walking around Dewsbury's taken over town!

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  • @honestplaces
    @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +28

    Manchester's hill with all the flats! - ua-cam.com/video/M40d1Cs4-LE/v-deo.htmlsi=96-EtwtdPnGNR1qi

    • @keplermission4947
      @keplermission4947 9 місяців тому +2

      Just an ordinary British place described by a local peasant.

    • @mcfcguvnors
      @mcfcguvnors 8 місяців тому +4

      I live in suffolk now ( Born in Denton )in a seaside town . I walked from the top of London Road to the top of the town recently 48 closed shops ,units & Pubs ,thats one in every 3 :/ the ones that are left i cant eve see how they make money ( lace curtain shop ?! in a world where no one uses them ) half of them are closed but have a sign saying ring this mobile well be down in 2 mins , its a friggin joke NO ONE wants to work for £1.45 an hour ( what min wage actually equates to ) .Now the scammer sunak wants to kill millions of people on PIP & those who have mental illness . The words Lynch Mob & Burning torches are i hope soon in Use . Tories have wrecked the North west & made my holiday town essentiall;y " Little Albania "

    • @raymondrees8618
      @raymondrees8618 5 місяців тому

      Wonder why just like Bradford , look who took over and control of it , it is a no go area Shit hole .

    • @davidrawson3109
      @davidrawson3109 4 місяці тому

      Weak councils and government an EU benefit 150000 extra travellers since 2010.
      Don't pay tax and just bring standards down.

  • @fredericksaxton3991
    @fredericksaxton3991 9 місяців тому +741

    I read a few years ago that a female hockey group using Dewsbury Sports ground started to get harrassed by muslim youths.
    The girls complained to the police who predictabley told them to go and play hockey elsewhere.
    The mens rugby team found glass being scattered on the rugby pitch, they too complained and they too were told to go play rugby elsewhere.
    After a while of the sportsground not being used, the 'local' muslim community made a derisory offer for the ground and bought it and built a mosque and islamic religious centre.
    Anyone notice this sort of thing anywhere else?

    • @superdavidc1
      @superdavidc1 9 місяців тому

      Didn't the Grantham witch sell off playing fields?
      Anyway where are all the white men, I thought they would love a punch up them musilms.
      PS,those rugby players sound like a load of whimps, why didn't they sort them out them Muslims?

    • @hamishlovesit4731
      @hamishlovesit4731 9 місяців тому

      Yes that's an old trick , Hassidic jews would do similar in north London ... All organised religion should be discouraged ... The fly tipping in the area will be the tinkers in the caravans ... But what does it matter the imposter governments have asset stripped the country and flogged all the good stuff off and left the UK for dead ... Sad innit

    • @sybentley6675
      @sybentley6675 9 місяців тому +73

      Have you noticed anywhere in the north where it Isn't happening? That would answer your question much quicker. All the beautiful stone buildings Makes you proud doesn't it ? Shame.

    • @shirleydrury5565
      @shirleydrury5565 9 місяців тому

      Police r cxxts to

    • @joeexotic5831
      @joeexotic5831 9 місяців тому +92

      Everywhere has been turned in to an ethnic/woke circus in most towns, where the happiness of people not born in the UK are put first 😂

  • @tomashize
    @tomashize 9 місяців тому +265

    Must be truly heartbreaking for the elderly people who've always lived there and remember an entirely different and much happier place just 40, 50 or 60 years ago.

    • @joegreen2750
      @joegreen2750 9 місяців тому

      It's the same all over Britain.
      Multiculturalism, On line shopping. Council corruption.
      Ruination.

    • @damonmelendez856
      @damonmelendez856 9 місяців тому +3

      Those elderly people are responsible for: a) doing nothing when the migrant horde first started being dumped on the UK; and b) persecuting and not supporting those who did try to ‘do something’. So for the most part I don’t feel sorry for these elderly cowards.

    • @alanhampshire34
      @alanhampshire34 9 місяців тому +15

      Too true mate, my home town used to be a vibrant, prosperous northern market town, we had three John Lang shops back in the seventies for Gods sake, Woolworths, J & Bs, Caddy’s Marks & Spencer’s etc. Now it’s just a haven for idle foreigners and drug dealers (guess who?). So glad I don’t live here any more.

    • @albertmaycock4941
      @albertmaycock4941 9 місяців тому +8

      Why are shops closing down to do with foreigners. Shops closed down because they are not making a profit end off. The money is all in the south and all the investments are in the South and there are more foreigners in the South.

    • @elsiecook2259
      @elsiecook2259 9 місяців тому

      @@damonmelendez856 HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THOSE ELDERLY PEOPLE HAVEN'T WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES, FOUGHT TO KEEP THIS ISLAND FREE FROM ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND TOSSERS LIKE YOU WHO PROBABLY HAVEN'T WORKED A DAY IN THEIR LIVES. 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹

  • @nbandpinportugal
    @nbandpinportugal 9 місяців тому +251

    Our town centres have been devastated by online shopping, out of town retail parks and high business rates AND the utter stupidity of local government planners.

    • @cornishhh
      @cornishhh 9 місяців тому +14

      Pedestrianisation and lack of free parking.

    • @dirkbogarde44
      @dirkbogarde44 9 місяців тому +15

      And foreigners.

    • @neilbower9052
      @neilbower9052 9 місяців тому +5

      LMFAO always their fault isn't it tory boy. @Paxanglorum

    • @neilbower9052
      @neilbower9052 9 місяців тому +1

      LMFAO@@cornishhh

    • @neilbower9052
      @neilbower9052 9 місяців тому

      yeah, always the forinners fault, where are all the big hard bwitish men? Thought they would 'bee art protecktin are whey ovv life' @@dirkbogarde44

  • @ianthomas739
    @ianthomas739 9 місяців тому +98

    I'm 75 and remember spending weekends at my grandads in Dewsbury when the town was full of life and people. Magnificent Victorian architecture built with civic pride still stands, but now an epitaph to the proud people who once walked its busy streets.

  • @peterwalton1502
    @peterwalton1502 9 місяців тому +288

    Most of our towns are in decline like this. Ridiculous local Councils forcing businesses to shut with high business rates and ridiculous parking charges. Third world immigration and its over

    • @neilbower9052
      @neilbower9052 9 місяців тому +19

      yeah, always the immigrants fault, always somebody else's fault, never yours.

    • @juliapigworthy
      @juliapigworthy 9 місяців тому

      @@neilbower9052 The councils have large contingents of anti-British people.. they see the deliberate rovination of our town centres as a pre-war tactic of 'jihad' to weaken their foe from within.

    • @Disrespectfultethering
      @Disrespectfultethering 9 місяців тому +22

      ​@@neilbower9052as i was reading his comment i knew immigrant scapegoating was on its way and i was not disappointed.

    • @sidneybell64
      @sidneybell64 9 місяців тому +14

      That's one reason why town councils are in the shit

    • @malachyfox1828
      @malachyfox1828 9 місяців тому

      Another useful idiot lefty comment🤪

  • @nickcooper1260
    @nickcooper1260 9 місяців тому +223

    Utter gloom, what a bleak country England has become!. Good video, as always.

    • @G-ra-ha-m
      @G-ra-ha-m 8 місяців тому +2

      It's always raining too, as they spray the skies.

    • @Blackf1ngers
      @Blackf1ngers 6 місяців тому

      @@G-ra-ha-m I think Britain was well known for rain long before the Jet Age so that silly theory can be put to bed.

    • @G-ra-ha-m
      @G-ra-ha-m 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 Look up. Clouds are not supposed to be made from lines, of which one side stays straight and the other leaches, disperses, falls. Look up.

    • @G-ra-ha-m
      @G-ra-ha-m 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 Look up, you will see the lines.

    • @Dec38105
      @Dec38105 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 they're gone but it wont make any difference...

  • @q1q1q1q1q1q1q1q11
    @q1q1q1q1q1q1q1q11 9 місяців тому +355

    If the men who ran up the beaches could see the country now they would not have gone an inch up the beach.

    • @MobileGifte
      @MobileGifte 9 місяців тому +9

      Grandad woulded in battle of the somme he qould have gone eather

    • @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893
      @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 9 місяців тому +9

      Whilst I get your point, the young men of 1945 were of the era not to question the instruction of their 'betters'.

    • @q1q1q1q1q1q1q1q11
      @q1q1q1q1q1q1q1q11 9 місяців тому

      Which makes it all the worse. Betrayed by traitors. Enjoy your day. @@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893

    • @MarkJones-ji8fd
      @MarkJones-ji8fd 9 місяців тому

      Propaganda was more controlled back then and they believed the Germans were the enemy

    • @inglepropnoosegarm7801
      @inglepropnoosegarm7801 9 місяців тому

      @@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 That's not true. They understood what they were fighting for and were proud to do it. They had courage and patriotism unlike most today who have been brainwashed and emasculated by 'woke' ideology.

  • @stuartmckelvie446
    @stuartmckelvie446 9 місяців тому +367

    This country is just an utter shit hole now. Quality channel 👌🏻

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому +14

      Cheers pal...appreciate it 👍

    • @bobharrison4711
      @bobharrison4711 9 місяців тому +5

      Kirklees Council has got to be the WORST EVER.

    • @ozjob
      @ozjob 7 місяців тому +7

      @@bobharrison4711 it’s government policy to run down councils, that way they can give a tax break to the lazy billionaires. Who already have handouts, whilst we subsidise their employees wages.

    • @truth615
      @truth615 5 місяців тому

      Go and live elsewhere then

  • @assassinscreed8597
    @assassinscreed8597 11 місяців тому +199

    I’m from Dewsbury. I tell people I’m from ‘near Leeds’

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +16

      I used to do that when i lived outside of Manchester 🤣

    • @jennyhicks1930
      @jennyhicks1930 10 місяців тому +4

      Same here!

    • @MrAlistar99
      @MrAlistar99 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@coolkitty2075 loooooool orchard park then😂

    • @kevinhorne429
      @kevinhorne429 9 місяців тому +5

      Same ! I now live in Australia , have returned a few times. Last time 7 yrs ago, what a hole then . Dare l return again as l know it’s going to be worse.

    • @ironknobsteelworks4063
      @ironknobsteelworks4063 9 місяців тому +4

      Same. i used to say i lived in between leeds and huddersfield if they pressed me further.

  • @ronaldbarker6626
    @ronaldbarker6626 10 місяців тому +890

    We all know why Dewsbury is in decline , same as Bradford , Rochdale etc

    • @wyzxyw
      @wyzxyw 10 місяців тому +25

      EU beurocrats?

    • @ronaldbarker6626
      @ronaldbarker6626 10 місяців тому +174

      The towns I've mentioned have something in common .

    • @ernieharry8798
      @ernieharry8798 9 місяців тому +36

      ​@@ronaldbarker6626 all up north do you mean?

    • @unitedfan1364
      @unitedfan1364 9 місяців тому +109

      We have a racist here 😂

    • @thebossguide4859
      @thebossguide4859 9 місяців тому +438

      @@unitedfan1364We have a realist here.

  • @PopularesVox
    @PopularesVox 11 місяців тому +138

    What a contrast of those old pictures of the town and how it looks now. Problem is this is a pattern of decline around the Country and its getting worse.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +13

      Very big contrast! Small towns in the uk are at risk

    • @thomasoreilly6358
      @thomasoreilly6358 9 місяців тому +1

      The retail parks with their free parking are taking a lot folk away from our town centres..

    • @minixtvbox
      @minixtvbox 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@honestplaces14 Tory scum years

    • @MichaelWillby
      @MichaelWillby 9 місяців тому +1

      I've got a plan , if all us labour councils spend money on ridiculous projects like fancy bike lanes, bus lanes one way streets , out of town shopping centres bigger better guildhall/ town halls and make sure most of this is government money . When we all declare bankruptcy we can blame the government and retire on our luxurious pensions

    • @ssocialdrummer
      @ssocialdrummer 9 місяців тому +5

      @@MichaelWillby Bike lanes are provided under legisltaion made by central govt as part of the plan to de carbonise the country. Out of town shopping centres were built due to relaxed planning laws , and forcing councils to grab as much council tax as possibe due to their incomes being slashed by 40% ( bet you would find that difficult), . It is always easy to blame , much harder to analyse the situation, Yes councils bear some of the blame but by far and away most of it was rooted in tory austerity cuts over 14 years, producing a reduction in average life span,, especially in northern england, and higher levels of poverty than has been seen since the 2nd world war.

  • @DrQupax
    @DrQupax 9 місяців тому +74

    ruined by one group of people, same as many old mill towns in the north.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 8 місяців тому +4

      Buggered. Literally

    • @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066
      @BaronMichaelDeBlone1066 6 місяців тому

      The initial wave into textile towns like Dewsbury were hard working and admired Britain's industrial heritage and work ethic. They walked around wearing the worsted and flat caps they helped to produce. Then came the radicals who took advantage of the foothold. Walking around in pyjamas became fashionable even influencing some of the chavs to do the same. And the corrupt politicians took advantage of the radicals as a means of crushing the culture of the working classes who represent the greatest collective threat. And here we are with a media obsessed about voting for the next round of BS in the downward spiral of mediocrity. You couldn't make it up (unless you had an imagination like Monty Python).

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 Have you heard of Luwat literally Buggery in Arabic? Practised on little boys by imams.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 Look up Yusuf Sacha an imam from Batley.

    • @DrQupax
      @DrQupax 5 місяців тому

      @@donaldjuan4934 3rd world muslims

  • @johnd8538
    @johnd8538 9 місяців тому +188

    Post empire, post industrial Britain is fucked. And when you ask who runs Dewsbury, well....for years now it's been the Pakistani community, same as Bradford. The local council gave it over to them in fear of excluding but over including them.

    • @neilbower9052
      @neilbower9052 9 місяців тому

      yeah yeah yeah, not your fault is it. Do you moan on social media about the seaside towns dying while sat on your sun lounger in Spain? Ain't no hypocrite bigger than a white english racist bigot hypocrite

    • @masaladossa8975
      @masaladossa8975 9 місяців тому

      Only people that have businesses in small local towns are Asian people. because white people don't want to work, so don't give me that it's cos of us, ok

    • @jamsheadaziz3999
      @jamsheadaziz3999 9 місяців тому

      Talking utter bollocks.
      High business rates. Lack of investment. Online shopping. Supermarkets' proximity to town centres is a recipe for disaster for smaller shops. Nothing to do with Pakistanis. Engage your limited brain before making stupid comments.

    • @humptydumty4975
      @humptydumty4975 8 місяців тому +7

      Let me quess all hard working people own there own home. In brandford dewsbury. Whlie sit on your ass and complain. Let me quess your on the dole

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 7 місяців тому +8

      @@humptydumty4975 They all are in the shit hole cities. Why do you think the councils are bankrupt?

  • @chromiumphotography5138
    @chromiumphotography5138 9 місяців тому +114

    A few words can explain the state of Dewsbury - Labour run Kirklees Council. Same in Huddersfield, everything they control turns to shite.

    • @davewalkden7248
      @davewalkden7248 9 місяців тому +16

      Ah, so nothing to do with the town's Tory MP then..? No, of course not...

    • @chromiumphotography5138
      @chromiumphotography5138 9 місяців тому +9

      @davewalkden7248 Huddersfield's MP is? Ah, the longest serving Labour MP. So using your logic Huddersfield should be booming. But it isn't, is it? Why? Kirklees Council.

    • @minixtvbox
      @minixtvbox 9 місяців тому +17

      ​@@davewalkden7248labour aren't in power, 14 Tory years

    • @SparkyJohn111
      @SparkyJohn111 9 місяців тому

      @@chromiumphotography5138the truth is MPs do nothing but agree with their leaders who are told by the WEF what to do.
      It's all corrupt.

    • @jonfoster5828
      @jonfoster5828 9 місяців тому

      labour and conservatives have been taking it in turns screwing us over for decades now

  • @DazDaz105
    @DazDaz105 9 місяців тому +89

    Hmmmm. Well we all know why most of the Kirklees Council areas have gone down the U-Bend don’t we. . . .

    • @nicks4934
      @nicks4934 9 місяців тому +10

      We do?

    • @paulwood1088
      @paulwood1088 9 місяців тому

      spot on truth@@nicks4934

    • @georgegently3026
      @georgegently3026 9 місяців тому +3

      I'm from Huddersfield originally. Got out 30 years ago. Another shit hole. That's kirklees council as well, another council that's going bankrupt.

    • @DazDaz105
      @DazDaz105 9 місяців тому +1

      @@georgegently3026 you mean GONE !

    • @georgegently3026
      @georgegently3026 9 місяців тому +2

      @@DazDaz105 no suprise either. My dad still lives there, knows a bloke that works for kirklees. Rides arrived in a van doing the square root of f all. When his van needed replacing (probably ashtray was full), they asked him what van he wanted. ! Surely you select the most suitable van, then tell the employee what he's getting. Anyhow, he's in a fortune and does knack all. So much so even my dad had told him he's annoyed cos he takes the piss so much.

  • @sybentley6675
    @sybentley6675 9 місяців тому +48

    It starts with a broken window! You do know what's happening. Such lovely stone buildings built by a better class of people than us?

    • @johnallen8680
      @johnallen8680 9 місяців тому

      Not a better class. Dewsbury was prosperous before the Thatcher and Major governments followed an agenda of de - industrialisation.

  • @savethebeesplantherbs8809
    @savethebeesplantherbs8809 10 місяців тому +70

    I was born in Dewsbury its terrible a community torn apart by crime, drugs and benefits and a MP who lets it rot why no job centre strange

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +2

      It is a strange odd place....no prospects

    • @lukebignell7846
      @lukebignell7846 9 місяців тому +7

      Doesn’t look like there are any jobs, so why would they need a job centre

    • @Simon-50gtf
      @Simon-50gtf 9 місяців тому

      And Diversity Mongers.👳‍♂️

    • @williamdew7143
      @williamdew7143 9 місяців тому

      'Torn apart by benefits'. Well, that's a novel take. Ben Habib would likely agree with you, so be careful.

    • @Lemingtona-x5g
      @Lemingtona-x5g 8 місяців тому +2

      i would say its decline in manufacturing wouldn't you which is obvious

  • @garethstell5992
    @garethstell5992 9 місяців тому +21

    So, so sad to see. Used to be a thriving Yorkshire town. Bad, sad times.

  • @catherinefranklin9128
    @catherinefranklin9128 9 місяців тому +56

    Corrupt councils giving priority to people who send their money home is a big problem

  • @timhibbart5827
    @timhibbart5827 9 місяців тому +28

    Some of them buildings have got beautiful stonework, proper built.

  • @johnnutton7750
    @johnnutton7750 10 місяців тому +71

    My Dad used to put his three piece suit to go shopping in Dewsbury in the seventies. Now its a gathering place for the roughest dregs in the town. Never go there the council killed it by charging high rents for shops that only bookies can afford. The row of shops you showed were once WhSmiths argos boots Holland and Barrett. Utter shit hole. Used to have Cinema nice pubs even Wetherspoons have now gone old Turk is a good pub and bats on. but otherwise Dewsbury is a ghetto now.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +5

      Yeh if you rocked up in a 3 piece suit now you'd be robbed! Rent has killed the town as you say!

    • @spongebobsquaretits
      @spongebobsquaretits 9 місяців тому +2

      Dewsbury had 3 cinemas at one point

  • @Ravenswalk
    @Ravenswalk 10 місяців тому +46

    Grew up in Dewsbury/Ravensthorpe left in 76 not the Dewsbury I knew and loved as a kid it was safe and everyone watched out for everyone else. Great shops and a market that’s was second to none don’t really need to leave everything was there. Now it’s just a shell off a town dirty with boarded up shop fronts sad because the people from Dewsbury are really lovely people well the people I know who grew up there and still live there including family.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +5

      Alot of people have the same story. It is quite sad

    • @Efflife.2
      @Efflife.2 9 місяців тому

      Big up milco!

    • @blondebrandy
      @blondebrandy 9 місяців тому

      Used to go for a days shopping in the 1970, could buy anything(better than Amazon). Loved the place well worth the travel of an hour each way! So sad..

  • @CitizenErased11
    @CitizenErased11 10 місяців тому +48

    80’s and 90’s Dewsbury used to be a great night out - used to be there most weekends. Many happy memories…

    • @ronaldbarker6626
      @ronaldbarker6626 10 місяців тому +11

      You should've seen it in the 50s & 60s it was even better .

    • @CitizenErased11
      @CitizenErased11 10 місяців тому +3

      @@ronaldbarker6626 a bit before my time but wouldn’t doubt it at all

    • @timrobinson9192
      @timrobinson9192 9 місяців тому +3

      I used to love Friday/Saturday night in Dewsbury. The Old Anchor, The Old Turk, John F Kennedy, Black Bull, Bretts, and my all time favourite, the Black Tulip which became the Dyers Arms

    • @spongebobsquaretits
      @spongebobsquaretits 9 місяців тому +2

      @@timrobinson9192 The Glue Pot was the best I think, come out of there cross the road and in to the Tulip, great times

    • @timrobinson9192
      @timrobinson9192 9 місяців тому +4

      @@spongebobsquaretits Aye! I forgot about The Glue Pot. The town was buzzing with life back then. EDIT: Love the name BTW 😂🤣😂

  • @teatommoteatommo3396
    @teatommoteatommo3396 9 місяців тому +74

    Its a shame, Growing up in Birmingham places like Dewsbury were where you'd aspire to live round relaxed,clean & beautiful 😞now its just another Brum😢

  • @msuperegg77
    @msuperegg77 9 місяців тому +42

    The frightening thing is eveywhere will look like this within two decades

    • @gmc9451
      @gmc9451 9 місяців тому +11

      UA-cam channels TurdTowns and Wandering Turnip have been highlighting this very real issue. Personally I believe it is intentional and very sinister.

    • @flowlikeaether
      @flowlikeaether 9 місяців тому

      They are going to let it all turn to a slum and buy everything up for cheap, and depopulate us.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 8 місяців тому

      ​@@gmc9451An elite who abandoned their own people get replaced. Instead of a bunch of old boys there will be an Islamic Council of crusty old religious psychopaths

    • @Virginie-a
      @Virginie-a 7 місяців тому +4

      Less than 2decades

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 7 місяців тому

      @@gmc9451 The Protocols.

  • @gabjen7548
    @gabjen7548 9 місяців тому +14

    I grew up here. I left as soon as I possibly could. There’s one main reason it has ended up like this. I totally despise driving through there now everything closed run down disgrace of a place now. The pubs shut down, McDonald’s shut down, dorothy Perkins shut down, all that remains are pound shops and discount stores and boy racers and drug dealers, I certainly wouldn’t let my missus walk through there alone, such a fall from grace, such a shame.

  • @OliviaApple-hf8ig
    @OliviaApple-hf8ig 11 місяців тому +72

    The best thing about Dewsbury is it makes Huddersfield look better.

  • @carolmoorhouse
    @carolmoorhouse 11 місяців тому +102

    Makes you really wonder what the future holds. So many lovely buildings left to rot. Very sad.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +6

      Been like this for years. Tragic

    • @booth2710
      @booth2710 9 місяців тому +7

      the future is not good - for any of the UK

    • @kirtsy1883
      @kirtsy1883 9 місяців тому +1

      It will look like scenes out of a movie called "Children of Men", have a look.

    • @muckle8
      @muckle8 9 місяців тому +4

      I shudder to think what is coming in the Uk - wished I had left when I had some energy/ funds to do so - like living in an open air prison now .

    • @isleofthanet
      @isleofthanet 9 місяців тому +2

      @@booth2710Its the same everywhere and even those in the armed forces as i was in the seventies, all the married quarters etc well maintained but not any more, everything just left to rot away, mould and damp everywhere.

  • @philwood1683
    @philwood1683 10 місяців тому +45

    Get up the road to Batley, and look at all the takeaways. Must be 150 in a tiny area, how does that work ?

    • @DavidRenwick-t1e
      @DavidRenwick-t1e 9 місяців тому +37

      Money laundering, same as the "Turkish" barbers.

    • @SuperNevile
      @SuperNevile 9 місяців тому

      @@DavidRenwick-t1e either that or Money hoovering by the bookies.

    • @jkmcgregor7797
      @jkmcgregor7797 9 місяців тому +4

      No one cooks at home simple

    • @SausageRoll4u
      @SausageRoll4u 9 місяців тому

      ​@@jkmcgregor7797 you can't be that th!ck surely?

    • @isleofthanet
      @isleofthanet 9 місяців тому +5

      @@DavidRenwick-t1eThey are taking over Devon towns, they are everywhere in the south west.

  • @alexander211974
    @alexander211974 9 місяців тому +18

    Levelling up nicely i see

  • @brothermaleuspraetor9505
    @brothermaleuspraetor9505 9 місяців тому +11

    If you study History, you will learn a lot about how countries become partitioned and eventually taken over... This is already happening in the UK.

  • @darrenreynolds9462
    @darrenreynolds9462 11 місяців тому +86

    And I thought Rotherham was bad! This is so sad, but unfortunately it's happening everywhere up and down the country, town centres rotting away before our very eyes.
    I love this sort of content though, good stuff mate. Keep 'em coming👍🏻

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому

      Is rotheram really that bad!?

    • @Bad-wolfe
      @Bad-wolfe 11 місяців тому

      @@honestplaces yup

    • @darrenreynolds9462
      @darrenreynolds9462 11 місяців тому +2

      Not as bad as bad as Dewsbury no, but it is really bad

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому

      @@darrenreynolds9462 worth a visit for a video then?

    • @jdjones4825
      @jdjones4825 11 місяців тому

      Shit Britain.....

  • @stevegregson4357
    @stevegregson4357 9 місяців тому +86

    Oh and take a look people this will be every town and city within 10 years but remember diversity is our strength!

    • @John-o1c7y
      @John-o1c7y 9 місяців тому

      Newsflash. It's the 1% who destroyed your industries and hsmnered you with austerity that did this. They're super happy that you're too thick to blame them and that you're blaming immigrants.

    • @KKTR3
      @KKTR3 9 місяців тому +9

      York started already

    • @joegreen2750
      @joegreen2750 9 місяців тому +18

      Yes you're right, l visited York last summer,
      I felt very uneasy about the "multiculturalism" around the Shambles.
      Some of our "multicultural"
      brothers were plainly hostile towards us.

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 9 місяців тому +12

      @@KKTR3 No hope for the rest of us if York is in decline.

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 9 місяців тому

      I saw a picture of Oldham in 1945 recently on Facebook. Rows and rows of immaculate terraced houses with women in unison cleaning their windows and not a scrap of litter anywhere. Today, those same streets are full of old mattresses, rubbish piled sky high. The houses are filthy. Nobody cares.

  • @cricketbat09
    @cricketbat09 9 місяців тому +30

    Great video. The internet has killed retail shops. Many people shop for items online. It is unfortunate, but society has changed.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому +5

      Yup....still should be cheaper rent for coffee shops hang out places etc though 👍

    • @ouroborosirvington
      @ouroborosirvington 9 місяців тому +3

      Truth is cash is tight. I'm fitting out a camper and buy almost everything off temu and ebay. If I bought from a town store I couldn't afford it. When I do have to buy from the UK I have noticed many places will intentionally try to rip you off. For instance I needed some little electrical connectors on the day, went to CEF and they wanted to charge me 15 quid more than a shop I'd just perused around the corner for the exact same item which I actually paid under 4 quid for. Feels very much like we are all trying to rip each other off all the time.

    • @kingofthewestmidlands4049
      @kingofthewestmidlands4049 9 місяців тому

      No shit sherlock

    • @niv8880
      @niv8880 9 місяців тому

      It's actually not the internet. It's people's need for instant gratification. Amazon/e-bay et al. filled the gap. Councils then tax drivers through charging for parking before you even get to the shops then you get chugged before you get into the door by someone with a large bucket that doesn't actually take coins but wanting you to set up a direct debit.

    • @niv8880
      @niv8880 9 місяців тому

      @@ouroborosirvington Yep, I saw a thermos in a shop window for £40, it was £25 an Amazon - but then you can also get scammed on Amazon and need to shop around for everthing. I find a lot of stuff comes from China (Aliexpress etc.) and same thing marked up 4 or 5 times by the time it is on Amazon Marketplace

  • @carouselcoinleisure4141
    @carouselcoinleisure4141 9 місяців тому +15

    I owned “Gold Pot” amusement arcade situated in pioneer house. Had to close it as wages, shop rents and rates were so high.

  • @yensabi
    @yensabi 9 місяців тому +49

    I think a lot of those shops have closed down because of greedy landlords asking for silly money for the rental....
    Keep up the good work 👍

    • @annbarns652
      @annbarns652 9 місяців тому +4

      You sure it is not because of online shopping?

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому +3

      Very true mate. Cheers pal 👍

    • @bingoace
      @bingoace 9 місяців тому

      ​@@annbarns652online shopping has been going on the last 25 years at least. And we were still able to accommodate it. Just all of a sudden we are unable to. So it is down the the greedy landlords

    • @Dunnlrs
      @Dunnlrs 9 місяців тому +4

      The population of the town has changed, this change has also brought along a change in buying habits. I am surprised that there are still some pubs about.

  • @Roberta-anne
    @Roberta-anne 9 місяців тому +30

    Shocking. Have the English people had the pride knocked out of them. What is the government spending money on - certainly not towns like this.

    • @DavePocklington
      @DavePocklington 9 місяців тому

      No the money goes to the south. The North is left to rot. All our political parties are turds. The country is fucked. It doesn't take long to realise this when you see town after town with the same air of neglect and desperation. Look at Wales, the biggest employer there is now the government, there are no other jobs. Even the shop owners there are complaining that no one has any money to spend

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 8 місяців тому +2

      All the money ends up in the Cartels' pockets. I bet there have been some plush gaffes built in Mirpur, Peshawar Islamabad etc....out of council Dosh.

    • @Roberta-anne
      @Roberta-anne 8 місяців тому

      @@Isochest so depressing !

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 8 місяців тому

      @@Roberta-anne Unless Postal voting is banned we could see this Mafia become even more powerful. It could spark civil war!

  • @earlofcumbrae-Ground_Zero
    @earlofcumbrae-Ground_Zero 10 місяців тому +22

    Top Content. I've Subscribed. I've been living out of the UK for +20 years... France, Spain, Portugal, Holland....and none of the places I've visited are remotely like the situation in many of these UK towns...

    • @lovelystuff1562
      @lovelystuff1562 9 місяців тому +6

      Really?
      Aren't the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris, also run down & crime ridden due to the changing demographics, of the last 3 or 4 decades.
      Doesn't the centre of Paris & it's tourist attractions, have a major problem with pickpockets, & aggressive beggars, largely from Eastern Europe & North Africa?

    • @Cruner62
      @Cruner62 9 місяців тому +4

      We used to visit Southern France every year - Palavas Les flow was beautiful but we stopped going since they were bussing in a certain religion of piece that lined the beachfront every day and youths gloating over the few ladies that were brave enough to don a bathing suit.

  • @alunwilliams2162
    @alunwilliams2162 9 місяців тому +35

    Some wonderful buildings. We've got thousands of young men sitting on their backsides in hotels. Couldn't we get these people to clean, renovate or repair these areas? Or would that violate their human rights?

    • @John-o1c7y
      @John-o1c7y 9 місяців тому +6

      Aye, blame the people who've been here 5 minutes rather than your own ruling class who've destroyed your communities over the last 40 years. Pathetic

    • @alunwilliams2162
      @alunwilliams2162 9 місяців тому

      @user-en5um8is2k you're right! It is pathetic! Millions of pounds spent each day indulging scroungers whilst our towns and communities waste away!

    • @alunwilliams2162
      @alunwilliams2162 9 місяців тому +7

      @user-en5um8is2k we manage to spend billions on these people, yet simply watch as our own towns and communities are left to rot. I agree with you on one level, it's truly pathetic!

    • @John-o1c7y
      @John-o1c7y 9 місяців тому

      Who are 'these people' ?
      Refugees are not allowed to work until their claims are finalised and are forced to subsist on an absolute pittance.
      They do however provide a very convenient scapegoat for the grasping billionaire class who stole our utilities, housing stock, pensions while at the same time decimating our industrial base and National Health Service.
      If you want to talk about £billions maybe examine the £78 billion stolen in dividends by the private water company owners, the £4 billion in dodgy PPE from Tory donors or the £37 billion blown on an unworkable track and trace system set up by David Camerons university pal Dido Harding.
      That takes a bit of effort though doesn't it, much easier to do what Rupert Murdochs rags tell you and blame immigrants

    • @niv8880
      @niv8880 9 місяців тому +2

      @@John-o1c7y Its the government at fault, everyone wants to live in safety and have full bellies - regardless of their origins. It's not the way to deal with things.

  • @scottsmith1413
    @scottsmith1413 9 місяців тому +19

    I had the misfortune of visiting Dewsbury around five years ago. During the commute into the centre, it felt like Islamabad. The bandstand-looking structure in the town square was full of street alcoholics, and the side entries smelt of urine. Or you could see the version of the Dewsbury tourist information😁! Dewsbury is also home to a diverse community, offering a variety of cultural experiences, from its thriving arts scene to its array of international cuisine. Lol!

  • @georgeliquor2931
    @georgeliquor2931 9 місяців тому +25

    Take a look at photos of Dewsbury from around the seventies and eighties it was a busy market town to which people came from miles around to shop, the market was well known throughout Yorkshire, luckily for us we now have a Dewsbury shaped by imigration and diversity what a lovely place where nobody visits any more, the whole country is going this way, it must be stopped or we are done

    • @redkev81
      @redkev81 9 місяців тому +2

      underfunding more like...

    • @Cruner62
      @Cruner62 9 місяців тому

      It's way to late for most towns and cities - just Ghettos - the culture that replaces the indigenous white are far removed from what created these abodes. These islands will never return with diversity comes a rabble of ethics who walk around in pyjamas and other distinct head gear indoctrinated by eastern lifestyles - what next donkeys and camels to replace motor cars, 45 gallon barrels burning wood and rubbish to cook on.

  • @AndrewMurray-u9l
    @AndrewMurray-u9l 9 місяців тому +20

    Wet sad to see these major English towns North & South in severe decline. I am veiling from Scotland it’s the same in the once thriving towns here. Next they have the planned 15 minute cities & more lockdowns so I won’t expect any improvements.

  • @seanbyrne2220
    @seanbyrne2220 9 місяців тому +15

    Dewsbury is the only town in england where there are more gambling shops than pubs This is what happens when?
    Most of the pubs close down in a town centre. Cheers cheers

  • @patrickball2493
    @patrickball2493 9 місяців тому +7

    An interesting place despite the commercial decline . There is a lot of fine old buildings with great stonework to them .

  • @stevebandit1964
    @stevebandit1964 10 місяців тому +18

    Welcome to Dumpsville !!! 😮

  • @Drew-b9p
    @Drew-b9p 9 місяців тому +98

    Dual nationals should not have the vote let alone any position of political or legal authority

    • @hazeleverett1064
      @hazeleverett1064 9 місяців тому

      My mother is one, I'm American. My grandfather was born and raised in Doncaster. My mother wasn't out there voting in the UK...

    • @sicks6six
      @sicks6six 9 місяців тому +5

      to hold any political office in the UK you should be able to trace your heritage back at least 5 generations, some people say 10 but at least 5,
      we have 70 MPs +1 PM, The Welsh and Scottish first ministers, the Capitals Mayour and countless towns and cities Mayours are all of foreign heritage, foreigners make up the ruling majority on many town councils and they are affiliated to NO political party (they are independents because that has fewer rules and regulations so much easier to get elected into power) and they do NOT put Britain first, they have flags of their own countries flying from their houses and on their cars, Paintings of "home" on their sitting room walls, it's all online for anyone to check, have you ever wondered how many foreign MPs there are in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, the successful countries with very high standards of living, almost Zero is the answer,

    • @hazeleverett1064
      @hazeleverett1064 9 місяців тому

      We have first generation American Congressmen and women all the time. If I moved to the UK and lived with my aunties something tells me you wouldn’t be remotely upset if I became a citizen and ran for office.

    • @hazeleverett1064
      @hazeleverett1064 9 місяців тому

      *subject, but I just woke up.

    • @Drew-b9p
      @Drew-b9p 9 місяців тому +2

      @@hazeleverett1064
      I would be if you decided to keep your voting and full citizenship rights for the USA.... Go back to mind reading school

  • @Mindsmog
    @Mindsmog 9 місяців тому +9

    you wouldnt believe it , but back in the day this town was buzzing, had an odeon cinema, and all the students were filling up the pubs from nearby Dewsbury college, there was a massive indoor and outdoor market, had some good ole times here, what a shame , just like the rest of UK rundown and we all know why? the bloody governments , dont matter if its Labour or Tory both as bad.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому

      Yeh i know. Heard stories of how good it was. Shame!

  • @nickwhitehead3873
    @nickwhitehead3873 9 місяців тому +28

    Dewsbury evolved as a town centre to serve the needs of the local and wider population, and in doing so, it grew into one of the country’s busiest little towns, right up to the 1980’s! What happened? The government changed the population over the next 30 years from a largely white Christian one to an Asian non Christian populace! Result…you can see in the video!

  • @richardpickering2452
    @richardpickering2452 9 місяців тому +14

    Dewsbury has the 2 common denominators for guaranteed decline.

  • @philmuskett265
    @philmuskett265 10 місяців тому +104

    I admire your bottle, mate, wandering round some pretty rumpty places with your camera. Mind what you're doing, son.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +18

      Cheers 🤣 i run fast so go that in my locker

    • @ShP-mf5zy
      @ShP-mf5zy 9 місяців тому

      Dewsbury is a soft town I live here nobody gives a fuck about this baldy

    • @booth2710
      @booth2710 9 місяців тому +6

      yeah a camera like that could buy a couple of arm shots

    • @joegreen2750
      @joegreen2750 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes

    • @judnaylor07
      @judnaylor07 8 місяців тому +2

      Would need to if you went into ravensthorpe or saville town. No go shit hole areas of Dewsbury

  • @ironknobsteelworks4063
    @ironknobsteelworks4063 9 місяців тому +19

    i was born in and brought up in dewsbury. Online shopping and multiculturism could be to blame.

  • @billmmckelvie5188
    @billmmckelvie5188 9 місяців тому +4

    Go back thirty years ago and Dewsbury was thriving and then in 2004ish it went downhill. Thanks in no part to the big Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, supermarkets, add to that the large shopping centre in Ravensthorpe, White Rose Shoping centre just 15 minutes down the A653 in Besston, South Leeds. All aided by the wonderful councillors who voted for it on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees, Wakefield, York) that we had to get extra funding for West Yorkshire and York. Sadly Leeds seems to get the lion's share of funding a lot of the other's miss out, especially North Kirklees, which has caused real controversy. Kirklees college whose built a new campus in Dewsbury, and a new Police Kirklees HQ, taking over the old site of Dewsbury Technical College! It took Dewsbury all its time to save its hospital, when it was on its own before the merger it had no debt unlike the Mid Yorks group it finds itself in. The only none run down area is the A653 corridor, Shaw Cross, and Chidswell at the top of the hill.

  • @kelvinlewis4065
    @kelvinlewis4065 9 місяців тому +49

    Won 2 World Wars ,then lost our country.

    • @philthompson8574
      @philthompson8574 9 місяців тому +6

      Actually Britain played a junior role in WW2 IT was won by the Soviet Union fighting for 3 of the 5 year war alone against Germany

    • @kelvinlewis4065
      @kelvinlewis4065 9 місяців тому +1

      Sorry mate I was being sarcastic ..I do know my history ...Agree with you up to a point ..Not so sure any of the British forces of the day would however....and they had to fight it

    • @philthompson8574
      @philthompson8574 9 місяців тому +1

      @@kelvinlewis4065 I agree the British were brave and up for a fight but Britain was a militarily smaller power by then nothing unusual about countries growing in power and then declining just like Dewsbury and other northern cities

    • @kelvinlewis4065
      @kelvinlewis4065 9 місяців тому +1

      As in WW1 ..and WW2...especially in WW1...When we did play a massive role ...I'm glad that I wasn't there

    • @alexmore8527
      @alexmore8527 9 місяців тому

      Germany is much nicer than our dump country Britain, they have issues too but it ain't no run down grubby tink infested mutt hole like the UK

  • @leejones5810
    @leejones5810 9 місяців тому +20

    Would have been beautiful before we were enriched 😢

  • @samueloldershaw
    @samueloldershaw 9 місяців тому +6

    Go to Saville town.. Its pretty thriving and you can't buy a house there unless you have connections

  • @ieuan1980s
    @ieuan1980s 9 місяців тому +4

    I remember as a kid in the late 80s and 90s that town bustling! And the market! Heck it is dead!!

  • @mikeman584
    @mikeman584 9 місяців тому +12

    Should get you on GB news or talk to and show the true state of some parts of the UK it would open peoples eyes.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому +1

      Too shy for that 🤣

    • @mikeman584
      @mikeman584 9 місяців тому +1

      @@honestplaces I with respect disagree, you would open peoples eyes basically you hear so much bs about we’ve got to build more houses etc and I have always thought there a lot of residential properties that would just be repurposed. The same for commercial properties tidied up and perhaps rent free to get a business up and running and secure.

    • @cillablackslingback
      @cillablackslingback 9 місяців тому

      I’m confident a Tory mouthpiece will platform someone showing UK economic decline.

  • @jamsheadaziz3999
    @jamsheadaziz3999 9 місяців тому +2

    Similar thing has happened in Heckmondwike, about 2.5 miles away. It was a busy market town, with Tuesday and Saturday being market days. There were plenty of independent businesses, from florists to chemists. Then Morrisons opened in the town centre. Slowly but surely the local shops started to close down. The market has disappeared completely from Heckmondwike. Many shops are boarded up. Online shopping has had drastic effects. Very sad to see.

  • @kevinh96
    @kevinh96 9 місяців тому +8

    It's more than one reason for the decline unfortunately. High rent and rates are part of it, often in towns and cities like this the retail units are owned by one or two large landlord companies who often refuse to reduce rents, they'd usually rather see them stay empty in the vain hope a large chain who can afford the costs move in. The business rates are the second major factor, again pricing many smaller retailers out of the city centres. Another factor is the local authority, Kirklees Council is in a financial mess and on the verge of bankruptcy so is making huge cuts to services and that, inevitably, leads to less street cleaning, less upkeep of council owned areas and buildings making the place look even worse. This in turn makes the city centre even less attractive to potential investors and business owners. Then there's the impact of online shopping, one of the biggest reasons for the decline in city centre shopping. The final reason is the demographic of the people in the area, Dewsbury has a very high immigrant population and like it or not they often don't have the same incomes and spending power as the indigenous older generations had. Not only that but as more and more immigrants move in these wealthier more middle class residents tend to move out or shift their spending to other towns and cities to avoid them.
    It doesn't have to be that way though, Barnsley, Wakefield and Leeds itself have also suffered massively but are trying to do something about it. Barnsley has reinvented the town centre, and are trying to attract those smaller, more eclectic independent retailers into the town, although many feel the council are neglecting other areas in favour of the centre. Wakefield is embarking on a similar strategy at last, refurbishing and rebuilding many of the old mills around the waterfront areas, trying to work with the owners of the run down Ridings Shopping Centre and have decided to go after those smaller independent retailers and try and attract them into the city centre. Wakefield still has a long way to go, it's often filthy due to a lack of daytime street cleaning and it has a high number of vacant retail units, especially due to one large, greedy commercial landlord. Wakefield also has a huge problem with druggies and alcoholics who hang around the pedestrianised areas outside the cathedral.

  • @carbonnieferrous2689
    @carbonnieferrous2689 9 місяців тому +21

    I remember when our little town high street had its own 'Trigger' road sweeper who treated the town like the Forth Bridge and went up and down all day every day and kept the streets spotless. Council appear to have better things to spend our taxes on nowadays. Not sure what that might be though as they keep what they do well hidden from those that pay the bills.

    • @joegreen2750
      @joegreen2750 9 місяців тому +3

      Yeah wonderful stuff, starting with Ramadan celebrations.

    • @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893
      @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 9 місяців тому +3

      Inflated salaries and gilt edge pensions after 25 years of grift.

  • @myoldtapes9187
    @myoldtapes9187 11 місяців тому +34

    wrecked by kirklees council. The same as they have done to Batley and Heckmondwike. Step outside Kirklees footprint to the likes of ossett which still has a market or Mirfield which is Kirklees but has a parish council and it is a different picture.

    • @susananderson7504
      @susananderson7504 10 місяців тому +7

      Ossett is lovely. Like Dewsbury and Batley used to be

    • @wyzxyw
      @wyzxyw 10 місяців тому +1

      Common, take back control already!

    • @750dora
      @750dora 9 місяців тому +3

      wrecked by tories who underpaid Kirklees by nearly 70 quid per head.

    • @petermach8635
      @petermach8635 9 місяців тому +2

      Mirfield, somewhere that butts against Dewsbury along the River Calder, does feel entirely different. It's still busy and a place to visit .... like it's on a different continent, somehow.

  • @henrykrinkle5353
    @henrykrinkle5353 9 місяців тому +8

    Just an idea - why not interview some of the local people you encounter on your walks? What have they got to say about the rubbish state of things? It'd be interesting to hear their points of view.

  • @MrDoogied1975
    @MrDoogied1975 11 місяців тому +12

    Market days are Wed & Sat, the Town has died a slow painful death it's so sad. The Town next door Batley pretty much the same, just gambling shops, pound shops and charity shops. Batley famous for the Batley Variety club back in the day, famous singers and comedians used to come there. Also home to Fox's Biscuits. Heckmondwike seems to be clinging on, alot less to lets..

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +3

      Going to Batley soon....it best be a dump 🤣

    • @judnaylor07
      @judnaylor07 8 місяців тому

      @@honestplacesgo to the new plaza in Batley. You get looked at like a piece of shit if you’re white

  • @MrPaddy924
    @MrPaddy924 9 місяців тому +25

    I lived in Dewsbury for 15 years. Here are the reasons it's in decline:
    - Poor (Kirklees) council planning and policy (Locals would testify that Huddersfield received much more attention and funding than Dewsbury over the years and a planned 10 million pound investment in Dewsbury town centre was abandoned after the 2007 financial crash.
    - Its close proximity to Leeds doesn't help as Leeds has a huge shopping precinct which attracts shoppers from Dewsbury and its environs
    - Underlying trends (nationally and internationally) away from town centre shopping in favour of online shopping
    - Shopping in Dewsbury town centre was always a frustrating experience due to the poor parking facilities. It compares badly to Mirfield retail park with its free, close proximity, parking.
    - High historical unemployment and poverty in Dewsbury. People simply don't have the money to shop for anything other than essentials, which they tend to buy at Asda, Lidl etc.
    - Cost of living crisis and generally poor underlying UK economy.
    I object to the posts suggesting this decline is to do with the muslim population. This is just factually incorrect. If anything, the muslims are keeping the town centre alive with their (still popular) market stalls which attract visitors to the town centre twice a week.
    It should also be noted that I was burgled 3 times whilst living in Dewsbury. On each occasion the person was caught and on each occasion it was a young white person. I never had any problems from the local muslim population.

    • @ellismeah8110
      @ellismeah8110 9 місяців тому +3

      You give the PC version

    • @MrPaddy924
      @MrPaddy924 9 місяців тому +7

      @@ellismeah8110 Nope, just the accurate version from someone who actually lived there. It makes little logical sense to blame the decline of Britain's high streets on Islam. How does that work? Did Marks and Spencer decide to close its Dewsbury store because of Islam, or perhaps because takings were low because the locals couldn't afford their extra special food? Take yer pick.

    • @TheLampini
      @TheLampini 8 місяців тому +3

      Karen Matthews wasn't a Muslim either - but don't let the truth get in the way of a good racist narrative.. 😂

    • @ellismeah8110
      @ellismeah8110 8 місяців тому +1

      Good to hear your side of the story , we live in a large city , and it's very devided like most towns and city's , now, there was a time when most people got on , but over the last 10 years theirs been an explosion of millions of migrants into the country ,putting a massive strain on local resources

    • @MrPaddy924
      @MrPaddy924 8 місяців тому +6

      @@ellismeah8110 Indeed. But to be fair, in the case of Dewsbury, the majority of the dentists, doctors, care and healthcare workers are also migrants, so yes, they draw on resources, but they also contribute greatly to the support infrastructure.
      Let's face it...the real reason our services are under pressure is all of those years of crippling austerity and very poor local authority planning.

  • @hazzzee
    @hazzzee 9 місяців тому +5

    apparantly the big thing on most town high streets these days is supposed to be Money Laundering, Nail Bars and mens hairdressers. Imagine that a hairdresser (mens) that is that busy, they can afford a prime spot on the high street, whats that, they pay nothing to anyone, change ownership every year or 2 , find the one that has been in your town the longest and then go check them out !

  • @miclchaos
    @miclchaos 9 місяців тому +10

    Ah the state of our once great nation!

  • @ChubbBates-mh5xp
    @ChubbBates-mh5xp 10 місяців тому +9

    I come from Kettering which I thought was a bit of a dump.After looking at this.I realise I was wrong. I’d say most of the shops in the town centre are currently occupied.I don’t know what the answer is but some towns remind me of Beirut in the 70s.The government only seem to give a Fck about themselves.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +2

      Atleast beirut has nice weather

  • @Jeffrey-e4c
    @Jeffrey-e4c 9 місяців тому +9

    I have to admit I didn't watch the whole video but I felt that it was pretty revealing that he doesn't seem to actually talk to anyone? There's loads of towns all over the UK that are on the decline but there is more to a community than whether it still has a Spoons. Talk to people, find out what's actually going on! There might be community projects, arts and culture that is hidden slightly beneath the surface that you're not gonna find by just walking around pointing at buildings

    • @geoffas
      @geoffas 9 місяців тому +2

      I agree. Overall I found this video to be one of the most boring I have ever seen. I did watch the whole video hoping it might improve towards the end. It didn't.

    • @garryentropy
      @garryentropy 7 місяців тому +1

      make a video yourself then

    • @origamimouse7836
      @origamimouse7836 6 місяців тому

      If I flew 12 or 14 hours to get there and walked around Dewsburry I doubt I would find anyone to talk to either.. I guess it is boring if you live there, it’s interesting to me.. what is happening to these towns - I like watching travel videos with people on streets.. I like watching this guy too.. it is very telling about what the society is.. where are the people to talk to..?

  • @TheOriginalMegaKing
    @TheOriginalMegaKing 8 місяців тому +5

    Believe it or not but dewsbury used to be a nice place to visit and had one of the best outdoor markets in the north that was visited by many from a far. Unfortunately it got taken over and run into the ground by you know who. Labour to blame for that.

  • @deannelson1388
    @deannelson1388 10 місяців тому +8

    I have to deliver here and Bradford most of the week, day in day out these places are depressing and not good for your mental well being.. No hope, no future.

  • @BillyJango
    @BillyJango 2 місяці тому

    I am from Dewsbury. I lived in Dewsbury Moor when I was a kid in the 70's. I have really good memories of it. It was a lovely place.

  • @terryhosker1298
    @terryhosker1298 9 місяців тому +12

    Typical Kirklees town Laubour controled of course

  • @suesmith4366
    @suesmith4366 9 місяців тому +6

    All the shops opposite the town hall have not had their leases renewed as it’s all going to be flats.
    I was born in Dewsbury, it’s an absolute disgrace how the town has been let go to rack and ruin.
    Huddersfield is going the same way, same as most towns sadly . 😔

    • @Summerhouse-z7n
      @Summerhouse-z7n 9 місяців тому +1

      True, people probably will look at this and think what a dump but anyone who remembers how it used to be in the 70s will just feel so sad. Daisy Hill is unrecognisable.

    • @suesmith4366
      @suesmith4366 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Summerhouse-z7n I’m 70 and the Dewsbury I knew was lovely, it was a pleasure to go down Dewsbury on a Saturday afternoon.
      Caddy’s ice cream parlour, Baileys Cafe, Market loads of shops, and a choice of cinemas. 👍🏻 Dewsbury park and cafe, a different world. I lived on the Flatts behind the station, and loved going to Dewsbury when I was small, over the railway into town.
      It’s so sad to see it all now 😔

  • @steverock4329
    @steverock4329 10 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for the walkabout, am coming over to an event at the town hall next month and said to the missus we should go earlier and visit a few pubs. I’m definitely not going to do that now, I’ve never been to Dewsbury before but from what I saw on your video, our visit will be a one-off

    • @chadhtfc
      @chadhtfc 9 місяців тому +4

      Go to the West Riding on the station, superb pub

    • @spongebobsquaretits
      @spongebobsquaretits 9 місяців тому +1

      there isnt a few pubs, just a couple

    • @Toonarmydee
      @Toonarmydee 3 місяці тому +1

      Don’t come it’s a crap hole trust me. I live in the next town and we are over run with immigration. Illegal and legal.
      People on drugs and homeless all over the place. This place is horrible!

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 10 місяців тому +22

    Bookies - the common thread linking the most deprived areas on Britain. I feel like the evil of gambling addiction is something many people are more than happy to sweep under the rug. Boozer looked half decent though.
    Another interesting video pal (only recently found your channel) but it's worth pointing out that _descent_ & _decent_ are very different words 🤣

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +5

      Yeh....i have been baffled by those gamble safe and take a time out adverts. If you have to say that then somet is clearly wrong. Thanks mate, just changed it now 🤣 typo!

    • @SuperNevile
      @SuperNevile 9 місяців тому

      Thought all of that gambling would have gone on-line too.

  • @moss1066
    @moss1066 9 місяців тому +33

    Import the third world become the turd world. Shame really as there looks to be some nice architecture that's now going to be left to rot to make the 'New Britons' feel more at home.
    Have you been to Saviletown (no relation other than the hobbies i suppose if you catch my drift) yet? Don't think the New Britons would even let you film around 'their area'.

    • @robertwoodrow9650
      @robertwoodrow9650 9 місяців тому +3

      "Now then, now then, guys 'n' gals"! 😆😅

  • @jennyhicks1930
    @jennyhicks1930 9 місяців тому +14

    I was born in dewsbury and lived there till I was 21, when I went back to visit my parents it got so you couldn’t go into dewsbury at night as you felt so out of place and unsafe as a white woman. Next and Matalan full of women in burkhas in big black SUV’s with private registrations.. very sad

    • @haseenaasif5842
      @haseenaasif5842 3 місяці тому

      god save us from women covering up by their own choice and free will and people with big cars..

  • @somedude5951
    @somedude5951 9 місяців тому +4

    Great architecture there.

  • @windingcirclelifesch
    @windingcirclelifesch 11 місяців тому +19

    Love your video's mate👍I am from Australia and have a fascination for England. Never been but I like seeing the "real" parts of the country.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +2

      Cheers pal. You get your bad bits everywhere i suppose. England is also always wet, grey cold and windy so everywhere is always twice as bad 🤣 Atleast in Aus the rough parts are most of the time good weather

    • @oliverearnshaw6189
      @oliverearnshaw6189 10 місяців тому +2

      I live in Australia mate but came from round there! I watch these to remind me how lucky I am for living in the Barossa valley 😂🇦🇺❤️

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому

      @@oliverearnshaw6189 alright for some!

    • @FART-REPELLENT
      @FART-REPELLENT 9 місяців тому

      Isn't London real for you?

    • @windingcirclelifesch
      @windingcirclelifesch 9 місяців тому

      @@FART-REPELLENT London is cliche, would like to know about other places, esp up nortjh. Most movies tv shows are set in London. UK is much more than it's capital.

  • @rulebritannia1553
    @rulebritannia1553 9 місяців тому +4

    Looks so delightful
    Sign me up for a weekend
    Away.

  • @grahamjonathan762
    @grahamjonathan762 9 місяців тому +7

    Litter is a nationwide problem. Look at any roadside and it's unbelievable the amount of rubbish lying there.

    • @alexmore8527
      @alexmore8527 9 місяців тому +2

      Litter and the splattering of spit and snot...

  • @sionjones4368
    @sionjones4368 3 місяці тому +1

    Back alley there.....just been smashed in. Spat me tea out that did haha awesome video as always

  • @leeroii89
    @leeroii89 9 місяців тому +9

    Get help for the dog from the RSPCA. Give the dog a chance at a better life. Did you report it? I would, wouldn't grass for anything unless it involves children or animals. That dog could well be being left there for hours on end.

    • @missmuffet3874
      @missmuffet3874 9 місяців тому

      I hope it was reported. Poor little thing. xx

  • @lyndastephenson7732
    @lyndastephenson7732 10 місяців тому +5

    I lived in Mirfield as a kid and loves going to Dewsbury, it looks like it has gone down hill so much , such a shame, the market was brilliant back in the day, I live near London now so not been back for a few years , last time I just went to matalan so not right into the town bit, the council need to sort it out

    • @kay110
      @kay110 10 місяців тому +1

      I currently live in Mirfield and Dewsbury used to be so thriving years ago. There is nothing there now just rot and decay. My parents used to come over to Dewsbury to shop as it was one of the best places... Its now a shadow of its former place.

  • @robertp.wainman4094
    @robertp.wainman4094 9 місяців тому +3

    Whatever happened to the concept of the council cleaning up litter?

  • @JaniceLamb-n1y
    @JaniceLamb-n1y 7 місяців тому +1

    I’m heartbroken watching this. I grew up in Dewsbury back in the 60s and 70s and I barely recognise it. It was a thriving, busy and friendly town centre. His walk up Daisy Hill was the worst for me. I worked at a solicitors office there, straight from school and it was lovely. Very sad.

  • @stanleybuchan4610
    @stanleybuchan4610 9 місяців тому +4

    It's so depressing in the direction the UK is going. I can't offer any solutions, but I think these types of videos should be shown to the London-centric crowd.

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  9 місяців тому

      Afew video do....i'm not big enough 🤣😭

  • @MilitaryCombatNetwork
    @MilitaryCombatNetwork 9 місяців тому

    20 years ago all shops were open. Always busy. Market although smaller was still on each Friday. More and more businesses closed down due to Online shopping over the years. Small businesses couldn’t compete with Huge Market chains etc. Also the surrounding areas from Dewsbury were the first to go down. Ravensthorpe for as long as I can remember had mass immigration from all third world country’s for the past twenty years so the majority of middle class white Families sold up and moved away. Then you have Saville town literally a two minute walk from Dewsbury sports centre where it is 100% Asians Only. Many times you had people of white British origin having a night out than walking home and get your head kicked in by Asians for being white. Also two of the London Bombers had strong links to Saville Town/Thornhill Lees. I remember walking down into Dewsbury when I was younger and you could smell the rot in people’s gardens. Rubbish just left all over and it wasn’t white families I tell you. So people need to stop pussy footing around and call it out for what it is. Immigration and online shopping has run this town down like many other northern towns. Nothing racist about calling it for what it is

  • @thomaspurvey
    @thomaspurvey 9 місяців тому +7

    Nice looking Town ,Your tour Disturbed me, England needs another Cromwell Very Soon.

    • @Lorraine-p4r
      @Lorraine-p4r 9 місяців тому +1

      No we do not he was a nightmare!

    • @Lorraine-p4r
      @Lorraine-p4r 9 місяців тому +1

      No we do not , Cromwell was a nightmare!

  • @seanwood8883
    @seanwood8883 9 місяців тому +1

    I'm from Dewsbury, just totally gone now. Nothing left. Use to be a top town but that was back in last century when we had all best shops, and a cinema, then the famous market they came from far and wide to see. Now look 😔

  • @Les__Mack
    @Les__Mack 11 місяців тому +10

    This is really sad. Thanks for the video. Oh, and it looks like you are wearing a Suffolk sheep. lol

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому +3

      The sheep is wearing me! 🤣

  • @gustoaudio8711
    @gustoaudio8711 9 місяців тому +2

    Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
    We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown

  • @Vlogged-off
    @Vlogged-off 10 місяців тому +26

    Uk has fallen

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  10 місяців тому +7

      Up north yes!

    • @leeroii89
      @leeroii89 9 місяців тому

      Not to worry, the globalist Agenda is still on course. Nothing like destabilising a country to weaken and divide everyone, the WEF plants will make this worse as years go on. Dread to think what this country will be like by 2035. Probably collapsed and civil war 😨

  • @JimmyHammer
    @JimmyHammer 3 місяці тому

    'As long as they pick up the litter'. Good one! 🤣🤣

  • @SkinwalkerFarm
    @SkinwalkerFarm 11 місяців тому +8

    That's nuts I live in West Cornwall but I used to work in Dewsbury and would use that carpark to sort my wagon out

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому

      Cornwall any good?

    • @SkinwalkerFarm
      @SkinwalkerFarm 11 місяців тому +3

      @@honestplaces It's got it's good bits and bad bits, theres a lot of money and a lot of poverty, but on the whole It's safe but the summer months the traffic gets a bit much

    • @honestplaces
      @honestplaces  11 місяців тому

      @@SkinwalkerFarm yeh i just know it's dough for hotels in the summer there! But is a good spot yeh 👍

    • @SkinwalkerFarm
      @SkinwalkerFarm 11 місяців тому +1

      @@honestplaces In the last few Years most of the proper old drinking pubs have closed, the roads are in a bad state, they are building everywhere, fly tipping, the sea is full of sewage all around Cornwall whenever there's heavy rain, winter holiday home Ghost villages like Marazion are all around the coast. We used to do the Covered Market in Wakefield on a Sunday, I miss that, the Merry City it was indeed, great times. I'm Cornish but I miss the freindly folk of Yorkshire.

  • @stonehengemaca
    @stonehengemaca 7 місяців тому +1

    Where in the video is the "taken over town" bit? What's been taken over and by whom???

  • @johnhunsley8860
    @johnhunsley8860 9 місяців тому +13

    the destopian reality of Britain's north

    • @billybellend1155
      @billybellend1155 9 місяців тому +3

      It’s not Britains north. It’s Englands north. Huge difference 🙄

    • @Flyingwithoutmings
      @Flyingwithoutmings 9 місяців тому

      Newcastle is still nice

  • @emmawylde100
    @emmawylde100 9 місяців тому +2

    Dewsburys decline started in 1973 when we went from our own country council and joined kirklees .the money started to go to Huddersfield.
    There has been no real investment and most of the kirklees grants seem to go to Muslim areas.
    You did however miss out the real ale pub at the train station,the sports center conveniently shut as kirklees council ran out of money due to that dodgy concrete

  • @tinatina1104
    @tinatina1104 9 місяців тому +3

    I used to love going to dews bury market. I’m sick of seeing gambling shops. They ruin people’s lives