Three main things have destroyed / are destroying our Town and City center's. 1. Online shopping: the likes of Amazon and similar have taken over and people would rather sit at home and have things delivered to their door than go out and buy from a shop. 2. Out of town shopping centers: these have been built out in the suburbs and the major shops like ASDA, Sainsburys, DIY stores etc etc have moved in and out of Town. 3. Many City and Town centers are experiencing a rise in crime committed by drunks, druggies, and gangs. Antisocial behavior is frightening decent people away. Unless the "powers that be" sit up and smell the roses soon, and do something our Cities and Towns are finished.

@GranCanariaUncovered

2 ай бұрын

I disagree with you, if 1&2 were correct they would apply everywhere, but this is demonstrably not the fact. Regards 3 there were plenty of drunks drugs and gangs around in the 70s and 80s, didn't stop us going out and enjoying ourselves and staying out of trouble

@TheGamesEmporium

2 ай бұрын

The area has also lost its key industries.

Sadly many more places are going to end up like this. Especially when various councils start removing city car parking spaces, to limit the number of cars that can go there, which will limit the number of shoppers going to town. All to help the environment of course..

Must be prayer time 😂🤣

My god, things were awful when I lived here but now... I've never seen anything like it. I can safely say I'm never coming back. It's positively post apocalyptic.

Like so many other towns/small cities - I diagnose massive over enrichment leading to huge pinch on housing, destruction of community and small shops.😢

@overeastcoast

5 ай бұрын

We live in Norwich, there is nothing anywhere like this in our city. What a dump stoke really is.

@Ukipmiddleleft

4 ай бұрын

I live in Stoke and I agree with you.

There's so much potential for small and large businesses, with those empty properties. But, with no investment or job creation, it's only going to get worse.

@PurityVendetta

5 ай бұрын

I tried for years to find somewhere to open a business in Stoke on Trent but the rents are just too high to justify taking the risk. I'm afraid the brextards have now sealed the same fate for the rest of the septic Isle. Bad food, bad weather and stupid people. The worst thing is that the scum who vote tory and voted to leave the euhave trapped decent people like myself in the rotting corpse of little england and they will find there's nothing more dangerous than a trapped creature in a doomed country.

My congratulations to the town planning department. This must be one of the most ‘pedestrian-friendly’ town centres in the country. There is hardly any motorised traffic. If there were any cyclists, I am sure they would be delighted. Even so I noticed the ‘pay-for-parking’ machines, which must bring in vast revenues and the double yellow lines, which are, no doubt, still patrolled in the hope of issuing a few fixed penalty notices. My advice - go to a garden centre instead. They sell everything these days and don’t charge you anything to park.

In the early 80s The Specials sang about the "Ghost Towns." Seems some of this is coming true.

Some post apocalypse music would go well with this video.

Stoke on Trent is more like a zombie apocalypse and a complete ghost town

So when did the levelling up start, oh it didn't did it!? I'm familiar with Hanley more so, and sad to see such a thriving town, turn to this. Will the buildings be converted into flats and houses, or demolished first, then build, either way it's a sad ending to an historical industrial town in Staffordshire!

Moved out of Longton in my 20s, moved overseas in my 30s and never looked back. This place is unrecogniseable to the place I grew up in, it no longer means anything to me!

OK I now live in London but know that bit of town well. What the heck happened?

@davidclark3603

5 ай бұрын

It's called, Tory Britain!!!!

So shocked its been a while since i ws in hanley didnt realise it was this bad

We allowed the Chinese to visit our Potbanks and film how we made everything, this was in he 70's and guess what they employed people to go Iive there mainly managers to to take everything away from us.

What camera do you use?

@ADTravel

5 ай бұрын

Dji pocket

Was this a sunday?

can you do one around Yates Fire yet?

@ADTravel

3 ай бұрын

Will do

I'll never criticise Dumfries again.

People buy all their stuff online and still expect shops to trade.There is your problem.

@lynseyleese7475

4 ай бұрын

I agree

@bj3680

4 ай бұрын

Have to disagree, unfortunately for Hanley specifically, it just started to get run down, and then it went into a downward spiral to what it is today. If it was online shopping all places would be like this!

@lynseyleese7475

4 ай бұрын

@@bj3680 I reckon in many years to come there won’t be any shops to visit everything is like u said online these days and things much cheaper

Ok Rent free for ten years Now go turn these places around Community spirit Elbow grease Volunteers A new beginning

High street shops are finished 😢

I avoid Hanley as much as possible. But what they have done to Hanley, they are busy doing to Newcastle under Lyme too. The towns are disappearing, and flats are appearing. Complete dumps full of drug users, prostitutes and homeless people. Used to be real buzzing areas, long gone.

Jesus. Is that really England ? Shocking.

at least house prices are at the highest ever in uk history .....

Leveling up skipped stoke. There is a BBC documentary on Ireland troubles where they show footage from decade's ago in black and white. They wanted to recreate some scene's of the conflicts in Ireland and so they sectioned off a part of burslem/middleport in place of Ireland as it still looks the same as it did many decades ago/worse than it did in most places. I bet Ireland is even more modernised than here. They came with a troop carrier n everything.

Really sad What a waste What an opportunity The bones are still there It just needs people who care Give it to them for free Really sad

Lose the primary industry like ceramics, and fail to attract inward investment in other businesses. All the other supporting industries like rmining and engineering have also been destroyed. People without work and money lose hope, shops can't survive without customers, and a depressing cityscape doesn't encourage visitors. Life and the future for Stoke-on-trent citizens is depressing, with little sign of improvement, so what can they do?

And yet they line up to vote Tory in England... I never did get that!

@PopularesVox

5 ай бұрын

Not just "Tory" mate, every British government that allowed this country to decline over several decades.

@PurityVendetta

5 ай бұрын

​@@PopularesVoxThe tories have been in power for 80% of the time post war. Every time labour gain power theyrepicking up the pieces then the scum classes get conned again and vote them back in.

@user-do6kj3or8w

5 ай бұрын

No mate just Tories did videos like this circulate pre 2010?

@PopularesVox

5 ай бұрын

@@user-do6kj3or8w No mate, its been every British government for the last 4 dacades. This particular area has suffered through an absolute decimation of the pottery industry by foreign competition and a complete absence of government support, as well as a failure to attract inward investment. In 2002 during a Labour government, one of the largest Royal Doulton moved its Royal Albert brand to Indonesia, closing its last remaining Stoke factories and making 500 potters redundant. This followed a slew of factory closures that reduced ceramics employment in the Potteries from 45,000 in 1975 and 23,000 in 1991, 13,000 2002 to a few hundred today.

@orbytl2799

5 ай бұрын

ill never get how many half witted folks there are out there that think that voting for labour would have made any difference 🤣

Why don't you speak in this videoi, describe what is happening, talk to local people about rheir home town? Without that I think this is pointless

Stoke on Trent in general is a complete dump and it’s gradually getting worse.