So Sheffield City Centre is HISTORY??

[Bulgarian]

Well i don't know were your roots are but i can tell you that Sheffield is solid working class and always has been

 

Including the people in Hallam ward ?

[ghost rider]

This is 1950s gobble speak. Back in those days, I was labelled as strictly lower working class. I believe it counted against me when I graduated from university and went for job interviews. I was even advised to smooth over my accent. Unable to find employment in the UK, I moved to Canada where the class system is not entrenched. It's high time all this nonsense about the working, middle, and upper classes, not to mention the lower and higher versions of two of these, was thrown in the garbage bin.

 

If an idea surfaces and it is a good one, forget whether it will appeal to an arbitrarily defined class and move forward. Classes should be a relic of bygone days. It's the 21st century. We're all people. Canadians and Brits alike.

 

Here here some common sense spoken at last.This is the 21st century we need to move on not try to go back to the 50s.Sheffield isnt pure hard left working class anymore .Well said mate.

[SUPERDREAM]

So do we know if Sheffield is resigned to history, or can it be pulled from the wreckage and be made back into the once fine city it once was??

 

Steel was one of its greatest triumphs, but sadly that too is pretty much in the history bin.

 

I would love to feel proud of my city again, im sure the rest of us would, but how do we do this? Has Meadowhall helped? Has the winter gardens helped?? Will the demolition of the castle marlet help???

 

Modern, forward thinking must be the answer.

[ghost rider]

So do we know if Sheffield is resigned to history, or can it be pulled from the wreckage and be made back into the once fine city it once was??

 

Steel was one of its greatest triumphs, but sadly that too is pretty much in the history bin.

 

I would love to feel proud of my city again, im sure the rest of us would, but how do we do this? Has Meadowhall helped? Has the winter gardens helped?? Will the demolition of the castle marlet help???

 

Modern, forward thinking must be the answer.

Forward thinking is the answer but we wont get it ,too many people who dont want to ,especially in the council.Meadowhall has been good for sheffield,it dosent matter if you love it(i do)or hate it nobody can deny it has provided jobs and attracted visitors who have come from far and wide and spent millions of pounds since it opened.It is shopping in the warm and dry without hobos, drunks,junkies and charity collectors bothering you.

[BarryRiley]

I think you hit the nail on the head though with the parking and anti social shopping hours. Meadowhell offers nothing else.

 

People would not go to Meadowhall if it offered nothing but parking and "anti-social" shopping hours.

 

It's fine to hate it but it does very well financially for a reason - not everyone does. I don't exactly love the place, but if I want some clothes/a DVD/a book I know is stocked there etc etc. I will always choose it over town, particularly in the winter.

 

We need to rebuild and revitalise the city centre, not claim everything about it is absolutely fine and be dumbfounded that it's not a sprawling metropolis of consumers day-to-day.