I really don't think there is any recovery for the area until some actual industry moves back there. Any city needs commerce to thrive and if everyone is broke, or works elsewhere, then there is no lifeblood to get a place on its feet again. I have said it several times on your channel now, that, in what feels like the blink of an eye, Stoke has gone from quite a friendly place that was a bit run down to a drug and immigrant plagued 'mare. The Religion of Peace settling in is the sure sign that its game over, sad to say because that means complete cultural replacement is in progress. So even if we did get industry back there will be no recapturing of that period where Stoke was the city that felt like a town.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely nailed it ❤️💯👍

@Kkoakk

5 ай бұрын

Dead right

@williammayer7199

5 ай бұрын

Spot on

13:45 "There's been an accident here, somebody's flying carpet has crashed!" - DJ TV

Many many brilliant nights spent in The Place.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Yep same here down in the basement 🤣👍

@starwarsroo2448

5 ай бұрын

And the Void 💊

@markbeale7390

5 ай бұрын

Laundrette in car park brilliant, + hasn't been vandalised.

Watching this with a pint of Titanic Plum Porter Grand Reserve. If ever it was needed, it's while seeing this...

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Good choice of drink ❤️👍🍺

@matthewlawrenson3628

5 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 In the main Titanic outlet in Preston. The pub landlord's from Stoke so he always has it on.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

👍🍺get him to subscribe show him what he his missing back in god’s country 🤣😩😢

I struggled in parts - like The Place completely gone. Sad to see what Stoke has become. Was never a pretty place but it was alive. Yates had the best grilled chicken baguette in Stoke back in the day! I moved to Japan years ago but still like tuning into see what’s happening, keep up the good work and get the message out to the local council - they will surely say it’s about funding but thats bullshit, it’s more likely about their mismanagement of the funding they had.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Wow Japan!!! You see it just absolutely amazes me to see where us stoke folks end up laying are hat. This is why I enjoy doing these videos 1 for people like yourself. 2 for folks who cannot get out and about and who would most definitely not wander into some of the places i go. And 3 for future generations to look back on in hopefully better days to see where they have come from. I would love to see more videos of stoke in 60s 70s and 80s but we simply did not have the tools back then like now so I think it’s so important to document as much as we can. And finally i hope these videos shame the council and all of them who have played there part in the demise of this city.

@agreeable-control

5 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 100%. Keep fighting the good fight, it’s publicity like this this city needs - all over the country really.

give it 5-10 years and most of the British City Centre's will become the same.

Left Stoke in the 70s and moved to Norh Hampshire when my father's company he worked for moved here. Love watching your videos of all the places I used to visit in my teens but feel sad and annoyed about how the city in which I was born and raised has been left to decay.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend you are one of the lucky ones who managed to escape 👍❤️

It probably won't be long before the other places shut down and it will just go to ruin. Hanley is DEFINITELY not the place it use to be 😢

Thank you. Saludos from Asturias. Can't believe is the same place my family and I left 20 years ago 😢

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

❤️thank you my friend you are one of the lucky ones that managed to leave ❤️

I'm not from the area but I'm Midlands based, returned here a few years ago after living in Canada and the US for many years, and I'm stunned at how things have changed. I can't see any way back from this utter mess the country has got in. Great reporting , more people need to see your channel, take good care fella.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Thanks my friend I think I might be off the local council’s Christmas card list for holding a mirror up to what’s happening though 🤣

@LJ.Jasper

5 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 lol more than likely buddy, but by God do they need that mirror! 👍🏼

When I see videos of the potteries it makes me feel sad of the state it is in today. I spent the first 60 years of my life living and working in the potteries. On retirement we moved to North Wales. Most weeks we went up Hanley duck. I worked in Castle. Looking at Hanley, coffee shops we went to closed, Marks, BHS gone Webberlys gone, even Yates gone, surprised Cineworld still open. Was wondering what the Potteries centre and market are like today. Debenhams must have been a big blow. I would like to see a video on what is good, there must be something

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

I’ve done a video on the shopping center it’s a ghost town😔I’m going be honest you would struggle find anything positive about stoke at this moment in time 😔

Yes the deterioration of a once successful and vibrant area wherever it may be is "hugely disappointing"!

@adrianbrowne7874

5 ай бұрын

Yes indeed so! And thankyou! DJ TV.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️

its sad to see where the place and rosies once stood when hanley still had a vibrant night life

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Rosie’s pump house ❤️👍

It's really sad to see this video. I used to work in Hanley in the late 70s to the early 90s and I loved Hanley. Bratt and Dyke, Huntbach, Lewis's to name a few. Alongside the Heavy Steam Machine, Bailey's nightclub... All gone now including the place that I worked, Century Oils 😭. Saddens me to see Hanley like this but I have not been to Hanley for about 25 years. Although I still live in Stoke on Trent.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Wow that’s a long time to avoid Hanley and still be living here in stoke 👍I don’t blame you though I really don’t ❤️

Its tragic to see what its become 😢 so many good memories the council dont care 😔 they just import more people into the area that dont care about the area as long as they vote eh

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯 they import folks who are more pi** poor than folks here who offer nothing in return they are only here to take out of the money pot. And the ones who are here and have opened businesses you will find they are all cash only businesses/ money laundering places cheap 💩 dirty looking shops that absolutely nobody would ever drive into town for.

9:45 Theres one of these "launderettes" in Longton on a carpark next to the Precinct. I know one thing and i dont know if anyone else has noticed this but every single day ive heard nothing but this 14:18 emergency services sirens every afternoon and evening. Never used to be this bad but over the past few years its gotten worse, getting tired of hearing it everyday.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

I agree 👍 and same as the constant smell of cannabis now. Yes it’s always been around but never this bad.

We still go to Cineworld and we try to support it. Never seems to have fully recovered from the lockdown I think.

That Yates used to be heaving, pig and truf next door or was it hogshead before it was flares ?? Used be thousands out, all weekend

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Yes it’s been a few names over the years it’s also been minstrels. Can remember when Yates used to be 1 out 1 in at the weekend at that was before 9pm because the place was so packed.

@williammayer7199

5 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 now look at the state we’re in. Very sad times brother.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

@williammayer7199 very sad indeed my friend 😔👍

Have you seen by the coloured light as you go into hanley opposite it used be I think a polish supermarket it's going to be another mosque they are just doing it up now

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Where is the coloured light? I can’t think where you mean? Maybe worth a Visit to take a look 👍

@debbieclarke1967

5 ай бұрын

Town Road, the lights are on the edge as you go on to forest park it's opposite. There was a polish supermarket or some kind of foreign shop. I hope you know where I mean

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

@debbieclarke1967 👍yes I know exactly where you mean now ❤️👍

Pedestrianisation doesn't help same here in Plymouth.

Well, there's many worse places.

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Yea but we talking about stoke on here not other places

Im a proud stokie

@hobouk3871

5 ай бұрын

Proud of its history and heritage but nothing much else.

Hanley just not safe that's why they closed and other things of course

Great series of videos fella but what a depressing place Hanley is now..how has it come to this? I’ve lived in North wales for 28 years now and always used to come shopping in Hanley when we first moved ..wouldn’t dream of it now

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️I enjoy doing what I do and I get more enjoyment knowing folks are watching and enjoying the content I really do appreciate it from you all 👍

@darrenfletcher4536

5 ай бұрын

Blurton lad me..had my stag night in Hanley back in 95..every pub and club we went in that night has now gone@@DJMtv1938

It needs the property owners and council to give businesses a helping hand. A store paying half the rental value is better than nothing and lets face it busineeses pay stupid high rates for basically no services from the council. So let's give them a rates break for a year or two

Yes we use to have five church's...CofE type dominions...ya know the type we were familiar with from school. However they've all been replaced by one mosque. Though it should be said it's five times the size of anyone of the previous...so fair swap 😂. You gotta laugh as its to that point now of no return. No onus on industry or housing...but the government is loving changing our gene pool and causing civil disharmony in process. Great videos 👍...even if depressing. Hey but that ain't your fault...you're just reporting how it is. You noticed another common thread. Our shit holes always have traffic. It's like they've all become baron drive throughs for those in fancy cars to go to their pen pushing jobs. No one one driving in our shit houses live anywhere near.

😢 there's no redeeming features left and it's become unrecognisable my god if us older Stokies could be transported back in time and show today's generation what a great place it used to be to grow up in 😔

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯 ❤️

What happened to the demolition crew on Bucknell road 🤔

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

They received written warnings and I got a personal apology from the council. I didn’t want to go down that road but sometimes you just have to educate people and they got educated on how to behave with members of the public. I think they have learnt there lesson 👍

Show longton next

All by design mate. You'll own nothing and be happy. 🤫😉. Klaus Schwaub WEF. 🤫

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

2024 promises to be a interesting year.

@chrisstokie2361

5 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938. Doesn't it just. Keep exposing it mate. Perhaps people will pull their heads out of the sand. Back in the studio next month. I will send you some links to our music. Keep kicking against the Pricks mate. 👍

@Fercough

5 ай бұрын

Exposing what exactly please? I saw a load of empty shops, as you will see in many towns. People shop online & we're in the midst of a huge jump in the cost of living, eating out is a luxury not many can afford. There is nothing to 'expose'.

@chrisstokie2361

5 ай бұрын

@@Fercough. Why is that then? I'll wait. 👍. Please educate us.

Do you remember pink the night club has that gone now

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Yes remember that well 👍

Zombie town 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

God it's getting worse buddy 😢

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

Sure is mate I’ve just been watching your latest upload stunning little village that 👍

such a waste

@DJMtv1938

5 ай бұрын

It’s unbelievable to think it only took 9 years less than that really 😢