Grange Town, just up the road from me, definitely some rough areas, I do find people are genuinely happier up north. More chatty, yeah some are assholes but nothing really compares to northern spirit. I'm near saltburn, I'll never look back. Love my community. Great content as always mate.
Anyone can go to Grange Town at any time and nobody will say anything, that's the least roughest place in the North, I'd say its probably the friendliest and the sort of place where people will help u or invite u in for food
Great video. I grew up on a council estate in the 1970’s and people would help each other and take pride in the area. All that has gone now with this general attitude of entitlement and lack of any deterrent for those who want to create problems
Fell upon your channel no idea how, but I absolutely love your vids. Thanks for these videos mate! Good on you for having an open mind and cheering on britain.
I moved from London to Teeside over 2 years ago, I like to run so I’d regularly go from Redcar down to Boro. A lot of people said I was mental running through Grangetown and South Bank, but I’ve never had even a tiny bit of bother from anybody. As a Londoner born in the city and lived there for 30 years I had an idea of the north and how it was fucked over but not necessarily the finite details. Visiting Kirkleatham Museum was an eye opener as to how big ICI and the steelworks were, the vastness of community and the prestige that employment brought to people. It is borderline criminal how Teeside was failed and the damage done here. I would say though that apart from the odd scally and some pockets of really rough bits … it’s actually nice up here. Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in rough parts of London so I’m comparing it to there but people are friendlier up here. Being British and from Britain kind of feels like working for a big corporation - you love coworkers but you can’t stand most of your bosses. And the coworkers up north are a great bunch 👌
The reputation of Boro being rough is more to do with dealers and debt collectors always 🔪ing each other. 🔪 crime between young people was never a thing when I was a kid, but it’s became common over the last decade. I got jumped a few times as a kid in the 90’s, and there was always that risk if you walked down the wrong street, there was never weapons involved.
Another great upload, would of been interesting to see how things were after dark but great to see some of that proud to be British mentality come through and folks looking oit for each other within the community
Grew up on Teesside and can't say I didn't ever contribute to some of the problems. But, i'm very proud of this area and love it to death and would never leave. Thankyou for showing that it ain't all doom and gloom up north and that there's still a lot of love.
I was brought up that if you wanted anything in life you worked hard for it, we seem to have a generation that feels that the government/council should take care of you. these people need reminding that these authorities don't have any money to do this, other than taxes from the residents i.e. PAYE, VAT & Council Tax. Great video, keep them coming, you have a great way of communicating to locals and getting the best from them.
It should, but where are the jobs for these people to work and pay said taxes? Gov sold industry/they moved to cheaper countries and privatised everything so it runs on skeleton crews and profit margins are the be all and end all for businesses now. There's so much more to it than lay abouts on the dole.
I agree to some degree but i do also think that the government have essentially attempted to neuter everyones free liberty and more of our rights are lost every day under the guise of protecting the public, people have became reliant on the gov because thats what the gov have forced people to do, you have to do it their way or you end up in trouble look at parental rights for example.
Quite depressing and illogical when the country is crying out for housing, to see so many boarded up properties. Surely some proper investment could free some vital housing. People live on the streets, yet we have closed up houses.
I was born on Rivers Estate. An area that got so dark, that Durham police force had to police. I lived 10 years on a road in thorntree named Roworth. A deprived area that never saw peace. I lived in a multi storey flat in netherfields, that no longer exists. A building that was a deprived community of drugs and harassment within its self. My father lived South Bank for many years, on a road that was later ripped down. Regardless to its appearance, its crime statistics. The deaths from guns and knives of notorious names and families. The lack of sense of security. These estates along with several others. These dying towns still hold a sense of community, unity and support. The demise of industry that built these very streets may have dampened our spirits but will never take our hearts.
Been class watching this channel develop. Great upload. Probably a good job a lot of those places were pretty much derelict tho or I feel you could of had a different experience
This absolutely brakes my heart seeing Tilery in this state I grew up here in the first part you filmed on im nearly 40 and have lived away for around 20 ish years if you had seen it 25 + years ago that estate was full of pride and people looked after it and each other its gone down hill in the last 15 or so years I hate going back there but my dad still lives there.
They're not saying Boro people are bad, he's saying it's a shithole (which it is). Been to Boro a few times (Boro away); nice people, but it looks like a tired, run-down city that has absolutely 0 things drawing anyone back there@@billybatts8283
Stockton has been a shit hole for more than 14 years. I'm not defending the Tories. All political parties are rotten to the core. The problem is a lot more complex than that.
That's the stupid thing. There's no shortage of housing in the UK, but it's either in the wrong places and/or the homeless can't afford to move into it.
The police must get back handers because the crime I've seen going on should be landing them in prison no doubt about it, police turn up, smash doors through, remove the bell ends, search and remove bags, then a day later the bell ends are back home doing the same shit all over again lol, they continue like nothing happened over and again for months and years... It's shocking. It's a constant cat and mouse but somehow the twats never end up in prison, makes my blood boil.
Love your vids Josh, i think i started watching you before you even had 1000 sub's, i could be wrong about that but i think so.... you deserve far more than the 13.6k you've got if you ask me, anyway another really good one and cool it didn't turn out to be the vid it looked like you thought you was going to be making 👏👏👏 Big Up The North😁
Thanks you! These things take time so just got to keep working. I really appreciate you stick in around. Yeah I was sure people would be friendly but I wasn’t expecting how much. Shame it’s so deprived financially around there but good people as always
Its hard to have the energy and heart to tidy up your garden when you feel absolutely bereft of hope… boro people are totally different to any other folk in the north east. All these places were thriving before all the industries were closed down.. they didnt have a choice. Btw all the lads ive met from boro are the smartest,funniest ,passionate people ive ever met. Its just a shame government have abandoned them.and im a geordie…same has happened here in many places
Playing the blame game. The government or anybody else does not owe anyone a living. Start taking personal responsibility for your own lives or you will forever be stuck in a rut. There is a world out there to be enjoyed. To enjoy it change your mindset and make it happen.
@@stevenhull5025OK how about we get reparations from every one in the South for building this country for them then being abandoned by it after having every taken from us?
We moved to Teesside from Indonesia 4 years ago, and it's really not that bad. Got 3 children in state schools, playing footy in the local league, our girl riding ponies. Lovely neighbours. No regrets.
I used to work with young people from this area for about 10 years taking them on outdoor activities and personal development courses. I found most of them wanted to make a change and improve themselves, but I remember one episode with a young person where we took them for a walk to the Wainstones to do some climbing and they left some rubbish at the crag, they respectfully picked up the rubbish after we said they couldn't leave it as it was a national park, but once we took them back to Middlesbrough, they threw the rubbish into someone's garden and said quite proudly 'you're back in the Boro now' I could never understand why they weren't proud of where they came from, and seemed happy to make the place a total mess. I said to them you live here, why don't you try to improve where you live, their response was it's a total s******* why bother. When people don't even respect where they live in person, I don't think you're going to change that much. Is such a shame because most people would like to live in a decent place but it really takes a few people to drag a place down.
Born and raised South Banker, Mam still lives there and would never leave, albeit nearly 81. Place is decimated now, but, I'm proud of my upbringing, proper people, not like the shit, wokey fuckers elsewhere. English and proud
Good video mate im a pally park lad born n bred love the place im 65 in September im so passionate were we come from INFANT HERCULES, ERIMUS, IRONOPOLIS , WE WILL BE, STEEL RIVER we built the world with our steel!!!
I love this video and it will help people see our lovely community and how great our people are, this video will also hopefully help the pub and the landlord grow his business as the community and people in the pub sound amazing people, please promote this video and channel as it will help people see the different areas in and around UK.
Teesside areas like Billingham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, and Stockton have been in decline for years. I moved to the area in 2005 and have seen the decline. Mostly linked to the demise of the chemical and steelworks.
The houses are boarded up between tenants to stop squatters and don't stay like that for long. The houses look quite new. The fact that old people live there means it can't be that bad. Broken windows come from feuds and drug depts. You interviewed my neighbour at 7.47 actually.....on a mission as usual. Drug problems stem from under prescribing and only making methadone and buprenorphine available. Prescribe diamorphine or morphine as there's a national shortage of diamorphine. When people have their dose loaded up they can work. I worked for 17 hours+ a day. With a habit....
My great grandparents moved to Grangetown in the late 1800s my great grandad worked as a labourer at Bolckow and Vaughan my grandad worked there when it was bought up by Dorman Long they lived at Seaview Terrace my grandad died of TB due to poor living conditions. I'm from Eston just up the road. Its sad to see the place has declined so much.
I grew up in South Bank in the 60s. It was then a super place to be. Everyone knew each other and most helped each other out. Kids were kids and enjoyed life. St Peters school on Normanby Road was the place to be educated. The old church you saw and mentioned was and still is St Peter's. Not a lot attend there now. Previously the place was full each Sunday. The Old Mans park, Beecham St, Diamond St, Mile St, Pim St. 2 time each year I now travel from Antrim in Northern Ireland to attend too 3 graves, at Normanby Road cemetry. I have them cleaned , flowers laid and prayed for. These are not relatives, but people who were very kind to me when I was a child attending Napier St junior School, Margert Clitherows junior school. Life was great. Now it's sad to look at this as it is now. Denis French I never forgot her as she was always kind to me. Thank you. I also lived 44 Diamond Street, Saltburn-by-the -Sea, end house on the left nearest the beach. Still visit there often for the memories David Coverdale's parents owned the Red Lion public house opposite, beautiful people. memories and nostalgia cannot fade.
just watched the whole thing. You are really going onto big things with this type of content mate seriously. Do nt stop. Let's awake the masses and be proud of what we have. I'm fucking Scottish too haha
I would like to see you visit Sheffield pitsmore and Manchester mosside let's see how you get on with walking around with the camera and what you think of the areas
I grow up in up in south bank in the 80s and 90s and yes it was a rough area and you had to learn to be street wise, but it was a community everyone knew everyone, everyone helped each out and we always had respect for our elders not like today. I'm 53 now and I can honestly say it was the best place I ever lived. If I could go back in time that's where I would go to.
I was doing grass cutting e.t.c for a housing association called beyond housing, our round was g-town/southbank/dormanstown and a few others. these are some of the roughest places in the north east, i had a great time and the job pay's better than down south. No real issues with people but you do see a few things while on your round and you get a real sesne that alot of the youth are just plain bored with no real release for them. Thats why they steal quads that are tracked, they find the police chase fun and something to do. Funnily enough the same kind of thing happens in Australia the youth are just bored.
I’ve had a Saturday day session in the Albion! I’m from South Shields, I was in there with a rigger that I worked with offshore! Rough as foook NOT. Absolutely spot on. I was welcomed and taken care of ( especially by local NAMES )
Seeing the state of the rubbish dumped on our streets and in streams in pretty much every film, I can’t help thinking.. with crime so rife, why not make the recipients of community service orders clean it up.. the country would be spotless in no time.
I am not British, but it truly saddens me to see how the British feel that they are losing their country, their culture, their roots. I know this may not be helpful, but on behalf of those who were not born here, I apologise for the damage we have caused. I genuinely wish with all my heart that the UK can be as you long for it to be, and that all of us who set foot here are conscious of caring for the country and making it strong. Perhaps starting by respecting the culture, keeping the streets clean, contributing economically, being productive in our local communities, being polite and grateful; this way everything would improve and blossom again. The UK is beautiful, its nature, its history, its people and their kind hearts. You should be very proud of it, and I truly have much to thank you for. It has not been easy for me but the experience has been very worthwhile and has changed me completely. I was born and raised in a beautiful country as well, and it has been a challenge for us to move forward in difficult situations, and we are still fighting to make our country a better place for everyone, including foreigners. May God take care of our homelands and guide us to make them the best places for our families. There are problems everywhere; it is up to us to overcome them.
Just subscribed to your channel because i really enjoyed watching your content, i actually lived in Thornaby for 3-4 years when I was growing up ,I lived in Stockton-on-Tees as well for a couple of years first place I lived in was Hartington Road-there was a council hostel there i lived in, I've lived in Hardwick for a year then moved out due to personal reasons. Went up for a short visit about 14 years ago haven't been back since . Might do though later on this year
i'm from stockton,parkfield est, and it was ok when i was growing people had a bit of pride, i use to go to ian ramsey, in fairfield, and when i got to 16 i could not wait to get out of town, i lived in boro for a bit with a crazy woman,then whinny banks or whinny bronx, but was in london at 17, mam and dad live in thornaby, went to london in 87 , came back for a bit a few times but just wanted to get back down more opportunities and my docters was behind harting road, use to go to the mall,a couple times bentleys, then just got back down which i love
Exactly! There is a need, there is money but there is absolutely no desire whatsoever to see these communities back on their feet! Why can't the government provide training and employment for the young in these communities by relocating and processing those immigrants the government wants to ship to a more beautiful cleaner warmer Rwanda?
Growing up in both Grangetown and South Bank I can tell you it’s absolutely not like people are making out. The only community spirit is alcohol and cocaine fuelled. If you enjoy spending your time dodging cars and motorbikes on fields or watching the Eston Hills being set ablaze every year it’d be great. You know you’re in the real rough areas when every shop, takeaway and pub has cages for the staffs protection. The only good thing about the place is it gives most people the will and drive to do better and leave.
Bs. There is poverty like most other deprived areas of the UK. There's more alcohol and cocaine taken at ascott than these places. There is high unemployment and problems with substance abuse(opiates/sleeping pills etc) but there is community and life. Most folks are good people.
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I'm Hartlepool born and bred and there's some lovely places and people but the last 15 years has saw a rapid decline in this town as its been left to rot by the government and our council has bled us dry it's a shame to say but I don't see me ending my time on this planet living in the town I love
South bank was still well built up when the brown hit, all the street houses were still up then. I think it is just lack of jobs with industry shutting down and it leads to addiction etc
Been really enjoying the honesty of your vids and especially the mushroom one. In the 70's I thought toking and trippin was the opening up of a new age, but now substances are so widespread and so many young people are caught up with other nasties, I feel a bit sad. As much as I disliked 'straight life' and the 'workday ethic', I'm now seriously worried for the future. My comments are more probably better attached to your other vids, but hey ho...... Peace and awareness!
I recently move to this estate, from Belfast , but originally from London. Had I known you were filming, I would have came to speak to you. I’m quite well known across social media. Would have loved a chat with you
@GoingGlobull west road area is some places Benwell Elswick road or west end same kinda thing doesn't look great but some gd people but obviously have to be on guard in these areas.am from Derby but live west end.it has its good and bad
People who live in really posh areas don't even know who their neighbours are, but if you live in a rough area, you find community spirit is always there And living on Teesside all my life, I have witnessed both sides of the coin, So I know exactly what I'm talking about 🏴
Bullshi*. If there is NO WORK then go back to college and get trained in a skill which is in demand. If you leave school at 16 with sod all or a couple of GCE's don't expect to walk into a well paid job. Why do people blame everyone else for their situation and not themselves. I blame the benefit system for encouraging people to stay at home instead of taking personal responsibility.
@@stevenhull5025 i get what your saying Steve, but I think you are showing you dont really get it by the term "In demand", There no demand:, So the smartest and brightest have to leave
@@garymuckle1002mate come on you can always get a job with a trade because the trade is the job. Plenty of site work around, council pay top whack too and it’s easy to get in with a firm if you don’t want to work for yourself. I think the biggest disadvantage these areas face is lack of work education. They don’t know how to do these things, they don’t know where to sign up, what grants they could get, how they get there and back and I think it’s designed as such for a reason. Our curriculum contains absolutely pointless stuff but yet no financial literacy is taught, you aren’t taught life skills that you should be, meanwhile the private schools do all that and more.
Lived on Norton Road, over 20 years ago. Within three days of moving in the police knocked on my door to ask about "An incident" in the pub "Wild Ox" next door, an axe was involved. Lived there for about seven years. It was lest we say "interesting" 😅😅😅.
I thought Chubby Brown aka Royston Vasey resided in Hadfield and it was named after him for the dark comedy The League of Gentlemen. Am I wrong or right? Love you videos by the way.👌
Great video mate. Unfortunately there’s too many people willing to sit on their arse and take take take off the government which in turn passes on to their kids vicious circle. There’s a few areas here in Newcastle as well just the same byker wall Being one
My bus depot was 5 minutes from Tilery.Drove the bus in hemlington, Stockton, Middlesbrough , rough af....got my wheel trims nicked near tilery... wouldn't have minded but i was doing 40 at the time 😅
Maybe they have now made it easier to do the worst thing rather than the trying hard to improve life situations for people. I agree with the cleaning up. People should clean up their gardens and look after the place but it seems some groups of people are rewarded more for doing nothing. That would be a story just on its own as to why.
Grew up in tilery. Was a great place to live. Everyone knew everyone a real old school community feel. It's changed alot now. Yes there's alot of crime there now but there been forgotten about by the system.
Lived in Middlesbrough in one of those council estates. It was always the same they'd move in one bad family who would ruin the whole street with anti social behaviour. Broke my heart to be forced out of my home by jobless low lives. Police, council, housing people no one cared about the honest people who just wanted to live a nice life without drugs and violence next door. We are so soft on people who cause misery to so many. Instead of the police walking the beat we put up cameras and they just wear hoodies... Lived in the same house for 30 years till they moved in druggies next door and no one gave a damn what was happening. I was threatened with knives, spat at and told they'd kill me through the wall. The council just said nothing they can do about it. You should see the state of the council property they live in rubbish everywhere, windows put through, like a bomb went off but they are still allowed to occupy that house. The country is so soft it's not even funny. If you watch any of these police programs when at the end they say what happened to the criminal it's usually no charges where brought. Crazy country just constant horrible things happening to honest people, where's the justice anymore. Police scared of their own shadows.
In the 1970s Teesside produced over a quarter of the nation's GDP in a tiny part of North East England (according to Rod Liddle) . The same people who worked so hard then are now treated like in the video.
He is only visiting the shit holes you know, eston hills are two miles away, get to them and its beautiful countryside and villages, these are the areas next to heavy industry and docks of majority street houses which people no longer desire
@@stevenhull5025 Even Surrey is going. Huge mansions or pretty smaller houses, but go to the parks where there used to only be British wealthy people, now just hoodies dressed in black and they're drug addicts and dealers. The shopping towns that used to be exclusive suburbs of London in all but name are now full of losers in black puffer jackets again, from the third world and make the place a dump. Surrey is being eaten.
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Lived in Hemlington since 09 and i can honestly say it's an awful place. Easy to get in but hard to get out however, i'm fortunate enough not to live on the rough side of the town. Still not safe on a night and recently had rocks thrown at my car!! Gets worse week by week! Looking for a move as i've had enough now.
You are in the area covered by cleveland police, which according to a current C5 documentry series has the highest crime rate in the uk, even worse than london.
I grew up in pretty much that exact part of Hemlington you went to and I can confirm it was rough as fuck. I moved over to Coulby Newham in 2001 and it's gotten even worse since then somehow.
I hear they have gentrified this area now^. There is now a Poundland and Peacocks on the estate. I am looking forward to visiting next week.....along with my XL Bully dog and stabproof vest.
Grange Town, just up the road from me, definitely some rough areas, I do find people are genuinely happier up north. More chatty, yeah some are assholes but nothing really compares to northern spirit. I'm near saltburn, I'll never look back. Love my community.
Great content as always mate.
No doubt mate it’s a rough estate, probably no worse than most. Has a long standing reputation though. Can’t beat the north and thanks mate
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Saltburn is great
Anyone can go to Grange Town at any time and nobody will say anything, that's the least roughest place in the North, I'd say its probably the friendliest and the sort of place where people will help u or invite u in for food
I had some good nights in the Robin Hood and star and garter . not forgetting the Junction just up the road from Heston jetty .
Great video. I grew up on a council estate in the 1970’s and people would help each other and take pride in the area. All that has gone now with this general attitude of entitlement and lack of any deterrent for those who want to create problems
"There's no such thing as society" Margaret Thatcher
Fell upon your channel no idea how, but I absolutely love your vids. Thanks for these videos mate! Good on you for having an open mind and cheering on britain.
Thanks mate. Greatest country (and empire) in the history of the world
I moved from London to Teeside over 2 years ago, I like to run so I’d regularly go from Redcar down to Boro. A lot of people said I was mental running through Grangetown and South Bank, but I’ve never had even a tiny bit of bother from anybody.
As a Londoner born in the city and lived there for 30 years I had an idea of the north and how it was fucked over but not necessarily the finite details. Visiting Kirkleatham Museum was an eye opener as to how big ICI and the steelworks were, the vastness of community and the prestige that employment brought to people. It is borderline criminal how Teeside was failed and the damage done here.
I would say though that apart from the odd scally and some pockets of really rough bits … it’s actually nice up here. Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in rough parts of London so I’m comparing it to there but people are friendlier up here. Being British and from Britain kind of feels like working for a big corporation - you love coworkers but you can’t stand most of your bosses. And the coworkers up north are a great bunch 👌
It is TEESSIDE
Same I come from London but now in Teeside
The reputation of Boro being rough is more to do with dealers and debt collectors always 🔪ing each other.
🔪 crime between young people was never a thing when I was a kid, but it’s became common over the last decade.
I got jumped a few times as a kid in the 90’s, and there was always that risk if you walked down the wrong street, there was never weapons involved.
if you lived in london 30 years i bet your dad was friends with the krays.
Great to have you here my friend and thanks for the kind words, but please Learn the correct spelling of Teesside
Another great upload, would of been interesting to see how things were after dark but great to see some of that proud to be British mentality come through and folks looking oit for each other within the community
Grew up on Teesside and can't say I didn't ever contribute to some of the problems. But, i'm very proud of this area and love it to death and would never leave. Thankyou for showing that it ain't all doom and gloom up north and that there's still a lot of love.
You grew up in a total shit hole lol
I was brought up that if you wanted anything in life you worked hard for it, we seem to have a generation that feels that the government/council should take care of you. these people need reminding that these authorities don't have any money to do this, other than taxes from the residents i.e. PAYE, VAT & Council Tax.
Great video, keep them coming, you have a great way of communicating to locals and getting the best from them.
It should, but where are the jobs for these people to work and pay said taxes? Gov sold industry/they moved to cheaper countries and privatised everything so it runs on skeleton crews and profit margins are the be all and end all for businesses now. There's so much more to it than lay abouts on the dole.
I agree to some degree but i do also think that the government have essentially attempted to neuter everyones free liberty and more of our rights are lost every day under the guise of protecting the public, people have became reliant on the gov because thats what the gov have forced people to do, you have to do it their way or you end up in trouble look at parental rights for example.
Quite depressing and illogical when the country is crying out for housing, to see so many boarded up properties. Surely some proper investment could free some vital housing. People live on the streets, yet we have closed up houses.
I was born on Rivers Estate. An area that got so dark, that Durham police force had to police. I lived 10 years on a road in thorntree named Roworth. A deprived area that never saw peace. I lived in a multi storey flat in netherfields, that no longer exists. A building that was a deprived community of drugs and harassment within its self. My father lived South Bank for many years, on a road that was later ripped down.
Regardless to its appearance, its crime statistics. The deaths from guns and knives of notorious names and families. The lack of sense of security. These estates along with several others. These dying towns still hold a sense of community, unity and support. The demise of industry that built these very streets may have dampened our spirits but will never take our hearts.
I remember the rivers estate, used to work at Cowies. The worlds best pie shop was on your doorstep, upex
Been class watching this channel develop. Great upload. Probably a good job a lot of those places were pretty much derelict tho or I feel you could of had a different experience
Thank you mate. Yeah thankfully it was calm that day
This absolutely brakes my heart seeing Tilery in this state I grew up here in the first part you filmed on im nearly 40 and have lived away for around 20 ish years if you had seen it 25 + years ago that estate was full of pride and people looked after it and each other its gone down hill in the last 15 or so years I hate going back there but my dad still lives there.
Live in Middlesbrough for 12 years .God what a shit hole.
my gf family lives there and i have to visit the horrible place few times a year
May I ask where you fine people are from that gives you such falsified morale superiority over others?
@@billybatts8283im from there and they are not wrong
They're not saying Boro people are bad, he's saying it's a shithole (which it is). Been to Boro a few times (Boro away); nice people, but it looks like a tired, run-down city that has absolutely 0 things drawing anyone back there@@billybatts8283
Probably from Bradford. 🤣.. . .@@billybatts8283
Just found you this morning .live in stockton .keep up the good work 👏 14 years of tory cuts
Stockton has been a shit hole for more than 14 years. I'm not defending the Tories. All political parties are rotten to the core. The problem is a lot more complex than that.
and bankruptcy when Labour rules
"cuts"... autocorrect strikes again.
There are more empty houses than homeless people in the UK.
So in Germany. 1 million empty houses. 800.000 homeless.
That's the stupid thing. There's no shortage of housing in the UK, but it's either in the wrong places and/or the homeless can't afford to move into it.
The police must get back handers because the crime I've seen going on should be landing them in prison no doubt about it, police turn up, smash doors through, remove the bell ends, search and remove bags, then a day later the bell ends are back home doing the same shit all over again lol, they continue like nothing happened over and again for months and years... It's shocking. It's a constant cat and mouse but somehow the twats never end up in prison, makes my blood boil.
Love your vids Josh, i think i started watching you before you even had 1000 sub's, i could be wrong about that but i think so.... you deserve far more than the 13.6k you've got if you ask me, anyway another really good one and cool it didn't turn out to be the vid it looked like you thought you was going to be making 👏👏👏 Big Up The North😁
Thanks you! These things take time so just got to keep working. I really appreciate you stick in around. Yeah I was sure people would be friendly but I wasn’t expecting how much. Shame it’s so deprived financially around there but good people as always
🤣🤣 Heh Heh, before dark anyway! Peace. I love the North East.@@GoingGlobull
just subscribed 2 your channel m8 and you really are spot on ..by the way im 64 and from horden just up the road from you say no more eh
Its hard to have the energy and heart to tidy up your garden when you feel absolutely bereft of hope… boro people are totally different to any other folk in the north east. All these places were thriving before all the industries were closed down.. they didnt have a choice. Btw all the lads ive met from boro are the smartest,funniest ,passionate people ive ever met. Its just a shame government have abandoned them.and im a geordie…same has happened here in many places
Playing the blame game. The government or anybody else does not owe anyone a living. Start taking personal responsibility for your own lives or you will forever be stuck in a rut. There is a world out there to be enjoyed. To enjoy it change your mindset and make it happen.
What a brilliant point well said
@@stevenhull5025OK how about we get reparations from every one in the South for building this country for them then being abandoned by it after having every taken from us?
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@@stevenhull5025You selling a self help course or summit?
We moved to Teesside from Indonesia 4 years ago, and it's really not that bad. Got 3 children in state schools, playing footy in the local league, our girl riding ponies. Lovely neighbours. No regrets.
I used to work with young people from this area for about 10 years taking them on outdoor activities and personal development courses. I found most of them wanted to make a change and improve themselves, but I remember one episode with a young person where we took them for a walk to the Wainstones to do some climbing and they left some rubbish at the crag, they respectfully picked up the rubbish after we said they couldn't leave it as it was a national park, but once we took them back to Middlesbrough, they threw the rubbish into someone's garden and said quite proudly 'you're back in the Boro now' I could never understand why they weren't proud of where they came from, and seemed happy to make the place a total mess. I said to them you live here, why don't you try to improve where you live, their response was it's a total s******* why bother. When people don't even respect where they live in person, I don't think you're going to change that much. Is such a shame because most people would like to live in a decent place but it really takes a few people to drag a place down.
Born and raised South Banker, Mam still lives there and would never leave, albeit nearly 81. Place is decimated now, but, I'm proud of my upbringing, proper people, not like the shit, wokey fuckers elsewhere. English and proud
Good video mate im a pally park lad born n bred love the place im 65 in September im so passionate were we come from INFANT HERCULES, ERIMUS, IRONOPOLIS , WE WILL BE, STEEL RIVER we built the world with our steel!!!
I love this video and it will help people see our lovely community and how great our people are, this video will also hopefully help the pub and the landlord grow his business as the community and people in the pub sound amazing people, please promote this video and channel as it will help people see the different areas in and around UK.
Teesside areas like Billingham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, and Stockton have been in decline for years. I moved to the area in 2005 and have seen the decline. Mostly linked to the demise of the chemical and steelworks.
Yeah, undeniable the closing of those industries destroyed a lot of the areas around here
@@GoingGlobull Indeed. The attitude changes with it when you don't have decent job options.
Just found your channel today. Top lad 👍
Fk me it looks like Beverly hills compared to where I live
And where I grew up . . . . Gateshead, 60s/70s
FK me must be two Beverly hills.
The houses are boarded up between tenants to stop squatters and don't stay like that for long.
The houses look quite new.
The fact that old people live there means it can't be that bad.
Broken windows come from feuds and drug depts.
You interviewed my neighbour at 7.47 actually.....on a mission as usual.
Drug problems stem from under prescribing and only making methadone and buprenorphine available. Prescribe diamorphine or morphine as there's a national shortage of diamorphine.
When people have their dose loaded up they can work.
I worked for 17 hours+ a day.
With a habit....
I lived in Stockton -on -tees for years back in the 1980's. Great people good pubs.
I was born in Stockton, lived on Roseworth till 1990 moved to Sussex moved back in 2018 and it has changed so much. Drugs rampant everywhere.
Nice channel, things good stuff. You've got a good way with people and seem a decent lad. Keep it up and stay safe
knocking churches down to make it into a mosque???? I'm fucking raging reading this. What do we really want to be???
Well stop moaning and start going to Church then ya end bell
Its only a mosque?
@@jaymestrodden4916your joking, I not allowed In Japan and I’m glad
My great grandparents moved to Grangetown in the late 1800s my great grandad worked as a labourer at Bolckow and Vaughan my grandad worked there when it was bought up by Dorman Long they lived at Seaview Terrace my grandad died of TB due to poor living conditions. I'm from Eston just up the road. Its sad to see the place has declined so much.
I grew up in South Bank in the 60s. It was then a super place to be. Everyone knew each other and most helped each other out. Kids were kids and enjoyed life. St Peters school on Normanby Road was the place to be educated. The old church you saw and mentioned was and still is St Peter's. Not a lot attend there now. Previously the place was full each Sunday. The Old Mans park, Beecham St, Diamond St, Mile St, Pim St. 2 time each year I now travel from Antrim in Northern Ireland to attend too 3 graves, at Normanby Road cemetry. I have them cleaned , flowers laid and prayed for. These are not relatives, but people who were very kind to me when I was a child attending Napier St junior School, Margert Clitherows junior school. Life was great. Now it's sad to look at this as it is now. Denis French I never forgot her as she was always kind to me. Thank you. I also lived 44 Diamond Street, Saltburn-by-the -Sea, end house on the left nearest the beach. Still visit there often for the memories David Coverdale's parents owned the Red Lion public house opposite, beautiful people. memories and nostalgia cannot fade.
just watched the whole thing. You are really going onto big things with this type of content mate seriously. Do nt stop. Let's awake the masses and be proud of what we have. I'm fucking Scottish too haha
Thanks mate. I’ll be up in Scotland soon. Will be interesting to here what’s the Celtic fans have to say about being British haha
quality video as always and the food looked great, good people just a lack of funding from the government, lack of jobs ect.
Best food and people on the planet. UTB
I would like to see you visit Sheffield pitsmore and Manchester mosside let's see how you get on with walking around with the camera and what you think of the areas
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I grow up in up in south bank in the 80s and 90s and yes it was a rough area and you had to learn to be street wise, but it was a community everyone knew everyone, everyone helped each out and we always had respect for our elders not like today. I'm 53 now and I can honestly say it was the best place I ever lived. If I could go back in time that's where I would go to.
I'm 60 YO and Tower Hamlets born and bred. In the next few weeks I may be moving to New Skelton. Am I doing the right thing?
Good stuff just subscribed mate
Not dangerous or scary ... that's because most people are still in bed😅
I got out of there 32 years ago and moved to the middle of nowhere all my mates from school apart from 1 died from drugs
Where did you go? Any regrets?
@@toriwoods9800 i live on the edge of a wood on the Scottish border do I have any regrets yes I do I wish I could have saved my friends
Lived in Fremantle WA since coming from Middlesbrough aged 6.hsve no desire whatsoever to return in any capacity
Depressing areas.
Great video, new sub
I was doing grass cutting e.t.c for a housing association called beyond housing, our round was g-town/southbank/dormanstown and a few others. these are some of the roughest places in the north east, i had a great time and the job pay's better than down south. No real issues with people but you do see a few things while on your round and you get a real sesne that alot of the youth are just plain bored with no real release for them. Thats why they steal quads that are tracked, they find the police chase fun and something to do. Funnily enough the same kind of thing happens in Australia the youth are just bored.
One day we might stop funding wars and buying ships we'll never use, and then use the money for things that's nearly needed.
Sadly if we do doing that we'll be gone for sure 😢
Humans really are the worst
I’ve had a Saturday day session in the Albion!
I’m from South Shields, I was in there with a rigger that I worked with offshore!
Rough as foook NOT. Absolutely spot on. I was welcomed and taken care of ( especially by local NAMES )
Excellent video very educational you present great!!
Seeing the state of the rubbish dumped on our streets and in streams in pretty much every film, I can’t help thinking.. with crime so rife, why not make the recipients of community service orders clean it up.. the country would be spotless in no time.
I am not British, but it truly saddens me to see how the British feel that they are losing their country, their culture, their roots. I know this may not be helpful, but on behalf of those who were not born here, I apologise for the damage we have caused. I genuinely wish with all my heart that the UK can be as you long for it to be, and that all of us who set foot here are conscious of caring for the country and making it strong. Perhaps starting by respecting the culture, keeping the streets clean, contributing economically, being productive in our local communities, being polite and grateful; this way everything would improve and blossom again. The UK is beautiful, its nature, its history, its people and their kind hearts. You should be very proud of it, and I truly have much to thank you for. It has not been easy for me but the experience has been very worthwhile and has changed me completely.
I was born and raised in a beautiful country as well, and it has been a challenge for us to move forward in difficult situations, and we are still fighting to make our country a better place for everyone, including foreigners. May God take care of our homelands and guide us to make them the best places for our families. There are problems everywhere; it is up to us to overcome them.
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Just subscribed to your channel because i really enjoyed watching your content, i actually lived in Thornaby for 3-4 years when I was growing up ,I lived in Stockton-on-Tees as well for a couple of years first place I lived in was Hartington Road-there was a council hostel there i lived in, I've lived in Hardwick for a year then moved out due to personal reasons.
Went up for a short visit about 14 years ago haven't been back since .
Might do though later on this year
i'm from stockton,parkfield est, and it was ok when i was growing people had a bit of pride, i use to go to ian ramsey, in fairfield, and when i got to 16 i could not wait to get out of town, i lived in boro for a bit with a crazy woman,then whinny banks or whinny bronx, but was in london at 17, mam and dad live in thornaby, went to london in 87 , came back for a bit a few times but just wanted to get back down more opportunities and my docters was behind harting road, use to go to the mall,a couple times bentleys, then just got back down which i love
Exactly!
There is a need, there is money but there is absolutely no desire whatsoever to see these communities back on their feet!
Why can't the government provide training and employment for the young in these communities by relocating and processing those immigrants the government wants to ship to a more beautiful cleaner warmer Rwanda?
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Nice one mate
Growing up in both Grangetown and South Bank I can tell you it’s absolutely not like people are making out. The only community spirit is alcohol and cocaine fuelled.
If you enjoy spending your time dodging cars and motorbikes on fields or watching the Eston Hills being set ablaze every year it’d be great.
You know you’re in the real rough areas when every shop, takeaway and pub has cages for the staffs protection.
The only good thing about the place is it gives most people the will and drive to do better and leave.
Bs. There is poverty like most other deprived areas of the UK. There's more alcohol and cocaine taken at ascott than these places. There is high unemployment and problems with substance abuse(opiates/sleeping pills etc) but there is community and life. Most folks are good people.
Good video Keep up the good work buddy
Go to DUNDEE SCOTLAND its 100 times worse than this honestly bro 😪
Great vid, just subbed
Appreciate it thanks
Make more videos exploring UK cities please
Heartbreaking to see this. I love the northeast! And yes i think of Middlesbrough as Teesside (not Yorkshire). 🧐🤔
You went past my old flat in tilery 😂 was awful living there. Got broken into and they stole the copper off my boiler 😑 never went back after that!
Josh: *''Up North, we're **_far_** friendlier!''* - Same goes for Norway! 😉👍
(Gee, I'd sure like to get my hands one of those snug warm hats you've got there man!!! 👌)
best channel of this sort on UA-cam
Thanks
Come to Boro Its wonderful. Very diverse they say
Bless you Boro,my Dad would be proud ❤
I'm Hartlepool born and bred and there's some lovely places and people but the last 15 years has saw a rapid decline in this town as its been left to rot by the government and our council has bled us dry it's a shame to say but I don't see me ending my time on this planet living in the town I love
Heroin and crack destroyed these areas of Boro unfortunately
South bank was still well built up when the brown hit, all the street houses were still up then. I think it is just lack of jobs with industry shutting down and it leads to addiction etc
Been really enjoying the honesty of your vids and especially the mushroom one. In the 70's I thought toking and trippin was the opening up of a new age, but now substances are so widespread and so many young people are caught up with other nasties, I feel a bit sad. As much as I disliked 'straight life' and the 'workday ethic', I'm now seriously worried for the future. My comments are more probably better attached to your other vids, but hey ho...... Peace and awareness!
The lack of cars parked in the streets says it all…
Be stolen imagine a €30k car 🚗..
That the public transport system is excellent?
There's probably more growrooms than cars nowadays. Which is an excellent example to us all environmentally speaking.
I recently move to this estate, from Belfast , but originally from London. Had I known you were filming, I would have came to speak to you. I’m quite well known across social media. Would have loved a chat with you
I used to live in the Huntsman from 1986 to 1990. just a bairn, brings back memories this tho, did you go down to the pub/shops?
brilliant video buddy, fantastic
I delivered for amazon in ts6 for around 4 years. Loved it.
Mate where did you get your hat from? Love it. Keep up the great work
A market in Australia. It’s a made in China so no doubt it can be got online. Thanks mate
cool channel and video mate will u be doing newcastle
Cheers mate I’m going Newcastle this week, any recommendations of place to see?
@GoingGlobull west road area is some places Benwell Elswick road or west end same kinda thing doesn't look great but some gd people but obviously have to be on guard in these areas.am from Derby but live west end.it has its good and bad
New follower this channel looks awesome
People who live in really posh areas don't even know who their neighbours are, but if you live in a rough area, you find community spirit
is always there
And living on Teesside all my life, I have witnessed both sides of the coin,
So I know exactly what I'm talking about 🏴
The problem is , if theres no work, people who can move, and those who cant are stuck, on benefits with nothing to do
Bullshi*. If there is NO WORK then go back to college and get trained in a skill which is in demand. If you leave school at 16 with sod all or a couple of GCE's don't expect to walk into a well paid job. Why do people blame everyone else for their situation and not themselves. I blame the benefit system for encouraging people to stay at home instead of taking personal responsibility.
@@stevenhull5025 i get what your saying Steve, but I think you are showing you dont really get it by the term "In demand", There no demand:, So the smartest and brightest have to leave
@@garymuckle1002mate come on you can always get a job with a trade because the trade is the job. Plenty of site work around, council pay top whack too and it’s easy to get in with a firm if you don’t want to work for yourself. I think the biggest disadvantage these areas face is lack of work education. They don’t know how to do these things, they don’t know where to sign up, what grants they could get, how they get there and back and I think it’s designed as such for a reason. Our curriculum contains absolutely pointless stuff but yet no financial literacy is taught, you aren’t taught life skills that you should be, meanwhile the private schools do all that and more.
Lived on Norton Road, over 20 years ago. Within three days of moving in the police knocked on my door to ask about "An incident" in the pub "Wild Ox" next door, an axe was involved. Lived there for about seven years.
It was lest we say "interesting" 😅😅😅.
I thought Chubby Brown aka Royston Vasey resided in Hadfield and it was named after him for the dark comedy The League of Gentlemen. Am I wrong or right? Love you videos by the way.👌
Good content and great intro.
Thank you
Great video mate. Unfortunately there’s too many people willing to sit on their arse and take take take off the government which in turn passes on to their kids vicious circle. There’s a few areas here in Newcastle as well just the same byker wall
Being one
Thanks mate. I’m heading there this week. I love Newcastle, don’t know it nearly as much as I should though.
@@GoingGlobull can you contact me regarding this video please.
@@GoingGlobull gods country mate. But rough around the edges like most places
Great video! We need a video with Bald and Bankrupt :D
My bus depot was 5 minutes from Tilery.Drove the bus in hemlington, Stockton, Middlesbrough , rough af....got my wheel trims nicked near tilery... wouldn't have minded but i was doing 40 at the time 😅
Maybe they have now made it easier to do the worst thing rather than the trying hard to improve life situations for people. I agree with the cleaning up. People should clean up their gardens and look after the place but it seems some groups of people are rewarded more for doing nothing. That would be a story just on its own as to why.
Grew up in tilery. Was a great place to live. Everyone knew everyone a real old school community feel. It's changed alot now. Yes there's alot of crime there now but there been forgotten about by the system.
Lived in Middlesbrough in one of those council estates. It was always the same they'd move in one bad family who would ruin the whole street with anti social behaviour.
Broke my heart to be forced out of my home by jobless low lives. Police, council, housing people no one cared about the honest people who just wanted to live a nice life without drugs and violence next door.
We are so soft on people who cause misery to so many. Instead of the police walking the beat we put up cameras and they just wear hoodies...
Lived in the same house for 30 years till they moved in druggies next door and no one gave a damn what was happening. I was threatened with knives, spat at and told they'd kill me through the wall. The council just said nothing they can do about it. You should see the state of the council property they live in rubbish everywhere, windows put through, like a bomb went off but they are still allowed to occupy that house.
The country is so soft it's not even funny. If you watch any of these police programs when at the end they say what happened to the criminal it's usually no charges where brought.
Crazy country just constant horrible things happening to honest people, where's the justice anymore. Police scared of their own shadows.
In the 1970s Teesside produced over a quarter of the nation's GDP in a tiny part of North East England (according to Rod Liddle) .
The same people who worked so hard then are now treated like in the video.
We live in Norwich, absolute paradise compered too Middlesbrough.
I visited Middlesborough a couple of times. Nice friendly people unlike the snobs in Surrey.
He is only visiting the shit holes you know, eston hills are two miles away, get to them and its beautiful countryside and villages, these are the areas next to heavy industry and docks of majority street houses which people no longer desire
I live in miami. Absolutely stunning compared to Norwich.
@@stevenhull5025 Even Surrey is going. Huge mansions or pretty smaller houses, but go to the parks where there used to only be British wealthy people, now just hoodies dressed in black and they're drug addicts and dealers. The shopping towns that used to be exclusive suburbs of London in all but name are now full of losers in black puffer jackets again, from the third world and make the place a dump. Surrey is being eaten.
How awful, so sad the decline in Teesside, all because of drugs.
I’m not sure if things have got worse recently in the UK, a lot of places were awful in the early 90s onwards
Normally find the poorer the area the more friendly the people are
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Lived in Hemlington since 09 and i can honestly say it's an awful place. Easy to get in but hard to get out however, i'm fortunate enough not to live on the rough side of the town. Still not safe on a night and recently had rocks thrown at my car!! Gets worse week by week! Looking for a move as i've had enough now.
Where are all the cars? Normally their's always cars everywhere! Never seen a place deserted like that.
Would you leave your car outside in that area???
@stevenhull5025 fair play mate, 🤣🤣🤣
No one can afford a car sadly.
You are in the area covered by cleveland police, which according to a current C5 documentry series has the highest crime rate in the uk, even worse than london.
Are these places boarded up because of the mold in the houses?
Apparently that man with the dog, has got the best shit on the estate💪
That’s what I’ve heard
Bags of it!
The landlord at the Albion seems a bloody great bloke. next time i will come home i will pop in for a pint of Bass
I sadly emigrated due to lack of support In the uk. I still visit. But it’s soo bad now.
I grew up in pretty much that exact part of Hemlington you went to and I can confirm it was rough as fuck.
I moved over to Coulby Newham in 2001 and it's gotten even worse since then somehow.
Great video mate
I hear they have gentrified this area now^. There is now a Poundland and Peacocks on the estate. I am looking forward to visiting next week.....along with my XL Bully dog and stabproof vest.
GLAD YOU GOT THE DOG A VEST.
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