I had an awesome day out in Leicester, as you can probably see from the video. Thanks for watching, all comments and feedback is welcome, I read and obsess over every comment - so be nice! 😁 I'll be out and about soon, feel free to recommend some more of the UK's finest destinations. Cheers!

@darren253

3 ай бұрын

Saint Matthews is mostly ethnic And opposite Kent Street at night is haven for drug ladies of the night.

@Budgiearmy

3 ай бұрын

Great vid as always

@stevechapman9099

3 ай бұрын

You missed out Highfields

@Induna123

3 ай бұрын

Stoke-On-Trent next?

@emmajulian8716

3 ай бұрын

Aylestone? where you filmed is the monsel estate not Aylestone

I lived in leicester for about 10 years and spent 4 of those in a house slap bang between two brothels in Westcotes. It is a weird place, a shit tonne of poverty and large transitory communities that never help. For the most part if you aren't involved in drugs and illegal business you are alright, I walked many a time home from pubs in town on Naughborough road and never came to any sort of harm. However my local barber did tell me a story about a drug dealer being beheaded in the street by a rival a few blocks away!

as someone from Leicester I appreciate you shining the camera onto the city (Maybe not in the best light lol).

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. I find this stuff really interesting 😀 I did my home city the same way, won’t say which video it is 🤐

@hauntinggoingonwithangelamylif

Ай бұрын

Shame he hasn't done Coventry I was born in Leicester

Even the pigeons fly upside down cus there's nothing worth shitting on

@nataliegriffin7727

10 сағат бұрын

I 2nd this comment 😂😂😂

I lived in high fields in 2010. While I had no problems and actually enjoyed my time there, I wasn’t oblivious to the dangers there. There was even a body found just around the corner from my house

Thanks for posting your latest Video I really Enjoy watching them. I am a Ex-pat from Manchester and if you ever get up there. You might want to explore Whitefield which is part of Bury. I moved to Canada in 1978 and seeing how the situation is In England these days saddens me. But your doing a great Job in filming and Narration keep up the great work.😊

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, that’s super kind of you to say. I’ll certainly check out Whitefield when I go to up that way. Would be interesting to see how its changed since you knew it, I bet. I love Canada. 🇨🇦 can’t fault your decision there 😀😀

@R8V10

3 ай бұрын

@@ukexploredYou want to check out Cheetham Hill which is next to Whitefield. I’m sure you will be in for a surprise!

@oldnews829

3 ай бұрын

Whitefield is fine, never heard of much happening there at all. Most crime occurs between people who know each other e.g. Scummers, not random.

Never live in the city centre again. used to live in the tower block opposite the train station and shoe shop on the corner of London road. Moved to Thurmaston safe and peace.

@nailbomb420

Ай бұрын

The shoe shop, you mean blunts and hoes ahahah

This is utter tripe. I am Leicester born and lived in Thurnby for 35 years and Wigston/Aylestone for a while and it was ok. My ex lived on St Mathews for years and they had no problems. I know people who live on Maidstone Rd and they are happy! It's no worse than any other city. I still have a house in Wigston and there is nothing special about that place either. If you look for trouble, you'll find it. I also know people on Gallards Hill and Hand Avenue that are just normal people trying to make a living on next to nothing. Most of the run down estates still have a sense of community and you don't see them crapping on their own doorsteps. I live in North London now and trust me, that is a lot worse with major drugs and guns, often open on the streets. I never felt unsafe anywhere in Leicester even around St Maths and Marks. It's a bit disingenuous to say that about estates without actually meeting the people. I intend to retire back to Leicester, it ain't that bad.

@Geoffbrower007

13 күн бұрын

@@alantheskinhead The producer of these videos is wasting everyone's time, he foolishly films piles of rubbish and attributes this to the races of people who reside in those areas, any person could be fly tipping, not necessarily the residents of the estate itself, I've seen many of the responses from people who know Leicester like you and I, they too have noticed that this producer has carried out a poor assessment of the city and he doesn't know what he's doing, I think the producer should do something more productive like get a job where you are actually helping in some way instead of travelling around England and making silly videos, posting them on here and he thinks he's done a marvelous job 🤣🤣the local authorities, communities, police, schools and all agencies of Leicester know the city inside and out, we don't need a time waster called UK Explored making a video which is nothing but rubbish 🤨🧐

@markknight1011

2 күн бұрын

Do you think this was a set up, and the film makers put all the fly tipping there ? lol

As someone who used to live in Braunstone, I actually never experienced any sort of crimes. There are some spots but still, you can say it’s one of the worst but in reality, nothing really goes on and it’s only a few occurrences

@Geoffbrower007

Ай бұрын

Honestly! The producer of these videos should find something more productive to do rather than spending lots of time filming areas and then making his own comments which are useless to the public. By associating crime, drugs, fly tipping and poverty with specific races of people leads to racial hatred. The local authorities, police forces and residents are well aware of their surroundings. Issues and problems faced by towns and cities have always existed. One should not rely on a video like this to understand an area. Not all places shall look like the grounds of Balmoral Castle. UK Explored videos are boring and monotonous having seen a few. This video shows the producer is judgemental by suggesting whoever lives there is responsible for how the area appears.

@princess0-0-7

13 күн бұрын

Belgrave is the worst

Thank you very much for this video. It's very sad that this is happening in England, such a beautiful country.

Good video although the Aylestone area you covered was more Eyres Monsell estate - around the shops you filmed is old Aylestone village which is alright but the white houses and the parks you filmed were on The Monsell as its known locally, which is pretty rough. Westcotes is a strange one as half of it isn't anywhere near as bad is the other half. Around Narb Rd it's OK-ish but go on the other side of Hinckley Road and it becomes dodge central - used to get most of my drugs round there! Great vid though but as another commented above, Saffron Lane estate, New Parks, Highfields, Evington Rd/East Park Rd area are worth a visit if you're into your dodgy places, plus quite a few more too.

I was born in Leicester in the 1950s,when they demolished a lot of terraced housing to build st Matthews it was a lovely area. I moved to Skegness over thirty years ago, i couldn't believe the state of st Matthews now it's grimy and looks a lot older than it is. When it was first built it was great we had great shops , a decent pub and a lovely working mens club. It was depressing to see it now.

I cannot believe Highfields didn't make this list!! I think you should visit the area of Page Hall in Sheffield, which certainly would make good viewing.

@farallimacha

3 ай бұрын

I lived in Highfield for several years and my only complaint would be the general lack of cleanliness and greenery. Apart from that the place is very quiet and I didn't see much criminal activity there.

@PungentBunda

3 ай бұрын

And Beaumont leys

@nasstak3440

2 ай бұрын

@@farallimachayea Highfields isn’t dangerous by any means. Could walk thorough it at night with little worry.

You can round 5 down to 1 by saying the entire place is shite 😂

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

I’ll stay impartial for journalistic integrity 😂

@samual3006

3 ай бұрын

​@ukexplored I've seen alot worse than Leicester it's not that bad really

@planken203

3 ай бұрын

@@samual3006 its quite bad

@user-ds8gf3ki2g

3 ай бұрын

@@planken203really isn’t in comparison to other cities

@Bingo-zd1gp

3 ай бұрын

You should see how bad places are in the West Midlands West Bromwich is one of the most dangerous places to visit 👍

Another absolutely wicked video mate! Really enjoyed it as always. Are you still doing Worcester as some point? Saddlers Walk, Areas of Warndon / Tollidine and The Westlands in Droitwich Spa are worth a walk around…. All the best. …Smithy

2 stages to St Matthews, the latter opened in the early 70's and I spent half my childhood there after my grandparents moved into a shiny new maisonette. Like the rest of inner city Leicester, it has deteriorated to a new low but many fond memories. Thanks!

Two years ago I revisited Wigston where I lived for 6 months in 2007 as I originally went to Leicester to see the 2022 Grand Prix of darts and I couldn't believe what a boring place it has become.At one point I thought I was in the wrong location and I was only there about an hour.It's just supermarkets, charity shops,betting shops and there were 3 Greggs on one street.I was so bored I just had a quick pint in the Duke of Wigston and that was mainly full of chavs and all the other pubs there was closed down.

Lived in Newfoundpool (pretty much where you did a lot of the filming 😁) for 4 years until very recently, never had an issue really! Great vid

I was born in Leicester in the 1940s. With a small exception or two it wasn't a bad place as I recall. But there was a rapid decline. When we married we got out into the county and almost never go back. Thanks for your trouble making the video - interesting but not unexpected.

@tommykarate9397

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, in 60 years it's gone from 99% white to 33% white, it's not rapid decline, it's ethnic cleansing!

@darren253

3 ай бұрын

Labour cannot run cities lived in two of them and both dumps.

@darren253

3 ай бұрын

@@tommykarate9397 Narborough Road has the most White people have seen. The rest well you look out of place.

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

​@@darren253Most of the city centre and East Leicester I would agree but then again if people go looking for trouble they kind of deserve to.

@upsidedownnoise

3 ай бұрын

Why does it bother you that people who live in Leicester are not all white?

Mentioned Aylestone but most of the filming for that segment was Eyres Monsell.

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

Falls under the Aylestone ward as does Saffron Lane in part.

@JL-fj8zj

6 күн бұрын

It was aylestone, not monsell

Yes will watch this with a beer later on!!!

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Legend.

Grew up around Hand Avenue on Braunstone in the 60s and 70s. There were gangs of us used to roam the streets back then but there were NO drug problems, and hardly any violence, we just all hung out that's all. There was never less than twenty or thirty of us lads and gals whenever we roamed around LFE and Kirby, and we walked for miles all day long. The only place we stayed away from was the New Parks estate. We were literally at war with them. You just had to be there.

@honestcommenterseany441

Күн бұрын

@@simontemplar1 not with the Dunns and Mcanulties. Lol use to meet at western park when fair came. I was a New Parks.

Heyyy...Aylestone does (or did) have a relatively upmarket bit between the two gigantic council estates 😉

@paulgee6111

3 ай бұрын

Yeah Aylestone is lovely compared to some spots. I think the stats don't really reflect the actual picture. I live in Highfields which didn't get a look in. Highfields has some beautiful spots but unfortunately I can remember at least seven stabbings within a couple of hundred yards of my front door, also two rapes, two honour killings and numerous burglaries within the last few years. The streets are strewn with food, litter and human and animal excreta, broken infrastructure is everywhere. Tramps, winos and crackheads hang around the ramshackle shops. I didn't see anything like this in the video apart from a bit of rubbish.

@adamdean988

3 ай бұрын

Whats the 2 estate

@DW-indeed

3 ай бұрын

@@adamdean988 monsell and saff

I used to live in Lesta, a rough rough city but a lot of genuine people. Back in the 80's and early 90's it was bad. Loved the city and still do. I remember Braunstone being run down but the people rallied around each other with that old British war time sentiment. I wrote this before I seen the video.

@NYCSubwayWorker

6 күн бұрын

@mm3nrx Used to be safer than Nottingham but it has gone the other way now

@eightiesmusic1984

6 күн бұрын

I lived there 1988-1991 and 1992-1993. It was not bad at all.

@Socialistcheese111

2 күн бұрын

@@mm3nrx I would have personally taken Braunstone out and put in Beumont Lays or Evingdon. Braunstone used to be awful in the 1990s and early 2000s but these days is far, far better.

@28mouse85

Күн бұрын

Leicester isnt and never has heen a rough city.

@Socialistcheese111

Күн бұрын

@@28mouse85 Are you sure about that? Its had 5 fatal stabbings in the past month

Lived on or just off narborough road for 4 years and loved it, crime only finds you if you find it. Drugs were an issue in the local area but you wouldn’t get much contact unless you were trying to buy or sell. Late nights were fine walking home. We had a run of crimes of taking students to cash points and emptying the accounts but that was the most major. No worse than any other city. The food and culture is amazing and worth a visit

I think you should have some "at night" footage where you capture some of these areas at night. Also what about doing a patreon for some "uncensored footage" ?

Got mugged in Westcotes few weeks ago. Last few years seems to be getting rougher that’s for sure. Thanks for making the video man

@footballfanar9717

3 ай бұрын

Everywhere's getting rougher. What do you expect with immigration numbers increasing?

@Silentghos

3 ай бұрын

@@footballfanar9717 yes sadly so true and yes the 2 people whom mugged had broken up English and strong accent from abroad. I would have tried to stand up for my self but I thought what if they carrying

@footballfanar9717

3 ай бұрын

@@Silentghos Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you tories and labour. Absolutely useless. None of them two parties should be able to stand at the next election for what they've done to this country.

@balance3201

3 ай бұрын

​@@Silentghosdaytime? Or night?

@Silentghos

3 ай бұрын

@@balance3201 it was like 6pm on a Sunday so pretty quiet not many people around.

You could do that vlog just about any city in Britain it's the same in most places.😞🌹

@darren253

3 ай бұрын

All Labour Cities are dumps. No offence waste money and no improvements.

I used to live in South Wigston in the early 2000s (back then it was seen as a posh area) which was just below Aylestone/ Saffron Lane/ Eyres Monsell. Brother lived on Grace Road. Also had friends in Highfields (the red light district), St Mathews, Beaumont leys and Belgrave. Although, its a very clicky clicky city, i never felt unsafe.

I live in Leicester, surprised new parks wasn't number 1.

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

I can’t see New Parks listed on crime rate.co.uk so it’s either grouped into a ward, or missing for some other reason. People who live in areas always know the real worst spots, so I’ll take your word on it being bad; and often the worst areas don’t report a lot of crime which skews the stats.

@AndrewSvonja

3 ай бұрын

i was thinking that...

@bobosborne1573

3 ай бұрын

And I’ll bet my left nut you always vote Labour lo

@jamesharris2305

Ай бұрын

New parks link newfound right and fose

@Hold_My_Pocket

16 күн бұрын

When you spotted a roofing company that was doing well for itself in Newfound Pool, the council estate you can see across the street is the start of new parks.

Yes to St Matthew’s, but all the rest had my husband and I who have lived in or around Leicester since 1987 and 1995 going “Yer what?” Visit Highfields, Eyres Monsell or the UKIP stronghold of New Parks, then tell me Aylestone is rough!

I'm moving to Leicester from the South West and I have walked along Narborough Rd late at night and down towards St. Mathews and as a single woman I have felt less safe in the town down here than in Leicester. Obviously it has its probs but so does even the gentrified areas in the West country like Bath and Salisbury!

@hooper-highlights-uk

3 ай бұрын

Once youve lived here for 6 months you will realise how horrible it is

@chrish3472

2 ай бұрын

Good luck with that, why would anyone want to come here from the South West, it's the other way round for me, i would love to get out of this cess pit and move down to the South West.

@polidori99

2 ай бұрын

@@chrish3472 Try cultural desert no medical facilities, no dentist, crap travel infrastructure ie no buses, rubbish train connections no decent restaurants!

@griswald7156

2 ай бұрын

@@polidori99 where do you live ?

@nasstak3440

2 ай бұрын

Agreed.

Lived at the back of Parker Drive, near 'The Blackbird' pub,up to 2006, was a friendly neighbourhood, very mixed but very chilled and in the 5 or 6 year's i was there, few problems, but the shop i worked in was burgled quite regularly 😢

It surprises me that Beaumont Leys is not on that list - I used to have a mate that lived off Heacham Drive, in Beaumont Leys some years ago, and I used to hate having to visit there or leave my car outside his flats, the area was seriously rough back then, and I am surprised also that it wasnt high up the list for the roughest places in Leicester. I agree about Braunstone though, that place was well renowned for trouble and you wouldnt want to walk round those streets there after dark alone. I live in Stoke on Trent myself - A very deprived and troubled city blighted with drugs, crime and poverty - maybe you could try coming and doing a report on it - Renowned areas here are Meir, Abbey Hulton, Chell Heath / Fegg Hayes, Bentilee, Tunstall, Shelton and Hanley - they are all well worth a visit.

@markrainton9466

3 ай бұрын

Yust put a post up earlier couldn't remember about Beaumont leys a shite hole

Great post, thank you. How can house prices be so high in these areas?

@nasstak3440

2 ай бұрын

Because despite these being the roughest areas of Leicester, they are less intimidating than most of the safe areas of other big cities. Even the drug references are mostly weed, not the hard stuff.

@NYCSubwayWorker

3 күн бұрын

house prices are high because it is close (just over an hour train) to london, simply

Top 5 worst for me is Highfields St Matthews Spinney Hill New Foundpool New Parks Most have 1 thing in common 🤔 But most estates could be on the list, Braunstone, Beaumont Leys, Mowacre Hill, Belgrave, Northfields, Thurby Lodge, Netherhall, Rowlatts Hill, Eyres Monsell etc

I would say that Aylestone was actually Eyres Monsell

@mattdriver1

2 сағат бұрын

Agree. And the property prices are not really a true reflection of the exact deprived areas as the monsell, braunstone and Aylestone have houses that are into the millions hence driving up the average. Not really a true reflection on Leicester, although yes there are deprived areas like every city.

Thank you for the video! Where are the residents?- the streets are empty ...

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was eerily quiet that day. It was a Thursday, and pretty damp. I saw a few people and spoke to some others, but I try not to film interactions as I don’t want them later complaining about being in the video or anything. Plus it really annoys a lot of people and some people kick off, even though we know I’m allowed to film people in public. I’ve had to talk my way out of a few situations while hanging around these kinds of areas 😇

@erichb2249

3 ай бұрын

Streets are empty cos nobody going to work

@user-zj5fb9rt4z

3 ай бұрын

@@erichb2249 really?? Then, how do they pay for their living? Is the unemployment rate so high or are they just lazy?

@lcfc2016

3 ай бұрын

All in the nick

Where do you get your info from??? Saying st matthews is 90% white 😂 ( 95% non white is correct ) Its a hellhole now as it always has been Somewhere between Mogadishu & lahore Go check it out 😂

@ashhh2530

2 ай бұрын

I honestly think st matthews isn't that bad😅 (I would know i live here)

@user-fc9bu1bs2h

2 ай бұрын

St matthews got cleaned up by those immigrants. In the 80s and 90s when it was majority white, there were prostitutes on every street getting fd in flats. Flats also had shit and piss everywhere and almost always would be waking up to a yt person blacked out on the street when going to school. Rough times but thankfully immigration cleaned the area up!

@andrewwaldron3667

22 күн бұрын

I think st Mathews is twinned with Mogadishu these days. However my grandparents and uncles lived there in the 60s and 70s and it was very different then. I remember it as being pretty decent. I worked across the road in 81 and would go over there for my lunch break. Would regularly call in at the carnival, and the Dixie on my way into town.

@juliuspleasaince202

22 күн бұрын

Yeh man said the carnival haha you probably bumped in to my brothers in there

@davesmith6680

2 күн бұрын

St Matthews is now mainly Somalian and very family orientated. Improved since the 80's when it was rough

The St Matthew’s area seems to be unusually lacking in discarded sofas in front of the flats, and I think I only saw one Argos kiddies’ trampoline outside one block. Many of the flats don’t seem to have the chavs’ and thugs’ trademark illuminated Reindeer or Santa Claus (usually stolen from Wilko) up on the porch roof or nailed to the pebble-dash, and I’m sure I saw a couple of local residents who were not clad in the finest haute couture from Matalan and Primark (originally nicked from the stores, and then sold on half-price from the stall inside the local ‘Spoons).

@sandeepk4093

Ай бұрын

Anecdotally its residents seem majority Somalian

By the way the stone in Braunstone and Aylestone is pronounced stun not stone. Also, when you talking about Narborough Road, Braunie Gate should have a mention as that's the main drinking area of Westcotes.

I lived in Leicester for many years and always thought that it is a bad place, but I changed my mind when I moved to Stoke-on-Trent. At least Leicester has some nice parks and areas such as Hamilton, Wigston,Knighton are actually quite nice. City centre is vibrant, with good restaurants and cafes.

@missruzl14

3 ай бұрын

How do you guys live in stoke? When for a friend's wedding and I was speechless! The dirtiest city I've ever been to.

@eightiesmusic1984

6 күн бұрын

I lived in Knighton at College Hall when I was at university in 1988.

Love the knock-off Boots Pharmacy at 02:00

I was once the other side of Aylestone Park so I know some of the areas featured and a bit run down but looks ok and much nicer than some places I lived in the north.

Used to be many tower blocks in the st Matthews Estate

Lived in Braunstone for a while, it was honestly okay… but once the council houses came up in the 60s it went downhill 😢

I worked in the city centre for five years back in the 70's. Nothing seems to have changed.

Whats the background song?

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

I used a few. It’s all royalty free stuff, you like the chill lofi vibes?

I was born here, Beaumont Leys. Any reason why it didn't make the list?

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Hey man. I stuck with published stats, and according to crime stats Beaumont Leys has a crime rate of 103 and is ranked around #13.

@msimms-lp5qw

3 ай бұрын

@@ukexplored All that shows is how misleading they can be

Always good to see your local corner shop in a video. And no offence taken! 😂😂😂😂

@ukexplored

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, it is 😃😀

I grew up in Leicester and recently went back with my son to take him to a show. My word it was rough around the edges when I was a kid but what a shit hole!!! Absolutely lost.

@eightiesmusic1984

6 күн бұрын

Explain.

will you be doing Coventry?

Can you do a video about StAlbans please. Cheers.

That's mad. I would never have thought of Westcotes as dangerous. Lived all over Westcotes for about 15 years. Move there from Rugby and it seemed significantly safer.

I live in westcotes (sadly) I'm trying to escape but it's so expensive to move. I've personally never been bothered or had any issues but if you're a young woman I'd advise to never walk around here on your own at night.

I think you missed a few such as Highfields and the New Parks Estate. By the way it is pronounced "Brawn Stun" not "Brawn Stone" you almost made it sound posh...!!!

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

I’ve heard of Highfields, so it must be bad. But I stuck to published stats - for what they’re worth, the stats never look accurate, do they. The further north I go the more my accent gives me away 😂 thanks for pointing that out though.

@user-ds8gf3ki2g

3 ай бұрын

Highfields is no where near as bad as it was 20 years ago the reputation it had is gone

Should visit Milton Keynes, there are a lot of bad estates, Fuller's Slade, Lakes Estate, Fishermead, Netherfield, Tinkers Bridge.

So sad to see Newfoundpool in such a state... my grandmother grew up there, a poor area but everyone worked hard and you would see an army of women scrubbing their front step every morning. (The thought was that if your front step was dirty, your house would be too.) They may have been poor but had a lot of self-respect and many of their grandchildren did very well in life through the state grammar schools and free universities.

Makes me glad i come from derby. I never warmed to lesta or Birmingham in the Midlands.

I used to live in ST Mathews in 70s was a very nice peaceful estate and totally safe. 🇬🇧

Well I live in Loughborough and I come to Leicester regularly. So can’t say if it’s dangerous to be honest with you mate. I have not seen anything dangerous in Leicester especially near St Matthews where you know there is also a female ex workers working in the street at night time. Also stabbing a in Leicester doesn’t happen a lot most likely every now and then unfortunately.

It has changed a lot, there was a time where Braunstone especially dodge (court crescent side) was far far worse it had a fair amount of regeneration after the early 2000s. It has really nice parts and you could honestly consider it three main areas (braunstone, braunstone town, dodge) Honestly never really considered Westcoates / Narborough road that bad some parts of it are really nice but I think some parts have gone really far down in the last 15 years. Newparks / Highfields / Mowmacre Hill / Beautmont Leys / Eyres Monsell are the notable exceptions.

Holy crap this was grim!

I used to live in Leicester years ago in the newfoundpool area, I recently moved back to Leicester last year (Victoria Park area) and I love it here. I moved from the city of Bristol, now that has even worse areas than Leicester!!.

@AndrewSvonja

3 ай бұрын

i seem to remember in the 90's when i went there as a van driver Knowle was a bit suspect, in fact the shop I was setting up video racks in said there was a curfew for the paperboys/girls had to be daylight to daylight!!

@elliotspencer2648

3 ай бұрын

@@AndrewSvonja in Bristol there are the bad areas of Knowle west, hartcliffe, St. Paul's, Stapleton, south mead. I was glad to see the back of Bristol when I left in July of last year, I would never go back there to live!.

@2tapped-sc1oq

3 ай бұрын

​@@elliotspencer2648Easton and Hartcliffe make the worst areas of Leicester look like heaven!

@sbaby-kg8hn

3 ай бұрын

Bristol is a rot ​hole@@elliotspencer2648

@Legionnaire7777

2 ай бұрын

I'm originally from Newfoundpool! 👍🏻

You should check out blackpool and surrounding areas

Beautiful cat

I remember when Leicester was famous for its fishing team.

The housing is adequate if they were knocked down it would never be fully replaced and the prices would treble to rent. It’s not the housing is the problem it’s the low pay and deliberate lack of work to make the working classes competitive

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

Agreed pay across most industries in Leicester are poor compared to national average.

I lived in westcotes for 8 years, can't say i'm rushing to move back there from the depths of the leicestershire countryside However Aylestone Road is much nicer than the extended "town" of its namesake, few mates live there and gets progressively nicer as you get towards the city centre

Amazed Beaumont leys, saffron lane, eyres monsell, stocking farm and new parks wasn’t in this. Grew up in New Parks by the way

seems a bit out of place to see a 95K electric PORSCHE TAYCAN 4S 93KWH on that estate 1:00

Really surprised highfields or spinney hill wasnt on there

@slr19680

21 сағат бұрын

I'm not ,a lot of the comments are from people that don't live in the areas mentioned

Bad, go to Ferguslie park in Paisley scotland and see what rough is 😮

I used to work in Leicester I worked at boot shoe factory of western rd it’s now apartments it was calledEquity shoes ltd in shut down in 2002

No mention of Highfields?

All you need to know about Leicester is that it has smaller proportion of white population than London!

@DW-indeed

3 ай бұрын

You saw the graphs in the video showing majority white in these particularly bad areas though, right?

@ukexplored

3 ай бұрын

Ya it’s weird because Leicester was the first ‘super diverse’ city in the country with less than 50% white population, yet the demographics, which apparently comes from the 2021 census, has these areas as mostly white. Maybe that’s a reflection on these areas, which says a lot if true.

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

@@ukexplored White includes European. Most of the white immigrants are from Eastern Europe and the old Russian States but post Brexit more from India, Pakistan and China.

I used to live on andrewes street back in the day and its not a rough place in the slightest, its just a central location of Leicester where people meet and cause shit. I did have a mcat dealer that lived in the blocks but thats about it.

I’d say that New Parks and Beaumont Leys are the worst. St Mathews and Highfields were really rough in the 90s.

You are incorrect. St Matthews - they are mainly 2 storey maisonettes.

As someone born in Leicester over sixty years ago, now living abroad, I remember Leicester had a reputation of being a very clean town and Braunston being solidly middle-class. What happened?

@footballfanar9717

3 ай бұрын

Immigration. Islam.

@user-fc9bu1bs2h

2 ай бұрын

@@footballfanar9717all the poor ppl in those areas are the yt ppl. Has nothing to do with islam. Majority of the economy is being held together by the immigrants anyways. It would be less relevant than corby rn if that was the case

@sandeepk4093

Ай бұрын

I remember in the 90s Leicester was a dump - the city centre was rundown and every back alley had a stench of urine. Braunstone was a rough rundown area that any brown skinned guy avoided if he had any sense. The city seemed to get cleaner during the 2000s but took a nosedive in the 2010s and is now a bit of a dump again. Town centre is horrible again

@wricham

19 сағат бұрын

@@sandeepk4093town centre is awful and scary due to druggy’s and robbing scumbags!

How are they so poor with that amount of cars parked in the streets?

Only ever been to Leicester twice for a couple of gigs at The Donkey the areas i was in didn't seem that bad.

At least Westcotes and Aylestone have Tree`s !

The lakes estate Bletchley/milton Keynes. Hillfields Coventry are a lot worse in the midlands.

Watching from Australia. Glad my English left Manchester and came here. Feel sorry for the decent people on fixed incomes though. Same issues in Australia, public housing here is not looked after in as much one has to go to the police to sort neighbour harrassment out. The public housing people do nothing unless alot if people get together and pressure them. Best to UK.

Braunstone got 5 bits as in estate's it's big all south leicester

Enjoyable video however I can't believe you didn't visit Highfields.

@user-ds8gf3ki2g

3 ай бұрын

It had a reputation about 20 years ago not anymore though

@AmKlizz

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ds8gf3ki2gstill does now

@AmKlizz

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ds8gf3ki2gstill does

@JL-fj8zj

6 күн бұрын

@@user-ds8gf3ki2gstill just as bad

i lived in st Matthews in the 70's up until i was 4 yrs old. in them days you could let your kids go out to play without the fear of them getting snatched or harmed, i wouldn't like to live there now, Highfields wasn't mentioned which used to be the red light district of Leicester.

Braunstone is divided by Leicester City Council and Braunstone Town Blaby District Council. I live in Braunstone Town and theres nothing wrong there. My partner lives in Westcoates/ Fosse Road South and its not great. Lots of drugs, prostitution and fly tipping central. I was in the army for 12 years and based in Windsor/London and when i returned to Leicester in 2000 I was astounded how crap it had got to be honest.

@markgoss9150

2 ай бұрын

Funnily enough I live on fosse south and it's getting worse and worse I'm trying to escape 🤣

Lived in Leicester all my life. Don't know how Aylestone made this list, it was the Eyres Monsell estate shown on the video which just about overlaps the Aylestone boundary. Saying that, the Monsell's not a bad area either. Leicester's like everywhere else, good & bad areas. It's the people that matter & Leicester folk are the best!

Lived near and around Braunstone all my life. We get a lot of wild stuff kick off and no one really bats an eye. Shrug our shoulders and get on with it. Story of most working class cities really. We've been left behind and austerity has crippled and ripped a lot of the social fabric of the city apart. Kids around here are forming gangs and many of the kids I grew up with have essentially fallen prey to drink, drugs, violence and all sorts. New playgrounds last abt 6 months before bored teenagers set them on fire and the police are overworked round these parts. Once you're on Braunstone you're trapped probably forever. But its not as bad as The Saff or some of the other neighbourhoods tbf

How come Highfields never got a mention?

Well make the areas better Get the community together and start taking care of the places u live in

@mickymouze1224

3 ай бұрын

Easy to say when all the meeting places like pubs and community centres have closed their doors. The local MP is nowhere to be seen until it's time to start canvassing. Local Councils only follow the money. Community leaders used to include local shopkeepers, the manager of the local tesco metro ain't gonna care. Neighbours rarely talk to each other these days, often due to language barriers. Anyone who tries speaking out is shouted down and ridiculed, heaven forbid they received a parking ticket 20 years ago, anything to silence them. Communities have been destroyed.

It's different to what locals would say...it's obviously different when your living around the area it's easier to tell for yourself what is more dangerous as you've experienced it but I wouldn't say these are right going off statistics

Used to live on St Matthews in the 80s, it was good back then, wouldn’t like to live there now, also lived Narborough road which used to be nice, sadly Leicester is no longer a nice place to live

I moved to Highfields in le2 like 3 months ago to find out someone literally at the end of my road was a peado and killed his own mum 3 years ago people can google this btw it’s crazy. And I only found this out today lol but when I asked the estate agent when viewing what the area was like she said “I don’t know” but the sun was out and the street was empty so I guess I was deceived

I was a former student in Leicester, lived and worked there. And yes it is depressing, ugly and horrible - extremely disgusting city and I thought Birmingham was bad enough. Highfields is another unpleasant area as well that should have been added.as well as Beaumont Leys

@darren253

3 ай бұрын

Agree got mugged twice living there. City is unsavable.

@brothersman524

3 ай бұрын

@@darren253 Oh dear. One of the worst cities in the UK along with Birmingham and Bradford. Worst towns has to be Oldham, Luton, Slough and Rochdale

@allanstack7016

3 ай бұрын

They all have a common denominator 😮

@brothersman524

3 ай бұрын

@@allanstack7016 I think I know exactly what you mean

@sammiehall4415

3 ай бұрын

humberstone to isnt nice

Cobridge in Stoke-on-Trent.

That wasn't Braunstone. That was Braunstone town. That's why it didn't look as bad 😔 Also, Fosse Road Central isnt WestCotes. Its west end or going by its older name, Danes Hill. Since 2010 the city as become more dirty and deprived year on year.

@bigprob8744

2 ай бұрын

Looks nice Compared to the rough areas in Coventry

@wricham

19 сағат бұрын

None of that was Braunstone Town. Braunstone town is county council side and braunstone is city council. The Braunstone Lane splits the two until you get to the top at the cross roads and then that’s LFE.

There are no bad areas...... Just bad people

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

Exactly the issue with everywhere.

@user-td2qw4jl9i

3 ай бұрын

Correct, when st matthews was built the biggest majority of people were working people. There was a lovely friendly atmosphere on the estate but now it's depressing to walk around now it's grimy and looks run down and the only people to blame are the residents.

@user-vj6op6zi2n

3 ай бұрын

@@user-td2qw4jl9i The same with everywhere too many dont care and dont even have basic pride in their surroundings.