A Lasting
Testimony
From
Sheffield
As we learn about each others lives
we can lay the foundations for a Compassionate Sheffield.
“I think we all have a story. And all our stories are interesting to other people. I think as humans, we like to know about other people’s lives and what they get up to etc. So whoever you are, whatever your background, whatever happened to you during the pandemic period, that is your individual story. And together that makes up the story of Sheffield.”
PETE EVANS - SHEFFIELD CITY ARCHIVES
Everyone has a story.
This is a selection of some of the stories that have been collected.
All of the stories are in the cities archives.
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Philippa
Netherthorpe, Sheffield
"There was a sense of, “Oh, it’s only killing older people and disabled people”, as if that was then fine. To which older people and disabled people like me are going, “Excuse me? No, that’s still… that’s still not okay”.
Pat
Darnall, Sheffield
"It were that disease. Nobody could come in. I had to put up with it, love. I’ve been in a room on my own, I’ve got me telly, that’s the only comfort I’ve got, and that lady there [points to carer]... I don’t like being on my own, it’s lonely."
Ken
Page Hall, Sheffield
"But are you going to survive when you don’t have access to a hospital like everyone else?"
Joseline
Crooksmoor, Sheffield
"I just thought this is something in China, it probably won’t come to England, I’ll never have to deal with it."
Angela
Sheffield
"Absolutely no interpreter for three days... I cried. Is there anything wrong with me?"
Zac
S6 Foodbank - Sheffield
"We had a funeral service for her. A fair few of us were able to go in person with our masks on, socially distanced. Then we spoke a bit outside. It was January, it was freezing cold. And then a few of my close family drove to McDonald’s got a drive thru and sat in cars next to each other and ate the drive thru together."
Firaz
Open Kitchen Social, Sheffield
"It’s just like my energy dropped from the top, straight away down, like, something happened to me. Something not right."
John
Pitsmoor, Sheffield
"And when the hearse came and so on, everybody in the road came out. And it reminded me of my childhood"
Ella
Ecclesfield, Sheffield
"I think I lost a lot of my childhood. Like, I went from not knowing anything about life and stuff. And then now I just know a lot of different things."