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Blimey! You're brave walking round those areas. Surprised Wood End isn't on the list. I was born there in 1960 but luckily we moved to Canley in 1964 which was a great place to grow up at the time. There used to be a pub called the 'Live and let live' in Wood End its nickname was the 'Live and let die' though. A workmate back in the 80s said that he went to play darts there. One of the other players opened his jacket to get his darts out and there was a massive concealed blade. He let him win. I escaped Coventry in the mid 80s thankfully and never went back.

I was born in Willenhall Coventry and I’m very proud of that, growing up around there was great. Coventry is what it is but please don’t think everywhere looks like that. You’ll find bad areas in every city ours is no different but real Coventarians are some of the best people you’re likely to meet.

Thank you for making this video. I have lived in all of the areas featured except Bell Green but remember walking there from Henley Green to go shopping when I was a kid. I currently live in Foleshill which is the worst area for fly-tipping according to the council. I have also collected hundreds of photos of fly-tipping in Foleshill, Hillfields and Henley Green over the past 4yrs. The bed dumped in Hillfields at 5:00 has been there since August 2023 because I took a photo of it when I went to look at the flat it's at the back of. I also saw a resident dumping rubbish outside their own home nearby. I reported it to the council and the social landlord responsible for the area (Citizen). I turned down the flat because it was even worse inside and the area stank so bad it made me gag. In September 2023, both the council and Citizen said they had removed the fly-tipping which is clearly false because it's still there in your video. In April 2023, the council also admitted that crime and prostitution in Hillfields are "tolerated by all agencies". It's no wonder the area is the way it is (Hillfields is renowned for prostitution). I also grew up in a house directly opposite the tower block in Henley Green. There used to be shops and a pub around the block which were knocked down when I was a kid. I still remember some of the shopkeepers. Nothing has been done since and the derelict car park is still there but has been blocked off. The tower block was originally built by the council but was sold decades ago. However, the council recently leased it back for more than it's worth to house homeless families. The lease was agreed in 2017 for 5yrs. The block is not fit for habitation but the council is still dumping homeless families in there. You also mentioned that Henley Green is one of the most deprived areas in England. This is why the Henley College was built. However, it recently closed and plans have been put forward for new housing on the site. The Henley College campus has merged with the City College campus which means students from Henley Green will now have to pay travel costs to get there. The council also sold the lease for Riley Square in Bell Green because it was the easy option. However, the developer recently defaulted on a loan and have been suspended from regenerating the site. Most residents were moved out of the block facing the main road because it was due to be demolished. There are only a few stragglers left who will probably be forgotten about while the building rots. Residents have given up because the council simply doesn't care. This is the area with the lowest election turnout and it's also the seat of the council leader. It's totally shameless. I set up a new political party in 2019 to tackle some of these issues (Coventry Citizens Party). Our candidate in Willenhall has been working tirelessly in the area over the past 5yrs including carrying out regular litter picks. He came 50 votes short of winning in this year's council elections but got no mention in local media (typical bias). I will send this video to local media to see if the council have any comment on the issues you have highlighted. I also note you avoided Wood End in your video. That was very wise! Sometimes the buses don't even go there.

You missed wood End and Stoke Aldermoor.

Wicked video mate! I cover Coventry for work and it certainly has bad areas BUT every town and City does these days. Cracking watch as always!! ….Smithy

Thank you very much for this video. I lived in Stratford -Upon-Avon and I used to visit Coventry a lot, it's very sad to see it this way.

Well done on surviving Coventry, mate. Another great video 👍

Props to this man for walking through all that disgusting litter and drug crap

Discovered your channel not long ago and it’s nice to see new stuff posted. Keep up the great work!

I grew up in Henley Green in the 90's and have fond memories of going to Woolworths in Bell Green. It did have it's rough spots at the time but nothing like what is being show in the footage, I remember playing with friends in some of those green areas in Broad Park that are now covered in litter. Moved up north in the early 2000's and glad we never went back.

I was brought up in Hillyfields, Bell Green and Foleshill. Those high rises are absolutely disgusting. Immigrated to the USA decades ago. Greetings from Phoenix, Arizona.

Poor old England will never be the same.

I moved away from Cov 10 years ago to Devon, grew up in Woodend/Bell Green, still have family and friends who live there, is a shame to see.

Nice to see you posting after so long hope your doing well!😊

Cheers for covering Coventry mate place has turned into a complete ghetto public needs to know that cities like this need serious improvement

I've lived in all these places from 1960 until 1990 back in the day Bell Green with all the shops was great Hillfields was so diverse where I brought my Reggae records from as it had a shop that imported Jamaican reggae.... Lived here in a rented room... Henley Green like Wood End has always been dodgy... The plan was to build houses for families flats and bed sits for singles or small families and then bungalows for the older population it was a social experiment that went wrong lots of the flats and bedsits have since been demolished... I lived in two flats here and a house... Willenhall was always deprived like Wood End and Henley green I lived in a bedsit here and later a bungalow.... Foleshill is again deprived but has some great shops for veg and fruit but the housing is cramped it is probably more diverse than Hillfields.... But with all that said although I was broken into multiple times especially in wood end the people I became friends with were fantastic it's just some crime "Families" spoiled it for everyone else....

The best bit of Coventry is the A45 to Birmingham- and I say that as someone who doesn't like Brum.

Been living in cov for 10+ years and can agree it’s been a shit time

Coventry has changed since the 1980's . I enjoyed living there , the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met anywhere . Back in the 80's I walked through Hillfields every day , there was no litter then , just graffiti saying " ZION IS HELL " . The ingredients to cook a whole curry cost what a bunch of Coriander costs now . Inflation is eating this country along with other factors .

Nice to see you back! 🙂🙏

I grew up in a small town about half way between Coventry & Leicester. When I was a teenager in the 1960s & 70s, we often went to Leicester but never went to Coventry - it wasn't safe. I worked in housing in the 1980s and Bell Green was no better then.

im still trying to get of the coventry ring road!! which psycho designed that!

Grew up in Bell Green still go back regularly, love the place and the people ❤❤❤

This video needs sending to the Coventry city council thay should be ashamed of all this rubbish when thay keep putting council tax up were is all this money being spent Coventry has become like a third world country

We moved out of Coventry in the 70’s when I was a kid, to the outskirts. My Dad was a copper in Coventry back then, and his beat was Bell Green area, he always used to say it toughened him up.

Hilfields used to be far worse.

I moved to Foleshill in 2017, leaving in 2019 and it genuinely didnt feel that bad. Id make the occasional shopping trip over to Bell Green and that was notably rougher. Left the midlands in 2019 and now live in the countryside...much nicer.

woodend next door to bell green was horrific in the 80s looked like Belfast with burnt out cars and peple sat in house with no windows nor doors..

I feel sorry for Coventry, it used to be a massive industrial city and wealthy in most areas. The majority of the city was destroyed in WW2 and with that came the redevelopment in the 50s and 60s which left us with the dump it has been for decades. Unemployment due to death of industry has rocked the place and we all know it as chav central now. Shame, just a reminder this is the 6th richest country in the world.

The council should have a copy of this to see how well they are doing..

Lived in those flats in Riley square,got mugged going home from work in hillfields ,Coventry is a filthy sewer.

Great post, thank you. Brings a new thought on the term "Sent to Coventry" doesn't it. Probably demolish it and build 3-5 Star hotels to house more immigrants?

Mate why didnt u go wood end that area rough

Genuinely sad to see the fate and state of my old hometown. But, it is the Detroit of the UK and similarly to Detroit has befallen the same fate. Very surprised to see you didnt go to my old council estate Stoke Aldermoor ("the aldermoor") just to the north of willenhall. Very much like the chatsworth estate in "Shameless" or these days just like Somalia 😉

Why the hell are there so many super deprived areas of the UK ?

I thought woodend would of been in the top 5, one of the roughest estates in Britain back in the 80s,must be seing better days today

Hi I love watchering your videos they are brilliant in one of your videos you was in my home town West Bromwich there is good and bad in West Bromwich keep up the good work from Marie 😊

i used to work in walsgrave as you come into coventry the sign states "city of peace"..

Bell Green has been like that for 40 years

And, so, what are Coventry councils doing about it?

great vid keep them coming

All that litter though, never seen anything like that in person.

Very good video the litter is shameful maybe the local MP could organise a weekly litter pick they do one here where i am not far from Coventry

this is what diversity brings

I lived in Coventry my family still do it’s the same lot place’s definitely changed since I lived their I lived their in the 70s and 80 s no rubbish anywere then but I wasn’t from these areas x

Coventry is seriously horrible. I did live around Foleshill for a bit while doing part time study at University of Warwick, Driven all round Hillfields and Bell Green and it was horrid. The only best parts of Coventry is on the west side around Tile Hill, Allesley, Westwood and Burton Green

Such a shame to see what has happened to Cov. Don’t get me wrong it was never paradise but I now don’t recognise the 3rd world sh*thole it’s become… Blair was the architect of the slow death of the U.K. 😔

I lived in Coventry for the first 21years. It's a definite world of adventure. Hope you do well. X

We live and die in these towns ...PUSB .

I lived in Hillfields for 2 years in late 90’s. Not the best years of my life

I actually own a small part of the litter strewn ground you show in your documentary. Every effort I make to clean it up (to date:) is carefully undone by people who can't clearly communicate in my language. (as soon as I leave) who are without exception, my neighbours" If they can't even speak to me, and have made it clear that they see my activities (and presumably me) as unwanted, is it me who's the racist? The police are unintersted in co-operating with me in amy meaningful way, the council appear overwhelmed, and that "multiculturalism" just means that I am surrounded by several enclaves of semi-protected people whilst I have no rights or support in my effort to clean up my bit, whatsoever. Finally after three years of me absorbing aggravation and interference (and endless fly tipping) a person spoke to me the other day coherenlty and sensibly, but only to ask me to cut down a tree and suggest that I sell my bit of ground and move on. (he wasn;t making an offer, just wants me gone) I was born here, but this isn't my country anymore, if it ever was. My early life traiinng turned out to be completeley unsuited to the way the country has "progressed" during my life. This isn't how it could be, at one point Britain, (and England in particular) "raised the world up" by developing the industrial revolution, ad wrkabel laws etc.. We showed other people how to live! People looked to us for leadership. Some still do, even after the massive decline I've witnessed in "English culture". In practice, the lack of "Englishness" around me genrally, these days, just means that I can't leave ANY TOOLS on my ground, without first being able to build a secure building(!). I need to be delievered and collected with my tools, so as not to expose the car to the area any longer then we have to, so it's really difficult to do anything constructive, and have it stay done, so as I can move forwards..I guess anyone else who has aspirations to make inprovents in these areas, faces the same problems. even if I collect and sort the litter though, there are still charges and obstacles to getting it processes by the local waste facilities, which I always thought was a BIG PART of why we pay our taxes, to have litter and sewage processed in central locations rather than ad-hoc as our council seems to prefer. Something needs to be done!!

What about Canley ?

These areas are an absolute dump. Cov city centre is even worse the last language you hear is English and I am 1st gen ethnic minority myself. Absolute dive of a city now.

Zooms in on the Coventry city flag as if it’s a bad thing?

...also near baggington there was a roundabout system which has been altered now with a bypass which was known locally as "suicide island"!! having used it i know why!!

Asians fly tip. It's their culture. We import it, we get it. That simple

I honestly don’t really understand why there’s a correlation between poverty and throwing your rubbish all over the place. There’s no social reason apart from being stupid for doing it.

I lived in Coventry for 3 years in the 90s. All of the places you mentioned were rat holes then and they are rat holes now. Unfortunately this is the story across just about every city in the UK.

I tell you why there is so much litter, white goods and mattresses on the streets - the local councils charge too much at the waste centres. Council tax is not used for the bin men to clean the streets - shameful. When I lived in Luton, a car was £10 to even enter, then they charged on top for you to bring your waste. In Ireland, you can take mattresses for 10 euros each and get them recycled into new. Great scheme, but lets face it, if you are proper skint, you can't afford to recycle.

Absolutely love this channel! Would love you to come to my hometown of Preston and review the New Hall Lane/Ribbleton area. It is rife with drugs, crime and prostitution.

That shopping centre at the start of the video was once a thriving one. Hillfields has long been a hole but now filled with people from the third world. So to the Foleshill and Stoney Stanton Rd areas The indigenous population are increasingly avoiding the city centre as well now. It too is looking increasingly like a third world country. The council are all in favour of continued mass immigration into the city, so ithings are only going to get worse and worse. .

9:59 my old road mentioned!!! I moved out of chepstow close like a year ago. Tbh, im actually surprised to hear of someone being shot and killed. Im assuming it was something that spilled out from the estate just up on st james lane as i dont remember it ever being a particularly bad street

I lived in Coventry for the first 21years. It's a definite world of adventure. Hope you all do well. Xx

Looks like it's India but no ones willing to recycle anything or work

Lived in wood end, and hillfrields , they used to be good but know not so good.

The best thing I ever did was move out of Willenhall. First thing I noticed after I moved was that I could hear birds chirping. In Willenhall, I never did and I was there 8 years. Constant noise from people shouting, dogs barking, music thumping and engines revving. The atmosphere as you walk around, its depressive, like there's no hope or dreams and everyone's miserable and looks it. It sounds dramatic but you filter stuff out and you get hardened to it after you've lived there a while, everythings sh*t but that's just life and the way it is. Then one day you move out and realise just how bad it's been and wonder why you ever stayed that long. So if you live there, do yourself and your family a favour, and move to a nicer part of the city!

I lived in coventry living my childhood in woodend and henley green living on Winston avenue such a lovely area in the late 70s early 80s nows cov is a dump it's so dirty, no one has any pride anymore

like St Louis Missouri was very poorest deprivation and even more poverty strickens compared to Coventry 😢😢

You are brave going to Cov. 😆

Bell Green used to be a place people wanted to live when the shops were there in the 60s it was buzzing now it's a sad place

brilliant

"Hillfields - Diverse" 😂😂😂 Yeah - diverse in varying shades of brown.

And where is Woodend ?🤔🤔

I made a couple of joke comments on your Leicester video, but on a more serious note straight off the bat, “it’s not the place that’s the problem, it’s the people in it!” I see this problem almost everywhere I go. What’s the point in trying to improve an area when most of its human inhabitants couldn’t care less anyway?

the buildings do not cause the crime, the people in them cause the crime. High rise buildings are almost always local authority homes and they are often filled with the uneducated or undisciplined. with military service and private policing, combined with govt legislation to jail wrongdoers indefinitely, these places would be transformed.

Wow. And I thought Bell Green was bad back in 2002/03!!

I used to live in Hillfields , Pioneer house,many moons ago when there were drug dealers,who you knew and as far as drug dealers go, at least they kept the place clean and respected the area..Then Blair opened the flood gates and we have become a third world..FACT..I live in Coventry,

The 1950s city planners didn't foresee drug culture taking over the public housing hoods they would be building for the next 20 years.

it's the same all over the UK

The government has no money to do up these places due to half the world living here on benefits

You forgot RADFORD!!

Used to do a milk round in foleshill all around them high rises, and your right it has a high Asian population, for some reason too they always used to have full fat milk…just thought I’d put that out there to see if anyone knows why…oh and during my time as a milkman covering most of the West Midlands foleshill was the only place where I had milk nicked off the back of my van, they were white lads (if anyone is wondering)

Riley Square never used to look that bad woah.

I visited wood end, coventry about 20 years ago and it was the worst estates I'd ever seen in the UK half of it was boarded up or burnt out it must of improved a lot to not make this list.

It’s been a while!

Still more aesthetically pleasing than a Barrett Homes new build housing estate.

Coventry is engulfed in a cloud of weed smoke. It sucks walking around everywhere

Henley Green was a bad area 40 years ago. When I studied in Birmingham, this was one area you didn't venture into in the silent hours. WIllenhall by contrast was actually an OK, fairly Des. Res. area back in those days. Famous for the lock-smithing industry, and home to many famous lock brands.

I went to Coventry college which is right next door to hillfields. Armed Police inspections were a regular occurrence

I grew up in Henley Green and I'd say even despite how bad it looks in this video, it's in a better state than it was in the late 90s, especially Manor Farm.

The worst of Coventry? Are there any nice neighborhoods? Dude, I live in Pittsburgh U.S., which has a reputation of being the worst industrial city in this country of 320 Million. The reality is, this is one of the most spectacular cities in the world.

Live in coventry its a absolute hole

6:12 😂 they have the British flag up as if they are proud to live in this dump.

1993, this Government change everything, Jobs just went for Good, Now Government is not Bothered at all

Come to Stoke on Trent

I Grew up in bell green...Not like it used to be...

Many places in so called 3rd world look much better than this

All these videos on UK cities are nowhere near as rough as most cities in the USA. In the US to step out at night without a gun in your handbag or pocket is very dangerous. Also windows must be iron barred also doors. In the UK you are just playing at being rough.

4:55 RIP little brother 😔