Good to see the podium is not facing a wall. most of their shoplifters are going to be at self scans / checkouts where the staff no doubt don't care and the security no where to be seen. The alcohol looks quite vulnerable - what you see in a lot of morrisons stores is those 'box aisles' getting hit fairly regularly due to lack of visibility. Their alcohol shrink is going to be very high.
@bananaskin7962 Жыл бұрын
I badly miss The Made Inn @ 7:30. Such a diverse and cool bar it was. Everyone was really chilled and relaxed. Now it's a tacky cocktail bar. A great loss, a great pity.
@juliejames3338 Жыл бұрын
brought up in maidstone and went to invicta grammar; a really great place, but now live in France, still miss living here though, but just too expensive now. lovely placdxx
@mypuretours4450 Жыл бұрын
Ah lovely, yes it is a very nice part of Kent. My brother and sister both went to Maidstone Grammar, and I also had friends at the Invicta Grammar, but attended The Cornwallis myself... Thanks for your comment, and enjoy France!
@josephjackson5330 Жыл бұрын
This place has become like Harrods ,such a rip of supermarket,me & many others have abandoned it . very tight & there savers food repeals human beings, frozen fruit & vedge even my guinipigs won't touch it.
@danielroy1966 Жыл бұрын
12:22 I wush we knew what "the truth" was. ;-)
@neilboulton98132 жыл бұрын
Maidstone looks an attractive and clean town which retained alot of character and integrated new development better than a lot of other comparable places. As you can see on here a lot of British people are overly negative on places even if they have never visited, and another plus for Kent is having visited a number of times the people in general are very friendly.
@MrChiptatum2 жыл бұрын
i have been here and it beautiful place
@albatross32062 жыл бұрын
Thank s 👍
@albatross32062 жыл бұрын
👍😍😍😍 nice
@kylesteel79832 жыл бұрын
I know that boy in the blue sweater at 11:45 who pretended to headbut that officer 😂 he’s a nice boy but a bit mental
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
It’s great when we spot people we know like that. Thanks for your comment
@MrBlaugeist2 жыл бұрын
I live in the area and find st ives boring now - it’s pure tourism, no shops worth goin to since woolworth closed , nice for tourists but not for me
@daveday55072 жыл бұрын
It facinates me that St Ives on video looks three times the size that it actually is. People there have mastered the art of looking one way and walking another, I never managed it myself.
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
I had the same thought when I watched this video back after recording it. I did have the lens set wide... And yes particularly if you visit during Summer Holidays, lots of head swinging looking from shop to shop! Thanks for your comment :)
@masterRabbit782 жыл бұрын
Is Maidstone (and its outskirts) good for families? Which areas are good for schools and what are the best secondary/grammar schools? I live in London but would like to be closer to Kentish countryside.
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Hi Bojan ... I'd say so yes. Maidstone is just 32 miles from central London, has a population of approximately 75 thousand people with an average of 28 occupants per hectare. Around 38% of those are married couples, with an additional 10% co-habiting, and another 9% single parents... Maidstone is primarily made up of white, English Christian people, but we do have a multitude of other faiths and ethnicities in the area also and who are a much loved part of the community... Bower Grove, Five Acre Wood, and Invica Grammar are amongst the highest achieving Schools who all recieved 'Outstanding' status most recently... And of course Kent is known for it's beautiful Countryside, Oast Houses, Kentish Beers, etc... I hope that helps!? I was born in Maidstone and have lived here for sometime also, so I have a good grasp on the landscape of things here. Any further questions, do let me know! ... Brad
@frankMIALL2 жыл бұрын
Definitely good
@UKImmigrationLawGeek2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this. I video as I walk as well to showcase what places are like (ie Farnham, Reading, Guildford).
@julianbeesley50592 жыл бұрын
19 dogs in 5 mins
@daisysamuel32882 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 😍
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Isn't it just lovely :)
@paulthepill2 жыл бұрын
Total sh*thole, glad I moved away
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Really? where did you move to?
@paulcaney62842 жыл бұрын
@@mypuretours4450 Somewhere really nice
@CarlosAlberto-ii1li2 жыл бұрын
Not a mask to be seen anywhere................and now look at the mess you are all in.
@TubeTopics2 жыл бұрын
Used to walk across the bridge on my way to school. Wow it was such a long time ago!
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Really!? When was that and which School did you attend? I attended Cornwallis in the late 90's early OO'
@johnlavery61162 жыл бұрын
Love Maidstone, hope to return again this summer,..great video.....Ireland.
@linhtetpaing97042 жыл бұрын
Hello my name is Lin Htet Paing
@5T0RMYofficial2 жыл бұрын
2:46 NO PHOEBE NO
@Itsmypureworld2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@hughbathurst17617 ай бұрын
I don't get it?
@mcdougal02 жыл бұрын
lLEFT IN 1963 TO EMIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA CHANGED SO MUCH
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Wow! I bet that amazing for you to see the change; thanks for commenting
@mcdougal02 жыл бұрын
@@mypuretours4450 DEFINITELY CHANGED FOR THE BETTER( TOWN CENTRE) BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE . i'M LIVING ON THE GOLDCOAST QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA YOU CAN FIND IT ON KZread.
@coralk2 жыл бұрын
Is there a direct coach that goes from Gloucester to here?
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Possibly, take a look on Google. Otherwise you can certainly train into London and train out towards Maidstone
@MrBriz782 жыл бұрын
Hello. My name is Casey Brizendine. My 10th Great Grandfather came to America in the early 1600's. His name was Isaac Brissenden. He is said to hail from Brissenden Green in Kent, Maidstone, England. Do you have any videos of Brissenden Green?
@Itsmypureworld2 жыл бұрын
That’s interesting; perhaps I’ll do a vid on this…
@paulthepill2 жыл бұрын
There's no Brissenden green in Maidstone, there is Bearsted green ?
@Luyjerking23212 жыл бұрын
Hey guys I live in Maidstone it’s not very nice lots of chavs bruv
@ashfordmarketofficial96102 жыл бұрын
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@davidmersh72212 жыл бұрын
Thats an awful lot of Chinese granite! - the High Street and Week Street are all finished with stone from China, I was living up London Road in about 2011 I think when the big revamp of High Street was going on.
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Yes I remember that era, and yes agree that is a lot of stone
@wilkesmcdermid79063 жыл бұрын
Maidstone is the home city of the famous boy named Daniel Lord his channel is called HidingInMyRoom. He must be the most well known person out of Maidstone.
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Interesting thanks for the info
@stipple44533 жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZto1JOBj72pkbA.html
@mttynan46903 жыл бұрын
Gonna revisit this when I move out and gonna cry lmao
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Where are you moving to?
@ObitoUchiha-sr3lm2 жыл бұрын
Denki! :D
@Luyjerking23213 жыл бұрын
Gang gang
@nelsonalexis30543 жыл бұрын
Maidstone has improved massively in the last 5 years
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
It really has; and Fremlin Walk is probably the main improvement over the last decade or so; it dramatically changed the shopping experience, even though some comment that it made Maidstone quite generic, I think it was much needed in order to keep the town's economy in good shape.
@nelsonalexis30543 жыл бұрын
@@mypuretours4450 I bought a flat on boxley road 5 years and alot of people said maidstone is shit then. Now nobody really says that anymore. Even dive bars like bar chocolate have been improving. There's been a lot of new building investment, I suspect even Chatham will probably become gentrified within the next 10yrs due to its proximity to London. Also the high speed rail link to London has been slept on. It's only now that the council have finally decided to upgrade maidstone east station. There's more to come, and you can be sure that house prices will increase.
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
@@nelsonalexis3054 Agree
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
@@nelsonalexis3054 There’s been a huge amount of house developments over the last 10 years too; like thousands of new cul-de-sac homes along one of the main stretches into Maidstone
@davidmersh72213 жыл бұрын
It was a bit rough in the nineties with a lot of trouble at night with all the clubs drawing people in. But modern Maidstone is blighted by its nearness to London, too many people with related excess housebuilding.
@Abilitypostacademy3 жыл бұрын
Maidstone is unrecognisable from when I lived there just the Hazlitt Theatre, M and S and Mcdonalds are the same .
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah Maidstone has changed a lot but the Hazlitt and McDonolds will never die!
@garygyles13193 жыл бұрын
Looks like a nice place to visit in the summer, I noticed that people are walking really fast even older people, we walk fast in London but if I tried to keep up with Maidstone speed I'd be knackered 😂
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Haha really, yeah I guess so
@mttynan46903 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah! Maidstonians are pretty damn quick, had to develop from a young age as a maidstonian myself
@garygyles13193 жыл бұрын
@@mttynan4690 I'll have to practice some speed walking before I go there because I don't want to look out of place 😂
@mttynan46903 жыл бұрын
@@garygyles1319 haha good luck!
@garygyles13193 жыл бұрын
@@mttynan4690 Thanks 👍
@tqft3 жыл бұрын
Excellent! We will watch this again in 20 years and admire the way the town was.......
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
Ha yes I think that's probably right :)
@ellamumford18413 жыл бұрын
Love how i'm in this by the beggining with an ex boyfriend of mine. lol
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Lol
@stormyskies60733 жыл бұрын
I live here Don’t live here It’s not nice
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
I live near Maidstone myself; why do you say that though, I'm interested to know?
@stormyskies60733 жыл бұрын
@@mypuretours4450 It’s chavy. And rough. Just generally not nice also has a kinda high crime rate
@mypuretours44502 жыл бұрын
@@stormyskies6073 Didn’t know it has a high crime rate? I’d say it’s better than Chatham area but not so nice as T Wells and Canterbury although they also have some interesting people. Maidstone is the County Town so there’s bound to be some interesting activity
@bigppman24493 жыл бұрын
went there saw slags and chavs and i got shanked in a alleyway now i am in gta 6
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
In Maidstone?
@alanwheeler16893 жыл бұрын
This is the county town (i.e. the capital) or the Garden of England. So in one way Maidstone is London's twin.
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Kind of, it's the County town of Kent. There are actually nicer Kent towns in my opinion, such as Canterbury, T Wells, Hythe etc
@Pr35t0nYT3 жыл бұрын
I went to Folkestone yesterday and like… Folkestone is much better then Maidstone lol
@vismasvlogs13013 жыл бұрын
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@admiralackbar93073 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sadly it looks very cookie cutter
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
It's not so much when you see the whole town but I see what you mean from this vid
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Yes it's becoming more generic along the main high street and in the Mall, as to be expected I suppose. That said, there are a nice amount of independant stores throughout too. I think Canterbury is probably better for that though; perhaps I'll do a Canterbury walk through sometime!
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@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
Pleased you like thank you for your comment! :)
@dr.mosaddequemamur5003 жыл бұрын
Passed 1.5 year of my life @ Maidstone, used to go to the town centre every weekend. I was single then on a foreign soil without any family members with me, which was for the 1st time in my life, even then I cherish the memory.
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
Nice memory, thanks for sharing!
@masterRabbit782 жыл бұрын
I have the same experience but with another (much smaller) town - Huntingdon. The first place in UK that I called my home.
@johnlavery61163 жыл бұрын
Lived there 68,,nice town,big changes....Ireland
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
Nice ... I bet it's changed since then!?
@johnlavery61163 жыл бұрын
@@Itsmypureworld It definitely has....but still very nice.....memories.
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
That's nice, its good to know Maidstone has made an impact :)
@Westhamsterdam3 жыл бұрын
Not the total devastion I was expecting with empty shops all over the place!
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
This was just before pandemic :)
@gabriellaj.o.61803 жыл бұрын
Kent is rough these days but it wasn't always so. Wow a long time since I went to Maidstone as Pizza Hut relocated further down and Costa is where they were and now it's shut altogether post COVID. Maidstone used to be the best place to shop in Kent when I was at school. Now , no ta, Bluewater and cut it out though i do still like TW and Canterbury.
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I know what you mean, unfortunately the south part of Kent is being squeezed which is the still the nice part of Kent in my opinion. That said, Maidstone isn't too bad, but Canterbury and TW are definitely a cut above right now.
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Kent is the garden of England, it's not rough, but it does have it's fair share of issues like everywhere else of course. Maidstone is doing well to regenerate and keep business and employment rates consistent at least, but I would agree it's not on the same level as T-Wells/Canterbury, possibly Folkestone/Hythe even
@chandrikakamath27072 жыл бұрын
Doesn't bluewater exist anymore?
@CarlosAlberto-ii1li2 жыл бұрын
yes, it was either Maidstone or Croydon for shopping in the South East.
@goingplaces91313 жыл бұрын
Nice walk through Maidstone town centre. How did you film this phone or gopro?
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
Thank you :) I filmed it hand holding an iPhone 8 Plus :)
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Yeah ywhat he said lol; that's my other account :) ... I filmed it by hand using an iPhone 8 Plus in wide video mode. I'm using the iPhone 11 now which has an even wider lens and looks great! You don't need fancy equipment to get started :)
@davidransom6433 жыл бұрын
Grim
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
Is it? Agree it's hardly Knightsbridge but I've grown to like Maidstone the County town of Kent. It has some good things going for it :) ... How does it fair compared with your local town? I'm considering doing more of these videos so perhaps I could do one of your town sometime, that could be interesting :)
@kekeluo52503 жыл бұрын
I miss maidstone soooo much😖
@Itsmypureworld3 жыл бұрын
It's a nice town huh
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
I can understand that; what did you enjoy the most about Maidstone?
@Pr35t0nYT3 жыл бұрын
@@mypuretours4450 Well, Mote park is quite nice!
@mypuretours44503 жыл бұрын
@@Pr35t0nYT Agree, Mote Park is always lovely to spend time at
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Good to see the podium is not facing a wall. most of their shoplifters are going to be at self scans / checkouts where the staff no doubt don't care and the security no where to be seen. The alcohol looks quite vulnerable - what you see in a lot of morrisons stores is those 'box aisles' getting hit fairly regularly due to lack of visibility. Their alcohol shrink is going to be very high.
I badly miss The Made Inn @ 7:30. Such a diverse and cool bar it was. Everyone was really chilled and relaxed. Now it's a tacky cocktail bar. A great loss, a great pity.
brought up in maidstone and went to invicta grammar; a really great place, but now live in France, still miss living here though, but just too expensive now. lovely placdxx
Ah lovely, yes it is a very nice part of Kent. My brother and sister both went to Maidstone Grammar, and I also had friends at the Invicta Grammar, but attended The Cornwallis myself... Thanks for your comment, and enjoy France!
This place has become like Harrods ,such a rip of supermarket,me & many others have abandoned it . very tight & there savers food repeals human beings, frozen fruit & vedge even my guinipigs won't touch it.
12:22 I wush we knew what "the truth" was. ;-)
Maidstone looks an attractive and clean town which retained alot of character and integrated new development better than a lot of other comparable places. As you can see on here a lot of British people are overly negative on places even if they have never visited, and another plus for Kent is having visited a number of times the people in general are very friendly.
i have been here and it beautiful place
Thank s 👍
👍😍😍😍 nice
I know that boy in the blue sweater at 11:45 who pretended to headbut that officer 😂 he’s a nice boy but a bit mental
It’s great when we spot people we know like that. Thanks for your comment
I live in the area and find st ives boring now - it’s pure tourism, no shops worth goin to since woolworth closed , nice for tourists but not for me
It facinates me that St Ives on video looks three times the size that it actually is. People there have mastered the art of looking one way and walking another, I never managed it myself.
I had the same thought when I watched this video back after recording it. I did have the lens set wide... And yes particularly if you visit during Summer Holidays, lots of head swinging looking from shop to shop! Thanks for your comment :)
Is Maidstone (and its outskirts) good for families? Which areas are good for schools and what are the best secondary/grammar schools? I live in London but would like to be closer to Kentish countryside.
Hi Bojan ... I'd say so yes. Maidstone is just 32 miles from central London, has a population of approximately 75 thousand people with an average of 28 occupants per hectare. Around 38% of those are married couples, with an additional 10% co-habiting, and another 9% single parents... Maidstone is primarily made up of white, English Christian people, but we do have a multitude of other faiths and ethnicities in the area also and who are a much loved part of the community... Bower Grove, Five Acre Wood, and Invica Grammar are amongst the highest achieving Schools who all recieved 'Outstanding' status most recently... And of course Kent is known for it's beautiful Countryside, Oast Houses, Kentish Beers, etc... I hope that helps!? I was born in Maidstone and have lived here for sometime also, so I have a good grasp on the landscape of things here. Any further questions, do let me know! ... Brad
Definitely good
Many thanks for this. I video as I walk as well to showcase what places are like (ie Farnham, Reading, Guildford).
19 dogs in 5 mins
Beautiful 😍
Isn't it just lovely :)
Total sh*thole, glad I moved away
Really? where did you move to?
@@mypuretours4450 Somewhere really nice
Not a mask to be seen anywhere................and now look at the mess you are all in.
Used to walk across the bridge on my way to school. Wow it was such a long time ago!
Really!? When was that and which School did you attend? I attended Cornwallis in the late 90's early OO'
Love Maidstone, hope to return again this summer,..great video.....Ireland.
Hello my name is Lin Htet Paing
2:46 NO PHOEBE NO
Haha
I don't get it?
lLEFT IN 1963 TO EMIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA CHANGED SO MUCH
Wow! I bet that amazing for you to see the change; thanks for commenting
@@mypuretours4450 DEFINITELY CHANGED FOR THE BETTER( TOWN CENTRE) BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE . i'M LIVING ON THE GOLDCOAST QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA YOU CAN FIND IT ON KZread.
Is there a direct coach that goes from Gloucester to here?
Possibly, take a look on Google. Otherwise you can certainly train into London and train out towards Maidstone
Hello. My name is Casey Brizendine. My 10th Great Grandfather came to America in the early 1600's. His name was Isaac Brissenden. He is said to hail from Brissenden Green in Kent, Maidstone, England. Do you have any videos of Brissenden Green?
That’s interesting; perhaps I’ll do a vid on this…
There's no Brissenden green in Maidstone, there is Bearsted green ?
Hey guys I live in Maidstone it’s not very nice lots of chavs bruv
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Thats an awful lot of Chinese granite! - the High Street and Week Street are all finished with stone from China, I was living up London Road in about 2011 I think when the big revamp of High Street was going on.
Yes I remember that era, and yes agree that is a lot of stone
Maidstone is the home city of the famous boy named Daniel Lord his channel is called HidingInMyRoom. He must be the most well known person out of Maidstone.
Interesting thanks for the info
kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZto1JOBj72pkbA.html
Gonna revisit this when I move out and gonna cry lmao
Where are you moving to?
Denki! :D
Gang gang
Maidstone has improved massively in the last 5 years
It really has; and Fremlin Walk is probably the main improvement over the last decade or so; it dramatically changed the shopping experience, even though some comment that it made Maidstone quite generic, I think it was much needed in order to keep the town's economy in good shape.
@@mypuretours4450 I bought a flat on boxley road 5 years and alot of people said maidstone is shit then. Now nobody really says that anymore. Even dive bars like bar chocolate have been improving. There's been a lot of new building investment, I suspect even Chatham will probably become gentrified within the next 10yrs due to its proximity to London. Also the high speed rail link to London has been slept on. It's only now that the council have finally decided to upgrade maidstone east station. There's more to come, and you can be sure that house prices will increase.
@@nelsonalexis3054 Agree
@@nelsonalexis3054 There’s been a huge amount of house developments over the last 10 years too; like thousands of new cul-de-sac homes along one of the main stretches into Maidstone
It was a bit rough in the nineties with a lot of trouble at night with all the clubs drawing people in. But modern Maidstone is blighted by its nearness to London, too many people with related excess housebuilding.
Maidstone is unrecognisable from when I lived there just the Hazlitt Theatre, M and S and Mcdonalds are the same .
Haha yeah Maidstone has changed a lot but the Hazlitt and McDonolds will never die!
Looks like a nice place to visit in the summer, I noticed that people are walking really fast even older people, we walk fast in London but if I tried to keep up with Maidstone speed I'd be knackered 😂
Haha really, yeah I guess so
Haha yeah! Maidstonians are pretty damn quick, had to develop from a young age as a maidstonian myself
@@mttynan4690 I'll have to practice some speed walking before I go there because I don't want to look out of place 😂
@@garygyles1319 haha good luck!
@@mttynan4690 Thanks 👍
Excellent! We will watch this again in 20 years and admire the way the town was.......
Ha yes I think that's probably right :)
Love how i'm in this by the beggining with an ex boyfriend of mine. lol
Lol
I live here Don’t live here It’s not nice
I live near Maidstone myself; why do you say that though, I'm interested to know?
@@mypuretours4450 It’s chavy. And rough. Just generally not nice also has a kinda high crime rate
@@stormyskies6073 Didn’t know it has a high crime rate? I’d say it’s better than Chatham area but not so nice as T Wells and Canterbury although they also have some interesting people. Maidstone is the County Town so there’s bound to be some interesting activity
went there saw slags and chavs and i got shanked in a alleyway now i am in gta 6
In Maidstone?
This is the county town (i.e. the capital) or the Garden of England. So in one way Maidstone is London's twin.
Kind of, it's the County town of Kent. There are actually nicer Kent towns in my opinion, such as Canterbury, T Wells, Hythe etc
I went to Folkestone yesterday and like… Folkestone is much better then Maidstone lol
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Thank you, sadly it looks very cookie cutter
It's not so much when you see the whole town but I see what you mean from this vid
Yes it's becoming more generic along the main high street and in the Mall, as to be expected I suppose. That said, there are a nice amount of independant stores throughout too. I think Canterbury is probably better for that though; perhaps I'll do a Canterbury walk through sometime!
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Pleased you like thank you for your comment! :)
Passed 1.5 year of my life @ Maidstone, used to go to the town centre every weekend. I was single then on a foreign soil without any family members with me, which was for the 1st time in my life, even then I cherish the memory.
Nice memory, thanks for sharing!
I have the same experience but with another (much smaller) town - Huntingdon. The first place in UK that I called my home.
Lived there 68,,nice town,big changes....Ireland
Nice ... I bet it's changed since then!?
@@Itsmypureworld It definitely has....but still very nice.....memories.
That's nice, its good to know Maidstone has made an impact :)
Not the total devastion I was expecting with empty shops all over the place!
This was just before pandemic :)
Kent is rough these days but it wasn't always so. Wow a long time since I went to Maidstone as Pizza Hut relocated further down and Costa is where they were and now it's shut altogether post COVID. Maidstone used to be the best place to shop in Kent when I was at school. Now , no ta, Bluewater and cut it out though i do still like TW and Canterbury.
Yeah I know what you mean, unfortunately the south part of Kent is being squeezed which is the still the nice part of Kent in my opinion. That said, Maidstone isn't too bad, but Canterbury and TW are definitely a cut above right now.
Kent is the garden of England, it's not rough, but it does have it's fair share of issues like everywhere else of course. Maidstone is doing well to regenerate and keep business and employment rates consistent at least, but I would agree it's not on the same level as T-Wells/Canterbury, possibly Folkestone/Hythe even
Doesn't bluewater exist anymore?
yes, it was either Maidstone or Croydon for shopping in the South East.
Nice walk through Maidstone town centre. How did you film this phone or gopro?
Thank you :) I filmed it hand holding an iPhone 8 Plus :)
Yeah ywhat he said lol; that's my other account :) ... I filmed it by hand using an iPhone 8 Plus in wide video mode. I'm using the iPhone 11 now which has an even wider lens and looks great! You don't need fancy equipment to get started :)
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Is it? Agree it's hardly Knightsbridge but I've grown to like Maidstone the County town of Kent. It has some good things going for it :) ... How does it fair compared with your local town? I'm considering doing more of these videos so perhaps I could do one of your town sometime, that could be interesting :)
I miss maidstone soooo much😖
It's a nice town huh
I can understand that; what did you enjoy the most about Maidstone?
@@mypuretours4450 Well, Mote park is quite nice!
@@Pr35t0nYT Agree, Mote Park is always lovely to spend time at
Really !?
I’ve walked this too many times 😂
Me too lol
Same lol