Ashington Dirty old town

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  • Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
  • Ashington on the UK top 10 list for being the worst town to live in.

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  • @malkummog
    @malkummog Рік тому +16

    Born, bred & still live in Ashington, at an age to remember it in the 60s onwards.
    Very very sad to see what it has become 😔
    Ashganistan indeed!

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому +6

      Its very sad to see a town suffering like this, especially with the billions of pounds worth of coal taken from the area.

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 Рік тому +2

      Did you know the Charltons?

    • @malkummog
      @malkummog Рік тому +3

      @@pmacc3557
      Not personally, saw Jackie a number of times, lovely bloke really nice to chat to

    • @malkummog
      @malkummog Рік тому +3

      @@pmacc3557 my uncle used to play football with Bobby & Jackie in the back lanes when they were kids

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 Рік тому +2

      @@malkummog yes lovely I'd say. Seems he loved his roots

  • @yerhan1572
    @yerhan1572 Рік тому +11

    Best thing about Ashington the road out

  • @Amber-md8ut
    @Amber-md8ut 2 місяці тому +1

    I was born here, my mam wanted us to move there when I was 10…glad she didn’t.

  • @davidtodd7538
    @davidtodd7538 2 дні тому +1

    Pits closing did this 40 years ago, nothing put in its place. What has Ian lavery and his mp mates done? I ll tell what they have done, nothing. This was once a fantastic town.

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  День тому

      Slavery Lavery and his cronies have only lined their own pockets. Shameful people.

  • @steveforster9764
    @steveforster9764 Рік тому +7

    0300 here in Canada I'm a Newbiggin lad justseen my mom on Ashington main street

    • @Tagstar76
      @Tagstar76 Рік тому +1

      im from Newbiggin as well lad, my name is stevie foster i was brought up on the moor estate side of Newbiggin, i went to moor side school then middle school with Mr Lynn and Mrs Guthrie and then Hirst High School till 1994, but i moved away to Nottingham when i was in my early 20s and have been here ever since but going to save up some cash and go for a drive thru maybe stay the night at a cheap Hotel

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому

      I know of Stevie Foster from Newbiggin, have you checked my video out regarding Newbiggin@@Tagstar76

    • @marcbrown6089
      @marcbrown6089 4 місяці тому

      monkey is that you

  • @sirpagandetyptoft6793
    @sirpagandetyptoft6793 Рік тому +8

    This mess we can't blame on asylum seekers, this dates back decades. Somewhere in Ashington there is still a Texan bar wrapper caught on barbed wire flapping around in the wind since 1979.

    • @colindodds7322
      @colindodds7322 Рік тому +4

      I blame the council because this rubbish has been there for weeks

    • @malkummog
      @malkummog Рік тому +2

      For me the blame lies squarely on the residents, no pride, effort or respect anymore.

    • @yerhan1572
      @yerhan1572 Рік тому

      Would help though if the bins were emptied on a regular basis@@malkummog

    • @BlindingSun_
      @BlindingSun_ 10 місяців тому

      It’s Thatchers fault

    • @gazzy9136
      @gazzy9136 9 місяців тому +2

      @@colindodds7322rubbish wouldn’t be their in the first place if the residents cared about their town. It’s the people who make it what it is, not the government.

  • @susanofhullhumberside4753
    @susanofhullhumberside4753 Рік тому +2

    It's being overwhelmed with new demographics just like Blyth and Workington in the past 12 months

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  8 місяців тому

      Its very sad, especially with the amount of revenue taken out of the town by countless governments.

  • @guyroutledge-b8z
    @guyroutledge-b8z Рік тому +4

    Just realised it’s you Colin making these videos, I’ve watched quite a few and the penny dropped😂 great videos

  • @thornwarbler
    @thornwarbler Рік тому +5

    Aye a shadow of its former self back in the day. Sad really. Great video and soundtrack...........Cheers

  • @sirsamfay99
    @sirsamfay99 Рік тому +5

    Very sad to see the state of the place today. Very different when I used to catch the school bus from Pegswood to St Benedicts in the 1970s.

  • @BERTLEWEED
    @BERTLEWEED Рік тому +4

    Brilliant. It looks even worse on film. You should send it to Aunty Beeb with an invite to make a documentary. Surprisingly little dogshite though; but then, we've smelt and stood in quite enough of that... ;-)

  • @billharries4333
    @billharries4333 6 місяців тому +1

    Brought up in that Durty ole Town.
    Went down the Ashngton Duke pit in 1954 Coneygarth drift.
    Seams were running out and some heights were at only 18inches.

  • @iancadwallender9779
    @iancadwallender9779 10 місяців тому +1

    I was born in Asha,and moved to pegswood when i was 34.Lived on newbiggen road when born,then in elder square from age of 3 till 34.Sad to see it like this now.Im only 3 miles up the road,but hardly go there now.

  • @r1bew42
    @r1bew42 Рік тому +1

    I lived at 250 Milburn Rd (next to Woodwork Shop) until I was 7 then we moved to Ellington. My Grandma had the shop at bottom of Milburn Rd, S&I Bewicks. My Grandad Stan Bewick was a bit of an entrepreneur in the old days. Was a great place to grow up. Lot of Meadowell scum moved up to Ashington after the riots in 1992. Pits closed before that,drugs,no hope........doomed.

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому +1

      I lived in Ashington for 8 years and it was incredible the speed of its decline. Very sad

  • @suesmith9202
    @suesmith9202 Рік тому +3

    Loved the video , it's always been like that.

  • @annemccabe1714
    @annemccabe1714 Рік тому +1

    Generally the people living in Ashington are amiable, humble, & down to earth, we go there now & again in the summer when the Market is on, and have fish and chips, from the corner chippy, absolutely A1 delicious!

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  8 місяців тому +1

      Ashington folk are what you say, amiable, humble, & down to earth, I met some lovely hard working people.

  • @JetR1968
    @JetR1968 5 місяців тому

    Born in Ashington many a good memory 😊

  • @williamdavies6241
    @williamdavies6241 Рік тому +2

    BOBBY AND JACK CHARLTON GOT OUT. . . . . . .

  • @dianeandderrickhenderson475
    @dianeandderrickhenderson475 Рік тому +2

    Closed the Pits killed the town,

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому

      It's very sad to witness a dying town especially when the UK government made billions of pounds from it in its hay days.

    • @dianeandderrickhenderson475
      @dianeandderrickhenderson475 Рік тому +2

      @@thewansbeckwanderer6343 like every pit village up and down the Northeast coast...ghost towns.

    • @dianeandderrickhenderson475
      @dianeandderrickhenderson475 Рік тому +1

      I live 10 miles north of Ashington originally from Pit villages. Ashington was our regular Saturday visit for shopping , Pictures and Swimming bath's. My Mam and Dad would go to the Auction every Saturday and my older Brother would take me and my younger Sister to the pictures. There was a choice of three. The Regal, The Buffalo and The Wallaw We would have a look in Mains toy and cycle shop. The indoor market , Woollies and down to Crisps toy shop. Ashington had everything you could want shopping wise ...Many, many happy memories from a child in the 60's

  • @craigdawson3450
    @craigdawson3450 Рік тому +1

    Im from here used to be a decent place but over years has degraded !!

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому

      Very sad to see, a total lack of investment

    • @craigdawson3450
      @craigdawson3450 Рік тому

      @thewansbeckwanderer6343 it's coz most of the locals are scumbags and drug dealers ect if they did put nice things in the area they would just be vandalised broken up or stolen they need to address the crime rate first and drugs

    • @bigdave8733
      @bigdave8733 Рік тому

      it’s what happens when the tories and their ‘rivals’ the ‘Labour’ party are in control of this country. This government is a joke and has led to the downfall of Ashington.

    • @BlindingSun_
      @BlindingSun_ 10 місяців тому

      Full of ethnics taking over

  • @Paul-z8o1q
    @Paul-z8o1q 2 місяці тому

    I live here been here three years i hate it

  • @patsybrookes2795
    @patsybrookes2795 Рік тому +2

    My daughter lives here !! Wish she would come home to the Midlands ,what a socially deprived area

  • @suesmith9202
    @suesmith9202 Рік тому +1

    Subscribed

  • @stottybox3185
    @stottybox3185 Рік тому +1

    Labour Party stronghold.

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  Рік тому

      Shame they haven't fought to improve it 😕

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  8 місяців тому +2

      It's a shame that all governments have taken the money from the coal and not reinvested it. Ian Lavery is a big talker but has only lined his own pockets just like the rest of them.

    • @thewansbeckwanderer6343
      @thewansbeckwanderer6343  5 місяців тому

      Slavery Lavery, Parasite of the Ashington people.

  • @d-dogultimates6078
    @d-dogultimates6078 3 місяці тому +1

    Music is anoying