Inside drug-ravaged ‘zombie’ town where crumbling homes cost little as £5k
IN a green space at the centre of Horden's maze of boarded-up houses and vacant shops stands Marra, a 9ft sculpture of a miner with his heart ripped from his chest.
It couldn't be a more fitting reflection of a community which has suffered the same fate.
Artist Ray Lonsdale's statue, erected in 2015 by Horden parish council at a cost of £19,000 to illustrate the demise of Durham's mining communities, couldn't have been placed in a more appropriate spot.
The coastal village entered a death spiral of decline that hasn't halted since the colliery closed in 1987, throwing 4,000 men on the dole.
In that 36-year period "nowt good has happened in Horden" according to one resident, who paints a grim picture of daily life in a village where the signs of decay are clear on every street corner.
It's a place plagued by drug use - "crack, smack, blues, yellows, they'll take anything" - and where even the wrecked and boarded up houses aren't safe from burglary.
Drug users have become so desperate that they are breaking in to steal any copper pipes and cables left behind to sell as scrap metal in the hope of raising enough cash for their next fix.
Statistically it is one of the most dangerous places in County Durham with 178.9 crimes per 1,000 people and 6,807 crimes committed in 2023.
The new Labour government, elected on a mandate for change, has its work cut out to turn around the fortunes of Horden, something the party was unable to achieve the last time it was in power.
But that's what residents here are demanding.
"We're sick of living like this," says Les Wright, 61, who formerly worked in security but is now in receipt of sickness benefit.
"This place is crazy and it's getting worse. People don't dare go out of their front doors at night because of all the crime, you could get mugged at any time during the day, let alone at night.
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5 күн бұрын
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5 күн бұрын
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@MarcWilliams-dz7ik
5 күн бұрын
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5 күн бұрын
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@EdwardJacob-x8o
5 күн бұрын
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I'm sick of hearing about how "there's nothing for kids to do". I live in a small town where there's drugs, teen pregnancy, vandalism, theft and there's "nothing for kids to do".... except 2 beaches within walking/cycling distance, a river, a forest, a swimming pool, a park (with a playground), tennis courts, a golf course, football fields, a bowling green and a skate park. Kids don't act badly because "there's nothing to do". They act badly because they've never been taught moral behaviour.
@jomsviking5383
27 күн бұрын
Yep agreed, as a kid we made our own fun wether in a park, river, woods ect
@redbearduk
27 күн бұрын
Ah yes kids love a good bowling green! And the old folk will love having them there I’m sure. You’re not wrong though, iPads have zapped the kids imagination.
@nathanmiller9632
27 күн бұрын
Believe me there's nowt to do up there and even if their was you wouldn't let your bairns roam the streets anyways
@ricksanchez3218
27 күн бұрын
When police effectively abandon an area for drugs to run rampant it kills the community. Kids can't go swimming or to play in parks or woodlands when they are littered with needles. Some of these northern towns (and I live in county Durham) are near enough condemned. Pretty sure you didn't buy your home for 5 grand.
@Storm.Z.4u
27 күн бұрын
@@nathanmiller9632 Well perhaps they could attend school and obtain an education, something you clearly avoided.
The further away from London, the less the government care, it’s disgusting. 🤬🤬🤬
@mikewinston8709
Ай бұрын
Change your life then…stop moaning.
@benjaminleo7011
Ай бұрын
Have you seen London? It's exactly the same. If you're bank account doesn't have 9 digits, then you're obsolete to their plans.. if its less than 5, well.... I'm pretty sure you know the score. Practically poverty now a days. The govt, banks, energy supplier, head CEO's are all that matter.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
The further away from London the less the people contribute
@AllanHinde-mb2pr
Ай бұрын
@@Nicholas-ok9nocan you a house for less than £5 thousand in London? No
@AllanHinde-mb2pr
Ай бұрын
@@benjaminleo7011no it’s not
Salute to the soldier/mechanic/entrepreneur Gentleman he is representing
@Panzer4F2
22 күн бұрын
Imagine a few people like him teaming up. Incredible opportunity and potential.
@a133m210
18 күн бұрын
hahhahaah he talks about opening a rapid vertical tanning shop as if he's a social worker/hero fixer sorting out the community! Ok so the girls can now afford a tan and that means they'll stay of the drugs and make babies now. Well done tank man
The sun newspaper was against the miners back in the day!!!!!!!
@user-uh2qz1ec5m
Ай бұрын
Well it is a tory newspaper so what do you expect
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
A Labour Government closed the mines.
@Simon-xc6iy
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u well it was in the 1980s that the majority of mines were closed and communities ruined, coppers being paid stupid money to brake miners heads. So Thatcher ruined working Britain. You comment with fork tongue.
@Surv1ve_Thrive
Ай бұрын
Big common misunderstanding about the mines. Massive politicisation by both parties. Worked with ex miners. Have no dog in either race, I respect people & truth.
@suzannehaigh4281
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u What planet do you come from? It was Baggy Thatcher that closed the mines, just like she sold off all of our assets.
Why does Labour want to build millions of new houses when there millions empty
@williamthomas2830
28 күн бұрын
Great point…the same can be said of the Tories…back handers from developers?
@MrTaytersDeep
25 күн бұрын
Because immigrants want new houses
@Al0011235813
24 күн бұрын
There are no jobs in this part of the country. But it's a good question: rather than building more houses down south, why don't we move the jobs up North where there are houses? The shortage of housing is so acute, I think, that even if we could redistribute some jobs, the house prices would rise drastically wherever we put them. But still it would help, and it would make the country more equal.
@tonyjenkins7156
23 күн бұрын
Because it's way more expensive to take a derelict house and renovate. Nothing to do with immigration.
@scottlaugher-flintknapping
22 күн бұрын
@@MrTaytersDeepchange the record🙄. Britain has an aging population, without immigration the economy would tank....you want that?? Try thinking about stuff logically for a change instead of letting your hate and ignorance shine so bright🌞
We need more people like this Gentleman. Maybe communities need to work together. It’s easy for me to say this. But I mean no offence. My late father was a coal miner. We moved to OZ in the 60s. It’s so sad to see what’s happened to the North. I felt safe as a child growing up in a mining community.🏴🇬🇧🇦🇺
For a council to spend £19,000 erecting a statue of a miner with its heart ripped out, gives the area an incredibly bleak outlook on it's future....
@LICKSTERxx
Ай бұрын
Probably soend more than that pandering to the groomers every June
@TruthAndFreedom.
Ай бұрын
It's to mock the locals about what they did to them ......... They hate us
@MaterLacrymarum
Ай бұрын
It's about history. It's no different than having Nelson at Trafalgar Square.
@cargumdeu
Ай бұрын
i can't think of anything more likely to engender a victim mentality. They must have a huge Labour majority up there.
@jujuUK68
Ай бұрын
@@cargumdeu given thatcher closed the pits, took the money out the area and put nothing back, why do you think that would be?
The cats the prettiest thing about the place !!!
@dondraper2488
Ай бұрын
Yeah,buts it’s addicted to Mamba….
You know it's rough when you need to nip to the shops in a TANK!
@flipburger6771
23 күн бұрын
kek
@loriswafford4672
18 күн бұрын
LOOL
I hope things go well for the Polish lady.
@BurtGivens
Ай бұрын
Deport
@Kborodo740
28 күн бұрын
In Poland you will not find estate simular to this Uk is much richer then Poland
@mpbrooks
27 күн бұрын
@@BurtGivens j
@BurtGivens
26 күн бұрын
@@mpbrooks ew
@DaveCessford-tf2ws
26 күн бұрын
Looks like the lady has decided that living in Horden is better than living in Poland
Thatcher tore the heart out the UK’s working communities and did not have the foresight to help replace the dignity of good honest work for a quick buck, same as she treated everything else sell sell sell one quick fix with no replacement and no rebuilding. Now we have country on its knees with nothing left to sell.
@andrewbrown8903
Ай бұрын
It's ironic how the clip was done by the Sun who were the biggest advocate of that inhuman bitches policies. I live in the South Wales valleys and there are plenty of villages in the same situation . 40 yrs after the conflict and the mining communities are still broken 😢
@neilrafferty2097
Ай бұрын
The mines were finished anyway.
@robinburn4974
Ай бұрын
Labour closed more mines than Thatcher or the Tories
@Surv1ve_Thrive
Ай бұрын
@mandriod5255 the mines could not compete, communities failed to heed, most didn't even try & give youth a chance even though retraining/training was thrown at them for decades, including after. Massively stubborn. Many short sighted about reality.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Labour started closing the mines, and the industry was finished, long time before the Great lady came to power.
❤I am 87 years of age an fought for this country. I am now disabled and cannot understand the present state of the country. Not what it was when I was young ?
@darrenturner8913
22 күн бұрын
Thankyou Sir. I can't imagine how heartbreaking it must be, to have fought, genuinely, for ones country and it's freesoms - only to see the sad, sorry, state of it today... 💔🙏
@loriswafford4672
18 күн бұрын
“We fought the wrong enemy” - Gen George Patton, Berlin 1945
Countless thousands of homeless people in this country and almost an entire town full of empty houses because neither the local council or law enforcement can be bothered , so sack every one of them , cancel their pensions and re-elect.
@paddydoyle4234
Ай бұрын
And you think that'll help how? It'll just create a town of scroungers who are good for nothing.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
We've just had an election and the idiots voted Labour, so things will get worse
@drunkpaulocosta
Ай бұрын
@@paddydoyle4234 well you provide services and amenities to help them of course. And do weekly inspections for people coming off the street. Create the jobs that allow it to work. Don't create problems from nothing like they are going to prevent change. You did it with Australia you can do it with UK. Don't be so daft
@drunkpaulocosta
Ай бұрын
As in you can start an entire nation of people from criminals. Who are actually better people than the English are these days
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
@@drunkpaulocosta There are plenty of jobs available, it's just that the Benefits system makes living on benefits an appealing option
Jesus... switching on KZread is so bloody depressing sometimes.
I dont live too far from Horden. Its not too bad at all. You get used to the environment you are in. As long as you've got some good friendly locals around, you are laughing
@jamesaustralian9829
25 күн бұрын
Home is where you make it.
@tellmemore8837
20 күн бұрын
But are they laughing?
Bald and Bankrupt walked thru this hood.
@number6ix929
Ай бұрын
With Backpacker Ben.
was not expecting a tank repair shop, how random
I live in this area and to be fair I wouldn't say it was dangerous at all considering most of the numbered streets are empty. Apart from the odd anti-social behaviour it's actually quiet.
@Edgisco
27 күн бұрын
Yeah I figured the same... that guy saying it's dangerous in the day as they film a middle aged woman alone casually walking up the street 😂
@JaneSmedley
26 күн бұрын
@@Edgisco Got to love the Sun's click-baiting title..I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
@barriehenderson3031
26 күн бұрын
Yeah I live in peterlee played cricket down there for years and drank there and played football . Walk through it loads it’s safe to walk through just need the numbered streets knocking down which seems to get delayed year after year . They never show the other parts with the new housing estates built that would ruin the video for them .
Well that was depressing
Thank you Thatcher, what a magnificent women. Could these not be "done up" for the homeless, thousands on the streets of Britain that are good honest people.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Homeless is a lifestyle choice. And alcoholics and Junkies are far from "Good honest people"
@freedomf1ght3r-l9i
Ай бұрын
Give a alcoholic or smackhead a house, what are you on😂😂😂
@goldeneagle99
24 күн бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u go away
@thedigitalemotion
24 күн бұрын
She was a brilliant and strong leader, the likes of what we need now., fool.
@Storm.Z.4u
24 күн бұрын
@@thedigitalemotion She was exactly the sort of leader we need today, to sort out the immigrants and the feckless lazy ponces.
Private money in the uk is the only money the govt will spend. They don’t believe in giving money directly to people, it has to go through a privatisation scheme first. London property has to double every 10-15 like it has done for 1000 years. We use every penny possible from every resource possible to make that happen. We’d still own an entire oil industry if London didn’t sell it off. The neo-liberal state of the uk is coming hard and fast. Terrifying.
Its incredible the problem of closing all the mines caused still 40 years on .
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
the mines is just an excuse, the world has moved on from people being sent underground to dig for coal
@craigrothwell6144
Ай бұрын
Todays youngsters would never work down the mines anyway, The would get dirty!
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Things move on.
@nathanmiller9632
27 күн бұрын
@@craigrothwell6144we would believe me, if they opened the pits or the shipyards again you'd get loads of lads up here on it
@Storm.Z.4u
27 күн бұрын
@@nathanmiller9632 There are lots of more appealing jobs available, why don't they take those?
i'm guessing horden is a labour council?
@Mat-kr1nf
Ай бұрын
Well I can tell you about Morecambe’s Tory MP, at least, he was, until the other week when thankfully, a wonderful, hard working, caring Labour MP took over. David Morris, known by his fellow MPs as “Air Miles Morris”, takes every opportunity to go off on tax payers jollies that have no bearing whatsoever on his constituency. He also had one of the highest expense accounts and perhaps, the most damning, whenever anybody wrote a comment on his Facebook page that was even ever so slightly criticising of him or Tory policies, he banned them, hence the “Banned by David Morris” Facebook group, which had (its now called something else) over a thousand members! He used to claim there was no poverty in Morecambe, the school was lying about there being rickets, the food banks were against him and full of grasping, cheating people who didn’t need to use them. He was atrocious, absolutely unbelievable. He was MP of Morecambe and Lunesdale, Lunesdale being a very rich area, many, many millionaires. Well, of course, you never, ever saw him in Morecambe, he was all over the people of Lunesdale though, like a rash!🤢They we’re the ones who were supporting him, funding him. He didn’t even have his office in Morecambe, it was in the nearby town of Lancaster, a different constituency, a really good Labour woman, Cat Smith. That meant the poverty stricken people of Morecambe couldn’t afford the bus fare to see him, not that he would help them anyway. That’s your Tory council for you!☹️🧐🥺
@deangray333
Ай бұрын
Yep no guessing it’s obvious
@AbandonEarth911
29 күн бұрын
Do you think the Tories give a Toss about former mining communities. Labour Liberal Reform or Tory it still ends up the same old worn out Story.
@johnchapman6013
25 күн бұрын
Yes , because Labour party know , the 🐑🐑🐑 will vote Labour again , and again , And next time .
@rrstows3522
24 күн бұрын
No it is not , Durham is run by a Tory coalition of north east party independent .that have left the east coast of Durham south of seaham to rot. 😢 Come the election next may this group of self serving councilers out and return to labour control.
Another example of broken Britain 😢😢😢😢😢😢I hope the new government is watching this I hope they are prepared to do something this is the tip of the iceberg
@roberts7961
Ай бұрын
Labour won't do anything here, Vote Labour Vote Islam
@isobelmiddleton6353
Ай бұрын
I wouldn't hold my breath
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Starmer is the Immigrants friend, he would rather spend £1,000 on an immigrant than a Tenner on a brit
@utv5490
28 күн бұрын
I think that is your solution. Stop giving the immigrants money and give the Brits a tenner. You hate immigrants, hate the needy and are full of self-loathing. DO NOT GIVE ADVICE TO ANYONE
@johndawson8806
27 күн бұрын
its not a new government havent you woken up yet? its the uni party they are all the same nothing ever changes
Spending all the money on foreigners.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
At least they work
@codswallop164
Ай бұрын
@Storm.Z.4u Unfortunately for you're pretentious self, statistically only ethnic Chinese outdo white British in these regards.
@HouseOldSkoolRaver
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u do they? 500 Somalians in the local hotel never seen any of them work just take.
@susanwestern6434
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4uIllegally working in food delivery.
@Icneumone7
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u most asylum seekers Insee in London spend their days in the café with their 6 wives and multiple children. All day long, all they do is shopping, spend their benefits. Meanwhile British born work 12 hour shifts to pay for their benefits.
This just proves what I've been saying for a long time, that the housing problem in this country is just as much about location and it's a consequence of not levelling up as it is about the actual number of houses. My own northern town is gradually going more and more the same way. There are houses that are boarded up that they can't sell or rent. I bought my own 3 bedroom semi detached house on a single person mortgage for £70k but if it was transplanted as is to London it would probably be worth about £800k. It has a 70ft long driveway, a detached garage, is about 1500sq ft because it is a large 50s built semi. My monthly mortgage payments are £250. This is because local housing demand is very low because it is a town that is in the top third of England's most deprived towns. We get one third less the government investment per capita than the average. In recent years according to a recent study, we've lost 23% of all bus services. In the town itself there are no professional, high quality jobs. It is all low paid, manual jobs working in factories on production lines for the minimum/living wage. All this means that people from the outside don't see my town as a place to come to make a good life for themselves and raise a family. In addition to this you get all the local born children like my own neice who is starting at university this year studying Medical Research, when she has graduated she will move to one of our already overcrowded cities to take up that kind of job. That means we loose another one of our own children. So the town is gradually dying. The average person is older. The local employers are finding it harder and harder to recruit anyone because of the bizarre combination of low wages and not enough people applying for jobs. So then you have this bizarre situation in the country where you have such as Bristol where people with decent paid jobs are living by the kerbside in a caravan because they cant afford the ridiculous local rents or even find anywhere to live to start with because 30 people are all fighting over the same flat to rent out at £2k per month whilst on my own town the average rent across all types of accommodation is £600pcm. This is probably why despite people around the country saying there's a big shortage of housing and despite planning permission has been in place for years to build 6000 new homes on the edge of the town I live in, shovels have not yet broken dirt. They can't even find a developer willing to take the job on. So what is the point in building 6000 new homes in a town where many of the existing houses cant be sold? There is no point even if there is a nationwide housing shortage. My belief is that if the good, well paid jobs were more evenly spread across the entire country then the people would spread out more and the existing housing we have could be used in a lot better way instead of having a large percentage of our population are trying to cram into just a small number of cities.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Leveling up is not possible when some prefer not to work and live on benefits, often generation after generation, so it's impossible for them to be the same as people who work hard and make a success in life.
@utv5490
28 күн бұрын
Of course it's possible the problem is with the rich not putting in not the poor taking out. Blokes like you will always serve their perceived masters. Look where it's got you!!
The Park looked nice!
Shocking and likely to get worse now that Miliband has immediately stopped new licenses for North Sea drilling.
@Dusty357
Ай бұрын
Yes but the is a lot more to it then the stopping of northsea drilling for gas n oil exploration
@theworldaccordingto4555
Ай бұрын
14 years of Tory austerity and Putting Public Money Into Private Pockets... They fleeced £billions during the pandemic. And brexit is costing us billions in lost money. It's disaster vulture capitalism.
@Surv1ve_Thrive
Ай бұрын
My goodness they have him in that role? Spineless
@jjefferyworboys8138
Ай бұрын
@@Dusty357 Not for those licences previously sold. If the government tried to stop those it would face a hugely expensive legal challenge.
@Dusty357
Ай бұрын
@@jjefferyworboys8138 couldn't really give a toss about Licensing been granted for what ever oil or gas fields if you were from Northeast England then you would understand what and were am coming from gas n oil exploration is the least of this areas problems pal .
do the cops do literally nothing?
@AbandonEarth911
29 күн бұрын
40 years ago they where bashing miners.
You got Romanians in the hotels and all them free houses. How slow are the leaders of England. Simple logic.
@seriousoldman8997
Ай бұрын
Yep, you are simple.
@thedonpascoe728
Ай бұрын
@@seriousoldman8997 like your mum
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
But the houses don't have the facilities they need such as Air Conditioning and restaurants
@thedonpascoe728
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u 🤣🤣 very true
@utv5490
29 күн бұрын
Storm, shouldnt you be slagging Jay Slater's Mom as usual? Anyway glad to see you have made a friend. Maybe you can meet each other and do a line together. Now they've arrested that Holly Willoughby guy there will be no suspicious eyes on you.
Pits were closed all over the UK 40 years ago. Also happens in other countries as younger generations and policy makers see coal as a 'dirty' fuel. Boys often left school at 16 to go into the mines, thinking they had a forever job with the Miners Union backing them up. It was not to be. Then 4000 miners in this town went on welfare because they lacked education and marketable skills in other crafts and trades. In the US these towns are called 'one industry towns'. And when mills and plants close, they lose their jobs and wind up moving or taking any job they can find. Gary and Detroit come to mind.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
40 years ago, you'd think they'd have moved on by now, instead of using that old lame excuse, no one would want to work down a pit in the modern world.
@shhwinner6663
Ай бұрын
yet in Australia miners are paid $100000 a year!
@paddydoyle4234
Ай бұрын
@@shhwinner6663 Australia is 32 times larger than England, and hasn't been mined for millennia, yet has a fraction of the population. The truth is, these towns aren't pulling their weight, they don't know how to create or innovate, just cry and ask for hand outs.
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
@@shhwinner6663 So they are underpaid to do a dangerous / dirty job, Perhaps they should have worked harder at school
@nathanmiller9632
27 күн бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4uclueless
An old friend of mine‘s parents own and rent a home out there, and quite frankly I think it gets a worse rap than it deserves. It’s definitely not the nicest place I’ve ever been to but it’s also no worse than most of County Durham. It suffers from the same problems that the rest of the county has. I know the city is quite affluent, but outside of the city you’re hard pressed to find an affluent area outside of a few pockets owned by royals and rich landowners. One thing that’s disappointing to see is the business owner who’s saying there’s nothing there for kids, instead of highlighting all the great things he himself is doing for kids and the people of Horden.
Now there’s a true entrepreneur with a social conscious - well done Sir !!
The council should be ashamed of themselves, they charge the highest tax rate in the country but invest very little back in. They constantly refuse to demolish the old streets and replace them.
@Storm.Z.4u
23 күн бұрын
But very few pay it due to benefits
A Labour stronghold
Sorry too burst your bubble but it's pretty much like this in most English, Scottish towns and cities nowadays I live in a small English town and it's rife with drug use and never any police about
It's not all bad news. At least when The Tank Commander is not fixing his vehicles, he gets to be play real life monopoly with all the vacant premises!
Homes are cheap in these dumps because no normal hard working person don’t want to live there
Well done to the tank restorer boss for helping create some businesses - salon, dance studio etc and a sense of normality. ❤
Kinnock sold out the miners as well
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Scargil and the unions closed the mines
@markjones4704
29 күн бұрын
no national ballot for 84/85 strike local/area ballots only
When there is no hope, this is what happens...
@Mac-qi5nz
Ай бұрын
They are deliberately causing this, you are ALL being socially engineered by a superior intelligence to ensure a traditional backlash. Wake up f f s guys, enough is enough
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Hope is for the hopelss
@jjefferyworboys8138
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u Very true, blame anyone but themselves.
@jjefferyworboys8138
Ай бұрын
There is always a route out, only the hopeless and those who prey on them stay.
@Mac-qi5nz
Ай бұрын
@@jjefferyworboys8138 if you are not an active force in your own life, you are a passive force in someone else's plan
The place is parade compared to San Francisco
Nice to see the salt of the earth being interviewed, proper folk. We have the same issues here in the South Wales valley's.
People who live there bear a huge responsibility,also.
@AbandonEarth911
29 күн бұрын
Give your head a shake.
@neilrafferty2097
29 күн бұрын
@@AbandonEarth911 Feeling sorry for themselves for over 40 years?
@AbandonEarth911
29 күн бұрын
@@neilrafferty2097 No they face living in the reality of life in a system which puts money/profit first. In parts of County Durham life is far different for some people.
@Storm.Z.4u
28 күн бұрын
@@AbandonEarth911 The system is the same for all, being feckless, workshy & living off benefits is unlikely to better ones self, but then they don't want to.
@nathanmiller9632
27 күн бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4uwork shy? There's no graft for them to go to for miles 🤣
This is what a liebour council does to an area.😢
@luisinhocuenta9496
Ай бұрын
No. It's not. This is the result of underfunding of councils. By the good Torie party.
@a13xdunlop
Ай бұрын
Tory, Labour, no difference, two sides of the samecoin
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
They put immigrants and foreigners above Native British People
@alwoo5645
Ай бұрын
Who closed the mines
@Censorshift
Ай бұрын
@@alwoo5645who continued the decline over the years. I’d argue this started before Maggie and then got progressively worse since with no help from either of the main parties
What a shame to see this, unfortunately it is not an isolated case. I live in Manchester but I spend every Summer on the East Coast of England from East Yorkshire up to Northumberland and the Scottish borders, and it has some of the best beaches/scenery/ hospitable folk you could ever wish to meet! What the hell happened to 'Levelling up', this is a broken town, so sad to see. Much Investment needed ! dx
@carolluvsmusic2092
9 күн бұрын
Am from Berwick upon tweed beautiful part of the world moved away 1987 x
Labour in action. we will all be like that when Labour takes our money via taxes and pensions and gives it to the new people coming in from abroad
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
Sadly true
@rrstows3522
24 күн бұрын
Bull ,it's the Tories coalition that runs co, Durham council get your facts right
@insertnamehere5146
24 күн бұрын
@@rrstows3522 how about you look a little further than your 10th birthday.!! these places have been neglected for 50 years under the Tories and your best buddies the labour party.
Funny how I didn't see one drug addict in this video
@chachi9945
27 күн бұрын
It’s daytime they are all locked away in their dens. Wait till the sun goes down.
You know you're talking to a real gentleman when hes into Tanks and Cats!
What came first? The dodgy roads or the tank.
The UK is grim 💀💀💀
@Edward1312
29 күн бұрын
Some parts are grim other parts are very affluent and very beautiful. The difference can be like night and day. Makes you wonder sometimes how it is possible they are on the same continent, let alone the same small island. Politicians are to blame for letting this happen.
Shocking what governments have done to these places closed everything left nothing
@robertbest4398
Ай бұрын
Deprivation shocking on british governments
These places have been voting labour forever. This is a picture of the future of this country.
Totally abandoned Once thriving honest communities Godbless them❤
Councils should buy all these houses and renovate them give them to homeless
@afanporsaber
Ай бұрын
And attract more corporatives to give well paid jobs.
@electronicmail3020
Ай бұрын
If you renovate it I can't buy it because it will be to expensive. I don't own a home yet.
@cherylparker8025
Ай бұрын
@@afanporsaber and encourage and support small business development, use local trades people to renovate those houses
@K1lostream
Ай бұрын
There’s no point - all they’d do is take all the renovated stuff and sell it to buy drugs.
@Ziaurelijus
Ай бұрын
They’re to busy giving illegals
If there is a housing shortage why doesn’t the government clean this up
Prefect! A ready made town for our visitors- it's a sh.th.le already.
Growing up, we had a youth centre and the local church put on a youth disco every Saturday night. Just saying.
@Storm.Z.4u
27 күн бұрын
They'd smash the place up and steal the DJ equipment up there nowadays
@earlbee3196
27 күн бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u oh, I see.
TRULY SHOCKING
Where I’m from in the South Wales valleys, we go there on holiday.
@Storm.Z.4u
27 күн бұрын
Labour again
That cat is cool
Labour council I bet .
@rrstows3522
24 күн бұрын
No unfortunately ,it's a Tory coalition that runs co Durham unfortunately, they have left the east coast to rot , they only look after most rich areas
The most depressive thing I ever seen in my life!Even to live there for free,be payed ,I am not gonna stay there!!!!
Imagine what its goig to be like in another 20 year’s time its bad now
@SteveSmith-kd9if
Ай бұрын
There's not going to be another 20 years from now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She sounds local
what they failed to say is that the 5k houses are gutted every wire and pipe pulled out
@euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf
28 күн бұрын
And they're auction start prices. Nobody is buying a home for 5 bags.
@davidfannan3505
28 күн бұрын
@@euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf i live here you can get a gd one for 30k
@Storm.Z.4u
24 күн бұрын
So the Locals have stolen the wires and pipes, then complain that they are tatty and no one wants to move there, best just leave them to it.
😮 oh please 🙏🏻 come up to Aberdeen Scotland UK, and see the state of the so called offshore industry developments that the council has left unique area's such as Torry, Northfield, Tillydrone, Mastrick, Summer Hill, Manor walk, langstracht Road, and Seaton.
The Pandemic taught everyone we are able to work at home. Corporations could buy up these kinds of homes for their employees to buy back from them and set up working communities there once again. We hear all the time about the housing shortages, but there are communities like this all over some very beautiful places in the North of the Country. I rented a completely rennovated home right on the North Sea in one of them. A view beyond compare! Hoping the powers that be will start thinking outside the box!
@loriswafford4672
18 күн бұрын
Right! A great place for introverts who can work remotely!
There are mirror imges of this across the pond too. Maybe not exact same circumstances, but similar. Anywhere resources are extracted from the ground and refined, there seems to be a repetitive societal cancer that slowly seeps into those areas over time, but especially so if that industry slows or disappears.
It's grim up North.
All that town needs is investor to put up a manufacturing plant or a processing warehouse(give that investor a few tax breaks) which can employ at least 500 local people on the minimum,I dare say the transformation will be significant...
And people say there's a housing shortage, plenty of cheap stuff there!
@andrewholdaway813
Ай бұрын
But no jobs
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
@@andrewholdaway813 As most of them don't work that's not an issue. If someones on the dole they may as well live in a £10k house up North than a £500k property in the South
@electronicmail3020
Ай бұрын
@@andrewholdaway813I can drive car and I can ride (rusty) upto 600cc motorbike, and now there's ebike. Now depends on what job makes me happy. I just need my ROA and a place to be available to buy without jumping through hoops. hoops, such as it doesn't exist or they are picking who they sell to. Such as making hard to buy and telling me I don't want it when I want it and have the finances for it. And I'm above house buying age and poor enough not to be situated/purchasing in high populated areas. I bring, age, peace, education and modernization.
@andrewholdaway813
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u Them?
@dannykennion8738
Ай бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4u If they filled those houses with dole homeless men it's only going to increase drug demand and crime
I live 4 miles away and have friends that live on some of these streets . It's rough but it ain't that rough
then put the dingy immigrants in these empty £5 houses we don't need to build anymore on farm land
@rickoshea1027
Ай бұрын
No do not put them here.
most places declined shut the mines down it was good in stoke once sold it all to make it cheaper in China pottery. Why are there so many fancy barber shops about??
My blood hound came from Easington Colliery.
@nathanmiller9632
27 күн бұрын
Can stiff a grow out from 12 miles 🤣
The mine loss was devastating but much of the cause of that was the running fight between the miners union and the employers. Then Moribund introduced the CCA which hammered nails into the coffin of the coal industry along with power and other heavy industries. So much for the labour party the NUM worshipped.
an economy that produces burnt houses _ we got that too
Labour have been in power for one week and look what has happening.
@AbandonEarth911
29 күн бұрын
Give the Tories a chance they have only had 14years.
@Rizzlez169
28 күн бұрын
Mate it’s the tories fault cos they shut down the coal mines
@Storm.Z.4u
27 күн бұрын
@@Rizzlez169 Correction, Labour closed the mines, the Tory's simply finished the closure program.
@longshanks1978
21 күн бұрын
Labour and tories dont give a crap about this ,it will never change ,20 years from now these towns will be 90% african towns
I guarantee he don't pay tax.
@Storm.Z.4u
26 күн бұрын
Do any Northerners?
When you defund a whole country to support the utopian dream of multicultural London. I am not British, but I feel so bad for British people being abandoned and ostracized by their government.
@katieMarie2022
Ай бұрын
The people up North by large is not lazy. They are very hard working people. The gentleman already stated they were a mining village but of cause all the mines were closed down, which was not their fault also further up the coast Whitely Bay like many others the fishing industry was shut down. I've travelled the world and all over the U.K and London has thousands out of work not just the North. Investments? I've many investments in properties and didn't have to be in London as there is plenty of investment in the North. Instead of insulting Northerners try some education my dear.
@Mac-qi5nz
Ай бұрын
They are deliberately causing this, you are ALL being socially engineered by a superior intelligence to ensure a traditional backlash. Wake up f f s guys, enough is enough
@paddydoyle4234
Ай бұрын
@@katieMarie2022 funny you say education, you've still got people crying over the pit closures 40 years ago, maybe its them that should of looked into education.
@katieMarie2022
Ай бұрын
@@paddydoyle4234 Indeed Einstein, they're 80 years old now or maybe you should try the bogs of Ireland.
@paddydoyle4234
Ай бұрын
@@katieMarie2022 the irish are no better off, most play the victim, its why scousers are so good at it as well, lazy entitled victims.
Such a shame so many houses that could be used but where are the jobs ?
Instantly knew it was hordon before i even opened the video.. genuinely is a place of no return .
Good idea to restore military vehicles in a place like that ! Such a shame that the town is so down on its knees ! I wish the residents all the best.. my family are from that nearby area.. moved south for work back in the 1950's.
@jennyj0007
Ай бұрын
why did you move? Why didn't you stay to fix your city?
@AD-gi9zg
Ай бұрын
@@jennyj0007 When you have the offer of work and a better life elsewhere, it could be the best thing, particularly if you have a family. His family moved in the 1950s. At that time, the mines were operational. The town had not declined to this state.
They shut down the one industry and never thought to replace it with another. You need a policy whereby, if you close down an industry, you open another industry up. For example, how many Government offices are there in London, occupying buildings that could be sold for millions/billions. Use that money to move the work to these places. There's housing stock waiting, brown-field sites, and a population desperate for decent employment. There's practically no excuse, given the price of property, to have many Government admin centres, within 50 miles of London. Salford "Media City" is a great example of what can happen if you move middle-class jobs out to the regions.
Plenty of vacant accommodation crying out for cultural enrichment.
Time for someone to pour some money into this place, make it safe again and livable. Maybe a good project for homing the homeless. Get some stores, coffee shops back, to help employ people. @attn Prince William.
@paddydoyle4234
Ай бұрын
What world do you live in?
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
They get enough money in their benefits
@utv5490
28 күн бұрын
@@Storm.Z.4uHow do you know what money they get and how much is enough?
@loriswafford4672
18 күн бұрын
He doesn’t care about poor areas
No secret that people that have no hope....become hopeless! Grate Britain!
I went to Horden once and never again
I used to deliver from Seaham all down the coast and after the pits closed it decimated the area
From $37K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family.
@MarryMichael-l1u
Ай бұрын
Excuse me for real?,how is that possible I have struggling financially, how was that possible?
@JamesRodriguez-lj5xk
Ай бұрын
Thanks to Elizabeth Marie Hawley.
@JamesRodriguez-lj5xk
Ай бұрын
Though I started with as low as $15,000 actually because it was my first time and it was successful, She's is a great personality in the states
@PedroValencia-br3sl
Ай бұрын
YES!!! That's exactly her name (Elizabeth Maria Hawley) so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her 😊 from Brisbane Australia🇦🇺
@VssgGsggsd
Ай бұрын
I have heard a lot of wonderful things about Elizabeth Maria Hawley on the news but didn't believe it until now. I'm definitely trying her out
Бродяга на каяке, реально выживаю на необитаемых и тропических островах Привет из Индонезии от канала Dima traveler 👋🙂🏝
@AD-gi9zg
Ай бұрын
That sounds great. X
We moved to horder last year and trust me all places have bad areas hordon have some of the nicest ppl u can meet help u with anything
Wait england does crack now? When the fick did that happen. Im Aussie so we dont even have crack here. I thought that was just an American thing
@R8V10
Ай бұрын
Cracks been here since the 80’s.
@davidmellish3295
Ай бұрын
Cracks been here for over 40 years, Australia has a lot less drugs than America and Europe cause its a lot harder to smuggle too. Also they're a lot less people in Australia, so a much smaller market so a lot less profit. That's why drugs are 2 or 3 times the cost in Australia than in Europe or the USA
@Surv1ve_Thrive
Ай бұрын
@davidmellish3295 Australia had a bigger issue than the UK with speed 80s/90s. Was everywhere I was told, was in press too. Then later meth as similar manufacturing process. But thankfully not heard meth is such an epidemic.
@davidmellish3295
Ай бұрын
@Surv1ve_Thrive yeah but speed is just a cheap drug easily manufactured with no need to smuggle as its made in house. The real profits are in heroin and cocaine and with Australia being so far, being so hard to smuggle too and the fact there are more people in London than in the whole of Australia, it doesn't make it an attractive market,hard to get to,not many people. Not worth the hassle, the cartels make much more in North America and Europe
@Surv1ve_Thrive
Ай бұрын
@davidmellish3295 yep all true. Some of the speed was made/sold by Aus biker gangs etc I heard. Domestic.
Build a decent rail network and invest in infrastructure, regeneration of flora, and encourage people to move into the countryside. UK too London centric. Small island with poor transport infrastructure.
having to drive a TANK to buy a pint of milk?? IT MUST BE BAD ??
I live here Somalia is better than Horden 😢
There is no such thing as "Road Tax" it does NOT go on the roads it is a TAX on you because you own a luxury item ie a car !!
@Storm.Z.4u
Ай бұрын
A car is not a Luxury.
If u have 5 or 6 pitbulls for guard dogs and big high fences and someone who likes staying home 🏡 all the time . Ur house will be safe !! And a house alarm system and cameras all around the house.