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The Moor shops in 1966


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Great photo of The Moor in 1966 including British Home Stores, Neales, Pauldens, and other shops

Interesting that there's currently a theory that pedestrianisation of places like this and Fargate is actually detrimental to a thriving city centre and there are serious calls for a return to traffic in cities rather than the pedestrianised thoroughfares we have today

 

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Excellent image, although a shame that it doesn't capture Redgates (oh, happy, happy days).

And on roughly the other side of the road, we have, running from left to right, Atkinsons, Marks and Spencers, Deacons Bank, and the then, Roberts Brothers. Nine years earlier though.

 

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On 9/27/2017 at 09:59, Sheffield History said:

 

Great photo of The Moor in 1966 including British Home Stores, Neales, Pauldens, and other shops

Interesting that there's currently a theory that pedestrianisation of places like this and Fargate is actually detrimental to a thriving city centre and there are serious calls for a return to traffic in cities rather than the pedestrianised thoroughfares we have today

 

One of the major problems for Sheffield is that the 'centre' shopping area effectively is more or less a single road extending over a long distance (bit like an overgrow village high street). Shoppers, especially those not so sprightly on their feet, then find it difficult getting from one end to the other. This being a problem with the new market with buses not exactly close to the shopping street. 

It has been tried with the Clipper (?) bus but perhaps a solution could be 'mini' electric buses travelling slowly along the Moor, Fargate and High Street (and possibly into Pond Street). This may be a better solution than full-blown return to traffic on the pedestrian areas.

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