we say, ethnic, community. Not to mention the M1 being right next to you and the high crime. Good luck.

Tinsley is fine aslong as you don't mind being racially abused by the majority asian population.

My grandparents lived there and had to move due to the racial abuse they received, the racial abuse was directed at them because they are English, I don't know, being English and living in England, the cheek of it!

Don't do it ..... nuff said I thinks

Lived in Tinsley until 1983, my parents moved as it was going downhill even then. I think they sold the house for £14K, and that same house now would probably only fetch £22K.

Sometimes drive through on way to meadowhall and it's not a nice place.

There's also lots of presssure from residents about pollution. Proximity to M1 has resulted in very high levels of asthma and other respiratory problems.

Stay away!!!

Not to mention Blackburn Meadows OOhh the pong in a morning when you're taking the kids to school. I moved to Darnall to a house with a roof that leaked in about 20 places just to get away.

I'm disgusted by all these negative comments about Tinsley.
It's got fantastic transport links (M1 motorway, regular bus routes, Meadowhall train station, a canal and airport (well, it did until recently!)
You can walk to Meadowhall (shoppers paradise), Centertainment (Cinema, restaraunts and bars), Ice rinks, Sheffield Arena (major concerts), Magna (acclaimed science adventure centre), and more!
As for the racist comments aired, it may be true that Tinsley isn't a place for racists, but that's a good thing! There's a great community spirit and most people are very friendly to all.

Why do you need all these means out of Tinsley if it is such a great place? You are right though. There is plenty to do of an evening and Meadowhell if you fancy a nightmare shopping expedition. Just not the most salubrious part of town is all.

Originally posted by mslotus
Not to mention Blackburn Meadows OOhh the pong in a morning when you're taking the kids to school. I moved to Darnall to a house with a roof that leaked in about 20 places just to get away.

Let me guess, you have the same rachman landlord as my OH had...? (poor B-in-law is still there...)

(This ratbag my OH rented from took five years + to repair a hole in the roof, but the bedroom is still unuseable, and there's a boarded up window pane that still hasn't been replaced after a burgulary in 99/2000)

It's a pity some of these ratbags couldn't be as quick and as keen on doing the repairs as they are on snatching the rent out of our hands!

I am very grateful to my landlord, a Housing Association; they are very keen on getting the repairs done, as fast as possible. I mean, on tuesday, at 12.00 midday, I reported a pair of doors in my property which were sticking. On friday afternoon, at 1pm, a carpenter was at my door, and the job was done! I can't fault them!

Plain talker

Like most areas there are good and bad bits. But I think there must be a reason why houses are going for less than 30k!

Lived on Newburn drive, 50 yards from `on slip` to M1. Atrics thundering up the ramp doesn`t bother you much after a while. Some young Asians nearby were friendly to us, but we were frowned on I think.
Think carefully!"

I wouldn't do it. My nan lives there. Despite the speed bumps, car speed around the area & the roads can be blocked by two drivers having a chat in the middle of the road :loopy:

Apparently the new housing estate near the church is quite nice but you are close to a very busy main road.

Community spirit? U joking?

Ask why the local Co-Op was forced to close

Originally posted by jessycar
...the roads can be blocked by two drivers having a chat in the middle of the road :loopy:

Oh but that can happen anywhere where Asians or chavs congregate :roll:

Looks like four years of lines about Tinsley have disappeared. Tinsley has its own website www.sheffield9.net which is authored by local residents and not any council or paid body trying to hype the place.

It is probably one of the safest and quietest areas of Sheffield with very low house prices and excellent services close to Meadowhall the interchange and the M1. You can get to Leeds or Nottingham or Manchester in 1 hour
The area does suffer from polution by noise, deisel fumes, Blackburn Meadows and more recently sterecycle on Sheffield Road.

Some of the film "Amongst Giants" which had Pete Postlethwaite in it was filmed in the pub on the main road Fox and Duck i think,

Tinsley is only a small area of Sheffield. Asians are likely experience racial abuse in a number of areas in Sheffield but I doubt the white majority of the city even knows or cares about this.

Tinsley is only a small area of Sheffield. Asians are likely experience racial abuse in a number of areas in Sheffield but I doubt the white majority of the city even knows or cares about this.

Tinsley isnt the only area the asians have swarmed on. Just look at what happened to Fir Vale and look at what is happening to Nether Edge/Abbeydale. Dont go to Tinsley you will regret it.

Lived in Tinsley until 1983, my parents moved as it was going downhill even then. I think they sold the house for £14K, and that same house now would probably only fetch £22K.

Sometimes drive through on way to meadowhall and it's not a nice place.

There's also lots of presssure from residents about pollution. Proximity to M1 has resulted in very high levels of asthma and other respiratory problems.

Stay away!!! Hey Blondee I lived in tinsley on noborough rd for 78' - 83' n was wondering if we knew each other. Or if anyone out there remembers my family the Ibbotson's get in touch. xx

When boundaries were last revised, why did no-one notice the M1 and decide that Tinsley should now be part of Rotherham?

St Laurence's Glebe is nice.

Tinsley isnt the only area the asians have swarmed on. Just look at what happened to Fir Vale and look at what is happening to Nether Edge/Abbeydale. Dont go to Tinsley you will regret it.

what do you mean by swarmed on? :loopy:

Tinsley is only a small area of Sheffield. Asians are likely experience racial abuse in a number of areas in Sheffield but I doubt the white majority of the city even knows or cares about this.

There are some areas in Sheffield where the white people racially abuse people. :rolleyes:

what do you mean by swarmed on? :loopy:

It changed from a majority white area to a majority ethnic area in a very short space of time.

People like to live around other people similar to themselves.

Like any place you get out what you put in. The local website for Tinsley (http://www.sheffield9.net) sheffield9.net has some great info about the place.

The houses will stay and people will move on, it is a very fluid area with alot of rented property. This works well for casual workers from everywhere who work in the manufacturing and distribution businesses.

I would vote Tinsley as the most cosmopolitan town in Sheffield

It's grotty and thats fro someone who lives in Burngreave!

It was also one of the worst places for air quality, I guess partly due to the M1.

was born on ferrars road in 1963, lived at 232, mi mums name was Judy and mi dad was Fred, one sister younger called Dawn..... Used to know a family at top of ferrars, their surname was 'kemp', 3 kids one lad my age and two younger sisters, great family i can remember, sure they were called vi and alex he was polish i remember he was really nice to me as a kid and knitted for england makin mi jumpers, cool guy he was and we loved going to their house. to hang out wi their kids and get into sum rite **** together.....mum had lots of mates on highgate, dad was always wasted in the pike and heron that i see crystal clear and the pub on sheff rd bottom of ferrars!!! lol i recall. mi mum walking down to drag him home and seemed forever walking back home!!.... next time i went back to that same road again i lived at 232, i was married with young kids and was to visit my work collegue who had just married and bought a house and off all the ones it was nxt door to my old one at number 232.....how.spooky is that?? weird de ja vu innit? this was the early 80's and i was 20 yr old with a baby myself..... and mi friends name was janis, and was married to jeff, they had 3 boys junade cameron and zeeshaan, also i got really friendly with janis's good mate who lived on highgate sure it was 36, she was married and had 5 gorgous kids, lost touch for a while and then I heard some tragic news that she had a big house fire and had lost 2 of her young children as a result!!! im sure her name was trina or tina? and due to life changes and progress we all moved our own way and did our own thing and lost touch as people tend to do, and have not heard a peep out of where or what they are doing now as its soon crept up over 20 yrs ago since the good old flared hipster 80's, .....can anyone relate to any of the memories or any of the people i have mentioned......

was born on ferrars road in 1963, lived at 232, mi mums name was Judy and mi dad was Fred, one sister younger called Dawn..... Used to know a family at top of ferrars, surname 'kemp', 3 kids one lad my age and two younger sisters, great family i can remember sure they were called vi and alex he was polish i remember that, loved going to their house....friends on highgate, dad was always wasted in the pike and heron i recall..... next time i went back to the same house i lived in at 230, i was married with young kids and was to visit my work collegue who had moved into the house nxt door at 232......spooky innit? she lived there in the 80's and was called janis, married to jeff, and 3 boys junade cameron and zeeshaan, also friendly with her friend on highgate, and I heard some news of a massive house fire and lost some of her children, sure her name was trina or tina? and i havent seen either friends for years since the 80's, can anyone relate to any of the memories i have wrote............

If you are looking for information about any area of Sheffield from years ago, you may be better starting a thread in the Sheffield History and Ex-pats section, here: http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Tinsley isnt the only area the asians have swarmed on. Just look at what happened to Fir Vale and look at what is happening to Nether Edge/Abbeydale. Dont go to Tinsley you will regret it.



I bet you would say its been swarmed on by the kosvans,polish and slovaks too.Tinsley is culturally diverse and theres nothing wrong with living here to say the least.

People like to live around other people similar to themselves.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that

I couldn't care less what colour someones skin colour is. If they are nice people they are nice people. If they are an idiot they are an idiot.

I would rather live next do a 'normal' asian person than a racist white one

errrrr, chatsworth! lol, like any other place, good and bad everywhere, unless you can afford an area like fulwood and sandygate, if ya get on passing the time of day with ya neigbours, dont get too cozy living in and out of neighbours doors and nod and smile when and if ya have to, then all areas are ok, ive seen worse, alot worse than tinsley, and does it matter what colour people are because most of the comments on tinsley are refereing to swarms of asians, no wonder there is race problems, just get on ok wi everyone and they will do the same... god, let this asian white thing go its boring and the kids are more adapt than adults at most times..... so what get over it,

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that

I couldn't care less what colour someones skin colour is. If they are nice people they are nice people. If they are an idiot they are an idiot.

I would rather live next do a 'normal' asian person than a racist white one

As a non-racist, you'd rather live next to a non-racist?

Lived in Tinsley until 1983, my parents moved as it was going downhill even then. I think they sold the house for £14K, and that same house now would probably only fetch £22K.

Sometimes drive through on way to meadowhall and it's not a nice place.

There's also lots of presssure from residents about pollution. Proximity to M1 has resulted in very high levels of asthma and other respiratory problems.

Stay away!!!

Was it a garage they lived in as houses are going for 124,000 - 130,000 but that is the top end of tinsley and it's very nice thankyou apart from some minor problems like anywhere else

(TREAT EVERYONE HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED YOURSELF)

i'm disgusted by all these negative comments about tinsley.
It's got fantastic transport links (m1 motorway, regular bus routes, meadowhall train station, a canal and airport (well, it did until recently!)
you can walk to meadowhall (shoppers paradise), centertainment (cinema, restaraunts and bars), ice rinks, sheffield arena (major concerts), magna (acclaimed science adventure centre), and more!
As for the racist comments aired, it may be true that tinsley isn't a place for racists, but that's a good thing! There's a great community spirit and most people are very friendly to all.

couldn't agree more well said