The UK’s Most Dangerous Neighbourhoods 🇬🇧

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3 ай бұрын

The UK’s most dangerous neighbourhoods 🇬🇧 myself and @baldandbankrupt firstly visited Horden a seaside town in north east England which has been compared to North Korea! The entire town was completely boarded up and derelict!
Then we headed to Birmingham to the notorious streets of Soho Road which has one of the highest crime rates in the UK. This is how it went…
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@michaeldunning4643 3 ай бұрын

We suffered hard in horden (like all of the other pit villages up north) after the mines closed. Please don't rinse the area to hard. A lot of us still live here and are trying to survive. We were abandoned by our government when we needed them the most. It's actually very upsetting. A lot of us grew up on these streets and will never be able to let them go. On the positive side I'm hoping some of this sort of recognition gets the area the help it deserves.

@humourless682 3 ай бұрын

Its very bad to rubbish communities for clicks on KZfaq! Negative stuff about others is very fashionable though, and I guess the clickbaiters dont give a shit..............

@michaeldunning4643 3 ай бұрын

@humourless682 to true, trying to look at the other side of the coin right now and hope the issue is raised

@chrismanners9091 3 ай бұрын

Never been to Horden, but I recognise what you say from places I know in South Wales. Hope things get better.

@chucksneedmoreland 3 ай бұрын

why were the mines closed? I would think now would be a great time to increase mining?

@michaeldunning4643 3 ай бұрын

@chucksneedmoreland was the government, there's a whole story on it. Very interesting. It fuelled poverty in the UK. Margaret thatcher shafted us all. Everyone celebrated when she died.

@mattw1876 3 ай бұрын

You know what?…The Victory Club was the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen all year. It shows why, even though this country has always been cold, grey and wet, and the majority of us have always been exploited by the few, you cannot crush the innate toughness and spirit of the people of the UK. However little they have, communities like this care for each other. Thanks Ben, I wasn’t expecting that.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Best comment of the vid 🇬🇧🤝

@Doogsa-dl8sc 3 ай бұрын

Agree with you, very heartwarming. Yes unfortunately you are right. "The have Yachts have always exploited The have Nots".

@gemmafisher1584 3 ай бұрын

Casualty bump into Simon hah!

@xlxfx 3 ай бұрын

🤦‍♂️

@Syko1985 3 ай бұрын

They are the older generation that were there when things were once good. Its the younger generation that are ones feeling the real impact of the mines closing, as they don't know anything else other than the misery and they see it as "the way it is" which is the most depressing part of the area.

@mega_slam 2 ай бұрын

the fake doors made my jaw drop. crazy what lengths the council is willing to go to AVOID fixing a problem, rather then just fixing it.

@pmcpmc8005 Ай бұрын

Unbelievable

@stephenpope1988 Ай бұрын

To me it feels like the council are keeping the money for their own lifestyle..!!

@stubuchanan5129 28 күн бұрын

They spend money on Afghans and helping them rather than the people from Britain!!!! I’m a veteran and I’m homeless and jobless why don’t they help people like me and we could live there and fix it up make it a nice place again but no they dont !!!

@James-sr9vr 12 күн бұрын

And then they have the cheek to put up our council tax

@SharonBaxter-rn8ny 3 ай бұрын

I live in Horden in an aged miners bungalow which is in a court and is beautifully landscaped and although a lot of Horden is in need of a massive amount of help, most of the people who live here, are wonderful warm and friendly, they look after each other. I know that the people who go to the Tuesday afternoon club at the Victory club raise around £100 to £150 a month which goes to local charities, in this last year, they have given £300 each to Air Ambulance, Mcmillian nurses, kiddies football team and the local hospice . This afternoon club was started to help combat loneliness and to help support the club.

@Debbie-henri 3 ай бұрын

But don't you think it's sad - that you, a resident of this town, together with your friends and neighbours in Horden, raise money for charity, when governments should be supporting good causes better themselves and not leaving it to people who live in a place that itself needs financial help to reinstate viable businesses, housing, a future for the young.

@susanofhullhumberside4753 3 ай бұрын

Durham county council is bringing Horden to it's knees with non-stop antiwhite immigration (as Easington Colliery and Blackhall Colliery are). MP Grahame Morris will not answer any questions about it.

@AI-Records24 3 ай бұрын

Should be raising funds to improve the local area not fritter away to the ceo of whatever charity won’t help any of you

@willsmith39 2 ай бұрын

@@AI-Records24That's exactly what they did. Did you even bother to read what the OP wrote before rushing to mouth off? Clearly not. I say good on them. All this KZfaq poverty porn has become a cottage industry, pretending to care when in reality it's just rubber by necking entertainment 'content' to monetize. So much of it on UK TV too depressingly. I remember Frankie Boyle describing the programme Benefit Street as "just more Human bear baiting for C4 to sandwich in between lager commercials"

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

@@Debbie-henrithe government is not a charity. You try managing 70 million people. Some areas are bound to be left behind.

@davidwhitton9050 3 ай бұрын

Areas like Horden are the victims of over 50 years of abuse from successive governments, no investment and the closure of the traditional industry's often maliciously like Thatcher with the UK's profitable coal mining industry. Generations of kids that have grown up with no employment and no role models. Towns like Horden deserve better it's easy to forget how the UK's wealth was built on the back of these industrial towns and villages.

@peterhoward8727 3 ай бұрын

For investment to take place their needs to be a return on that investment. This is why money is saturated in specific parts of the country and places like hordan get left behind when the money runs out see ya.

@davidwhitton9050 3 ай бұрын

@@peterhoward8727 absolute nonsense it's London based politics that has dragged the wealth from the regions creating the London parasite that has sucked the rest of the country dry.

@shadowmanstrolls811 3 ай бұрын

Also ripped the heart of communities which are now easy prey for large groups of foreigners/migrants..entire neighbourhoods colonised

@davidwhitton9050 3 ай бұрын

@peterhoward8727 Absolute nonsense 50 years ago that was a thriving community generating wealth and paying taxes, it was the malicious closing down of the profitable coal industry to break the power of the unions that destroyed it. Then 40 years of no government investment to replace the jobs.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw 3 ай бұрын

There are parked cars. They must belong to somebody.

@PETERGRIFFIN21380 3 ай бұрын

“We’ve got an Aldi and a train station” life goals in the UK 2024 😂😂

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

😂 all you need

@danieleverywhere132 3 ай бұрын

i live in slovenia,my town of 10K people has Aldi,Lidl,Spar and more train is fast,new and free for retirees but it is true taxes are high

@pandaww. 3 ай бұрын

He was on about his audi

@forestsunset9617 3 ай бұрын

@@danieleverywhere132 we can't have high taxes in UK, because the government steal it all.

@hermanmunster3358 3 ай бұрын

I remember when Netto came to town, and we really thought we had made it! Then after a few years, it closed, and became an Asda Local, and our town became a place where dreams go to die! We still have a train station though, so at least we can escape. We can no longer use our cars, as the council has turned our town into an LTN, and has blocked off both ends of the street with two ton concrete blocks, so our cars are just turning to rust where they stand. So people have resorted to repurposing Asda shopping trollies, fitting them with washing machine motors and battery packs in order to get around, as they fit through the gaps between the road blockages.

@WNK1985 3 ай бұрын

As a person who has lived in horden all his life thank you for showing we are nice people 🙏

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

🇬🇧🤝

@ScandalUK 3 ай бұрын

Best bit about the place. I’m from a mining town that has been abandoned too - the people are amazing but our MP Rees-Mogg doesn’t represent us well.

@davedavis6087 3 ай бұрын

respectfully ?

@dragonflyparade8143 3 ай бұрын

You are lovely people.

@kevinkiso4579 2 ай бұрын

Bless your heart. 🌹

@ic66 3 ай бұрын

The UK, one of the richest countries in the world but saddled with debt. There have been so many changes in every aspect, over the decades. It's no surprise to me.

@prashant1208 2 ай бұрын

wealthiest country by looting the rest of the world, that loot is depleting fast.

@MeMyselfAndEyez 2 ай бұрын

Who told you we were a rich country? You then contradict yourself - we can't be rich AND saddled with debt!

@ic66 2 ай бұрын

@MeMyselfAndEyez Exactly. It is a contradiction. But the facts are out there. End of debate. Bye.

@MeMyselfAndEyez 2 ай бұрын

@@ic66 Thanks for highlighting none of them. Why bother posting anything at all. Useless.

@eltinmccarthy2469 Ай бұрын

You are in financial meltdown on any scale and you country is slipping into the abyss going down faster then a Trans man on a stipper pole.

@caskew3838 3 ай бұрын

If only I had known you were getting on the Train- I'm a Driver on that line, would have loved to have said hello!... Absolute legends, glad you enjoyed Horden.... It's great to see places like these being highlighted as they're in desperate need of investment, forgotten and abandoned by successive governments.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Next time mate! 😅

@heatherbowden1382 3 ай бұрын

Hello Ben, not been to Plymouth for years, sad to see it soo run down. What about Birmingham!! All that litter. So sad! I know there's good and bad places everywhere. Keep on doing a grand job. Heather and rich. Devon.

@chrism2279 3 ай бұрын

Give him a cab ride!

@lauralishes1 3 ай бұрын

Especially by the Tories

@englishpunk77 3 ай бұрын

Sad video this. I had family who lived in Horden. Last time I was in Horden must've been the mid 80's, as the majority of the family lived in Peterlee- the nearest town to Horden, it was never like this. Thatcher screwed the village as well as loads of working class villages and towns up north. #neverforget

@donnyb6888 3 ай бұрын

Horden has an Anglo-Saxon name that comes from an old word ‘horu’ meaning ‘dirty’ with the ‘den’ part of the name referring to the dene or valley. Horden is first mentioned in the eleventh century as ‘Horeden’, when there is also mention of a ‘Horetun’ (dirty farm). Its literally in the name

@dkdebest 3 ай бұрын

It was named after the tory’s

@DrewsTravels 3 ай бұрын

The absolute legend of travel vloggers. Cheers Ben for the inspiration to create Drews Travels documenting life in rural Philippines.

@joebenge3920 3 ай бұрын

Birmingham is about to get a whole lot poorer now that the council has declared bankruptcy. They're planning to cut services by £367 million, about a third of it coming from children and family services.

@chrismanners9091 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's awful. I know you don't want to reward bad councils with free money, but it seems like the conditions are much too strict. Presumably the government are happy that the Commissioners are fixing things, so I don't see the need to hit Birmingham residents quite that hard.

@joebenge3920 3 ай бұрын

@@chrismanners9091 I think there are a few different reasons Birmingham council got into this state, one being the billions they've had to pay out for equal pay claims. But the cost is going to be paid by the most vulnerable people in the city, who'll lose these vital services.

@jamesflynn3278 3 ай бұрын

Among other measures being introduced are changing the rubbish collections to fortnightly rather than weekly, and dimming street lights to save money on energy. I lived in Birmingham for a few years and while there's some nice areas (Moseley and bits of Edgbaston to name two) I do worry about how dirty and unsafe places like Handsworth (featured in the video) will get. I feel for the residents.

@denisescally7090 3 ай бұрын

@@jamesflynn3278 I was brought up in Handsworth, once considered a posh area in its day, great grammar schools and beautiful library. Then mass third world immigration.

@DrivebyRalphie 3 ай бұрын

It’s such a shame it’s got so bad These politicians that have run our country down so far down Shame shame shambles

@MrPichichi78 3 ай бұрын

What a disgrace. The politicians that run this country should be ashamed of themselves.

@mrminority2053 2 ай бұрын

This is what happens when Labour runs your council's, waste and take all the money and don't fix anything

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Why does it matter that a place that no one lives in is rough anyway?

@vodkaphix 3 ай бұрын

*All by design this deprivation - You will own nothing and be happy! Birmingham city council (The BIGGEST in Europe) has gone bankrupt... it shows by the state of the streets and not ONE road sweeper to be seen for miles!! Lack of investment is not the biggest problem - it is that people accept the STATUS QUO THROUGH IGNORANCE*

@AI-Records24 3 ай бұрын

Let’s be real though it’s their own fault they’ve gone bankrupt look at the bizarre spending patterns and the above inflation wage increases of the councillors simultaneously!!

@HorusHerotic 2 ай бұрын

👏

@michalinamarkowska8930 Ай бұрын

Very true !

@tinamarflynn7723 3 күн бұрын

agenda 21

@stevem-h3562 3 ай бұрын

I have to go to work In Birmingham 3 days a week. My mothers side of the family were from the city. Suffice to to say, it breaks my heart to see what Birmgham has become. Bits of it were always rough, it was an old honest working class industrial city, the beating heart of the Midlands. not now. I hate what Birmingham has become. Its awful. And its only getting worse.

@marthasheilds2446 3 ай бұрын

Birmingham areas are dirty and areas are segregated and locals are racist and always been hostile especially the older generations so backwards.

@marktaurus206 3 ай бұрын

Birmingham is very deprived and an ugly city full of crime depressing places. Lots of poverty and racist locals who hate anyone who is in different areas are segregated by ignorance and choice .

@wardy1461 3 ай бұрын

I live in Birmingham and it's nice here where I live

@marktaurus206 3 ай бұрын

@wardy1461 it's a shithole segregated city Birmingham is full of poverty, drugs and low life people, lazy run council dirty streets and areas are full of divisions and racism locals are rude and miserable Birmingham has never been nice its always given off a bad reputation everyone is miserable and depressed in Birmingham.

@marthasheilds2446 3 ай бұрын

@@wardy1461 Birmingham is a racist segregated shithole areas are segregated and locals are racist and bigoted no integration at all people are poor and not much opportunities the place is dead depressing so much cuts and austerity ,Birmingham is run down and dirty.

@kevinbrown-ge6sz 3 ай бұрын

You can't judge how bad a city is based on the morning or mid afternoon in the middle of the week. Go back on a weekend during the night and see if you feel the same way. The encounter with the boys in Wales would have likely been much different if it was a Friday night.

@trendrocksby 3 ай бұрын

Well done Ben for covering this.

@dkdebest 3 ай бұрын

You want watch together darling

@fragster2008 3 ай бұрын

Do you not tend to watch many KZfaq vids like this. Any one could make a vid this esy. Very amateur made.

@patriciarowe6685 2 ай бұрын

@@fragster2008Go do it then. Gobby.

@eyeswideopen880 3 ай бұрын

Even a ghost would have some sense not to haunt one of these buildings

@JALOPPY 3 ай бұрын

I love the videos you two make. Also love your spirit of adventure. Keep it up!

@elizabethwild3065 3 ай бұрын

yes my friend

@wayneoriordan6749 3 ай бұрын

Ben our country is a absolute shit pit wtf has happened to it my grandparents died for this

@kishorekannan2630 3 ай бұрын

Your grandparents steal from others countries not work hard to earn . Karma

@indefence7214 3 ай бұрын

I reckon we all know the answer to that mate. The major problem nowadays is that if we dare mention it, we'd get our comments reported and taken down by the snowflakes who encourage the scumbags into the UK.

@user-qy9rt9cy2b 3 ай бұрын

Hi Ben a Cumbrian glad you are all doing ok we all need too stay together against the Tories god bless take care x

@dkdebest 3 ай бұрын

Too many racists

@rexterrocks 3 ай бұрын

@@dkdebest Yeah, I can't believe some of these comments

@ViBENo1 3 ай бұрын

that visit at the club was wholesome.

@daniellockett9975 3 ай бұрын

Absolute chaos in a pub at 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon, I love it!!!

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

🇬🇧😎

@dbardy13 3 ай бұрын

I think these sad run-down towns are further proof what happens when your gov't sends $$ for wars overseas, vs, investing in local towns. So sad.

@jendrizzyy 2 ай бұрын

War makes them money, always has, always will

@gmc9451 3 ай бұрын

There are quite a few channels on YT that now report on the appalling state of towns and cities across the UK. We've had economic downturns in the past but this feels different, almost as if it's paving the way for some sort of reset.

@fadedbones8151 3 ай бұрын

Great series mate. Dont stop

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

🤝 sadly I will be here in 🇬🇧 but will continue in summer

@paulmortal7611 3 ай бұрын

New subscriber here. Good to see TFT food reviews. - KZfaq Royalty right there 💪. Horden makes good television but the social clubs and rugby clubs in these areas are absolutely pivotal to bringing the community together. Never give up Horden.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

🤝

@seanhughes683 2 ай бұрын

Big up for bringing this to light,miners families do matter,bring on the This is Horden TV documentary

@worldtravelimagesnet 3 ай бұрын

It is strange how different it can look within the same city, have been to Birmingham and found it clean, beautiful canals amazing architecture! But that was the center.

@garethwilliams2897 3 ай бұрын

How many billion we given Ukraine? And look how we live, i used to debt collect on Soho Road, mile down the road is jewelry quarter which is actually really nice... Mad really the difference.

@davem9208 3 ай бұрын

Hi Ben. Great video of an area in Birmingham I used to live near. At around the 21-minute mark, you show a building called Bill House, which is actually on Soho Hill, but only locals may notice that minor difference. At the far end of the building from where you were, in December 2023 there was a serious fire, in which one homeless person is said to have died. The part of the adjoining building that had the fire has since been demolished and the site cleared, now just surrounded with fencing. Had that building still been there when did this filming, you would not have been able to see the partially red office block you can now see. It seems ironic that you later mentioned and featured the fire service vehicles being in the area,.

@koalameat9523 2 ай бұрын

Ì used to ride my bike around there as a kid , its a damn shame whats happened and im not sad to say i left the uk in 96 as i saw what was comming

@daz271 3 ай бұрын

Come to Grimsby buddy. Lots of areas like that. Massive difference between the haves and have nots. Happy to show you around.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks! Maybe in the summer mate ☀️

@jasejj 3 ай бұрын

As a kid I had a couple of friends who lived in those streets in Horden. 1980s - lovely old place back then, full of people who'd have given you the shirt off their back. Tragic to see the way it has fallen.

@GrumpyOldGamer9221 3 ай бұрын

A friend who once lived up the road in Easington would call that place Beruit. Peterlee is rough too, a new town but pretty grim.

@poetryanne1 3 ай бұрын

I recollect the Birmingham has had quite a few Binmen strikes and there was one late last year. It may explain the awful state of rubbish around the area you visited? Plus the city was bankrupted last year. An eye opening vlog Ben. Very sad what this country has become.

@horuslupercal2385 3 ай бұрын

The binmen in Birmingham seem to be on strike at least every over year. It doesn't matter whether refuse collections are running or not, the streets of Birmingham are littered frequently, can thank the actions of the locals for that 😡

@BeckyJade 2 ай бұрын

I have juet discovered you and bald and bankrupt. Excellent coverage of serious matters in our country ❤

@sdim7269 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant YouTubing between you, Mr Bald, Snoring Simon, etc. It's as if the journey starts with Bald's channel with a video from Plymouth, Weston, Birmingham, Horden. Then packer Ben's channel sort of continues their journey on from Horden to Middlesbrough, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (in Wales), Birmingham. Great team work on delivering really fascinating and shocking content about parts of the UK!

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Chaos mix up 😆 thanks mate

@sdim7269 3 ай бұрын

You know what mate, I'm going to join your channel membership. It's my way of buying you a drink as a way of saying thank you for the top content you do and raising awareness in the UK and around the world. Cheers bud 😊👍

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Legend mate thank you 🙏🏼

@williamwebb7917 3 ай бұрын

American here. My grandfather was born in Birmingham, so I had to visit while I was in England. While the city center was great, I was shocked to see neighborhoods like the ones you show. I thought it was an American thing. I’ve come to the assumption that people are people, no matter where they are.

@David-wl1tt 3 ай бұрын

Interesting comment William 👍

@craigrothwell6144 3 ай бұрын

Too true, You can not build a slum, It takes people to make one.

@Blackadder75 3 ай бұрын

we don't have such slums in Germany or the Netherlands, it really is the english and americans that let things rot this much ME ME ME! the AngloSaxon way

@MylarBalloonLover 3 ай бұрын

@@Blackadder75 UK and US has more foil balloons, Denmark should be more like UK and US.

@Blackadder75 3 ай бұрын

@@MylarBalloonLover The Danes don't seem to miss their balloons. World Happiness report 2023: #2 Denmark #15 USA #19 UK

@Kickinthearse923 3 ай бұрын

Looks like Camden Nj or North Philly. Keep it up - great job.

@elizabethwild3065 3 ай бұрын

yes, what a video indeed.... me and my boy friend and little cat ruru have virtually nothing but watching this video ( and the other ones of cities) makes me feel privileged....thank you for showing you tubers the harsh reality of how some people live....the comment about the bingo/ club was inspiring to me and everyone happy bless them xxx its sad that their councillors and local council don't move their asses ...get the abandoned houses sorted, help with job's as well ( just a thought) the tenants, when appropriate to be livable, i recon the neighbourhood would ( maybe slowly) flourish..yeah, its its okay for me to talk.i don't live there but God willing..it could work instead of people being negative ( understandably)God bless you all 🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤

@NJ-wf6mv 3 ай бұрын

Always nice when you, bald and the rest does multi peligroso trips…

@stugill4513 3 ай бұрын

@ 22,58 a man diede just as you filmed he was uinloading sheets of glass from a truck when it slipped and killed him RIP that bloke

@akzp 2 ай бұрын

tyburn road?

@stugill4513 2 ай бұрын

yes was on local news@@akzp

@yvettedale6072 3 ай бұрын

Nice to see you guys in Caernarfon 💕

@jeanealoha1786 3 ай бұрын

Great footage 👍

@paulapratley5904 Ай бұрын

Some of the most deprived areas have the nicest people living in them xx Good luck to all the residents of Horden

@leerobinson9969 3 ай бұрын

This is why there is a housing shortage. It’s because councils are not maintaining housing supplies.

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Firstly. There isn't a housing shortage. Secondly its not the council its the fact people moved away once the jobs were gone

@Whatt787 2 ай бұрын

No visits from the Royal Family? Shocking

@paulrowe9486 3 күн бұрын

Great video though sad !!! Thanks very much !

@thepalequeenkitty4595 Ай бұрын

It was lovely to meet a fellow Plymothian with a desire to wander. This was quite the enjoyable watch! ❤

@peppermoon7485 3 ай бұрын

Awww , that’s sad , it looks like it could be a nice place !

@petermauritzson9521 3 ай бұрын

Ben, I´ve followed you around the world for some time now. Always interesting views from peoples daily lifes, in far away places. But I had no idea places like THIS exists, in that amount, in England! So close to my home, here in Sweden. It gives some perspective, when adressing problems here in my country... it´s just not bad in that way, here. This makes med sad, I want the UK to be so much better, than this! Pleace recover!! :)

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for following mate! Definitely coming Sweden this year 😎

@petermauritzson9521 3 ай бұрын

@@BackpackerBen 🤩 You are SO welcome!

@Floridaballer 3 ай бұрын

Your camera picked up the sounds of the wind so very good, that I had to rewatch that scene a couple of times because I thought I had sounds coming from my ceiling lol I thought the sounds were from inside my home.

@Tidybitz 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting video. I've never heard of Horden before, but the pub/club was buzzing on a Tuesday afternoon. I've not seen a pub that busy on an early weekday afternoon for a few years now where I live. It looked great there and I'd be a regular if I lived there.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Same 😆 was quality

@theterriblegolfer 3 ай бұрын

This video is mental. I used to work with a lad who lived there & he always said how bad it actually was but I never knew it was really that bad. He even mentioned a person running from police went in his garden & he invited him in while the police were looking around the streets😂! The place is absolutely horrendous 😂

@marli288 3 ай бұрын

which place tho ?

@Murf-cz1iv 3 ай бұрын

Where you on about what area you idiot

@meme-mu8mg Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@beccymalloy 3 ай бұрын

Good to see these places and meet the people who live there - it would be good to hear a bit more about the history of these places. Perhaps tell us a bit more about them to give it a bit more context. I did a quick google on Soho road and saw that it is in Handsworth - which had big riots in the 80s. There's even an album by the band Steel Pulse called 'Handsworth Revolution'. Would be interesting to hear from some of the people living there - you could've asked those ladies at the bus stop for example - bet they would've been great to talk to!

@koalameat9523 2 ай бұрын

I was there and saw the "revoloution" nothing but rioting and looting and beating of innocent people who were minding their own busineses , Lozells road was nearly burnt down and there was no shops open for weeks after , the area of handsworth died after that , even the carnivals are now ruined by idiots shooting eachother , the parks are full of asians and the rubbish is worse than ever

@escherpainting8622 3 ай бұрын

I know it's perhaps a bit obvious, but I would like to see you two do London. The outskirts, the outer zones, the paths less travelled. I live here, and have for years, but it would still be interesting to see how it appears to two people who have seen the globe a couple of times over.

@NeoCawte 2 ай бұрын

they should have a look at the houses along side the north circular.

@swalectrix 3 ай бұрын

The litter in this country is heart breaking. The litter in Birmingham was horrific.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

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@bazzle_brush 3 ай бұрын

Honestly I never thought it was a problem.. until I went to Birmingham

@Whatt787 2 ай бұрын

There is little self-respect left in many areas of Britain--and the Royal Family could care less

@kevinwalker2952 2 ай бұрын

@@Whatt787 Hahahah the "Royal Family" of course they dont care, they just need to keep the family going so they can reap massive cash rewards and top influence in the elite rankings.

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

From all the chavs and benefit claimers. It's not an issue where I am

@peehandshihtzu 3 ай бұрын

I live in Washington state, USA. There is a town called Hoquiam here (the place Kurt Cobain is from) that has particularly horrible weather that so reminds me of what you are showing about England. They seem to be one in the same. :)

@ryanfrank4299 3 ай бұрын

Just want to say that i'm really diggin your UK videos. You rock Ben-jammin.

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Legend mate cheers

@ArchaicVision 3 ай бұрын

Its heart-breaking seeing my native land like this.

@goonerfactor62006 3 ай бұрын

soho road is a muslim area, muslim areas are always trashy

@marli288 3 ай бұрын

😂🤣🤷‍♂️

@MultiFloyde 3 ай бұрын

Love your videos love the way you describe things Backpacker Ben!

@wilson8047 3 ай бұрын

You pair should do the Wild Atlantic way in Ireland, would be very entertaining and meet a lot of characters!!

@markcourt1097 3 ай бұрын

Eye opening video Ben no ahhh ha for Holden

@petermcaleese917 3 ай бұрын

Just subbed to TFT, nice work guys

@eleveneleven572 3 ай бұрын

Back in Victorian times the Soho Road was second only to Londons Oxford Street as a shopping destination. Not anymore !

@thereallotharmatthae 2 ай бұрын

Oxford Street also becoming a dump. Now there‘s only Regent St left!

@dougaldouglas8842 3 ай бұрын

Pronounced, rill. Rhyle is a dive. It used to be a gorgeous place, a place well worth visiting and tourists flocked there. The streets have been narrowed, building falling apart, and the weekend you just do not touch the city centre. It is a crying shame what has happened to the north Wales seaside resort.

@typeo2465 Ай бұрын

I could tell you but i'd get my head kicked in 😂

@anomaly1717 3 ай бұрын

One of the wealthiest countries in the world, but look at their wealth distribution.

@willsmith39 2 ай бұрын

It's the same everywhere sadly. I mean just look at 'communist" China's gini coefficient - 46.7! That's MUCH higher than both the US and UK which are in the mid/ high 30"s. Obviously it's something they're well aware of given this recent "common prosperity" initiave. ( i.e. when your cosplay communism is actually more extreme capitalism than the West you probably need to look at that 🙄)

@anomaly1717 2 ай бұрын

Zeitgeist series - Peter Joseph@@willsmith39

@HorusHerotic 2 ай бұрын

Well said @@willsmith39

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Equal wealth distribution isn't necessarily a good thing. You've got no incentives if everyone has the same as you. When you've got people with more you can be inspired to one day achieve that, and when you've got people below it inspires you not to stoop that low

@anomaly1717 Ай бұрын

@@samuelpinder1215 “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

@reecedavies2901 3 ай бұрын

Most of them shops you walked past on soho road are still running you wouldn't believe it untill you come on a hot day 😂😂

@Wilbraforce 3 ай бұрын

Another great video. - I'm flying over from the US next month for a whirlwind weekend to go to a football match... spending most of my time in Birmingham. Looks like a great time!🙃

@BackpackerBen 3 ай бұрын

Have fun mate!! Keep safe 😆

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 3 ай бұрын

Are you watching The Villa or Blues?

@Wilbraforce 3 ай бұрын

@@Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 Villa

@jaylaw5969 3 ай бұрын

Birmingham is an amazing city ❤

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 3 ай бұрын

Go to Brindley Place just off Broad Street and take a 1 hour canal boat trip up and down 'the cut' to see our industrial past. A walk round the back of the Mailbox is good as well You could also book a tour of our 'back to back' houses with guide. Out of the city 'Cadbury World' is a good half day out. And as for the football......get yourself down the Villa, don't bother with that shower in B9 Enjoy.....stay safe

@crystals1117 3 ай бұрын

Well, now I know the UK is not much different from the US.

@JackRoworth 3 ай бұрын

What camera do you vlog with Ben if you don’t mind me asking mate?

@bigcat618 3 ай бұрын

The singer Sue at the Victory Club sounded like Petula Clark!

@carlene2416 Ай бұрын

She was really good

@elnaitho8257 3 ай бұрын

I used to live near Horden and I remember my girlfriend was like "Nah it can't possibly be that bad" So I went and showed it to her and we didn't even get into the numbered streets properly before she wanted to leave Was at a house party at a friend's house in Horden and a brick just comes barreling through the window and everyone was like "Wtf?! :o" And the guy who's house it was just stood there like "Awh man third time this week" lmaooo

@Whatt787 2 ай бұрын

Good Lord

@iap-ug3oy 3 ай бұрын

I actually cried when I saw this…where has all the pride gone in our country …and look who are flocking in now…..It is absolutely disgusting….

@BrianMcGuirkBMG 3 ай бұрын

The problem is that nobody is 'flocking in".

@BrianMcGuirkBMG 3 ай бұрын

It's the tories who have arranged things the way they are.

@ragepanda4272 3 ай бұрын

@@BrianMcGuirkBMG now it’s been made aware the government will more then likely rehome illegals there… sad but the truth

@HorusHerotic 2 ай бұрын

😂We have a uni party. 🤡 🐑 @@BrianMcGuirkBMG

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

@@BrianMcGuirkBMGthis is a labour constituency

@ZapytajFotografa 2 ай бұрын

2:00 I am keep hearing about small number of residential buildings... and now I see your video. That's surprising :o

@E3S4 3 ай бұрын

Haha find it funny you mentiond page hall. Used to live about 5 mins from that road and funnily enough currently live in Birmingham 😂 Soho road is about the same as page hall in my books

@hardddybloody 3 ай бұрын

YOU SHOULD DO TORONTO MOST DANGEROUS HOODS THE MURDER RATE IS CRAZY OUT HERE😮

@dkdebest 3 ай бұрын

Canada have no hoods only angry indians

@hkpfghyuh 2 ай бұрын

Bro Toronto is no way near the level of birmingham it's probably one of the safest cities I've been to

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234 3 ай бұрын

Now that's really sad, reminds of the depressing late 60s early 70s in South Shields Tyne Dock area very much the same in fact identical ..really depressed, poor, big anti social yobbos, crime, poverty problems, and just completely depressed. I never knew that place would be as bad as that. All that area is pretty rough Murton and Seaham is pretty rough aswell.

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Yeah the 70s when the highest tax rate was 83% so even people with decent amounts of money were forced into areas like this as well

@user-yr4mf3ip5h 2 ай бұрын

Why didnt you show one of the best bits of horden just next to the pub you where in where they fix the tanks and military vehicles?? Best part about it haha

@BarneyWobba 2 ай бұрын

Pissed up in Horden at 2pm. Legend.

@Andy-wx4wx 3 ай бұрын

Soho Road, I went shopping with my mom here in the 70s when I was a little kid and took the 70 bus up Grove Lane to Antrobus Road where we lived. Moved out after nearly 20 years. Really sad to see how much of a dump it is now but it wasnt much better back then to be honest. Childhood memories destroyed by the people that live there now.........

@Colin32269 3 ай бұрын

Canada calling here...great channel pal.Here,Vancouver B.C is bad..a much larger version of Soho Rd in Birmingham.We have THOUSANDS of young men n women dying on Hastings St.in Vancouver hooked on meth,heroin,pcp etc...major problems Our gov't thought if they legalized the cocaine people would stop doing the crystal meth in B.C . Now in 2024 the streets are overflowing with garbage,tents pitched in all public parks, and dead teens everywhere.😢 You tube has loads of videos of our problems in the downtown Vancouver😢

@marli288 3 ай бұрын

❤ it's almost a Genocide 👀🤔!.. Helpless an Hopeless to do anything thus allowing it to happen! as we die defeated.

@Fannyschmeller2002 2 ай бұрын

Canada is fucked bro I’d get out if I was you. It’s so woke there it’s like a place run by blue haired teens 😂

@user-cp7oc8iu3h 2 ай бұрын

I was pretty shocked when I visited Hastings street, literally like a stereotypical scene of a rough area in an 80's movie with junkies strung out and passed out everywhere. However, I loved Vancouver!

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Justin trudeau is underrated when it comes to absolutely useless leaders. No one ever brings him up but he seems like a right knob who has a degree in some pointless thing rather than politics or economics

@Lisabushaway20 3 ай бұрын

Sticky bingo at 1pm what a community , love that. Shortage of housing hotels filled seriously how can they just leave poor Horden like that so sad

@donnajarvis9542 Ай бұрын

That pub was great, people lovely!

@alandavies1054 3 ай бұрын

Why do I watch these sorts of videos…it really depresses me to see what our country is becoming.

@1Life_Dee 3 ай бұрын

Sad to see this over and over again all around England yet we have so many homeless and struggling people. Corruption at its finest starting with the government n councils.... And throughout our society sadly.

@MrH2S 2 ай бұрын

🙂Great Video, really lots of places like this around the world, I just visited Kensington in the US and was quite shocked to see the state of the place, will post a video of that place soon. Much respect and Yo to The Bald I will run into you guys sooner or later, thumb up keep exploring 😊 Thanks for Sharing

@lucybeckmann1378 Ай бұрын

Love ❤️ the pub!

@elvisburgerking8675 3 ай бұрын

I had to visit Middlesborough once it was pretty dodgy, and I had to get a bus to an even dodgier part they sold me a car. it broke down after 20 miles driving, flat battery, alternator not working, luckily I had RAC any vehicle recovery. only after I got it home did I notice 80.000 miles had disappeared off the odometer since it's last MOT and it was registered as Blue when it was actually Black, but the VIN numbers matched the V5 and didn't appear to be tampered with, so not all bad.

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Not as bad a Sunderland tho

@serinacook6153 3 ай бұрын

Why don’t thay give it to homeless people to live it’s not fare I live in the uk but this is nasty

@samuelpinder1215 Ай бұрын

Because they spent money building the house, they can't give it away for free. Basic economics

@kevinkiso4579 2 ай бұрын

I was just in Hordon in Google Earth, and there are some absolutely beautiful little communities there!

@NeilRBaker 3 ай бұрын

Imagine visiting a seaside town like Rhyl at this time of year. Try again in the summer and pop to Prestatyn the next town up.

@992GTS-DC 3 ай бұрын

That first street is so typical of parts of the uk. Abandoned run down houses, yet newish Mercedes SUV parked outside probably worth more than the house.

@user-om9dr4bk6c 3 ай бұрын

Send this video to the government and hopefully they'll stop building on green belt and refurb these places. Liverpool is the same and to be fair most council estates are similar. Easier for the local government to keep them running down. It's probably cheaper to buy a street then a house in the UK

@lilylove2021 3 ай бұрын

Thanks again Margaret and Ronald....

@pandaww. 3 ай бұрын

Ya camera makes everything look better 😂

@barbarahalkyard1901 3 ай бұрын

I find it very sad .These places where once held together by strong communities. Now they look like some back street in Beirut. Shame on these politicians. Who are voted in to improve lifes.Not ruin them.

@jean2740 3 ай бұрын

Yes labour are running these suburban area's labour !!

@harrydonnelly2781 3 ай бұрын

Go to Detroit mate!!! Or Cleveland or any major city in New York north of the Bronx especially sites like Rochester Buffalo and Syracuse Rochester and Syracuse since the 1970s have lost half their population upstate New York is a hell hole now but it is so sad to see that in a first world power house like the UK