Why Yorkshire?
What's the appeal of Yorkshire? Is it just the scenery or is it a kind of Englishness? Please respond to survey also:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/ttri/AFY_Questionnaire/onlineQuestionnaire.htm
Do you not think it's ok to film in Yorkshire, places like Bristol etc where they film Casualty, there isn't much to be done for countryside and that's one of the points I knowthey wanted for it.
Skelthwaite is the scenic town in 'yeah Sheffield' tis Huddersfield:) note the scenic!
I'm just impressed by the popularity of Yorkshire which seems to represent a kind of old-fashioned Englishness that doesn't exist anywhere else except maybe Cornwall - you know, Doc Martin...and that doesn't fit the Casualty/Holby City thing at all.
shareYorkshire is so big that is very diverse, South Yorkshire (where the show is based) is the most industrialised around Sheffield (e.g. textiles) and whilst lovely in many places is generally the poor relation of the rest of Yorkshire. To the greatest extent to North Yorkshire which is the most rural (it never industrialised, the most affluent and recently replaced Kent was England's 'most beautiful county'.
shareThe original family in the show -the Snow family- are based partly on the family of the district nurse of Meltham (West Yorkshire). She's retired now but I want to school with the real 'Stephen Snow' and the show is partly filmed in Meltham because this is where the real 'Snow' family live/come from!
sharehi.
The show is not based in South Yorkshire,but in the townships of Slaithwaite,Meltham and Marsden in West Yorkshire.
chris myers90
Please don't post any more stupid comments like yours above -it just shows how ignorant you are.
South Yorkshire is far from the 'poor relation' as you crudely put it. The district of Hallam in Sheffield is the richest area in the north of England. The entire city of Sheffield is known for being the greenest in England, ever heard of the Peak District?
Incidentally,Sheffield is known the world over for its steel. It has never been known for textiles. That is West Yorkshire, in particular the Holme Valley.
Where the heart is is filmed in and around the Holme Valley in West Yorkshire.
chris myer90 hit the nail on the head. South Yorkshire IS a very poor relation to North, West and East Yorkshire and Sheffield itself IS A DUMP. The industrial heart died out years ago. End of story.
Hallam?? Affluent compared to the area stretching from North Leeds to between Harrogate and York and then up towards Boroughbridge/Ripon? I doubt it.
Also the Peak District is in Derbyshire.
I've lived and worked throughout Yorkshire for the past fifteen years so I say you're talking out of your hat.
South Yorkshire and Sheffield in particular - to quote you, 'IS a VERY poor relation to North, West and East Yorkshire?
So a 'VERY poor' relation to Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Bradford, Cleckheaton, Hull? and - most parts of Leeds? (except the very exclusive bit in the far north of Leeds you write about that are mainly in North Yorkshire and are still beneath Hallam in official figures.)
Blinking heck - if Sheffield is VERY poor compared to those places then the vibrant, modest, forward looking city I have just had lunch in must be a mirage or Dewsbury has changed since I was there last Thursday.
I have only lived and worked in Yorkshire for 40 years, South, West and North so your 15 is something I obviously have to bow to - so what the hell do I know?