Need to make these vids longer imo Bill, just gettin into them and it ends, i appreciate its probably a fine line and analytics driven but i really enjoy your revisit/showcasing of your old stompin grounds 👍

I grew up just off Marsh Lane there’s a lot of good people around there, they’d give you the coat off their back or their last tenner believe me. Most places have their bad areas, Bootle’s no different. I’ve got boss memories growing up round there, it’s character building. 👍🏼

Love your videos Billy lad. I'm a recovering addict myself mate in and out of jail. But turned my life back around now mate. I get a lot of brilliant advice and inspiration from your videos mate. You can tell your a good person mate. Keep up with the good videos as your deffo changing people lives and giving them strength and hope to do well

You’re never 5 minutes away from a rough area in any city Bill.

Omg brings back alot of memories for me,it is really sad seeing it as it is now,all the abandoned buildings,this is fantastic stuff Billy matey,much appreciated and keep up the great work and stay safe and well always.

someone said to me speke boulavard was the roughest area in liverpool , i worked on the estate for months, on a row of shops with flats above , they were next to a pub called the flying saucer , the lads doing the labouring work were all off the estate ,had a great laugh with them cracking bunch of lads,i had never seen so many scousers that acted exactly the same as Harry Enfields scouscers sketches,,

Million memories of when I was growing up before moving to Anfield❤ Thank Billy love to you & yours especially your Joe 😊

There was absolutely nothing wrong with that block of flats when they where abandoned. They could have easily been refurbished at £20k per flat and providing a rental income for the owners. Instead they just let them rot and everything around it as well. DISGRACEFULL. NOTHING UNUSUAL.

Bill could you make these a bit longer one day please?

Thousands of homeless and buildings like these could and should be put to use

Evening Bill I just wanted to say a big thank you for everything you share and talk about. I find a lot of identification with you and can relate with what you share about. Keep talking and keep sharing

Should look at making full documentaries bill, do a full day with some of the homeless or something and show us their lives. Got a gift for it

I remember we used to get people on the gear travelling all the way from Birkenhead, Wigan an st hellens an even winsford ti score on there, on the lane an mostly on jersey close. Mad days

Really great vids these Billy well done 👍

Coming from Manchester we Used to spend our holidays in Bootle at my nans, living the dream as kids😂. Just off marsh lane Clifton walk,not there anymore then she moved to one of the two tower blocks(think it was called Salisbury house) great view and better times.

I’ve only ever really been in Liverpool city centre, and also once walked from there to Anfield, via Everton Park- which was not really rough, we ended up calling in a pub called The Theostles Nest and then through a new build estate right next to Anfield…

Where I live in Toxteth , we got a flat looks same like that and I was filming the tower. The one I’m living in there for supposed to knock it down but people bought it and rent it out. Shame when I leave it to go to waste like that, I could’ve done it up and put people in specially the homeless people. 😮

billy have you ever approached JOHN HAASE about doing a podcast ??? id love to hear how he conned the tories into giving him a royal pardon

We need to tackle the underlying causes of violent crime in communities such as lack of housing and unemployment (which Billy’s vids have shown us many times). Investment in youth services and mentors is key to helping young people escape violent lifestyles. Drugs being the motive behind the majority of crimes. Between October 2021 and June 2022, 49,991 non-fatal crimes using knives were recorded across England and Wales Office for National Statistics. Shows this is equivalent to 136 stabbings every single day.

Have a look around Netherton and Ford

2:40 -wtf kind of name is "Hugh Hughes" ?

Boss little boozer there bill, lock & quay probably the best boozer in bootle

Nice one bill

Used to drink in the Quay when it was the Railway or the Merton can't remember which.. I was working in the Liverpool Building Society at the time.

Now shouldn’t they house asylum seekers in those blocks rather than pay fortunes housing them in hotels?!

Need knocking down, get Judder on again Billy👍

Sefton council are to blame no investment nothing off them just paper over the cracks

Used to be a mad estate the irlam. Nearly every house you see used to be mad maisonettes full of swag heads an a few grafters. Its basically next to infamous marsh lane but was a little island by itself

That sounds like Mikey chonging earlier in the vid, He's a good kid. I grew up around that area. They paid all the tenants of those flats a resettlement payment (4-6k each tenant) and announced some plans, but when Covid struck it's been brushed under the carpet.

Some amazing open spaces there which get forgotten about Ill bet

Bill it was jersey close in Bootle we’re it all started bro I lived in bank rd I can remember all Birkenhead lads getting off at the strand train st an walking down the tracks an scoring if need me show you inbox us show you a few places hope ur all well bro mick Murray

Few years ago bill when I was in college the fire fighters they use to use the flat for drills. Well that’s wa the fire fighters said to us

Seaforth is indeed deprived, lived on Rossini street back in the day, seaforth castle at the end of the street. Id still say it aint the worst, Ive lived in bootle, walton, nogsy and around knotty ash area, and walton area was the worst, what with all the gang shootings etc

Your a top bloke billy

i used to score on the irlam in my other life before i got clean ..crazy days

Billy... do us a favour and tell Terry (Judda) that Hinto was askin an I said now den.

From the 4th year senior school. I carried a knife in my school bag in the mid 90s in birmingham, as I was sent to a senior school in a area that we had trouble with & this was in the 90s lad. But remember my old man going mad for taking a knife to school. Wanted to know why. Edit: and that was out of fear as all my pals went to another senior school, but my parents to get my away from that crowd sent me to a school in the heart of an area we used to have fights with. I was on my own most days walking back home having older lads from my school giving it the big’en, I was 14 at this time to !!

The city is disgraceful cant look after the city its embarrassing

there is a few squatters in that block of flats

I'm not familiar with liverpool, but i went to bootle with my mum as she had an appointment there the day the PS3 was released. I remember it being rough as old boots. On the Derby Road it was just run down, burnt out and boarded up old factories and pubs and there didn't appear to be many street signs because i think they were getting nicked for scrap. I even saw a car up on bricks with it's wheels off on the side of the road. I remember seeing this tower block on the day as i was always a fan of tower block architecture, i remember that pattern on the side of the block. Really was a dreary horrible place that is burned into my mind and i was only about 11 at the time.

It’s the same all over billy lad country’s fkd

Were Brookside close😅

The Germans bombed our chippy Bill. Nah you should do more videos on history in Liverpool. It’d be awesome.

They’ll fill those blocks with diversity given half a chance….

Currently working on irlam house,loads of arl graffiti inside, Supertramp,Genesis, Pink Floyd can tell must of been rife for skag …..

I live off marsh lane, literally where billy was standing. Might be shooting myself in the foot here but I've never had any trouble. My neighbours are great, we're mainly young families and retirees. North park is brilliant for young kids, the park and baths within walking distance. Kingsley bookshop, kids bookshop in the strand, is brilliant and the manager has a real passion for kids literacy. If you have primary aged kids or grandkids please take them. Further up derby park is lovely to walk around full of follies and monuments. Its not rough, i feel safe walking from the strand station home from work in the dark on my own. The lock and quay hold loads of community events. Yes, bootle looks run down, yes it isn't as affluent as crosby or southport but dig deeper and its not all bad. I feel this video does it a bit of injustice really.

remember jersey close

I’m round by the Asda mate

Wouldn’t like to be sitting on one of them chairs back in the day imagine someone throwing an apple out the top window getting that bounced of your head it would knock u clean out 😅

Put those logs back bill lol

Go to County road lad

Watch out for foreign developers Like they've done it in Ireland 🇮🇪 #MHLivingHistory2024

Hey Juddddddder where are ye laaaa