When you build towns based on manufacturing, then stop making stuff, what do people expect? Add 1960s Brutalist building where the Victorian and Georgian architecture used to be, remove the town's inhabitants to the edge lands, cut the place to pieces with ring roads and underpasses, and move retail on line. Yeah, that's going to work.

@chunkymonkey55555

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh you got a good point there. Men who used to be miners, were all expected to change jobs and work for crappy wages in factories making supermarket Pizza's and such. All the while all our manufacturing went out the door to other parts of the world, and... to our European Neighbors.

@laurencefox5884

2 жыл бұрын

@@chunkymonkey55555 And they then vote for the people (Tories) who knocked them down to ensure they never have a chance of getting up again...

@chunkymonkey55555

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurencefox5884 To be fair in my opinion the working class (whom which I am a part) don't often help themselves. We have never lived in a society with more opportunity for the common man to develop. I have traditional working class relatives and they should be as rich as an average middle class family by now, but every time they get money, they blow it all on holidays and fancy cars.

@laurencefox5884

2 жыл бұрын

@@chunkymonkey55555 Amen. My grandmother used to tell me to 'know my place' and get a job in the local shoe factory. Luckily for me I didnt...

@andrewsvonja1039

2 жыл бұрын

Well said! But don't worry the Tories are going to level up! Lol

Born and raised in Oldham Left in 81 for Canada. Returned to England in 2015. I can tell you honestly that Diversity ruined Britain.

@kyrokyro2343

2 жыл бұрын

They keep erasing my comments.

@kyrokyro2343

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, do you sit down when you take a Piss.

@petersmith6974

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyrokyro2343 do you ?

@kyrokyro2343

2 жыл бұрын

You robbed and pillaged, every ' diverse group ", in Britain..for every " foreigner you see , THOUSANDS died for that person.. furthermore our " enemies from ww2 were made British citizens after the war including German soldiers and Austrian soldiers, ... meanwhile the very colonies including India and Africa and Caribbean were fighting for ( our ) country " motherland " Britain during the first and second world wars.. many many, " EMPIRE people lost there lives...only to be turned into " IMMIGRANTS ", after the war , even recently with the Windrush Scandal ", by political acquisition ( slaves ) these people were ' born into their slavers tradition s and heritage hence last names...being EUROPEAN black people with English names. These people's became British citizens by " defacto ", we didn't care it just so happened that it turned to our favor after the war ...so whatever you disagreed or disapprove of we have paid in blood ( literally ) to walk the streets of Britain.

@andygrayson7485

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyrokyro2343 Oldham , is it a crap town ?

Castleford. Its like being trapped in a lowry painting, with a morrissey soundtrack.

@baileyharrison1030

2 жыл бұрын

Xscape is the only reason anyone goes within a mile of that place

@gedheaton1415

2 жыл бұрын

Best comment today mate haha

@Thats_him_with_the_daft_hat

2 жыл бұрын

@@gedheaton1415 Castleford. Apparently the Town motto is " Bold and Frankly" . Though nowadays its probably "Can't Read. Can't write...But I can play Rugby."

@alexanaya6820

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@N4N0Recon

2 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong. Only reason it's shocking because of airedale! Pretty sure that place is still suck In the early 1800s

What happened to Luton, already voted Britain's worst town in some other survey ?

@zekbaker4727

2 жыл бұрын

Lutonististan

Don’t you get sick of negativity and put-everything-and -everyone -else downs??? Why can’t you make videos of something that’s positive and would bring joy to people. We hear and see enough ‘crap’’ every day. It’s so depressing and destructive.

@jfilm7466

2 жыл бұрын

Barry, in Australia there was a kick to get the name Barry back in the top ten of names. We're fighting for it! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🐨

@splodge5714

2 жыл бұрын

Still stuck with Wayne.

@pixie5127

2 жыл бұрын

It's supposed to be for a laugh Barry 🤪 why did you watch the video titled Crap Towns if you wanted to watch something positive? lol 😂 just saying! UK satirical humour

@barrytodd

2 жыл бұрын

@@pixie5127 accepted 😉

I would not use your derogatory word to describe these towns. I would describe them as the most sadly neglected. All it needs is leadership to get something done and clean up the sad remnants of humanity through lack of jobs. These were once places to be proud of as is noted by some beautiful architecture. Is anyone listening ?

@gordoncharles741

2 жыл бұрын

They also need investment from government. Most of these towns have had any government help they used to get reduced in favour of Tory towns in the South.

@bigteddy66

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more.

@DA-md6ki

2 жыл бұрын

@@gordoncharles741 They all milk it whoever it is. There isn't an honest MP or Councillor regardless of their political views. They all go into the job to take the p'ss.

A round of applause for narrowing it down to 10. I feel I should point out that we have many lovely towns with a disproportionate amount of crap people residing in it.

@areyouundoingthatorwhat9181

2 жыл бұрын

That's just it,places are not generally crap,it's usually the inhabitants that make it that way.

@ryanredmond87

2 жыл бұрын

@@areyouundoingthatorwhat9181 if you think places aren’t crap you haven’t been to Wolverhampton 😜

@martinotoole9959

2 жыл бұрын

That's a truly poignant remark. Truth is a bit difficult but you are so right, I dont know who you are , but if you run for government I'm on your side.

@richardthered

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanredmond87 🤣

@Agnethatheredhairkid

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanredmond87 You're completely on the ball here, Ryan. I live in the boring dump.

You missed off Dover, England. The town where the smell of skunk weed and 20 mile lorry queues waiting to get into the ferry port is common.

@charliepayne9248

2 жыл бұрын

Agree Dover is definitely a dump.....!

@tx5190

2 жыл бұрын

More so now with the lorry queues and parks, and no toilets.

@charliemcdonald6882

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed,,,, made worse by the seriously ill educated cave people who voted for brexit,

@kra6750

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed but it’s self inflicted having voted for Brexit!

@MisterBurtonshaw

2 жыл бұрын

well, at least they have grass I suppose .. lolz

A lot of these Northern towns have something in common and it’s not the shaven headed locals as described it’s other groups where local girls get abused.

@petersmith6974

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

@ismith8053

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Hamilton Accies are more than just a crap football team!

@robgibson8226

2 жыл бұрын

Groomers thousand of them

@scottwilliams5794

2 жыл бұрын

Very tactfully stated. As we all know, the police will be monitoring...so watch it. The way we now self censor, just proves, it is now too late; it as all gone way too far.

@glynsutton242

2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did you want to blame the Muslims well they work hard there not to blame

I live in London and it's not exactly a wonderful place to live. It's expensive overcrowded with poor air quality and not particularly friendly .

@dononeeye9912

2 жыл бұрын

Poor air quality as if anyone would notice 😂

@jfilm7466

2 жыл бұрын

Last time I was there, it was not that common to meet an English person behind a bar or working in a shop.

@robertwillis4061

2 жыл бұрын

You've got what was voted for years ago. Not just the present Mayor but also the previous.

@michaelbolstridge1300

2 жыл бұрын

I moved from the North 50 years ago and loved it from day one. Such a melting pot of creative people.

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

2 жыл бұрын

Actually outsiders who don’t live in London would definitely notice the poor air quality in London, especially if those outsiders come from a rural or semi-rural area

As a West Yorkshire resident, never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with

@kojoelvis1124

2 жыл бұрын

Majority of the list are yorkshire towns

@davidstorton910

2 жыл бұрын

Have you been to Barnsley mate, now that is a shithole

@shanginadildo

2 жыл бұрын

@@kojoelvis1124 ironic really as Yorkshire has some of the nicest places in the country

@lemonacidrounds7293

2 жыл бұрын

If it's gonna make you feel better there are towns (even cities) way worse than that in every single country on the world map. With some small exceptions of course. At least you live in one of the richest countries in the World.

@baileyharrison1030

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised Keighley didn't make the list. I'd rather live in any of these towns (perhaps barring Rotherham) than live in Keighley

I grew up just outside Oldham during the 50's and 60's. It was a very decent place, with easy access to stunning countryside. Diversity has ruined it. Drugs and stag and hen parties have ruined Blackpool.

@cossythepoacher

2 жыл бұрын

Here here Norma. I live a couple of miles from Oldham in Middleton. I too have seen what was once beautiful towns turned into dumps! Mostly by neglect, sheer lack of investment and RAMPANT enforced multicultural diversity!

@normasouthwood3182

2 жыл бұрын

@@cossythepoacher well said sir!

@catherinesummers5057

2 жыл бұрын

I pointed out that Blackpool has had a renaissance! Since people were forbidden to travel abroad, lovely families have returned in droves! Wonderful to see!!!

These are all in Scotland, Wales and The north of England. As someone who lives in the south of England, I can say there are crap towns here, and the Midlands as well!

@iguiste23

2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy how you're not wrong there. Some of the places in the South of England are ugly and horrid and look like they've been put through degrading nuclear testing bomb runs lol.

@timbrooks2763

2 жыл бұрын

You need to go to one of them in the list, they really are crap, as in Rape, gun shot, crack bums, its like America up there without the buildings lol

@djangorheinhardt

2 жыл бұрын

@@iguiste23 Southall !

@sirtarquin7288

2 жыл бұрын

@@timbrooks2763 Generalizations are just that for the most part they are correct but not 100%

@kathywilliams9672

2 жыл бұрын

poole is the crappiest town in the south. so bad it doesnt deserve a capital letter in its name and Portsmouth is crap too.

Most of these towns have one thing in common.Bet you all know but dare not mention.

@ewandmunro

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Most of them are in England. That is what you meant, wasn't it? or were you hoping for some snide, barely disguised racism?

Weird list, but I suppose it doesn't state "10 worst towns", but 10 crap towns. Before including Llangefni, you'd put places like Slough, Luton, Bradford and West Bromwich.

@garyrothwell1914

2 жыл бұрын

I have recognised the common denominator.

@Durgesuth

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from West Bromwich….. and couldn’t agree more…… What a shit hole

@samuraigaming3470

2 жыл бұрын

Walsall should be on the list

@ultrademigod

2 жыл бұрын

Bradford is not a town, but I'm sure it would make the top 10 crap cities in the UK. Llangefni is a really odd addition to this list, as it's actually a pretty nice place to visit. If they simply wanted to add a Welsh town, then either Port Talbot and Merthyr Tydfil are both far worse.

@LulatheOmniscient

2 жыл бұрын

And Corby.

Utterly daft, i’m from Huddersfield and it’s a great place to live. I’ve been all over the UK and there’s a never ending number of places that are worse that don’t even make this silly list. You can look at the High Streets recovery tracker to see how well town centres are doing and Huddersfield is way above average on every metric. Dewsbury is a dump, Bradford is a dump, Rhyll is a dump, there’s plenty more.

@scottwilliams5794

2 жыл бұрын

A really good point...well made.

@johnmcnulty1679

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with huddersfield

@keepgoing1973

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? The whole UK is a shit hole.

@mattkinsella9856

2 жыл бұрын

The truth is that there are nice parts and cruddy parts in every area

@electri2024

2 жыл бұрын

@@keepgoing1973 besides a lot of London, yeah

Some of these towns are grooming gang central.

@msjannd4

2 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏😉

@citizeneye5431

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on. But never mentioned.

@swaldron5558

2 жыл бұрын

Well done, freedom speeches.

@annmorgan5130

2 жыл бұрын

@Ben Wilcox Why can't we say what is the truth?

Huddersfield is nowhere near as bad as some towns when i was a boy it was a bustling town its the council thats ruined Huddersfield.

@gordoncharles741

2 жыл бұрын

It's an excess of Tory governments since 1979 that has ruined most towns in the North of England.

Hull, Luton, Burnley, Crewe, Wakefield, Morecambe, Cleethorpes, Barrow, Middlesbrough, Dewsbury, Batley, Barnsley

@scabthecat

2 жыл бұрын

You could sneak Luton onto your list twice.

I'm heart broken that Dudley didn't get a mention.

@skolsuper8447

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha neither did Tipton lol.

@martins5174

2 жыл бұрын

Dudley’s great if you want a bet, or some sort of fried chicken

@Durgesuth

2 жыл бұрын

Dudley does have the zoo…. But most of the animals are on crack…..

@adam461smith

2 жыл бұрын

@@martins5174 Or a charity shop, don't forget the charity shops.

@simonh6371

2 жыл бұрын

@@skolsuper8447 Lol I used to live in Tividale so had the honour of in some way living in both Tipton and Dudley at the same time.

I bet this video was produced by someone in the south of england. Found this totally bias.

@princebuster93

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, I live on the South Coast, place started going down hill years before covid hit. Am sure the whole country, more or less is declining. More jobless, homeless, immigrants, shops shut, littered streets, pubs, cinemas, nightclubs, and especially churches all shut. We are in the last days before Jesus Christ returns....but first the Anti Christ will come and decieve many

@ninogaggi

2 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear!

@Twmpa

2 жыл бұрын

The bias is possible but, being from the north of England myself, I do not disagree with these findings. Almost all of the mentioned towns were founded on a heavy industrial base that was largely destroyed by Tory governments during the 1980s and 90s without any alternative employment being created in the affected communities.

@baileyharrison1030

2 жыл бұрын

I get the impression the video is automatically generated by some very cleverly designed AI. A lot of what's said sounds kind of uncanny and the narrator sounds like he's from Fiverr

@philiphubbard6234

2 жыл бұрын

@@Twmpa Totally agree, a lot of town's suffered when coal mines closed.

I am always amazed by people who come from Liverpool they boast about it, but none of them want to go back there, and live . Good example the Beatles !

@Codex7777

2 жыл бұрын

It used to be a shithole. At one point, in the late 80s, it had the largest percentage of wasteland of any urban centre in the whole of Europe. I used to regularly visit friends, in the north of the city, in the 80s and 90s and there were huge areas with streets but no buildings of any kind. You'd have the occasional single isolated shop, house or building, somehow clinging on but sitting in miles of nothing. However, in the last 30 years, Liverpool, and Merseyside, has improved massively. The city centre has been completely revamped and brought back to life, without abandoning it's history. New modern docks now exist and much of the wasteland has gone. The housing stock has greatly improved too, generally speaking. I'd say it's a great city again, tbh. Not as great as in it's heyday, of course, but a better place to live now, in most respects, than in it's heyday and immeasurably better than in the 80s and 90s. Even during it's period of decline, it retained a strong and proud identity as well as being a strong cultural centre. Particularly re' music, sport, comedy, theatre and writing. It's always had a good nightlife too.

@Channy132

2 жыл бұрын

City Centre is decent to be fair

@paulthompson8996

Жыл бұрын

Harry Enfield's 'The Scousers' got it spot on decades ago: "And do you solemnly swear to leave Liverpool at the earliest opportunity, live elsewhere, and spend the rest of your life going on about how great Liverpool is without ever returning?" "I do". To be fair, it's about the only major city in the UK I've never been to, one day...

I think having Huddersfield on the list is harsh, especially if Dewsbury isn’t on it.

@mickharrison9004

2 жыл бұрын

What about Barnsley ffs 😂

@dazdaz105

2 жыл бұрын

I once had an appointment in Dewsbury, I parked the car, got out then got back in and drove off. What a crap hole. Smack heads laid in the car park and I was approached by a brass nail as I drove out !

@mickharrison9004

2 жыл бұрын

@@dazdaz105 😂😂😂

@robmcguire7534

2 жыл бұрын

@@dazdaz105 I once had the misfortune to go in to Dewsbury Town center, it reminded me very much of the alternate future 1985 in Back To The Future 2.

Don't forget birmingapur, leicestergarh, and southalabad. They are dumps too.

This has surely to be some `tongue in cheek` satire. As a resident of the Scottish Highlands, I consider London to be a `crap` city. Expensive, busy and dangerous so it all comes down to one`s personal opinion. I also note the bias away from the Midlands and South!

@dag3014

2 жыл бұрын

London has its less safe areas but to say its dangerous is wrong. ill agree with you regarding its expense and density tho.

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

2 жыл бұрын

I am a native Londoner of 47 years, yet I don’t believe that London is dangerous, I have only been assaulted once when a mentally ill youth punched me, it didn’t really hurt; that’s it. People who have never lived in London form their opinions of London from the gutter-press like The Sun, which exists to keep people utterly ignorant, in doing so ensures the sales of The Sun which is only read by those who are infinitely less intelligent than farts.

@splodge5714

2 жыл бұрын

Scotland still has residents? I thought they were all down here.

@peterfrazer1943

2 жыл бұрын

Steve Mortimore, the title is CRAP TOWNS, not Cities. If you were to talk about Cities, everyone would be considered Crap.

@bossman1944

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha...edinburugh, junky central

I find it hard to believe that there are 9 places worse than Oldham.

@bigmanfoamy4589

2 жыл бұрын

Its a shithole but its home

@vanivor

2 жыл бұрын

Come to Keighley for a week 🤣

@stealthyguy1784

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanivor come to Burnley for 3 days haha 😄

Sadly, I could easily add another 40 or 50 towns to this list. What a sh * thole the UK has become.

@DoesNy1rllyhave400subRaysaidye

2 жыл бұрын

I think Norwich is the only good place to live in the uk

@branthomas1621

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoesNy1rllyhave400subRaysaidye Nah, North west Scotland

Oldham: possibly the only town that looked better AFTER the riots!

They wouldn't be crap places if people didnt litter so prolifically. I never saw this when I was young. It's got so out of control. Also the ugly buildings that were put up since the 60s have such flimsy designs. Yet these towns have some attractive character underneath the clutter and the messy road roadworks etc. Those brats who hang about drug using want to be rounded up and put into some sort of treatment places and then on work gangs . Sod their bloody civil liberties. I lived in a neighbourhood blighted by that in London! All the older local residents were WW2 veterans and even early immigrants from the West Indies who had worked hard all their lives ..and they had their final years blighted by goons !

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

Great post. I grew up in inner city areas in my own city back in the 70s and 80s as a young lad and I remember it being clean places with hardly any litter. Now I go to these places and it is just horrible full of crackheads, idiotic chavs and litter everywhere - it really saddens me

@Codex7777

2 жыл бұрын

Anti littering used to be taught in schools and was also the focus of an ongoing national campaign, 'Keep Britain Tidy'. Unfortunately that all went out the window in the 80s...

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

@@Codex7777 Yes this is very true. I do remember that when we were taught in schools about anti littering. I think it went out of the window around the late 80s sadly. They need to go back to this and "Keep Britain Tidy".

@baileyharrison1030

2 жыл бұрын

@@Codex7777 Some secondary schools still get kids to pick up the liter strewn around the place every now and then. Most places do jack-shit though.

@paulthompson8996

Жыл бұрын

It's all gone, all too late now. Britain as an attractive place was largely destroyed in the 50s and 60s and we never really recovered. Hitler gave us a chance to start again and we blew it big time, replacing all the slums with slums-in-waiting, some of the buildings they put up then have been pulled down themselves now, but we still have the ring roads and the Stalinst tower blocks. Then, somewhere in the 70s I suppose, people just gave up and worked out that if the welfare state was going to provide for you why bother! Hence the generations of shitbags and sub human scum that seem to dominate the population. Make Britain Great Again is not a slogan that could catch on here, it's a joke.

Southend isn't exactly a seaside paradise

@areyouundoingthatorwhat9181

2 жыл бұрын

Many seaside towns have been ravaged by the same problems,they seem to attract high percentages of undesirables,immigrants,unemployment,pregnancy,crime, etc. Which all serves to inhibit tourism even more so,a vicious circle especially for a town with no industry other than tourism.But one thing I have noticed about seaside towns is that regardless of how bad they are the areas around their borders are usually very affluent, like the wealthy are being forced out to the fringes.

@jameswest4692

2 жыл бұрын

It's allright, not afraid to go there

"Shaven headed individuals in flat roofed pubs"....So easy to generalise and blame the natives isn't it? you would dare turn the tables.

@maverickhistorian6488

Жыл бұрын

I would use the phrase 'thick as shit Neanderthal scum '

Worked in Bradford for while. You knew you were nearly there when you could smell the weed people were smoking outside Thornbury McDonalds at 8am and had to dodge all the used 'nangs'. Office overlooked a street where drug deals went down with a view only of a timberyeard and a chimney with a plume of smoke reputedly from chicken carcasses being incinerated. Smell dreadful. Colleague said she lived inbetween a dog food factory and a maggot farm so didn't notice. Not a joke, this is all true.

@anthonystaines9609

2 жыл бұрын

Used to sub contract to Bradford Council yard right next to chicken factory one morning I retched with the smell depressing working in Bradford also Rochdale got out of there sharpish cesspits

@baileyharrison1030

2 жыл бұрын

It boggles my mind how such a place can exist in a so-called "developed" nation.

@susansmart1550

Жыл бұрын

Went to the mayflower years ago Bradford is it still there came out giggling DJ was bricked in but great fun 😂

I was born and brought up in Rotherham. It used to be a nice place up until the 90's.

@Agnethatheredhairkid

2 жыл бұрын

@ David Green: One of the nicest people I have ever known comes from Rotherham.

@giogio4833

2 жыл бұрын

Was great till all the gypos moved in

Hounslow!? Actually probably not on the list because it's not actually a town but a suburb of London.Why do pigeons fly upside down over Hounslow? Because there is nothing worth shitting on !

@msjannd4

2 жыл бұрын

😱😂😂😂

@maverickhistorian6488

2 жыл бұрын

Hounslow twinned with Kabul Lagos and Mogadishu.

Luton was #1 on these kind of lists for several years, the improvement there must be vast! Last drove through it a few years ago and looked just as rank.

Cumbernauld and Wishaw: the Chrysler car plant and Ravenscraig steelworks - GONE Wakefield and Castleford: coal mining - GONE Oldham, Rochdale and Huddersfield: wool and textile manufacturing - GONE Doncaster: coal mining and heavy engineering - GONE Notice the common denominator? These towns were once working towns that were full of life, now there is no work and the people's lives have no meaning. You can thank Margaret Thatcher for that. These towns are her legacy.

I live in Blackpool and it has some of the cleanest beaches in the UK! It has a beautiful little theatre, the Winter Gardens hosting some incredible world class performers and the beautiful Blackpool Tower along with three wonderful Victorian piers. Over the past year, families have flocked here and it has hosted lovely sights of people sitting having picnics. The trams have been modernised and the lovely old vintage trams come out during the season.

@angrykid138

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@mmsiphonevinyls1027

2 жыл бұрын

The thing with Blackpool is many suburbs really arent that bad, however a third or so of the town sort of spoils it by being rough/drug-ridden and sometimes very run down.

@nullvoid564

2 жыл бұрын

absolute shithole needs to be torn down and reforested! - Former resident, grew up there glad i escaped!

@splodge5714

2 жыл бұрын

A good description of Blackpool in 1965.

@catherinesummers5057

2 жыл бұрын

@@splodge5714 haha… Blackpool is back!!!!

The common denominator of many of these towns? The 'idealism religion'--thousands living in these towns that do not want to be British, do not speak English!

@citizeneye5431

2 жыл бұрын

Very true. This is one of the biggest problems in many Uk towns.

None of these towns are crap, it is their local authorities, and also central government refusing to invest in them that gives them a poor reputation. Shame on them for letting their residents down.

@vicozan6466

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with u

@ericgeorge5483

2 жыл бұрын

@@vicozan6466 Thank you Vic.

And here I thought we had some bad crap towns in the U.S.

I think a better title would refer to "10 Crap Town Centres". Many of these places are surrounded by beautiful countryside but have town centres lacking investment. Some are in an area that is close to a large city centre (e.g. Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield) that offer many of the things stated as being "missing". And, yes, agree with other comments that there are plenty of crap towns in the south too

@westcountrywanderings

2 жыл бұрын

Humans can never better nature's natural environments.

@715michala

2 жыл бұрын

That's true actually. Many of these towns are ex mining communities with little or no investment .But lovely countryside just outside the neglected town centres .Note , Yorkshire n Scotland get mentioned quite a lot umm bias

@Channy132

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like Huddersfield - town centre is boring that much is true but it's 20 mins to Leeds and 10 mins from gorgeous countryside

@TheVillageIdiot

2 жыл бұрын

THIS.

@lukas.strautins

2 жыл бұрын

a better title? how many videos have you made? understand satire? are you the type of person who says "just sayin'"?

There are also crap towns down the southern parts of the UK like Swindon abingdon basingstoke hi wycombe milton Keynes and parts of oxford

@britishempireno1fan851

2 жыл бұрын

Up north is poor and dirty

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

Add Slough, Luton and Gravesend on that list too

@graemefarquharson465

2 жыл бұрын

Come down to Gosport it's lovely

@flitsertheo

2 жыл бұрын

It seems to me in the UK you are spoiled for choice with such crap towns.

@bobgreen8142

2 жыл бұрын

Basildon, Harlow, Luton, Stevenage...

You missed out the biggest crap hole in the world. LONDON

Its not the buildings that make shit holes but the people that live in them. I don`t get it when people talk their own towns down ( especially if they own their own home there ), for obvious reasons. It is no way to attract tourists and investors ( and therefore money ) into the town. "This town is shit, and there`s no jobs ?" No wonder there are no jobs with such attitudes.

Amazing how Runcorn is omitted from these lists. Half of it a new town with shocking estates & a god awful shopping centre. John Bishop done a brilliant routine once summing the place up to a tee.

@waynepatterson6167

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Runcorn it's not that bad as a hgv driver that's been allover the UK I can say that there are Places that are less easy on the eye the grass isn't always greener on the other side

@mdf2mdf287

2 жыл бұрын

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

@Then.72

2 жыл бұрын

And Ellesmere Port as these two towns have places like Stanlow and weston point

@davidjma7226

2 жыл бұрын

I own a rental property in Runcorn. For the last three years it has given me a net yield of 16% per year and has increased in value by 38%. One of my best properties. Where there's muck there's brass. Thanks Runcorn - but I don't want to live there!

@raggedtrousered534

2 жыл бұрын

Saw the John bish on telly ,describing Runcorn as mainly 4 council estates where town planners decided all the tenants needed was a shop a chippy,and a pub ,next estate---- a shop a chippy an a pub ,and so on----- to quote him he goes on to say " you know what they put in the middle??? ---- a dry ski slope 😭😭 adding how many scousers AVE you seen in the Alps going " get out mee way tick-- ed

You have a valid point . However you seemed to have forgotten Wrexham . Not only the crappiest town in the UK ,but probably the crappiest town in the world.

@emilybeaumont7104

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely agreed the amount of times I’ve been there and hated it is too many too count

I love these videos, the level of satire is unreal 👏

Thanks for finding places for our next tour! 😉

I lived in Huddersfield for 3 years. Fabulous place, lovely, friendly people, great pubs, countryside nearby. Great place. The video is largely knocking northern towns. People make places and Huddersfield was fantastic.

@888ssss

2 жыл бұрын

its dump full of boomer landlords trying to extort everyone else, while the town centre rots.

@somebodyyoudontknow3980

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I've always found people friendly even in the centre. But some places are rough for sure

@pennylaneaidan7087

2 жыл бұрын

Stereotyping the north as usual, 300 stabbings in London last year !

@AJ-yw5zy

2 жыл бұрын

@@pennylaneaidan7087 yep all young kids over a silly post code, when will someone take a grasp of this, and stop these poor lads dying. The money spent on dingy raiders could provide youth & housing for these lads to come off the street, give them a chance.

@davidmellish3295

2 жыл бұрын

@@pennylaneaidan7087 yeah but London ain't a town so it can't make this list

Sheffields city center is home to so many spice girls, druggies and the like, its even lost cole brothers. I lved there for 65 years watching the council pour money ito the pockets of wasted ideas, finally made it home though, love from the EU and Gran Canaria.

@creespweed

2 жыл бұрын

I went to Sheffield university. Wow we had a great time. Bought house near university. Forget the area. But end up living in France.

I lived in Swindon for 40 years and left 20 years ago. It used to be a friendly place to live but has turned into a heartless dump.

@SimBir08

2 жыл бұрын

You'll both be glad to know that this guy put Swindon at #1 best place to live. Can't be that bad can it....

I'm disappointed that there was no place for my native Wolverhampton, a town whose only redeeming feature is there is a railway line to get you out of there very quickly! Yeah, Doncaster, a place where the footpath along side the loco works, frequented by railway enthusiasts trying to catch a glimpse of locos on the scrap line, was known as "Dog shit alley" truly a classy place.

@MrBrucemc2

2 жыл бұрын

Why I left the dumpster 6 months ago and moved to Ireland 🇮🇪 Best move ever !!

@daragildea7434

2 жыл бұрын

There are probably lots of places known as "dog shit alley". I know of one in London.

@no1wasgeorgiebest

2 жыл бұрын

Wolverhampton's in my top 3 worst places I've been too (Rotherham definitely up there as well). I'm from Fleetwood so class myself as something of a connoisseur.

@olly5764

2 жыл бұрын

@@no1wasgeorgiebest I lived in Wolverhampton until I was 25 and still work there 18 years later, still looks like it needs burning to the ground

And what about Peterborough, Weston super mare, Dover and Yarmouth?

I wonder where all the money goes, we're supposed to have a leading economy and yet no money seems to find it's way to improving or beautifying these towns. Yet go to one of the so called loser countries in europe and they're like paradise in comparison.

@DavyRo

2 жыл бұрын

If the gov feels London needs something no matter what the cost its gets it. This thames rail link is costing billions. The high speed rail line all down south again costing billions. The lists go on & on..The amount of money spent on those 2 projects would transform everyone of those places. They can argue its London that makes the most wealth, but the single reason that is, is Thatcher removed all large manufacturing economy & made the nation a finance based one. She totally decimated my town which was the biggest town in Europe. Its like they purposely made any money in any region be invested in the biggest city of that area & the satellite towns can just be left to rot. Leeds in Yorkshire gets investment, Newcastle in the N/E, Manchester N/W, & so on

I would suggest that the northern bias in this list (all 10 are northern UK towns) has quite a lot to do with government policies and lack of funding for these councils.

@sprinter1832

2 жыл бұрын

CORRECT!

@raycroal

2 жыл бұрын

bang on

@zekbaker4727

2 жыл бұрын

Thatcher's revenge on decent working people. Rot in hell witch.

@paulthompson8996

Жыл бұрын

No, the bias is in the group/individual that does these videos, they must come from Swindon as it is apparently a paradise according to 'Learning Canteen' (see their videos for 'best places to live and work' etc)

So basically all the crap towns are up north, how about down south? The town of Rugby is crap, the pub life is going, the town center is filled with nothing but charity shops and barber shops and cafes as well as loads of empty shop spaces. The council is supposed to be leaving and the police station is closing down soon and so is the rubbish dump...we'd have to go to Daventry for that

Surely Slough deserves a place on this list

spent 18 years in Grimsby - the crime, drugs and violence are way out of proportion to the size of the town. Doncaster is heaven in comparison.

Glad to see my town isn’t on the map ! I stated to a friend the other day, that although I’d been to a friend’s home in Rochdale about 10 times many years ago, I’d never actually been to the town centre. She told me I’m not missing much !

Following Covid and what Amazon and other online activity has done to most town centres - pretty much all towns are completely crap. There are few market towns surrounded by rich retired folks, mostly down south, they might be surviving on tea shops and antique dealers - but really, vastly outnumbered by the crap ones. By the way. Lovely walk through a wood to a reservoir with lots of red squirrels at Llangefni.😎

Surprise, surprise most of the 'crap' towns the reviewer mentioned are in the North of England, I'm quite sure I could find plenty in the south. My cousin recently described London as a 'shithole' and Aldershort doesn't seem to have much going for it either. I would love to know the reviewer's criteria, probably asking a couple of folks in a pub, he probably thinks we all have whippets, pigeons and wear flat caps in the North too, although I do wear a flat cap.

@charlestaylor9424

2 жыл бұрын

Aldershot has the only licensed Wimpy I ever saw.

@willmoore3790

2 жыл бұрын

Hastings down south is probably the shitest I have had the displeasure of visiting

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

2 жыл бұрын

The reason why your cousin described London as being crap is because he is utterly ignorant with an IQ that is infinitely lower than that of a fart. I am a native Londoner of 47 years, there are more positives to living in London than negatives. It looks better than any northern towns, and I’m not comparing them with tourist areas of London. Lastly, unlike northerners we Londoners pronounce English words the way they should. Bumpkins in Yorkshire pronounce ‘money’ as “moona” 🤣. I met a Yorkshire lad in college, he said to me “Do you want a coop a thaa?”, I replied with “What?”, he repeated “Do you want a coop a thaa?”, again I replied “What?”, to which he then held a tea-bag in mid-air shaking it, to which I then said “You asking me if I want a cup of tea?, no thanks”. It’s not just Yorkshire people who can’t speak English, it’s the same story in ALL northern towns, you might be a white northerner but you still speak like wogs.

@splodge5714

2 жыл бұрын

I used to like Andy Capp. What happened to him?

@charlestaylor9424

2 жыл бұрын

@@splodge5714 oddly enough he appears in the New York Times.

Dover Kent should definitely be on the list!!!!!

@Nailnuke

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Been there immigrant central !

@danielpryor7167

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention, Maidstone, Chatham and Ashford!

@charliepayne9248

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Dover... And it's crap with a capital C....!

How did Britain end up like this? I mean, not just the towns in the video, but all the others mentioned in the comments.

England seems to have a crap belt running across it where towns repeatedly pop up. Blackpool, Burnley, Rochdale, Oldham, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Scunthorpe, Hull, Grimsby.

I agree with Rochdale, Rotherham, Oldham, Huddersfield, Blackpool and Doncaster being on the list - they really are the cesspit towns of the UK but it is interesting to note that not a single town from the Midlands nor South are on the list. I know many Midlands towns are just horrid

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

@Haris Holmes In my opinion and many others, the answer is yes

@alanthomson1227

2 жыл бұрын

That’s because the equivalents in. Islands and South , are in a different class of total and cp let’s shite as opposed to just crap .

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanthomson1227 There are some pretty shite towns and cities in the Midlands and The South for sure

@hod2116

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Clacton should be on any list of crap towns

@brothersman524

2 жыл бұрын

@@hod2116 Never been to Clacton but I will definitely take your word for it. Southend-on-Sea is pretty bad too

Castleford has a bridge called ‘ticklecock bridge’ named after exactly what went off there. What’s not to like?

@posypoodle6034

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, like it!

@charliemcdonald6882

2 жыл бұрын

Down with that sort of thing 👇😅is it still operational,,,,, 🤔

@northernkonspiracytheorist1579

2 жыл бұрын

@@charliemcdonald6882 still there mate, right in town centre. If you have standards that are quite low you’ll get serviced

@greatunwashed1856

2 жыл бұрын

In Milton Keynes there’s a “fancy a Shag” Avenue.

All the places you mentioned fell to pieces when the Tories and the devil (lady Thatcher) fooled them for votes.

@charliemcdonald6882

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely '' That Vile old Hag destroyed Community and peoples livelihood,,, Never replaced what she destroyed ''

Don't forget that this has been taken from a book about Britains Crappest Towns, and we have since had Crap Towns 2 & 3 released because so many people were upset that their town was missing from the original list.

So in a nutshell pretty much every town in the uk is no longer the nice place to live that it once was mostly due to "cultural diversity".

You missed the very worst town in the UK, Leigh Park in Havant, near Portsmouth, second largest council estate in Europe, nestled next to Budd's Sewerage Farm and the birthplace of the CHAV, Council Housed And Violent.

@branthomas1621

2 жыл бұрын

That's a media term for chav. It's true root is from the gypsy language Chavo which means little lad

@sklenars

2 жыл бұрын

I heard from a local in Leigh park back in the 1970's that the council had to stop sending its rent collectors door to door as they were being mugged at the end of their round.

Cumbernauld, knocked up in 60's. Every single street looks the exact same. It's like the town had been hit with a nuclear bomb and the government had to quickly re-build the houses again and then just left it as is. Chernobyl would be a more appealing place to live.

I have worked all over the UK for the last 21 years, my job as taken me far and wide and I can tell you all ONE thing, I could name a Minimum of 20 Towns a lot worse than Doncaster and I mean alot worse

@philiphubbard6234

2 жыл бұрын

Grimsby, is a lot worse than, Doncaster.

@michaelgair89

2 жыл бұрын

@@philiphubbard6234after living in doncaster for 6 years and having family in rotherham i agree they're not the best but they're better barnsley and thorne

@philiphubbard6234

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgair89 My daughter moved to Doncaster from Worksop a few year's ago she says the only downside is getting a late bus to work and some night's it's mayhem but every town has it's problem's Worksop could have easily made that list, LOL.

@michaelgair89

2 жыл бұрын

@@philiphubbard6234 never been to the main part of grimsby but must admit I do enjoy visiting cleethorpes during summer, I'm originally from hull so when go I feel at home in a way if that make sense.

You forgot Blackburn Blackburn what's the most boring crappiest places to live it can 15 in your survey

@tradeladder146

2 жыл бұрын

Burnley.

@swaldron5558

2 жыл бұрын

Accrington too.

Rotherham definitely agree

Unfortunately it is people that make the town's look like crap and not the buildings, just saying 🙂

Umm it would seem that most of these towns have been blessed with high levels of "Diversity"

Blackpool should not be on the list

@Ragglesnap

2 жыл бұрын

Compared to what is was years ago, then I'm afraid it should be.

I note that all the places you mention are North of the Watford Gap services. Bur the South has its share of crap as well. I nominate Basildon and Grays. both in Essex.

@stuartpace6111

2 жыл бұрын

And Southend remember what a dump

@taffytop

2 жыл бұрын

Gillingham must be in the top 10

@brianday6429

2 жыл бұрын

Harlow is in the same league, dreadful nothing place

@brianday6429

2 жыл бұрын

In fact apart from saffron Walden I can't think of a decent town in essex

@marksmeaton1470

2 жыл бұрын

I nominate Ramsgate

Cambridge can be a crap town-expensive and unfriendly natives. The world famous uni not sharing with the town but living off it.

Doncaster is my home town, use to be a thriving busy place to work and live. We use to have one of the best markets in the UK. Doncaster was once a massive mining town and every village had a coal mine. Yes once the mines has closed our town died like many others. Also Doncaster had so many big companies and most of them now have left to move abroad to save money. Also We have lost many big names like ici, mccormick tracters, coroda chemicals and many more. Yes Doncaster is one of the biggest towns in the country and still is growing in population. Our town is growing with plenty of investment, within the last 10 years and we are finally cleaning our town up. The council etc has invested in millions to revamp the town centre and we are gradually getting there. Yes we do have to many drunks, druggies etc in the town centre, but don't most towns or even cities have them too? There is far worst places to live than Doncaster by far and we have alot to offer like with history, trade, a ever expanding airport, a market but not like it use to be, also a world class racecourse hosting the famous St leger, the iport for trade etc, the making of the famous steam engines that we use to build here, also the new rail college that has been built. We now have many new buildings in the central of our town like the new cast theatre, the newely built library and museum, also another new cinema complex, and hopefully we will see the old St James baths being restored and the famous grand theatre, also the train station has had a major face lift from the inside and out and it all looks awesome, last but not least we have a vast growing international airport. I'm born and bread here and am proud to be living in Doncaster. Doncaster has changed alot within many years and we still have alot adjust.

@planetoftheapeman251

2 жыл бұрын

Also dickheads keep voting for the scumbag Labour Party that has ruined it and is utterly corrupt destroying the town for the lastest bail multimillion£ grant from the governement

@theshack-garagenightclub7309

2 жыл бұрын

@Precious Light I've lived in Doncaster all my life just about and am 40. Doncaster didn't have to many scruffs or chavs but now it's got out of hand. It's same in London, use to be a lovely place and now it's over run by none speaking English families

@tombyrne9020

2 жыл бұрын

@@theshack-garagenightclub7309 well said 100% spot on

@missredumbrella

2 жыл бұрын

Donny las at heart moved to the south tho, but do miss Doncaster lots of great times, memories as a kid , the market was great! I moved from Donny as I was one of those drug addicts ...I have been clean for 18 years now and it was not the town its every where .

@theshack-garagenightclub7309

2 жыл бұрын

@@missredumbrella excellent that you have sorted your life out, well done

Bolsover or Chesterfield. Your reviewers were probably too frightened to visit. I agree with you about Blackpool. It used to be a very nice place about 50 years ago. I passed through recently and was amazed at its decline.

@PsychicLord

2 жыл бұрын

Chesterfield is a lovely town and is certainly better than the 10 listed.

@nosnibor800

2 жыл бұрын

@@PsychicLord Really ? But its the people and the children, who pee on a street corner, spit at you and the fat ugly women with tatoos all over them. Bolsover is worse. Awfull people who are ex miners, grow drugs, and carry out petty crime. I lived there for ten years. I got trapped. House prices are cheap - but there is always a reason.

@genehunt4080

2 жыл бұрын

@@nosnibor800 All areas have got fat bird's n kids spitting on street corners caked in tattoos.It ain't just north Derbyshire.Nowt wrong with north Derbyshire lived here my whole life, sooner here than Notts anyday

@nosnibor800

2 жыл бұрын

@@genehunt4080 Thats the problem, you have never lived anywhere else.

@genehunt4080

2 жыл бұрын

@@nosnibor800 You might have a fair point there chap

These towns look quite nice compared to Great Yarmouth, how it didn't make the list i just don't know.

@annoldham3018

2 жыл бұрын

A narrow escape. I live in Blackpool and my name is Oldham, so don't stand a chance. 🤣

As someone who was born in Blackpool and lived there for 25 years, and now lives in Rotherham, I can assure you Rotherham is much crapper than Blackpool

@giogio4833

2 жыл бұрын

Agree Rotherham town centre along with Eastwood wants bulldozing

I used live in North London, you'll find plenty of crap towns there. Edmonton and Tottenham spring to mind. Great video by the way. I've got a friend who lives near to Huddersfield.

@paulthompson8996

Жыл бұрын

The big difference is that you have to spend a fortune to live in some god forsaken shithole like Tottenham or Stoke Newington; at least the crapholes in the North are cheap.

Blackpool had 13 million visitors last year that's not bad for a so called crap town! 😎

@petebuchanan1764

2 жыл бұрын

It's not crap here it's just our crap council only build car parks or council offices,there is nothing for us locals after the season is finished it's a ghost town and a dump in some places Beirut 🤔

@curlew-3592

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were crap people who don’t recognise a crap town when they see it 🤣🤣🤣

@stuartpace6111

2 жыл бұрын

Go behind the seafront and see the real Blackpool it's definitely crap

@taffytop

2 жыл бұрын

14 million people didn't even visit Blackpool in the last 20 years

@wordsmythles

2 жыл бұрын

They went from places like Doncaster, Oldham, Rotherham and Castleford to drown their sorrows at Wetherspoons and pretend they were having a good time before knocking out the next generation of feckless wastes of space.

As a proud Yorkshireman, I feel we well and truly nailed that one.

Funny how all these thriving towns have declined yet the population increases exponentially and has done for the last 2-3 decades. Why is that ?

North Lanarkshire didn't do too well there. I stayed outside of Pishy Wishy for a couple of years. The 240 bus that went from Glasow to Wishaw was a battlebus which I had been on when the bus was petrol bombed, someone was murdered on and with fights and muggings occurring every other journey. The town did have its good points thpugh including its party lifestyle, a reasonable gym (lol steroids) and a seemingly 24 hour off license.

I’m surprised that Peterlee Co.Durham was not on the list, calling it a Crap hole is a Complement

Slough? Harlow? Luton? Basildon? Walsall? coventry? Gravesend? Greys? Middlesborough Sunderland? Redhill? utter bollocks.

@DoesNy1rllyhave400subRaysaidye

2 жыл бұрын

I never of a place called greys before but I heard of a colour called grey

Is Doncaster really that bad? I'm going to move there soon and as I watch and read the comments I really start to wonder if it's worth it? Is it really dangerous there?

@sadikamahmud4587

Жыл бұрын

I’m also about to move there is it really that bad?

Like a game of Battleships. You hit Donny and Rotherham, and missed my home Barnsley. hahaha. Odd how no London areas made the list though, wasn't it?... With their plagues of third-world knife gangs.

@atwdb

2 жыл бұрын

this guy voted brexit

@robakles1

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest england becomes 3 rd world now. Comparing to Czech Republic , Poland or Lithuania it is a shithole

@scabthecat

2 жыл бұрын

@@atwdb What makes you say that?

Northampton surely gets into the list.

@mickharrison9004

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd agree being about there through my job and passing through ,though a lot of it is rural ,the bits that aren't are shitholes .

"To be born an Englishman is have won the lottery, to be born a southern Englishman is to have won the rollover".!!

Is Wales inside England or Ireland? I didn't remember very well

I visited Doncaster in 2021, definitely doesn't deserve to be that high. People kept telling me it was way worse than it actually was. The town centre has a lot of nice art installations and the people are friendly. Even the intimidating looking ones. By contrast, my home town of Clydebank, Scotland should have been on the list. Used to be the murder capitol of Scotland at one point and death (suicide, accidental drug overdoses and murder) around you is just a regular part of existing there to the point people forget about it after a week since there's always another death or five coming up since. And you don't even realise living there how bad it is until you get out. I mention where I'm from to other Scots that are from more well known bad areas and they wince. WINCE! Friend I had when I lived there came over to my house to visit me and he thought where he was from was bad until he saw two bins on fire, a burned out car and a condom tied to railings full of blood, police tape and more pools of blood around where a woman got run over and another guy got stabbed on the short walk from the train station to my house. Sex and violent crimes are also so endemic the police don't like to bother dealing with them. They actively encourage victims to drop charges. The people are also mutants. Chernobyl radiation got to them all.

@Channy132

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there are plenty of towns that are wayyy worse than doncaster

@jamescokl3

6 ай бұрын

Sounds worse than parts of Mexico.

I've been to every one of them northern towns loads of times there's good bits bad bits just like anywhere.. very interesting to see Yorkshire getting an hammering as usual ffs

West Bromwich and Tipton in the west Midlands should be on the list in fact most of sandwelll 😭

I was surprised not to see any towns from Northern Ireland on the list.

Worthing, Guilford, Chelmsford (I could go on all night) are crap. At least in the north of England people are friendly and kind in general -- and not afraid to be critical of their home town. Down south they are unduly defensive and couldn't give a crap about one another. And oop north we have beautiful surroundings on our urban doorsteps, unlike the sprawling industrial south where you have to catch a train to find a rabbit.