Barnsley vs Sheffield town centre

[Naive 10]

Pardon?

 

Number 6 and counting

 

You are the sixth person to make that moronic joke about my username. A joke that I deliberately provoked when choosing the name.

 

Well done number 6.

Edited February 10, 2018 by Naive

[cytine 40]

Number 6 and counting.

 

Meaning what exactly?

[choogling 14]

Markets are much more suited to small towns and villages. If that's your thing, don't bother looking for such things in cities.

 

How is Sheffield downhill?!? The retail quarter is now underway, the New Era Square (Chinatown if you like) isnt too far from completion, Kelham Island is continually evolving etc etc

 

Comparing Barnsley to Sheffield is like comparing London to say - Sheffield!

 

if you ever venture down south, i know its not a good idea. you will find London has some very good and well used markets.

In the good old days the alma was a working mans pub but now we don't have too many of them left.

The regeneration of Sheffield is running late by about thirty years.

[ECCOnoob 1,017]

Living in Stockbridge I find it easier and cheaper to shop in Barnsley, the town centre of Barnsley is undergoing a major refit at the moment the main market is being transformed along with most of the surrounding area .

Sheffield by comparison feels old-fashioned, threadbare and unwelcoming the recent moving of the market down the moor goes against the wishes of many locals, Barnsley has built a new small market along side the old one while redevelopment takes place.

Sheffield a city on the move ,yes downhill.

 

 

I too live close to Barnsley "home of the pound shop" town but could not disagree with you more. I would much rather stick to Sheffield with its range of brands, department stores and other attractions. There is bugger all in Barnsley I want to use with exception of the Bank and M&S.

 

I certainly dont find Sheffield being any of those things you list.

 

You calling Sheffield "Threadbare" - Are you serious? You must be walking around blind.

 

How many endless threads will there be on this forum putting down Sheffield. We have already had one today desprately attempting to link the behaviour of some football fans to the alleged decline of Sheffield's image.

 

Now this, trying to compare the piddling little building works in a small town to the major construction projects happening all over Sheffield city centre.

 

The Moor Market did not go against the wishes of "many locals" it was against the wishes of a handful of dilusional idiots who saw Castle Market as some wonderful thriving world which was going to remain forever popular.

 

Thank god the rest of the population saw it for what it was. A decaying, disgusting, ugly hangover of the 60s with a aging and decreasing footfall. Markets are not in the hayday any more. The modern day successful markets are the ones at premium level with high quality gourmet and specialist items that the Supermarkets dont offer.

 

They are no longer just buildings full of ye olde tat stalls selling exactly the same goods as 1001 supermarkets or discounters for higher prices and without the convenience of car parking and trolleys.

 

There are whole generations of people who have barely stepped foot in the likes of Barnsley Market and with the continuing surge in internet shopping they will become even more obsolete.

 

For all the critics Sheffield city IS moving. Finally after decades of everyone and their mother complaining about shopping being too spread out, Sheffield is getting what other large cities have done. A CENTRALISED retail core surrounded by leisure, residential and commerical on the outer areas. Replacement of the markets from a obsolete location at the wrong end of the city to its new location within the primary shopping precincts is just one phase of the huge scheme.

 

The rest of the development (admittedly behind schedule) is coming along.

 

Its rediculous to even attempt to compare some backwater like Barnsley to a major city like Sheffield let alone try and make it out to be somehow superior.

 

Yes, the Town is getting some redevelopment and that's great news for the area. But Sheffled City Centre already has a shiny new mixed use leisure and shopping development (it opened in April last year).

 

Yes, Barnsley is getting a new public square and market hall but Sheffield City Centre already has that too (it opened over four years ago).

[melthebell 862]

I too live close to Barnsley

surely you spelt that sentence wrong? surely it should be "i live too close to Barnsley"?

[cytine 40]

Number 6 and counting

 

You are the sixth person to make that moronic joke about my username. A joke that I deliberately provoked when choosing the name.

 

Well done number 6.

 

Surely you must have known when you chose that name that it would invite comments. You asked for it. I won't make the obvious further comment.

[Unisol 12]

if you ever venture down south, i know its not a good idea. you will find London has some very good and well used markets.

In the good old days the alma was a working mans pub but now we don't have too many of them left.

The regeneration of Sheffield is running late by about thirty years.

 

Really so is that forgetting the Winter Gardens, Millennium Square, Leopold Square, Devonshire Green, the train station Plaza etc etc. That's without getting started on the multiple university developments like The Diamond.

 

You must go about with your eyes closed or just choose not to acknowledge in aim of trolling

[Ontarian1981 10]

Surely you must have known when you chose that name that it would invite comments. You asked for it. I won't make the obvious further comment.

 

How could he have possibly known, if he is naive? Just kidding Mr/Ms N.

[Padders 2,840]

How could he have possibly known, if he is naive? Just kidding Mr/Ms N.

 

Number 7. ...

[Ontarian1981 10]

Number 7. ...

 

Stopped smoking years ago. Besides 7 is lucky isn't it? Could use a bit of luck.

[Naive 10]

Surely you must have known when you chose that name that it would invite comments. You asked for it. I won't make the obvious further comment.

 

Did you bother the read the bit where I said that I chose the name to provoke the “joke”?

 

How could he have possibly known, if he is naive? Just kidding Mr/Ms N.

 

Don’t you start

[Albert smith 11]

Barnsley Market has been voted the best Market in England despite undergoing a vast rebuilding program.

In the same square a brand new central library will be opened next spring .

Sheffield Moor Market should be re named the butchers emporia as that is all that it consists of this along with a café section that resembles a mad free for all that is used by the same punters who spend hours sat in the same seats supping the odd cup of tea and using the section as a Darby and Joan club.