Sheffield Neepsend dusts settle on Cannon brewery demolition gentrification doomsday.

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]I've come back into Neepsend, just to show you what it's like after the demolition of the old Cannon Brewery, or a lot of the old Cannon Brewery, but we're on the absolute madness bus gate just here.

[00:00:13]They're absolutely destroying this area for industry, putting double yellow lines down everywhere, and killing it off.

[00:00:23]But, I've just had the shock of my life.

[00:00:25]I had a very interesting chat with a PCSO, and his beat is Kelham Island and the Wicker.

[00:00:31]So, I just said to him, "I've never seen any police patrolling in Sheffield." And we had a really good chat.

[00:00:36]Born and bred Sheffielder, which was nice. So, we start to see what's going off. I'll give you an angle from the other end, but what I'm just going to say is why are we urbanizing our industrial area in Sheffield, and then building massive warehouses on our green belt to actually import goods?

[00:00:55]We need to rebalance the industry versus service sector, and that's a major issue. What we're doing is we're exporting our pollution to the rest of the world.

[00:01:07]End of story.

[00:01:08]With the green agenda, says capital centric on that. All the details I've got on the video when I get home.

[00:01:18]You should see the traffic coming down Rutland Road. It's a bit quieter at the moment, but it streams down there. Why isn't isn't there a super tram link up there?

[00:01:27]There's a lot of traffic coming down there.

[00:01:30]But, just here we've got the Rutland Hall.

[00:01:33]1906, it's got another purpose now.

[00:01:38]But, I really just want to give you a flavor.

[00:01:42]When they put the clean air zone in, and they wanted to make all the alterations around here, all the businesses, about 300 or so, objected. They knew what was coming, cuz it destroyed the industrial base around here. But, that's a different angle on it. We'll get another angle on it.

[00:01:59]It was once the Cannon Brewery here, but that employed a lot more people than these microbreweries do. So, we've lost the Whitbread Brewery in Sheffield.

[00:02:09]We've lost the Ward's Brewery on Ecclesall Road. And is there another brewery we've lost in Sheffield?

[00:02:16]Places that employed hundreds of people, not a few people. If you work for an industrial business here, you need to use your car for the shifts and things. Well, now you have to pay for your parking.

[00:02:30]There's no buses when you're coming on certain shifts, there's either very few, but they're giving it the real student vibe around here now. You can see they wall art going in along here, all around here.

[00:02:46]But, I've seen the difference in the last 2 years in this area. There'll be no small businesses left shortly.

[00:02:53]And my mantra is we need to re-industrialize the UK.

[00:02:58]We need proper clean energy that's affordable, and we shouldn't be building solar farms all over our green belt.

[00:03:10]It really gives you a flavor what's coming around here.

[00:03:16]I'll give you one more angle from the bottom.

[00:03:20]I can remember when I could park around the city center, Campo Street, for nothing.

[00:03:26]We didn't need to park there, cuz you could come on bus, but now you can see how much it is. £6, £6.50 on the street.

[00:03:32]Imagine trying to work at a business around here.

[00:03:37]You can't run a country on a fake business like they are trying to do.

[00:03:42]Unless we bring back manufacturing, we're going to end up with massive debt to the rest of the world, or to whoever.

[00:03:51]We're on Bardwell Road and Neepsend Lane down there.

[00:03:55]But, what's coming here is coming to Arctic Cliffs in Sheffield, which I'm documenting as well.

[00:04:04]It really gives you an idea.

[00:04:09]This will be remaining.

[00:04:12]Gardener's Rest here.

[00:04:16]But, rather than having monuments to our past, or follies should I call them, we should be investing in real industry.

[00:04:26]I mean, look at it.

[00:04:28]I just do not recognize the area.

[00:04:37]That's Burton Road. But, do they even work today? Only once they actually sit at computers.

[00:04:44]They don't actually do real work, cuz I just don't get it. But, that's it.

[00:04:48]That's a quick update from Neepsend, but I'll keep coming here, I'll keep moaning, and keep updating you.

[00:04:55]Thanks for watching the video.