Can you imagine in the 60s and 70s they were all nice houses, little gardens, good neighbours all working people. Probably nice parks, kids playing in the streets. Maybe a fish n chip shop a VG corner store a greengrocers, a daily milkman a Sunblest and Mother's Pride daily bread round, Ice Cream vans doing the rounds on the long summer nights, and a Corona pop van on a Friday night. Probably a Victoria wines off license and a few back street off the road little pubs all full on a Saturday night, it's enough to make you cry to see what's happening to not just Burnley, but our country as a whole,.

I lived in Burnley, my first two houses were there. The first house on Cog Lane was £13k in the 80's, sold for £35k in 2006, sold because the area was full of druggies, thieving scum - if it was not bolted down it was stolen, they kick your doors in to burgle you. When I got the opportunity to sell and move elsewhere I took it, unfortunately moving to Ightenhill was no better, the kids of scummy parents made our life hell so we moved away after a couple of years. The whole town is a shi tehole and I would never live there again - I hate going there as it has so many bad memories. Landlords will be rubbing their hands at your video thinking they will make a nice profit by renting to the poor. Areas used to be nice but they are now really bad because of the landlords. So if your encouraged by the idea of a cheap price for a house in Burnley, consider that the price may be low but the cost is high.

Nice video! The cars out front are more expensive than the houses

I currently live in burnley near lidl.. I agree that some areas are in rough state, but I am just lucky that I live with good neighbors.. I just don't mind other's businesses so they wouldn't mind mine..

Thank you very much for this video! A lot to think, and as someone that loves DIYS, I believe that is a great opportunity to have the first house, and transform in a lovely home. Really good video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

2:20 puts north face on and Instantly starts swag walk & talking about the pub as he walks through Burnley - epic 😅

1980 I bought a Rundown, Ruff, I bought the old Farm house, £12,000,

Massively depressing...... The costs are beyond comprehension.

Why don't you ask some pertinent questions like what happened to all the working class people who used to live here and took pride in their little homes ? Why did they move ? Where did they move to ? Who, exactly, is buying these houses ? Why is Burnley Council allowing such degradation and rubbish on the streets ? What plans have they got for improving the housing stock ? Any bets on who runs Burnley Council ? So much for the Tory's leveling up. Politicians make me sick !!!!!

The one's I always feel bad for are the people who try. Sometimes you see one lonely house on a road full of Pitbull dog shit and garbage and they've put little flower pots and garden ornaments around their front door.

The Home less would love to Live in them houses

It’s wild, that almost all the homes - in so many different places - looks the same XD

That £12000 house used to be a grow house😂you can see all the filters,fans and air ducts

Burnley has a great town centre, massive sports facility, a college, big park grounds including townley hall, a football stadium, a cinema, a lovely canal running through it. Just walk for a few minutes and you're up on the moors with amazing views and no end of bike riding or hiking trails. Its a real shame theres such dilapidated areas of housing as it could be a great place to live if people took a bit of pride in the area.

Buy 2 or 3 next to each other, merge them in to unit, gut them and make 1 a car park.

I've just discovered your account and already your yellow North Face jacket is the most consistent thing in my life

Really interesting video that mate,well done 👍

I am seeing a trend in my area for investors snapping up houses and turning them into rental houses. It is almost impossible for first time buyers to get on the ladder. Unfortunately, as was mentioned here, some Landlords are not fussy about their tenants. We had a Family nearby that caused misery to everyone in the street: Cars pulling up and openly dealing drugs, fights, rubbish everywhere, feral children, filthy language. One Christmas Eve, a lorry pulled up and the Mother and her children, all in pyjamas and a few bags bundled onto the back… and that was it! Peace!

I bought a terraced house in Burnley today and will be moving in later next year. I'll report on my experiences after having lived here for a few months.

My home town, I grew on them streets born in early 90s

How many grow houses did he just walk past

Randomly came across this video/channel in my suggested and I'm glad I clicked! We moved around a lot growing up, and I actually thought the houses we lived in Burnley were knocked down, this was a throw back to nostalgia haha - thanks for that! Edit- i had a double check, and yep, one of the streets we did live on with terraced housing was knocked down.

I noticed at about 13:30 that lots of houses had the same front doors, probably a job lot for a private landlord. Some things never change as most were probably not owner occupier anyway.

LOL John Cooper Clark How apropos😄

I used to live in Todmorden, I couldn't afford Hebden, can no longer afford Todmorden .. but in my mind, it just takes people to change a place. The only thing I'll say is that, people are not happy without greenery, trees, gardens, plants. Back to back and side by side urban squalor. It's hard to work with that.

This was very illuminating, so thanks for doing this. From the front those houses looked quite good. It was only when you showed us the backs we saw the grim reality. By way of contrast, I live in Dorset in a 3 bedroomed ex council house. The going rate in my street is £300k. I have just sold my late brothers house in North West London for £450k. It is smaller than mine with no central heating. Madness.

Would break ins be more or less if we were allowed to defend our homes do you reckon? or would it just make burglary's more violent and lethal?

Cannabis factory! 18:17 You obviously avoided Burnley "No Go Zone".

I had a contract in offices on Elm Stree Burnley, out towards Brierfield about 10 years ago. At the time, there were loads.of boarded up houses for sale for 6k. It's only a short distance from glorious countryside,.Pendle hill etc I never felt threatened there. I really liked living there for the four months.

I am 55 and I lived in the last area you covered for 47 years until I moved south with work 8 years ago . I lived on the street with the 12 thousand pound house for all my childhood . Until 8 years ago I had lived within 5 streets of my childhood home all my life, living to begin with in a smaller terrace and finally living in the large “fancier” houses, I also owned a business in the area for a good few years. Growing up it was a lovely area with a real sense of community and even in more recent times the long standing residents of the area still have a great sense of community and pride in their homes. The problems are two fold , lack of investment by the powers that be and landlords as you said buying up property cheap to add to a massive portfolio. The landlords are not interested in who lives in the properties as on the whole they rent to people on benefits so their rents are guaranteed. The rental properties that make up the majority of the area have a transient population of residents who for whatever reason are not invested in their homes so don’t take a pride in where they live as they know it’s only a temporary place to live and they tend to move properties on a regular basis . Stop the landlords monopoly, get some local investment and the difference I’m sure would be there for all to see. Burnley is not a bad place it’s mismanagement on a grand scale. My elderly parents still live close to the last area you showed in the larger houses and the community is superb , everyone looks out for each other , the houses are well cared for etc . It’s not rocket science to see that the houses and communities are good in the streets with the larger houses because they don’t incur the quick profits that the smaller ones do for the landlords so landlords don’t buy them .

Bro that 12k house, see the white filters downstairs and ventilation in the walls... its an ex cannabis grow house 😂

In Ireland my auntie sold her house for €500k in an okay area but the house is only 100m2.

Stoke on Trent right now has 115 houses under £60k

Just wow I grew up in Burnley in fact the house I lived in was one of the roughest spots you showed I left when I was 13 I am now 50 and have never returned not even for a visit which says it all. It was a sad traumatic experience living in such a deprived area and the only thing you can do if possible is to move somewhere else.

Good work - I’ll check out Burnley

A council could force-buy a job lot of those houses for £20k and stick a further £20k into each of them for renovations, then sell half for a significant profit and rent the other half out. The whole area would be transformed from undesirable to desirable. which would in itself turn each £40k investment into an £80k asset.

Sunak stole their levelling up money and gave it to Tunbridge Wells.

I’m from Burnley and still live here unfortunately, I sometimes convince myself it’s a nice place to live. you certainly do get blind to the squalor 😂 eye opening stuff, thank you for the reality check.

Burnley’s a great town. I’ve lived here for 58 years and plan on going nowhere. I’ve just been Paignton and should have stayed a week. Less than 24 hours later I was straight back up the M5. That and Torquay is disgusting

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I'm from Bradford (live in Leeds now) and these streets are EXACTLY like some of the poorer areas of Bradford. I expect the story of Burnley is very similar to that of Bradford too - Once a very successful mill town with a booming local economy in wool and textiles. In fact I remember even in the 1990s there was still a significant wool industry in Bradford. Terraces like these would have been full of the working class families that worked in the nearby factories and shops. They would mostly have been hard working salt-of-the-earth type people who made the best of whatever they had. Gradually that localised economy (and industry as a whole) in this country disintegrated and you ended up with so many cities and towns (especially in the north) loosing the economic lifeblood that once gave employment, income and sense of community to so many. And from there on in the social decay - Mass unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug addiction, crime and general social decay set in and it all ended up as we see it now. As that lad in the van pointed out, buying up of these properties by landlords only looking to make a quick buck who don't care what sort of tennants end up there only perpetuates the social problems. An area is only ever as good as the people living there choose to make it and even decent tennants who are only there for the short term roof over their head are never going to lift these areas back up to what they could be. The collapse of diverse and localised economies this country once (and not so very long ago) had in abundace is what set all this off and the London-centric policies of successive governments plus the ever growing problem of buy-to-let culture perpetuates it. With all that being said, I would much sooner pay £20k to live in Burnley with all its social/economic issues and crime than £500k to live in much the same social climate (probably more dangerous in fact) in or around London. You can also get similar kind of properties in the poorer parts of Leeds for £40k upwards.

I'm originally from Wales. I went to Burnley to visit a mate for a weekend when I left the Army in 1989. I ended up staying for 8 years lol, and bought a house in Burnley Wood, not far from your first house on Pine Street. Burnley was awesome back then, great people and a fantastic night life. It went downhill a bit in the early to mid 90's as a lot of folk were made redundant and ended up skint. I eventually left to emigrate to Canada in 1997 but will always have very fond memories of my time in Burnley. I visited again in 2009 to catch up with some old friends and the decline was apparent then. Still fabulous people though, and there are some really nice areas to be honest. Thanks for the video.

Is this also a seaside town also?

the poem was exact

There was grow equipment in that open house you went in, and a big hole in the wall for extraction.

I moved from the South West to rural Lancashire twelve years ago. For me, it was a no-brainer. I'd always holidayed either in the Lakes or Dales so I retired close by and found simple accommodation to be cheap and charming. Pennine England is stunning. Northerners are great people with gritty humour and down-to-earth values. If you need to work in the city, then half-hourly services run from places like Hebden Bridge and Todmorden to Leeds and Manchester. Forget all that M25 CRAP and breathe some air!

I used to work in Burnley. It was eventful to say the least, remember we kept getting pressure washers and machinery stolen. They kept running into the notorious Trafalgar flats, I didn't follow lol!!!!

The homelessness and drug addicts in burnley is now shocking , its a poor town with some shockingly run down areas , the town centre is full of cheap shops and homeless people begging , so sad :(

Martin Collins has a cracking business boarding all those homes up 😂

I can see one guy doing ok in Burnley... Martin Collins, the name on all the boarded up windows. must be minted!

I'm noticing a lot of ethnic food shops. New build houses in my town are around 350,000 pounds.

Thanks for making this video. I live down south, where you can pay half a million for a mediocre flat just because it's in a posh area.

The local authorities should be snapping these up and using those on housing waiting lists and benefits to work with the council building teams to redevelop. That way they can learn some skills to get back into work and much better they are invested in the properties they live in.

I'm glad you showed the best side of Burnley

👍👍 Man I do like almost everything single video you done Love the stuff you do 🤝 Even I will like to see more South/Sea side towns & cities 🌆

The last house you viewed was definitely used as a grow house. You can tell by the huge carbon filters and ventilation holes cut into the walls and chimney.

Lol you came extremely close to my house, just off Lyndhurst Road right next to that Lidl you parked at. The area you were in is called Burnley Wood. It's known for being one of the roughest areas in Burnley. It has gotten a little bit better, but not much. Most of my mates growing up never got out and have become drug dealers and such. Super interesting to see.

I enjoyed the video. Can you do the same thing for other towns/cities in your area. Thanks

great channel. inspired

According to “Bank of Dave’ Netflix movie it is cosy and nice place for living.

Please make more content like this. Do more real estate property hunting videos. It's fun and interesting!

Regarding the bars on doors and windows…That is a very common thing in Turkey. Not so much because people are frightened of being burgled, but because people leave their windows and doors open for fresh air, it’s just really secure. You can have every window open and not worry about anything except a stray cat. :-)

Burnley is the yorkshire of Lancashire. We try not to go there…

Whoa, the kinda house I can afford lol. Especially since I'm a programmer and work remotely.

What is the demography of Burnley?

the bars on the doorway and lower windows are to stop people breaking in and destroying things inside while the house is empty.

To add some context, a little terraced house in the posh village of Worsthorne on the fringes of Burnley will set you back £150,000.

I made a flying trip to Burnley last Thursday and Friday (14-15 December) with househunting in mind. After all the bad reports I had heard, I went there with some trepidation especially as I had a viewing in the notorious Coal Clough area and would have to make my own way there from Manchester Road station. Finally, I decided to go on a train one hour earlier so I'd have time to make it down to the Healey Woods area that fascinates me because there are so many terraced houses on the market there. I'd seen it on the map and thought it looks great all surrounded by green. And that's just how it seemed to me on the ground. I took to asking every passer by what life was like here. Everybody said things were fine, it wasn't dangerous and I just got a puzzled look when I asked if you get a lot of burglaries. People said no. And the legendary friendliness of Lancashire mill towns was in abundant display. Trust me, you can never get lost in Burnley. Just ask the first passer by and they'll put you straight. Off to Coal Clough where I ended up doing three viewings and had to walk from one to another because the estate agents aren't allowed to give you a lift for insurance reasons. So I walked the so-called rough streets of Coal Clough. Again I spoke to lots of passers-by. One man said there were burglaries but from unlocked sheds, not houses. One person made the interesting comment, "You're white and on the oldish side, so nobody will give you any bother around here." Having investigated the market a bit, I can say with confidence that the really cheap ones need a lot of renovation and that's why they're cheap and also I wouldn't trust the advertised opening prices in property auctions because that is not the price they go for. I was in three two-up/two-downs in Coal Clough and I can say that the going price just now for these when in reasonable condition but perhaps needing redecorated through estate agents is about £65,000. Still cheap by national standards. And I can also say that while there is a plentiful supply, they sell remarkably quickly, often in less than one week. One of the places I had come to see in Coal Clough had already been sold and tenanted, but they showed me others instead. It seems there is a high demand for rental at about £500 per month in this area, and it is mainly sadly people on the dole who have kids and need to be housed in larger places. Hence the attraction for investors. You calculate the yield. I must say, though, that having walked through a fair bit of the terraced areas of Burnley, I hardly saw a boarded up property or one with bars on the windows. I am not denigrating your video and of course you went in search of ultra-cheap properties but Burnley by and large is not like this. Sometimes people do put up bars when the house is going to be vacant for a long time, which is the case with some that are on the market. I then made my way on foot along Accrington Road and chanced across the top of the notorious Cog Lane which I ventured down a little with no negative consequences. I stopped for a tea at a little cafe on Accrington Road. Somebody offered the reply, "Because it's rough" when I asked why property was so cheap here, and I keep hearing the adjective "rough" used to describe the town, but couldn't really get a clearer explanation of what is meant. Everybody shook their heads when I asked, "So, does this mean I'll get stabbed walking down the road?" Interestingly, an elderly fellow who had told me that there was nothing basically wrong with the area told me to steer clear of there when I mentioned Florence Street, where I said I was going to look at a house that had already been sold there. His comment was, "It's a shame because it's mostly very nice people there. But there are one or two very bad people in that street. The police come and sort them out from time to time and then they quieten down, but then they start again." As to what they start, I didn't ask so I'll leave that to your imagination. Anyway, I went down to the bottom of Florence Street and back and then made my way on foot along Accie Road and up to Rosegrove, an area with a better reputation, where I had another viewing. I stayed in Colne that evening, a very pleasant town and from my experience the streets there are perfectly safe in the evening. On the Friday, I got myself a one-day ticket for the Burnley buses and rode all around inspecting various areas. Including the posh areas. I went to Worsthorne and walked to Cliviger and back. Just a couple of miles from the town centre and you are transported into another world. Also I saw that there is gorgeous English countryside just on the doorstep of Burnley. I had one interesting experience while in the queue to board a bus at Burnley bus station. I just asked the bloke in front of me what life was like in Burnley and he said something like "bloody awful". I said I was here to work out why property prices were so cheap here and said I was thinking of moving here, and at that the five or six people ahead of us in the queue all turned round and chimed in with comments like: "Don't do it" or "Stay away". On the bus, this man had some interesting advice, along the lines of, "If you just want to go about your business by day, come home, make your tea and settle in for the evening, you'll be fine in Burnley." The point perhaps being that all the trouble is after dark. On my travels, I walked the full length of the notorious Leyland Road without suffering any ill effect - there was nobody on the street anyway - but I had a lengthy chat with an elderly man who told me he was born in Pakistan who was just coming out of one house. I elicited a chuckle when I inquired, "Why do they say this is the most dangerous street in Lancashire?" and explained the problem, as we know, being with investors from the south who buy and don't care who they rent to, but he said the owner occupiers in the street do care, and the problem was nothing like as big as it is made out to be. Overall, my superficial two-day impression of Burnley was overwhelmingly positive, especially as far as the friendliness of people goes. I am seriously considering moving here. In fact I've got a builder doing a viewing of a terraced house in need of renovation on my behalf on Friday. We'll see what comes of it. The flat I went to inspect in Rosegrove had already sold before my viewing! From following the market here for the past few weeks, I have seen that most stuff in the lower price range usually goes fast.

It's not ridiculously cheap...the country has gotten ridiculously expensive. Where it's a case of selling your soul for a place to live. To keep you trapped on the hamster wheel. Within my life time it's gone from one person needing to work in a family to both parents working as well as having to claim money from the state to afford to live. How has this happened?!!!

Lived in Burnley in the late 1980s. I was assaulted then in Woolworth’s car park so I left! A long term problem here, I would say

Good video 🤝👍, thanks!

the people on the expensive side of the street should all team together to buy 1 of the cheap side of the street, knock it all down and build carapace or shared setting or other.

The glass on walls is very common in Nigeira

That last house was a grow house , the reason people have decent cars is they get them on tick/finance. Those sirts of streets want knocking down they will never recover.

Cheap houses with nice cars is usually attributed to lower income people buying luxury cars cars that suffer from heavy depreciation (old mercs, BMWs, Jags etc) to elevate themselves above the other low income people. The cars usually run OK to start but once the maintenance gets neglected (as it always does).....they can never afford the costs to repair their $100k car that they bought for $10k. Price depreciates, maintenance costs are still that of a $100k car.

16:10 this is the result of people being forcefully evicted from their homes

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing this. I keep thinking of trying to buy a very cheap house somewhere and doing it up as I would like it and then retiring early. I think one of the 'advantages' if you can call it that of having a house that needs completely remodernising is that you can do it up to your personal specification & taste. I had never personally thought about Burnley. I am from Yorkshire so would consider that the 'wrong side of the Penines' myself. I am a bit rattled by the bars on the windows & the doors myself. But I have personally been thinking about Middlesborough, Peterslee or Hartlepool for myself. I like the idea of Hartlepool because it is by the seaside. What do you think of those towns??

I liked how you noticed how crap the houses must be because of the iron gates and then looked at an expensive house and admired its iron gates ;) .

16:12 bonfire materials

Burnley is sweet, again awesome people and all you need to do is keep your property protected. edit to add for me that would be a combo of physical and electronic monitoring.

How bizarre to see several streets in UK with derelict and empty houses when the country has a shortage of houses. What a waste of resources!!!

See also Spennymoor, Stanley and Quaking Houses, Barrow-in-Furness, Shaw and parts of Dewsbury, Batley and Oldham, Blaenau and Bethesda. These are small areas of England and Wales (I'm sure there are others) which are being DELIBERATELY left to rot.

I could give that a shot!

Yes but what about job opportunities and transportation networks. Who wants to live in an area with not much nearby not even people

You could have told me that was Mogadishu, I would have believed it. Yikes

Quite shocking areas like that exist in the UK in 2022. Most of those houses are probably completely unfit to live in, with things like mold, vermin, asbestose and just very damp in general. The city really should step in, buy these and either demolish or fully renovate before dodgy landlords take advantage of people in a desperate situation and actually rent them out in this state. This obviously would be terrible for the health of the occupants. One can only pray no children are living there now that we know what terrible things mold can do to them.

It is incredible, there is supposed to be a massive housing shortage in the UK

Retired Environmental Health Officer, Private Sector Housing, seen it Oh too often.

If Jaywick Sands, Clacton can be brought back to life then anywhere in the UK can.

I am commenting before watching the whole video. The first house at £38k is a guide price for auction which could very well mean it starts at £70 and sells for much more.

We live in a reasonable nice area My late father best mate put Steel Bars on every window now im old its a comfort 👍 Cheers Stephen 🤠✌️🍀

If there's high crime and it's cold weather, you're just a prisoner in your own home. Awful. Cheap houses, nice cars? Crime.

Really sad to see property in this condition 😞

A lot of these old Victorian houses need a lot of work doing to them. The cost of the work will obviously exceed the purchase price of the house. People taking on the work often feel like they are living under siege. A real indicator of an area is what it is like at night. Also the amount of fly tipping in an area.

Oddly enough, your last house was 32 Pritchard Street and one that I viewed last week was 23 Pritchard Street. That was a lovely little house in reasonable condition. Of course, if a house is trashed it drops in value.

mmmm Ford street, that would be cool.

End houses are usually colder and outside walls can suffer with damp. Plus if you want to know what the area is like go back in the evening after schools turn out.

I think the reason why they aren't selling is, they're too expensive!

It isn’t just the price you think about……but also what’s your neighbours like?

Barrow area is similar... Labour Council does nothing about the drugs and violence...