Go to nottingham to shop

[DerbyTup]

I agree that Sheffield lost its shopping heart when Meadowhall was built. Since then there has been the prospect of the Sevenstone project only to find it shelved due to the credit crunch of 2008. They now propose a scaled down version which will diminish the impact.

 

Whether Sheffield will ever recover for a day out shopping only time and money will tell. The Castle Market needs to come down and the Moor needs modernising. We need specialist shops too, but as for going to Nottingham ... no. There's more to shopping than going out looking at goodies. I want to eat, have a coffee and I found Nottingham lacking in these and a bit dirty and run down. I have lived in Liverpool and that is a great experience, if only for the day, especially now Liverpool One is open. Manchester offers a great deal too for a day out. As for Leeds I was disappointed after all the hype.

 

As a Sheffielder I am disappointed that the problem of our city centre has not been resolved long before now and I am not sure it ever will. The other core cities are so far ahead of us it will take a visionary to transform the shopping and day out experience.

 

That's my 4 penneth worth

 

Kevin

 

that's a very rational and balanced view.

 

I think both Leeds and Nottingham are looking a bit down at heel thesedays. I know both well - spent many years up in Leeds as had family there - and I worked most of my life in and around Nottingham. Both are streets ahead of Sheffield in many respects - not as places to live - because we have such great access to beautiful countryside - but in terms of commercial development - it's no contest really.

 

Part of our problem is that your average Sheffielder doesn't, can't or won't see it. You can see from this thread alone, people fighting back, defending one of the most run down miserable deprived city centres in the entire country. I mean, pride is one thing - sticking ones head in the sand is another.

 

Until more people of this city wake up and take a look around them and realise that we are being left way behind - behind other cities that are much smaller than ours - and demand some action - then nothing will ever get done.

 

We just don't have the demand to make Sheffield better - and I find that frustrating as a Sheffielder myself. I want our city to be the best. But I doubt we can ever catch up as you say - not whilst we've got folks here defending it - based on no knowledge of anything any better.

 

I'm surprised at your comments about Liverpool btw. I know that city has had a lot of investment lately. I went there 2 years ago and they'd opened Liverpool 1 then, which I though was very poor tbh. Maybe it wasn't finished? But it was very small, very disappointing. I was expecting a huge mall. I think Liverpool lives in Manchester's shadow.

 

And Manchester is quite easily the best city outside of London - and it's less than an hour on the train.

[Doom]

Try the Vat and Fiddle near the railway station, or the Olde Trip to Jerusalem embedded in the castle walls, or Fellow Morton and Clayton and the Canal house, on Canal street, or the Bell Inn in market square, or the Lincolnshire Poacher on Mansfield Road.

 

BTW - "Beer in the evening" isn't a very good site actually - not very accurate or objective.

 

I always go to the VAT and Fiddle first when I arrive by train. The beer is good, but the pub itself lacks something.

 

The Bell Inn is nice, but I usually can't find a beer I like.

 

I've only been to FMC once, but wasn't impressed.

 

The Olde Trip has character, but again the beer selection isn't usually my cup of tea.

 

All the guys I go to the hockey with like their beers 5%+, so if a pub fails on that criteria it doesn't get past first base with us, which is why we always go to the VAT and Fiddle (Screech Owl), but rarely have a pint at The Bell Inn or Old Trip.

 

In Sheffield the likes of The Tap, Dev Cat, Harlequin and KIT all usually have 5%+ beers on and I think they're nicer environments to drink than the Nottingham pubs you've named above (The Bell being nice, but usually failing on our beer criteria).

 

The Lincolnshire Poacher is probably a bit too far in the wrong direction for us to give it a go.

 

Whilst waiting for our link train in Derby we did discover the Brunswick near the station, hence why we might try out a night in Derby next year.

 

Regards

 

Doom

[fairyworld14]

People moaning about the shops in Sheffield need to come to flaming Bradford ! Its garbage ! Its all poundstretchers and rubbish like that ! We have even lost T J Hughes ! I love Sheffield !

[damo]

Excellent - and do you know Nottingham equally well? If not, then you don't have an argument, I'm sorry.

 

No one is saying Sheffield doesn't have any - they are saying Nottingham has more and better - get it?

 

Don't take that tone with me when you have clearly missed the point of my post you eejit.

 

I NEVER stated we had more than Nottingham I was merely correcting someone when they stated there were non/hardly any in Sheffield.

 

I strongly advise you read through threads properly before posting.

 

And for the record yes I know Shottingham quite well thanks

[0114owl1867]

i'm not into shopping myself but why go to nottingham ? its half the size of sheffield and the only thing they have/had is robin hood and a decent footie team in 1979/1980