Are you a born and bred Sheffielder, or an adopted Sheffielder?

[Longshanks 10]

I'm adopted, came in 89 as a student and never went back to .... Essex Yes I'm an Essex girl but fortunately have lost the accent. Also spent a year living in France.

[Siân 10]

Yes I'm an Essex girl

It's scary how embarrassed we get about it

 

I was born & bred in Essex ( I am NOT going to cringe now!) & have lived in Leicestershire, Devon & North Yorks. I moved to Sheffield 2 years ago - I've decided it's my spiritual home. I'm sure I was meant to be born here & not in Essex

[H.P 10]

I was born in sheffield,lived here till I was about 6 them moved to gateshead, houghton-le-spring , congleton in cheshire and salford in manchester then when I was nine I moved back to sheffield.

I must say that where ever I was I allways bitterly missed my home town and was really glad to be back (my parents divorced and my mom took to running pubs ) theres just nowhere like sheffield where you can just drive for a while and hit the countryside

[gillmarx 10]

born and bred in sheffield, manor for 21 years then norfolk park,stannington,southey green then back to norfolk park for the last 20 years

[Mattski 10]

Born Sarf Landan then moved with parents to Portsmouth, Nottingham and then Sheffield when I was 3 years old.

 

So, formative years spent in Sheffield until 18 when i moved to Carlisle for a couple of years, then back to Sheffield and in 1999 back down to London.

 

Can't wait to get back home though. I think moving around the UK has made me appreciate Sheffield more.

 

M

[Morte 10]

Adopted Sheffielder...

 

Born in Liverpool, grew up in rural lancashire moving to Sheffield when I was doing my A levels. Returned to Sheffield after Uni before wandering the country working in a variety of locales.

 

As soon as I got my current job which allowed me to live where ever I wished I moved back to Sheffield.

 

Top City.

[chez26 10]

I was born in Preston, and brought up in Blackpool. Lived in Sheffield for two years

[franc1987 10]

born in northern general hospital in 1987

lived at middlewood road for 13 years november 1987- march 2000

moved to oughtibridge for 3 years march 2000- july 2003

moved to wadsley park village july 2003 been living here ever since

[Jess 10]

Lived here for over 30 years. Originally a Cestrian.

[sjw1705 10]

Sheffielder born and bred! Born in Nether Edge hospital, and lived in the Highfield area for 34 years.

[Plain Talker 11]

I was born in the Nether Edge hospital, (whispers) forty years ago.

 

i was brought up on Gleadless Valley (on't' valley) and moved to Highfields/ Sharrow aged 10, and, when the old housing was cleared, five or six years later, I moved with my parents to Arbourthorne.

 

I left home at age eighteen, and became the "family gypsy", as my dad has christened me.

 

I have lived all over the city, I have moved, over the last twenty-odd on average every eighteen months. however I am settled where I am, now, and my intention is to stay here until I am carried out, feet first, in a box!

 

I lived for a short time in Northamptonshire, and for an even shorter time in Nottingham, and could not wait to come back to Sheffield. I missed Sheffield so much.

 

I love sheffield and do not want to live anywhere else.

 

it is a lovely,friendly place, (there are not many places safer!) We have the two prstigious and popular universities withing our city... it's a nice, green city, with all its parkland; we have the splendour of the peak district on our doorstep; what more could we ask?

 

PT

[RichD 10]

I've lived all over - born in Scotland and lived in Cumbernauld till I was 10, then lived in Slough, then Newcastle before coming to Sheffield University. Fell in love with the place, and decided to stay. First place I'd actually *chosen* to live.