Bad vibes when walking through the city centre

[sheff1johnny]

It tend to get it around the delerict places or industrial places that surround the city centre, but not every day. Typical areas include Nursery Street up to the old market, just past the train station heading out towards the ice rink, the area around Eyre Street heading down towards the Moorfoot building

 

Doesn't leave much of the city centre does it? Just hope the Moor and Fargate, stay safe or town has had its day.

[philyyy]

Some tables show Manchester as Greater Manchester which has a larger population. My gut instinct doesn't exist in that case. Either that or everyone else is paranoid.

[Daven]

Five or so years ago I'd have agreed with you but not now sadly for some parts of the town centre but unfortunately the bits I'd rather avoid I have to go through because of where I work. Would be nice to be able to go out for a cig without being accosted by drunks, people asking for cash and getting verbals

 

There is a really easy way of stopping this from happening.

[spilldig]

It's always been the same in any city centre around 6 pm.

[Guest]

I have never once felt anything less than perfectly safe in the centre of Sheffield.

 

You work for the council do you?

 

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There is a really easy way of stopping this from happening.

 

...................go on then..........?

[alan p]

I was in town on Wednesday,I had parked my car at the bottom the moor and decided to walk to Commercial Street along passed Pond St upto Fitzalan SQ.

walking through the square I said to my wife I don't feel comfortable there was around 20 youths drinking and shouting to each other, after we had been to the shop on Commercial St.we then crossed over the road past the old C and A on Fargate to the bottom of the moor and some of the sites I saw made me realise

That the sheffield Town center was a dump. I'm Sheffield born and bred and love my City I have also got into arguments with people who have pulled Sheffield to bits in the past, I know now a lot of what they said was true.I was going to say on here on Wednesday how I felt but changed my mind thinking it was just me who had these thoughts. And I never saw one policeman/woman. Anyway rant over. alan p.

Edited March 6, 2015 by alan p
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[Alan Ladd]

My office is in the city centre, I work late, sometimes into the early morning, and I have noticed the deterioration over the last 5 years or so. There used to be a team of night time security men based in the Winter Gardens and I used to see them regularly.

 

I think they patrolled the area from the Midland Station up to the top of West Street.

 

Really nice set of lads and an asset to the city. I suspect they got the sack when the austerity measures kicked in.

 

Shows what happens when you are run by a council that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

[LeMaquis]

I suspect they got the sack when the austerity measures kicked in.

 

Shows what happens when you are run by a council that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

 

That would be the austerity measures brought in by the government then.

[Jillybabes]

Don't like city centre at all, feel like an outsider every time I go into town, which isn't very often these days.

[alchresearch]

I've always felt Sheffield City Centre is a dump after about 5pm. Supposedly the 5th biggest city in the country and it basically shuts down at 5.

 

Last time I was in town on a weekday it was earlier than 5 - some shops closing up as early as 4.30, or weren't letting customers in because they were hoovering the carpet and getting ready to close and that on the dot of 5pm or 5.30 the shops were shuttered up and staff gone.

 

It does seem like a step back in time when other cities shops seem to stay open until 7pm or later every weeknight.