It used to be a great place to visit for the day..not anymore. What a shame....were too busy funding other countries rather than looking after our own.😮😮😮😮
In my view Rhyl always looked shabby & rundown & needed doing up, about the close downs lockdown didn't help & I remember Wales having a harder lockdown than England did.
@@muhammadalieesaa3379 Most towns, including my own look hollowed out. Big shopping centre & large supermarkets with free parking on the ring road, and no one able to make the connection.
Much of this was/is self inflicted. 1. Rhyl charge in all of their car parks. 2. Rhyl built out of town/ edge of town shopping areas with free parking and neglected the town centre. 3. 2 miles along the road Prestatyn has free parking just about everywhere and has put its new shopping district at the end of the High street. It’s very well thought out with excellent bus, train and car access to the shopping areas. Result- it is going great guns. The “destination shops” e.g M&S have left Rhyl and moved to Prestatyn, exasperating Rhyls decline.
Tell you what is bad councils decided to double yellow line everywhere pedestrianisd shopping zones pay and display parking No wonder it looks bad and people are shopping online 🙄
@@ellismeah8110 I'd fire the lot of their office staff, not sure we'd see much difference, then hire people into the positions that are really needed. Why not pay bin removal companies direct and then you could chose how much. You should look into just how much of you council tax is used to pay pensions and for loans/investments they've made, it's eye opening.
I went for a weeks holiday in Rhyl in the 50s….it was magical.. i wanted some chips and my dad pointed at some fat women and said youll be like them if i buy you chips….i wanted some orange juice on the prom and he said you dont want that..we also wanted to go on the pleasure beach you can imagine the answer to that…but he always had money for cigarettes which eventually killed him..
I ve smoked since 18, now 73 no problems whatsoever - - I'm sick and tire of this anti smoke drive : we pay heavy tax duty, we bother noone, we don't cause dead on the road nor antisocial behaviour on w/ends, - that some people do at some point die is not here or there, we all die for for different causes even the seemingly healthy and fit @@Theoriginalbigbrillo
I'm from Liverpool L7 and like lots of parents couldn't afford a proper holiday so it was day trips to Conway,penaemawr🤔🤗 and rhylsville 🤗 me mum preferred the one I can't spell 🤗❤️......
Your right but back in the day there were plenty of people who considered themselfs Welsh I should know I was one of the hated scousers around at the time talk about racial discrimination.
It's not though it mainly the UK..... Go to Spain/France/Portugal you won't see all the small businesses boarded up..... We're paying a load of Council Tax and were getting F all for what we paying...
Make them into 5* accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who will be heading for the UK and needing homes once labour comes into power
It's not just Rhyl that has become a ghost town,it's happening the length and breadth of the UK,people's shopping habits have changed,on line shopping is massive now.Also gready landlords and high business rates and shoplifting have forced once viable businesses to close because lack of profits.
Used to holiday there as child. Seafront is now a characterless concrete slab.m& s , next moved out ages ago. The drains on high street smell. Rhyl has become the pits. Even the police station is locked. Watched drug dealing by the town hall opposite the police station. Highlight of the day watching the police come out en masse to chase a shoplifter. Dont go there anymore.
It’s Heartbreaking did notice not many people about l no people bye on Line. Covid didn’t help the Cost off Living and Landlords want high Rates Shops need more Surport from us more people going into Towns.
I've not set foot in Rhyl in over 20 years and tbf I expected the town centre to be alot worse than this, other places have suffered more. In the 90's it had the fun fair, the observation tower, the Sun Centre, a brand new Sea Life Centre. many reasons to actually go. Most, if not all of that is gone and the place never recovered.
There is no support for new businesses. When I started up business here 27 years ago there was the £40 Enterprize Allowance which was very welcome during those first days getting my business going. The current state of this country and economic climate would not encourage me to start up another business now. We need a complete change of attitude from our councils and government.
@@levelcrossing150 I do remember twenty seven years ago there was still a bit of life left in the place its just people who try to make life hard for everyone who hang around the place now.
@@davelar3868 I think theyl ruined it when they pedestrianised the place. I used to nip in to Rhyl, park outside WH Smiths and get a few things from the nearby shops. There was always a place to park. Great shops and plenty of people doing their shopping. Building the new Retail Park opposite the Marine Lake never made any sense either, just made it worse for the town centre.
Were all paying the highest rates of Council Tax ever, but what the hell are they spending it on? They have have let Rhyl become a complete and utter crap hole......
I used to come here in the late 70's/early 80's when I first got my driving licence and I recognise much of this. I kept coming back because it was cheap, but even then I knew it was a dung-hole. Looking at this video, it seems even worse now and appears to have no redeeming features at all. Some of the architecture does indicate a kind of long forgotten 'opulence' (perhaps mid-19th century) from when many seaside resorts sprung up like Blackpool, Morecambe, Brighton etc. which are, sadly, not much better these days. One exception is, perhaps, Llandudno which caters mostly to an older generation and remains largely very pleasant with clean streets, minimal graffiti, an excellent assortment of book shops, cafes, restaurants, most of which are 'disabled friendly'.
And we still believe we are a world class country - - lwe never had it so good someone said in the 60s - - what a deluded lot we were and still are - - I worked in Switzerland / germany /France at that time : UK was a backword sad place then as it is now--bad disgusting food, mostly tin food in supermarket, hardly any fruit other than apples, cheap rundown café premises ( paper cups and fish&chips weapped in newspaper) - infrastructures were behind anything Europe had to offer ( blackboard & chalk at platform stations) when Europe had digital INFOS - - we believed places like Blackpool were the UK answer to Las Vegas.... we lived in a small island blissfully ignorants on how depressing it was
These scenes are repeated in towns across Britain. Is the main reason the fact that most people now have a smartphone and/or home computer and shop online to minimise their expenditure on clothes, gifts, etc?
Rhyl in my view has always been run down & looked shabby & lockdown made things worse & caused place's to close down & as far as I know Wales had a more harder lockdown than England did, I live in Birmingham.
He's either showing national chains that closed down or shops that hadn't opened and the red+white door is the old market the new was near completion just 40 foot to the left should of opened now but the operator went bankrupt and every large building project needs an logistics company to operate the site . .the post office has moved,but nearly every high street is like this because of the internet i wouldn't pay a £10 more because its local i haven't the money but high street rot set in a long time ago like 15/20 years ago,rhyl had a millets, marks &sparks,burtons,peacocks,wilcos,co/op,lots of big chain retailers for a little high street theres probably a few ive forgotten closed years ago...rhyl is trapped between chsnge does it still go with candy floss all that jazz or social engineer it's self (gentrification)...things have changed this is death of the high street as we know it and rhyls always had problems and councils all over the uk are in debt some have gone bankrupt this is a reality we just have to face it🏴🏴🏴💪❤️❤️❤️.......
One of my exes lived there for a few years until about 12 years ago, she moved there because her husband was the CEO of a nearby meat processing factory. She reckoned it was a total shithole then.
@@michaelwatts7822 Labour do not have overall control of the council Michael Tory austerity over the last 14 years has created havoc and resulted in a massive decline in people’s living standards nationwide
Like my generation, love Rhyl 50s 60s but it just went in decline, like a lot more. Crewe is bad. I think it is a reflection on Councils what allowed all the Dossers sleeping in doorways years ago. Gave em a bad name.
Even the seagulls fly upside down because there is nothing worth shitting on anymore.
It’s such a shame to see this, it saddens me to see what is happening to our country. 😢😢😢😢
It used to be a great place to visit for the day..not anymore. What a shame....were too busy funding other countries rather than looking after our own.😮😮😮😮
And you don’t apportion any blame to the nearby retail parks with free parking, that duplicated the existing retail floor space?
In my view Rhyl always looked shabby & rundown & needed doing up, about the close downs lockdown didn't help & I remember Wales having a harder lockdown than England did.
@@muhammadalieesaa3379 Most towns, including my own look hollowed out. Big shopping centre & large supermarkets with free parking on the ring road, and no one able to make the connection.
Most of North Wales is like that.! I live in Holyhead. Its like Gaza but wetter.
Much of this was/is self inflicted. 1. Rhyl charge in all of their car parks. 2. Rhyl built out of town/ edge of town shopping areas with free parking and neglected the town centre. 3. 2 miles along the road Prestatyn has free parking just about everywhere and has put its new shopping district at the end of the High street. It’s very well thought out with excellent bus, train and car access to the shopping areas. Result- it is going great guns. The “destination shops” e.g M&S have left Rhyl and moved to Prestatyn, exasperating Rhyls decline.
Tell you what is bad councils decided to double yellow line everywhere pedestrianisd shopping zones pay and display parking
No wonder it looks bad and people are shopping online 🙄
Councils have to make they're money from somewhere, car owners ,easy target
@@ellismeah8110 I'd fire the lot of their office staff, not sure we'd see much difference, then hire people into the positions that are really needed. Why not pay bin removal companies direct and then you could chose how much. You should look into just how much of you council tax is used to pay pensions and for loans/investments they've made, it's eye opening.
All car parks should have been kept free of charges.
They will be filling the vacant premises with asylum seekers next.
They already are.
Thats the plan Blackrock will buy all the properties cheap. And you'll live in them. Paying these vultures rent
Haven't they been through enough heartache without putting them in Rhyl...!😂👍🏴
It needs to be levelled.
@@davelar3868 well the government has promised levelling down…
All part of the plan
Exactly 😉
Spot on
Could you expand on this ?
@@geoffsullivan4063World Economic Forum (WEF) if you don't know who they are, well you're very late to the party.....
I went for a weeks holiday in Rhyl in the 50s….it was magical.. i wanted some chips and my dad pointed at some fat women and said youll be like them if i buy you chips….i wanted some orange juice on the prom and he said you dont want that..we also wanted to go on the pleasure beach you can imagine the answer to that…but he always had money for cigarettes which eventually killed him..
Days out in the 50's to Ffrith and Prestatyn from Chester.
Your Dads' generation all smoked, as did mine, he also died of Vascular Dementia brought on by heavy smoking all his life! 😪😪
My dad was a heavy smoker died when he was 76 from prostate cancer.
I ve smoked since 18, now 73 no problems whatsoever - - I'm sick and tire of this anti smoke drive : we pay heavy tax duty, we bother noone, we don't cause dead on the road nor antisocial behaviour on w/ends, - that some people do at some point die is not here or there, we all die for for different causes even the seemingly healthy and fit @@Theoriginalbigbrillo
West midlands all went to Rhyl in the 1970s but then Taffy didn't want us so good riddance to Rhyl
I came from Liverpool to Rhyl didn't here many brummies I sort of feel I am to blame wished we had gone to Spain instead.
I'm from Liverpool L7 and like lots of parents couldn't afford a proper holiday so it was day trips to Conway,penaemawr🤔🤗 and rhylsville 🤗 me mum preferred the one I can't spell 🤗❤️......
@@briandoyle6188 That'll be Rill then 😂😂😂
I'm afraid that Rhyl is 100% English ~ nothing to do with the Welsh.
Your right but back in the day there were plenty of people who considered themselfs Welsh I should know I was one of the hated scousers around at the time talk about racial discrimination.
This is happening all over the Western world..
It's not though it mainly the UK..... Go to Spain/France/Portugal you won't see all the small businesses boarded up..... We're paying a load of Council Tax and were getting F all for what we paying...
No it'snt - - some European countries ihad a better standard of life in the 60s then UK has today
@@rob5197 yes it is in one form or another take your head out of the sand and look around
@@VXRHSV and you
The high streets around the UK are never coming back to what they once were, what are they going to do with all these commercial properties?
Make them into 5* accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who will be heading for the UK and needing homes once labour comes into power
It's not just Rhyl that has become a ghost town,it's happening the length and breadth of the UK,people's shopping habits have changed,on line shopping is massive now.Also gready landlords and high business rates and shoplifting have forced once viable businesses to close because lack of profits.
Town centre's and high streets are finished we need to accept it and move on
That's true, & nothing stays the same forever.
Used to holiday there as child. Seafront is now a characterless concrete slab.m& s , next moved out ages ago. The drains on high street smell. Rhyl has become the pits. Even the police station is locked. Watched drug dealing by the town hall opposite the police station. Highlight of the day watching the police come out en masse to chase a shoplifter. Dont go there anymore.
All toilets were locked when we visited
Should have ghost town by the specials playing,😊
Room for two hundred blag barbers there.
When labour bring back council tax on small business a lot moor will close down
and when they triple council tax on ALL second homes Wales will be economically destroyed once and for all.
It’s Heartbreaking did notice not many people about l no people bye on Line. Covid didn’t help the Cost off Living and Landlords want high Rates Shops need more Surport from us more people going into Towns.
I don't get it the landlords will be paying business rates on these derelict properties, so why are they expecting massive rents....
I've not set foot in Rhyl in over 20 years and tbf I expected the town centre to be alot worse than this, other places have suffered more. In the 90's it had the fun fair, the observation tower, the Sun Centre, a brand new Sea Life Centre. many reasons to actually go. Most, if not all of that is gone and the place never recovered.
I thought 3 nights for £109 was very generous of them. Provided they give you it in cash on your first night I'd stay.😂😂😂
A lot of shops are closed, council has wasted a lot of money, high street is becoming no more
the best road is out quick
If they were cheaper people would rent them.
There is no support for new businesses. When I started up business here 27 years ago there was the £40 Enterprize Allowance which was very welcome during those first days getting my business going. The current state of this country and economic climate would not encourage me to start up another business now. We need a complete change of attitude from our councils and government.
@@levelcrossing150 I do remember twenty seven years ago there was still a bit of life left in the place its just people who try to make life hard for everyone who hang around the place now.
@@davelar3868 I think theyl ruined it when they pedestrianised the place. I used to nip in to Rhyl, park outside WH Smiths and get a few things from the nearby shops. There was always a place to park. Great shops and plenty of people doing their shopping. Building the new Retail Park opposite the Marine Lake never made any sense either, just made it worse for the town centre.
The nail in the coffin was when the fairground closed the council are clueless should have left the place to the arcade owners?
Were all paying the highest rates of Council Tax ever, but what the hell are they spending it on? They have have let Rhyl become a complete and utter crap hole......
I used to come here in the late 70's/early 80's when I first got my driving licence and I recognise much of this. I kept coming back because it was cheap, but even then I knew it was a dung-hole. Looking at this video, it seems even worse now and appears to have no redeeming features at all. Some of the architecture does indicate a kind of long forgotten 'opulence' (perhaps mid-19th century) from when many seaside resorts sprung up like Blackpool, Morecambe, Brighton etc. which are, sadly, not much better these days. One exception is, perhaps, Llandudno which caters mostly to an older generation and remains largely very pleasant with clean streets, minimal graffiti, an excellent assortment of book shops, cafes, restaurants, most of which are 'disabled friendly'.
Loved going there in the 70s. 80s ❤ wot a shame 😢
Pontypool Newport, wonder witch town is next ?
They don’t call it Sunny Rhyl for nothing!!!
And we still believe we are a world class country - - lwe never had it so good someone said in the 60s - - what a deluded lot we were and still are - - I worked in Switzerland / germany /France at that time : UK was a backword sad place then as it is now--bad disgusting food, mostly tin food in supermarket, hardly any fruit other than apples, cheap rundown café premises ( paper cups and fish&chips weapped in newspaper) - infrastructures were behind anything Europe had to offer ( blackboard & chalk at platform stations) when Europe had digital INFOS - - we believed places like Blackpool were the UK answer to Las Vegas.... we lived in a small island blissfully ignorants on how depressing it was
These scenes are repeated in towns across Britain. Is the main reason the fact that most people now have a smartphone and/or home computer and shop online to minimise their expenditure on clothes, gifts, etc?
Rhyl has had it now nothing worth going to rhyl for not even for a day trip
I wouldn't waste my petrol.
Council and the utilities got to greedy what we are witnessing is the end result Nationally.
We went there last week none of the public toilets were open ,it's like they are deliberately trying to stop people visiting. Not good
I used to go with my parents in the late 70s, so full of life, now like so many towns everywhere a soulless shell.
OMG, I was there last week………what a disgrace! Full of “RHYL BILLIES”
It's a shame as such a beautiful coastline.
Really?? More like a mud bath.
Rhyl in my view has always been run down & looked shabby & lockdown made things worse & caused place's to close down & as far as I know Wales had a more harder lockdown than England did, I live in Birmingham.
Traffic warden, Council Cameras, Parking Meters everywhere in the Town, When we went to Rhyl in the Late 70s and early 80s, Park my car Anywhere
Anyone remember the song rhylsville 🤔😆😆(christ im old🤣👍 .. .
this all over britiain supermarkets rule ,, you can get everything there ,, even cultural enrichment
Welcome to the new face of a lot of high streets.
On a plus point though... I cant see any shoplifters.?😂👍🏴
He's either showing national chains that closed down or shops that hadn't opened and the red+white door is the old market the new was near completion just 40 foot to the left should of opened now but the operator went bankrupt and every large building project needs an logistics company to operate the site . .the post office has moved,but nearly every high street is like this because of the internet i wouldn't pay a £10 more because its local i haven't the money but high street rot set in a long time ago like 15/20 years ago,rhyl had a millets, marks &sparks,burtons,peacocks,wilcos,co/op,lots of big chain retailers for a little high street theres probably a few ive forgotten closed years ago...rhyl is trapped between chsnge does it still go with candy floss all that jazz or social engineer it's self (gentrification)...things have changed this is death of the high street as we know it and rhyls always had problems and councils all over the uk are in debt some have gone bankrupt this is a reality we just have to face it🏴🏴🏴💪❤️❤️❤️.......
Not a Rhyl surprise! Sorry couldn't resist!
What a shame used to be a nice place. 😮
The front of Rhyl was a nice place yes...but Rhyl itself on the back roads and the estates has always been a sh** hole
One of my exes lived there for a few years until about 12 years ago, she moved there because her husband was the CEO of a nearby meat processing factory. She reckoned it was a total shithole then.
and it's a bigger one now
Welcome to tory austerity Britain
Sorry it’s run by a Welsh government who happen to be labour.
Except wales is labour run
Tory austerity??? I thought Labour runs Wales.
@@michaelwatts7822 Labour do not have overall control of the council Michael Tory austerity over the last 14 years has created havoc and resulted in a massive decline in people’s living standards nationwide
@@barrywest2170 labour great at wasting money and selling off assets
Ready/Prepping for Islamification.
The Americans are coming,turning this place into the new Las Vegas
Maybe TRUMP will build a golf course in Rhyl
An area that has just gone in amaising decline .
Like most areas of the UK - in decline.
Tax Amazon, TEMU, eBay, Shein, whatever else. A corresponding amount to repurpose these areas into housing
Avoid TEMU and SHEIN at ALL costs. They are based in China not the UK. Trying to get a refund is an impossibility.
The downfall of Rhyl was when the English dumped their rubbish occupants from Liverpool and
Manchester there.
Just one of many buildings in the UK ,going to ruin
Buildings?? The whole nation is going to ruin
At approx 9:30 I saw a cex shop so its not all doom and gloom to be fair
I went there 40 years ago,and it was sh.t then.
too many shops
NO customers because they are now ordering online or away sunning themselves on the Costa del Sol
Rhyl needs 1000s of imigrants to suc seed
Rhyl is finished to be honest back in the 90s was great I have lived here 35 years all good things come to an end
It's called levelling up the majority of the working class havent any disposable income due to greedy corporations and a massive tax burden
Lockdowns also didn't help, I remember Wales locked down more harder than England did.
No more boat people that's why it's like it is
Cheep flights in the sun?
Like my generation, love Rhyl 50s 60s but it just went in decline, like a lot more. Crewe is bad. I think it is a reflection on Councils what allowed all the Dossers sleeping in doorways years ago. Gave em a bad name.
I took my son there in 2015 for a weekend. It was definitely better then
That was 9 years ago you know
@@stevenhull5025 erm… yes I can count 🙄
Wasn’t that bad a year ago
Covid Global Conspiracy
Looks worse than Blackpool.
and that's saying something.
Now don't u wellshes worry the stinking will be moving in soon
You think Rhyl is bad ~ come and see the rubbish so-called City of Bangor.
All those empty buildings could be used to house boat people and financial migrants rent free.......
No because they are having houses built for them all 😂
A good few of them will be housing their ‘commercial’ activities rent and services free.
Maybe deport illegal immigrants like other countries do🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
No we don't.
not in my backyard thank you but you are welcome to have them at a place near you.
Vote out to help out. Vote Labour give them a chance we can always vote them out 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
In 5 years
@@philipjones9458 no, they'll have 2 terms then it will go back to the Tories for 3 terms, that seems to be how they work it.
Vote Labour and get what you deserve. Vote Reform UK and get our country back.
It's our last chance now by voting Reform. Get some real opposition in there that speaks up for us the people.
Another labour council??