a walk around sheffield city centre a tour of the city england uk.

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[Music] [Music] good morning good afternoon and good evening it’s Lee from magnetic north adventures and today I’m going to be doing a tour at random around the city of Sheffield just showing you basically the areas that I grew up interesting architecture a bit of history and uh just the places around that other people might want to see so hope you’re all well and uh thanks again for joining for a new adventure we’ve got a bit of street art there so this is on the approach down London road towards the bottom end of Sheffield City Center now it is a massive City uh and it has a lot of suburbs and outer towns so I’m just going to be doing a walk around the main city center area so this is a fairly new murial and uh that one is an artist Global street art Lis paint that would have took a long time and these are done to improve the city wall features got new building skyrisers at the back and just over there we’ve got one of the Sheffield te houses chat chai now that building there that used to be an old Cinema and on this particular Street here in London Road you’ve got all different food places from all around the world some of the local architecture this is in the Oriental area we’ve got these benches here very stylish Korean food Chinese Oriental and uh at night this is all L up as well it looks amazing just see we’ve got the Stag sculpture just there made out of metal and uh lots of coffee bars things like that and uh a giant panda sculpture so up there you’ve got Spaceman and that is a reference to Doctor Who and uh if you’re into the series and you know when the had the space men with the skeleton men inside that’s reference to that and then down here another bench and another one of the pandas so this is St Mary’s beautiful old church lots of carvings all the way around it lots of gargoyles and up there near the clock tower you got more gargo and things and like many graveyards now the graveyards have been laid flat and uh all these here are the former memorials just so people can still will be remembered again a lot of these are dating from the 1800s it’s 1841 on that one and uh from this side you can see more structure more face this is more gargoyles this is a bishop here and this one here again Masonic Robert stard this is the front of the church uh it’s not open today so I’ll just show you the outside and some of the features just there so here we’ve got in memory of William Newton died March 20th 1833 aged 73 years and 3 months Freemason with the elemental pentagrams that somebody’s later carved in and wife as well of William Newton an died December 29 1841 AG 73 years and 5 months and John Newton the son of above who died May 28th 1851 age 57 years now the Newton family was very very important name in Sheffield and if you here want you have a look at that you can find that online and uh you got Stone carvings beautiful doors there used to be a statue stood up on that bit goes all the way up there and just here we’ve got some Victorian Street bards locally there known as Cannon ballards this is the moall down on the Sheffield market end it’s all modernized and uh this is an area again that in Sheffield was quite a famous area and uh again in 1940 this area received heavy Air Raids and unfortunately this is the part of town that paid the price and it was all flattened all broke down this door here Atkinson’s very famous in Sheffield and uh that is a a plaque because there was an air raid shelter underneath that and uh there was people injured there people was trapped as well [Music] so this is the more markets you’ve got lots very very fresh food eggs things like that hair salons places for fresh fish crabs things like that PRS fruit and veg there fresh salmon things like that other meats and just here more Fresh [Music] Products so it’s in here that I do quite a lot of my general food shopping all fresh food Seafoods Meats whatever you want it’s all here and uh if you’re in Sheffield and you have got time to visit always worth a visit and uh there’s something for everybody and uh there’s the accessory shops things like that as well uh and then as you come out there’s shoe shops uh and a few craft stalls as well so as you come off the more we getting e to town center and up that way we’ve got City Hall p and Tranquility sit down in the gardens and uh we’ve got this structure here a little Garden area statues this is the main city hall where music concerts theatrical programs are held you got the city war memorial uh that’s dedicated every single year it’s very important this to the city all the different regiments around it this is the local regiment my own family served in that regiment between 1880 and 1944 so on this city hall where the uh square blocks are that’s been infilled and the damage at the side just along there that is World War II shrapnel damage and those were repaired this is all bits of shrapnel damage as well from bomb blasts and again all this area was targeted in 1940 during in the Sheffield blades and in this very square that there was a a German airplane displayed in 1941 and meshit 109 to raise funds for the war effort and uh all these buildings that were in this area uh all got battle damaged and all these here they were rebuilt in the 1950 50s the building over there that also got on fire and battle damaged and scarred and it has since been repaired in the 1950s but again all these columns if you notice the back of the column is fine the front they’re all peppered with these marks and that is all the shrapnel damage and these here are bits that had to be replaced and they go all the way up 3/4 way almost to the top of the columns and again here more damage and right on the side of the building there but you can see the old buildings uh from the 1800s with the modern Incorporated behind so as you get to this area this is the peace Gardens the old and abandoned Incorporated with the new and the pre-existing buildings and you’ve got some lovely architecture on the red brick Sandstone buildings just there now recently this road has been closed off so it makes a more friendly area to be and uh this piece Gardens there’s a Winter Gardens over that way that there is Sheffield town hall and uh below them buildings it said that the was actually a nuclear air raid shelter and uh as we come over here this is the peace Gardens that’s the peace Gardens it is lovely peaceful you’ve got new buildings at the back and the Winter Gardens a massive massive building and just in front you’ve got the Hall of Fame local actors comedians just there we got death leapard fil out to sha Bean sharp and many other things and some more just down here so here we’ve got a original South Yorkshire police police box also known as a a T this and at one time there would have been a telephone there as well and a side note you got the decorative blood drainage at the bottom just going down to the Winter Gardens so you got the cobal streets you’ve got these local art structures which are flowing fountains there now the building at the back there there is restaurants for Smoke Barbecue in there uh and that one there is a car par we call the egg box and this is the Winter Gardens so this winter Garden’s here this is a place that a lot of people use to meet up you got the beautiful plants and trees in here and just here you got a tropical area and this this is natural bamboo got cactuses there as well so this is artwork made from Sheffield Coty some older antique ones there and again there so currently in the Millennium Gallery Museum they’ve got this one on and that’s a a street artist I’m into so I’m going going and have a look so this Grand large building here is Sheffield art gallery and libr it’s done in the 1920s style that’s the old pub called the gradu and the symbols up there used to be part of the Freemason work and down there The Crucible theater you get a lot of snooker going on in there television events things like that so we got a a chapel there large church at the side of it an old bank it’s now a a pub so this is City Center what another one of the churches here some carvings there for you and that one is on noric street just there there’s the ycm theater down there and again the church building and this is the Cathedral Church of St Mary there some more of the old cheff Hill buildings and just down here got a fairly new building opened up Wendy’s restaurant so I’ve not been into that particular Wendy’s restaurant as yet that’s just the the tram moving off so yes I’ve not been into that Wendy’s restaurant yet I do intend to go in there one day and uh that will bring me today’s Channel shout out Wendy’s excellent Adventures over on YouTube please go and check her out and Greg as well and uh they are excellent people and a a very very good magnet fishing channel always cleaning the environment and the waters so Wendy’s excellent Adventures so I’m walking down to an area what used to be the old markets and also where the old Sheffield Castle used to be and uh I just seen a elderly gentleman uh served 25 years in the army and uh unfortunately he was struggling to walk so he was standing I could see he was distressed and uh I went to see if he needed any assistance and uh he asked if I could help walk him down to the local shop at the bottom of the road that has been done and uh we had a nice conversation and chat and uh he very happy that uh that I could help him so very very proud to help the veterans and anybody I can really and uh yeah it’s always good and just over there you’ve got the old site of the exchange Brewery so again you’ve got all these areas you can sit flowers trees it does look better in Spring and summertime so much color in this area and uh you’ve got the riveron goes down that way and this here is also the back of where the castle used to be and here’s the sign Sheffield castle built by Thomas def fernal in 1270 on the sight of an early anglosaxon fortification that would have been a wood structure from around about 950 ad Mary Queen of Scots was held in captivity 1570 to 1584 the building demolished by a parliament Army in 1649 so there was a massive Siege here and that took place in 1643 and I do believe it was around March to May of 1643 um the site is getting redeveloped currently we’ve got the local tram and these columns here there uh and uh there is an area over here which is uh quite important and is the only one I know of in Sheffield it’s this here William prior 51 years old 1812 very grave I know with that marking on and that there that’s Sheffield Cathedral it’s a medieval building later adapted and these end parts put on at a way to date got Grand buildings over there as well but that is the cathedral just there e so that building there uh the coat of arms and that’s where Sheffield Silver was actually pole marked with stamps showing that it’s been made [Music] here so we’ve got the town hall chiming well folks uh that’s it for this particular at all I’ve hope you’ve enjoyed the visit around Sheffield Sheffield City Center South Yorkshire England and uh until the next time I’m going to say don’t forget to like subscribe and comment and uh I’ll see you again very very soon for the next adventure bye for now everyone a