Very sad, but inevitable. All medium cities and towns are destined to be like this when there are no local industries.

@EpicAelflaed

5 ай бұрын

They could spend some money doing these up to house some of our homeless Even the immigrants that come over could live there instead of renting the hotels where the hotel owners are becoming mega rush through the corruption system

Most of these buildings must have been beautiful in their hay day. 100 + years ago. So much for the modern world.

@chriswalford9228

5 ай бұрын

Yes and think how many skilled trades and how many people employed in any one building.

@user-ux5nv9sz9f

5 ай бұрын

Try 20 years ago this has happened recently it wasn't like this last time I was there.

@MAYHAM-ze8bo

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-ux5nv9sz9f2008 and 2020 killed this country off

@suefromstoke4076

Ай бұрын

What an absolute disgrace it makes me feel ashamed to say I live here it used to be a busy town

@vivmatz1189

14 күн бұрын

It's heartbreaking the took away our best China industry along with everthing my city made up of small villages was booming with prestigious shops clubs cabaret, with famous stars we had it all,not to mention warm welcoming,friendly folk. It so breaks my heart . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Don't worry, it doesn't matter how bad our towns are getting, the cash keeps flowing into the pockets of our authorities and friends!! Grate Britain!

@missmuffet3874

5 ай бұрын

The powers that be want this to happen. Slowly there will be no town centres at all. And most normal people will be living in box like apartments, being monitored very closely and living on a given universal income with social credits. Because computers and robots are doing the jobs of what the workers would have done there is no need for us anymore. We will be surplus to requirement for the country to get by.

@MrBrookesharley

Ай бұрын

it certainly does , people dont listen go around with blinkers on trapped in their thought process this is sad seeing this

The government-sponsored billboard about halfway through should have left the slogan at "WE ARE LEVELLING STOKE-ON-TRENT" and left the "UP" bit off!

I go for walks in the cemetery now just to see some life 🪦

@user-uv8bv4dm9f

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@matthewwilliams3827

2 ай бұрын

LOL!

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

2 ай бұрын

Believe me as a man who used to live close to Longton.. my thoughts 1000%

We need a public enquiry to expose why this urban decay is as bad as it is across the whole of the UK. We've had economic downturns in the past but I don't recall towns and cities across the UK looking like downtown Baltimore.

@uk-martin4905

5 ай бұрын

Corruption on a mega scale involving political parties nationwide has brought this about and it has been taking place over decades - at the very highest levels in society. I am certain ALL will be exposed in the next 12 months. Then we will see major, positive change.

@aslc2547

5 ай бұрын

It is almost universal wherever you go, the visible decay and dereliction. Probably shows we are copying the USA again!

@Angela-cc1hd

3 ай бұрын

I think it's the fault of Councils, they just do whatever they like, with our money and are not accountable for wasting it, which is what they do very well🤔

@jackhuff7793

Ай бұрын

No euros rolling in now,….ya get what ya vote for,….

@akeeMM

Ай бұрын

@@jackhuff7793 Been like this for years lad, has nothing to do with brexit.

Very sad.If the foundation of an area is taken away,in the case of the six towns it was ceramics, the structure collapses.When the government could not care less and are content to let old industrial towns decay until levelling is the only option never mind levelling up ,whatever that means.

@nickdoughty518

5 ай бұрын

I think we know now that levelling-up means nothing.

@Kx0195

5 ай бұрын

​@@nickdoughty518leveling up means leveling up their mates bank accounts. Just look at the recent going ons with Michael Gove's links to a business man who did some leveling up stuff and he got 90% of the shares and the government got 10%. 2 men made 10s of millions of £ off the back of "leveling up". If we looked into all these leveling up things we'd find exactly the same behaviour as we got when they introduced the VIP lane. Recommendations for projects and decisions made based upon how much return they could generate for a Tory crony. Leveling up is purely a way to launder tax money into their own pockets.

@BryanPardoe

4 ай бұрын

Pits n potts gone.....bye bye 5 towns and all it history.

And to think not so long ago this country was called Great Britain how far have we fallen

@jeshkam

5 ай бұрын

I guess it's due to centuries of looting and enslaving other nations. Some people call it "karma".

@tellmemore8837

5 ай бұрын

We are only Great when we were an empire.

@trs4u

5 ай бұрын

The "Great" in "Great Britain" doesn't mean that

@RW-nr6bh

5 ай бұрын

​@@trs4u That's right, it means 'great' as in large, to distinguish it from the 'little Britain' that we call Brittany.

@renegade2853

5 ай бұрын

We're in the end times, that why it looks as it does.

Dont worry, the Government has said it is going to level up the country, and when HS2 arrives and travel to London from Birmingham is 12 minutes faster all will be fixed !

@bexhill8777

5 ай бұрын

You Do Know What Level Means?

@deaconswayne1894

5 ай бұрын

HS2 offered so much more than simply faster travel times though. If ‘levelling up’ means massive investment in our national infrastructure, then that is precisely what this country needs.

i,v said this many times Supermarkets cause a lot of this ...

@GG-hu9dn

5 ай бұрын

OK...but supermarkets have been around for 50 yrs or more? Nothing to do with tory policies then?!

A sad state. Fortunately the benches are painted in the rainbow colour.

@frederickmuhlbauer9477

5 ай бұрын

Sarcasm hopefullly

@ChucklesMcGurk

5 ай бұрын

@@frederickmuhlbauer9477 Oh yeah, it's all the gays fault, and migrants, especially gay migrants, and don't forget communists, I bet they caused all this.

Why is this not on the mainstream news😢😢😢😮😮😅😅

@barbarahalkyard1901

5 ай бұрын

Where have you been hiding.

@LordFlashheart.11

2 ай бұрын

It doesn't fit the narrative

Went down hill in the early 90s, used to be very busy, and thriving, a lot of the potteries is the same, hanley, burslem, Tunstall, all run down and building and shops empty, all these were great in the late 80s

@section5760

5 ай бұрын

Everything was great in the 80s. Even the women. The last best decade unfortunately. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧👍🏼🫵🏽🥃🍺

@lynseyleese7475

4 ай бұрын

The 80s used be thriving

@lynseyleese7475

4 ай бұрын

I think everyone is shopping online now as our towns are to depressing to come out to

A Very sad sight, I can’t only see the situation getting worse.

The rest of Stoke-on-Trent isn't much better. Looks like a giant set of an apocalyptic zombie movie. We've even got plenty of "dustheads" to play the zombies! 😂

@anonet78

5 ай бұрын

They made a zombie movie up Hanley bus station a few years ago called the girl with all the gifts, Good film that.

@RayCyst310

5 ай бұрын

It's all rightly wrong 😢

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

2 ай бұрын

I lived in Stoke-on-Trent, I know that

I live less than 10 miles from Longton and it’s a crying shame how it’s gone downhill over the last 20 years

I'm more shocked that there's shops open still than how many are closed, Where are the people

4:52 - "leveling up" seems to be going well.

I used to live in England; I have some tremendous memories from that time. Making this utterly depressing. Greetings from Ireland.

I use to deliver to longton many moons ago it use to be thriving and busy so sad to see it as it is today.

On line shopping and out of town malls to blame, same everywhere to a greater or lesser degree

All part of the plan to make this happen, meanwhile we just gave Ukraine 2.5 billion of which we will borrow and pay back with interest. It's not just stoke it's everywhere.

I lived in Smith Street in the 90's and Weston Coyney Road in the 2000's ... what on earth happened in the past twenty years?! The place was a bit run down because the buildings were a century or more old and needed some care but businesses were still running. Even the locally famous Ruby is gone!

@frederickmuhlbauer9477

5 ай бұрын

No money will do that

@eddieharris6004

5 ай бұрын

Some of those old buildings look realy well built, quality from a byegone age not the boring flat pack designs that are thrown up in 10 minutes today.

@lynseyleese7475

4 ай бұрын

I lived in Weston coyney myself wen we had my second daughter she was born in Parton grove Weston coyney our house used be an ex police house

@MAYHAM-ze8bo

2 ай бұрын

2008, 2020 nail in the coffin

I can't see any Political Party who have the kind of policies that can address and reverse such a grim situation, as that.

@tellmemore8837

5 ай бұрын

What about Mr Farage?

@foreignofficeclub5815

5 ай бұрын

​@@tellmemore8837😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is all our fault because we do nothing about it .Shame on you England 😢.

@princebuster93

5 ай бұрын

@ Robert, it’s Bible Prophecy being fulfilled across the whole world, you cannot blame others, for Gods plan and higher purpose

@lindenbutters9396

5 ай бұрын

People fail to renovate properly. It's all about beige carpets, clinical finishes and boxes now.

No industry no work no money no community no life 😢result is as you see 😮

@BigBoaby-sg1yo

5 ай бұрын

Yup the biggest industry was ceramics - but now ,no call for them .

There should be a mandate that says that property owners (even the Council) should keep their assets in safe condition, plus should decorate them accordingly. Part of the reason towns and city centres die, is because nobody would want to think about opening a business in such crap-holes.

@markosmith8037

5 ай бұрын

the councils seem determined to run them down. It's a vicious cycle.

@bexhill8777

5 ай бұрын

How Daft.. It Is Endemic, One Might Aswell Order The Dead To Bury The Dead....

@Mark-Singleton

5 ай бұрын

Sorry, but you really do not have a clue what you are talking about.

@frederickmuhlbauer9477

5 ай бұрын

Hard to do when they are broke

@markosmith8037

5 ай бұрын

They claim to be broke but able to waste money on pedestrianisation and silly projects that seem to do nothing but accelerate the demise of the towns. This is happening all over the UK. @@frederickmuhlbauer9477

Don't know why the government doesn't buy up these derelict buildings/houses and fix them up and re-house the homeless

Unbelievable 😮😮😮😮😅😅😢😢😢

This is what the internet did for society at large

@barbarahalkyard1901

5 ай бұрын

Someone at last .Who has worked it out.

@chrispaul5971

5 ай бұрын

£10's of billion spent on UK internet purchases last year = empty shops and city centres.

Tory levelled it up! 😢

@bigprob8744

5 ай бұрын

They fell for it, that tory mp they got what a creature.

Great video highlighing a lot of Longton. Such a shame but many towns gone the same way. Many thanks

So this is what "levelling up" looks like. Empty buildings during a housing crisis.

And how I’ve has Rishi given you the Ukraine war? Extra 2.5 billion on weapons and missiles on top of the other billions 🇬🇧 has sent That money could help fund and breathe new life into our cities and towns. But they would rather spend our tax payers money on war and destruction

@alansalter1836

5 ай бұрын

And the bloody 8 million a day on so called migrants i’am a Londoner it make me sick to see this I’ve never been to stoke on Trent either useless government

@johnross2924

5 ай бұрын

Rishi couldn't care less.

All that decay, billion for Ukraine though

My god didn’t know it was that bad hvnt been up there fr a couple of years 😢🥺😞

It seems kind of surreal that we live in such a time of depression.

Reminds me of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh....

Gorgeous place falling to bits! ... Sad :(

@ the beginning, - that lovely old building rotting away, such a shame

I can't wait to visit

Definitely in need of a new MP. They might not do too much but at least they won't be a complete spangletwat.

You can have anything delivered to your house now, from huge warehouses. They should give the property's to people who need a house, for free.

I live close to Longton. As a kid early 2010's, I always went there with my siblings, nan and mum, for shopping and cafe. Now, There is NO life in Longton. More cheer in a graveyard

Longton was my nearest town growing as a kid. I can remember catching a bus with my mum to go shopping every Saturday morning, all my family worked in the pot banks. It's so sad.😥

What about Hanley in Stoke, I used to go up to Manchester on a coach and it used to go through there-Jesus Christ-what a depressing place!

@theminiatureconstructionco4556

5 ай бұрын

Yep!😢

This fate awaits most towns and citie before long.

This country is GRIM

I remember it starting to decline there in the mid-90s when I used to know somebody who lived nearby, but this is awful.

Christ it looks like America.

Very sad I used to live not far away in the1960 😂

Of the five towns of the potteries Tunstall Burslem Hanley Stoke & Longton...Longton (where I grew up) was most dependent on the pottery/ceramic Industry. It was therefore the hardest hit when the pottery industry collapsed during the 1980s. People from outside would not believe how Longton used to be 'back in the day'. Coal Steel & Pottery left Stoke on Trent in the 1980s and the whole area has turned into a giant car-park full of boarded up dilapidated buildings, dustheads & poverty. Like a Third World Cesspit.

Wow ! Some fantastic buildings . Ideal for conversion into housing . The 1960's / 1970's developments should be cleared and replaced with affordable accommodation with a limited number of retail units mainly for service businesses . Nothing more depressing than negativity .

@davezoom2682

5 ай бұрын

And what does anyone that moves there live on ? Unicorn farts ? No industry = no money = no people .

@johnwilkes7624

5 ай бұрын

@@davezoom2682 What is the unemployment rate in Stoke ? It is lower than Germany's . Home ownership in Stoke is higher than Germany's . Stop wallowing in negativity. Liverpool now has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.K. after suffering from job losses in the past . If one city in the N.W. can do it so can a city in the center of the country .

@avancalledrupert5130

5 ай бұрын

​@@johnwilkes7624 nobody would move to stoke if you gave the houses for free. I'm a builder and I reckon I could borrow enough to buy half a Street in stoke on Trent. Why tf would buy them when I renovated them they wouldn't be worth the windows , insulation and plasterboard I put into them . Stoke is dead. If I brought a house in stoke I would demolish it and sell the bricks. That's the only way I could imagine turning a profit. Same as Grimsby. Forget about it it's finished .

@johnwilkes7624

4 ай бұрын

@@avancalledrupert5130 You should look to Manchester . The cotton industry left Manchester but just look at it now . In ten years time it will be unbelievable and the second city of the country . The difference ? Maybe the people .

I see the "Rub n Tug" is thriving.

I used to work for Royal Doulton in Longton. I moved away from it all.

Retail parks out of town, HIGHrates, greedy landlords and new houses causing NO extra cash

Well I lived near there about 6 years ago and I am shocked at this. I remember back in the 80s when the potbanks were thriving and the streets were bustling. I hope I live to see a bounce back

like many towns in England today , it has that drab, ugly and rundown look about it !!

Zealous and ruthless council parking enforcement has a lot to do with it

There is a price for de-industrialisation, and this is it. This was once a great centre of pottery manufacturing (I have plates that so attest) but now it's just a distribution centre for stuff made in Asia. So it is for all Europe. We allowed our lying leaders to do this to us. As Malone asked: "What are you prepared to do about it?"

Was that a Sunday when you filmed.? It’s so sad still got Woolworths Store sight above the doors and l have seen lots off weeds growing in Gutters on Building nobody about the Town.

Total sadness. 😢😢

All up North. The North has been neglected for decades

I'd sooner wild camp in a field than live in towns like these. It must be so depressing for residents to look at that day in-day out! Depressg as fuck!

That's this years summer hols destination decided then.

All of this is why I am selling up, making my staff redundant and moving to Germany, where we will have a far better quality of life!

The vastly overpopulated United Kingdom is in such a serious state of decline in so many different areas and this mass invasion of immigrants is contributing massively to the myriad of problems we as a nation are now confronted with.

@jeshkam

5 ай бұрын

There we go again.

@user-xd9yo3le7o

5 ай бұрын

@@jeshkamobviously nothing to do with a mixture of factors like high rents, lockdowns and online shopping.

@jeshkam

5 ай бұрын

@@user-xd9yo3le7o Obviously not. 😁

@BigBoaby-sg1yo

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@user-xd9yo3le7oa lot of the buildings are beyond repair and need pulled down as they are unsafe . Stoke on Trent was world famous for ceramics ,which no one wants as very expensive. I believe to date the Asian population is 41% .

@user-xd9yo3le7o

5 ай бұрын

@@BigBoaby-sg1yo then surely that's the responsibility of the owners.

I dont know what time of day this was filmed but Longton is certainly more busy than shown here. Hard work is continuing with volunteers and business residents to make the town centre of the community. The dilapidated buildings in the video are mainly privately owned and not by the council. I suggest you come back on a day when one of many events are happening eg The Pig Walk when the town attracts thousands of visitors.

Stoke on Trent City Council should be ashamed

A town of lost dreams

More places closed than anything so sad to see poor longton is such state repair

Mmmmm 🤔 Watching from Africa. 😮

5.48 at the International Mini Market they've even spelled Hungary wrong!! (Hungry - Lol).

Its not the loss of industry that killed stoke as it was brimming with people from all over the country up until the early noughties, its the drugs and extreme violence that give Stoke such a bad name that people stated avoiding the place entirely

Is area planned for new reconstruction redevelopment ? Smart city ? 🤺💐

Telford 27th January. Be there

Need ya kings bk to revival all areas

I would like to see a video of Hanley. Apparently it struggles also.

It looks like the good folks of Stoke on Trent have been let down by their MPs.

What day of the week and time of day was this taken? A Sunday morning?

I used to live in longton until 1988. It was a lovely town with lots of busy pubs and a thriving pottery industry. All the potteries have closed down. I have family in the area. So sad to see it's decline. Hardly recognise it any more.

My God what a disgrace, shocking that this place has been allowed to get like this, what is the council doing😮

Plenty of other UK towns and cities look very similar, or are in process of becoming the same . . .

The Ruby about 30 yards from the Pig Shop they found a grow in there apparently a couple of weeks back

@drsyn9616

5 ай бұрын

And also the old Woolworths

Some beautiful buildings. Shame they've gone to rack and ruin :(.

What the F....? Woolworths closed their doors in 2008. Their old shops are still badged but unoccupied?

@joline2730

5 ай бұрын

Kevin: I lived in Bentilee (outskirts of Hanley) until 2015 - went into Longton many times, a lot of shops were still open and just about surviving. That Woollies was closed when I moved there (2010) and it's never had any investment.😢😢

On line shopping

I went to Stoke on Trent about 15 years ago, it didn't look as bad as this.

@stuartmckay7350

5 ай бұрын

A lot of immigration since then

@gmc9451

5 ай бұрын

Everywhere looked better in the UK fifteen years ago. This decay is being allowed to happen to usher in the NW0.

There is a solution but it’s long term and will upset people. The six towns is unique but this is the downside of a poly centric city. The solution requires recognition that the area needs one centre only, like everywhere else and investment put into it. Centres like Longton, Tunstall etc need to convert what were shops to housing. And that is just a start. The Potteries is uniquely disadvantaged and needs major public investment to attract private money. I hope the incoming Labour government has the energy, vision and money to end this blight on the whole nation

@SP-ki5gn

4 ай бұрын

Good point.

I had the torture of staying in the crown hotel when I went to Alton towers never again

@ADTravel

5 ай бұрын

😁

@orbytl2799

4 ай бұрын

lol of all the places hope it wasnt recently ?its full of smackheads now

Ukraine needs our money more. Well rishi thinks so anyway 😡

Was it a Sunday afternoon ? It's dreadful to see how run down the city is. Where are the people ?

We need to prohibit charging of rent on freehold property intended for single (person, family, small business) occupation. Its cost would plummet, dragging down cost of commercial (multi-occupation) rental property. People would be able to afford to work again. We've spent more than 30 years converting community wealth from economic activity into assets and passive incomes for landlords. They've parasitised the UK until it's moribund. Some beautiful old buildings in your video!

All shop closed up. Could be caused by people shopping on line. Just idea

@markosmith8037

5 ай бұрын

it's a factor. As well as councils doing everything to make life hard for shops and shoppers

@johnwilkes7624

5 ай бұрын

Shopping on line plus out of town shopping centers . Notice how service businesses like hairdressing survive as they can't be done on line .

Bring back club kinetic

What happened to shelleys lol?? Had some blinding nights in that place.

@orbytl2799

4 ай бұрын

there is a D road there and a farm foods now 😪 the street that goes off to the left at 5.20 is edensor road, shelleys was just down that street

@bigprob8744

4 ай бұрын

@@orbytl2799 thanks, what a place that was, we used to come up from Nuneaton about 3,4 cars, great little atmosphere, legendary place 👌👍

@orbytl2799

4 ай бұрын

@@bigprob8744 👍 never got to experience it myself, was a little too young living local i heard all about it though, used to know older folks who went and i collected the amnesia house flyers lol funny thing, this just reminded me, i saw dj daz willot from shelleys a few week ago, he is working in a shop round here serving breakfasts

@bigprob8744

4 ай бұрын

@@orbytl2799 yeh that's right amnesia house from Coventry just down the road from me, they had shelleys on a Saturday night, some crazy days they were, glad to hear daz willot stil going strong he was resident dj there if I remember right, a top dj to be fair back in the day and a all round nice guy, I can stil see him on a pair of technics 12,10s rather than serving bacon n eggs lol but atleast he's stil going

@orbytl2799

3 ай бұрын

@@bigprob8744 yeah man, he is a bit of a leg. he still does a bit too, they have a shelleys reunion every now and then. if you search daz willot on here he has done a nice little documentry reminiscing about shelleys 👍

Makes you wonder what the council have been spending our council tax on don't it, One thing is for sure it ain't on this city.

Results of(Amazon and online shopping

It's nothing like i remember it very sad seeing this.

£2.5 billion off to Ukraine yesterday. Party time!