My Dad's family had a fight in the street with the Contehs long before John got a name for himself. His older brother was supposed to be tougher. But, my Dad's family had a great boxer in them back in the day, and sure enough sent the Contehs off with their tails between their legs. Not the classiest thing to do, I know. But, it's a bit of history my Dad used to tell us when he was alive, and we were kids.
John was a hell of a fighter back in the day. Think he was before my time or I was a kid but watched a few of his fights he was relentless tough as nails
Hi Billy, yes Bootle is very very sad to see the deprivation of all the shops and most of the area, also sad to see the Merton pub close down had some great times there, and yes it could possibly be a mosque😮 30 pubs today are closing down so it’s going to be a more and more familiar site around the country sadly!! You show it as it is and tell it as it is you do a great job Billy! I will definitely buy you a bevy if I hopefully see you in a pub🍺
Hi Billy I was born in Olivia St in Bootle in 1947 and it was a great vibrant area in my childhood, its a crying shame to see it now. How lucky was I to see it in its heyday. All the best mate, watch all your videos Cheers Jim
That area has always been run down.. The migrants back then were the Irish.... The people who lived there didn't make it any better either. I grew up in my early years in the Billiogs
For as far back as I remember we've always had rough run down areas it's nothing new, I remember thatchers 80s and what alot of areas looked like, dog rough.. Its just we now have social media, UA-cam ect where this kind of videos highlight it and makes us more aware.
The amount of taxes people pay in this country and the state of it is disgraceful. It's not just Liverpool it's all over apart from the elite areas that the rich live in. If the areas are run down then people's attitude drops and the country becomes crap. Shame on every MP that just turns their back and looks the other way. I wish all the MPs from every party went and spoke to the people like this man does.
Because it's all being spent on illegal immigrants, the list of things given to them. Is disgusting...... Next being free bus passes while our pensioners get heating money taken.
It really, really is so sad to see. And it's such a shame too - back in their day these buildings were beautiful. If the areas were maintained properly and kept up to date, they'd still look great. The lack of money in the area is down to the deindustrialisation that has hit so many areas in the country. Then you've got government austerity policies. We used to be very hands on people, fantastic at making things. Cheaper markets win though. So sad.
@michaelkelly3158 The dismantling and destruction of Merseyside was intentional! Thatchers bastards boast incessantly about it! Makes me wonder about 89! I mean, how hard was it to close a tunnel!?
They've been getting rid of homeless people to Birmingham. Now Birmingham has big homeless problem in local areas which wasn't a thing before HMO housing
Thanks Billy, was born at home in Bootle, Rufford rd and went to Hugh Baird 89/91 and the Quad. Lived back there a couple of times in my life. So sad to see all our country being shit on the way it has and is. Some really lovely salt of the earth people in Bootle Billy. Loving your vids, thank you
What you said about recovery is so true. Took that journey too. Got through it after many ,many failed attempts and after few years completely turned my life around and now can hardly count all my blessings. You are doing great work.🎉
i have been thro recovery my self i was a cocaine addicted for many years i have been clean for 2yrs 9 months and now i have turned my life round i was going there for drug support b4it moved to bridle road now i find my self back to that building on canal street to probaiton service for minding drugs for a drug dealer i owed money too. turned out to be a grass nicked 4 times over the 4 pulls he had 32 1/2s and never got jailed only personal use he was supposed to be a friend not anymore HE IS A GRASS THAT IS WHY HE IS NOT IN JAILED HE USED AND ABUISED MY AS I AM A VUNRABLE ADULT HE DID NOT CARE I WAS JUST HIS PIGGY BANK NO THANK GOD. I BUT MY HAND IN MY POCKET AND FEEL MONEY NOT MY LEG OR GO IN MY WALLET. in that time time my mam and stepdad have both past away and that in someways as made me a stronger person to come through the other side of being a addicted losing loved ones and not fall of the wagon i have done great where alot of ppl would not have had the will power i dome how did and will remain that way in time the drug dealing grass will end up getting locked up for dead either way righty so do i care not on your nelly
This guy is made for you Utube. And even tho he's a full on Scouser you can still here evry word. I was buzzing when I seen you with Veitch the other day in manny. Brilliant content. 👏
@@andrewphillips3791 Homelessness isn't an issue because of the lack of homes. Homelessness is due to mental health issues and drug/alcohol dependency. Both are often combined.
@@VinoVeritas_it is down to lack of homes, people have been on housing list for decades, if you haven’t got over a grand for deposit, or £600 at the cheapest a month for private rent, they have no home, I live in seaforth, iv looked at property for4 years up here, every property has damp or mould, or are over a grand a month, it’s ridiculous
@@jesusislord8895 You see, it's not about a lack of homes. You've even said so in your comment. The homes exist, but the barriers to obtaining a tenancy are too great.
I went to the car boot sale first time in years, I couldn’t believe my eyes it was 70% full of African Syrian people, a scouse voice was in the minority, how times have changed in Bootle.
@@GazcoybUTFT Going from where he was and what he was carrying, he was a pisshead. That part of Bootle does have a problem with alcies getting smashed there.
I had many a pint in there and then got the 60 bus just over the road outside the Magies to take me to sweet home Wavertree. Which has also been totally destroyed.
The Merton has closed a couple of times but it's final now. The rumour about it being a mosque was exactly that as was the rumour that The Mons would be a McDonalds.
Hi Billy, it's a shame how these areas are being left to rot and decay!. I lived in Bootle in late 99/00 up until early 2001. It was rundown even then but nowhere near as bad as today. So many areas up and down the country have just been left to rot!. It really saddens me. There's some really lovely people in Bootle who really deserve better than this from their council. Anyway Billy, thanks again for your vid. John. 😢👍
The Council should be able to double the rates after 3 years empty - then double again in 4th year and again in 5th year, etc. This will force property back into the redevelopment market.
If you've lived in Bootle then you would know - as Billy said - that a chunk of the video was shot on industrial estates. You'd also be aware that there were, and still are, parts of Bootle (in fact 5 minutes away from scenes in the video) that are nice if not scenic.
I worked security all over the country and the roughest place I ever worked was on the Strand in Bootle at night! A week after I left that young lad James Bulger was taken from there and murdered. A very rough place Billy especially at night. The truth is that it is at night when people change and become bad news. I’ve worked nights on security and night reception at hotels and I’ve seen it all. It’s even worse when it’s a full moon!
I thought of James Bulger when you was outside then inside the Strand. Sad, sad memory this stoked. RIP little angel never forgotten. Doesn't look like it's change much.
The Wetherspoons killed the pubs in Bootle Village. They couldn't compete with the prices of their beer and unfortunately for them, people like cheap beer. Luckily the Yates (despite being next door), The Jollies and the Hyperbar managed to survive.
Love how you empathy for others, makes such a change to lot's of stuff like this that just treats homeless and people with addictions like trash. We're all only a few pay checks away from being on the street, people should remember that.
Bill ,had Dads funeral Wake in the Hawthorne Pub, just approaching the 10-year Anniversary now! 😮💨 The Family didn't stay long sadly, as the uninvited NON Family members, started to snarl after a few Drinks!! His last local was "The Peacock Pub" a few blocks away 🍺🍺🍺🍺 RIP Dad, Victor Charles Williams ...........................................
@@mrmensa1096 Thankyou , im sure he already has 👍👍👍👍
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You were right on the Macbeth St Estate at the start of the video. Pity you didn't walk through there. Its spotless and the people keep their homes beautiful. The end of the vid was Christmas St estate and the same applies. That part of Stanley Road has been left to rot abd their has no money invested in the area but there are some hard working very decent people who live there too. We are not all drunks and wasters.
Billy I have nothing but pure respect for you mate! You are literally showing the world the decay of Britain and you add humility and integrity and respect to all! Wish you all the very best from out here in Thailand I don’t think we will come back to the UK we shall move around Asia! And watch from afar I lived in Surrey before very close to London and if I did come back I wouldn’t be going anywhere near my home city today! My hometown is Uttoxeter and you can find UA-camrs footage of the decay of that and obviously Burslem as that’s the home of my footy club Port Vale!
“Don’t vote , class war ! “ the Graffiti just sums up everything about this video, what’s the point in voting ? I cry about what has happened to my City 😢 Failed by everyone
@@DMWBN3 - Firstly is it an actual vote ? - we go to polling stations NOT voting stations. Secondly, if no one or very few people voted, they could not form a government as it requires general consent.
when you were at the sweat box gym on brasenose road - if you'd turned back on to st johns road and turned left you'd have gotten to a bridge with stone steps leading up to millers bridge. if you took another left and walked maybe 100m you would be on the corner of baliol road and oriel road with bootle town hall right in front of you. on the corner is a building known as The Incwell which I believe was a post office or police station. Anyway this specific spot is famous for being the location of the world's first crime reconstruction film.
I taught in Bootle in the 90s and 00s Billy. It disappoints me that it looks even more desperate for investment now than then, but I'm pleased the community there looks likely to stick together. Bless 'em. I'm aware how challenging rehab work can be, lorra lorra respect for all you do ❤
Been out of Liverpool now for 28 yrs , every time you put a video of all the areas I knew it breaks my heart. 💔 My Family keep saying come back, no thanks 🥲
Great video! Bill, not sure if you are aware but there is a massive influx of homelessness around Old Hall St and the adjacent streets- tents being put in the carpark bordering Kenny. The divide bw the worlds of the business district and the other end of the spectrum is huge! 😢
Same all over the country if u can get to these buildings quick enough they could be repurposed as flats for the homeless etc but they get left and become so rundown it becomes cheaper to pull them down and build something new then it does to actually save them which is a crying shame because before to long all that will be left is pictures and videos of what they used to look like and in there place are the same style cheap to build blocks of flats that start falling apart 5 years after there finished if your lucky. Great job Billy on showing what the real Britain is like. I live in the East of England and we have 16 areas in the top 10% income wise and 32% in the bottom 10% some sitting side by side in the city and show's the huge disparity between the have's and the have nots although working there I always found the people with the least would offer the most to you and the affluent would barely speak to you.
We called that the TRI-AD Billy (the Pyramid) All our pubs getting closed deliberatly ,recking our English Culture. It's weird open + thriving one day...Next it's all boarded up (heard the same Billy about a Mosque)..Same with the MONS, walk past everyday open + thriving..next all boarded up, and same old story (Mosque)?? Remember Billy if you caught a cab to anywhere in Liverpool you give the Name of a PUB and the black cab drivers automatically knew.."The Scouse Knowledge",...Private hire would be f*cked nowadays. Can't get them on your GPS Mo. heh heh great vid Sir.
1. It's not going to be a mosque 2. Pubs like the monz etc are dying because mo one really uses them anymore. - homes are rammed with technology. Beer and spirits are cheap as fuck In Tesco. - I prefer to go out and do. But the majority don't. So pubs are closing.
pubs are closing, cos people don't go in them anymore, nothing to do with Muslims. I've heard the same crap about pubs becoming mosques for over 20 years, it's a load of shite that the right use to make people think that their beloved pub that they don't go in anymore cos its more expensive than wetherspoons is becoming a place of worship for people who despise alcohol. It's genuinely fucking embarrassing. Fuck Wetherspoons, go the Jawbone, Go the Albion, Go the lock and Quay. Support your local boozer and they won't go out of business, simple as that really. The overheads involved with running these gaffs is astronomical, especially if they're brewery tied, so even if they've got some people in them, doesn't mean they're not struglling.
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo Yeah, I'd heard that too. Grim reality of the world we live in now, everything is becoming a Greggs or Costa Coffee. or a mosque if you believe GB News.
That lad at 1:25 used to get on my bus every morning. Either the 62 or the 81 im not so sure now. And he would sing the whole way. Remember just only rolling out of bed and having to listen to that rubbish 😂
i remember the UK in the 80s, i left thirty years ago thank God, your videos are truly shocking to the Core, its like the Movie Idiocracy. Your a good Man bro and your Content is really Enlightening
@rustyobollox2489 and John was at the end of his career then,I think it would have been a different story if John had fought him at his peak I always remember that fight before the sky tv days it went out live
Was drivin down Stanley road last week and county and most if the shop on each road were closed down unless it was a take away both areas are finished county only gonna get worse when Everton leave to
The fella who has a grudge against ducks 🦆 no doubt has a form of psychosis. Still a horrible human being though to throw a glass bottle at innocent creatures. xx
That's mad how Souse John from Lithuania is virtually speaking proper scouse, the scouse accent is definitely infectuous, some of the people that I've hung around from the Midlands/Stoke/Nottingham would sometime get asked if they're scousers themselves, hahaha...
Ha ha haaaaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 😂😂😂😂 the 🦆 smerking at him 😂😂...Billy you were by mine the other night with that brawl and today where I used to live in kirkdale.... I'm in stitches about that fella throwing the bottle coz the duck 🦆 smerking at him.... Just filming "normal" days around these parts lol . Brilliant 😂😂 ❤❤🎉
Literally watch you every day on my tv lol what a nice genuine guy !! Got bare respect for you Billy well done on everything you have over come watched all your interviews and documentary 😊
If this was America your man that said the duck is smirking at me would be famous. Liverpool people come up with some cracking one liners. You should try meet up with john mikes brother and bring john and mike in for a podcast would be a great listen. Fair play for looking after him also. Keep going bill 🇮🇪
Thanks again for another great video. What you said at 12 minutes in is spot on, I tried to work with these ideas as a foundation but always struggled with the paper work. Met some real people who I still remember now. Keep it up.
hi bill,love ya vids.missed you in ormskirk last week.my dad lives near that statue gaft on county road would have been buzzing if i was there that day. MASSIVE respect for approaching that bloke for throwing a bottle at a defenceless animal.keep up the good work.
Not only Bootle Billy , everywhere , it’s run down because shops have closed over the years due to extortionate rent prices , that alongside the recession and little council funding hasn’t helped .
It used to be one of the nicest boroughs in the country! With a lovely town hall but with the docks gone there’s no blood pumping to its heart and all of the working class are easily forgotten! Such a shame
hi Billy great content you produce, what a story about the horrific time in the Bangkok jail seen the film it was very good and i enjoyed it as i have seen your podcasts and could relate to the film. keep up the good work pal you are a top bloke. I live in Thailand but the north with my wife but if you come over your always welcome to come and stay for a few days take care Billy from Andy and Arpornthip
Im an English man living in Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. Im originally from Chester. Not far from you motherland. Im home every year and took my Canadian gf to liverpool for the the first time. Loved it. Did the town centre, albert dock and hit Weatherspoons just up from the dock for a drink and some lunch. Great videos !!!!!
@@Greenielid I prefer it over here. I miss a lot of things in the uk you don't think you would and of course family. Honestly similar shit here like England but overall for me it a better life. I have no regrets. Ask me anything. I'll gladly help you.
@@Demag.FrederickGeorgeES thanks a lot mate, I may come back here in the future an ask one or two things after a bit of research. Thanks for your time !
Lived in bootle all my life. The bottom half next to the docks is just so heavily industrialised. The top half of bootle next to Walton and in to litherland really isn’t so bad at all lots of nice housing and clean
Yay! At last. Someone who knows what Bootle is actually like. Yes, West Bootle is heavily industrialised because of its proximity to a docks which is still a working docks not a tourist attraction. There are plenty of areas that are really nice with fancy housing. Footage of an industrial estate, a closed shop with rotting hoardings, a subway, a railway bridge, a shopping trolley in the cut (which does get cleaned up by the local canoe club rom time to time) and a closed down pub is not representative of the Bootle I know and live in.
23:20 What a shame! They just don’t build buildings with that sort of character anymore, this was when Britain was still a superpower, not a banana republic like now.☹️
@@cubecubesson6779 Very lucky, got a lot of great memories from those times. How has 30 odd years gone by so quickly? Hope you're doing well now anyway.
They’re just bricks, they’re not going anywhere. It’s just people expressing themselves, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s paint for Christ sake not ******* arsenic
Why do people buy the XL BULLY. So many are turning out to be a nightmare. The breed has a bloodline of fighting dogs. Shame thwt animals are used in such a way and used as a status symbol.
Great vid Bill. I lived there for 20+ years but had to get out of there. I think it needs investment asap more than most places in Liverpool. So sad to see. Either the Council haven't got the funding or the Government have just washed their hands and forgotten about the place. Left to ruin.
There's nothing ruinous about it. As a Bootleonion I'm sure you remember the parks, open green spaces and the nice housing. They are all still there and new housing has been built.
Sefton council which is yet another labour council within the Liverpool city region is utterly corrupt. Just like the labour council that is Liverpool. Bootle proper rough as fk nowadays with just loads of boat people landed there
Rumour has it that The Triad 18:23 was built the wrong way round. When the wind is strong, there is a wind-tunnel effect in front of it that makes it hard to walk past without getting blown over. The top of the building also sways in high winds. I was working on the top floor and the sway was that bad one day that I got "seasick" and after trying to soldier on, had to be sent home as there was no respite.
I live in Brighton, down in Sussex, and that has its fair share of squalor amongst the elegance. Bootle looks like it’s been ripped apart and abandoned, to me It would be a nightmare turned reality. I wish the people who live there the best, it’s a shame for them. Thank you for the post
Not really, not these days, has a bit of a reputation, which has with time mostly evaporated. It’s only over the hill from me, and as you may know, surrounded by beautiful countryside. All the best.
I fell down here from Cheshire 42 years ago, and although I’ve got the normal struggles and challenges, I feel like it’s been one great big long party. , I love the place.
Lived there late 90’s Never saw any really deprived areas. Not saying they don’t exist. But surely they are nothing like you get up in the north west ?
Nothing else round here better to do than have a bevvy (after work), go down Stanley Rd every day on the way to work in town, Mike Conteh is a character
The bloke in his dressing gown is Mike Conteh. His brother John was the WBC Light Heavyweight champion of the world.
My Dad's family had a fight in the street with the Contehs long before John got a name for himself. His older brother was supposed to be tougher. But, my Dad's family had a great boxer in them back in the day, and sure enough sent the Contehs off with their tails between their legs. Not the classiest thing to do, I know. But, it's a bit of history my Dad used to tell us when he was alive, and we were kids.
John was a hell of a fighter back in the day. Think he was before my time or I was a kid but watched a few of his fights he was relentless tough as nails
You can see the likeness he's his double 🏴👊🍻
Hi Billy, yes Bootle is very very sad to see the deprivation of all the shops and most of the area, also sad to see the Merton pub close down had some great times there, and yes it could possibly be a mosque😮 30 pubs today are closing down so it’s going to be a more and more familiar site around the country sadly!! You show it as it is and tell it as it is you do a great job Billy! I will definitely buy you a bevy if I hopefully see you in a pub🍺
@@davidregan8152 youve accidentally replied to a comment here mate copy and paste it into the actual comments or billy probably wont see
Taxes we pay in this country and all over great Britain is so run down. Shocking..live in Glasgow. Respect to everyone watching Billy's show 🎉
Buzzing that this channel is getting lots of new subscribers every time I check it’s like an extra thousand a day. Good work billy 👍
"there seems to be a war, of evil verses good" a fitting quote sums up our present predicament, excellent insight..
Hi Billy I was born in Olivia St in Bootle in 1947 and it was a great vibrant area in my childhood, its a crying shame to see it now. How lucky was I to see it in its heyday. All the best mate, watch all your videos Cheers Jim
I can't believe how bad the decay of Britain is.
😂😂😂😂 he was showing the posh part of bootle
Same and it's going to get a whole lot worse.
Believe it. The infestation is deep.
That area has always been run down.. The migrants back then were the Irish.... The people who lived there didn't make it any better either. I grew up in my early years in the Billiogs
For as far back as I remember we've always had rough run down areas it's nothing new, I remember thatchers 80s and what alot of areas looked like, dog rough.. Its just we now have social media, UA-cam ect where this kind of videos highlight it and makes us more aware.
The amount of taxes people pay in this country and the state of it is disgraceful. It's not just Liverpool it's all over apart from the elite areas that the rich live in. If the areas are run down then people's attitude drops and the country becomes crap. Shame on every MP that just turns their back and looks the other way. I wish all the MPs from every party went and spoke to the people like this man does.
Because it's all being spent on illegal immigrants, the list of things given to them. Is disgusting...... Next being free bus passes while our pensioners get heating money taken.
All part of the plan.
Magistrates are in the best condition! Imagine my lack of shock!
It really, really is so sad to see. And it's such a shame too - back in their day these buildings were beautiful. If the areas were maintained properly and kept up to date, they'd still look great. The lack of money in the area is down to the deindustrialisation that has hit so many areas in the country. Then you've got government austerity policies. We used to be very hands on people, fantastic at making things. Cheaper markets win though. So sad.
@michaelkelly3158 The dismantling and destruction of Merseyside was intentional! Thatchers bastards boast incessantly about it! Makes me wonder about 89! I mean, how hard was it to close a tunnel!?
Again Billy...if the tourists dont see it...the council dont care about it...another great vid...thanks.
They've been getting rid of homeless people to Birmingham. Now Birmingham has big homeless problem in local areas which wasn't a thing before HMO housing
Thanks Billy, was born at home in Bootle, Rufford rd and went to Hugh Baird 89/91 and the Quad. Lived back there a couple of times in my life. So sad to see all our country being shit on the way it has and is. Some really lovely salt of the earth people in Bootle Billy. Loving your vids, thank you
Came across your vids by accident but can't get enough of them so glad to hear you say your going to get out more, 👌 all the best from Wakefield 👊
What you said about recovery is so true. Took that journey too. Got through it after many ,many failed attempts and after few years completely turned my life around and now can hardly count all my blessings. You are doing great work.🎉
i have been thro recovery my self i was a cocaine addicted for many years i have been clean for 2yrs 9 months and now i have turned my life round i was going there for drug support b4it moved to bridle road now i find my self back to that building on canal street to probaiton service for minding drugs for a drug dealer i owed money too. turned out to be a grass nicked 4 times over the 4 pulls he had 32 1/2s and never got jailed only personal use
he was supposed to be a friend not anymore HE IS A GRASS THAT IS WHY HE IS NOT IN JAILED HE USED AND ABUISED MY AS I AM A VUNRABLE ADULT HE DID NOT CARE I WAS JUST HIS PIGGY BANK NO THANK GOD.
I BUT MY HAND IN MY POCKET AND FEEL MONEY NOT MY LEG OR GO IN MY WALLET.
in that time time my mam and stepdad have both past away and that in someways as made me a stronger person to come through the other side of being a addicted losing loved ones and not fall of the wagon i have done great where alot of ppl would not have had the will power i dome how did and will remain that way
in time the drug dealing grass will end up getting locked up for dead either way righty so
do i care not on your nelly
Good for you 🙏💙
This guy is made for you Utube. And even tho he's a full on Scouser you can still here evry word. I was buzzing when I seen you with Veitch the other day in manny. Brilliant content. 👏
The ducks smirking at me hahaha had me in bits that part killer
About 20 years ago I used to do deliveries to Bootle, it has changed so much, kind of glad I dont go there now, its rather sad.
19:56 Not a mosque make it into a fucking home for the homeless and needy and fucking police it,I'm fed up with this shit. BTW Nice one billy.
@@andrewphillips3791 Homelessness isn't an issue because of the lack of homes. Homelessness is due to mental health issues and drug/alcohol dependency. Both are often combined.
@@VinoVeritas_it is down to lack of homes, people have been on housing list for decades, if you haven’t got over a grand for deposit, or £600 at the cheapest a month for private rent, they have no home, I live in seaforth, iv looked at property for4 years up here, every property has damp or mould, or are over a grand a month, it’s ridiculous
@@jesusislord8895 You see, it's not about a lack of homes. You've even said so in your comment. The homes exist, but the barriers to obtaining a tenancy are too great.
@@VinoVeritas_ You are spouting nonsense you sanctimonius loon.
It's NOT going to be turned into a mosque for fuck sake.
If you want to see what's really going on in Bootle, get to the car boot sale early Sunday morning. It's like Mogadishu.
You bigoted idiot
I went to the car boot sale first time in years, I couldn’t believe my eyes it was 70% full of African Syrian people, a scouse voice was in the minority, how times have changed in Bootle.
What you mean how is it there mate?
@@aledhughes6000 It doesn't look like England anymore
@@TC-mf1cq how is the Carboot like there im tempted to come have a look 👀
Glad you scorned the idiot tgeowing a glass bottle at a duck,imagine what that crazy soul might be capable of 😢😢😢
I've encountered him before, strongest smell of BO you'll ever smell
People who hurt animals are capable of anything
First signs of a sociopath
@@Comeonnowmate NAR JUST A BELLEND WHO SHOULD BE 6 FOOT UNDER
@@GazcoybUTFT Going from where he was and what he was carrying, he was a pisshead. That part of Bootle does have a problem with alcies getting smashed there.
Great little bit of advice in red spray paint before the tunnel/subway!
I can't believe the state of the Merton, it was literally a Bootle landmark back in it's day.
I had many a pint in there and then got the 60 bus just over the road outside the Magies to take me to sweet home Wavertree. Which has also been totally destroyed.
The Merton has closed a couple of times but it's final now. The rumour about it being a mosque was exactly that as was the rumour that The Mons would be a McDonalds.
The smirking duck. Great name for a pub.😎
I don't get paid till tonight that old chestnut😂
Cheques in the Post , and promise i won't come in yer mouth 🤔🤔🤔
Yer that one again lol..............
It's usually tomorrow 😂
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Give him a break fella, he was trying hard to shift someone's card 😂😂😂
It was written in ancient greek , when that first came out .
@@bigprob8744 Giro goes into the bank at 9PM the night before pay day if you bank with Santander.
Hi Billy, it's a shame how these areas are being left to rot and decay!. I lived in Bootle in late 99/00 up until early 2001. It was rundown even then but nowhere near as bad as today. So many areas up and down the country have just been left to rot!. It really saddens me. There's some really lovely people in Bootle who really deserve better than this from their council. Anyway Billy, thanks again for your vid. John. 😢👍
The Council should be able to double the rates after 3 years empty - then double again in 4th year and again in 5th year, etc. This will force property back into the redevelopment market.
If you've lived in Bootle then you would know - as Billy said - that a chunk of the video was shot on industrial estates. You'd also be aware that there were, and still are, parts of Bootle (in fact 5 minutes away from scenes in the video) that are nice if not scenic.
I worked security all over the country and the roughest place I ever worked was on the Strand in Bootle at night! A week after I left that young lad James Bulger was taken from there and murdered. A very rough place Billy especially at night. The truth is that it is at night when people change and become bad news. I’ve worked nights on security and night reception at hotels and I’ve seen it all. It’s even worse when it’s a full moon!
I see The Strand and all I really see is poor little James Bulgers face. ❤ RIP and love to hus family
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ffs is that all anyone thinks about, people in bootle are mostly nice and you bring up that shit again, like everyone does !
I thought of James Bulger when you was outside then inside the Strand. Sad, sad memory this stoked. RIP little angel never forgotten. Doesn't look like it's change much.
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@@Irvine_Harper1919 every time I go in the strand I think of james
RIP JAMES BULGER, brought it back seeing the strand, wow 31 yrs ago now 💙🙏💎.
Breaks my heart to see the decay in some of those pub buildings. Long since closed, if those walls could speak. A lot of history gone forever.
Same. Depressing seeing old pubs close down
The Wetherspoons killed the pubs in Bootle Village. They couldn't compete with the prices of their beer and unfortunately for them, people like cheap beer. Luckily the Yates (despite being next door), The Jollies and the Hyperbar managed to survive.
that's the plan!!!!
Ducks that smirk at ya , that's a good one .😆. Cheers Billy lovin' the videos.
Thank you so much for this Billy mate,this holds alot of memories for me,keep safe and well and all love and peace to you always.
Love how you empathy for others, makes such a change to lot's of stuff like this that just treats homeless and people with addictions like trash. We're all only a few pay checks away from being on the street, people should remember that.
*That duck kept smirking at me* 😂😂
I bet someone is gonna tell that fella to duck when they see him
At least the duck looked smarter than that scruff toeràg
Bill ,had Dads funeral Wake in the Hawthorne Pub, just approaching the 10-year Anniversary now! 😮💨
The Family didn't stay long sadly, as the uninvited NON Family members, started to snarl after a few Drinks!!
His last local was "The Peacock Pub" a few blocks away 🍺🍺🍺🍺
RIP Dad, Victor Charles Williams ...........................................
RIP and blessings on his journey 🤍🙏
@@mrmensa1096 Thankyou , im sure he already has 👍👍👍👍
You were right on the Macbeth St Estate at the start of the video. Pity you didn't walk through there. Its spotless and the people keep their homes beautiful. The end of the vid was Christmas St estate and the same applies.
That part of Stanley Road has been left to rot abd their has no money invested in the area but there are some hard working very decent people who live there too. We are not all drunks and wasters.
"that duck is smirking at me"😂😂
next one will be winking at him and he'll have to do something about it
And using fowl language
@@ShaunYoung-i3j lol
Billy I have nothing but pure respect for you mate!
You are literally showing the world the decay of Britain and you add humility and integrity and respect to all!
Wish you all the very best from out here in Thailand I don’t think we will come back to the UK we shall move around Asia! And watch from afar I lived in Surrey before very close to London and if I did come back I wouldn’t be going anywhere near my home city today!
My hometown is Uttoxeter and you can find UA-camrs footage of the decay of that and obviously Burslem as that’s the home of my footy club Port Vale!
“Don’t vote , class war ! “ the Graffiti just sums up everything about this video, what’s the point in voting ? I cry about what has happened to my City 😢 Failed by everyone
All parties are bent these days. Use you're vote though, it's a waste to not use it.
Sunak/Starmer = mere puppets of the WEF
@@DMWBN3 - Firstly is it an actual vote ? - we go to polling stations NOT voting stations. Secondly, if no one or very few people voted, they could not form a government as it requires general consent.
@mrmensa1096 Exactly my thoughts, Nothing will ever change while people keep voting.
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let you do it." - Mark Twain
Was the Strand where Jamie Bulger was abducted ?
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Awer loved the way u took Mike the shop for a few cans . So thoughtful
It’s devastating to see so many pubs and old workplaces smashed and derelict… The Royal looks like it was a fantastic building in its day..
when you were at the sweat box gym on brasenose road - if you'd turned back on to st johns road and turned left you'd have gotten to a bridge with stone steps leading up to millers bridge. if you took another left and walked maybe 100m you would be on the corner of baliol road and oriel road with bootle town hall right in front of you. on the corner is a building known as The Incwell which I believe was a post office or police station. Anyway this specific spot is famous for being the location of the world's first crime reconstruction film.
Did you know they filmed an episode of ZCars in Wolsey street & Stanley Road in the 60s
I taught in Bootle in the 90s and 00s Billy. It disappoints me that it looks even more desperate for investment now than then, but I'm pleased the community there looks likely to stick together. Bless 'em.
I'm aware how challenging rehab work can be, lorra lorra respect for all you do
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Stanley road and Breck road have been in a state of disrepair since the 80s,
it's sad, they've been in that state for decades...
Agreed, left Queens Road L5. 37 years ago , it was rough but the people were solid and still had a community spirit 👍
Been out of Liverpool now for 28 yrs , every time you put a video of all the areas I knew it breaks my heart. 💔 My Family keep saying come back, no thanks 🥲
This Country really is dying from the inside out.
Great video! Bill, not sure if you are aware but there is a massive influx of homelessness around Old Hall St and the adjacent streets- tents being put in the carpark bordering Kenny. The divide bw the worlds of the business district and the other end of the spectrum is huge! 😢
Same all over the country if u can get to these buildings quick enough they could be repurposed as flats for the homeless etc but they get left and become so rundown it becomes cheaper to pull them down and build something new then it does to actually save them which is a crying shame because before to long all that will be left is pictures and videos of what they used to look like and in there place are the same style cheap to build blocks of flats that start falling apart 5 years after there finished if your lucky. Great job Billy on showing what the real Britain is like.
I live in the East of England and we have 16 areas in the top 10% income wise and 32% in the bottom 10% some sitting side by side in the city and show's the huge disparity between the have's and the have nots although working there I always found the people with the least would offer the most to you and the affluent would barely speak to you.
We called that the TRI-AD Billy (the Pyramid) All our pubs getting closed deliberatly ,recking our English Culture. It's weird open + thriving one day...Next it's all boarded up (heard the same Billy about a Mosque)..Same with the MONS, walk past everyday open + thriving..next all boarded up, and same old story (Mosque)?? Remember Billy if you caught a cab to anywhere in Liverpool you give the Name of a PUB and the black cab drivers automatically knew.."The Scouse Knowledge",...Private hire would be f*cked nowadays. Can't get them on your GPS Mo. heh heh great vid Sir.
The Mons is gonna be a Costa Coffee lar apparently 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1. It's not going to be a mosque
2. Pubs like the monz etc are dying because mo one really uses them anymore. - homes are rammed with technology. Beer and spirits are cheap as fuck In Tesco. - I prefer to go out and do. But the majority don't. So pubs are closing.
pubs are closing, cos people don't go in them anymore, nothing to do with Muslims. I've heard the same crap about pubs becoming mosques for over 20 years, it's a load of shite that the right use to make people think that their beloved pub that they don't go in anymore cos its more expensive than wetherspoons is becoming a place of worship for people who despise alcohol. It's genuinely fucking embarrassing. Fuck Wetherspoons, go the Jawbone, Go the Albion, Go the lock and Quay. Support your local boozer and they won't go out of business, simple as that really. The overheads involved with running these gaffs is astronomical, especially if they're brewery tied, so even if they've got some people in them, doesn't mean they're not struglling.
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo Yeah, I'd heard that too. Grim reality of the world we live in now, everything is becoming a Greggs or Costa Coffee. or a mosque if you believe GB News.
That lad at 1:25 used to get on my bus every morning. Either the 62 or the 81 im not so sure now. And he would sing the whole way. Remember just only rolling out of bed and having to listen to that rubbish 😂
i remember the UK in the 80s, i left thirty years ago thank God, your videos are truly shocking to the Core, its like the Movie Idiocracy. Your a good Man bro and your Content is really Enlightening
I'm guessing that was John Conteh's brother. John Conteh is celebrating 50 years since his World Championship win on October 20th.
Was watching johns first fight with Matthew saad Mohammed the other day, an absolute war between two warriors 🥊
@rustyobollox2489 and John was at the end of his career then,I think it would have been a different story if John had fought him at his peak I always remember that fight before the sky tv days it went out live
@@WayneFletcher-sk4ci absolutely ,a brilliant boxer with one of the best jabs in the game
I followed johns career very closely,a great fighter,at one time he was probably the most famous person in britain
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His brother is called Tony though... My cousin is Joe Calzaghe, but I'm English 🙄
Was drivin down Stanley road last week and county and most if the shop on each road were closed down unless it was a take away both areas are finished county only gonna get worse when Everton leave to
The fella who has a grudge against ducks 🦆 no doubt has a form of psychosis. Still a horrible human being though to throw a glass bottle at innocent creatures. xx
They wern't innocent they were smirking at him
@@karnak50 oh yeah I forgot 😁
@@karnak50they told him to go see the quack 😅
To be fair though, the duck was smirking at him.
he can duckoff
I’m absolutely loving your videos keep up the good work 👏👏👏🙏
That's mad how Souse John from Lithuania is virtually speaking proper scouse, the scouse accent is definitely infectuous, some of the people that I've hung around from the Midlands/Stoke/Nottingham would sometime get asked if they're scousers themselves, hahaha...
Ha ha haaaaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 😂😂😂😂 the 🦆 smerking at him 😂😂...Billy you were by mine the other night with that brawl and today where I used to live in kirkdale.... I'm in stitches about that fella throwing the bottle coz the duck 🦆 smerking at him.... Just filming "normal" days around these parts lol . Brilliant 😂😂
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It's so very sad to see our beautiful country turn into a 3rd world country. POLITICIAN'S TAKE NOTE.
I remember thatchers Britain in the 80s 🤦🏻
Literally watch you every day on my tv lol what a nice genuine guy !! Got bare respect for you Billy well done on everything you have over come watched all your interviews and documentary 😊
That fella in the park picked up the scouse accent quick!
Jan Molby style
If you move to a country whilst learning the language, you'll pick up the accent. Quite funny with some nationality in certain areas 😂
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Agreed, considering he's only been in Bootle 3 weeks 😂😂😂😂😂
I thought he looked like Ian Rush.
Have you caught a trolley yet lad 😂😂😂. Love it Bill ....fantastic video !
Your boy Danny Christie got absolutely battered in BKFC. He was frightened and turned his back in retreat mode.
Britain is turning into a dump.
They applied to knock the Merton down so they could rebuild their. The council rejected it due to it being listed. Definitely not a mosque.
If this was America your man that said the duck is smirking at me would be famous. Liverpool people come up with some cracking one liners. You should try meet up with john mikes brother and bring john and mike in for a podcast would be a great listen. Fair play for looking after him also. Keep going bill 🇮🇪
Thanks again for another great video. What you said at 12 minutes in is spot on, I tried to work with these ideas as a foundation but always struggled with the paper work. Met some real people who I still remember now. Keep it up.
I remember when John bought his mother a house (bungalow?) in Ainsdale and named it "Champsville."
Successive so-called 'governments' have been criminally negligent IN MY OPINION.
hi bill,love ya vids.missed you in ormskirk last week.my dad lives near that statue gaft on county road would have been buzzing if i was there that day. MASSIVE respect for approaching that bloke for throwing a bottle at a defenceless animal.keep up the good work.
Never in my lifetime have I seen a country go to the dogs like this it has to be planned. Sad
I was in Recovery in the same place and your right Lots of bad people in it for the wrong reason, I'm five years clean
Not only Bootle Billy , everywhere , it’s run down because shops have closed over the years due to extortionate rent prices , that alongside the recession and little council funding hasn’t helped .
It used to be one of the nicest boroughs in the country! With a lovely town hall but with the docks gone there’s no blood pumping to its heart and all of the working class are easily forgotten! Such a shame
These regular uploads are a buzz to watch, nice one mate stick at it!
Breaks my heart...I grew up in the mid late 70s in Bootle..Great pubs, good people and as safe as anywhere to go out at night.
Yeah, unfortunately your old Bootle Village pub crawl is now one pub. The Jawbone.
The strand 💔rip james bulger so sad to think he was abducted from there 💔😢
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hi Billy great content you produce, what a story about the horrific time in the Bangkok jail seen the film it was very good and i enjoyed it as i have seen your podcasts and could relate to the film. keep up the good work pal you are a top bloke.
I live in Thailand but the north with my wife but if you come over your always welcome to come and stay for a few days
take care Billy from Andy and Arpornthip
Bootle strand just reminds me of james bulger 🕊️
Thr court house he showed, was where the crowds gathered when the 2 lads had the first hearing.
Thanks Billy, much appreciated.
Im an English man living in Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. Im originally from Chester. Not far from you motherland. Im home every year and took my Canadian gf to liverpool for the the first time. Loved it. Did the town centre, albert dock and hit Weatherspoons just up from the dock for a drink and some lunch.
Great videos !!!!!
I’m from here Liverpool. Was literally looking about moving to Ontario about an hour ago. What’s your thoughts ? Advice ?
@@Greenielid I prefer it over here. I miss a lot of things in the uk you don't think you would and of course family. Honestly similar shit here like England but overall for me it a better life. I have no regrets. Ask me anything. I'll gladly help you.
@@Demag.FrederickGeorgeES thanks a lot mate, I may come back here in the future an ask one or two things after a bit of research. Thanks for your time !
@@Greenielid np. Ask me anything.
Lived in bootle all my life. The bottom half next to the docks is just so heavily industrialised. The top half of bootle next to Walton and in to litherland really isn’t so bad at all lots of nice housing and clean
Yay! At last. Someone who knows what Bootle is actually like. Yes, West Bootle is heavily industrialised because of its proximity to a docks which is still a working docks not a tourist attraction. There are plenty of areas that are really nice with fancy housing.
Footage of an industrial estate, a closed shop with rotting hoardings, a subway, a railway bridge, a shopping trolley in the cut (which does get cleaned up by the local canoe club rom time to time) and a closed down pub is not representative of the Bootle I know and live in.
cracked me up when Billy said from India 😂😂
Thanks for sticking for for nature. Proper man 👍
23:20 What a shame! They just don’t build buildings with that sort of character anymore, this was when Britain was still a superpower, not a banana republic like now.☹️
Billy, your Channel is growing well.
God Luck mate.
Shame to see the Merton pub in that state .... Good night out in the 80s/90s & then onto the Quadrant Park night club up the road .
Mad house that Quad 🎉
@@cubecubesson6779 I had a mad night there, early 90's.
@@tonyr4873 Think we were lucky to be coming up through them times 👍
Don't forget the Firehouse Pub and nightclub above 👍👍👍👍
@@cubecubesson6779 Very lucky, got a lot of great memories from those times. How has 30 odd years gone by so quickly? Hope you're doing well now anyway.
The Bootle bottle and Duck thing is their version of a weekend Grouse shoot.
My opinion I fkn hate graffiti. I do not see it as art
Sick of it all over our protected buildings. No respect.
They’re just bricks, they’re not going anywhere. It’s just people expressing themselves, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s paint for Christ sake not ******* arsenic
@@willywonky7544 Unless the person doing it has talent then it's just ugly shit that no one should have forced on their eyes.
I lived in Beatrice street in the 80s,it wasn't as bad then,thanks for the video,Billy lad,👍
Why do people buy the XL BULLY. So many are turning out to be a nightmare. The breed has a bloodline of fighting dogs.
Shame thwt animals are used in such a way and used as a status symbol.
The duck was smirking at me 😂 WTF is he smoking man
Great vid Bill. I lived there for 20+ years but had to get out of there. I think it needs investment asap more than most places in Liverpool. So sad to see. Either the Council haven't got the funding or the Government have just washed their hands and forgotten about the place. Left to ruin.
They're demolishing the Strand and doing it all up. It will be nice for the immigrants.
There's nothing ruinous about it. As a Bootleonion I'm sure you remember the parks, open green spaces and the nice housing. They are all still there and new housing has been built.
If you look back on street view to 2009 it shows the Royal pub (now a shell) was boarded up back then.
Sefton council which is yet another labour council within the Liverpool city region is utterly corrupt. Just like the labour council that is Liverpool. Bootle proper rough as fk nowadays with just loads of boat people landed there
Why use language like that. Liverpool is a city that accepts anyone from anywhere as long as they have a good heart.
@@CliveWarren-tu6wtBut the majority of them don't have a good heart and hate you, also they're all males and not children or women.
Turn it in clive no we don't @@CliveWarren-tu6wt
@CliveWarren-tu6wt No we don't, were sick of it so speak for yourself. Immigration is white genocide, bootle is turning into Nigeria 🤢
Yeah I live in bootle and have seen some muslims chaps get absolutely battered for following kids then crying racism when they got dealt with
Rumour has it that The Triad 18:23 was built the wrong way round. When the wind is strong, there is a wind-tunnel effect in front of it that makes it hard to walk past without getting blown over. The top of the building also sways in high winds. I was working on the top floor and the sway was that bad one day that I got "seasick" and after trying to soldier on, had to be sent home as there was no respite.
That's no pyramid,it's a triad billy.
Nice one Billy, I love how you don't take any shit from anyone.... Keep the content coming.
Billy, that Skyscraper is called THE TRIAD BUILDING Lah....
I grew up in Bootle.
I realised 😩
Pyramid in Birkenhead Billy 👌💯.
@@theallornothingpodcastwith4442 Ye man haha 😄
From Belfast but lived in Bootle a while in the 70s. Pembroke road.
So you know that there are a lot of large Victorian houses around there. They are still there but they weren't shown.
I live in Brighton, down in Sussex, and that has its fair share of squalor amongst the elegance. Bootle looks like it’s been ripped apart and abandoned, to me It would be a nightmare turned reality. I wish the people who live there the best, it’s a shame for them.
Thank you for the post
Whitehawk still shabby? 🤔
Not really, not these days, has a bit of a reputation, which has with time mostly evaporated. It’s only over the hill from me, and as you may know, surrounded by beautiful countryside. All the best.
@@JOHNOGRADY-un2ft lived there yrs ago in a shared house, me British, Irish Girl and an Aussie..way too much drinking n parties..!
I fell down here from Cheshire 42 years ago, and although I’ve got the normal struggles and challenges, I feel like it’s been one great big long party. , I love the place.
Lived there late 90’s
Never saw any really deprived areas. Not saying they don’t exist. But surely they are nothing like you get up in the north west ?
Hello Billy.that Merton pub,I bet it was a beautiful looking place in its day.sad to see these big pubs going down hill
👍👍 Fantastic! PS Billy, when are you coming to Seaforth mate? 👍👍
Seaforth is like a tardis step inside of it and end up in waterloo
Nothing else round here better to do than have a bevvy (after work), go down Stanley Rd every day on the way to work in town, Mike Conteh is a character
INSPIRATIONAL MAN! Clean, unjudgemental, spreading the word.... All the best my friend