STOKE ON TRENT - How Bad is it? HANLEY LONGTON BURSLEM TUNSTALL Ghost Towns ENGLAND UNITED KINDOM 4k 0:00 Hanley 11:13 Longton 20:25 Burslem 28:27 Tunstall
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@tango6nf4775 ай бұрын
Three main things have destroyed / are destroying our Town and City center's. 1. Online shopping: the likes of Amazon and similar have taken over and people would rather sit at home and have things delivered to their door than go out and buy from a shop. 2. Out of town shopping centers: these have been built out in the suburbs and the major shops like ASDA, Sainsburys, DIY stores etc etc have moved in and out of Town. 3. Many City and Town centers are experiencing a rise in crime committed by drunks, druggies, and gangs. Antisocial behavior is frightening decent people away. Unless the "powers that be" sit up and smell the roses soon, and do something our Cities and Towns are finished.
@GranCanariaUncovered3 ай бұрын
I disagree with you, if 1&2 were correct they would apply everywhere, but this is demonstrably not the fact. Regards 3 there were plenty of drunks drugs and gangs around in the 70s and 80s, didn't stop us going out and enjoying ourselves and staying out of trouble
@woodman22695 ай бұрын
Sadly many more places are going to end up like this. Especially when various councils start removing city car parking spaces, to limit the number of cars that can go there, which will limit the number of shoppers going to town. All to help the environment of course..
@Letskeepthingsreal5 ай бұрын
Must be prayer time 😂🤣
@PurityVendetta5 ай бұрын
My god, things were awful when I lived here but now... I've never seen anything like it. I can safely say I'm never coming back. It's positively post apocalyptic.
@lcship19055 ай бұрын
Like so many other towns/small cities - I diagnose massive over enrichment leading to huge pinch on housing, destruction of community and small shops.😢
@overeastcoast5 ай бұрын
We live in Norwich, there is nothing anywhere like this in our city. What a dump stoke really is.
@Ukipmiddleleft5 ай бұрын
I live in Stoke and I agree with you.
@museonfilm89195 ай бұрын
There's so much potential for small and large businesses, with those empty properties. But, with no investment or job creation, it's only going to get worse.
@PurityVendetta5 ай бұрын
I tried for years to find somewhere to open a business in Stoke on Trent but the rents are just too high to justify taking the risk. I'm afraid the brextards have now sealed the same fate for the rest of the septic Isle. Bad food, bad weather and stupid people. The worst thing is that the scum who vote tory and voted to leave the euhave trapped decent people like myself in the rotting corpse of little england and they will find there's nothing more dangerous than a trapped creature in a doomed country.
@lynseyleese74755 ай бұрын
Stoke on Trent is more like a zombie apocalypse and a complete ghost town
@MartinMilnerUKАй бұрын
In the early 80s The Specials sang about the "Ghost Towns." Seems some of this is coming true.
@tonysmith8379Ай бұрын
Some post apocalypse music would go well with this video.
@J.Harry.T5 ай бұрын
My congratulations to the town planning department. This must be one of the most ‘pedestrian-friendly’ town centres in the country. There is hardly any motorised traffic. If there were any cyclists, I am sure they would be delighted. Even so I noticed the ‘pay-for-parking’ machines, which must bring in vast revenues and the double yellow lines, which are, no doubt, still patrolled in the hope of issuing a few fixed penalty notices. My advice - go to a garden centre instead. They sell everything these days and don’t charge you anything to park.
@neiljohnson47635 ай бұрын
So when did the levelling up start, oh it didn't did it!? I'm familiar with Hanley more so, and sad to see such a thriving town, turn to this. Will the buildings be converted into flats and houses, or demolished first, then build, either way it's a sad ending to an historical industrial town in Staffordshire!
@ganrimmonim5 ай бұрын
OK I now live in London but know that bit of town well. What the heck happened?
@davidclark36035 ай бұрын
It's called, Tory Britain!!!!
@philippamclean93665 ай бұрын
We allowed the Chinese to visit our Potbanks and film how we made everything, this was in he 70's and guess what they employed people to go Iive there mainly managers to to take everything away from us.
@carolemcgrath2468Ай бұрын
So shocked its been a while since i ws in hanley didnt realise it was this bad
@006mh3 ай бұрын
Moved out of Longton in my 20s, moved overseas in my 30s and never looked back. This place is unrecogniseable to the place I grew up in, it no longer means anything to me!
@celiabeverton45148 күн бұрын
Well done I say to your councillors
@wilsonflood43935 ай бұрын
Was this a sunday?
@Stewwwwww5 ай бұрын
What camera do you use?
@ADTravel5 ай бұрын
Dji pocket
@tracysmith-yv5lt4 ай бұрын
can you do one around Yates Fire yet?
@ADTravel4 ай бұрын
Will do
@wilsonflood43935 ай бұрын
I'll never criticise Dumfries again.
@martinwild84245 ай бұрын
High street shops are finished 😢
@jimwright11485 ай бұрын
People buy all their stuff online and still expect shops to trade.There is your problem.
@lynseyleese74755 ай бұрын
I agree
@bj36805 ай бұрын
Have to disagree, unfortunately for Hanley specifically, it just started to get run down, and then it went into a downward spiral to what it is today. If it was online shopping all places would be like this!
@lynseyleese74755 ай бұрын
@@bj3680 I reckon in many years to come there won’t be any shops to visit everything is like u said online these days and things much cheaper
@BlackwoodMorgan3 ай бұрын
Jesus. Is that really England ? Shocking.
@buy.to.let.britain5 ай бұрын
at least house prices are at the highest ever in uk history .....
@lucjo78916 күн бұрын
Glad I moved out 2012
@knowitstime7961Ай бұрын
I avoid Hanley as much as possible. But what they have done to Hanley, they are busy doing to Newcastle under Lyme too. The towns are disappearing, and flats are appearing. Complete dumps full of drug users, prostitutes and homeless people. Used to be real buzzing areas, long gone.
@morpheus24903 ай бұрын
Leveling up skipped stoke. There is a BBC documentary on Ireland troubles where they show footage from decade's ago in black and white. They wanted to recreate some scene's of the conflicts in Ireland and so they sectioned off a part of burslem/middleport in place of Ireland as it still looks the same as it did many decades ago/worse than it did in most places. I bet Ireland is even more modernised than here. They came with a troop carrier n everything.
@user-qz7uu2lt4wАй бұрын
Really sad What a waste What an opportunity The bones are still there It just needs people who care Give it to them for free Really sad
@knottyal24284 ай бұрын
Lose the primary industry like ceramics, and fail to attract inward investment in other businesses. All the other supporting industries like rmining and engineering have also been destroyed. People without work and money lose hope, shops can't survive without customers, and a depressing cityscape doesn't encourage visitors. Life and the future for Stoke-on-trent citizens is depressing, with little sign of improvement, so what can they do?
@GranCanariaUncovered3 ай бұрын
Why don't you speak in this videoi, describe what is happening, talk to local people about rheir home town? Without that I think this is pointless
@jamesmacphee48685 ай бұрын
And yet they line up to vote Tory in England... I never did get that!
@PopularesVox5 ай бұрын
Not just "Tory" mate, every British government that allowed this country to decline over several decades.
@PurityVendetta5 ай бұрын
@@PopularesVoxThe tories have been in power for 80% of the time post war. Every time labour gain power theyrepicking up the pieces then the scum classes get conned again and vote them back in.
@user-do6kj3or8w5 ай бұрын
No mate just Tories did videos like this circulate pre 2010?
@PopularesVox5 ай бұрын
@@user-do6kj3or8w No mate, its been every British government for the last 4 dacades. This particular area has suffered through an absolute decimation of the pottery industry by foreign competition and a complete absence of government support, as well as a failure to attract inward investment. In 2002 during a Labour government, one of the largest Royal Doulton moved its Royal Albert brand to Indonesia, closing its last remaining Stoke factories and making 500 potters redundant. This followed a slew of factory closures that reduced ceramics employment in the Potteries from 45,000 in 1975 and 23,000 in 1991, 13,000 2002 to a few hundred today.
@orbytl27995 ай бұрын
ill never get how many half witted folks there are out there that think that voting for labour would have made any difference 🤣
@kevinhancock9475Ай бұрын
Stoke on Trent in general is a complete dump and it’s gradually getting worse.
@user-qz7uu2lt4wАй бұрын
Ok Rent free for ten years Now go turn these places around Community spirit Elbow grease Volunteers A new beginning