Rotherham: a night out in the 80's Remembered

Happy days 70s/80s in R/ham. My local was the Cat and Cabbage ,lived on St.Stephens Rd. very handy for nights out in town, wobble home! Our band played the Dickens once and a guy called John DJ-d there ,used to drop in for a drink after band practice in Masborough. Dickens used to be a good bikers pub. Saw Joe Cocker there one night, he came in to see some lads from his old Greaseband play. Thanks for the memories Rotherman.

I think the pub near the Mail Coach was called the Cleaver.

02:34 That beauty of a church, my God you can see how the UK is in decline, its deserted in a horrible way and boarded up

Where was the Tut N Shive? Bluecoats used to be my ballet school in 1960s and The Cellar Bar beneath High House.. There was SHipmates bar and club, had rave/house music. In the 80s, Peppermint PArk.

Whatever happened to Rotherham? Where are the people? I have lived in Australia since 2003, and can't believe what a shambles I am seeing. Such fond memories of 1970s and 1980s fun.

Thanks John. My time would have been the mid seventies. The pub on Wellgate just before the Mailcoach was called the Cleaver inn in my time I think. You had to go upstairs to it if my memory serves me right. A good pint of Whitbreads was to be had then. Enjoyed the video very much cheers.

Nice to meet you matey. I remember Rotherham well back then. My mate was responsible for adding washing up liquid in the fountains on a regular basis lol

Used to be busy and loads to do before the third world came in. It is shell of what it used to be, you could spend only half an hour in each pub starting at 5 and you still couldn't visit them all in one night. All these closed down shops and building sites were thriving businesses not that long ago. You could spend a full morning going from shop to shop 20 years ago, 50 years a full day, there was even farmer markets. Now you can do it in an hour, there's nothing worth going into town for. The council ruined the town. They bullied thriving businesses out of locations so they could get the land cheap to build smaller shops on them or things the town didn't need, then cried when the same thriving businesses refused to come back and they were stuck with empty buildings for years. This had a knock on effect shutting other thriving businesses down or forcing them to move outside town. The council got greedy with the parking costs, drove more people out. The council and police refused to do something about the third world hanging around in gangs bothering people and taking things that didn't belong to them. In the end decent people just avoided the town.

Rotherham dire place now

Didn't bring back amy memories for me though because I were always to pissed to remember anything lol. If you wanted a scrap, just go to The Angel or Falstaff. I used to work in a hotdog/burger van van on Saturdy nights and I saw some things then I tell thee.

Eyup John lad ,I enjoyed that it evokes memorys of early 90s when i still lived in Darnall . Sunday nights we would get taxis from the Sportsman in Darnall and get dropped of outside the Turf Tavern we then did vertually the same route as you took but after the High House (High bar them days I think) we finished of in Jakes Bar (dickens/station) then taxis back to Darnall all in all i think on the night we did 10 pubs 11 max , we only supped halfs tho !! Thanks for the memorys and al sithi ( si di if your'e from Sheffield Lol) on't next un😄👍👍 PS used to feel shockin Monday morning at work!

It was called the cleaver just down from the mail coach

Yer forgot about peppermint park halfway up ship hill also remember gunna Adam n eve above market,love the vids 😁

Aww those were good times. Then yes we know what happened 😢

Adam and Eve became Harveys think that was late 80s

John and dons chesse and onion sand wichs in coach were made of legends

There was a punk called Sid who used to regularly strip off in the mosh pit in Shipmates

just upstairs a few doors along from the Turf Tavern was Cresta's nightclub .

1:24 is not turf tavern... it was just up from angel!! around 2:47

What about the Dickens.....