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  • @eleanorzf02
    @eleanorzf02 Рік тому +48

    The immediate walk out of hudds train station is really quite nice but after that it all goes downhill. Sincerely, a resident of Huddersfield

    • @dovestone_
      @dovestone_ Рік тому +2

      Yep 😭😂 I feel like it’s quite cruel and misleading for first-time visitors (also a Hud resident)

    • @JGarner.2004
      @JGarner.2004 9 місяців тому +2

      Outskirts are very nice , do you live in the centre ?

  • @mitsum17chi
    @mitsum17chi Рік тому +39

    Huddersfield's my home town, heres a bit of insight on some of the places you saw:
    20:12 these were built as student accommodation being completed in 2017ish. They were open about 6 months before they were shut by the council and WY Fire for safety concerns because of the cladding they used (someone mentioned it was the same used in Grenfell)
    22:22 currently that building gets used for the DVLA theory tests as far as I'm aware, not too sure what else is in there
    24:46 that bus goes around Salendine Nook and Lindley, should've gone up there as there's Wellington Mills which has a lot of history behind it as well as HRI and Princess Royal
    26:23 this in fact is the old Kirklees Technical College (before the one at 6:42) which shut down in 2013. It's been abandoned since then with issues such as vandalism and arson causing the barbed wire and fencing to be put up around it
    26:45 correctly yes this is the old Huddersfield Hospital which I think shut down sometime in the 80's, it was then used by the college as mentioned above and abandoned in 2013 alongside the old technical college
    27:12 that's the DVLA Driving Test Centre, not too sure if the guy is correct but maybe it shut due to Covid? Someone might have to clear that up.
    27:33 to be honest, quite common round Hudds. Cost of living is hitting us pretty hard atm.
    29:00 the road your on now (Halifax Rd) goes right from the town centre to Ainley Top meeting the M62 and Elland Bypass.
    32:27 the guy's right, this was also part of the abandoned Kirklees Technical College. To be honest I thought it got abandoned but clearly not.
    35:30 Emley Moor Mast, think it's a TV or Telecommunications tower (can't remember). There's a lift inside it which takes over 3 minutes to get to the top. Wouldn't wanna get stuck in that myself. Also the building obstructing it didn't use to look like that, and there used to be 2 of them. When the old sports centre was demolished they took one of the flat blocks as well and updated the one you saw here in 2018.
    35:36 it is now used for manufacturing radio components, but did use to be a radio broadcasting station which later moved to Bradford turning into Pulse 2 and now called Greatest Hits Radio which is still based in Bradford.
    37:59 the day you came the Textile Market was on. Each day has a different market, Saturday/Sunday is the best day as there's a bit of everything.
    39:09 typical Huddersfield roadman there 🤣
    39:56 agreed, hence why we get perceived as a s**thole.
    39:58 that's the Sorting Office for Royal Mail, the front of it used to be the main post office which moved further down the town near the mosaic mentioned near the start of the video
    43:28 if you'd have gone upstairs you would've entered Kingsgate which is our shopping centre. There's talks going on atm to make it into a cinema/shopping centre/food court (like Trinity Leeds)
    Thanks for giving a realistic representation of what Huddersfield looks like, as the pictures online don't exactly perceive it as a great place to live. If you did move here, the better place to live would be northern Huddersfield (Salendine Nook, Lindley, Ainley Top, Birchencliffe, etc...) Maybe come again and take a look round those areas, that 370 bus is the one you'll need to catch or the 371/372.

  • @Patrick-qt8iy
    @Patrick-qt8iy Рік тому +42

    I've just moved out of Huddersfield after living there for 11 years. The town is a shell of what it used to be, mainly because of Kirklees Council's incompetence, but areas such as Holmfirth, Marsden and the Colne Valley are amazing places to walk. I'd love to see a video of the Marsden Moors!

    • @bobbyshafto3259
      @bobbyshafto3259 Рік тому

      Good luck to you for moving out....it's now getting more full of SCUM every day. I thought I was lucky living in the Colne Valley until today.. an old mill in Milnsbridge has been converted into a HOTEL for VERMINOUS SCUM and they're starting to move in tomorrow......absolutely frightening !!!

    • @coffeebot
      @coffeebot Рік тому +2

      Loved in Huddersfield my whole life, currently live in Marsden! Best place in Huddersfield by far, it’s so beautiful and love the view of the moors

    • @hangedups2608
      @hangedups2608 3 місяці тому +1

      KIRKLEES ARE SHOCKING

  • @goodyeoman4534
    @goodyeoman4534 2 роки тому +19

    Give me some of that grand Victorian architecture over this modern glass brutalism any day of the week.

  • @garywinterbottom6073
    @garywinterbottom6073 2 роки тому +16

    Ah my home town back in the 70s And 80s this town was bustling and prosperous always clean and tidy proud place now its a crying shame how the council has allowed it to decline and become a pound shop town its a real shame. 💔

  • @branuHD
    @branuHD 2 роки тому +14

    Can’t believe you was in my hometown! Thanks for the good review Charlie it is a great town to live in. That building you saw that was student accommodation but all closed was only built a couple of years ago but it failed the fire safety test because they used the same cladding as Grenfell!

  • @sharpspencer3234
    @sharpspencer3234 2 роки тому +18

    Fifty years ago a television transmitter collapsed taking channels off the air for millions of viewers across Yorkshire.
    The 1,265ft (386m) high metal mast was brought down at Emley Moor near Huddersfield by the weight of ice forming on its supporting cables.
    Despite falling across a road and causing damage to a chapel and the transmitter building nobody was hurt.
    It was replaced in 1971 by the concrete structure which still stands today. Brian Glendenning was the senior engineer on duty on 19 March 1969 when the mast crashed to the ground at just after 17:00.
    Located 1 mile west of the small village of Emley, the Emley Moor Mast is a Grade II listed building. Towering 330m (1,084 ft) high above the West Yorkshire countryside, it is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK, the 7th tallest freestanding tower in the European Union and the 25th tallest tower in the world.

    • @timwoodger7896
      @timwoodger7896 2 роки тому +3

      No longer in the European Union but still cool to know.

  • @summan41man
    @summan41man 2 роки тому +30

    Spotting a Kingfisher is satisfying, I've yet to see one in, or around, Manchester. Beautiful bird.

    • @goodyeoman4534
      @goodyeoman4534 2 роки тому +4

      I've seen one once in about twenty years lol. In Harstolme Park, Lincoln.

    • @nige3801
      @nige3801 2 роки тому +5

      Seen one on Hough End fields, south Manchester

    • @goodyeoman4534
      @goodyeoman4534 2 роки тому +3

      I think fisherman see them quite a bit.

    • @tommytucker3648
      @tommytucker3648 2 роки тому +2

      Saw one in Hebden Bridge (veitch should visit - canals, mills, coin forger King David soon to be a tv series by Shane Meadows, poets Ted Hughs and Slybia Plath, good pubs, Stoodley Pike, rainbow trainer friendly), between Manchester and Huddersfield last summer.

    • @summan41man
      @summan41man 2 роки тому

      @@tommytucker3648 saw a great documentary on Hebden Bridge : Shed Your Tears And Walk Away.

  • @engx3733
    @engx3733 2 роки тому +9

    Love these exploration videos Charlie - Please, pretty please do more of them! your the best tour guide ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @humblequest7905
    @humblequest7905 2 роки тому +4

    Great video Charlie. Thanks for introducing us to another English town. Learning so much.

  • @kevinsingsbest
    @kevinsingsbest 2 роки тому +19

    I loved chatting with you yesterday it was the best day of my life because your one of my favourite UA-camrs

    • @Samalouise
      @Samalouise 2 роки тому +7

      How i envy you; your life must be fascinating!

    • @jonathanryan5828
      @jonathanryan5828 2 роки тому +1

      You have no testosterone

    • @theroamingreverend
      @theroamingreverend 2 роки тому +6

      An off camera cottagers cove encounter with Charlie boy I presume. 😆

    • @amberleaf9823
      @amberleaf9823 2 роки тому +3

      @@theroamingreverend he came all over Charlie's face I heard

    • @kevinsingsbest
      @kevinsingsbest 2 роки тому +3

      @@Samalouise what do you mean

  • @Wolfsschanze99
    @Wolfsschanze99 2 роки тому +14

    Great walkabout Charlie, loved Booths shop.
    Thanks

    • @noelward8047
      @noelward8047 2 роки тому +4

      It was good to see that a proper shop still exists ...
      people today don't know what they are missing.

    • @Muppet.master
      @Muppet.master 2 роки тому +2

      Stunning experience that shop , my furniture shop was like that in Stalybridge.

  • @bobbyshafto3259
    @bobbyshafto3259 Рік тому +13

    Great video,showing "my town" in its current dreadful state. The decline has been very apparent in the last couple of decades... I wonder why? Perhaps one of the main reasons is kirklees council (it doesn't deserve a capital "k"),alarmingly poor and possibly the worst council in Britain !?

  • @1969gawa
    @1969gawa 2 роки тому +8

    The was a young lad who died in his bed from this ( 11:24 ) ,seeped through his bedroom wall from a neighbour's house in Huddersfield about 7 odd years ago. RIP young fella.

    • @finolaomurchu8217
      @finolaomurchu8217 2 роки тому +1

      That's shocking.

    • @1969gawa
      @1969gawa 2 роки тому +3

      My elderly neighbour's alarm went off a couple of years ago and the gas inspection people had to check both houses either side for gas levels for that reason, that was how I found out about that story.

  • @BasedinReality1984
    @BasedinReality1984 2 роки тому +49

    I left England 20 years ago and It always upsets me to see how run down it has become. What makes it worse is hearing how low the wages are over there. Will it even be England anymore in another 20 years time?

    • @pukesmells
      @pukesmells 2 роки тому +3

      No mate, you got all the money.

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 2 роки тому +8

      No " it will be taken over by ?

    • @wouterswanepoel5753
      @wouterswanepoel5753 2 роки тому +3

      @@jackwatsonepic626 The second coming of the Vikings? 😳

    • @chrisjames1924
      @chrisjames1924 2 роки тому

      That’s right wing neoliberalism for you. We’ve become a monocentric services economy. Investment in infrastructure outside of London is woeful. At least we have people like Bullingdon Boris and Lizard Truss to repair all the decay and inequalty. God forbid we had a leader like that inveterate antsemite Jeremy Corbyn.

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 2 роки тому +3

      @@wouterswanepoel5753 you know what I'm saying " LOL 🤣

  • @change2023now
    @change2023now 2 роки тому +37

    Charlie, this new format is great, really enjoying the city tours. Keep it up. How about visiting Wakefield?

    • @skysurferuk
      @skysurferuk 9 місяців тому

      Agree. Best.
      Tour.
      Guide.
      Ever!👍

    • @terencewatts7838
      @terencewatts7838 4 місяці тому

      Brilliant come to bridlington.

  • @PopularesVox
    @PopularesVox 2 роки тому +4

    Beautiful old buildings in Huddersfield, built of that lovely sandstone, shame about the modern ones. Loved the old hardware shop. I agree totally this town could be made great again with better management (as the Country as a whole could) it has so much going for it.

  • @robevans2659
    @robevans2659 2 роки тому +2

    Another information blast ...keep doing these reviews of British city's and towns..far more interesting than any other docs on places .

  • @magic1968
    @magic1968 2 роки тому +7

    The reason for textile industries in the North was due to the damp conditions from the moors kept the materials in the best condition. 👍

    • @Rhyshud
      @Rhyshud 2 роки тому +3

      Also, we have very soft water due to the sandstone bedrock. Great for washing the wool

  • @short-and-simple
    @short-and-simple 2 роки тому +16

    Your comment about the building at 06:45 is absolutely on point. That's exactly how I feel every time I see a similar monstrosity. What were they thinking, and why?
    Thanks for seeing it that way too and summing it up perfectly!

    • @short-and-simple
      @short-and-simple 2 роки тому

      And that was another fantastic city tour from you. Keep up the good work!

  • @CRSykes
    @CRSykes Рік тому +2

    As many have said already, thank you for showing my home town. I had a genuine sense of nostalgia as I was watching. There did seem to be a genuine sense of pride in the town when I was growing up there in the 80s. I went back there sometime ago and I was quite shocked to see the number of pound and betting shops that had emerged. I feel sorry for my dad's generation who have seen the town's decline. It was a shame that the Town Hall and the Library weren't shown (they were just down Ramsden Street from the "Soviet mosaic"), but you can't show everything. The DVLA centre used to be where the Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir used to rehearse. You are right - the town could be more than it currently is and I hope that I will see it happen.

  • @petersmith6520
    @petersmith6520 Рік тому +5

    Charlie shows these towns as they really are. No bull, no gloss.

  • @blakewilkinson2702
    @blakewilkinson2702 2 роки тому +16

    I went to Uni at Huddersfield and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I even stayed for a couple of years after. It has a very special feel to the place!

    • @jackdownsfilm
      @jackdownsfilm Рік тому +2

      Me too but I wouldn’t go back now certainly wouldn’t move there again. It had its time when we were students but that time is over now

    • @Thecointamer
      @Thecointamer 3 місяці тому

      @@jackdownsfilm Thank you for spreading sunshine during your time here, it's been dim since you left. Please come back.

  • @linziparkes6483
    @linziparkes6483 2 роки тому +6

    Looks rough now a days up there and Charlie you give me bad anxiety when you go in these old houses be careful and please try a day trip to Llandudno it's beautiful I went there recently xx

  • @Taylor-om7ze
    @Taylor-om7ze 2 роки тому +2

    love the exploring/tours, keep doing you charlie

  • @FunkyNan
    @FunkyNan 2 роки тому +2

    Great Charlie loving the mix of Out of town ( literally) and in town videos ❤️

  • @massimilianoazzara9257
    @massimilianoazzara9257 2 роки тому +1

    Love this format…it brings me back in my favorites areas of 🇬🇧

  • @turdwarbler
    @turdwarbler 2 роки тому +1

    those tango adverts were just brilliant. !!!! You know when You've been Tango'd. !!!

  • @savannahcatchat
    @savannahcatchat 2 роки тому +3

    I love Huddersfield. Moved here in 2014 and no plans to leave!

  • @iArachnia
    @iArachnia 2 роки тому +5

    Please come too Hebden Bridge, between Manchester and Halifax. Near Todmorden.

  • @theroamingreverend
    @theroamingreverend 2 роки тому +4

    I can't believe that in this day and age. All the copper in that abandoned house has not been nicked.

  • @darth_dartrixon1477
    @darth_dartrixon1477 2 роки тому +10

    Very nice to see you visiting my hometown. The giant abandoned Kirklees College luckily I didn't have to go. My teacher from when I was in college use to say there was still the big hooks on the walls from where the IV stuff used to hang, also apparently the basement was really creepy because it still had the giant Mortition fridges to hold the dead patients. Me and my friends managed to get into the old Kirklees College a few times, it is just interesting to explore what use to be especialy when it is so decrepid. but since people started smashing it up and worse stuff the council put up all that crappy board and wiring. Whenever I visist I still use the old car park for my trips into the town centre mostly because on sundays it is free and also £2 for the whole day.
    I now live in Nottingham but I am planning on returning to the Hudderfield area not just for my family but also I did enjoy the astetics of the city.
    I am glad you enjoyed the town.

  • @jasonstafford3754
    @jasonstafford3754 Рік тому +3

    Bloody hell Charlie, just when I think you can't surprise me any more, that house exploration was something else 😊

  • @adambrown2626
    @adambrown2626 2 роки тому +1

    Fantastic tour Charlie, thanks for sharing.

  • @lirawhite5799
    @lirawhite5799 2 роки тому

    Man, i am just a guy from Russia and i really enjoyed your videos, the whole channel.
    thxx Charles and bless you god.

  • @LUFCtom
    @LUFCtom 2 роки тому +1

    My hometown I wish I would’ve come across u I would’ve chauffeured u around in from rs... you’re such a great person and my respect for you is just on another level keep up your work man we all appreciate the things u do

  • @Paul-od2ct
    @Paul-od2ct 2 роки тому +53

    The sharp taste after consuming a low grown step blackberry is more than likely a spray of urine from a domesticated 🐈

    • @noelward8047
      @noelward8047 2 роки тому +8

      Please note the level from which the fruit was picked.

    • @richardfowler9901
      @richardfowler9901 2 роки тому +8

      Never take the low ones

    • @davidwhite4874
      @davidwhite4874 2 роки тому +5

      @@richardfowler9901 ....or eat that yellow snow.

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 2 роки тому +1

      LOL 🤣😂

    • @jynx8501
      @jynx8501 2 роки тому

      Manure is composed of animal feces and urine and may contain livestock bedding, additional water and wasted feed (Figure 1).
      Hopefully these guys don’t realise every farmer uses manure 😂🫣

  • @johnwaga3702
    @johnwaga3702 2 роки тому +26

    As a resident of Huddersfield thank you for the video. There is a lot wrong with it but it certainly does have potential!

    • @haydenknowles11
      @haydenknowles11 2 роки тому +2

      As a resident of Huddersfield I know there is no potential 😭

    • @joeyedwards6559
      @joeyedwards6559 2 роки тому +1

      As a previous resident of Huddersfield it had that much potential I left....

    • @kayeb222
      @kayeb222 Рік тому +2

      @@haydenknowles11 A bit like our football team at the moment!!!

    • @Tomgood1984
      @Tomgood1984 Рік тому

      @@haydenknowles11 plenty of protential if we do the work..

    • @kayeb222
      @kayeb222 Рік тому +1

      Think I saw u on great northern st or alder street with a very attractive girl with no teeth!!🤫🤭

  • @matthewgled
    @matthewgled 2 роки тому

    born and bred here and I'm 40 years old and there is so much you haven't seen in Huddersfield. if i knew you was coming i would of met up with you. Great vid Charlie.

  • @MrW582
    @MrW582 2 роки тому +10

    Tart blackberries.........🤔 the summer equivalent to yellow snow!
    That house is In better condition than most private rents on the market these days.

    • @eleanoreleanor5967
      @eleanoreleanor5967 2 роки тому

      Yellow snow = Urine lol.

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 2 роки тому +1

      @@eleanoreleanor5967 well " what else do you think he means , by yellow snow ❄️ lol

  • @TestTest-zb3dt
    @TestTest-zb3dt 2 роки тому +4

    That house looks really nice. It needs a normal owner occupier with the funds to restore it in a sympathetic way.

  • @dannychampion5710
    @dannychampion5710 2 роки тому +6

    Wow!i went in to panic mode just for a minute thought Charlie went on holiday for a few days again I was dreading a week with out the veitch thanks Charlie great vid m8

  • @fluidjazz
    @fluidjazz 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you for not ending the universe by opening the toilet. 😁

  • @callumscott_x
    @callumscott_x 2 роки тому +4

    that old prison as you thought is actually the old Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. The current one is yet another brutalist 60s structure in Lindley, and they recently threatened to close the A&E department and move it to nearby Calderdale. Another point, the housing development across from the abandoned place was actually shut down after the council found that it was cladded in the same material as the Grenfell Tower... top vid charlie!

  • @noelward8047
    @noelward8047 2 роки тому +4

    The Veitch on tour ... epic.

  • @ghostofreagan3181
    @ghostofreagan3181 2 роки тому +10

    absolutely love this video. Charles Rocks! Was that our Grandville in that shop?

  • @Firstname-lastname69
    @Firstname-lastname69 2 роки тому +11

    You gotta stop eating those blackberry's Charlie, they are full of flys eggs ,I remember being a child and my nan used to soak them overnight in a bowl of water and the things floating in the water next morning would stop most people eating them straight from the Bush, unless you want some free protein 😆

  • @Punkinbushcraft
    @Punkinbushcraft 6 місяців тому +2

    I remember about 5 years ago I went past Huddersfield on the train and I thought that looks a lovely place , and went the next weekend and got off at the train station 🚉 and was like oooo dang this is going to be a good day out ! Then a minute later there was junkies spewing up and a couple of zombies fighting and about 4 guys trying to score gear ! I walked back to the opposite side of the station and went back to mancunionville ! The only good thing about Huddersfield is the joke and it goes like this -- where do cows come from ? UDDERFEILD 🐄 😝 cheers you’ve been great 👍🏻

  • @elliotease4390
    @elliotease4390 2 роки тому +35

    My home town, I wish I had come across you, I’d have chauffeured you around in the Jag and shown you some of the real sights around Huddersfield 😂 btw, the tram depot was just that, a tram depot, no trains ran out of there. Random fact, Huddersfield had the first fully council run tram system in the country, and if you had walked a little further past the gym towards Lockwood, you would have seen the original tram tracks preserved on the pavement.

    • @swansenlock2348
      @swansenlock2348 2 роки тому +3

      Or as Clarkson would say..
      ‘JAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGG’!

    • @finolaomurchu8217
      @finolaomurchu8217 2 роки тому +1

      That's nice. If he came to Dublin I'd do the same but not in a jag.

    • @elliotease4390
      @elliotease4390 2 роки тому +1

      @@finolaomurchu8217 got the choice of a Volvo 480 if the pop up headlights are more aesthetic 😂

    • @robertomh8065
      @robertomh8065 2 роки тому

      @@swansenlock2348 on that bombshell

    • @RaverOperatorGeeza
      @RaverOperatorGeeza 2 роки тому +1

      @@elliotease4390 that was the first case I drive and loved it! I was on private land at the time for to not having a license then, but that 489 is stuck a cool car. The ES turbo version went like a rocket! Flip up headlights n all. Loved it.

  • @smfvmd
    @smfvmd 2 роки тому +1

    That tiled fireplace at 18:53 took me back to my impoverished childhood, lol.

  • @mattlawton4715
    @mattlawton4715 2 роки тому +3

    That imprint in the bed mattress is where someone died.👻

  • @no_soy_rubio
    @no_soy_rubio Рік тому +1

    I thought I was watching a bald and bankrupt video with all this Soviet architecture

  • @KumaBean
    @KumaBean 2 роки тому +2

    Seeing you walk down those stairs into the basement makes me think I’d regret not having one of my headlamps, on strobe function, but at least you had your brolly 🤣🤙🏻

  • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
    @edmundblackaddercoc8522 2 роки тому +3

    When a place looks bad in mid summer, imagine it in mid winter.

  • @chrisinfidel
    @chrisinfidel 2 роки тому +4

    Monsieur Veitch, I do enjoy your videos very much. I wish i had known about your visit to my hometown. Early on in your proton capture you ignored the Harold Wilson statue (Prime Minister). That gentleman, although a bit of a pipe smoking (falsely) who apparently preferred Cigars ,too middle class, was the potential target of a rogue military coup. Also early on you commented on the Lidl building. Did you know that that the remaining facade below was the venue of the last ever Sex Pistols gig before they went to America and split. Finally you ignored the George Hotel (currently under restoration) to the right of the station that Betjamin adored, was where the breakaway Rugby League was founded. You did acknowledge that with the right management it could be a great Town and I agree, i will forward your video to Kirklees Council. Keep up the good work. Chris

  • @mrjinks5641
    @mrjinks5641 2 роки тому +4

    That toilet was straight out of train-spotting .

    • @noelward8047
      @noelward8047 2 роки тому +2

      That film spooked me ... I couldn't get past the opening scene.

  • @robparkinson3370
    @robparkinson3370 2 роки тому +4

    here's a challenge charley go to Dewsbury if you DARE

  • @Adventures_with_Sog
    @Adventures_with_Sog 2 роки тому +2

    Another very interesting and enjoyable watch, Charlie 👍

  • @samwes1065
    @samwes1065 2 роки тому +6

    Charlie go to Bradford, you’ll have enough content for months

  • @BraceillerProductions
    @BraceillerProductions 2 роки тому +6

    That house tour had me on the edge of my chair, absolutely s**ting it! Best horror movie I've seen for a while haha. Btw do Macclesfield would love to see my old stomping grounds

  • @soniaisherwood5211
    @soniaisherwood5211 2 роки тому +16

    Another great video Charlie,next time you go to an abandoned place,please make sure you say hello when entering,for your own safety,that way if anyone is in,you should get a reply,and you was brave in the house not for entering down into the cellar,but for opening the fridge,many explorers won't do that,cause of the smell😂😂😂lovely place you visited,keep up the great entertainment charlie

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 2 роки тому +3

      It is the same when you explore a cave if there is 3 of yous
      you always let the 2 explore and leave one outside just in case if it decides to collapse the other one can then go for help I learnt that in the boys brigade when I was 10

    • @soniaisherwood5211
      @soniaisherwood5211 2 роки тому +1

      @@jackwatsonepic626 so true,as you never really know what to expect these days,I've learnt that myself, being a female and going on an explore,not thinking about my own safety,so I invested in some mace

  • @joc6516
    @joc6516 Рік тому

    A nice tour there and extra points for bringing up the metropolitan area as well... so few people in the UK understand, let alone use metropolitan area figures and they are so useful.

  • @paulwoodford2409
    @paulwoodford2409 2 роки тому

    Hi really enjoy watching your videos 👍. Fancy traveling to Hastings I'm sure you'll get some great footage.

  • @ss_hat
    @ss_hat 9 місяців тому +1

    I've lived in Hudds my whole life and there's one word I'd use to describe it, to quote the classic Scottish SitCom Still Game: "SHITEHOLE."

  • @markw1413
    @markw1413 2 роки тому +8

    A lovely town now populated by different people

  • @marky2316
    @marky2316 2 роки тому +1

    i was born and brought up in west London but moved to Guernsey in the channel islands in the early eighty's i do miss the uk but living on this island is like another world! but really enjoy your videos mate keep it up.

  • @Horzzo
    @Horzzo 7 місяців тому

    I love your snooping in the urbex abandonment. It's beautiful in a way.

  • @whatplanetareweon2375
    @whatplanetareweon2375 2 роки тому

    You are a brilliant filmmaker, Charlie. Great Video!

  • @LittleboGreepIsAsheepMAN
    @LittleboGreepIsAsheepMAN 2 роки тому +2

    How he went into the basement with no one while thinking there might be a person behind the door possibly trying get him is mad

  • @polopowered
    @polopowered 2 роки тому +1

    Worked here in 2006 for two months. Can't wait to watch it later to reminisce.

  • @SheshmondFreud
    @SheshmondFreud Рік тому +1

    Huddersfield lad here, we call the new kirklees college building the cruise ship cos of how it looks from the bottom of the hill haha. Definitely check out Byram Arcade if you're ever in town again, it's a Huddersfield gem with a good selection of independent shops!

  • @alastairhunt1953
    @alastairhunt1953 2 роки тому

    Superb video, enjoying the new format. Gotta do a tour of the land time just didn't bother with, Rochdale

  • @jimjack3447
    @jimjack3447 3 місяці тому

    loved the res evil house and the Fear and Loathing quote lol

  • @metalicminer6231
    @metalicminer6231 2 роки тому +3

    The Emley moor mast is the tallest free standing structure in the UK.

  • @lrighttobewhite
    @lrighttobewhite 2 роки тому +2

    Very nice! 👍🏻😜 Love the video.

  • @stellaevelyn923
    @stellaevelyn923 Рік тому

    I'm from Huddersfield & this is my new favourite video

  • @daviddutch2258
    @daviddutch2258 Рік тому +1

    We're a complicated bunch of people but Huddersfield is a an absolute beautiful place.

  • @chrisellis1232
    @chrisellis1232 Рік тому +1

    The river and the canal are full of fish 😊 the abandoned structure is the old Kirklees College, there are signs in and around Huddersfield which light up telling you which roads are snowed in and for how many days/weeks during winter 🥶

  • @scottfleetwood3392
    @scottfleetwood3392 7 місяців тому

    Great representation of my home town.
    Keep up the good work

  • @SuperClarky666
    @SuperClarky666 2 роки тому +2

    Ahhh i was thinking the other day charlie should come to my town 😀.there was a couple of old 70’s maybe 60’s awful buildings past the outdoor market that i was hoping you would visit over the main road that is vacant that i wish they would pull down.agree with your assessment mostly but id say its more rougher in Huddersfield.

  • @vacantblock
    @vacantblock 2 роки тому +5

    Good afternoon from Oz

  • @borderlands6606
    @borderlands6606 Рік тому +1

    You managed two shots of Huddersfield institution "Merrie England". Imagine, if you will, cafés selling hot beef rolls and rather good pastries in an Elizabethan ambience. Being looked down upon by severe Tudor matrons as you try not to get gravy down your bib. There's even a drive through Merrie England. If Falstaff set up a MaccyD, it would look like this.

  • @nolanaldridge4604
    @nolanaldridge4604 2 роки тому

    Oh wow what an amazing bird first time I've seen one in 60 years thank you sir AMAZING

  • @Kay-ly3hb
    @Kay-ly3hb Рік тому +4

    As someone who’s lived in or around Huddersfield for my whole life; he’s not wrong. It’s pretty but very dull

  • @PrestigeRoadman
    @PrestigeRoadman 2 роки тому +1

    ayo Charles... that abandoned house your in has major history believe it not. A family i know personally, its a sad story man honestly

    • @PrestigeRoadman
      @PrestigeRoadman 2 роки тому

      i can provide full context as to how the property got like this as i know the family that lived there

    • @PrestigeRoadman
      @PrestigeRoadman 2 роки тому

      ayo the place you thought was a hospital was genuinely the old kirklees college before they built the newer one on chapel hill... (maybe might have been a hospital but that was before i was born so IDK lol)

  • @truefoa
    @truefoa 11 місяців тому

    Thoroughly enjoyed this video, thank you.😀😀

  • @billienomates1606
    @billienomates1606 2 роки тому +24

    Great vid Charlie, as a lad in the 1960's most shops had that air of pride the hardware shop was emenating. Although I am afraid as with our illustriuos Government it has all turned to shite over the past 60 years or so, in my opinion.

    • @abc33944
      @abc33944 2 роки тому +3

      Read “ silent weapons for quite wars “ ,,, that’ll explain it

  • @wattage2007
    @wattage2007 9 днів тому

    Scottish 53 year old here and I totally agree. England is a way better place, so many more nice towns.

  • @JoBo431
    @JoBo431 2 роки тому

    you can get in that old Kirklees collage, all the floors are concrete and have lots of Beams and rebar so its relatively safe

  • @ExploringwithCarl
    @ExploringwithCarl 2 роки тому +1

    We love the abando. I'm sure i recognise that toilet from trainspotting 😁👍

  • @aaronkelly2533
    @aaronkelly2533 2 роки тому +1

    when night falls there are definitely cannibals that come from the floorboards of those houses

  • @tedburnand6516
    @tedburnand6516 10 місяців тому

    love your videos charlie really love the exploring the abanded housse

  • @jaygee5693
    @jaygee5693 2 роки тому +1

    "Good job we don't natively have tarantulas.." Good episode!

  • @abc33944
    @abc33944 2 роки тому +1

    love some of the the architecture,, northern cities certainly have character

  • @briwire138
    @briwire138 Рік тому

    Blimey charlie, I was shouting don't shut the door, then don't go down to the basement. You're fearless.

  • @Dan.Dawson
    @Dan.Dawson Рік тому

    Veitch going in that house = Balls like coconuts

  • @missalaana5490
    @missalaana5490 Рік тому

    i have to say mate this was a comprehensive walk through Huddersfield, and yes our fruit and veg market is second to none :)

  • @rosailles7672
    @rosailles7672 Рік тому +1

    Loved yr vid of Huddersfield, it used to be a Beautiful town, shame they've got the wrong council now. Thanks for sharing.

  • @marktownsend9333
    @marktownsend9333 2 роки тому +2

    That toilet!!! The young ones what’s Domestos great memories thanks Charlie 📦✅🍌all though I did see one in Malta many years ago that had shite up the walls ceiling and floor 🤮💩Charlie this brings back some really odd memories 😳😳😂😂

  • @matthew3774
    @matthew3774 2 роки тому +1

    Don't even need to go traveling anymore with these videos! Entertaining tours, I think you beat auditing britain at his own game of going to new towns