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  1. They wont do that well, there is only so much disposable income in a city with one of the lowest average wages in the country. There are enough cafes / bars in the city already, catering for the amount of customers who use these facilities. Plus what will they do in the winter as most people shun the city centre for the warmer climate of Meadowhall?
  2. You have to remember that cities like Leeds and Manchester have literally thousands of people commuting into their respective cities each day for work, most of which will be well paid professional jobs. Thats a lot of potential customers already in their city centers daily, for store owners. Sheffield has a fraction of the workers that Leeds and Manchester has, hence why the city center is struggling. With fewer people going into the city center daily it stands to reason why a lot of the big brand stores give Sheffield a wide berth and will not locate here.
  3. The Debenhams building on The Moor is owned by the same company that owns Meadowhall, British Land. Debenhams rent the building from them, they do not own it.
  4. Even if you remove the areas of Rotherham from that list, who is representing the over 100,000 people from Sheffield that are not on that list? Is the population of Sheffield more than 550,000 and rising?
  5. It seems you are not the only one. The station is one of the least used stations on the entire network. If it was easy and cheap to close the station down, it would probably have closed years ago. However you have to go through Parliament to close stations down, hence one of the reasons the station remains open. Perhaps if they spent some money on the place and advertised its existence, more people would use it. At the moment its not very inviting as stations go.
  6. Sheffield Star reports that Mothercare on Barkers Pool is now closing down.
  7. I get the reality of the situation, I for one am not deluding myself regarding the state of Sheffield city centre. Now you have totally lost me. Council, guns, what the hell are you on about? The demand is not there. St. Paul’s was only completed because the Council stepped in to financially guarantee the building to the developers, if they could not get tenants in. Worryingly there is only one tenant secured, although I have faith that this will be full in due course. The Square on the old Sheaf market site was started in 2006 and is still only half built. HSBC are indeed moving out of West Bar to shinny new offices, but lets face reality here, they are downsizing.
  8. Stores like Selfridges or Harvey Nichols will never set up shop in Sheffield. In places like Leeds Birmingham and Manchester they have thriving city centres supported by thousands of professional workers based in their respective city centres. Take a good look at Sheffield city centre today its more akin to a suburb of the city than a thriving metropolis. There are hardly any large scale office blocks left in the centre, they have all been or are being converted into student digs. West Bar used to be the business hub of the city, now there is hardly anything left barring HSBC. The whole area up to and including the Cathedral area is now just student living. The whole area around West Bar is now just a ghost town, its depressing. When HSBC move it can only get worse. HSBC are axing nearly 600 workers, the tax office at the bottom of the Moor is being closed with all its 500 plus workers transferring to Leeds and the government are axing a further 250 jobs in the city centre. These are all well paid professional jobs being swept aside and lost to the city centre economy. I note today that yet another large office block in the centre, opposite St. James House is being taken over by Sheffield University. With so few professionals working here and a city centre being taken over by students why is anybody surprised that stores like Selfridges are not represented here?
  9. Take a look at the architect’s web page, HSBC who have their headquarters at West Bar feature prominently in their design. http://leonarddesignarchitects.com/projects/sheffield-new-retail-quarter/
  10. I attended St John Fishers in the mid 70s and left the year before it was closed down. I think the fact that it was closed down says a lot about the place. I learnt more in the six months of leaving that hell hole than I did in the entire time I was there. The school seemed to attract all its pupils from Sheffield’s roughest council estates, Manor, Wybourn and Pitsmoor, nuff said.
  11. Why cant test cricket be staged in Sheffield? Don Valley stadium has staged cricket in the past with Yorkshire. The stadium can hold 25.000 people whilst grounds that are used to hold test cricket like Headenley in Leeds can only hold 14.000 people. Most people would say that Headenley in Leeds should have been bulldozed years ago. Some people might say 'its just not cricket' staging matches in an athletics stadium but it would make a lot more money for the game holding it in a bigger more modern arena. In my opinion Sheffield city council officials should be in contact with cricket officials at Lords to see if it is possible to bring one of next years tests to the city.
  12. Sheffield Cablevision started broadcasting on August 29th 1973 and died a death on January 2nd 1977. After it closed the old ITV company ATV in Birmingham began transmitting on that channel. Sheffield Cablevision was run by a company called British Relay Network. Not sure if any tapes of their programmes exist. Me thinks a very small company set up in some council house bedroom lol.
  13. I was brought up in Burngreave in the mid 70s. On television we used to get BBC1, BBC2, ITV YORKSHIRE ITV TYNE TEES and SHEFFIELD CABLEVISION. We did not have airials on the roof we had a cable tv box fitted on the wall. I believe it was a council opperated scheme. To what i can remember of cablevision, during the daytime you would get a Sheffield city council logo on the screen with Radio Hallam playing in the background. Every hour or so you would get a local news programme aired from some studio centre near Sheffields railway station. Cant remember if they did a 30 minute news programme in the evening. On saturday morning i can remember them doing some live programmes from the now defunct ABC cinema on Angel Street. It was for kids. I think you had to live in a council house to be able to recieve this channel. Not sure when Sheffield Cablevision started but me thinks in the region of 1973. When the plug was pulled (late 70s i think) we got the delights of Lew Grades ATV piped to the house from Birmingham. Those were the days when ITV showed diffrent films at the same time in diffrent regions, we were spoilt for choice.
  14. Shared ownership has its good points and is a good way for first time buyers to get a foot on the housing ladder. I bought 50% share of a house through a housing association in East London around 7 years ago, the house was valued at £66.000 and i managed to get a 100% mortgage on my £33.000 share. My monthly payments work out at about £400.00 which includes the mortgage the rent to the housing association and insurance. Paying £400.00 a month for a 2 bedroom house with a garden in London is cool considering bedsits in this city can cost you around £150.00 a week. There is a downside though, you are responsible for any repairs to the property, if the property needs a new kitchen or bathroom ect you pay. After around 6 months you can buy further shares in your home or buy it outright at the market value. If you want to sell the house i believe you have to give the housing association 3 months to find a buyer from their books, if they cant find one then you sell it on the open market.
  15. The same site has Sheffied as Englands third largest city after London and Birmingham. 1) LONDON 7.172.091 2) BIRMINGHAM 977.087 3) SHEFFIELD 513.234 4) LEEDS 466.891 5) LIVERPOOL 439.473 6) MANCHESTER 422.000 Sheffield would drop a place if Glasgow was added in uk population terms. Source: office for national statistics. Now im confused as i keep reading that the population of Leeds is over 700.000?
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