Northampton born and breed, been away for 10 years when i came back i was shocked how much this town has gone down hill. Its depressing.

@MorgueOfficialMusic

Жыл бұрын

Don't joke, it was always a shit hole

R.I.P. NORTHAMPTON KILLED BY THE COUNCIL END OF

@AndRewUK24

2 жыл бұрын

True! As someone who was born and lived my whole life in Northampton (35 years) until last year. Since 2009 it has gone steadily downhill year by year. David Mcintosh and his team is partly to blame. The new bus station is too small for the town. Getting rid of Northampton Balloon festival in Racecourse and lack of investment in the town is partly to blame. I think the council is banking on the university to make money in the town centre rather than residents and visitors. 😞😭😡😖

@sethpeterharris2122

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed lived er for my ole life not on a decline

@jonathanlemonwrestlingshow9251

3 ай бұрын

True 14 years of Tory rule I miss the old Bus Station And I miss the old shops too 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞

Mackintosh should be in jail after his involvement with the football club fraud.

@michaelsmellis9388

5 жыл бұрын

I will catch him

@paulraybould8491

3 жыл бұрын

Its gone to the dogs , totally agree with u looks worse since the 80s when I was a kid walking around the Northampton Market,

I moved here from London 2 yrs ago and what I find is that if your walking down abington st etc then look up and your see some fantastic architecture, problem is this is not transfered to street level, the council need to put in place a kind of preservation order so all shops need to have a victorian/georgian frontage and also a big re-vamp of the grosvenor to attract some better quality shops. Then they need to police it well to move all the cider drinking scum on...there's no reason why Northampton can't be like Stratford upon avon, Bath etc .....we've got the history all we need is a council with balls.

@murdoch451

7 жыл бұрын

Because when they built the new Hope centre , Bedford, liecester coventry and MK gave them all travel tickets to come here to get them out of there town centres .Look it up

@OGRAP

5 жыл бұрын

i'm moving to northampton ..is the city ok?

@Lamedvavnik

2 жыл бұрын

@@OGRAP the guy below is grossly exaggerating how dangerous Northampton is. Just looked up crime starts etc and compare to other English towns.

@alansmith795

8 ай бұрын

Listen to the audio book Jerusalem,55hours long and it will give you a good idea what's wrong,ithas a fantastic history going back hundreds of years

Born and breed in Northampton, it looks completely different since I used to live there, put the money to help the homeless of the streets, the market used to be huge in northampton, i can remember walking around it as a kid and it was brilliant

@madlad5675

3 жыл бұрын

I got stabbed the other day by an assassin that the government hired to stop me talking about Northampton

3:55 'i think northamptons got a bright future' 4 years later and its gone worst...

@shaun9707

4 жыл бұрын

H JH 5 years later... it’s even worse

@bigbobs9977

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaun9707 ikr

@sirtommyrobinsonsbitonthes7299

4 жыл бұрын

It’s always been full of weird fucked up people

@curlyhiphop505

4 жыл бұрын

@@sirtommyrobinsonsbitonthes7299 i used to live in northampton i live in spain now. A change for the better no doubt

@officialshio4731

3 жыл бұрын

shaun 6 years later ...... uh oh 😨

I was born in Northampton 1949. Moved away 1963. Loved the town and was very sorry to leave. Wouldn't want to be there now.

@heatherwhite7136

7 жыл бұрын

i was born in northampton 1955,left there in 1961...i would not want to be there now.

I was born in Northampton and and grew up their,I'm 67 now and living in Spain for the last 18yrs,i can remember watching the workmen taking down the Fountain in the middle of the market square.and the Victorian arcade at the top of the market.I drive over to Northampton every couple of years,and it has changed for the worse,seems like the private company also know as the council don't care any more.

I live in Falkirk Scotland, it’s exactly the same here. People shop online, but the shops left are bookies and charity shops. I think we need to rethink town centres. Make them more a destination for eating, drinking and entertainment not shopping. Internet has already won that war.

Northampton gang

@lollol-rt8ff

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Demolishing the Emporium Arcade was an idiotic piece of vandalism.

Northampton has been the victim of very poor Council administration and very poor quality policing over very many years. About a decade ago both Northampton Borough Council AND Northampton police were on the bottom of the national league table for their poor performance for TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS. Northampton is the result of long term corruption and incompetence.

@Stsebastian8900

6 жыл бұрын

100% agree. I live in abington

@AndRewUK24

2 жыл бұрын

I agree.😡

@danw1374

Ай бұрын

Spot on. Criminal what they've done to the place. Couldn't run a bloody tap.

Northampton born and bred. This town is a shell of it's former self.

Born here lived here and moved to Devon 9 years ago. The difference is unreal

I went to Northampton today and felt like a spot on a domino.

I’ve lived in Northampton for a long time and I can vouch on homelessness, rubbish everywhere and comparing the first time I went into the market street and when I went yesterday. The difference was there. Gone are the days when it was a noisy, bustling place.

@JULIAN8845

5 жыл бұрын

AS THE REST OF UK

@spsppspsspsp8348

4 жыл бұрын

Raflamar same with Walsall

@shagyanangargamel4823

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Tayler Walsall used to be a nice, busy, bustling, vibrant place. That was until... you kno..

@madlad5675

3 жыл бұрын

It was the communists

I lived in Northampton till I was 10 now I'm 15 and live in Winchester but it was fine. The town was a bit grubby like all places it's not amazing but there are much worse places to live

It’s like the toilet of England, it’s a depressing place.

Really nice documentary very informative, my Mum and her Mum were born and bred here, the new bus station is horrible and doesn;t work in my opinion, people say the old one looks ugly but it works, just needed a lick of paint and few structural things doing and it would have looked better.

Northampton resident 1947 to 1962 - happiest years of my life

I hope it gets better. It's my hometown♡

Welp 2019 here nd I can confirm Northampton has gotten worse

@DazzzTube

3 жыл бұрын

But we got an office now

Retail everywhere is struggling because of the shift to online shopping. I grew up in Northampton and live here now, and it was just as average in the 1970s. It's not really any better or worse than any other regional town, it's just meh. The demolition of the big bus station was a big mistake, but there was this obsession with getting rid of it after some Channel 4 programme named it the ugliest building in Britain. Well, might have been ugly but at least it was big enough for all the buses and you didn't have to march up and down The Drapery trying to find your stop.

@futureofmoney3527

10 ай бұрын

I might be crazy, but I have a big nostalgia for Greyfriars. The dark heart of Northampton.

@ian_b

10 ай бұрын

@@futureofmoney3527Same here. It was the perfect expression of the times.

this is a great snap shot of the town recently passed, you should make an update on this see how things have improved or got worse? Who's been caught etc

@AndRewUK24

2 жыл бұрын

Well it's got worse partly due to covid-19 pandemic and more partly due to budget cuts/crisis. There is a big move to online shopping and out of town shopping. More elderly and older people are going to places like market harborough and Milton Keynes for shopping and day out. The council is investing in more to do with the university than anything such as flats and apartments. Most closed retail space will be turning to flats or apartments that probably be used by university students. It's because of the university of moving next town centre at old Avon site. I think Northampton town centre will be dominantly for students within next 10 years. (Even some charity shops are closing.)

Absolutely nothing to do in Northampton coming from a Londoner who has recently moved up here

@JwiseTheRealist

3 жыл бұрын

@@generallyjosh5275 i dont think its that bad but its just boring

I lived her all my life. I'll be honest I would love here rather than London

@elliottscreations7208

4 жыл бұрын

lewis knight you are mad

@myguy155

3 жыл бұрын

@@elliottscreations7208 no, no one likes London

@elliottscreations7208

3 жыл бұрын

@@myguy155 that’s your own opinion

@aanirana2003

3 жыл бұрын

London is thriving and always growing

Mackintosh should be in jail, why is he not being investigated?

@danw1374

Ай бұрын

Backhanders most likely.

I was born in Northampton in 1956. I avoid going there if I possibly can. It's a disgusting place to be honest with no redeeming features. Everything I remember about the town from my childhood is gone. Sad but true. Small wonder it has been denied city status on numerous occasions.

This is a standard state of affairs for most town centers. With bus and train fares doubling everywhere, people are reluctant to venture out. Buying fresh food leaves us all with no money because it's so expensive. The NHS is struggling with people displaying major problems because we can't consistently buy healthy food makes us all look lazy and irresponsible.

man, now I see where Alan Moore's innate grumpiness comes from

@SteeeveO

2 жыл бұрын

he still lives here, in a small terraced house near the town centre. Most who "make it" would leave the town as soon as.........

I've lived in Northampton coming up 5 years. Yes the high street is a bit grim but there are plenty of retail parks in parts of town with the usual brands. Online shopping is killing high streets all over the UK. Housing in Northampton is priced well. You have good motorway links and some lovely villages on outskirts. Yes shopping in Milton Keynes is better but I think it's a soulless place and would not prefer to live there. I used to live in London and would not go back there!

@buckycore

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of these comments read like people who don't want to lift a finger them selves to help their own community. City councils in the states are motivated by communities who push harder than just complain. I've lived in terrible, scary neighborhoods in Oakland California and New York. And I've seen them change once people started doing stuff for them selves. City governments are rather mindless and clueless and don't listen unless you kick them in the ass

@masyaf897

2 жыл бұрын

@@buckycore Agree

@prat4577

2 жыл бұрын

@@buckycore I live in Northampton trust me it’s an absolute shit hole

This is the most depressing place

@Lz.lilman

3 жыл бұрын

How do u think it feels to live here

Rushden. Kettering. Wellingborough. Northampton. Corby. All absolute dumps.

7 years on from this video & the town still hasn’t improved. So much potential but still very run down.

@shroomdark4383

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

Interesting to view this in 2022 as we see the town has not improved as that Counsillor was saying it was going to and now we are loosing our market in town to another place in Northampton another reason why people do not need to come into the town to shop.

it reflects much of England and is a sad old place now. In the 70s and early 80s it still had a bit of life, my family in London used to come here for the market and Brierleys.

How much has closed since this was filmed, the small fountain closed you see on here, and cultural quarter signs some vandalised 😢

The lady at the beginning was spot on people who have lived here all there life don't like it anymore what a wise women we don't like it we don't think it'll get better but part of us hope someday it will thanks for uploading this video

I used to live in Northampton left school lings upper started working at Brown Bothers Engineering Bedford road to it closed down kodak 14 years cosswort racsing 20 years left moved down to noth Devon Bideford never look back

This is not just Northampton it's most places now unfortunately

Born in Northampton in the late 1950's. Left as soon as I could, wouldn't recognize it now from these clips. In the 60's and 70's the council destroyed so many old buildings that would have made it a place to come, all I see are ugly, modern buildings that could be anywhere. I'm sure brexit will help.

@oxymoron02

2 жыл бұрын

@4th Chairman How is immigration from the ME and Africa doing "more bad than good"?

I don’t wanna turn this into some kind of race argument. But here is Northampton, a completely poverty ridden dump. Yet the majority of the ppl who live there are white, and according to modern day stereotypes that ain’t possible. Same goes for Liverpool and Blackpool ect ect, this is what I love about Britain, Britain is a prime example that not all white ppl are weak and rich 😂, imo, any city that isn’t in the south of England is automatically my favourite city, northern England is REAL England

@aanirana2003

3 жыл бұрын

They’re too lazy to do anything lets be honest . No diversity no culture bit stale really

It's heart Breaking, I used to be so proud of our town, is there really 'anybody' in charge ?

@danw1374

Жыл бұрын

All stuck in their ivory towers

An amazing documentary. This is the kind of shit that people will look at in 100 years and learn so much. Great conflict of people hating change but major change needed to save the town.

That guy ranting on about the Conservatives! Northampton has been badly run for a generation and has regularly swapped between both Conservatives and Labour, they’ve all done a bad job - every one of them. Northampton has some great architecture and great possibilities, but the town planners have allowed any old crap architecture appear going back all the way back to the ’60s and ’70s. Architecture is important, you can’t build a crap hole then expect to draw people in, certainly not the bigger spenders. Shopping needs to be a pleasant day out, something to make you want to go and spend a day there, spending money in cafes, etc. If the environment feels rundown and oppressive the only people that will turn up are people shopping for necessities, which in turn drives away the better shops so you are left with attracting only the lowest common denominator stores. If you want a day out shopping, and it being a pleasant experience we have four very different alternatives locally(-ish) that provide much better options, each one a better option than Northampton for many different reasons. If you want something compact but still lots of quality options then Rushden Lakes gives you the new, shiny shopping centre feel, Market Harborough a pleasant traditional alternative to the shopping centre. On a larger scale, if you are central/south Northampton, then Milton Keynes is the obvious choice, eclipsing all options in the area. On the north/north-west then Leicester really isn’t that far at all. If you visit Leicester you can’t help but get angry at the Northampton leadership, as it is the town Northampton was supposed to be (bustling market, traditional high street, a modern shopping centre with a good John Lewis, etc). If only those idiots who were running Northampton at the time hadn’t turned down the London train line option (it going to Leicester instead) and Northampton ending up on a spur. This typifies Northampton’s leadership for me, they just seem incapable of making a good decision. It has little to do with Mackintosh, it hasn’t gone wrong in a couple of years, it's been going wrong for much, much longer than that. For me, the best option now would be to create a development corporation much as MK had. This needs to be given a remit then left alone with no political interference for 30 years. Their remit should be to uplift the town centre, celebrate the parks (we have some great parks), mix old and new architecture but not in a way that leaves us with a hideous 70’s legacy. It needs to be done in a modular way that can be uplifted again in 10-15 years’ time. Whatever idiot allowed Rushden Lakes to happen when it should have been in Northampton centre has made that job significantly more difficult.

@oxymoron02

2 жыл бұрын

"That guy ranting on... " *Proceeds to rant on*

I recently moved to Northampton for university at the start of September 2020, been here almost a year now and it’s safe to say nothing has changed since this video, if anything it’s got worse. I love the people here but seems like the council don’t.

@paradingmarty

2 жыл бұрын

Lived in Northampton for over 14 years, it’s only gotten worse, at one point we’d get emails every day at school telling us to avoid certain routes back home cuz the number of attempted kidnappings/stalkings went up, my advice for you is to get out of there asap, it’s only gonna get worse.

@ElGuapo4000

2 жыл бұрын

@@paradingmarty I’ve dropped out. Lol. I’m still there quite a lot because I have a lot of friends still there, they’re in the far cotton area which doesn’t seem too bad.

@paradingmarty

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElGuapo4000 good luck on your endeavours, far cottons not that bad, definitely better than some parts or northants

@ElGuapo4000

2 жыл бұрын

@@paradingmarty thank you & likewise :)

I've lived here all of my life and it depends what part is rough or not

@theuserwithnoname7688

4 жыл бұрын

Genuine question here bud but I am wondering is Northampton friendly towards Scots? My cousin stays in Northampton and I would like to visit but am slightly cautious about going down with my thick Glaswegian accent.

@chubwastaken2002

4 жыл бұрын

The User With No Name i think you’ll be fine but I don’t know about the rough bits because I don’t live there

@elliot23857

4 жыл бұрын

@@theuserwithnoname7688 we have nothing wrong with Scottish people in Northampton

@shagyanangargamel4823

4 жыл бұрын

The User With No Name You will be fine as long as u ain’t black or Muslim

@christopherclocks5969

3 жыл бұрын

@@shagyanangargamel4823 they treat black people well in northampton because most of them come here from London after retirement and live in wellingborough and abington (most people who live those places are retired) And we shouldn't have a problem with black people mate come on

I miss Spinadisc!

@danw1374

Ай бұрын

Me too i loved that place, must have spent a fortune in there on records over the years! Very sad day when it closed.

I only missed Northampton because peace n quiet and my childhood

Came across this in 2021; it's far worse in my opinion and the Governing Council appears to have not changed and developments have caused further deterioration. The new master plan; we have one, at last, you try and get your hands on a digestible version; it looks as though it was written for the 1980's! It talks for example about creating "green space", none/little consideration for the environment, modern communications, transport, try to spot a tree in the town centre? The whole planet is pedestrianising town centre's and creating entertainment hubs. Northampton has planted a bus station right in the centre and removed pedestrian area's; are they bonkers!

@futureofmoney3527

10 ай бұрын

Was going to say, the video is from 2014 or so. I moved away in 2016. I guess it’s worse now. It seems almost inevitable.

Dear God I thought they were talking bout noho mass an I'm going "what the hell part of Northampton is this ? But they are talking about England's Northampton. Major brain f*** sorry .

The town alot worse now go down abbigton st closed shops full of homeless in tents outside them even started noticing homeless even outside the centre this year done a massive impact.

I never knew people would rather come over to milton keynes for shoping instead of there own town

Lived here all my life and this towns going down the toilet

@rosscat1226

4 жыл бұрын

oh no. I have accepted a job offer here and will be coming in few months

@shagyanangargamel4823

4 жыл бұрын

Ross Cat as long as it isn’t a factory job or a job in the market, you might be okay

Fly tipping paradise.

Milton Keynes was always going to spell disaster for Northampton...

Clicked on this video because I’m doing a fifa career mode as Northampton Town and now I totally understand why their rivals are MK Dons 😂

They blew up a perfectly good bus station

5:33 "I'm a lady"

How has the town got a bright future? Demolished the old bus station nearly 9 Years ago and nothing there since. Only now have they started some work were it used to be....

Hi. Do you remember John Borg?

come on you saints

such a harrowing insight into the struggles of third class Britain

Bus station #fail

"Why cant we go back to the old days?"

Town centre being taken over by bookmakers who are being closed down by online betting. How bad is that!

I went on a course I Northampton I was shocked how bad the town was

Honestly it isnt as bad as wat they make it out to be. These people show you the shit bits but theres good and bad in every place. Yeah northampton isnt the best place but its far from the worst. And the reason why people hate it here coz they were born here.

“A bright future ahead of it” “New bus station brought new life and energy to the drapery and the market square” gridlocks because there’s no room for buses to move, demolishing the market because ‘making room for entertainment’ ? Ridding people of their jobs in favour of a Shitty pop up sand box or another random bidding for meat van? Yeah seems very bright. I love shopping in the only place open in town after I’ve said hello to the entire homeless population, love seeing the market under construction, really enjoy seeing all the ‘to let’ signs But that new train station was brilliant for bringing in new people and businesses :)

The dirty messy Market stalls are the problem, & the meat vans parked up with dead animals, nobody wants to see that any more. MOST high streets are closing down across the UK so instead of just betting shops & charity shops, they need to lower the rates so that they get independent retailers back & if they can't fill a unit it needs to be refurbished as some sort of art gallery where local artist can sell their work without paying to do so. If they are gonna still have a market they need to refurbish the paving & the market square with proper stalls, & it needs to be lower rates.

0:55 and thats on periodt

Why are there so many road men now

@ninjadragon0949

4 жыл бұрын

what u saying about us

@ninjadragon0949

4 жыл бұрын

jk

@ninjadragon0949

4 жыл бұрын

but i do agree

@ninjadragon0949

4 жыл бұрын

the council ain’t good and and it gets more expensive to pay for parking i still live there now and moved recently. lets just say i regretted this istantly

Bloody hell the Market went years ago.

I feel sorry for the people living there, it looks awful.

@paradingmarty

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me it’s much worse now than it looks in the video

and things have only gotten worse in the last 5 years

The council have totally destroyed this town. Its full of homeless and foreigners.

@oxymoron02

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, fuck anyone who isn't local, right? Disgusted to share a hometown with you.

25 year old in 2018 noticed Positives -New train station -new bus station -new pavements in town -new building opposit the train station (not sure what it is but looks cool) -destroyed that awful looking bus station -new university going up and halls Negatives -every one is polish -shops closed down in town and left empty -shops left are all polish,Asian or bookies. -Crime -Police are corrupt (second worst in country) -car polotion -Night life is not what is was, embargoes and balestra both closed and both empty. -homelessness -parking costs, (just go favel its free) So yer, the council did go bankrupt but they added allot that i appreciated so thanks guys. Sucks about the removing of the native language, the accent is basically gone and over population has caused huge issues, gang violence and homelessness abound.

@bruhlewis9508

4 жыл бұрын

Darktarett bit racist innit

@kezvo0512

4 жыл бұрын

@@Darktarett racist asf

Yea ok I'm not from Northampton but I lived there earlier this year, however when the local pigeons started walking around with knives I knew it was time to leave.....I happily left coz even going to the local supermarket is like the Jeremy Kyle show. I mean, COME ON when you see the local foxes signing on at the job centre then you know the town in fucked xx I've even seen Squirrels NICKING cars ffs. Full of homeless people, no shops, full of rubbish and mess everywhere. Overall the biggest dump in the UK and very dull and depressing. Council talk rubbish and do nothing driving around in their flash cars. Lol makes u laugh.

On line shhopping is to blame

A traditional market town which has killed off the *fish market and ignored the market square for decades. I can remember when people went to the market on certain days because stall holders would be there on those days. Now the market is really limited and when you speak with the marketers, they say rents and rates are killing the market. Many of them think the market will be an empty square within fifteen to twenty years. I hope they're wrong! *Fish market, in a central town like Northampton? Ah well, at least we've still got the Northampton lighthouse.

I live in North Little Rock Arkansas USA , same thing is happening here ,Lot of beggars and charity shops and places for the homeless to stay and do their drugs .... i looked this up cause I love ur accents there , reminds me of seeing " Oliver" as a boy .

Funny to hear from the old Northerner how shite Tory Northampton is.

3:55 CAP

I go to the hospital here I shop here but it's just a mess

Its the centre of England and has a history going back centuries audio book Jerusalem will give you an idea of how its altered politics and power in English history ,as abradfordian I was intrigued by its history,look it up all you footy fans of Northampton,be proud of your heritage a

That bus stop is so old, to bad they nocked it down 👀

@danw1374

Жыл бұрын

Opened in 1976, so not really all that old, but i guess anything over 25 years is considered old if you're a teenager.

I must disagree. Northampton was, is and will forever be the most exciting town anyone has ever been to!!

@ventedbus4917

Жыл бұрын

It is the most mediocre place to exist

@danw1374

Жыл бұрын

Not a patch on what it used to be, horrible depressing place these days. Its best years are behind it.

Northampton

@oldgit4260

6 жыл бұрын

Egypt Dubai that's an amazing essay, have you thought of becoming a writer?

@bluefate2159

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldgit4260 LOOOOOOOL

I thin the talented actor Marc Warren is from Northampton.

I’d rather live in Afghanistan than Northampton

@FrancesAnneFong

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

Yeah...well you didn't sort out the football stadium!!!

They obviously go to the town to bet otherwise the shops wouldn't be there

Little poland

Going down hill always will and have

Don't you mean football and RUGBY stadiums?

charity shops and bookies, sounds like Tameside

I live in this shit hole..

Backhander town.

This didn't age well

I hate how this town looks disgusting, butb i was born here and I won't ever leave this place, because this is where I am from unless I get to move to America one day lol.