@@jokerfleckcast3196 he ought to go to Hartlepool, the people there were so inbred they thought a poor shipwrecked monkey was a foreign spy, when the monkey refused to give up any informaiton after interrogation, they hanged him
I was born and bred in Weston, grew up in an area that's a 15 min walk from the Bournville (other side of the tracks). When I left the town during my early twenties, my whole life changed. My perspective on the world and myself had shifted so dramatically and in such a short space of time, I ended up quitting my job as a bricklayer and returned to school to redo my GCSEs. Ten years later, and I'm about to finish a doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. I never dreamed that anything like this would be possible for me, and when I recently visited Weston to see some friends, although much of it had changed, there was something stale and boring still about Weston---and it's people. In many ways, it hadn't changed at all. Although the town is fine for many of its residents, I feel like the place can hold others back like it did for me. Some areas of Weston are nice but it certainly is a turd town.
Christ! From the Bournville to Morningside, bricklaying to sparky! Well done you. Please go back to your old school from and try to inspire at least one child from the estates to follow your lead.
Unless you live in a city the same can be said for anyone leaving and then returning to their home town. Of course there isn't going to be a great deal of change! Unless the buildings got torn down and replaced there's going to be much one can recognise from before. I'm not from WSM, so no, I'm not defending the place. It's just a bit of a skewed comment.
@@diggergig6585 Yeah, you're right. I guess my expectation of change in Weston came from a place of hope or unresolved contempt towards the place. I think it was a bit jarring seeing the same people, doing the same thing, in the exact same way, as if the town was stuck in groundhog day. One change I didn't expect though, many of the local pubs in Somerset have been closing down. I wonder why that is.
Its not even orange and it looks more like a parsnip! Ive called it the parsnip since it was first erected. Lets not forget the Weston "Needle" by J21 of the M5 (Official name Travelling light) its still there, just covered by trees now cos the lights no longer work and the council refuses to fix it!
I lived in Weston in the 80s as a teen, and while it was never what you would call “beautiful”, it was a verylively little town with a lovely high street and boulevard full of shops and businesses. I visited it for the first time in 27 years just last month, and was horrified to see the high street and town center absolutely gutted. It seemed like every other shop was boarded up, or had been turned into some sort of bargain shop. So sad. Accurate video!
It's funny how you have covered so many places I've lived! When I first moved there from Bath, I walked along the 'beach' and noticed a razor shell semi embedded, I reached down to pull it free only to discover it was a used tampon applicator! That really sums up the place for me, grotty and grim, with a very small number of treasures !! I did my Art degree in Weston and spent a few years living there as a property guardian opposite the old pier, towards Kewstoke - that upper part of Weston has a lot of much nicer building, there's lots of secret nice bits hidden away as you mention - theres a lovely quarry up on the hill which is nothing like Weston town and back in the old days some wealthy folks left a lot of land to be used as parks for the public, so Clarence park is quite a nice exmaple, if you don't mind the crazies I think the council tried to make it like the Brighton to Bristol, but it's not really worked out! By some awful twist of fate, I almost had my first child in Weston hospital, but thankfully had to go to Bristol in the end but I did have to go there afterwards, all the supplies needed after a birth were severly lacking - the nurses were buying sanitary towels etc out of their own money ! What I will say is I met some of the absolute nicest people there, though also the scummiest!!
@@StephenBatchelor-l5m Yes that's true. Funny , I've stayed in guesthouses in Weston where the proprietors are Brummies and worked for years with lady a Brum that lived in Weston before moving to Clevedon .
Agree with your list. I bought a house in bournville few years back ,God knows why, my neighbors were constantly arguing, playing sweary rap music, neglected their garden...I sold it 2 years later ,went back to my parents house 😁. Anything was better than that.
I'm watching from Australia. I love your take o these towns. Your anecdotes are hilarious. The information you give on each place is brilliant. Some those places you show make my compost bin look palatial. Love your work.
Your content is greatly appreciated. It is entertaining and nostalgic for those of us old enough to remember it before, say 1980, 1985 and that nugget of hope....2000😂 Here we are in 2023 and for me personally your videos are way more honest and interesting than a news broadcast about the places you visit. Keep it up and thank you. ❤ 61 years alive. Alas only 35 mentally !
I’m 59 - if you desperately need to be made to feel younger & can risk a boring holiday & afford the prices , I’d recommend the New Forest & include a visit to M&S in Christchurch or Waitrose in Lymington where everyone is either older than you or just very old . You leave those places feeling like you did in the 1980s 👍
PS Christchurch isn’t in the New Forest inspite of their councils’ wishes - in fact it’s not even a Borough any more - it’s just a snooty eastern district of BCP 😂
Incredible shop. Also need to big up Sakura, the best darn Japanese restaurant in the south-west. Why they decided to settle in a shithole, I'll never know.
Excellent format! My mum and dad own a static on Northern Farm, in Brean! Yes. I am, and have ALWAYS been ashamed of their choice of location. We have spent many long weekends in and around Weston and it's surrounds, although we never ventured into the less welcoming areas covered in your video! Agree with pretty much everything said. Lotta junkies, piss heads and feral folk in Weston. Still, we have had many good times there, mostly because I have a superb family, and we laugh at pretty much everything, so even the dog shite that is that part of Somerset entertained us!
😅 Well that was a trip down memory lane - lived in Bristol for years and often went to Weston. Even worked there for my final year in the area. Highlights were them closing all the local post offices, the pier burning down, and the terrible traffic jams. Good times ;-) I was sad when TJ Hughes closed, though. I look forward to your assessment of Kingswood on the outskirts of Bristol!
I grew up in Clevedon . I couldn’t afford Bristol so ended up buying 1st house in Weston !! Love your videos . I’m Ireland now so look forward to you doing Bristol
MT Games benefits from being close to the centre without actually being in the centre. Other towns/ cities just have CEX and shops like MT Games just lose custom because of it
The Tories only put money into well off areas and London. The UK has deteriorated under their lack of care YEt despite tje obvious destruction of pur services and country, people still vote for the bustards.
Nice "review". I used to live there, my ol'man still does so have the pleasure of visiting at least once a month! Some notable mentions! Locking Castle, another "copy and paste" shoebox city that follows the A370 all the way up to the M5, that I called home for a couple of years. The Bourneville was the Car Crime capital of Somerset a few years ago (probably still is!), I remember when I was getting an Car Insurance quote, I mistakenly mentioned that my post code was BS23 and they quoted an extra £150 on my premium compared to the BS22 postcode area, I was actually in..all because the Bourneville simply exists! The Tropicana was an open air water park with slides, wave machine, lovely place....until it closed in the early 90's and has been derelict ever since (no one can agree what to do with the place), accept for a few stints as a "night club" (I went to an all night rave, New Year's Eve 1997 "Kerranga"....great night!), Banksy had an art installation there for a couple of years a few years ago called "Dismaland"! And don't get me started on that bloody Oil Rig (The SEE Monster) that cost a fuck-ton to install (of public money) and then was dismantled 6 months later...for no real reason!! So you're right, the local authority really do like spending the local Council Tax Payers money on absolutely nothing that benefits them!! You forgot to mention that the Grand Pier burnt down in 2005 and was rebuilt and reopened in 2010, however during 2019 (I think) they started charging visitors (of any age and no concessions) £1 each to visit so your family of 5? That will be a fiver please sir!! The COVID pandemic really kicked the arse out of the place and it hasn't really recovered since. Once thing I will say about the place, there are a great selection of "greasy joe" cafes where £5 will get you a slap-up Full English, rack of Toast and a Mug of Tea.......wonderful hangover cure!! Great Video really funny! Keep up the good work!!
Yes didn't really understand the point that see monster supposed to be an environmental art platform but dismantled and installed with big diesel cranes , you are right about the cafes though well cheap the one on the corner by the college was a personal favourite of mine though disappeared a long time ago think I was paying 50 p for a frothy coffee in 94 . The pub up by the college was also good serving under age in the 90s we were all 17 and they didn't bat an eyelid .
I live in Weston Super Mare, specifically the Bournville estate. I live in a quiet road on the edge of it. Been living in our house for 20 years but have been living in Weston for 25 years. You're right about the council (they couldn't organise the proverbial in a brewery), and you're right about most things actually. No idea what the smell is that you mentioned. Plus, i have never had any problems in any area of Weston. MT games IS one of the best shops in town but i hardly go into town much (once a month or maybe twice). I do what a lot of the locals do.....we go to Bristol, Cardiff, or Taunton. Idea for a video would be Weymouth/ Portland. I'm hoping to move there this year so would like to hear your thoughts on it.
From a very long standing family in Weston, (I grew up here in the late 70's to '90s I would have to say this is a fair depiction of the place, my Mum grew up post war in the Bournville estate; it was poor but ok then but sadly no longer; the whole family has watched the decline of Weston with sadness; all that said; when the sun is shining the front is still ok!>.....
In the drone shot of the coach park at 1:15, you can see 4 caravans. They were actually still there on Sunday and actually got onto a bus and started playing with buttons. Thankfully they were moved on. Also big up MT Games! Great shop!
Bristol would be a fun one to do.......and if you can stomach it, an in-depth on Newport (the gwent one) will make you think twice about how bad Weston is
I spent two years going to Weston College and saw the good, bad and ugly back in the early 90’s. It’s defo deteriorated since then as Worle expanded and the high street died.
mate, your on the thinnest of thin ice here! this is a weekend and daytrip favourite of millions of Midlanders, and it holds a very special place in their hearts
I used to go to Bath every year to stay with my Uncle Joe in the late 1970s and very early 1980s, I remember going from Bath to Weston Super Mare on day trips by train.... I loved it! I was only 8 - 13 years old, and I only remember walking from the station to the beach... not like you describe.
Had the joy of spending a couple of years at RAF Locking. It was in two stints, December 83 to May 85. Then September 85 to March 86. So two winters, and only one summer. Memories? The railway station, and phoning ARC Taxis to get a cab from the station back to camp from Paddington station on a Sunday afternoon. The Cabot, which I think is still open even now, for a few drunken sessions.
Haha sounds legit, My Parents lived in the marriage quarters there as my Dad was a RAF carpenter till 83 so sadly just missed ya lol, for some reason after moving from base to base they settled in WSM and then I arrived 85, place spaced mee out and still does lol, great all the drone footage.
Very accurate. I grew up in Weston before moving to London 9 years ago, and every time I go back to visit my parents it just gets more depressing. It's always been a bit rough with deeply impoverished areas, but at least Weston high street used to have proper shops. At least M.T Games is still going, I used to spend all my pocket-money in there. If you want to see class disparity in action, go loiter around the adjoining car parks for the Waitrose and the Asda, its surreal. The weird thing about Weston is that the town's wealth is very symbolic. If you're posh then you live on the hill. If you're middle class then you live along the base of the hill. And if you're poor then you live on the flood lands.
Good video and quite accurate in it's description of Weston, i used to work here back in the 1970s and by the sound of it nothing has changed, can not wait for Bristol Turd Towns, a place i know very well.
I like the place, yes it is run-down and under-invested in but the natural beauty there is stunning, huge beach with Brean down at one end and views across to Wales. There are some wonderful late Georgian Crescents that would cost millions if they were in Bath for example. Michel angelos is a brilliant restaurant and the Lions Ale and Cider festival is amazing. Got to look on the brightside, just needs new renovation and more help for the home-less.
yeo, when I moved from my hometown of Bath to Weston, I was surprised how many similar buildings there were, alright they are mixed in between burnt out hotels and crack dens but they are there and some are truly beautiful
@@primordialpouch565 LOL! :) I also forgot that The Criterion up that end of town is (was maybe, as haven't been in there for a while) a lovely friendly pub. Dauncey's hotel could be a great place if cruise ships could use a functioning Birnbeck Pier).. Or a ferry service to Cardiff..
Yeah I'm from Dartford, Kent is such a mixed bag you got places like Chatham, Dover, Maidstone etc and then you got places like Tunbridge wells, Sevenoaks and West Malling
@@billytompkins6633 yeah I was thinking Chatham, Gravesend, Gillingham, Dover, Folkestone, anywhere on Sheppey, Belvedere/North Heath and the worst of all for me Thamesmead or Slade Green!
Lived on the Bournville for a year - ended up moving back to Easton in Bristol with no regrets. Just shows how bad it was. Can confirm that M.T. Games is excellent though, worth a visit!
I love your channel & content, which is much appeciated, as it is just what I say! Your channel is a bit like a video version of the "Crap Towns" books, which came out a few years back, although it covered all the UK! We live in Burnham-on-Sea, which is worse than Weston-Super-Mare, but luckilly it has some good things around the area here, compared to Taunton(born & raised there!). We go to Weston, most months as there are great restaurants like Italian Ilmichaelangelo's, opposite Knightstone Island, Christopher's Chocolates(a few doors down from your favourite indy shop!), and it has a Waitrose!!! The beach is far better than awful Burnham-on-Sea, too!!!
I was born on the Bourneville in 1973.. left there was I was 4 when my folks moved to The Coronation estate. Had an horrendous time at Broadoak school at the hands of the typical inbred chavs. My parents bucked the trend of being kept down by the locals and finally escaped to Bleadon Village in 1990 From there, I moved to Backwell and now live in the beautiful village of Wick near bath. I went from 'Born Vile' to now owning a successful pair of film studios in central Bristol, just proving you *can* escape and climb the ladder. I absolutely loathe going back to Weston these days. You can take the boy out of Weston and, as it turns out, you can excrete the Weston out of the boy as well... Your videos are hilarious! You still have so many areas to cover.. you should look at Nailsea next to Backwell. I have a feeling you'd 'enjoy' it. lol
Brilliant! Couldn’t stop laughing, your delivery is spot on. We think Yeovil is bad, but at least we live on a hill on the edge of town, and not anywhere near as bad as Weston. 🤨
It's always been a dump, just proves that living by the seaside doesn't mean you're in a posh area, regardless of house prices. Agree with you about Sand Bay and Kewstoke, probably the best place to live near Weston.
I already know what Bristol is going to look like but I still wanna see you cover it…knowle west, hartcliff, withywood, Whitchurch kingswood all going to be on the places to avoid like the plague in Bristol 😂
Tbh I would say Kingswood isn't quite in the big leagues, Lawrence Weston, Hartcliffe and THAT part of Knowle West are the three worst places. I worked door to door in every council estate in Bristol and nothing came close to Hartcliffe, it was absolutely the most depressing isolated place out of them all.
@@GamiGreen oh I forgot about Lawrence Weston 🫨, I lived in hartcliff and in knowle and it truly made me depressed and the people are umm let’s say not nice 😅
I live in a turdtown, Skelmersdale. Built as an overflow for Liverpool, it's copy and pasted box houses from the 60s mixed with industrial estates, random big green areas and then the odd set of new builds that look way out of place. Some areas around here are legit uncomfortable to be in for fear of getting stabbed by a 13 year old dressed like a roadman, some make me feel like I'm the rabble. Stop by for a brew and a crackhead encounter 😂
I liived there for 20 years and loved the place. It isnt perfect but after living in Erdington it is a paradise! Enjoyed the vid. No mention of the Old Town Quarry and Rowan Tree Cafe which is the best place in the area in my opinion.
Love your channel , at last someone who is shining a light on the british disease to trash their towns. Although it sounds all negative its balanced with a great sense of humour. I prefer the 5 to 7 min videos as I put a load together to watch while having lunch or dinner , but every now and then I'll watch a 26 minuter .
I lived, for a couple of years, in Kewstoke, whilst I was at Weston College. I agree it’s nicer than much of Weston and would be a decent choice to buy. I remembered the tolled coastal road going there that non-locals ignored the low speed limits signs on and routinely drove off, down the cliff.
Ive lived in Weston my whole life (born 1985) and i do feel this town has gone downhill massively. Both my parents and brother no longer live here as they think its such a sh*thole. I live on worlebury hill and have to drive through the town centre at night when on the way home from work. Its rife with heroin and spice addicts. Even in day time if you drive through town you have to be on your gaurd because if not you'll knock them over where they stumble in road as they are so out of it, oblivious to whats going on. Once im able to, ill be moving away from here in the coming years. Its depressing knowing how much better this place once was. Never perfect but it was an alright place to live and raise a family. Good video and totally on par with this place.
I am in the US. About then years ago, I played onstage in a production of “Noises Off” and Weston-Super-Mare was referenced as a place the “play within a play” was supposed to open. I’d never heard of it before that. Then, about five years ago, I caught a Brit show on our local public TV station called “The Cafe”. Strange little show. Interesting, but not very funny, but it was set in WSM.
I absolutely love "Noises Off". It's such a clever play. Sardines anyone? I live in Weston-super-Mare and it is much nicer than the commentator portrays. Roald Dahl, John Cleese, Rupert Graves and Jill Dando were born here. Also "The Cafe" was filmed opposite where I live.
I was there last week the sea front looked so rundown 😱and the streets behind were derelict, all the old cafés were shut a real same!! 🧐🇬🇧 I go to Clevedon now.
WSM is just a depressing place all round. Had an ex-gf from there who took me on a trip home for a weekend. I tried to hide it from her but it was one of the saddest shitholes I've been to in the UK, and I've lived all over the country. MT Games looks great however. Shame I never got to see it, as it'd be right up my street.
This format is great and would suit Reading extremely well as it has a few nice areas and some unimaginable dumps as well... (see Coley, Cemetary Junction, Oxford road)
I am German and my English isn´t good enough to understand what you say. I looked for the song: Song for Weston super mare , when I was preparing for a classwork of my grandchild. This song is in her English book for class 6 ( she is twelve.) You have so beautiful beaches why is that so terrible there, like in the GDR in the eighties. I think it is like all over the world some get richer and we others getting worse.
north worle is massive i mean massive and likely bigger than wsm, you walked down a few very select streets that still have a few council flats, the vast majority of north worle are private homes, this can be looked up pretty easily and u also took drone shots of houses mainly built in the 70s so ofc no matter how hard u try from the sky its gonna look shit, most public greens or stretches of green near roads are left unkept for wilding. been living in worle for 20 years, its completely safe to walk around at night. its very quite considering its so vast, has some of the best schools in Somerset. huge amount of shops, easy commutes to Bristol and London (train taking 2 hours), plenty of supermarkets, plenty of shopping centres, plenty of well rated GP's, consistently had the lowest covid numbers i most of the uk (something normally linked to poverty ). while weston has a bad rep it is completely taken out of context and inflated by the small few. weston is just like any SINGLE town in the uk and if not one of top 10 sea resorts in the way of investment, as for worst town in Somerset never been to Bridgewater then the reason there are so many druggies in Weston is because there are so many drug rehabilitation centres and honestly never once seen some on on the street doing drugs, weed maybe but who cares. its a shame u decided to take the small minority of complaints
as he said, they are very expensive to produce, I assume from that that he will cover all of the English and Welsh counties first as they are slightly easier to get to from the west country then expand later on once the funding is there
I would love to get over there. Would be very expensive. I’m trying to figure out ways that I can put more of these out. I wanna go everywhere in the UK so Northern Ireland to Ipswich
Went there for a day out a few years back. The pier was interesting. Funny thing is I'm from Cardiff and you can see it from the pier but it's a few hours drive to get there.
I was born in Weston in 1960. I live in Perth Australia these days. Picked a Brummie girl up at Mr. B's nightclub in the late 70's. While waiting for a cab she whispered in my ear "I want you to kiss and lick me where it smells" So I took her to the Bourneville and kissed her there.
"The council cant undo decades of inbreeding" 🤣🤣🤣hilarious, I nearly choked on my caviare
Lol classic
@@jokerfleckcast3196 he ought to go to Hartlepool, the people there were so inbred they thought a poor shipwrecked monkey was a foreign spy, when the monkey refused to give up any informaiton after interrogation, they hanged him
I thought he was mentioning Swindump with that comment. 😂😁
Lucky you my Sunday roast is f King beans on toast
Only decades??? 😂😂😂
I was born and bred in Weston, grew up in an area that's a 15 min walk from the Bournville (other side of the tracks). When I left the town during my early twenties, my whole life changed. My perspective on the world and myself had shifted so dramatically and in such a short space of time, I ended up quitting my job as a bricklayer and returned to school to redo my GCSEs. Ten years later, and I'm about to finish a doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. I never dreamed that anything like this would be possible for me, and when I recently visited Weston to see some friends, although much of it had changed, there was something stale and boring still about Weston---and it's people. In many ways, it hadn't changed at all. Although the town is fine for many of its residents, I feel like the place can hold others back like it did for me. Some areas of Weston are nice but it certainly is a turd town.
Christ! From the Bournville to Morningside, bricklaying to sparky! Well done you. Please go back to your old school from and try to inspire at least one child from the estates to follow your lead.
Unless you live in a city the same can be said for anyone leaving and then returning to their home town. Of course there isn't going to be a great deal of change! Unless the buildings got torn down and replaced there's going to be much one can recognise from before.
I'm not from WSM, so no, I'm not defending the place. It's just a bit of a skewed comment.
This is so inspiring - have had a similar experience recently but I’m earlier on the path and still in my early 20s.
Good for you 👍
@@diggergig6585 Yeah, you're right. I guess my expectation of change in Weston came from a place of hope or unresolved contempt towards the place. I think it was a bit jarring seeing the same people, doing the same thing, in the exact same way, as if the town was stuck in groundhog day. One change I didn't expect though, many of the local pubs in Somerset have been closing down. I wonder why that is.
The giant carrot bus shelter in Weston looks more like a giant syringe. Could be a homage to all the druggies in the area.🤣
Its not even orange and it looks more like a parsnip! Ive called it the parsnip since it was first erected. Lets not forget the Weston "Needle" by J21 of the M5 (Official name Travelling light) its still there, just covered by trees now cos the lights no longer work and the council refuses to fix it!
Looks like almost four people could shelter from the rain there. £300k well spent…
@@CycolacFan But the pigeons love it.
its not even a bus shelter anymore
Gangstalking!
As a born and bred Westonian this was brutal, accurate and very funny.
Your insults are so incredibly brutal. I love it 😂😂😂
Another fab video.
This is the problem with a lot of councils. They charge extortionate shop rent then wonder why the units are empty.
Makes you wonder if Amazon are giving 'em back handers to kill shopping centres ....
Councils don't set business rates, the government do.
@@markcogan4163 . Govt are just as bad, full of jerks with conflicts of interest where this sort of stuff is concerned....
Gangstalking!
I lived in Weston in the 80s as a teen, and while it was never what you would call “beautiful”, it was a verylively little town with a lovely high street and boulevard full of shops and businesses. I visited it for the first time in 27 years just last month, and was horrified to see the high street and town center absolutely gutted. It seemed like every other shop was boarded up, or had been turned into some sort of bargain shop. So sad. Accurate video!
It's funny how you have covered so many places I've lived! When I first moved there from Bath, I walked along the 'beach' and noticed a razor shell semi embedded, I reached down to pull it free only to discover it was a used tampon applicator! That really sums up the place for me, grotty and grim, with a very small number of treasures !!
I did my Art degree in Weston and spent a few years living there as a property guardian opposite the old pier, towards Kewstoke - that upper part of Weston has a lot of much nicer building, there's lots of secret nice bits hidden away as you mention - theres a lovely quarry up on the hill which is nothing like Weston town and back in the old days some wealthy folks left a lot of land to be used as parks for the public, so Clarence park is quite a nice exmaple, if you don't mind the crazies
I think the council tried to make it like the Brighton to Bristol, but it's not really worked out!
By some awful twist of fate, I almost had my first child in Weston hospital, but thankfully had to go to Bristol in the end but I did have to go there afterwards, all the supplies needed after a birth were severly lacking - the nurses were buying sanitary towels etc out of their own money ! What I will say is I met some of the absolute nicest people there, though also the scummiest!!
As a Bristolian, Weston-Super-Mud has always been a nice day out on a summer's day. Never met a Brummie that don't love the place 😅
Spot on mate.
That way they can walk and even swim in their own shit
@@Ghostrabbit22 Eh?
Nearest bit of 'seaside' to Brum.
@@StephenBatchelor-l5m Yes that's true. Funny , I've stayed in guesthouses in Weston where the proprietors are Brummies and worked for years with lady a Brum that lived in Weston before moving to Clevedon .
Agree with your list. I bought a house in bournville few years back ,God knows why, my neighbors were constantly arguing, playing sweary rap music, neglected their garden...I sold it 2 years later ,went back to my parents house 😁. Anything was better than that.
@alexnelson9512 you had to slip a little racism/xenophobia in there.
Gangstalking!
I'm watching from Australia. I love your take o these towns. Your anecdotes are hilarious. The information you give on each place is brilliant. Some those places you show make my compost bin look palatial. Love your work.
Really enjoying seeing the growth in depth that you go into as you do more videos 👍
Gangstalking goes on here !
Your content is greatly appreciated. It is entertaining and nostalgic for those of us old enough to remember it before, say 1980, 1985 and that nugget of hope....2000😂
Here we are in 2023 and for me personally your videos are way more honest and interesting than a news broadcast about the places you visit. Keep it up and thank you. ❤ 61 years alive. Alas only 35 mentally !
61 isn't old. You're fine! :)
I got ya Patrick, 26-year-old living in a 52-year-old body! 😒
I’m 59 - if you desperately need to be made to feel younger & can risk a boring holiday & afford the prices , I’d recommend the New Forest & include a visit to M&S in Christchurch or Waitrose in Lymington where everyone is either older than you or just very old . You leave those places feeling like you did in the 1980s 👍
PS Christchurch isn’t in the New Forest inspite of their councils’ wishes - in fact it’s not even a Borough any more - it’s just a snooty eastern district of BCP 😂
MT Games looks great and deserves to do well. Good range of retro, model, and sci-fi merchandise!
MT games is awesome!
@@curranhouse yeah it's a fantastic shop!!
Incredible shop. Also need to big up Sakura, the best darn Japanese restaurant in the south-west. Why they decided to settle in a shithole, I'll never know.
I LOVE MT games I’m in there once/twice a week haha 😅
Gangstalking
Excellent format!
My mum and dad own a static on Northern Farm, in Brean! Yes. I am, and have ALWAYS been ashamed of their choice of location.
We have spent many long weekends in and around Weston and it's surrounds, although we never ventured into the less welcoming areas covered in your video! Agree with pretty much everything said. Lotta junkies, piss heads and feral folk in Weston. Still, we have had many good times there, mostly because I have a superb family, and we laugh at pretty much everything, so even the dog shite that is that part of Somerset entertained us!
Hahah my mates parents have one there too. I think I stayed there too about 15 year ago! Brean>weston
😅 Well that was a trip down memory lane - lived in Bristol for years and often went to Weston. Even worked there for my final year in the area. Highlights were them closing all the local post offices, the pier burning down, and the terrible traffic jams. Good times ;-) I was sad when TJ Hughes closed, though. I look forward to your assessment of Kingswood on the outskirts of Bristol!
I grew up in Clevedon . I couldn’t afford Bristol so ended up buying 1st house in Weston !! Love your videos . I’m Ireland now so look forward to you doing Bristol
Clevedon is lovely, Bath-by-the-Sea in the posher bits!
Organised harassment being done here = suicides !!!
This world needs shops like M T Games.
MT Games benefits from being close to the centre without actually being in the centre. Other towns/ cities just have CEX and shops like MT Games just lose custom because of it
Evil gangstalking goes on here!
These videos always make me laugh with the humour but also sad to see the UK crumbling into dysentery 💩
Plague island - 13 years of corruption and backwards decisions got us here.
is there a counterpart channel that shows and tells improving UK towns?
@@flowname In the eyes of the WEF and puppet government, these are called '15 minute cities' Tyranny at its finest 🤬
The Tories only put money into well off areas and London. The UK has deteriorated under their lack of care YEt despite tje obvious destruction of pur services and country, people still vote for the bustards.
I can only watch a few in one day as I laugh so hard I'm worried about crapping myself. Best entertainment on pootube🤣🤣
Perfect summary! I spend nearly every weekend in WSM at the Bourneville hilariously enough
Gangstalking goes on here!
Nice "review". I used to live there, my ol'man still does so have the pleasure of visiting at least once a month! Some notable mentions! Locking Castle, another "copy and paste" shoebox city that follows the A370 all the way up to the M5, that I called home for a couple of years. The Bourneville was the Car Crime capital of Somerset a few years ago (probably still is!), I remember when I was getting an Car Insurance quote, I mistakenly mentioned that my post code was BS23 and they quoted an extra £150 on my premium compared to the BS22 postcode area, I was actually in..all because the Bourneville simply exists!
The Tropicana was an open air water park with slides, wave machine, lovely place....until it closed in the early 90's and has been derelict ever since (no one can agree what to do with the place), accept for a few stints as a "night club" (I went to an all night rave, New Year's Eve 1997 "Kerranga"....great night!), Banksy had an art installation there for a couple of years a few years ago called "Dismaland"! And don't get me started on that bloody Oil Rig (The SEE Monster) that cost a fuck-ton to install (of public money) and then was dismantled 6 months later...for no real reason!! So you're right, the local authority really do like spending the local Council Tax Payers money on absolutely nothing that benefits them!! You forgot to mention that the Grand Pier burnt down in 2005 and was rebuilt and reopened in 2010, however during 2019 (I think) they started charging visitors (of any age and no concessions) £1 each to visit so your family of 5? That will be a fiver please sir!! The COVID pandemic really kicked the arse out of the place and it hasn't really recovered since.
Once thing I will say about the place, there are a great selection of "greasy joe" cafes where £5 will get you a slap-up Full English, rack of Toast and a Mug of Tea.......wonderful hangover cure!! Great Video really funny! Keep up the good work!!
Yes didn't really understand the point that see monster supposed to be an environmental art platform but dismantled and installed with big diesel cranes , you are right about the cafes though well cheap the one on the corner by the college was a personal favourite of mine though disappeared a long time ago think I was paying 50 p for a frothy coffee in 94 .
The pub up by the college was also good serving under age in the 90s we were all 17 and they didn't bat an eyelid .
We use to love Brean Sands Pontins back in the 70's! Great video as always!
I live in Weston Super Mare, specifically the Bournville estate. I live in a quiet road on the edge of it. Been living in our house for 20 years but have been living in Weston for 25 years. You're right about the council (they couldn't organise the proverbial in a brewery), and you're right about most things actually. No idea what the smell is that you mentioned. Plus, i have never had any problems in any area of Weston. MT games IS one of the best shops in town but i hardly go into town much (once a month or maybe twice). I do what a lot of the locals do.....we go to Bristol, Cardiff, or Taunton. Idea for a video would be Weymouth/ Portland. I'm hoping to move there this year so would like to hear your thoughts on it.
Gangstalking goes on here! Pure Evil
From a very long standing family in Weston, (I grew up here in the late 70's to '90s I would have to say this is a fair depiction of the place, my Mum grew up post war in the Bournville estate; it was poor but ok then but sadly no longer; the whole family has watched the decline of Weston with sadness; all that said; when the sun is shining the front is still ok!>.....
In the drone shot of the coach park at 1:15, you can see 4 caravans. They were actually still there on Sunday and actually got onto a bus and started playing with buttons. Thankfully they were moved on.
Also big up MT Games! Great shop!
It is a culture that should be preserved as part of multicultural diversity apparently. They get way worse if you put them in houses btw.
Some of my favourite content. Always fun and informative.
Bristol would be a fun one to do.......and if you can stomach it, an in-depth on Newport (the gwent one) will make you think twice about how bad Weston is
Your commentary and description is the pure joy to hear im always in tears of laughter 😅 you sir are a true word Smith 😊
Just completed my entire last project of my architecture and planning degree on this town. What a palce, man...
"Place" or "palace"?! 🤣
Gangstalking goes on here ! Pure Evil
I spent two years going to Weston College and saw the good, bad and ugly back in the early 90’s. It’s defo deteriorated since then as Worle expanded and the high street died.
I much prefer this good and the bad format. Great drones shots.
Gangstalking goes on here!! An evil place evil locals !!!
M.T. Games looks absolutely amazing. What a shop. 👍
mate, your on the thinnest of thin ice here! this is a weekend and daytrip favourite of millions of Midlanders, and it holds a very special place in their hearts
I used to go to Bath every year to stay with my Uncle Joe in the late 1970s and very early 1980s, I remember going from Bath to Weston Super Mare on day trips by train.... I loved it! I was only 8 - 13 years old, and I only remember walking from the station to the beach... not like you describe.
Spot on for W-s-M, looking forward to your Bristol video.
Had the joy of spending a couple of years at RAF Locking. It was in two stints, December 83 to May 85. Then September 85 to March 86. So two winters, and only one summer. Memories? The railway station, and phoning ARC Taxis to get a cab from the station back to camp from Paddington station on a Sunday afternoon. The Cabot, which I think is still open even now, for a few drunken sessions.
Haha sounds legit, My Parents lived in the marriage quarters there as my Dad was a RAF carpenter till 83 so sadly just missed ya lol, for some reason after moving from base to base they settled in WSM and then I arrived 85, place spaced mee out and still does lol, great all the drone footage.
Sad news Alan the cabots a blnging wetherspoons now.
Great format, exited for the Bristol vid
Agree with a lot of this video. When it’s bad it bad but the good is great. Some hidden gems.
fantastic a new video perfect timing love the channel and thank you for the new upload .
enjoyed the format and can't wait to see Bristol!
Very accurate. I grew up in Weston before moving to London 9 years ago, and every time I go back to visit my parents it just gets more depressing. It's always been a bit rough with deeply impoverished areas, but at least Weston high street used to have proper shops. At least M.T Games is still going, I used to spend all my pocket-money in there.
If you want to see class disparity in action, go loiter around the adjoining car parks for the Waitrose and the Asda, its surreal. The weird thing about Weston is that the town's wealth is very symbolic. If you're posh then you live on the hill. If you're middle class then you live along the base of the hill. And if you're poor then you live on the flood lands.
Good video and quite accurate in it's description of Weston, i used to work here back in the 1970s and by the sound of it nothing has changed, can not wait for Bristol Turd Towns, a place i know very well.
I like the place, yes it is run-down and under-invested in but the natural beauty there is stunning, huge beach with Brean down at one end and views across to Wales. There are some wonderful late Georgian Crescents that would cost millions if they were in Bath for example. Michel angelos is a brilliant restaurant and the Lions Ale and Cider festival is amazing. Got to look on the brightside, just needs new renovation and more help for the home-less.
yeo, when I moved from my hometown of Bath to Weston, I was surprised how many similar buildings there were, alright they are mixed in between burnt out hotels and crack dens but they are there and some are truly beautiful
@@primordialpouch565 LOL! :) I also forgot that The Criterion up that end of town is (was maybe, as haven't been in there for a while) a lovely friendly pub. Dauncey's hotel could be a great place if cruise ships could use a functioning Birnbeck Pier).. Or a ferry service to Cardiff..
You’ve got to do 8 worst places in Kent, I’m struggling to condense my own list to just 8! Keep up the good work ⭐️
I’m from Weston and Kent is the closest I have seen to a similar kind of turdtown environment.
Yeah I'm from Dartford, Kent is such a mixed bag you got places like Chatham, Dover, Maidstone etc and then you got places like Tunbridge wells, Sevenoaks and West Malling
Originally from dartford. Lived in Gillingham for a bit before escaping
Chatham
Sheppey
Dover
Gravesend
Strood
Swanley
So many
@@billytompkins6633 yeah I was thinking Chatham, Gravesend, Gillingham, Dover, Folkestone, anywhere on Sheppey, Belvedere/North Heath and the worst of all for me Thamesmead or Slade Green!
@@Footie158 yeah definitely I know those parts well
Good format - I’m liking the comparisons of the comfortably off with the desperation of the poor, and the ruined town centre. Levelling up? Hahaha 🤣
Absolutely fantastic. Well done.
I really like the full log episodes!
Shocking that the counsel would pay £280,000 for that monstrosity! Who signed that off!
Someone with no idea who lives in Uphill!
Councillor John Crockford Hawley signed it off@@johnbaldwin143
hilarious description of the areas! it is a privilege watching one of your vids lol. would love to see you do Liverpool L1 to L8
Lived on the Bournville for a year - ended up moving back to Easton in Bristol with no regrets. Just shows how bad it was. Can confirm that M.T. Games is excellent though, worth a visit!
I had an uncle who lived here used to love going here as a kid in the 70s
Another great video!
I love your channel & content, which is much appeciated, as it is just what I say!
Your channel is a bit like a video version of the "Crap Towns" books, which came out a few years back, although it covered all the UK!
We live in Burnham-on-Sea, which is worse than Weston-Super-Mare, but luckilly it has some good things around the area here, compared to Taunton(born & raised there!).
We go to Weston, most months as there are great restaurants like Italian Ilmichaelangelo's, opposite Knightstone Island, Christopher's Chocolates(a few doors down from your favourite indy shop!), and it has a Waitrose!!!
The beach is far better than awful Burnham-on-Sea, too!!!
Dude burnham is no way worse. It’s not even bad 😂
I collected the Crap Towns books a few years ago off eBay. Perfect “avoidance” focused guide books!
I like the mixed format! Good to see some gems in along the rest!
I was born on the Bourneville in 1973.. left there was I was 4 when my folks moved to The Coronation estate. Had an horrendous time at Broadoak school at the hands of the typical inbred chavs. My parents bucked the trend of being kept down by the locals and finally escaped to Bleadon Village in 1990 From there, I moved to Backwell and now live in the beautiful village of Wick near bath. I went from 'Born Vile' to now owning a successful pair of film studios in central Bristol, just proving you *can* escape and climb the ladder. I absolutely loathe going back to Weston these days. You can take the boy out of Weston and, as it turns out, you can excrete the Weston out of the boy as well...
Your videos are hilarious! You still have so many areas to cover.. you should look at Nailsea next to Backwell. I have a feeling you'd 'enjoy' it. lol
Brilliant! Couldn’t stop laughing, your delivery is spot on. We think Yeovil is bad, but at least we live on a hill on the edge of town, and not anywhere near as bad as Weston. 🤨
Look up gangstalking!
Enjoyed a good Log , keep 'em coming !
Very proud to see North Worle on the list! Can even see my parents house in the drone video!
North Worle. Weston's very own Siberia.
Another most excellant video , keep up the great work .
An excellent video as always!
Oh my god, you actually made a point about MT Games! I loved that shop! ❤
😊 love your videos always make me laugh. Cheers 🍻
It's a thumbs up from me. I get excited when you release new videos.
It's always been a dump, just proves that living by the seaside doesn't mean you're in a posh area, regardless of house prices. Agree with you about Sand Bay and Kewstoke, probably the best place to live near Weston.
It was a nice place back in the 60's, really gone downhill in the last 20 years though.
Fantastic 😀 Like the video style too. Just wait until you get to Swindon!
Brilliant channel.New subscriber here,thanks for your brilliant humour.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant videos, loving both formats, keep them comingg!!
I already know what Bristol is going to look like but I still wanna see you cover it…knowle west, hartcliff, withywood, Whitchurch kingswood all going to be on the places to avoid like the plague in Bristol 😂
Tbh I would say Kingswood isn't quite in the big leagues, Lawrence Weston, Hartcliffe and THAT part of Knowle West are the three worst places. I worked door to door in every council estate in Bristol and nothing came close to Hartcliffe, it was absolutely the most depressing isolated place out of them all.
@@GamiGreen oh I forgot about Lawrence Weston 🫨, I lived in hartcliff and in knowle and it truly made me depressed and the people are umm let’s say not nice 😅
I lived in hartcliffe for just 3yrs b4 l moved away from that dump, the place should be carpet bombed!
Should do Luton as well that place is a dump 😂😂
Can't believe they got promoted to the premier League 😆
For the love of God why wasn't Harlow carpet bombed to the salted earth to cleanse us of this foul and evil place ?
@@Fubar1462 Perhaps this is the only good thing they have. Let’s wait and see
Luton’s a failed society - Tristan tate
@@nou8438 Councils bumped loads of refugees out of London and up to Luton. Until it was full, then Leicester.
I live in a turdtown, Skelmersdale.
Built as an overflow for Liverpool, it's copy and pasted box houses from the 60s mixed with industrial estates, random big green areas and then the odd set of new builds that look way out of place.
Some areas around here are legit uncomfortable to be in for fear of getting stabbed by a 13 year old dressed like a roadman, some make me feel like I'm the rabble.
Stop by for a brew and a crackhead encounter 😂
Ah the Skem. A true turd.
Love the format, plus it's v accurate depiction of Weston Super Mould 😂
I liived there for 20 years and loved the place. It isnt perfect but after living in Erdington it is a paradise! Enjoyed the vid. No mention of the Old Town Quarry and Rowan Tree Cafe which is the best place in the area in my opinion.
Love your channel , at last someone who is shining a light on the british disease to trash their towns. Although it sounds all negative its balanced with a great sense of humour. I prefer the 5 to 7 min videos as I put a load together to watch while having lunch or dinner , but every now and then I'll watch a 26 minuter .
What a Thursday evening treat, may the algorithm forever be in your favour 👍🏻
I lived, for a couple of years, in Kewstoke, whilst I was at Weston College. I agree it’s nicer than much of Weston and would be a decent choice to buy. I remembered the tolled coastal road going there that non-locals ignored the low speed limits signs on and routinely drove off, down the cliff.
The locals’ version of Death Race 2000; and if you’re under breeding age, you get a Darwin Award too!
@@martinross5521 😅
Love it chum, WHEN you come to Wiltshire let me know, I'll show you Westbury or trowvegas
Looking forward to you doing East Sussex and Warwickshire!
Love your commentary, priceless 🤣
I had no idea Weston has so many problems and they say it's grim up north. Great video though- - thanks.
They house a lot of ex offenders and addicts there, similar to Yeovil and Blackpool
So sorry to hear Weston gone this way in my days there at college was a beautiful town in late 70s ...very sad ...
I lived in Portsmouth for a number of years...plenty of material there.
Ive lived in Weston my whole life (born 1985) and i do feel this town has gone downhill massively. Both my parents and brother no longer live here as they think its such a sh*thole. I live on worlebury hill and have to drive through the town centre at night when on the way home from work. Its rife with heroin and spice addicts. Even in day time if you drive through town you have to be on your gaurd because if not you'll knock them over where they stumble in road as they are so out of it, oblivious to whats going on. Once im able to, ill be moving away from here in the coming years. Its depressing knowing how much better this place once was. Never perfect but it was an alright place to live and raise a family. Good video and totally on par with this place.
Funny you said about saving on a proper rehab centre, there's a huge one in Kewstoke called Cygnet!
Weston-super-Nightmare! And always will be.
I simply love how cutting your humour is!!!! 😂😂😂
I love watching your videos, they make me laugh till i cry, please keep doing them, they cheer me up..😂
Really like your videos very honest .
I am in the US. About then years ago, I played onstage in a production of “Noises Off” and Weston-Super-Mare was referenced as a place the “play within a play” was supposed to open. I’d never heard of it before that. Then, about five years ago, I caught a Brit show on our local public TV station called “The Cafe”. Strange little show. Interesting, but not very funny, but it was set in WSM.
Yes it was a tad odd, very good cast of actors.
I absolutely love "Noises Off". It's such a clever play. Sardines anyone?
I live in Weston-super-Mare and it is much nicer than the commentator portrays. Roald Dahl, John Cleese, Rupert Graves and Jill Dando were born here.
Also "The Cafe" was filmed opposite where I live.
@@dean9235 This is wonderful to know. Thank you for sharing.
@@LyleFrancisDelp when I saw "Noises Off" it starred Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket) as Dotty. It was fabulous!
@@dean9235 Oh! You saw the original? Paul Eddington as well? What a treat!!!
A holiday caravan at Weston Super Mud should have been advertised as 2 minutes from the beach, 3 days from the sea!
I visited the National Trust site at Kewstoke a couple of years ago. The views from the top of the hill were beautiful.
I was there last week the sea front looked so rundown 😱and the streets behind were derelict, all the old cafés were shut a real same!! 🧐🇬🇧 I go to Clevedon now.
WSM is just a depressing place all round. Had an ex-gf from there who took me on a trip home for a weekend. I tried to hide it from her but it was one of the saddest shitholes I've been to in the UK, and I've lived all over the country.
MT Games looks great however. Shame I never got to see it, as it'd be right up my street.
This format is great and would suit Reading extremely well as it has a few nice areas and some unimaginable dumps as well... (see Coley, Cemetary Junction, Oxford road)
For real, Reading is one of my least favourite places I've ever been in the UK, but I only really saw the city centre
@@GamiGreenyou didnt miss anything!
12:18 that car though 😂😂
It used to be the car crying in the tv ads. Now it’s ready salted and rusting away.
I am German and my English isn´t good enough to understand what you say. I looked for the song: Song for Weston super mare , when I was preparing for a classwork of my grandchild. This song is in her English book for class 6 ( she is twelve.) You have so beautiful beaches why is that so terrible there, like in the GDR in the eighties. I think it is like all over the world some get richer and we others getting worse.
north worle is massive i mean massive and likely bigger than wsm, you walked down a few very select streets that still have a few council flats, the vast majority of north worle are private homes, this can be looked up pretty easily and u also took drone shots of houses mainly built in the 70s so ofc no matter how hard u try from the sky its gonna look shit, most public greens or stretches of green near roads are left unkept for wilding. been living in worle for 20 years, its completely safe to walk around at night. its very quite considering its so vast, has some of the best schools in Somerset. huge amount of shops, easy commutes to Bristol and London (train taking 2 hours), plenty of supermarkets, plenty of shopping centres, plenty of well rated GP's, consistently had the lowest covid numbers i most of the uk (something normally linked to poverty ). while weston has a bad rep it is completely taken out of context and inflated by the small few.
weston is just like any SINGLE town in the uk and if not one of top 10 sea resorts in the way of investment, as for worst town in Somerset never been to Bridgewater then
the reason there are so many druggies in Weston is because there are so many drug rehabilitation centres and honestly never once seen some on on the street doing drugs, weed maybe but who cares. its a shame u decided to take the small minority of complaints
Is Turdtowns going to be exclusively the UK or will you visit other countries like Ireland and Northern Ireland? Would also be cool.
as he said, they are very expensive to produce, I assume from that that he will cover all of the English and Welsh counties first as they are slightly easier to get to from the west country then expand later on once the funding is there
I would love to get over there. Would be very expensive. I’m trying to figure out ways that I can put more of these out. I wanna go everywhere in the UK so Northern Ireland to Ipswich
@@Turdtowns How local are you that you used WsM as a trial? (and then Bristol for the first city?)
@@CrazyInWeston he's got a 'stolian accent so I'd say very close
an excellent review of weston , cant wait for brizzle !!
Went there for a day out a few years back. The pier was interesting. Funny thing is I'm from Cardiff and you can see it from the pier but it's a few hours drive to get there.
I was born in Weston in 1960.
I live in Perth Australia these days.
Picked a Brummie girl up at Mr. B's nightclub in the late 70's.
While waiting for a cab she whispered in my ear "I want you to kiss and lick me where it smells"
So I took her to the Bourneville and kissed her there.