G'Day Wandering Turnip from Australia. Just wanted to say how much I admire the way you interact with people - genuinely interested, respectful and friendly. You have respect for your country and its heritage and your comments show common sense. Well done!
Just discovered this channel. I've been walking the British south coast as a 18-19 year old youngster. (being 58 now). Traveled along with a trucker to Bristol, hiked to the coast from there (blind coincidence brought me to Burnham on Sea). Walked the coast from Burnham to Ilfracombe. Hithhiked to Plymouth and walked / hiked the coast up to Bognor Regis. I remember those big pubs/café's and the 'fish & chip' spots in some of the cities were I stayed in small B&B's.
Great stuff David👍💪💯🎉, as a pub lover from Italy😁 it's heartbreaking to see how many pubs get shut down and left to rot. Thank you for giving them a voice and spread awareness to support small businesses!! And Ted is lovely❤
This is literally at the end of my street. They have planning for a load of flats with garden and parking? They closed just after covid. Hopefully they make it something nice because it’s got fire engines outside at least once a month My boyfriend just told me it tried a re launch after covid and BBCC played there 😂
I’m new to your channel, I think it’s great to highlight how much the uk is changing. I can’t see the high street ever being what it was. Our lives are now so different from the lives even our parents lived. I believe we are in a period of great change. Which can be scary but also exciting to see how it will go. I’d be interested to see a video on your opinion on what should happen to these buildings if they are not going to be used as shops anymore. Do you think knocking down allot of the more ugly buildings to make way for more open spaces would be good? Also I live in Southwell (small town just outside of nottingham) with a thriving high street made up by almost completely independent shops, it would probably make for an interesting visit for you to see how that works.
its sad to see all these abandoned corner pub. it shows the changes in the communities and peoples habits through time. during my college years in early 2000s, all corner pubs are packs with people as the night comes.
Whenever I watch stuff like this, I always end up thinking "imagine the builders completing it, standing back and being proud. Driving past with their mates/families "yeah, I put them windows in" (or whatever). Then the first person to buy the place, how happy they must have been to finally being a pub landlord, serving their first pint. Then all the parties/functions, all the regulars coming in at the same time, all the arguments and conversations that went on. Passing of the torch when the landlord retired. Then at some point the dreaded "we can't afford to keep open" and all the finals that happened there ... the final pints, the final piss in the toilets etc. then the final time locking up" It's bitter sweet how things open and close. Sure it'd be great to just have nothing age but at the same time, if nothing changes, nothing ever improves...
Old pubs for sale are always bought by developers who just knock them down to build crappy rabbit hutches then sell them for higher price than anyone local can ever afford.
Yep - that's happened to 3 of my local pubs I can think of, though they've converted the pub building into flats, which I suppose is a 'tiny' bit better as the original building remains, but still a shame.
You should contact those who bought the pub for £240,000 and see if you can document their attempts to restore it. It could create a lot of good publicity for it.
I live on this street, it's been bought and sold a few times recently, someone comes in and does some work on it and then local kids break in, smash a load of stuff up and then it gets abandoned again. Last lot put in all new windows and they were smashed out within a week or two.
There's a beautiful church for sale in Grimsby...I think 250 pound is pretty cheap...in perfect nick...apparently heating can be a problem...but It's a beauty.
I am so grateful that I was lucky enough to grow up in an age when all the local pubs were still going strong. The digital generation(s) will never really know how much they have missed out on.
When I left the UK in 1998 all the pubs seemed to be packed and doing OK. Each visit back it was worse. And the last time in 2012 I was shocked by the number boarded up. After Covid that was probably the final straw for many. Such a shame. I didn't like the town pubs as a country boy. But the community in the small country ones was great. Massive loss to community relations and adds to how people all living in one street no longer know each other. When I was young you knew most people in the village.
That snooker table would have cost thousands, and maintenance would have cost hundreds every year. Why was it abandoned? Because these tables are so heavy, specialist contractors have to be engaged to remove them. The cost of that outweighed the value of the table. Three good tables were left on the first floor when my social club closed and the building demolished
Another great video. Speaking about the Community Pubs you must have heard of the Puzzle Hall Inn Sowerby Bridge which was saved and refurbished by Community members? Used to be a great music venue even though the place is tiny?
Even stonegate with its vast portfolio is owned by TDR capital which has an even bigger portfolio. Private equity firms have destroyed so many businesses.
Yes, there’s a big story here about what happens with businesses bought up (often at above-value) with cheap borrowing when the interest rates go up. Those increased costs get passed on to the customers (also being squeezed harder by their own commitments) - there’s a hole of debt waiting to implode.
Can you live in these exclusively though? Or are they partially commercial properties? I do see a lot of pubs which are huge and cheap all over the country
Britain is in trouble but I don’t think it’s being mentioned enough. We keep building high rises with commercial space below and they’re left empty most of the time because no business can survive.
Brilliant vid..love all this..I got into a few closed Pubs in Salford back in the 80's, even liberated a handpump. Love the Fox n Goose..contributed to their beer garden in Lockdown. Inspired me to return to do a vid on Hebden Bridge Pubs. Great dog as well Dave..👏👏
Scotland are putting about 100 old churches up for sale soon. Falling clientele or falling standards who knows. But I bet some of them are in a right mess. Others might be beutiful full of original fetures. But still cost a ton to keep and convert
In my area we had a lot of old pubs that we thought were going to close. Until an influx of Poles started visiting them often. And a few years later those numbers dwindled again... And now we have more folk in the country that don't want anything to do with pubs ;)
It's not that they're unwanted, unfortunately they've been made largely to be an unaffordable way of socialising for most and not a profitable business unless a quirky bar in an affluent area
ive seen a lot of pubs that have closed not due to lack of customers but too many of the wrong type of customers, becomes full of dealers, idiots and alcoholics. its a shame but its real life right now
I hate seeing abandoned pubs. These buildings should be full of people having a good time. Cheap supermarket beers and the covid lockdown have both contributed to the demise of the pub.
THE woodend used to be on the pool circuit the snooker table was always like the lane ends table busy then.....smoke ban last i was there was a 50th bar cheap pints,,,,,,food brill,,,,, payed my bill they made a loss even tho about 70 turned up to sandys -60th ,,,,next day dropped 50 bar to help landlady said thats the staff bill paid ,, i ask and u she shrugged and melted into my arms now u say hold on a 60th and 50th ???? yep i was a toy boy sep 30th 58 n 68 still they made a loss
Mate, you seem like you have some great stories to tell. Unfortunately, it is near to impossible to try and understand what you're saying. Hope you can rewrite it with slightly better grammar, doesn't have to be perfect.
@@modernista6056 But is the land solely worth 240k with added demolition costs? You would have to know what 1/4 of an arche goes for in that part of the world.
Lol…some of the things he says are utter laughable Kate There’s one thing showing things but having deep understanding and plans and visions etc are another universe lol
Great video yet again and thank you for showing us what’s out there. I’m not gonna be popular for saying this but some of the pubs are on a lot of land and I agree with building flats and houses as we need more homes… all the families that are struggling with no fault evictions and so on… having said that I do think some should come back I also think the days of the community centres are long gone too. The world has changed which is sad in some respects but perhaps we should be thinking about how high is the demand? I watched your video on the residents buying their pub and loved it. This was so special but it was a more prosperous area and it’s not gonna work for everyone. Whatever happens I hope it’s for the good of the communities so I suppose we’re on the same page with that. Love all of your videos and I look forward to more. 🥰
Too bad most are in a right state and hard to revive. Would be such a shame when the buildings with curb appeal are knocked down and replaced with a characterless block of flats. Great towards the housing crisis but the British heritage will be gone forever, bit by bit.
Due to the spread of Islam throughout Bradford, many pubs and clubs have closed over the years. 25% of Bradford's population are Muslim, the West Yorkshire town with the highest Muslim population is Dewsbury at 54%. I remember The Hare & Hounds well, it is in the Highgate area of Bradford, just off the A647, I used to call in there on my motorcycle in the early 1980's for a few drinks on my way back to Halifax.
If this pub is in a area of Bradford that has a big Muslim population it might have closed because they don't drink alcohol. So it won't have been used much
Muslim’s do drink alcohol. I have sold over 50000 containers of alcohol to Muslim countries. The cost of alcohol in the pubs compared to the supermarkets, the smoking ban, the financial crisis , the cost of living crisis, social media meaning pubs are not needed as social hubs, the smoking ban and youth not drinking alcohol in the amounts previous generations have all killed the UK pub trade. This is NOT a religious thing!
Pubs are closing everywhere, so the problem is certainly not only due to an issue with high concentrations of Muslims, but having mostly non-alcohol drinking Muslims on your doorstep is certainly not going to help!
Vandalism happens everywhere on the planet to abandoned buildings,the only factor is proximity to people,so if the building is somewhere where you need a car to get to will have less vandalism then something in the city centre
2:51 most of the time a boozer gets shut down is when an estate gets erected nearby as the home owners reject the pub as they don’t want late night music and the rest of the shit that comes with a boozer. So I’m sure it’s nothing to do with cheap beer from a supermarket.
It's a change in lifestyles when people have to work unsociable shifts/weekends and mortgage so hefty they can't afford to go to the pub so just get cans in the house. Also, the type of clientele in pubs is not the cloth cap and whippet type it's young and rowdy.
Also its because some couples stop going out when they get together and especially when they have children. Most of these people stop living when this happens.
That first pub was a 70s shit hole, not even a nice building that needs to be restored. You can’t wish things back to life, It failed because it wasn’t profitable. Times have changed, people can’t afford to drink out like they used to, so when they do go out - it’s got to tick a lot of boxes.
There is one in Huddersfield. Just after Chapel Hill opposite the turn onto St Thomas' Road. Though it might have been an asian restaurant for a while.
Congratulations on 100k subs. I think you'd do justice to the topic of Bonnie Prince Charlie's retreat from Derby. He went through Manchester, Wigan and onward to Kendal. A few places on the route have plaques to show where he stayed, including Wigan my hometown. Cool piece of overlooked history.
Ive always thought it would be interesting to buy an old pub and turn it into a massive house but looking at the estate around the woodend pub this might be a bad idea.
Always appreciate watching, listening and yes.. walking with the WT. WT’s presentations are so incredibly informative that I tend to watch each one at least twice. Just watched the exploration of the pub for sale and the abandon pub. As always… great narrative. After watching all WT’s videos on pubs in England, I now realize the facilities were more than a “bar” as we call them here in the US. The pubs (which I like to think is short for “public”) is a place of community. When the pub is gone, so follows the community. Sad. As a suggestion, I would love to see a collaboration with WT and the other UA-camr - Tweedy Pubs. Just a thought.
Welcome to bradistan....the pub is abandoned and derelict, for a fookin reason.....nobody from the east, 🍸 drinks, alcohol.....a lot of people from the east right where u are now..boom...
If and when this pub is fixed up could local farmer could redo it together and make it a food store/ cafe and microbrewery seller. Maybe an apartment upstairs making it something everyone needs in this community. I get the feeling the latter will happen. Great sponsor :) 240 is a bargain for it though will have to spend that much to make it into whatever is next good luck to the new owner :) . You could make 3 houses out of that other one but most likely will be knocked down.
Seemed overpriced at the guide price so to me it looks like they overpaid for it at 240k. Doesn't look like it's on a very big plot but if it didn't work as a pub then it's unlikely to work after all the costs of restoring it. Needs pulling down and replacing with some more houses or maybe a block of flats over just two floors, maybe retirement flats.
I haven't been in a pub for years, most of my friends drink and meet up at home, it's so much cheaper. I remember a really early Wandering Turnip where you looked at empty pubs near you, are they still empty? Quality as usual 👍
@@davewordsworth1251 I'm not rich! Both pubs in my village are way too expensive, not free houses either. Lots of pubs have lost their original character, so many are dull, faceless establishments selling rubbish beer.
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140k doesn't sound cheap to me for such a dilapidated mess. Not like there's not other ex pubs for sale there... and it's Bradford not Basingstoke...
G'Day Wandering Turnip from Australia. Just wanted to say how much I admire the way you interact with people - genuinely interested, respectful and friendly. You have respect for your country and its heritage and your comments show common sense. Well done!
Just discovered this channel. I've been walking the British south coast as a 18-19 year old youngster. (being 58 now). Traveled along with a trucker to Bristol, hiked to the coast from there (blind coincidence brought me to Burnham on Sea). Walked the coast from Burnham to Ilfracombe. Hithhiked to Plymouth and walked / hiked the coast up to Bognor Regis. I remember those big pubs/café's and the 'fish & chip' spots in some of the cities were I stayed in small B&B's.
Great stuff David👍💪💯🎉, as a pub lover from Italy😁 it's heartbreaking to see how many pubs get shut down and left to rot. Thank you for giving them a voice and spread awareness to support small businesses!! And Ted is lovely❤
"Not had a Carling since I was 14" 😂 love it!
Greetings from Wakefield (West Yorkshire) 😊
This is literally at the end of my street. They have planning for a load of flats with garden and parking? They closed just after covid. Hopefully they make it something nice because it’s got fire engines outside at least once a month
My boyfriend just told me it tried a re launch after covid and BBCC played there 😂
Same! So crazy to see something so close go so big 😂😂
I’m new to your channel, I think it’s great to highlight how much the uk is changing. I can’t see the high street ever being what it was. Our lives are now so different from the lives even our parents lived. I believe we are in a period of great change. Which can be scary but also exciting to see how it will go. I’d be interested to see a video on your opinion on what should happen to these buildings if they are not going to be used as shops anymore. Do you think knocking down allot of the more ugly buildings to make way for more open spaces would be good?
Also I live in Southwell (small town just outside of nottingham) with a thriving high street made up by almost completely independent shops, it would probably make for an interesting visit for you to see how that works.
What is exciting about it exactly?
its sad to see all these abandoned corner pub. it shows the changes in the communities and peoples habits through time. during my college years in early 2000s, all corner pubs are packs with people as the night comes.
Whenever I watch stuff like this, I always end up thinking "imagine the builders completing it, standing back and being proud. Driving past with their mates/families "yeah, I put them windows in" (or whatever). Then the first person to buy the place, how happy they must have been to finally being a pub landlord, serving their first pint. Then all the parties/functions, all the regulars coming in at the same time, all the arguments and conversations that went on. Passing of the torch when the landlord retired. Then at some point the dreaded "we can't afford to keep open" and all the finals that happened there ... the final pints, the final piss in the toilets etc. then the final time locking up"
It's bitter sweet how things open and close. Sure it'd be great to just have nothing age but at the same time, if nothing changes, nothing ever improves...
Damn that's a really good comment. I absolutely do the same and you just articulated that feeling so well. You, stranger, are a very good writer 👏
Love Turnip,so much energy and honesty and he has no stupid music in the background.
Old pubs for sale are always bought by developers who just knock them down to build crappy rabbit hutches then sell them for higher price than anyone local can ever afford.
yep, it will be 4 floor bedsit land, or the other cheep option a HMO house of multiple occupancy full of dr gs
Unless they try and burn them down and get ordered to build them exactly as before. Ha! (Crooked house)
Yes houses like across the road. I hate pubs vanishing but anyone spending a year and £200k rebuilding this is mentally ill.
Nothing stopping a half dozen families pooling money and convert it to big accommodation that’s £20,000 each
Yep - that's happened to 3 of my local pubs I can think of, though they've converted the pub building into flats, which I suppose is a 'tiny' bit better as the original building remains, but still a shame.
You should contact those who bought the pub for £240,000 and see if you can document their attempts to restore it. It could create a lot of good publicity for it.
Good idea 👍
I live on this street, it's been bought and sold a few times recently, someone comes in and does some work on it and then local kids break in, smash a load of stuff up and then it gets abandoned again. Last lot put in all new windows and they were smashed out within a week or two.
Imagine the number of 1 bed flats you could put in that dump
It's a bit like Clark Kent/Superman...regular clobber? David. North Face gear? OH MY, IT'S THE TURNIP!
I'd love for you to go to St. Helens, Merseyside and film round there. More shops closed than open. That would be great viewing 😊
There's a beautiful church for sale in Grimsby...I think 250 pound is pretty cheap...in perfect nick...apparently heating can be a problem...but It's a beauty.
I am so grateful that I was lucky enough to grow up in an age when all the local pubs were still going strong. The digital generation(s) will never really know how much they have missed out on.
I need to start calling my kitchen the "Food Room"
It proper made me laugh
Turnip, at the end, a pint, in a leafy outdoor garden....with THAT dog! Life is good!
The first pub looks like it died off along with its clientele.
When I left the UK in 1998 all the pubs seemed to be packed and doing OK. Each visit back it was worse. And the last time in 2012 I was shocked by the number boarded up. After Covid that was probably the final straw for many. Such a shame. I didn't like the town pubs as a country boy. But the community in the small country ones was great. Massive loss to community relations and adds to how people all living in one street no longer know each other. When I was young you knew most people in the village.
So, where are you now in the world, and do they have pubs?
It wasn't Covid remember, it was the lockdowns - imposed by the government whilst they had parties at number 10.
@@howardlake6178 Australia. Lots of pubs.
I lived in Oz and country pubs in Victoria were bland.
You are not wrong. Lots of pubs but not many good ones. I call them plastic pubs. A gambling and drinking culture. @@JoolsUK
Bradford…we know why the pub is shut
That looks like the pub in Shameless 😂
That snooker table would have cost thousands, and maintenance would have cost hundreds every year. Why was it abandoned? Because these tables are so heavy, specialist contractors have to be engaged to remove them. The cost of that outweighed the value of the table.
Three good tables were left on the first floor when my social club closed and the building demolished
Contract for refit recladed. New plumbing. Electrical. Multiple occupants license or many master suites
£240K Not a steal. Most property a investor sit on it, mates in planning, flats to be built for so called professionals 😂😂. The elitist dream, The UK
Phoenix Nights 😅
That was a sad snooker table 😢
Market research, to see what's needed. Or rezoning criteria
All of the pubs near me have either turned into a morrisons or a sainsos.
That snooker table probably cost at least 10 grand 😢
Another great video. Speaking about the Community Pubs you must have heard of the Puzzle Hall Inn Sowerby Bridge which was saved and refurbished by Community members? Used to be a great music venue even though the place is tiny?
Demographics are the main reason for pubs shutting in places like bradford.
I've searched thouands of roads on google maps and its the 2008 financial crisis which is the start of the decay in the UK.
Decay of the UK started in 1997 when Tony Blair became Prime Minister.
From then some idiot MP decided to fix a debt problem by creating more debt, hence the inflation we have now.
@@johntheaccountant5594 You could go back to any number of points over the last 100 years as the start of the decline.
@@johntheaccountant5594 Yes John,Blair should be locked up,but he will get his comeuppance one day
@@johntheaccountant5594 major was rubbish as well
Land value minus demolition costs only id say..building is too far gone.
Hey new to your channel … I am not to from here trust me it was a rough pub 😂❤
Even stonegate with its vast portfolio is owned by TDR capital which has an even bigger portfolio. Private equity firms have destroyed so many businesses.
Yes, there’s a big story here about what happens with businesses bought up (often at above-value) with cheap borrowing when the interest rates go up.
Those increased costs get passed on to the customers (also being squeezed harder by their own commitments) - there’s a hole of debt waiting to implode.
Can you live in these exclusively though? Or are they partially commercial properties? I do see a lot of pubs which are huge and cheap all over the country
I've lived in around a dozen pubs and they've always been huge, tall ceilings, 4 floors tall
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Would probably purchase the property demolish the dwelling. Build a new structure.
Britain is in trouble but I don’t think it’s being mentioned enough. We keep building high rises with commercial space below and they’re left empty most of the time because no business can survive.
Taxes are far too high now, it’s not worth running your own business
Brilliant vid..love all this..I got into a few closed Pubs in Salford back in the 80's, even liberated a handpump. Love the Fox n Goose..contributed to their beer garden in Lockdown. Inspired me to return to do a vid on Hebden Bridge Pubs. Great dog as well Dave..👏👏
Got a photo of the interior of this pub, but nowhere to post it to.
Scotland are putting about 100 old churches up for sale soon. Falling clientele or falling standards who knows. But I bet some of them are in a right mess. Others might be beutiful full of original fetures. But still cost a ton to keep and convert
@@dcallan812 a bunch of tons i reckon..
Protestant churches no doubt. What a silly phase Protestantism is 🤡
The sign does say "Free House."
😂
Very good video and great insight to the loss of our pubs 😊
It is so sad that pubs aren't wanted anymore 😢
In my area we had a lot of old pubs that we thought were going to close.
Until an influx of Poles started visiting them often.
And a few years later those numbers dwindled again...
And now we have more folk in the country that don't want anything to do with pubs ;)
It's not that they're unwanted, unfortunately they've been made largely to be an unaffordable way of socialising for most and not a profitable business unless a quirky bar in an affluent area
Who wants to sit in a smelly old pub with a bunch of alcoholics in 2024 really….
It's really sad. People would rather drive to the supermarket than walk to the pub.
@@michaelgreenhalgh3369 churches are being sold off too….
Windhill, Shipley. Did it used to be a WMC?
ive seen a lot of pubs that have closed not due to lack of customers but too many of the wrong type of customers, becomes full of dealers, idiots and alcoholics. its a shame but its real life right now
All day opening and too many people out of work to sustain it.
It might have been the new neighbours that got the pub shut down for making too much noise.😮
That 1st pub be grow house now
Best of luck to The Wood End pub! 🍻
Now and the future...everyone staying home watching the internet drinking cheap beer and whiskey.
You in the Fox and Goose Hebden Bridge ?
Great vlog fella 👍
Just subbed yesterday...how did you come up with your name ?? Cool content and cheers from your cousins across the pond 😊
During grammar school, his last name (Burnip) was often mispronounced as “Turnip”. So, that’s where the name came from.
I hate seeing abandoned pubs. These buildings should be full of people having a good time. Cheap supermarket beers and the covid lockdown have both contributed to the demise of the pub.
2 years of lockdowns and social restrictions have caused decades of harm and destruction.
And big areas given over to groups of people that don't drink 🍻
Google earth,2025 another pub gone.
Sad,can you imagine all the fun,laughter in that pub,plus the odd fight.
THE woodend used to be on the pool circuit the snooker table was always like the lane ends table busy then.....smoke ban last i was there was a 50th bar cheap pints,,,,,,food brill,,,,, payed my bill they made a loss even tho about 70 turned up to sandys -60th ,,,,next day dropped 50 bar to help landlady said thats the staff bill paid ,, i ask and u she shrugged and melted into my arms now u say hold on a 60th and 50th ???? yep i was a toy boy sep 30th 58 n 68 still they made a loss
Mate, you seem like you have some great stories to tell. Unfortunately, it is near to impossible to try and understand what you're saying. Hope you can rewrite it with slightly better grammar, doesn't have to be perfect.
Ted is gorgeous can we see him more often please
Factor in the renovation cost would probably be triple the asking price.
You reckon, 500k+? I reckon they probably would want to convert into flats.
It'll be flattened, it's the land the buyer wants, that building is way way beyond repair
@@modernista6056 But is the land solely worth 240k with added demolition costs? You would have to know what 1/4 of an arche goes for in that part of the world.
7:57 Our Turnip's identity is definitely hidden behind that mask.. 😁
I can imagine this site will be turned into flats or houses.. loving the vlog! 👍
Wow £240K and no planning permission granted for flats.. 🤷🏻♀️ I am sure the buyer knows what he's doing..
Yay! Ted's back.. 💚🐶
Could become another mosque.
@@johntheaccountant5594 John, please stay off my thread with your constant r*cist comments..
@@johntheaccountant5594 John, please keep your constant r..ist comments off my thread..
@@johntheaccountant5594 Deffo a mosque
these old pubs make great restaurants. people are missing a trick. restaurant and take away.
It could be resurrected as a multi functional space. They look like nice houses opposite. I hope someone does a good reno on this building.
Seriously bro, RUN FOR OFFICE!! Britain 🇬🇧 needs people like you in power, you understand things..
Lol…some of the things he says are utter laughable Kate
There’s one thing showing things but having deep understanding and plans and visions etc are another universe lol
WHO and WEF and the Committee of 300 and the Privy Council run the UK
So do the politicans in power: They get richer, you get poorer.
Speak for yourself pal…I’m getting richer regardless of politics
Just sayin…not sure if I’m allowed to tho lol
@@huna1950 Sorry, on reflection, that comment was funnier in my head than in actual application.
Great video yet again and thank you for showing us what’s out there. I’m not gonna be popular for saying this but some of the pubs are on a lot of land and I agree with building flats and houses as we need more homes… all the families that are struggling with no fault evictions and so on… having said that I do think some should come back I also think the days of the community centres are long gone too. The world has changed which is sad in some respects but perhaps we should be thinking about how high is the demand? I watched your video on the residents buying their pub and loved it. This was so special but it was a more prosperous area and it’s not gonna work for everyone. Whatever happens I hope it’s for the good of the communities so I suppose we’re on the same page with that. Love all of your videos and I look forward to more. 🥰
Absolute class, mate
11:33 You misunderstood. The pub is not called "The"... it's a Braille sign, that pub is only for blind people.
😂😂😂
I would love to turn it in to collectables shop and live upstairs cheers Stephen ✌️
Too bad most are in a right state and hard to revive.
Would be such a shame when the buildings with curb appeal are knocked down and replaced with a characterless block of flats.
Great towards the housing crisis but the British heritage will be gone forever, bit by bit.
Will it eventually become a mosque?
Inshallah
The 2nd was a beautiful old building with plenty of parking. So much potential.
Yes, to turn it into 8 HMO flats and house Sunaks boat people
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not being funny mate but I doubt anyone will remember Sanook as Biden calls him in couple weeks time…which will suit him lol
Due to the spread of Islam throughout Bradford, many pubs and clubs have closed over the years. 25% of Bradford's population are Muslim, the West Yorkshire town with the highest Muslim population is Dewsbury at 54%. I remember The Hare & Hounds well, it is in the Highgate area of Bradford, just off the A647, I used to call in there on my motorcycle in the early 1980's for a few drinks on my way back to Halifax.
If this pub is in a area of Bradford that has a big Muslim population it might have closed because they don't drink alcohol. So it won't have been used much
Muslim’s do drink alcohol. I have sold over 50000 containers of alcohol to Muslim countries.
The cost of alcohol in the pubs compared to the supermarkets, the smoking ban, the financial crisis , the cost of living crisis, social media meaning pubs are not needed as social hubs, the smoking ban and youth not drinking alcohol in the amounts previous generations have all killed the UK pub trade.
This is NOT a religious thing!
@@Jaybeef1it will play a factor in it though , a long with everything you’ve mentioned
@@Jaybeef1 Depends on the type of Muslim. Some Christian sects don't touch alcohol either, like Salvation Army.
Pubs are closing everywhere, so the problem is certainly not only due to an issue with high concentrations of Muslims, but having mostly non-alcohol drinking Muslims on your doorstep is certainly not going to help!
@@Jaybeef1 I'd say >90% of self-professed Muslims will not be drinking alcohol, even the fairly non-religious ones avoid.
Most of the damage is just vandalism. Says a lot about the area.
maybe vandalism is why they left.
'Vandals' took the lead off the roof.
Vandalism happens everywhere on the planet to abandoned buildings,the only factor is proximity to people,so if the building is somewhere where you need a car to get to will have less vandalism then something in the city centre
2:51 most of the time a boozer gets shut down is when an estate gets erected nearby as the home owners reject the pub as they don’t want late night music and the rest of the shit that comes with a boozer. So I’m sure it’s nothing to do with cheap beer from a supermarket.
Yeah good point
It's a change in lifestyles when people have to work unsociable shifts/weekends and mortgage so hefty they can't afford to go to the pub so just get cans in the house.
Also, the type of clientele in pubs is not the cloth cap and whippet type it's young and rowdy.
Also its because some couples stop going out when they get together and especially when they have children. Most of these people stop living when this happens.
@@misscoutts6193 we all work rubbish hours in our lifetime but would you buy a house slap bang in front of a boozer?
@@Answersonapostcard totally agree. I’m one of those.
That first pub was a 70s shit hole, not even a nice building that needs to be restored. You can’t wish things back to life, It failed because it wasn’t profitable. Times have changed, people can’t afford to drink out like they used to, so when they do go out - it’s got to tick a lot of boxes.
There is one in Huddersfield. Just after Chapel Hill opposite the turn onto St Thomas' Road. Though it might have been an asian restaurant for a while.
Pubs have huge overheads that’s why you pay Between £2 - £12 a pint depending which part of the country you’re visiting….avearge pub £5 a pint
"Ted". Great name for a dog. Cheers!
Congratulations on 100k subs. I think you'd do justice to the topic of Bonnie Prince Charlie's retreat from Derby. He went through Manchester, Wigan and onward to Kendal. A few places on the route have plaques to show where he stayed, including Wigan my hometown. Cool piece of overlooked history.
Ive always thought it would be interesting to buy an old pub and turn it into a massive house but looking at the estate around the woodend pub this might be a bad idea.
you should wear a dust mask going in these places that could be asbestos dust all over the place
Looking at the UK now, they'd probably have tremendous success converting it into a mosque 👌🏿
A pub in Bradford isn't going to be very popular 😂😂😂
Always appreciate watching, listening and yes.. walking with the WT. WT’s presentations are so incredibly informative that I tend to watch each one at least twice. Just watched the exploration of the pub for sale and the abandon pub. As always… great narrative. After watching all WT’s videos on pubs in England, I now realize the facilities were more than a “bar” as we call them here in the US. The pubs (which I like to think is short for “public”) is a place of community. When the pub is gone, so follows the community. Sad. As a suggestion, I would love to see a collaboration with WT and the other UA-camr - Tweedy Pubs. Just a thought.
Anyone paying more than £4000 for that place is ripped off. £140k is pure fantasy.
edit: who the hell paid £240k for that shack? Money to the wind
Love it quality as always 👌
Welcome to bradistan....the pub is abandoned and derelict, for a fookin reason.....nobody from the east, 🍸 drinks, alcohol.....a lot of people from the east right where u are now..boom...
Great video mate- more abandoned places in England please
Price is definitely just for the land, the building isn't worth anything.
love the vids mate, big up the turmip
Let a Roomba loose and get a few tins of paint, and you'll fix these up in no time.
If and when this pub is fixed up could local farmer could redo it together and make it a food store/ cafe and microbrewery seller. Maybe an apartment upstairs making it something everyone needs in this community. I get the feeling the latter will happen. Great sponsor :) 240 is a bargain for it though will have to spend that much to make it into whatever is next good luck to the new owner :) . You could make 3 houses out of that other one but most likely will be knocked down.
Maybe a community centre or nursey/kindergarten. But the govt don't do anything that it is in the public interest.
You can convert it into a mosk .
Seemed overpriced at the guide price so to me it looks like they overpaid for it at 240k. Doesn't look like it's on a very big plot but if it didn't work as a pub then it's unlikely to work after all the costs of restoring it. Needs pulling down and replacing with some more houses or maybe a block of flats over just two floors, maybe retirement flats.
Oh that that place is absolutely insane. Congratulations on 100k 🙏🏆
Another great video. Does anybody know what camera David uses ?
DJI pocket 3 👍👍
It’s so good, couldn’t recommend it enough
@wanderingturnip Thanks mate. Keep up the good work. Loving your new YEAH, LOVE THAT channel as well. Great idea.
@wanderingturnip last one I promise. Which drone do you use David ? Thanks ! 😁
I haven't been in a pub for years, most of my friends drink and meet up at home, it's so much cheaper.
I remember a really early Wandering Turnip where you looked at empty pubs near you, are they still empty?
Quality as usual 👍
you are the problem, thats why they are closing
@@davewordsworth1251 I'm not rich! Both pubs in my village are way too expensive, not free houses either.
Lots of pubs have lost their original character, so many are dull, faceless establishments selling rubbish beer.
Its cheaper to drink at home but its less sociable and does nothing for the nighttime/hospitality economy.
First pub looked pretty dry. Odd as when up stairs I saw day light from roof. Surprising lack of mould.
Used to play pool there two decades ago lived on that street before those houses were built we was paid to move so they could be built