For ex-pats and those people who don't live in Sheffield anymore, what do you miss most about it, if anything?

For those of you that still live there, what do you think you'd miss most about it if you left?

For me, it's the people, pubs and curry.:D

being this near the peaks, but yet still in a city. the hills! (and I'm not joking), the pubs - especially sandwiches after pub quizzes, never experienced this anywhere else

Moved to ex pats/history section.

As an ex-pat living in Scarborough, I don't miss the city (or any city for that matter) but the greatest thing about Sheffield is the people, Sheffield people are thr friendliest in the country.

i would miss the quaint yorkshire accent and the people that hassle me for money on a daily basis, also the cheap drink prices!

Tomato sausage..Relish..Stones beer...and Firth Park WMC blackpudding and tripe..and Saturday Night dancing at The City Hall to the Bernard Taylor band...am I showing my age???.

The Hen & Chickens pub:loopy: ,Cairo Jacks, Meadowhall (the metro centre is rubbish), the big city lights, BLACK CABS.

When I did leave Sheffield I missed my family, the shops and the accent.

Abbeyfield Park

I miss fish n' chip shops and decent pubs. I miss a good cuppa tea with digestive biscuits. I have a stash of Branston pickle so I'm okay for now. I miss family and friends of course. They don't make friends like that over here.

Funke,
I'm in Florida too.
I feel your pain!!!:D

Originally posted by MissEllie
Funke,
I'm in Florida too.
I feel your pain!!!:D
I feel your pain... in florida.... you condasending mutha [insert expletives]:D

I miss the hills and views around the city, The dee dah dialect,

the Sheffield Star ( better than any New Zealand national or local

paper (nicknamed here-The Two Minutes Silence), definitely the

beer and the local radio.

you condasending mutha [insert expletives]

:blush: sorry, didn't mean to be!!

I'll rephrase it. Funke: I know exactly what you mean.:D

i miss henderson relish, going to the chippy and getting a fishcake, not a risole like they serve down here, a decent radio station, the accent, and my football team

I would miss re-living my memories, the people, our sayings, our history, living nr the peak, yorkshire way of life. "Long live Sheffield!!!" :thumbsup:

neighbours, hills, views, parks, pubs,

What I miss now I am living in Sheff...

The Sea :(

Originally posted by teebee
i miss henderson relish, going to the chippy and getting a fishcake, not a risole like they serve down here, a decent radio station, the accent, and my football team

Spot on. Well at least with relish and a proper fishcake. For me, a pie wasn't complete without a generous splash of Hendersons. I also miss my favourite supper, a fish 'n' a cake. What about the mushy peas? The chip shops where I now live don't sell 'em. The tinned stuff is not quite the same. But most of all, I miss a decent pint.

Fishcakes, friendly people (took me years and almost turning into an alky to get to know people down here) and football. Hopping onto a bus, knowing if you miss one there'll be another one fairly soon (hopefully anyway). Opening the pub door and pushing everyone back in as they fall out, before squeezing into a gap yourself

definitely the people.

You can strike a conversation with any body you meet,
...on the bus
....in the park
'''in a shop queue
and you won;t be looked at as weird or a perv..

its just a friendly place to be

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
What I miss now I am living in Sheff...

The Sea :(
Oh amen to that one... but still I love the people here.. ask the time and they give you a smile and offer a quick chat here.. (well most people anyways)...

So, totally unlike London... :thumbsup:

Family, friends, Rebels (Dixon Lane) and Rock Night at Roxy (although they shut down when I was still in Sheffield), Castleton, good fish and chips, my mum's Yorkshire Pudding.

Originally posted by headup
Family, friends, Rebels (Dixon Lane) and Rock Night at Roxy (although they shut down when I was still in Sheffield), Castleton, good fish and chips, my mum's Yorkshire Pudding.

God yes! My mum's YP unequalled to this day, although I've tried. .... and Castleton. We used to catch a train at Heeley and go to someplace or other (going through Totley Tunnel was the best), then walk on to Castleton. Mum was in her late forties by then, but she was an Olympian walker (you had to be, didn't you?).

I remember a little shop or other stuffed with relics and Blue John. The flies in amber still haunt me to this day.

We used to climb the sides of Winnats Pass and stuff our pockets with scraps of Blue John until we got to the top, where the wind was so strong we could lean on it and not fall over, and way over there was Mam Tor, and looking over it all was Peverell Castle.

.....at least, that's how I remember it....

....and while we're at it, what I wouldn't give for a slice of Hovis smothered in dripping right now!

Originally posted by Chris Shaw

....and while we're at it, what I wouldn't give for a slice of Hovis smothered in dripping right now!

LOL - Dripping. That stuff's probably illegal nowadays. Pure fat. Yummeh! I was always disturbed by the brown stuff that accumulated under the white layer on the top.

yep, I have missed many things.
in my childhood when in sheffield in winter i dug out real snow & slush off the pavement, so we could walk a bit safer but by far it was snow ball fights that i enjoyed
in autumn collecting conkers but the game iwas not good at.
summer rolling down hill in longley park and making daisy chains
while gassing about not much

I'd miss the gaping potholes,
the litter at my feet.
I'd miss the constant struggle,
as ice, takes hold my street.

I'd miss the dear sweet children,
lobbing stones at my front door,
I'd yearn for sleeping policemen,
scraping my car floor.

I'd miss the empty dwellings,
and phone lines up above,
but, most of all, I think I'd miss,

THIS CITY, THAT I LOVE.

i used 2 live in sheffield when i was a kid i used 2 love potted beef and henderson rellish i would not reconise the place now

Where are you based now?
Why'd you leave? And when?

Originally posted by margy100
i used 2 live in sheffield when i was a kid i used 2 love potted beef and henderson rellish i would not reconise the place now

Would you like me to send you some??

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I left and came back.
I missed family and friends, I missed knowing the place I lived, down to the smallest alleyway and twist or turn.

Now I can miss the friends I left in other places, I should try to be better at staying in touch,

Friendly people.
Beer (with a head on it).
Henderson's Relish.
Fishcakes.
anything up to 40 to 50,000 people turning up on a regular basis to watch two pretty poor footy teams.
Gloriously miserable old folk LOL
How we never quite get things right.
Potted Dog on a doorstep.
Good cup of tea.

But I'm not planning on moving just yet.

Live music in real pubs. :headbang:
Fish and chips open walking home from the pub. with loads of vinegar on:nod:

Albatross
Hope this doesn't depress you too much------but I think these days you'd be very lucky to find a pub with live music and a decent fish and chip shop within walking distance of your home.!
As an ex-pat , myself , I can hazard a guess as to what a lot of us miss but I'm afraid Sheffield's changed a lot these past few years. I miss not being able to buy a good , informative newspaper but I guess , at least , you can STILL do that in Sheffield these days----at least I hope so !

I happen to know of 2 or 3 in Sheffield at the moment where you can see live music and the closet chip shop too.

Nothing much eccept proper fish cakes! least of all the weather lol :bigsmile:

I miss helpful shopworkers or at the very least a smiley, friendly one!

Threads merged.

What I miss most of all is the experience of going into a pub, thick with smoke, solid with people, loud conversation, Dinah Washington on the juke box, or Billy Eckstine, or Nat Cole, all along with a carcase full of good beer, and knowing full well at the back of your mind that another pint will see you well out of it. E.G. The 'Cricketers' on Division Street or the 'Lion' back of the City Hall, circa 1955, never ever been bettered.

Im like peterdo miss the fish cakes and the relatives i haven’t seen for a long time.

Roe fish they do not know what it is in breadcake land & Heeley & my old mates who i don't think own a comp or have heard of the forum, also relish but our local shop has recently started to sell it so I don't have to get relatives to get me some from Sheffield.

I miss my family, friends and people in general. I do miss a good cup of tea, chocolate and good fish and chips.
Hey Funkee 88 I'm in Florida too, Do you have Publix Grocery stores up in Pensicola, they now carry a British food section including Digestive biscuits, Hobb Knobs and chocolate.
How did you fair in the Hurricanes last year, I'm in Lake Worth, we got hit by two in 3 weeks I was ready to move back to the UK, but I would miss the warmth. Michelle

For me it has to be Henderson's relish, proper bread cakes and Wards beer.

I was so glad to go, yet now Ifind myself looking back with so much fondness. Most of what I miss has been separated from me by time though, not distance...

I miss the Wap, The Drop (at the City Hall Ballroom) and later the Corporation, live music at the Hallamshire, going to Everest for a curry, the whole Devonshire Green area before it became uber-trendy, stumbling home at night down streets so familiar that no amount of booze could make you go astray, having to hide in public places to avoid running into past loves, and the most loyal and caring group of friends in the world. All my college days and time spent biding my time on the dole line... dark days, though never to be forgotten. Back in those days it was like every day was an episode of Spaced...

I'd love to go back and visit (I'd kill for a time machine to do it all over again too), but I guess I'm afraid of how much will have changed. Perhaps the memories will have to be enough...

But man, what memories :)

Hey Mondo I know what you mean used to love the Everest back in the old days when Max had it. Had lock ins there with him and been sat chattin comming out about 6am lol

Hey whats the furthest anyone has found Hendersons Relish for sale.
I just found a shop in Langley British Columbia that sells it. :clap:
Was getting worried as I only brought 6 bottles with me when I moved here and you can't eat meat and tater pie without it.

Hi Albatross.....I live in Cornwall now and was told Henderson's was sold in a nearby village (Constantine)....I built my hopes up and went with full wallet, only to find out I had been wound up :suspect: ....alas all is now sorted.......a mate goes up to Sheffield reasonably regularly so I order 12 bottles at a time!

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Hey whats the furthest anyone has found Hendersons Relish for sale.
I just found a shop in Langley British Columbia that sells it. :clap:
Was getting worried as I only brought 6 bottles with me when I moved here and you can't eat meat and tater pie without it. [/B][/QUOTE]

Hi Albatross ! My son lives in Port Coquitlam and is visiting for Thanksgiving. If you wouldn't mind giving me the name and address of the shop I'll see if he can bring some. I'm not sure where Langley is in relation to Vancouver so I don't know whether this will happen or not. Thanks

What i miss are the walks around Derbyshire,the people of Sheffield. I think the thing that i miss most is cod & chips nobody seems to know how to make good crispy batter here.I also miss the good old days of toast & dripping.

Hi,

I miss the old fish and chip shop opposite the bus station, joined with the car park. Kent has got nothing like it.

Kal.

I miss cosiness, cosy pubs,they'awful now ,Imean most young people wouldn.t know what a decent pub is ,in the past they never had ear drum smashing music,they did'nt have cigrerette machines,they did'nt sell chemical beer. they were for proper drinkers,not **** head yobs hooligans.i used to go to pubs and meet intresting people,not people sitting on the floor drinking out of tins,i can;t stand it, young people ruin pubs. i miss company,i feel nostalgic for genuinely interesting people,genuine bohemians .now they:re full of creeps,I miss conversation,not ''what do you do''every one has to have some sort of job that they can quickly describe as if that some how sums them up for the other person,i mean life isn,t just about working,there,s no virtue in work for its own sake its a myth that was invented by people like d.h. lawrence to keep people down the coal mines. now go and get a nice glass of something to drink ,sit by a log fire with a good book and be cosy for ***** sake.

It has to be the loud bangs, the police helicopter, police sirens, suspicious people walking down the street....

not to mention the speed traps, red subabrus & brown ladas..








:hihi:

Originally posted by mshaw
Hey Funkee 88 I'm in Florida too, Do you have Publix Grocery stores up in Pensicola, they now carry a British food section including Digestive biscuits, Hobb Knobs and chocolate.


Our nearest Publix is 20 miles away. But we have a store called The World Market. They sell foods and drinks from all over the world!! (obvious) Anyway, I can buy English PG Tips teabags but they are expensive. I did find a brand called Lifeboat Tea, which is $4.25 for 80. Proceeds go to the RNLI. Made in Regis. Where on earth in the UK is that?

Bognor perhaps?....the preferred holiday place of Steptoe, but not Son.

When I moved to Liverpool, I missed:

the hills
the cheap bus fares (5p for kids)
the best school friends I ever made
great teachers
all the parks and museums
being the cleanest industrial city in the world
the (relatively) clean environment
being the safest city in the country
and the friendly people

However, I was living in Liverpool all though the nineties, and I get the impression Sheffield suffered quite badly :sad:

The English language (especially with that distinctive de dah accent), Fish and Chips and a goo curry from London road!

Who on earth would want a "goo curry"? The mind boggles :loopy:

I apologise for my spelling Mr pedantic!

Dont take it to heart Steve........'twas only meant in fun :P

LOL - Dripping. That stuff's probably illegal nowadays. Pure fat. Yummeh! I was always disturbed by the brown stuff that accumulated under the white layer on the top.

Hiya
the brown stuff jelly like goob was yumtastic
probably congealed blood or summat

I miss the Royal Infirmary, Kelvin Flats and Centenery House...fish and chips on Infirmary Road

Wads Bitter, Autumn in Crokesmoor Park,The Leadmill club, all the cool people I met & Scampi Curry (no-one else does it) from the Indian take away round corner from Hadfield pub.

cheap buses castle market peace gardens art gallery crucible and hills

I lived in South Africa for five years, during the 70's and the thing I missed most was Henderson's Relish, my wife got a free ticket back to England during that time so I got her to bring me a bottle back - I still prefer it to vinegar on my fish and chips :thumbsup:

Swimming with the dead dogs &cats in the Don,O plus all the p.c.bs fm the steel mills (made my hair fall out at 70) the wet ,dirt and cold chilblane's ,headlice &allthat purple stuff dabbed over your face ,So what do i miss about Sheffield ?not a lot,came for a few visits 47-48 but never been back since

I miss the pot holes :rolleyes:

Chips and Gravy from the Chippy opposite the Nottingham House pub. ( Probably both now demolished ?).
The '' Bombsites '' that were used by second hand car dealers.
Getting sloshed in town and walking back to Woodseats.
The unemployment in the 1970's.

I miss the pot holes :rolleyes:

I never miss the damn things, I hit every single one !!!

Lots of people seem to miss fishcakes. In Lincoln you can actually get them (and they're almost as good) but they call them fritters. They also have "fishcakes", but they are what Sheffield folk call rissoles. Funny lot in Lincoln... The best fishcakes were from Gordon Booth's chip shop in Taplin Road, with little bits of parsley in with the fish.

Toasted tea cakes, picklets by the fire, sledging in winter, pub crawls round Bakewell on market day starting at 6am.
The Pheonix pub on white lane, weekly swims at pond street baths ............. oh childhood memories, but after leaving now for 22 years and only visiting once since ..... so I guess I don't miss anything that much ....mum stills sends out the HP fruity and the farleys rusks, sadly great fish and chips don't travel well .....but me kiwi wify does best she can :hihi:

I miss the hills, Hendersons (my sister sends me some for Christmas every year), good fish and chips, fish cakes and roe. The sound of the Sheffield accent. Days out in Derbyshire.

Swimming with the dead dogs &cats in the Don,O plus all the p.c.bs fm the steel mills (made my hair fall out at 70) the wet ,dirt and cold chilblane's ,headlice &allthat purple stuff dabbed over your face ,So what do i miss about Sheffield ?not a lot,came for a few visits 47-48 but never been back since

It's quite obvious from your post that you've not been to Sheffield in a long time. You state that you don't miss Sheffield yet you look at SF and take the time to post..... interesting !

Sunday nights at the "Monkey Rack" in Endcliffe Park,a magnet for for lads and
lasses to strut their stuff!

Well Daven, when one lives so far away and you have a New Zealand wife and you are explaining what Sheffield was/is like what better way do you know of than the internet, so I stumbled across SF quite by chance.

I have receive so great info from a gentleman in Sheffield, following one posting....

I am also looking via this medium to see whether I can expand my interbet based business in to England and Sheffield.... A way to increase our income by helping people preserve their precious memories on line forever gauranteed. But thanks for your posting :)