Just wondering if anyone knew why none of the TV channels ever show repeats of the Life of Grime that was filmed in Sheffield.

They repeat the other cities over and over again, but never Sheffield.

I didn't really watch it that much when it was originally on and would love to see it again.

Thought maybe it had been subject to some legal action and that's why they won't repeat.

Originally posted by keithmdw
Just wondering if anyone knew why none of the TV channels ever show repeats of the Life of Grime that was filmed in Sheffield.

They repeat the other cities over and over again, but never Sheffield.

I didn't really watch it that much when it was originally on and would love to see it again.

Thought maybe it had been subject to some legal action and that's why they won't repeat.

There were several complaints I think, from people who thought it was portraying Sheffield as being a particularly dirty city. In my opinion that was never the intention of the programme.

There's the programme about S Yorkshire traffic police, but then it is an established fact that S Yorkshire is a very bad area for car crime, so you can't really complain about that!

They may not show repeats of Life of grime in Sheffield, but watch out for the one in I believe it was Salford.This is where a dog catcher can't trap an errant dog and calls out his female supervisor who does it immediatly.
The dog catcher is a grammar school educated true Manor lad Kevin Robinson

Maybe you could try the BBC website for information?

I'll never forget the time they showed the episode about the three generations of women living together in Commonside. I was settling down to watch when (the late, great) John Peel's dulcet tones came out with,

'And here we are at number *, **** *** Road'

Nearly spat out my tea - it was only the house opposite ours!

Basically there was the elderly grandma, the daughter and the granddaughter (adult, not a child) all living together in the most vile pit you could imagine. Lord knows how many cats, cat poo everywhere (indoors), layers and layers of carpet covering up the filth - more filth on top of that. Rotting food everywhere. Poor things, they weren't capable of looking after themselves really, it was a shame it had got to that stage. I don't know how they could avoid food poisoning!

The thing is, the house from the outside looked completely normal, we didn't know a thing! Well, apart from when you'd be in the living room, watching TV or reading. Every now and then you'd look up from what you were doing only to be confronted by a face gazing in at you from about 3 fett away, pressed right up to your window (the house fronted straight onto the pavement). They were a startling looking trio, I can tell you, in a wild-eyed-bag-lady kind of way, but I'd never have suspected what was going on indoors.

Does anyone else remember this episode? Does anyone know where they ended up? By the time the show was aired I think they had been evicted and I've often wondered what happened to them (and what kind of state their new accommodation is in!).

I'm sure there have been repeats on one of the sky channels as I know I have seen the episode with the elderly woman who loved animals and lived just off Wordsworth Avenue.
I would say I know Sheffield reasonably well but a programme like that certainly showed me bits I didn't even think could exist.

Originally posted by Olive
Maybe you could try the BBC website for information?

I'll never forget the time they showed the episode about the three generations of women living together in Commonside. I was settling down to watch when (the late, great) John Peel's dulcet tones came out with,

'And here we are at number *, **** *** Road'

Nearly spat out my tea - it was only the house opposite ours!

Basically there was the elderly grandma, the daughter and the granddaughter (adult, not a child) all living together in the most vile pit you could imagine. Lord knows how many cats, cat poo everywhere (indoors), layers and layers of carpet covering up the filth - more filth on top of that. Rotting food everywhere. Poor things, they weren't capable of looking after themselves really, it was a shame it had got to that stage. I don't know how they could avoid food poisoning!

The thing is, the house from the outside looked completely normal, we didn't know a thing! Well, apart from when you'd be in the living room, watching TV or reading. Every now and then you'd look up from what you were doing only to be confronted by a face gazing in at you from about 3 fett away, pressed right up to your window (the house fronted straight onto the pavement). They were a startling looking trio, I can tell you, in a wild-eyed-bag-lady kind of way, but I'd never have suspected what was going on indoors.

Does anyone else remember this episode? Does anyone know where they ended up? By the time the show was aired I think they had been evicted and I've often wondered what happened to them (and what kind of state their new accommodation is in!).

yeah i saw that episode, awful it was, i felt very sorry for the family & often wondered how they could live in that mess.

I remember the one at Heeley and that was scary... the house looks just the same too...

I would be interested in this too... though many made me glad to be a Veggie on the Wicker!

[ know I have seen the episode with the elderly woman who loved animals and lived just off Wordsworth Avenue.


Wasn't that the one where she bought some fish'n'chips for lunch, put them down to open the door and one of her cats ate them?

Also one episode about a man who was rehomed and the council organised new kitchen equipment/furniture etc.. although very touching doubtful the council do this for all. Bit hammed up for the cameras?

Originally posted by Olive
Maybe you could try the BBC website for information?

I'll never forget the time they showed the episode about the three generations of women living together in Commonside. I was settling down to watch when (the late, great) John Peel's dulcet tones came out with,

'And here we are at number *, **** *** Road'

Nearly spat out my tea - it was only the house opposite ours!

Basically there was the elderly grandma, the daughter and the granddaughter (adult, not a child) all living together in the most vile pit you could imagine. Lord knows how many cats, cat poo everywhere (indoors), layers and layers of carpet covering up the filth - more filth on top of that. Rotting food everywhere. Poor things, they weren't capable of looking after themselves really, it was a shame it had got to that stage. I don't know how they could avoid food poisoning!

The thing is, the house from the outside looked completely normal, we didn't know a thing! Well, apart from when you'd be in the living room, watching TV or reading. Every now and then you'd look up from what you were doing only to be confronted by a face gazing in at you from about 3 fett away, pressed right up to your window (the house fronted straight onto the pavement). They were a startling looking trio, I can tell you, in a wild-eyed-bag-lady kind of way, but I'd never have suspected what was going on indoors.


The daughter was in the year below me at Western Road School….so that would make her 46 now…..during playtime she would stand on a manhole cover and never move until the bell/whistle went for us to return to lessons. In the mid 70’s she used to wear knee length boots, leather jacket and Alice Cooper style make-up. I think she was one of the first Goth types in Sheffield.

I enjoyed the programmes shot in Sheffield but share people's indignation that it portrayed Sheffield as being incredibly filthy. It's no different from any other large city.

It's worth repeating just to listen to the late, great John Peel.

The problem I have with the programme is that every time I hear Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World - once, one of my favourite songs - instead of seeing 'skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day and the dark, sacred night' I no longer think: What a wonderful world.

All I can see is dead rats, flies in dead people's flats, strange coloured body fluids and Mr Trebus trampling over the contents of his garden!!

Can anyone remeber the guy called Geoff who was featured in the Sheffield programmes? He lived in a wreck of a house somewhere at the bottom of Walkley/Upperthorpe. His house was full, floor to ceiling with bags of rubbish and eventually he was evicted. The last shot was of him telling the council/police to F**k off as he walked away down the road with his carrier bags full of 'stuff'.

Well he now hangs around in Hillsborough Shopping Centre (still with his carrier bags full of 'stuff') and is a really nice bloke. We talk to him all the times and he really is a lovely person. He's always giving my kids stuff that he has found or that other people give him.

Whilst I understand the need to evict him, I can't help but feel sorry for him as he obviously has some kind of OCD/hoarding problem.

Maybe more help should be on offer to people with obvious problems like the ones featured on Life of Grime. But then again, they have to WANT to be helped.

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Can anyone remeber the guy called Geoff who was featured in the Sheffield programmes? He lived in a wreck of a house somewhere at the bottom of Walkley/Upperthorpe. His house was full, floor to ceiling with bags of rubbish and eventually he was evicted. The last shot was of him telling the council/police to F**k off as he walked away down the road with his carrier bags full of 'stuff'.

Well he now hangs around in Hillsborough Shopping Centre (still with his carrier bags full of 'stuff') and is a really nice bloke. We talk to him all the times and he really is a lovely person. He's always giving my kids stuff that he has found or that other people give him.

Whilst I understand the need to evict him, I can't help but feel sorry for him as he obviously has some kind of OCD/hoarding problem.

Maybe more help should be on offer to people with obvious problems like the ones featured on Life of Grime. But then again, they have to WANT to be helped.
I used to see him going in the phone boxes near the crucible a year or so after the program was on tv, had loads of supermarket carriers in his hands then.