Wonderful passion Sheffield creates

[helbco]

Left Sheffield in 1966 - still consider it my "home". I am absolutely overwhelmed at the passion that exists around this city! Can't say I've found anything else to match!

 

Why is this so?

 

I still consider I have "Yorkshire values" - down to earth, hard working etc and I'm sure that drives a lot of other contributers to this site.

[peterw]

I think it’s probably because it’s our birthplace. I left Sheffield in 1951 but come back frequently to see my son. It’s changed a lot over the years, and my birthplace — a one up, one down in a courtyard (15 Bridport Road) — has thankfully gone, but the city is still my birthplace.

 

Funnily enough, having lived in Manchester since 1951 I have a similar passion for the place and write books about its history (http://www.peterwrightgraphics.co.uk), but you never forget your first love and mine, like yours, is Sheffield

[fox20thc]

Interestingly we have an identity that not many other counties do. Someone from down south on the tv was commenting on it the other day.

 

Nobody says they are a Wiltshireman or Herefordshireman or 'Lancastrian' with any pride or identity.

 

Say anywhere that your a Yorkshireman/woman they immediately know what you are talking about and the qualities associated with this green and pleasant land.

 

Sheffield is different. I have pride in our industrial heritage but say Sheffield to an American and the response usually goes along the lines of

 

"Oh we have a cousin in that 'town' do you know the _____ family."