Did anyone see this other night? I didn't see it personally but I have heard a few tales about it, can someone give me some more details please?

I don't normally watch things like that, because they only tell me things that I'd rather not know.

Life of Grime: A show about binmen, cleaners, and people who work in the morturay. The most disgusting part was a flat, which the council were clearing out and amongst the ankle-deep rubbish they found human feces, old food and newspapers dating back to 1989. They refurbished the flat and re-let it. I hope the people who moved in weren't watching Life of Grime!

I seem to recall that a previous series of Life of Grime, or somthing similar, was filmed in Sheffield, probably about 3 or 4 years ago.

Does anyone remember, or did I dream it?

Originally posted by "Andy"

I seem to recall that a previous series of Life of Grime, or somthing similar, was filmed in Sheffield, probably about 3 or 4 years ago.
Does anyone remember, or did I dream it?
I think this program had a profound (if short lived) effect on the Council's cleaning policies. I remember reading about the chaos it caused as they scrambled to try and counter the program's claims. To be honest, I think it's time we invited the BBC back for a new series...

I remember Life of Grime on the streets of Sheffield. It showed a few curry houses and an old man's house up Crookes/Walkley. He had rubbish dating back to who knows when, loads of it. Strange - couldnt live in muck like that myself.

Very good serious. It usually repeats - keep an eye out, it may be on BBC choice.

Originally posted by "Shocker"

I remember Life of Grime on the streets of Sheffield. It showed a few curry houses and an old man's house up Crookes/Walkley. He had rubbish dating back to who knows when, loads of it. Strange - couldnt live in muck like that myself.

Very good serious. It usually repeats - keep an eye out, it may be on BBC choice.

Someone has told me that the other nights program featured a returant where there was cock roaches crawling all over the kitchen, apparently the place was cloed down and the owner ordered to clean the place up....after this the resturant was allowed to re-open. If this is the case then I think the place should have been shut down end of story.

i remember a certain one on the wicker was on once, i aint sure of the name but i think thats a good thing as i dont wanna turn any stomachs of anyone whos eaten there YUM! YUM!

RIP Mr Trebus :( :( :(

Didn't he pass away a few years' ago, a few months' after (or it may have been a year or so after) he was moved into the home? I seem to remember watching the tribute programme a year or so ago.

I watch this and it tends to feature Bristol, London and Salford, didn't know it was ever filmed in sheffield though....

The episodes in New York are realy good too, the rat catchers are so funny.

Weren't there several episodes filmed in Sheffield that fearured a house being lived in by an old lady by the side of Longley Park - Crowder Avenue I think - which was overrun with cats. The dog warden was featured heavily as well.

I watch this and it tends to feature Bristol, London and Salford, didn't know it was ever filmed in sheffield though....
Weren't the first two seasons of it filmed in Sheffield??? At least the first was I would think. I think it moved on as the council realised it was giving Sheffield a bad name so refused filming rights. Despite the constant riders from John Peel stating that Sheffield is one of the cleanest cities in England, everyone who watched it thought Sheffield was filthy.

My mum knew someone who was on it, the woman who trained to be a mortician.

:'( Mr Trebus R.I.P

"I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world."

RIP John Peel as well :thumbsup:

Weren't the first two seasons of it filmed in Sheffield??? At least the first was I would think. I think it moved on as the council realised it was giving Sheffield a bad name so refused filming rights. Despite the constant riders from John Peel stating that Sheffield is one of the cleanest cities in England, everyone who watched it thought Sheffield was filthy.

My mum knew someone who was on it, the woman who trained to be a mortician.
No the initial series was to have bben filmed in Sheffield by the shows creator but the head honcho at SCC said no.
But after they saw the rushes of the Harringay CC they then said yes.
When they saw the results of Sheffield, they were quite pleased but stressed to say that similar situations like these happen all over the country in all cities and towns, which: if you have seen all the LOG series, is absolutely TRUE!!
I was in the Sheffield episodes and have worked in other cities; and its a case of what you do not see, you do not know.
There are thousands of filthy properties all over the country and in some of them the occupants are quite happy to live the way they do.
They may appear to you to be spotless and clean but what are they hiding once they get home??.....in a truth nobody knows.
LOG just highlights what is out there in all areas of life

Anyone remember the episode in the Sheffield series where a man and his son had kept all their bodily waste? They went into the house and it was full of two litre bottles of wee, carrier bags full of poo, and the toilet had blocked so bad, that there had been a river of turds running down the stairs and it was all caked on permanently. They had to remove the stairs and bathroom and everything. You never got to see the outside of the house (a nice modern council house), so I presume that they could renovate it and let it out again.

And the family of women who never cleaned up? That was in an ordinary terraced house, looked like Crookes or Walkley.

RIP John Peel as well :thumbsup:

When did he die?

My friend bought one of the houses in Walkley, a couple of years after it had been done up - was a really lovely house, she quite liked the notoreity.