Was it always this way

[okka north]

Has the market area of the city always been so, umm, drab and not a place you would prefer to go?

 

Has Manor always had such an awful reputation?

[Heyesey]

Manor's had an awful reputation since, I believe, round about the Second World War. As of right now, it's better than its reputation would have you believe; but that sort of rep is much easier to gain than to lose.

 

As for the Haymarket end of town, it used to be thriving and vibrant when I first moved to Sheffield thirty years ago, but it's gone steadily downhill ever since, and shows little signs of revival.

[thingy]

I live in the wybourn area and that had a reputation, but having been here almost 2 and a half years, i cant say we've had any trouble. Same as manor, its had a reputation from years ago and is reletavely ok now, but its always remembered for it.

 

I've always thought the market was drab anyway, and i'm 32

[BluePolo]

I was told that in the early 50's the Manor was a desirable area. We moved there when I was a baby, and there certainly wasn't any trouble there as I grew up.

 

I think it was in the late 70's - Early 80's that they started bringing all the troublemakers from other estates, and dumped them onto the Manor, that was when the problems really started.

[outro2]

I was told that in the early 50's the Manor was a desirable area. We moved there when I was a baby, and there certainly wasn't any trouble there as I grew up.

 

I think it was in the late 70's - Early 80's that they started bringing all the troublemakers from other estates, and dumped them onto the Manor, that was when the problems really started.

 

 

Aye they're right it was actually the late 80's that the manor started getting bad.

 

Lots of places are like that gaunt was once nice but now is bad.

 

Meersbrook is presently nice but is turning in a bad direction.

 

Its the law of the land

[BluePolo]

I remember as a teenager, we were on the fields with an air pistol, shooting at an apple shoved in a wire link fence (one of those fences with diamond shaped holes).

 

Some women walked up the footpath and as soon as we saw them we stopped and waited until they were well out of the way, then started shooting again. We were stood shooting across the path, so there was no chance of accidently hitting them.

 

The next thing we knew, there was a beat bobby walking down the path. When he got to us he took the pistol off us, and we all got a clip round the ear off him. He then marched us all home, told my parents what we were doing, and that it was illegal (though he admitted that we weren't doing it in a manner to likely to hit anyone).

 

He then went on to the next set of parents to tell them. Meanwhile I got another clip round the ear from my father, & sent to bed early - this was around 3pm on a Saturday!

 

We never did that again! I miss the good old days of instant punishment. It certainly worked as a detterent for us.....

[I1L2T3]

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[peterw]

I was told that in the early 50's the Manor was a desirable area. We moved there when I was a baby, and there certainly wasn't any trouble there as I grew up.

 

I think it was in the late 70's - Early 80's that they started bringing all the troublemakers from other estates, and dumped them onto the Manor, that was when the problems really started.

 

It was also a desirable area in the 1930s and I remember it well. A very nice, well-kept estate. Trouble-makers at that time were dumped on the Daffodil Estate (off Bellhouse Road) where they were easily found by the police, when wanted.

[grump's]

When i was younger the manor was a wonderfull place I lived oppisite the play ground on Archdale road it was called the Reck great place when you was a young kid, i never left the Manor estate and me and the wife brought up three kids on the Manor with no trouble from the Police.There is nothing left of the old Manor, only the name. I now live at the Manor top 500 yards from the Supertram 3 working mens clubs 1 pub 2 Supermarkets and 6 fast food outlets.

[devlin]

Think its also important to remember that the manor is a massive area and has always been 2 places really. Prince of Wales Road being the separation betwwen Upper Manor and Lower Manor. Kids from the different areas even went to different schools as the area was so big. I was born and brough up in the Woodthorpe area and many of my friends were from what we called the lower manor around the Springwood and Bowden Woods area. Like most places the areas had their hotspots but I can say that during the late 60's all of the 70's and some of the 80's both areas of the manor were decent & happy places to live.

 

As usual the policies of those in authority are much to blame for both the neglect of the area and its housing stock and also using them as dumping grounds for the dreggs, leaving those decent folk that had lived there most of their lives stuck in the middle of it all. Of course the industrial decline of our city (also much to do with the strategies of those in authority at the time) didn't help, if people don't have jobs, they don't have money to spend on their homes or in local shops etc... so affecting the local economy of the area.