A combination of online shopping, high business rates in town, retail parks just outside town centre, poor council decisions have contributed to the decline of the town ctr. Neighbouring towns and cities with better town centres and shopping areas gives people of this town better options! 20-30 years ago, this was such a vibrant town ctr. I remember we used to go there just for a day out.
The most interesting part of this video is that I’ve seen atleast 5 shops that have closed down since the 2 years of this being posted, not to mention queensgate (the indoor market you went in) has completely closed down too
Architecturally speaking, Huddersfield has its fair share of Grade II listed buildings that are very interesting on the whole. What does this bloke expect from a town centre.....green fields? I was born there and when walking round the town just look up at the Victorian buildings, they’re really quite beautiful. I agree that the centre has gone down hill a bit, but as one other commenter said, online and out of town shopping have had a major impact, plus lack of vision from the council. I will always be proud of Huddersfield and it’s heritage.
The buildings are nice. But it not like they make use of them or show them off. They are either empty or not maintained. The Station is a great building but not many people go to Huddersfield for the architecture. The centre is very deprived of unique shops and is just full of £1 shops, discount stores and savers. It could be a good placed but money needs to be spent better
@@honestplaces You can't force business' to rent spaces. Highstreet culture is dying. That is why they are empty. What do you expect them to do with spaces that arent being sought out by renters?
That is a huge part of it. I'm all for online shopping as it is the future but this is the affect it has. Still though there are so many business that could open up but with Covid and current war in the West it's just a spiral affect at the moment.
I lived in Huddersfield for 6 years; being a Manchester lad, I hated the place, there’s absolutely nothing to do…..nice people, awful place. City and town centres need to reinvent themselves. I know you can’t compare the two, but one of the reasons Manchester works so well is because there are about 85,000 people who actually live in the city centre, and as such it almost becomes self sustaining. Places like Huddersfield need to do the same, albeit one a smaller scale. Town centres need to be reinvented or they will die.
@@rufdymond Spot on. Small towns suffer next to big cities as people opt for a quick 40 min journey to a big city for more to do. So yes small towns need to have stuff to offer, not on a big scale but a quality scale.....if not, people will just up and go to a near by city.
Really like it in Huddersfield. Yes its gone dead. The people are friendly there I like the enviroment. I hope the shopping centre improves soon. I live in Bradford. I go to Huddersfield a lot for visits. Good video pal
If you want a positive experience, check out Bury, cracking town centre, very few boarded up shops. Always busy especially when the massive old style market is on.
I studied at the uni in huddersfield in the early half of the 90s and I recollect the town being vibrant and busy plus there were couple of nightclubs back then. From your review sadly its dead and nothing going on. 😥
Thanks for the tour of my home town, Danny. Moved away nearly 30 years ago: to little Barrow-in-Furness, no less ! I’d love to hear your review of Barrow !! (Spoiler alert - I don’t think you’d be massively impressed. 😂)
I rode through there once and was weirded out by what it was supposed to be. Those type of places that not many people know of or go to are the best ones to visit. I'll deffo be going there after i take a look around the lakes 🤣
I love Huddersfield in spite of it being run down and having too many low quality chains like Greggs. It has some brilliant places in the centre if you know where to find them. Loads of good pubs and a few really great cafes. If you just turn up without knowing where to go you could easily get a pretty bad impression, so i understand how you feel in this video. But i get tired of people kicking Huddersfield while it's down!
I’m not sure what kind of a review this is, if it is a review at all. I also don’t know what it is that you are looking for in a town, unless something cheeky or kicking of is the answer. I’d like to know what time you were actually in the town as a start pojnt because if it’s early morning as i suspect then it won’t be busy or kicking off. You also missed out the Imperial Arcade, the Byram Arcade, Westgate, half of John William Street and somehow didn’t really mention the amazing architecture around St Georges Square with the best station frontage in the UK!! Simply standing at the railway station and looking outwards would have shown off the square magnificently, there are also two pubs either side of the entrance you somehow missed. You did seem to like Wood Street though because it has some bars and foreign food stores, but you forgot to look upwards and see the wonderful black and white artwork in some former windows. Huddersfield is not a small town either, it’s huge in fact lol. When popping into the Turntable Coffee and Vinyl you also failed to mention that it sells vinyl records and merchandise and is also next to Market Walk, a delightful little arcade. I also recommend you come back in around two years to see the difference as Huddersfield is currently undergoing a regeneration project with much investment, for instance the Packhorse which you did walk through has recently been bought and shop units are being readied for new tenants, hence most being empty, upstairs in there will be a food court and childrens play area, it will also be open til 10 at night. The market is closing and being developed soon too so why not come back then instead.
I only filmed what i say. Huddersfield does have good building and alot of potential. There looks like there is no urgency. There are some unique shops and food places but that needs to be doubled! There is no need for 2 greegs, no need for 2 pound shops, the McDonalds is very rough, even inside it is very unclean. The position of the Town is perfect. It just needs money put in the right places and it can be miles better
If ever you fancy visiting Norwich??? I would happily show you around, and have a beer!!! Am a familiar face around the city!!! People would probably think we are brothers!!!😂😂😂 I look the same as you!!! Even down to, all my throat/neck/hands/body is tattooed as well!!! Love the vlogs!!! Keep em coming!! Respect mate!!!x
It does seem to be over shadowed by Leeds and Manchester that are only a 40 min train ride. Alot of small town next to big cities suffer abit when most people would rather go into a big City than their local town.
@@jack.1. No way. Huddersfield is and always has been a far nicer place to live. It's smaller but way nicer. I'm from Huddersfield and been living in Manchester for 15 years and it's hell. I'm moving back to Huddersfield when I can. People like Danny come to Manchester and are impressed but they don't understand the reality of living here. It's funny because I wanted to leave Hudds but now I just want to be on a train and back there and I will never be leaving again. Bigger doesn't mean better.
Huddersfield is one of those places where you would see crisp packet on the floor. After 30 years you would see the same crisp on the same location. you would see change in colour of the crisp packet. Huddersfield is a laid back and has image of people sat on the sofa eating watching TV with thier pyjamas or tracksuit bottoms. Also you would see the same faces week in week out. It is lovely town of you want to enjoy the pyjama retirement.
Utter bollox, crime rates through the roof, gangs, gun and knife violence, theft, joy riding, every drug you can Imagine, a certain group of people who are big on grooming, we all know who they are, we see them getting caught often enough, Mohammed this and Abdulah that, hardly call it retirement central do you?
I'm an Aussie and I just started watching your videos. The places you show look so different from here, but not entirely different. Your videos give the impression of the U.K. being in decline. Of course, I may be completely wrong about this.
@@honestplaces It is the same in some areas, but not so widespread. This is because, as a Nation, we haven't been around that long. But despite the 'decline you show, there are still very beautiful buildings and areas. People must have taken a lot of trouble and pride in their work in the past. There is still a strange beauty about these places.
its sad how much kirklees council bled the town of everything all the shops were full and it wasnt just covid that did it that was just the nail in the coffin hopefully next time you come back it will be better 👍
Tbh there is only shops but here are a couple other things to do if u we’re with like friends or kids just across from the bus station there is a leisure centre that has a water park, gym, playgym for the kids and swimming pools also down the road from the high streets there is a big jd gyms and round the corner there is a place called inflatanation which I guess is more for kids but could still be fun
Thanks for commenting on. Hopefully gives people more information from people who live there and can recommend places in the area. I did find it difficult to find anything in the centre to do so good that there are options if you do go out a little.
Thank you for videos👍 Do you think residents in Huddersfield are friendly? I lived in Newcastle and Leicester before, and I found some of them are unfriendly. Also is Huddersfield white city?
0:15 "Train station is bog-standard". 😂 That's exactly the kind of thing I expect from someone with roses tattooed on their neck!🤣 Thanks for only wasting 15 seconds of my life, pal... that's probably your greatest acheivement.
I love Huddersfield - if you know where to go for a good night - Old Hatte my fave and also loads of cool niche bars - them that live there know where to go loads of night life - independent bars - love the bars in the railway station too - Crown Pub worth a visit especially on match days - cheap ale and food - my son Chris was assistant manager there till very recent - massive old building loads of rooms could be done up as flats or a hotel - like it probably used to be and also a club next to living quarters it was like a rabbit warren - xx
I'm gonna tell it how it is... Huddersfield is effing shite. I worked down there between 2001 and 2005, and it was so bustling back then. Shops for all. It's so depressing these days. However, if you're a glutton for punishment and fancy coming back, one of the best coffee spots is Coffeevolution, situated behind The Cherry Tree 'spoons.
It's all the anti-social behaviour in the town centre that has ruined it. Unless that's tackled and people feel safe coming in again we're never going to have a thriving town centre.
How many words from the English language does this guy know? "Cheeky. See what's happening? Kicking off. Bog standard. Normal sort of Town. Shops shut." That's it! Does he know what an adjective or adverb is?
Back when i was a boy huddersfield was a booming town great shopping centre main street the market now low rent shops tacky vape shops or takeaway kirklees Council havent helped high rent they have discouraged drivers from parking in town no wonder its going to the dogs. 😮
@@honestplaces I’ll have a think. Lots of history. It’s a bit run down (which is what sparked my comment), but I feel it gets a worse rap than it deserves.
Huddersfield when u look into the people it’s amazing the little estates are amazing but the shops are awful due to covid all been shutting down he also didn’t come on a busy day there’s much more people and this was 9 months ago still the same however some buildings changed
@@honestplaces the hills, the mills, the locally quarried golden Yorkstone, the independent bars and coffee shops, the artists, poets, creatives and musicians, the diversity, Beaumont and Greenhead Parks, Emley Moor Mast, Castle Hill, the breweries and the pubs, the history and the people. That sort of thing.
@@andrewhaigh1742 The hills are good,there are some good bars but more ropey ones than good. The brewery used to be good but then it sold out to Little Creatures. I also dunno why it needs so many vape shops, i counted like 7 when i last went.
Not really sure what the point of these videos is. Starts at train station 'just standard station', walks down main shopping street 'it's just shops), walks in market that is closing down as part of multi million oound town redevelopment 'lots of shut up shops' etc. Walked back down the same road pointing out the same vape shop he showed five minutes earlier in the video. The desperation to find fault in absolutely everything gets a bit wearing. Wants an independent coffes shop, finds one in the Turntable Cafe, but pulls a face saying the coffee isn't strong enough ('just an 8 out of 10'). This guy is seriously miserable, I wouldn't want to spend any time in his company - you'd wan😢to shoot yourself after 5 minutes
I lived there one year in 1988 when I did my first year in college. Next year I moved to Newcastle . Huddersfield was such a boring place that I just wanted to leave. From our I see the place is still dead and boring.
Grotty town with Grotty people however there are some lovely surrounding little havens such as Holmfirth (Meltham/Netherton/Netherthong/Thurstonland etc) and other little villages such as Lepton, Kirkburton. Almondbury used to be lovely but there are many bad council estates there. Ps Count how many times you say "kickin off" hehe, keep making the videos :p x
You goto any area that is full of multicultural people like crosland moor, Lockwood, Deighton, it’s disgusting, that why places like holmfirth and meltham are a haven, but they are encroaching into these areas too, isn’t it strange how it’s these minority groups causing MOST of the problems
Well the railway station is the pride of the town architecturally speaking. It was never going to be a positive video based on your first impression. If you had turned sharp right as you mentioned Cherry Tree, there is a nice little (Byram) Arcade mainly focused on Arts & Crafts, Hidden Delights is an interesting little shop in there, gothic type themes, sells incense, crystals etc. I kind of felt for you knowing what was coming after that. Wetherspoons are usually big spots aren't they? There is a great one at nearby Brighouse although it is several years since I was over that way. Shops shops shops so right there and the places closed down were of the better end: BHS, M&S; Kayes - Primark replaced C&A. Boots the Chemist is probably Huddersfield's biggest shop (discounting supermarkets). The Sainsbury's at the top end of town used to be a cinema. You missed the pound shops and huge amount of fast food spots LOL. Strange how there are more betting shops with the more closures eh. Couple of big music shops have gone over the years - The Organ Loft was probably the most impressive shop in the town. Woods Music which changed hands with Dawsons but gone altogether at some point during covid. One of the Oxfam stores. All zapped. Weird because this decline has largely set in since they had a so called (wait for it) Renaissance, which, was iniitally very grande sounding but as a few others have pointed out could not stand the online competition and I believe was deliberately intended to deflect attention from that dawning reality. Not like politicians that is it ; ) I aren't much of a coffee person really but Merrie England is a good quality if slightly more old fashioned place (two of them in town centre I think). The library is a good one for anybody who likes them - I worked in a few so I know. One bit you got wrong though - Huddersfield is a massive town! I think only Sunderland was bigger when it was then granted city status. The centre just doesn't do the place justice. It is fairly clean I suppose. No major or medium sized music venue - football stadium has held the biggest concerts. Town Hall has hosted more classical events but is indeed impressive inside. The town's most famous landmark: Castle Hill (former Iron Age settlement) can be seen from a few points on the same edge of the centre as at the end of the main high street on a clear day. There used to be two buildings on it. An extremely old pub/inn and a Victorian era (Jubilee) tower. They knocked down the ancient pub and left the more modern tower which is closed to the public most of the year. Basically they killed it and it has now become more of a place locals used as a dog toilet. It has a few good parks and Tolkein lived there for a while. I think you need an imagination like that to get enthusiastic about it now.
Very informative read. I only filmed what i saw, i know there are loads of places around that are nice, which i go to myself. I will do a Huddersfield one and not just a town centre one to get in the surrounding areas.
@@honestplaces Thanks and I am sure you will find that a bit more challenging/interesting. You definitely got the general essence of the centre though. Modernisation has not done Huddersfield many favours. Now I sound like a real Luddite.
A pretty glib take on what is actually one of the largest towns in England. Perhaps if you spent more time researching a place and less time in the tattoo parlour you'd be better equipped to critique it. You missed the Byram Arcade, skirted past the Art Gallery and moaned about everywhere else. Huddersfield isn't Florence but it is nicer than a lot of other places in the north.
It is also full of rough people with tattoo's. Forgot to mention that. Those tattoos parlours need closing down, people getting tattoo's, they'l be vaping in street corners next
I live in Huddersfield.... Every town center is like this these days .
Yup......never too far from a pasty shop
I lived there for years - awful town.
I used to live there. Shithole.
A combination of online shopping, high business rates in town, retail parks just outside town centre, poor council decisions have contributed to the decline of the town ctr. Neighbouring towns and cities with better town centres and shopping areas gives people of this town better options! 20-30 years ago, this was such a vibrant town ctr. I remember we used to go there just for a day out.
Alot of people say the same, people used to travel afar to Dewsbury. Shame
@@honestplaces "afar to Dewsbury" it's less than an hour on the bus.
@@RustyVaperGameplay i meant people used to travel from far to dewdbury.....like manchester, york, lakes for it's market. I didn't mean huddersfield 🤣
The most interesting part of this video is that I’ve seen atleast 5 shops that have closed down since the 2 years of this being posted, not to mention queensgate (the indoor market you went in) has completely closed down too
Have many more vape shops opened in their place?
Architecturally speaking, Huddersfield has its fair share of Grade II listed buildings that are very interesting on the whole. What does this bloke expect from a town centre.....green fields? I was born there and when walking round the town just look up at the Victorian buildings, they’re really quite beautiful. I agree that the centre has gone down hill a bit, but as one other commenter said, online and out of town shopping have had a major impact, plus lack of vision from the council. I will always be proud of Huddersfield and it’s heritage.
The buildings are nice. But it not like they make use of them or show them off. They are either empty or not maintained. The Station is a great building but not many people go to Huddersfield for the architecture. The centre is very deprived of unique shops and is just full of £1 shops, discount stores and savers.
It could be a good placed but money needs to be spent better
@@honestplaces You can't force business' to rent spaces. Highstreet culture is dying. That is why they are empty. What do you expect them to do with spaces that arent being sought out by renters?
Huddersfield will always be in my heart….greetings from Italy ( Sardinia island )
Would rather live in Italy!
are you the Luigis longwood pizza place lol?
@@chloeschofield6728 no,I’m not
…but ,it’s no laughing matter !!
With all the internet shopping today it is hardly surprising that town centres are declining as shown in your video.
That is a huge part of it. I'm all for online shopping as it is the future but this is the affect it has. Still though there are so many business that could open up but with Covid and current war in the West it's just a spiral affect at the moment.
I lived in Huddersfield for 6 years; being a Manchester lad, I hated the place, there’s absolutely nothing to do…..nice people, awful place. City and town centres need to reinvent themselves. I know you can’t compare the two, but one of the reasons Manchester works so well is because there are about 85,000 people who actually live in the city centre, and as such it almost becomes self sustaining. Places like Huddersfield need to do the same, albeit one a smaller scale. Town centres need to be reinvented or they will die.
@@rufdymond Spot on. Small towns suffer next to big cities as people opt for a quick 40 min journey to a big city for more to do. So yes small towns need to have stuff to offer, not on a big scale but a quality scale.....if not, people will just up and go to a near by city.
I think it has something also to do with high business rates. Most people would love a vibrant town centre to visit and shop in.
Enjoyed your video,, I grew up in Huddersfield,, in 1950s 60s, back then Huddersfield had lots of good shops
It still has alot of shops, but 50% off them are good. Still good for a pub crawl, but not so much a full night out
@@honestplaces How can you even say this. You went in the day time...
@@RustyVaperGameplay been for beers before there
Really like it in Huddersfield. Yes its gone dead. The people are friendly there I like the enviroment. I hope the shopping centre improves soon. I live in Bradford. I go to Huddersfield a lot for visits. Good video pal
If you want a positive experience, check out Bury, cracking town centre, very few boarded up shops. Always busy especially when the massive old style market is on.
Never heard someone mention Bury, not too far aslo so makes it easy to pop down
@@honestplaces Avoid Bolton, it’s worse than Huddersfield
I studied at the uni in huddersfield in the early half of the 90s and I recollect the town being vibrant and busy plus there were couple of nightclubs back then. From your review sadly its dead and nothing going on. 😥
There is a new walkway now. But still got the pasty shops and tramps on it 🤣
Thanks for the tour of my home town, Danny. Moved away nearly 30 years ago: to little Barrow-in-Furness, no less ! I’d love to hear your review of Barrow !! (Spoiler alert - I don’t think you’d be massively impressed. 😂)
I rode through there once and was weirded out by what it was supposed to be. Those type of places that not many people know of or go to are the best ones to visit. I'll deffo be going there after i take a look around the lakes 🤣
Ah Barrow the town where all the county lines drugs are biggg money
The architecture is splendid.
Just like Rome!
I love Huddersfield in spite of it being run down and having too many low quality chains like Greggs. It has some brilliant places in the centre if you know where to find them. Loads of good pubs and a few really great cafes. If you just turn up without knowing where to go you could easily get a pretty bad impression, so i understand how you feel in this video. But i get tired of people kicking Huddersfield while it's down!
I’m not sure what kind of a review this is, if it is a review at all. I also don’t know what it is that you are looking for in a town, unless something cheeky or kicking of is the answer. I’d like to know what time you were actually in the town as a start pojnt because if it’s early morning as i suspect then it won’t be busy or kicking off. You also missed out the Imperial Arcade, the Byram Arcade, Westgate, half of John William Street and somehow didn’t really mention the amazing architecture around St Georges Square with the best station frontage in the UK!! Simply standing at the railway station and looking outwards would have shown off the square magnificently, there are also two pubs either side of the entrance you somehow missed. You did seem to like Wood Street though because it has some bars and foreign food stores, but you forgot to look upwards and see the wonderful black and white artwork in some former windows. Huddersfield is not a small town either, it’s huge in fact lol. When popping into the Turntable Coffee and Vinyl you also failed to mention that it sells vinyl records and merchandise and is also next to Market Walk, a delightful little arcade. I also recommend you come back in around two years to see the difference as Huddersfield is currently undergoing a regeneration project with much investment, for instance the Packhorse which you did walk through has recently been bought and shop units are being readied for new tenants, hence most being empty, upstairs in there will be a food court and childrens play area, it will also be open til 10 at night. The market is closing and being developed soon too so why not come back then instead.
I only filmed what i say. Huddersfield does have good building and alot of potential. There looks like there is no urgency. There are some unique shops and food places but that needs to be doubled! There is no need for 2 greegs, no need for 2 pound shops, the McDonalds is very rough, even inside it is very unclean.
The position of the Town is perfect. It just needs money put in the right places and it can be miles better
If ever you fancy visiting Norwich??? I would happily show you around, and have a beer!!! Am a familiar face around the city!!! People would probably think we are brothers!!!😂😂😂 I look the same as you!!! Even down to, all my throat/neck/hands/body is tattooed as well!!! Love the vlogs!!! Keep em coming!! Respect mate!!!x
Merrie England do a nice coffee. Hudds is what it is. Most people don't want it to change.
It does seem to be over shadowed by Leeds and Manchester that are only a 40 min train ride. Alot of small town next to big cities suffer abit when most people would rather go into a big City than their local town.
@@honestplaces as it should, they are much nicer places
@@jack.1. No way. Huddersfield is and always has been a far nicer place to live. It's smaller but way nicer. I'm from Huddersfield and been living in Manchester for 15 years and it's hell. I'm moving back to Huddersfield when I can. People like Danny come to Manchester and are impressed but they don't understand the reality of living here. It's funny because I wanted to leave Hudds but now I just want to be on a train and back there and I will never be leaving again. Bigger doesn't mean better.
Huddersfield is one of those places where you would see crisp packet on the floor. After 30 years you would see the same crisp on the same location. you would see change in colour of the crisp packet. Huddersfield is a laid back and has image of people sat on the sofa eating watching TV with thier pyjamas or tracksuit bottoms. Also you would see the same faces week in week out. It is lovely town of you want to enjoy the pyjama retirement.
ahaha laughed abit at that. Take it you used to or do live there?
@@honestplaces fortunately yes - Huddersfield has enough on the plate to go by in life.
@@honestplaces yes i live in Huddersfield
@@AbidAli-qm1du are there are jobs in Huddersfield
Utter bollox, crime rates through the roof, gangs, gun and knife violence, theft, joy riding, every drug you can Imagine, a certain group of people who are big on grooming, we all know who they are, we see them getting caught often enough, Mohammed this and Abdulah that, hardly call it retirement central do you?
I'm an Aussie and I just started watching your videos. The places you show look so different from here, but not entirely different.
Your videos give the impression of the U.K. being in decline. Of course, I may be completely wrong about this.
I only show the deprived area's, which up north there is quite afew that are just stuck in time. Guessing it's the same as over there
@@honestplaces It is the same in some areas, but not so widespread. This is because, as a Nation, we haven't been around that long.
But despite the 'decline you show, there are still very beautiful buildings and areas. People must have taken a lot of trouble and pride in their work in the past. There is still a strange beauty about these places.
its sad how much kirklees council bled the town of everything all the shops were full and it wasnt just covid that did it that was just the nail in the coffin hopefully next time you come back it will be better 👍
To drink it actually isn't the worst! They need to sack off both Spoons though, they are just vile!
I lived in huddersfield about 30 years ago. The city was teeming with locals young and students like me. What a pity ,,,
UK town are a thing of the past it seems. If you aren't in a big City it seems they leave the town to rot!
You should review when open market is on, on a Saturday its more alive then.
Tbh there is only shops but here are a couple other things to do if u we’re with like friends or kids just across from the bus station there is a leisure centre that has a water park, gym, playgym for the kids and swimming pools also down the road from the high streets there is a big jd gyms and round the corner there is a place called inflatanation which I guess is more for kids but could still be fun
Thanks for commenting on. Hopefully gives people more information from people who live there and can recommend places in the area. I did find it difficult to find anything in the centre to do so good that there are options if you do go out a little.
Thank you for videos👍 Do you think residents in Huddersfield are friendly? I lived in Newcastle and Leicester before, and I found some of them are unfriendly. Also is Huddersfield white city?
0:15 "Train station is bog-standard". 😂
That's exactly the kind of thing I expect from someone with roses tattooed on their neck!🤣
Thanks for only wasting 15 seconds of my life, pal... that's probably your greatest acheivement.
Nah your comment pushed my video up the rankings so thanks for making this video shown more on UA-cam Sunny Jim
I love Huddersfield - if you know where to go for a good night - Old Hatte my fave and also loads of cool niche bars - them that live there know where to go loads of night life - independent bars - love the bars in the railway station too - Crown Pub worth a visit especially on match days - cheap ale and food - my son Chris was assistant manager there till very recent - massive old building loads of rooms could be done up as flats or a hotel - like it probably used to be and also a club next to living quarters it was like a rabbit warren - xx
Again, ENJOYED
Good video thanks 🎉🎉
He wasn't reving that bike, that's how bike sound. Motorcycles probably don't fit your hipster image
I do ride bikes 🤣
Since this has been filmed, the Piazza Shopping Centre is now completely empty and preparing for demolition
I'm gonna tell it how it is... Huddersfield is effing shite. I worked down there between 2001 and 2005, and it was so bustling back then. Shops for all. It's so depressing these days.
However, if you're a glutton for punishment and fancy coming back, one of the best coffee spots is Coffeevolution, situated behind The Cherry Tree 'spoons.
I agree, alot of people arw in denial about it. Will pop into the coffee place if i ever pop back
It’s the surrounding areas that makes Huddersfield nice. The centre needs to be knocked down and rebuilt
Surrounding areas are ace yeh, but as you say centre is not so
It's all the anti-social behaviour in the town centre that has ruined it. Unless that's tackled and people feel safe coming in again we're never going to have a thriving town centre.
Hello Nice Video's. Keep it up.
Got any places you suggest to visit next?
@@honestplaces Wales or Scotland or Cornwall. If you like it then too.
@@manjittkaur6255 yeh Wales is ace. Scotland in the Winter is sick
How many words from the English language does this guy know? "Cheeky. See what's happening? Kicking off. Bog standard. Normal sort of Town. Shops shut." That's it! Does he know what an adjective or adverb is?
He must have left school at young age, got a bog standard job and gets off on the closure of shops
A little bit thick 😃 and obsessed about pubs .
@@yusufpatel5356 I was thinking the same, absolute tool!
He loves a cheeky brewdog some elvis juice let's see what's kicking off
What happened to the enquiry of the lad from there shot dead by police ?
Back when i was a boy huddersfield was a booming town great shopping centre main street the market now low rent shops tacky vape shops or takeaway kirklees Council havent helped high rent they have discouraged drivers from parking in town no wonder its going to the dogs. 😮
Looks a sad place thank you for the video
Council seem to be blame for that. The people don't seem too bad there though
I think cheeky is his favourite word.
You should do Stoke-on-Trent. My home town
Got a long list. Never thought of Stoke. Any hidden gems there?
@@honestplaces I’ll have a think. Lots of history. It’s a bit run down (which is what sparked my comment), but I feel it gets a worse rap than it deserves.
Huddersfield when u look into the people it’s amazing the little estates are amazing but the shops are awful due to covid all been shutting down he also didn’t come on a busy day there’s much more people and this was 9 months ago still the same however some buildings changed
Market is not too bad. It's juat the actual town that is abit ropey. Most of the outskirt villages are ace!
Huddersfield is mint.
What do you like about it pal?
@@honestplaces the hills, the mills, the locally quarried golden Yorkstone, the independent bars and coffee shops, the artists, poets, creatives and musicians, the diversity, Beaumont and Greenhead Parks, Emley Moor Mast, Castle Hill, the breweries and the pubs, the history and the people. That sort of thing.
@@andrewhaigh1742 The hills are good,there are some good bars but more ropey ones than good. The brewery used to be good but then it sold out to Little Creatures. I also dunno why it needs so many vape shops, i counted like 7 when i last went.
@@andrewhaigh1742 Agreed Town Centre not up to much, but the surrounding area is as nice as anywhere and fell lucky to live in the Holme Valley
Not everything needs the prefix of "cheeky".
Was my 1st ever video......nipped that word in the bud after that 🤣
Should go on a Saturday when the football is on always people around the town on matchday quite busy normally
Shame they didn't get in the Prem, would of been buzzing more
Not really sure what the point of these videos is. Starts at train station 'just standard station', walks down main shopping street 'it's just shops), walks in market that is closing down as part of multi million oound town redevelopment 'lots of shut up shops' etc. Walked back down the same road pointing out the same vape shop he showed five minutes earlier in the video. The desperation to find fault in absolutely everything gets a bit wearing. Wants an independent coffes shop, finds one in the Turntable Cafe, but pulls a face saying the coffee isn't strong enough ('just an 8 out of 10'). This guy is seriously miserable, I wouldn't want to spend any time in his company - you'd wan😢to shoot yourself after 5 minutes
I agree
I lived there one year in 1988 when I did my first year in college. Next year I moved to Newcastle . Huddersfield was such a boring place that I just wanted to leave. From our I see the place is still dead and boring.
It seems Huddersfield is stuck in a time-loop
i love hudders
noo it's a horrible place to visit kirklees council don't do anything to make it a nice place
Kirklees Council have shit on the town
They seems to only care about Leeds!
the council went insane in 2003
What happened in 03?
We moved away of Huddersfield because it got rough
Grotty town with Grotty people however there are some lovely surrounding little havens such as Holmfirth (Meltham/Netherton/Netherthong/Thurstonland etc) and other little villages such as Lepton, Kirkburton. Almondbury used to be lovely but there are many bad council estates there. Ps Count how many times you say "kickin off" hehe, keep making the videos :p x
I have a nasty habit of saying "what's kicking off" Yeh agree, lots of nice surrounding areas with scenery also!
And the word standard, your like a parrot
You goto any area that is full of multicultural people like crosland moor, Lockwood, Deighton, it’s disgusting, that why places like holmfirth and meltham are a haven, but they are encroaching into these areas too, isn’t it strange how it’s these minority groups causing MOST of the problems
The real architects of this degradation are you: young people, satisfied with online purchases.😢
True.....online is so easy, and we all do it and expect high streets to survive.
Same as any other northern Town pound shops and betting shops and other shops it's what you get in a town centre what do you want a Vegas strip ..🤣
Vegas strip and weather would be nice yeh! 🤣
@@honestplaces cmon you cant have both 🤣
@@phantasma05 Just the weather then init.....the rest would fall into place if it was 30° every day!
Rip Hudd
Try visit Halifax
Worth a visit?
I'm finding it difficult to understand you pls?
Go visit South Shields high street
I live in Huddersfield there is called town
I used to think I was the only one who felt depressed walking through that town I can't last more than 30 minutes I'm being serious
Yeh same, i only go in for odd shopping stuff then straight out
this is hilarious
From Huddersfield yourself?
@@honestplaces at uni there
@@finnagaric5740 Probs only good thing about it....and Brewdog
@@honestplaces u silly man wzts so good about wer u live a town centre isnt the b all and end all mate sort ur head out
thats were I live😂😂
How do you find it living there?
Feel sorry for you
Fek all wrong with hudds, fek all right with it either but it's our Town. If you don't like it then why come.....you slate everywhere you go.
not as good as it was years back
Was there yesterday.....deffo right
Why the negatively
Coz Huddersfield is quite bad and I’d be embarrassed if I came from there
Cheers 🤣
Cheeky
I cut down on the cheeky's after this video. I was ashamed at how many times i said it!
Well the railway station is the pride of the town architecturally speaking. It was never going to be a positive video based on your first impression. If you had turned sharp right as you mentioned Cherry Tree, there is a nice little (Byram) Arcade mainly focused on Arts & Crafts, Hidden Delights is an interesting little shop in there, gothic type themes, sells incense, crystals etc. I kind of felt for you knowing what was coming after that. Wetherspoons are usually big spots aren't they? There is a great one at nearby Brighouse although it is several years since I was over that way.
Shops shops shops so right there and the places closed down were of the better end: BHS, M&S; Kayes - Primark replaced C&A. Boots the Chemist is probably Huddersfield's biggest shop (discounting supermarkets). The Sainsbury's at the top end of town used to be a cinema. You missed the pound shops and huge amount of fast food spots LOL. Strange how there are more betting shops with the more closures eh. Couple of big music shops have gone over the years - The Organ Loft was probably the most impressive shop in the town. Woods Music which changed hands with Dawsons but gone altogether at some point during covid. One of the Oxfam stores. All zapped. Weird because this decline has largely set in since they had a so called (wait for it) Renaissance, which, was iniitally very grande sounding but as a few others have pointed out could not stand the online competition and I believe was deliberately intended to deflect attention from that dawning reality. Not like politicians that is it ; )
I aren't much of a coffee person really but Merrie England is a good quality if slightly more old fashioned place (two of them in town centre I think). The library is a good one for anybody who likes them - I worked in a few so I know.
One bit you got wrong though - Huddersfield is a massive town! I think only Sunderland was bigger when it was then granted city status. The centre just doesn't do the place justice. It is fairly clean I suppose. No major or medium sized music venue - football stadium has held the biggest concerts. Town Hall has hosted more classical events but is indeed impressive inside.
The town's most famous landmark: Castle Hill (former Iron Age settlement) can be seen from a few points on the same edge of the centre as at the end of the main high street on a clear day. There used to be two buildings on it. An extremely old pub/inn and a Victorian era (Jubilee) tower. They knocked down the ancient pub and left the more modern tower which is closed to the public most of the year. Basically they killed it and it has now become more of a place locals used as a dog toilet.
It has a few good parks and Tolkein lived there for a while. I think you need an imagination like that to get enthusiastic about it now.
Very informative read. I only filmed what i saw, i know there are loads of places around that are nice, which i go to myself.
I will do a Huddersfield one and not just a town centre one to get in the surrounding areas.
@@honestplaces Thanks and I am sure you will find that a bit more challenging/interesting. You definitely got the general essence of the centre though. Modernisation has not done Huddersfield many favours. Now I sound like a real Luddite.
He's probably from Dewsbury
@@johnmcnulty1679 Slaithwaite
Get out my ends then
Got out as fast as i could
@@honestplaces ur lucky u got out lmfao
@@gezxygez449 ahahahah
@@honestplaces which town or city are u from
It is what it is? 😂
Huddersfield is a pyjama town.
I don't know what that means 🤣
Bradford, and Dewsbury.
Some people actually go to the shops in there PJs, dressing gown and slippers.
@@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 cigarette still lit? 🤣
First place I ever saw that was Skelmersdale, about 97. They must of got that idea from Liverpool, as it's full of Scousers.
Looks really awful
Not the best yeh
Trust me it’s definitely awful
The buildings are nice but they were built using the stolen goods from the empire. Once the stealing stopped the place went into decline
Thank God for leeds
....and Manchester
At least they're lucky enough to live between the two cities
The irony is that Huddersfield would probably be a much better place if it wasn't so close to Manchester and Leeds.
A pretty glib take on what is actually one of the largest towns in England. Perhaps if you spent more time researching a place and less time in the tattoo parlour you'd be better equipped to critique it. You missed the Byram Arcade, skirted past the Art Gallery and moaned about everywhere else. Huddersfield isn't Florence but it is nicer than a lot of other places in the north.
It is also full of rough people with tattoo's. Forgot to mention that. Those tattoos parlours need closing down, people getting tattoo's, they'l be vaping in street corners next