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fascinating. remarkable that everyone in this movie is long gone. even the little children in the prams that survive would be elderly now

60 years later and we have gone backwards took away something that worked very well and replaced it with a tram that doesn’t go anywhere 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

Sheffeild made its name quietlythr'othe british electric foundation...heaven 17😊

Imagine being able to walk in the middle of the road at Meadowhead….and not get squished !

7.24 The pheasant, a magical pub since it closed about 6 years ago I've lost touch with all of my family, it was the only pub I went to for years, christenings, weddings, funerals, birthdays everything's, I will never stop missing The Pheasant 😢

Nice footage. Thanks. Always love watching cities before drug culture and slob culture became prominent. And I see trams have been back in Sheffield for quite some time now.

Sheffield back then looks much much cleaner and tidier than it is now

To think my grandparents would have been 37 in this clip, and am 38 now

So I wasn’t born until 66 but wow I wish my dad was here to see this ! Dad passed in 1993 , mum has dementia and doesn’t even recognise us half the time… :( well they bought a house at Abbeydale in the 50,s ( five minutes down from the old cinema on the back streets on same side as cinema ) my mum was an usherette at that cinema in the 50,s …. my eldest sister ( If this was 1960 ) would have been around two years old here ( she died in 1977 sadly aged 18 ) so I was thinking my mom , my dad , my sister would have been in my parents little home at Abbeydale literally a few hundred yards away as this tram passed Abbeydale ! I wished I could have jumped into the screen and gone back in time to see them 😢 I went to Abbeydale infant school and the nursery from around 1970 and then Abbeydale grange ( wasn’t shown here sadly and has been demolished now :( .. but the infant school is still there , I was taking in every second of passing Abbeydale on this tram yearning to see my mom , my dad lol .. I live at Totley now! On this route .. btw my mom worked on these trams in the 1950,s doing tickets ! Wished I’d seen her on here she’s 92 now , thank you for this footage it means so much to me !

Ramon Stanley Bestall

i used to work with R S Bestall.

I’m only 41 but I love the old fashioned trams. In my company we have to drive buses for 5 years before we can operate trams. Just waiting my turn.

9:38 and 19:16 Scammell Scarab

Sheffield. The city that the idiot council destroyed after the Germans failed. Only now, we realise how good the trams were.. Medals for stupidity should be handed out.

I'm feeling all teary here. I was 8, almost 9-years-old when this was filmed. All those shops, businesses and buildings gone. Noticably not a fatty in sight

Great video, amazing footage,im glad Sheffield got there tram system back, shame more cities aren't doing the same

Great video, incredible footage, such a shame they were scrapped,i suppose its was progress at the time, local authority had the great idea of running down and no maintenance and scrapping a clean and efficient system for smokey, dirty, polluting buses, unreal 😔

I remember getting on a tram at Middlewood and taking it all the way to Millhouses for 1d. The conductors changed at Snig Hill, so I told them I had only just got on. I would spend the day trainspotting at Millhouses then come back home to Oughtibridge, walking the last bit. Not a bad summer day out with my Ian Allen trainspotter guide for tuppence and bottle of tizer.

Didn't even know trams used to run down Fargate in Town.

Very foolish to get rid of the old tram network. The new one doesn't go half the places

My dad was a train driver steam locomotives 🚂 the next thing we were going to the Caribbean with my dad work still got family there

Is that Olive grove bus depot at 20:40?

worst thing they did get rid of trams

Wow what a backward and bastardized city we’ve become since those great days.

I was born in Sheffield March 1956. Unfortunately don't remember trams. Lovely to see footage from Totley via Mill houses down Abbeydale Road. Comprehensive coverage of city centre. Impressed that at that time someone thought to film it in colour. My first ride on a Sheffield tram was at Beamish, also first ride on a steam train. Now glad of the Supertram which gets me from the station to Malin Bridge for the match, foc now, I am a full on pensioner. Live in Leicester now but WTID.

Ridiculous decision to abolish trams in favour off more diesel motor buses, but the commentator is correct, more dedicated tram only lanes

Tram driver on right hand kerb at 12:11 has a white enamel brew can. Don't see those these days. Don't suppose you can even still get them.

Better days then much more simpler

So lovely & nostalgic awesome to see! Thank you 😊

I cannot stand the rose-tinted nonsense i see below about the 'good old days', but getting rid of trams, uk wide, was totally bloody stupid. Similar to the Beeching cuts. They just needed modernized. The method worked, but the rolling stock was rattly, old and noisy. But isn't hindsight a wonderful thing. Too many politicians in the pay of the motor industry (allegedly). Nothing changes.

Until I saw this video I never realised why Abbeydale Road was so wide. It never occurred to me it was for the tram tracks.

Demolishing old buildings and Attercliffe then pedestrianisation and get rid of the Rag nTag to make a car park then fill in our iconic Hole in the Road and more pedestrianisation. Demolish the Castle Market and now no one goes down that end of town. Demolish as many old pubs as possible while you are at it!

I love trains but laughed at my mate growing up for liking busses. This video really helps shows how important his intest actually is so that in years to come, we see how much things have changed. As a lad who grew up in Woodseats, love this video

Must be quite an event organizing the shoot of one of these films. Must have taken ages to kidnap and hide all the black and brown immigrants who 'Actually built Britain' and keep us from seeing them.

"Be seeing you" 😱 I've heard that phrase somewhere else. 😉 Great video, simply luvvley. Thanks. 👍

Great footage. What’s striking and noticeable to me……no litter what’s so ever along the entire circa 5 mile journey. Would be nice if we could have a similar sense of respect and responsibility nowadays

Fast forward 50 years later,Sheffield city is reduce into shithole with homeless, spice heads, empty shops, hideous ''modern'' buildings in 70s, useless ring roads and clean air zone. If only there is time travel the scene now should sent it back to 60s and warn them about how the council messed up the city in the future.

Wish Wish that I could have a time machine.

Let's play "spot the foreign vehicles" - not.....

Argh! There's a jump cut between the roundabout at Firth Park and Lane Top so I didn't see the house I grew up in on Hereward Road opposite the top of Stubbin Lane 50 years ago... So frustrating!

Awesome to see these old videos how it used to be not a worry insight . . People was plight and had respect for each other not like today in Sheffield . If only we could turn the clocks. Thank you for sharing my family is well chuffed . ❤️❤️

I'm so envious whenever I watch this, wishing I was a kid when trams like these were running. Especially when they covered more ground than Supertram can only dream of. Unfortunately I was another 17 years from making my 1st appearance in Sheffield.

I left Sheffield with my parents about 70 years ago. I still have lots of Sheffield nostalgia.

Different country now

I remember attercliffe like this

It’s a shame that it’s full of all the roadmen and chavs now but it’s still a good city

Fabulous. I was 18 at the time and lived not far from The Moor and London Road. It is a story of my youth.

Way before Sheffield brought back light rail with Stagecoach’s “SuperTRAM”…

Geez , I was only 2 when this was shot. Living up in Scotland. In Canada now and retired. Where oh were did the years go?

That's a lovely video, Thanks for sharing