Hi I am a 3rd year journalism student at the university of Sheffield and as part of my final year i have been given an area of the city to research and report about. My articles are not published but merely seen by my lecturer and marked.
If anyone has any concerns or problems or know of any current issues in the two areas i would be grateful if you could tell me about them.
also if you have anything you want to raise and talk about on the areas please feel free to moan at me!
thanks

Well there a lot of people living in what is properly Sharrow who claim to be residents of Nether Edge ;)

My girlfriend lives on the area (sharrow)and to be honest when I first started seeing her all I saw was tax dodging druggies now 5 months on nothings changed. I still see the same scum thats killing my Britain and it's not just white people but many races that are doing this.

Nether Edge is nice and if I wanted my life to be boring I would get a house-up there.

In my opion I thinks it's one of those amazing things when you can step over a line and you would be in heaven and step back you would be in hell.

You've probably got a great subject there and if you need anymore help let me know.

I have an issue - why is the upper part of Sheldon Rd without street lights at night - and is it in Nether Edge or in Sharrow ?

Originally posted by Patrick2000
I have an issue - why is the upper part of Sheldon Rd without street lights at night - and is it in Nether Edge or in Sharrow ?

Upper Sheldon Road is in Nether Edge, - the old house called Nether Edge which gave it's name to the area was just round the corner off Nether Edge Road. There were five 'Edge' properties, - Nether Edge, Edge End, Upper Edge, The Edge and Edge Bank.

Incidentally I was recently reading the blurb put out by the development company who are to build the new hotel complex adjacent to Bramall Lane football ground. In this they kept insisting the development was in Sharrow and how much it would benefit the community in Sharrow :confused: :loopy:

It's little wonder people get confused about Sheffield's districts.

Every year, Sharrow hosts the Sharrow festival. It's a brilliant community event which shows off a fantastically diverse range of arts, performances, etc. I have friends who live in Sharrow and love the area. The range of shops on Abbeydale and London Road is great, and there's a real buzz in the air. To call it 'hell' is preposterous.

Sorry, I know this might not be helping your research, but I felt I had to defend one of my favourite parts of Sheffield.

I've lived in the area pretty much all of my life. There is a real energy and community.

i lived on sharrow lane for two years whilst at uni, and i couldn't wait to leave.
we were burgled twice, had stones thrown at the house and car and even looked out the window one day to see five black lads stood around my car with one sat on the bonnet:rant: :loopy:
constantley groups of rude boys hanging around causing greif, you didn't feelk safe walking to the shop.

and appart from that its just a grim, run down place with alot of traffic passing through.

I live just off Sharrow Lane and have done for most of my life and what turbodan is saying sounds like a load of ****.

For anybody who lives in the local area Student houses are easy to spot( some are so easy the company shows you which are the student houses by their logo outside on the wall)
Landlords are the problem. Not Students and not the local people

I've lived in Sharrow for a year now, just off London Road. Before that, I'd lived off Sharrowvale Road, towards the Eccy Road end. It's not very far to move, but it's a completely different atmosphere.

I really like Sharrow - it feels a bit ghetto sometimes, sure, but that beats the ponciness of Eccy Road. RodimusPrime's right about the community events - the Sharrow Lantern Carnival is fantastic. And the choice of restaurants along London Road is great.

But the main issue that p---es me off is students, I'm afraid. You can tell as soon as they're back because of the amount of half-eaten junk food littering the streets. Walking home from work one evening last week, I was faced by a horde of noisy beery lads spilling out of one of the pubs on London Road, blocking the entire pavement and into the road. There was no way to get through and there was no apology or attempt to make way for me to get past. Then as I shouldered my way through, one of them started tugging on my hair! (OK, I've got quite a lot of it, but so what?) Another example - one Saturday morning, I leave home and go to the post office round the corner and what do I find? Some idiot - undoubtedly a student - has thrown up all over the cash machine! Sorry for the rant, but it really does annoy the hell out of me - if it was kids off some estate acting like this, they'd get ASBOs, but because students' anti-social behaviour "drives the city's booming economy", the rest of us just have to put up with it!

Rant over.

Turbodan - if it had been five white guys, you wouldn't have said 'white', would you? So mentioning it was five 'black' lads is plainly - if unconsciously - racist, no?

Meanwhile - Sharrow is the most amazing place. The festival and the lanterns thing are brilliant community events. And I think we have one of the most harmonious mixed communities anywhere - long time sheffield families, afro caribbean, pakistani, bangldeshi, chinese, polish, vietnamese, irish and students (from several other planets), dongas.

And London Road and its restaurants and shops is one of the best urban half-hour strolls in the world. Bit of a pity there's no street market on a sunday, though. What more can I say?

Originally posted by RodimusPrime
Every year, Sharrow hosts the Sharrow festival. It's a brilliant community event which shows off a fantastically diverse range of arts, performances, etc. I have friends who live in Sharrow and love the area. The range of shops on Abbeydale and London Road is great, and there's a real buzz in the air. To call it 'hell' is preposterous.

Sorry, I know this might not be helping your research, but I felt I had to defend one of my favourite parts of Sheffield.

I echo that - it's a wonderful place to live!!! So diverse and no snobbery at all

vibrancy, friendliness, diversity, neighbourliness, community spirit...

These are the words that come into my head first, when we talk about Sharrow and Nether Edge, not the negative.

I grew up in sharrow, in the 1970's. it was fantastic.

I moved back to sharrow in 1993, when i married my first hubby. (moved away for a time), then, in 2003, I moved back again, to the Psalter Lane end of Sharrow/ N-E.

Every time, I was fortunate to encounter this neighbourliness, community spirit, friendliness, etc. l

I have had lovely neighbours, of all races, colours and creeds, i absolutely love living round here, in fact, it is my intent that the next time i move (and i am only in my forties) the move will be "feet first" in a wooden box!

I love my little house, the street I am on; it's so convenient for town, and it's a safe, friendly area.

The one gripe I would have, is the brain-dead, inconsiderate idiots who get drunk, and leave their takeaway wrappers/ cartons all over london road.

PT

Originally posted by RodimusPrime
Sorry, I know this might not be helping your research, but I felt I had to defend one of my favourite parts of Sheffield.

I don't know much about Sharrow, but that's a cool username.

Is Galvatron still after you? It is 2005 this year after all ;)

Originally posted by Abdul
I don't know much about Sharrow, but that's a cool username.

Is Galvatron still after you? It is 2005 this year after all ;)

Galvatron can suck my metal plums.

It's wrong to suggest that Sharrow isn't facing a bit of a crime problem.

My car got bust into three times in one year.

I frequently got hassled by beggars, outside my own house! All of them white if anyone's interested?

I remember my next door neightbour got their window put through. Why? No idea. Neither did they.

I used to live just off Sharrowvale Rd. It was a bloody nightmare.

Now this was 3 years ago, so it may well have cleared up. To be honest it sounds like it has got even worse.

NM

Sharrow is turning rough.. I think there are loads of housing Assosciation plots there on Langdon Street and surrounding area's which isn't good. Shame because it used to be a really nice place!

Why they decide to put rough scrubbers who don't give a crap about anything or anybody else in a decent area is beyond me! Will they EVER learn???? :loopy:

I live in a housing assoc' property in this area, and I certainly am not a "Rough Scrubber" as you so touchingly put it, thank you.

I have friends and neighbours there, who also could not be described as such, or anything approaching "rough" or "Scrubber-y".

As I said before, I certainly would not want to live anywhere else.

PT

No offence intended Plain Talker. I'm sure your not rough or scrubbery!

What I'm trying to get across is that a lot of people who live in HA houses are bad sods who are being continually moved due to them being so!

Langdon and Wosternholm is turning into a Chav breeding ground!

Originally posted by tom_fordo
Turbodan - if it had been five white guys, you wouldn't have said 'white', would you? So mentioning it was five 'black' lads is plainly - if unconsciously - racist, no?

my god, i'm sure he didnt mean it in that sence......

I always though Sharrow/Nether Edge was nice? We considered one of these flats at the old Hospital, glad we didnt now :S

Nether Edge is beautiful! .. Sharrow isn't Nether Edge! It might be on the outskirts of Nether Edge but Nether Edge it certainly isn't!

The bottom end of Sharrow/Abbeydale has turned into a slum! - Reminds me of Firth Park, Brightside and Attercliffe all mixed together...

Originally posted by Space
Nether Edge is beautiful!

The bottom end of Sharrow/Abbeydale has turned into a slum! - Reminds me of Firth Park, Brightside and Attercliffe!

My parents stayed in the Marriot a few months back, it was so Nice round that area!!!

Like you said pitty about the surrounding areas!!!

lived in sharrow for 15 years have hated it. now i love it, its on the up, diverse, mainly freindly, sometimes a little edgy, which is good, and above all real. if you dont feel it you aint trying hard enough.:D

Originally posted by Space
Nether Edge is beautiful! .. Sharrow isn't Nether Edge! It might be on the outskirts of Nether Edge but Nether Edge it certainly isn't!

The bottom end of Sharrow/Abbeydale has turned into a slum! - Reminds me of Firth Park, Brightside and Attercliffe all mixed together...

Having lived in Sharrow and then recently moved to Nether Edge, I can honestly say I prefered Sharrow. Sharrow had far more of a community feel to it. I got to know my neighbours when in sharrow and got to know what was going on (events etc). In Nether Edge, everyone stays behind closed doors, nobody seems to talk to each other.

Big-up Sharrow