ukelele lady Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Have you seen the Sheffield Monopoly game? It is interesting to see which names and places there is on the board. We have the Health Care Clarkhouse Road First St Paul's Place Pond's Forge River Don Bramall Lane FC Meadow Hall Hillsborough FC The City Hall Robin Hood Airport Clowne Sheffield Hallam University University of Sheffield Botanical Gardens Midland Station Moore Street Peak District Division Street The Peace Gardens The Old West Gun Works The Winter Gardens Supertram The Town Hall Victoria Station Road The Crucible Fargate The Wicker Then they have the usual four corners , Go, Go to Jail, and the Jailhouse then the only thing they have wrong in the last corner of the board is Free Parking. I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Clowne? Falls off chair laughing ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Clowne? Falls off chair laughing ... Robin Hood Airport??? Joins Steve Laughing on the floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Why didn't they include some real Sheffield names? some words they could have got of the front destination board of a bus. Perhaps some words that to anyone not actually from Sheffield are unpronounceable, like Beauchief and Oughtibridge and Gleadless. Personally I would love to see "Manor Top", not The Manor, but "Manor Top" on there. It just sounds so right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Sheffield Monopoly has been around for about 5 or 6 years now, along with several other regional versions of the game. I seem to remember that it was ludicrously expensive for what is effectively just a board game, - about £25 if I remember correctly. I didn't fall off my chair laughing at the price, and I certainly didn't buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 What a strange choice of place names. Not at all in the spirit of the original London themed board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barbara M Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 What a strange choice of place names. Not at all in the spirit of the original London themed board. I think it's because the company that made it are not Sheffielders !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Clowne? Falls off chair laughing ... You clown hope you didn't hurt yourself. It did have " BIFFA " underneath Clowne but it's still not classed as Sheffield is it? And why Clarkhouse Road, what's so special about Clarkhouse Road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Had a Google to find a picture. Couldn't find a complete one but it seems that some of the squares are "Sponsored by" which explains a few strange choices. As for Clowne - all they needed to do was look on a map for heavens sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 >Here's a picture. Looks like they are sponsored squares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THYLACINE Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I never knew there was a Sheffield Monopoly. Let me guess . . . Bramall Lane and Hillsboro are the equivalent of Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road. i.e. They aren't worth much Nobody wants them Nobody lands on them They're just an embarrassment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I never knew there was a Sheffield Monopoly. Looks like there's an everything Monopoly out there Thylacine. I saw a mildly amusing one which included things like:- Starbucks Another Starbucks, and Oh no! Yet another Starbucks. Or something of the sort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 >Here's a picture. Looks like they are sponsored squares. So they get money from sponsors to put them on a Sheffield game even if the sponsors aren't even in Sheffield, then they get more money by selling it at inflated prices. They must be quids in, Not laughing off their chairs like me and Steve, but laughing all the way to the bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Maybe this is a better bet? The Sheffield Shares game: Only £9.99 here: http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/sheffield-shares-game-108972584.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Maybe this is a better bet? The Sheffield Shares game: sheffield shares.png Only £9.99 here: http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/sheffield-shares-game-108972584.htm Cheaper, and judging by the pictures on the box, still relatively modern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I did once suggest we produce a SheffieldHistory version, got shot down. Still think its an idea (for NEXT Christmas). We vote on a year, and produce something with appropriate street names; places with history or just infamous e.g. Sambourne Square, Bailey Lane - both vile places. Fargate with early pictures, the Town Hall before it was the Town Hall etc etc. Just needs a grown up to start a Poll (always good for a laugh) and pick a decade. Every place with a picture, an advert, or the names of local residents. Slums to mansions, poverty to riches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 First opinion - 1881 - because photographs were around, and the census is freely available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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