What's the future hold for Sheffield ?

[grinder 10]

The history of Sheffield is some thing I have only a vague idea of, but as a rough summery it appears before the Normans built a castle here it was at most a small village.

The village grew into a town outside the castle walls, which gained a modicum of notoriety for knives and Scythes which with the local water power plus a close supply of good grit stone became a thriving cottage industry..

But even by 1736 the Sheffield population was under 10,000, and Sheffield didn't really came into its own till the advent of steam power..

Again the water plus the local clay and coal fields fired us into the fore front of steel production and manufacturing in the 19th century.

The population of course rocketed and we became a City, but, since the second world war it's been a down ward spiral we've lost the coal mines and the steel manufacturing and the population is falling.

 

So what do you see Sheffield becoming ?

What sort of a place do you see Sheffield as in a Hundred years from now...

Edited January 4, 2013 by grinder

[tinfoilhat 11]

In a hundred years ? Sevenstone will be just around the corner and all other ills will still be Thatchers fault.

 

Seriously it's hard to predict where the planet will be 100 years time let alone Sheffield.

[Alien52 10]

In a hundred years ? Sevenstone will be just around the corner and all other ills will still be Thatchers fault.

 

Seriously it's hard to predict where the planet will be 100 years time let alone Sheffield.

:hihi: And Hendersons Relish Ice Cream will still be a best seller.

[geared 317]

People will still moan about the parking in the city centre.

 

Bins will be collected twice a year to 'cut costs', yet council tax continues to rise.

[jdamarine 10]

In a hundred years ? Sevenstone will be just around the corner and all other ills will still be Thatchers fault.

 

Seriously it's hard to predict where the planet will be 100 years time let alone Sheffield.

 

How about the potholes?

[AndrewC 307]

something, something, like-it-is-now something potholes lol

 

The councel.

[Penistone999 10]

In 100 years sheffield council will have turned every road in the city into a cycle lane ,cars will be banned from the city ,the council will still be claiming Sevenstone will happen ,all the dump it sites will have been closed ,bin collections scrapped and householders will have to eat their own rubbish due to cut backs.

 

 

Or maybe that could be in 10 years not 100.

[grinder 10]

Yes it's good to have a defiant humour about this, but take a good look around you.

Before the industrial revolution Sheffield was a small town, now all the things that made it into a city are gone ..

Is Sheffield going backwards ?

[Guest makapaka]

In a hundred years????

 

Space cowboy monkey giraffes on hoverboards for all we know?

[SevenRivers 10]

People will still moan about the parking in the city centre.

 

Bins will be collected twice a year to 'cut costs', yet council tax continues to rise.

 

And it will probably be an imprisonable offence to leave your bin lid open by an inch

[That easy 10]

In a way the direction of the city is in the balance; the Sheffield Chamber Of Commerce want it to be an industrial/engineering place again, or it could be characterised as a studenty and public sector place.

 

I hope it becomes all of those things.

[Guest sibon]

In a hundred years????

 

Space cowboy monkey giraffes on hoverboards for all we know?

 

That will sort the police helicopter out:)