I left Stoke in 2013 at the age of 33 and it was nowhere near as bad as this when I left. It's amazing how rapidly it's gone into decline. I guess it's the perfect storm of austerity, buy to let, online shopping and Brexit. And a myriad other reasons. High taxes. An ageing population. High rents and parking. Like a bull which has been killed by a thousand slashes and is now staggering around about to die. It was bad when I left, couldn't get a half-decent job which didn't involve a call centre (hence why I left), but if someone had said to me that after you leave your home town within just over a decade it'll be a wasteland, I'd have told them to go and see a doctor. It's always been poor but at least there was community there. I remember it in the 90s and even noughties and it was full of life. Sad days
Stoke has been going down the pan since the mid 90s when most manufacturing companies and pot banks were making people redundant. I could not get a job anywhere in the 90s when i left school, it was a dreadfull time. Closest job the useless jobcentre found me was in Bolton. I thought how the hell do they expect me to travel to Bolton everyday when i had no transport, the jobcentre were a complete joke!
Such a shame to see it like this. I am a born and bred Stoke, and I remember how busy it was in the 90s, all those boarded up shops were open, there was crowds of people. You could go out for a beer and all the bars were open and packed full. I left Stoke over 20 years ago and only go back to visit family. It makes me sad to see just how far it has fallen
Problem was in the 2000's you had so many chain shops take over what had been previously independent shops, so the rents when up (chains could afford them). Then in the last decade, chains closed shops that were near each other, e.g. they would close the one in the town/city centre and keep the one in the out of town shopping complex. Independent shops should move back in but they can't afford the rents/rates. Councils need to be more realistic, make reasonable rates or have empty shops.
Let's be brutally honest - capitalism has hollowed out many places and it should be a crime to leave a property empty rather than take a rent that makes it possible for an independent shopholder to make a profit. How many items do you need to sell before you have even paid the landlord, which is probably your biggest cost, before you even put a penny in your own pocket? Every independent shop is working for their landlord even before themselves.
@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha Rents need to be realistic. If your making £4k a month, once you added council rates, bills, insurances, staff pay, stock etc. Council Rates and rents need to be realistic. What would the council sooner do, have slightly less rates and have some people employed, or take all rates meaning the business closes and you then have staff on benefits. Landlord has an empty building.
the councils are just leeching off private businesses, to the point they kill the host. people who work in councils have almost zero real business experience. this is a complete farce.
Apocalyptic, and heartbreaking as I grew up there and lived locally for 57 years despite working in Cheshire and London. Lots of reasons too complex to list. The video brought back many memories of a vibrant center, Boyce Adams, Huntbachs, Bratt and Dykes, Lewis's (and Santa Clause every Christmas), the meat market, post office. It will never recover. It's just failed to keep pace with the world
It’s desperately sad. I’ve lived in the area and worked here since 1987 when Hanley and the Potteries in general had working class money, and a fair bit of it. Then the potteries went into decline, Shelton Bar Steele works closed as did the mines. The money went. All that’s left now are jobs paying minimum wages and this is the result: there isn’t any money to keep businesses going. So sad.
In the 19th century Stoke had coal, clay, marl and good canal transport links = the world's biggest pottery / china industry and full employment. In the late 20th century the far east undercut prices and people no longer use bone china, have china cabinets in their front room or have dinner services as wedding presents. Factories closed as did the coal mines and iron and steel foundry. There was no plan B which is why we are at this point. It's not unique many UK cities are in a similar state of post industrial decline.
Thatcher wanted it all to be managed decline, that's when this all started. Instead of adapting, we believed the words of grifters who were only ever interested in th bottom line. As someone once said of her, she knew the price of everything and the value of nothing... The people who.ve been in power since have been nothing more than her acolytes.
the country is sinking, Sunak smiles. The UK is his own shadow of an image of yesterday. A powerful nation yesterday to a 3er world-class country today
As a child I moved to Milton from Lancashire in 1955. Hanley had a Lewis's store, Gaumont cinema and the place was heaving at the weekend. Then the city began to lose its industry, slowly but surely, mining, pottery/ceramics and, after 10 years of austerity, this is the end result. My Dad saw the early signs in 1958 and left. I still regard the area as an element of home. Many UK cities are dying, but few are as far gone as this.
And you seriously think that Labour would, or indeed, are, doing any better for Stoke? There are myriad reasons why so many city centres are in such a state of decline throughout England & political parties of both persuasions are to blame. Rip the industrial guts out of these cities; replace the former industries with absolutely nothing; lunatic prices for business rates that positively discourage new businesses from ever making decent profits; charge a fortune for city centre parking & then patrol with overzealous, commission-based traffic wardens; the rise of Amazon, et al; asylum hotels slap bang in the middle of the city; drug rehab centres slap bang in the middle of the city; an emancipated police force that cannot apply law & order...the list goes on.
They say the soul leaves the body at the time of death. Hanley's soul has truly left. Come back in 5 years and see what will be left of these earthly remains....! My heart is filled with pain because I have lived here 35 years ago and know what a beautiful soul there was. These are end times for us all, life cannot be returned. But what is waiting for us all ...I cannot say😢
About ten years ago, you could buy a house in Stoke for £1. I remember seeing it on BBC Midlands News. I can't see it ever improving. The best thing to do would be to level the whole place and start again.
@@dafyddrhobert2414 That £1 house purchase is not what it seems. Yes, you pay a quid for it but the council renovated it for £30k and you pay them back over ten years plus interest. You are then not allowed to sell it for at least five years. If you sell it before ten years you have to give the council a share of the financial gain.
It’s such a shame to see Hanley like this, all these empty buildings will just be left to rot away all because of internet buying these day. It’s killed off shopping trips up town and no one will buy these buildings because there’s no point. It’s a real sad state
Used to love Hanley, not just shopping but the night life, seems like a long time ago now, an utter shame but many parts of this once great country are on there knees, its fast becoming a ghost country
@ Seems as though you too have a poor grasp of the English language if you cannot see the glaring errors made. Especially as you use a profanity and clearly haven't grasped the understanding of the use of question marks. Dear God, save us from the morons!
@@Golightly354 it was a simple question to explain your racism, o you been the bad faith twat that you are, try to deflect with shit about languages. I understand exactly what you meant, I just getting you to admit it. Seen your sort before in the 90's NF shites are always the same, I faced down them in pubs, as they only like to pick pon folk weaker. No balls or brains either. Not sorry for upsetting your facist sensibilities lol!
This video actually breaks my heart! I grew up in Stoke on Trent, we left when I was just 16 years old but I had so many happy memories of getting Turner's buses from home for a day out "up 'Anley." It was always a vibrant place & my Mum used to take me for a Chinese meal on the top floor of what was John Lewis's, then Debenhams now nothing. I can see the ghosts of the past in these sad videos. Maybe we are going through a transitional phase & the city centres will re-invent themselves, let's hope so.
I lived in Stoke on Trent between 2009-11 while attending staffs uni. It’s a nice city. I miss those good old days! I’m so saddened to see how things turned upside down in 10 years! I hope things get better soon. I hope to visit this place in near future!
I moved to Stoke about six years ago, and loved going up Anley Duck. The odd shop was shut down. Now it's more like the odd one open. Beyond levelling-up. Most just needs levelling.😔
I lived in this town when I was a kid I don't recognise it any more what happened? This is devastating I drank in those pubs ate in the restaurants it's hard to watch this im shocked.
I left Bentilee in 2015, and I'm very glad I did ‼️‼️ but Hanley was well attended and shops all open at that time .... only 8 years ago. They had just built the new bus station.
Used to visit here in Saturday's, in the mid to late 80s, very nice area, shops were always busy, they had just opened the potteries centre, also other parts of the potteries were the same, not been there for 30 years
The firm I worked for (Biwater penstocks) moved from West Midlands to Etruria in the late 1980s they kept us on and laid on a coach to get us there-people warned us not to go- they said stoke was a rough area-we went there on the coach and it was actually a decent area with good people - Hanley was the posh upmarket area just down the road-looks like the people were just warning us 30 years early-what happened to this once good area?
You’ll never believe this unless you were there but Hanley and Newcastle were both great places to go out wine bars and good pubs /clubs galore and a great vibe. But then the city had plenty of well paid work options…now that work has gone and it’s sad to see what a toilet it is now along with the other unrecognisable 5 towns 😢😢
I'm from 'Castle and haven't been to Hanley in at least five years, I now live in London and only been once or twice in the past ten. What on earth happened?
What a shame. All good things must come to an end. Night and day Hanley used to be the place to be. Happy memories from a very long time ago. Same as every where else in sunny Stoke now. Be careful what you wish for people cos this is just the start of it
No party will ever be good for the area now, kid yourself if you want to, but the days of shopping centres are gone, this needs to be social housing or risk the entire area being demolished and the profits with a builder
What time of day was this filmed? I'm guessing before 09:00 or on a Sunday morning, because quite a few of those shops with the shutters down are still trading, yes Hanley is pretty bad these days but looks like you have deliberately tried to make it look worse. I go to Hanley regularly and I have never seen it that quiet, can we have a video on a Saturday morning about 12:00 just for comparison.
Less than the whole truth, this video. That row of shops featured at least twice near the beginning onwards, the tenants had to move out because the developers were going to knock the whole row down, then they went bust and that's why it is the way it is down there (just past Macdonalds and on round the corner). But this is what you get when only the capitalists are allowed in the room to talk about their endless needs from the taxpayer.
Its only the capitalists that get anything done, Labour have been in power 99% of the time they are to blame. Anything new has only come from private investment or funding from UK government.
I remember, driving through in the late 80s, that this was a fairly normal suburb. Look at it now. Sympathy to anyone who thought Brexit would fix this and, yes, regeneration of the High Street was absolutely one of the promises...
Must be a weekday, on the weekends its full of people, and he specifially just recorded the empty shops so it looks bad, there is loads of shops outside and malls on the inside that are open and booming with people.
Very sad; I was there in 2000 and it wasn't like this. Only 50 miles up the motorway is Manchester with all its gleaming new skyscrapers; what a contrast.
This is very sad viewing, but who really is to blame. One culprit is the population. We order so much stuff online now. There are more small parcel delivery drivers now than there are stars in the sky, maybe!!! And we all prefer to drive to large, out of town superstores than walk 10 minutes to a small shop. This is not the sole reason for the decline of the high street, but it is a major factor all over the UK. I live near Bangor, Gwynedd. It has the UK's longest High Street and half the shpos there are boarded up.
Why , why , why. I lived in the UK as a kid for a while in the 60's. I never saw anything like this anywhere. This is extremely sad . We lived in Barry and Farnborough.
Need to get the Tories out and look after our people food in their bellies roof over there heads and well am lost for words at the moment the state of the our country shocking 🙁🙁🏴
What happens when landlords aren't regulated... business can't keep up the rent and falls into a vicous economic downfall failing to pay pple to buy goods putting pressure on the community until it collapses
More to do with world events than leaving the Federal Union in case you hadn't noticed in Deutschland where the sun never apparently sets they also have the same problems.
I left Stoke in 2013 at the age of 33 and it was nowhere near as bad as this when I left. It's amazing how rapidly it's gone into decline. I guess it's the perfect storm of austerity, buy to let, online shopping and Brexit. And a myriad other reasons. High taxes. An ageing population. High rents and parking. Like a bull which has been killed by a thousand slashes and is now staggering around about to die. It was bad when I left, couldn't get a half-decent job which didn't involve a call centre (hence why I left), but if someone had said to me that after you leave your home town within just over a decade it'll be a wasteland, I'd have told them to go and see a doctor. It's always been poor but at least there was community there. I remember it in the 90s and even noughties and it was full of life. Sad days
also the birth rate has collapsed by 87%. there is no new generation, and you can see it in the emptiness of the streets.
@@puppets.and.muppets You sure they haven't just left for work ?
no. its even worse after 5pm@@billyliar1614
Stoke has been going down the pan since the mid 90s when most manufacturing companies and pot banks were making people redundant. I could not get a job anywhere in the 90s when i left school, it was a dreadfull time. Closest job the useless jobcentre found me was in Bolton. I thought how the hell do they expect me to travel to Bolton everyday when i had no transport, the jobcentre were a complete joke!
nope/ because its even worse in other towns. even london. there are hardly any under 30s.@@billyliar1614
Such a shame to see it like this. I am a born and bred Stoke, and I remember how busy it was in the 90s, all those boarded up shops were open, there was crowds of people. You could go out for a beer and all the bars were open and packed full. I left Stoke over 20 years ago and only go back to visit family. It makes me sad to see just how far it has fallen
no buy to let landlords in the 1990s
KDC : do you mean you are a 'Stokie' (not a stoke)
well. they banned smoking in pubs and made housing 8 x the price it should be.
It was like that in the 80s to it's very sad to see
It wasn't like this before covid. It was busy and bustling
A ghost town!
Spooky, but the background music made it more spookier!
Watching from Africa. 😮
Problem was in the 2000's you had so many chain shops take over what had been previously independent shops, so the rents when up (chains could afford them). Then in the last decade, chains closed shops that were near each other, e.g. they would close the one in the town/city centre and keep the one in the out of town shopping complex. Independent shops should move back in but they can't afford the rents/rates. Councils need to be more realistic, make reasonable rates or have empty shops.
Let's be brutally honest - capitalism has hollowed out many places and it should be a crime to leave a property empty rather than take a rent that makes it possible for an independent shopholder to make a profit.
How many items do you need to sell before you have even paid the landlord, which is probably your biggest cost, before you even put a penny in your own pocket?
Every independent shop is working for their landlord even before themselves.
@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha Rents need to be realistic. If your making £4k a month, once you added council rates, bills, insurances, staff pay, stock etc. Council Rates and rents need to be realistic. What would the council sooner do, have slightly less rates and have some people employed, or take all rates meaning the business closes and you then have staff on benefits. Landlord has an empty building.
*when buy to let landlords destroy the economy.....
the councils are just leeching off private businesses, to the point they kill the host. people who work in councils have almost zero real business experience. this is a complete farce.
Living in some parts of England is definitely not good for your mental health.😢
Apocalyptic, and heartbreaking as I grew up there and lived locally for 57 years despite working in Cheshire and London. Lots of reasons too complex to list. The video brought back many memories of a vibrant center, Boyce Adams, Huntbachs, Bratt and Dykes, Lewis's (and Santa Clause every Christmas), the meat market, post office. It will never recover. It's just failed to keep pace with the world
It’s desperately sad. I’ve lived in the area and worked here since 1987 when Hanley and the Potteries in general had working class money, and a fair bit of it. Then the potteries went into decline, Shelton Bar Steele works closed as did the mines. The money went. All that’s left now are jobs paying minimum wages and this is the result: there isn’t any money to keep businesses going. So sad.
Spot on. The jobs don't pay enough and we aren't all privileged to spend eight years in education to become Doctors
@@Ukipmiddleleft and the disparity between average earnings and house prices is going to make it far worse.
In the 19th century Stoke had coal, clay, marl and good canal transport links = the world's biggest pottery / china industry and full employment. In the late 20th century the far east undercut prices and people no longer use bone china, have china cabinets in their front room or have dinner services as wedding presents. Factories closed as did the coal mines and iron and steel foundry. There was no plan B which is why we are at this point. It's not unique many UK cities are in a similar state of post industrial decline.
Thatcher wanted it all to be managed decline, that's when this all started. Instead of adapting, we believed the words of grifters who were only ever interested in th bottom line. As someone once said of her, she knew the price of everything and the value of nothing...
The people who.ve been in power since have been nothing more than her acolytes.
This town coming like a ghost town....
You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end....
the country is sinking, Sunak smiles. The UK is his own shadow of an image of yesterday. A powerful nation yesterday to a 3er world-class country today
As a child I moved to Milton from Lancashire in 1955. Hanley had a Lewis's store, Gaumont cinema and the place was heaving at the weekend. Then the city began to lose its industry, slowly but surely, mining, pottery/ceramics and, after 10 years of austerity, this is the end result.
My Dad saw the early signs in 1958 and left. I still regard the area as an element of home.
Many UK cities are dying, but few are as far gone as this.
This is Tory leveling up...well done to all those who voted for them
Tory's have ruined the UK ...
The tories don't run hanley. The local council do. Small town councilors with big egos.
@randomsongsinlocrian No you did'nt. It's down to the local council. Never apologise for voting tory. Labour will bankrupt the whole country.
Labour have been in power 99% of the time clearly you are biased.
And you seriously think that Labour would, or indeed, are, doing any better for Stoke? There are myriad reasons why so many city centres are in such a state of decline throughout England & political parties of both persuasions are to blame. Rip the industrial guts out of these cities; replace the former industries with absolutely nothing; lunatic prices for business rates that positively discourage new businesses from ever making decent profits; charge a fortune for city centre parking & then patrol with overzealous, commission-based traffic wardens; the rise of Amazon, et al; asylum hotels slap bang in the middle of the city; drug rehab centres slap bang in the middle of the city; an emancipated police force that cannot apply law & order...the list goes on.
They say the soul leaves the body at the time of death. Hanley's soul has truly left. Come back in 5 years and see what will be left of these earthly remains....! My heart is filled with pain because I have lived here 35 years ago and know what a beautiful soul there was. These are end times for us all, life cannot be returned. But what is waiting for us all ...I cannot say😢
I was there in 2017,I must say the deprivation was heartbreaking 😢
About ten years ago, you could buy a house in Stoke for £1. I remember seeing it on BBC Midlands News. I can't see it ever improving. The best thing to do would be to level the whole place and start again.
Probably the same with many towns developed after the 1950's. It's only the nice old towns that have money (Cirencester, York, Wells, Canterbury etc).
There were overwise going to knock them down, the scheme has been done all over the UK.
Could be this video was shot on a sunday morning?
Yes anyone local would know it was, it was filmed then to make the place look worse than it is.@@annierosle9961
@@dafyddrhobert2414 That £1 house purchase is not what it seems. Yes, you pay a quid for it but the council renovated it for £30k and you pay them back over ten years plus interest. You are then not allowed to sell it for at least five years. If you sell it before ten years you have to give the council a share of the financial gain.
It’s such a shame to see Hanley like this, all these empty buildings will just be left to rot away all because of internet buying these day. It’s killed off shopping trips up town and no one will buy these buildings because there’s no point. It’s a real sad state
Is it me , or was that filmed early in the morning , nothing open even the shops not boarded up
Used to love Hanley, not just shopping but the night life, seems like a long time ago now, an utter shame but many parts of this once great country are on there knees, its fast becoming a ghost country
Yep, and people like you, who do not even know your own language, do not help!
@@Golightly354 wtf are you talking about
@ Seems as though you too have a poor grasp of the English language if you cannot see the glaring errors made. Especially as you use a profanity and clearly haven't grasped the understanding of the use of question marks. Dear God, save us from the morons!
@@Golightly354 keep taking the tablets!
@@Golightly354 it was a simple question to explain your racism, o you been the bad faith twat that you are, try to deflect with shit about languages. I understand exactly what you meant, I just getting you to admit it. Seen your sort before in the 90's NF shites are always the same, I faced down them in pubs, as they only like to pick pon folk weaker. No balls or brains either.
Not sorry for upsetting your facist sensibilities lol!
This video actually breaks my heart! I grew up in Stoke on Trent, we left when I was just 16 years old but I had so many happy memories of getting Turner's buses from home for a day out "up 'Anley." It was always a vibrant place & my Mum used to take me for a Chinese meal on the top floor of what was John Lewis's, then Debenhams now nothing. I can see the ghosts of the past in these sad videos. Maybe we are going through a transitional phase & the city centres will re-invent themselves, let's hope so.
Lewis's not John Lewis.
@@duncancartlidgeonline2457 I stand corrected.
I wouldn't hold your breath I think it pretty obvious that the UK is totally finished
Not a chance
That was very sad seeing my old town looking like this it' feel like a death in the family.
I lived in Stoke on Trent between 2009-11 while attending staffs uni. It’s a nice city. I miss those good old days! I’m so saddened to see how things turned upside down in 10 years! I hope things get better soon. I hope to visit this place in near future!
I moved to Stoke about six years ago, and loved going up Anley Duck. The odd shop was shut down. Now it's more like the odd one open. Beyond levelling-up. Most just needs levelling.😔
I lived in this town when I was a kid I don't recognise it any more what happened?
This is devastating I drank in those pubs ate in the restaurants it's hard to watch this im shocked.
Nothing to do with levelling up. Most city center retail in same position. Its called on line shopping
centre..are you from USA
Thats was my childhood place.. now its gone 😭💔
Cheers for that. Peoples hopes and aspirations gone.
Online shopping, levelling up gone bad! We will lose our towns if we don’t re build!!!!
TAX ONLINE...Get ppl off their bums
I left Bentilee in 2015, and I'm very glad I did ‼️‼️ but Hanley was well attended and shops all open at that time .... only 8 years ago. They had just built the new bus station.
What a shame ...royal country...king charles pls renovate these direlect building u have d cash
Used to visit here in Saturday's, in the mid to late 80s, very nice area, shops were always busy, they had just opened the potteries centre, also other parts of the potteries were the same, not been there for 30 years
the boat bobbers will just love it and fit right in , you can almost hear them saying how good alans snak bar is for bacon buttys
The firm I worked for (Biwater penstocks) moved from West Midlands to Etruria in the late 1980s they kept us on and laid on a coach to get us there-people warned us not to go- they said stoke was a rough area-we went there on the coach and it was actually a decent area with good people - Hanley was the posh upmarket area just down the road-looks like the people were just warning us 30 years early-what happened to this once good area?
was this video shot on a Sunday morning at 6am. were are the people ?
11 am
So many town are going this way. Very sad 😔.
Gutting to see my home town looking like this 😢😢😢😢
To be honest, whether is a Sunday or otherwise all the shops are still boarded up.
You’ll never believe this unless you were there but Hanley and Newcastle were both great places to go out wine bars and good pubs /clubs galore and a great vibe. But then the city had plenty of well paid work options…now that work has gone and it’s sad to see what a toilet it is now along with the other unrecognisable 5 towns 😢😢
I'm from 'Castle and haven't been to Hanley in at least five years, I now live in London and only been once or twice in the past ten. What on earth happened?
What a shame. All good things must come to an end. Night and day Hanley used to be the place to be. Happy memories from a very long time ago. Same as every where else in sunny Stoke now. Be careful what you wish for people cos this is just the start of it
No party will ever be good for the area now, kid yourself if you want to, but the days of shopping centres are gone, this needs to be social housing or risk the entire area being demolished and the profits with a builder
This is why I left 30 years ago to live in Australia 😅
Why is it so empty?
Its filmed early on a Sunday before the shops open at 10am.
What time of day was this filmed? I'm guessing before 09:00 or on a Sunday morning, because quite a few of those shops with the shutters down are still trading, yes Hanley is pretty bad these days but looks like you have deliberately tried to make it look worse. I go to Hanley regularly and I have never seen it that quiet, can we have a video on a Saturday morning about 12:00 just for comparison.
My mother came from Hanley, she went to school with Stanley Matthews who also came from Hanley. How sad to see this pottery town like this😢😢😢
I left the area 2 years ago.
Longton is really bad too.
Think who you vote for. Not blue or red.
Think about reform!! RIP SOT
Whoeva the streets are dead
Coming to a town near you
Out of town shopping centre and supermarkets selling everything, plus online, what do you expect.
I'm from Yorkshire but spent a few weeks working in Hanley in 1984. Looks like it's changed a lot since then, and not for the better.
Well, what did you think would happen when you left the EU?
absolutely shocking isn't it, I'm from stoke born n Bred😢 the country should be ashamed of itself.
It must be bad. Can’t see any Turkish ‘barber’ shops there unlike every other town centre.
😊
Less than the whole truth, this video. That row of shops featured at least twice near the beginning onwards, the tenants had to move out because the developers were going to knock the whole row down, then they went bust and that's why it is the way it is down there (just past Macdonalds and on round the corner). But this is what you get when only the capitalists are allowed in the room to talk about their endless needs from the taxpayer.
Its only the capitalists that get anything done, Labour have been in power 99% of the time they are to blame. Anything new has only come from private investment or funding from UK government.
Just watched the Longton video. That and this looks like they're preparing the towns for...Orwells 1984!!
What a dirty place Hanley is now
I remember, driving through in the late 80s, that this was a fairly normal suburb. Look at it now. Sympathy to anyone who thought Brexit would fix this and, yes, regeneration of the High Street was absolutely one of the promises...
its got nothing to do with brexit.
What day & what time did you film this ?.
Must be a weekday, on the weekends its full of people, and he specifially just recorded the empty shops so it looks bad, there is loads of shops outside and malls on the inside that are open and booming with people.
Everywhere in the country has boarded up places like this, nothing new tbf..
Very sad; I was there in 2000 and it wasn't like this. Only 50 miles up the motorway is Manchester with all its gleaming new skyscrapers; what a contrast.
This is very sad viewing, but who really is to blame. One culprit is the population. We order so much stuff online now. There are more small parcel delivery drivers now than there are stars in the sky, maybe!!! And we all prefer to drive to large, out of town superstores than walk 10 minutes to a small shop. This is not the sole reason for the decline of the high street, but it is a major factor all over the UK. I live near Bangor, Gwynedd. It has the UK's longest High Street and half the shpos there are boarded up.
Why , why , why. I lived in the UK as a kid for a while in the 60's. I never saw anything like this anywhere.
This is extremely sad . We lived in Barry and Farnborough.
Apocalyptic, not the place I recall. Where has the life gone... Boris, Rishi? Where?
Great piece of short filmmaking tbh but a real weepy and pretty upsetting …
Thank you
Mainly there for the culinary adventure.
Need to get the Tories out and look after our people food in their bellies roof over there heads and well am lost for words at the moment the state of the our country shocking 🙁🙁🏴
Actually stoke is amazing but u only show the bad parts go to: west port lake, trentham gardens, the monkey forest etc. Stoke is a really nice place
Once you take the industry down all the shops go as well
stunning place you can not spend money no were open
Councils should be run by self made millionaires, they know what to do
2:49 is where the world’s best surname appears (Boden) 😂
What a 😢
What happens when landlords aren't regulated... business can't keep up the rent and falls into a vicous economic downfall failing to pay pple to buy goods putting pressure on the community until it collapses
I blame Brexit 😂😂
🔴🔴🔴COLLABORATORI DI HEISZ KRISZTIÁN🔴🔴🔴
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These properties are now assets 😂😂😂
Well well Governed by the labour until 2017 and now by Conservatives.
They both should be ashamed, so much potential wasted.
So the promised post Brexit sunny uplands finally arrived!
Or is this somehow also the doing of the nefarious EU?
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More to do with world events than leaving the Federal Union in case you hadn't noticed in Deutschland where the sun never apparently sets they also have the same problems.
What a beautiful place to live 😂😂😂
Rundown dump,must be the worst town in the UK.
What a 😢