Was Broomhall ever a "good" area

[Nagel]

yes that's what I suspected - whilst most of the built up working class areas were around West Bar and Park' date=' Broomhall would have been an out-of-town desirable area for the middle classes.[/quote']

 

Yes! And it was a gated community.

 

The little lodge at the bottom of Collegiate Crescent where it joins Ecclesall Road was the gatehouse to admit the well-to-do residents in and keep the ne'er do well ruffians out.

[lectrolove]

This is true and only by chance during a routine vehicle check too! Area behind a big building just behind the main shops. Known as Summerfield actually

 

Erm nope. Summerfield is on Ashdell Road, my daughter lived there with her boyfriend for about 4 years. Sutcliffe was caught on Melbourne Avenue behind the High School.

[wodger]

At one time there were three or four millionaires living in lower Broomhall. A lot of business men Solicitors, Accountants, Professors. Yes it was a very affluent area some years ago.

[gnvqsos]

Neither; it was the steel industry.

 

Sounds bizarre doesn't it? But the steel industry is not directly to blame; it's an unfortunate side-effect of the wealth and business it brought to Sheffield. The major impact it had was to vastly increase the population - the town got bigger. As it got bigger, the wealthy moved further south and west (always south and west, because the prevailing winds in this country come from south and west, which means the wealthy don't have to put up with industrial smells blowing their way.)

 

So Broomhall, built when it was a luxury suburb on the very outskirts of the town, was abandoned by the wealthy and gradually ended up as an inner-city hellhole.

 

I do not think it is a hell-hole,and has many exceptionally wealthy residents still.The typical wealthy resident does display their wealth but retain a definite dignity, and is tipped to be next for gentrification-or rather to return to its former glory,It is central, has a good environment and actually low crime rates.Most of the recorded crime is attributable to outsiders,as is the case in Burngreave.

[0114owl1867]

that area was mint at one time - same as the houses on burngreave rd/barnsley road real beauties, now however (well a lot of them) are run down squalor, rancid, and its a shame !

[Annoni_mouse]

that area was mint at one time - same as the houses on burngreave rd/barnsley road real beauties, now however (well a lot of them) are run down squalor, rancid, and its a shame !

 

Yep - take a walk through Firth Park and you'll see some beautiful Victorian properties that at one time must have been highly desireable, but now are little more than doss houses.

 

I blame decades of well meaning but hopelessly misguided socialist councils (you know the kind - capitalism bad, property bad), seeking to rehouse the poorest elements of society into the more affluent areas - the trouble is, it doesnt raise the standards of living of those moved to these areas, it just creates ghetto's which spread across the city.

[shortcrust]

Yep - take a walk through Firth Park and you'll see some beautiful Victorian properties that at one time must have been highly desireable, but now are little more than doss houses.

 

I blame decades of well meaning but hopelessly misguided socialist councils (you know the kind - capitalism bad, property bad), seeking to rehouse the poorest elements of society into the more affluent areas - the trouble is, it doesnt raise the standards of living of those moved to these areas, it just creates ghetto's which spread across the city.

 

What a load of tosh. The affluent simply move to more desirable and fashionable areas. IN the case of Sheffield they have simply kept pace with the expansion of the city. The poorer elements moved to areas like Firth Park because that's where the space was. The same thing happens in every city in the world!!

[Nickscape]

The same thing happens in every city in the world!!

 

Many cities apart from London, if Broomhall was in London the houses would be expensive family houses having alot of money spent on them, just take a look at the popular Georgian and Victorian houses in central London and how much they are now worth. A lot of younger people would love to live in and look after the houses in Broomhall because of the location and the quality of the architecture, this isn't possible because of the inflated prices & the greedy landlords who arn't looking after the area. There are many similar areas in Harrogate where the terrace houses around the town centre are owned by people who are willing to look after them and the areas are really beautiful.

[gafferalways]

Broomhall used to be a brilliant area ,, im now 41 i grow up there i left there when the flats was there i left when i was 15 it was a brilliant place to live no trouble at all nice and clean always

[doseydoodah]

Broomhall used to be a brilliant area ,, im now 41 i grow up there i left there when the flats was there i left when i was 15 it was a brilliant place to live no trouble at all nice and clean always

So did I up to 1979. I'm 43 and we never had any trouble.