I grew up in Stoke in the late 90s/00s, it wasnt perfect but it was nice then. Shocking to visit home today. My missus grew up in the soviet union and refused to move to Stoke. That speaks volumes right there.
There doesn't seem any way back for the six towns. So sad, grew up there in the 1960s - left in '69 - now not recognisable. My dad had a butcher's shop in Longton when the pot banks were in full swing - customers queuing out of the door on pay day, the place was really busy and alive.
Thank you for your no messing and honest approach in exposing this apocalypse of a town 😢 I am so angry and extremely sad 😔 at the site of this now shithole that once was a vibrant and happy area and atmosphere to go to....hang your heads in shame powers that be this is not progress.
Same in Ireland they arrive and open a kebab shop in a small town in the west of ireland and stand around all day. Clearly a front for something. Never hardly see anyone inside these places.
I had a family member who worked the markets and back in its day it was not uncommon to have to go the bank several times a day to cash in because the toll would be flowing
been living in a couple place in stoke and all areas are sadly getting bad now. gota say tho was abit pissed when you said they are beyond help! I was a heroin addict was on hanley streets for a year eventually got my 1st flat took a couple more year get clean once i moved a second time but been clean now 10yrs. we aint beyond help its just hard to get out of, especially for ppl with mental health conditions like me.
@@SaintOsburgYou did vote for this. It's just that you were naive enough to believe that a Tory government would only target people on benefits, when YOU were the real target all along.
Shocking what been planned all along and what Joke on trent is now like. There is no fight back at all and nothing will stop it now until there is nothing left....own nothing and be happy!
ive not ventured into hanley centre in years even though i live only a few miles away, i drive through sometimes and its always dead with dodgy folk wandering around called in the big tesco last week to pick something up, first time ive been there and that was an experience, there is some fine specimens loitering around there, its on a par with the bus station nice to see Robertos still open and looking good, thats been there as long as i can remember
I was born in SOT well, 'Castle and grew up there. Fenton VI Form College and Keele University. I've been away for 16 years now. Whenever I come back, I'm really taken back at what's happened. Newcastle isn't great, but Hanley is awful and Fenton. Longton, Middle Port, and the like look as if they have escaped from the third world.
I moved up here just shy of ten years ago as this is were my partner comes from and oh my did I make the wrong decision glad we are looking to move back down south
17:06 Stoke-on-trent town centres were beginning to struggle back in the 90s long before the internet became a problem. The closures of manufacturing and the pottery industry is the real reason why our town centres began to decline and the council raising rental rates on business premises. It was also when the once known EEC trading block turned themselves into the present day EU.
I wonder how things might change if all the Politian's, do-gooders and everyone else who want to let these scroungers in to our country were made to foot the bill for every hotel being used to house them, the cost of the life boat services taxing them in to Dover instead of the hard working tax payer having to foot the cost without ever being asked if they want to pay for this. It's only a thought but or a dream that will never happen.
There is something very sinister at play here with all this invasion and pretence of nothing can be done. All this snowflake talk of it’s online shopping that’s killed the towns but nobody dare say no it’s all the 💩that we importing that is making people feel unsafe so they no longer go into towns.
I used to love going to Hanley, if it was wet it did not matter there was plenty of shops under cover. The kids were in the pushchair and we were up and down in the lifts at Lewis,s it was wonderful.I noticed the change when Woolworths and C and A closed. So sad to see how bad things are now. Sue from Nantwich,
The only thing I know is that it can only go one way now and that is up. because i really don’t think it can sink any lower than what it is now already.
I spent 6 months walking around the same route you just walked ,it’s a bizarre story how I ended up there but now sitting back in Sunny Western Australia makes me ask myself how did I end up in such a dump.I mean it ,it has to be the lowest point in my life. It’s so dreary and dull .I did not have a car and just walked into Hanley daily .I felt like a foreigner although I am from Uk . The back of my house were drug dealers ,it was awful.The streets were dirty ,potholes ,people looked depressed. I left in Late May 2023 I see tour video was shot in July .I saw mosques being built and old church turned into a mosque . My street in Cobridge was full of BMW and Mercedes but no one seemed to work .figure that one out .Anyway I will put it down to a horrendous experience and vow to never return ever to Stoke ,Hanley,Cobridge .For Ken Shit Hole 😂
🤣🤣you described it perfectly 👍and yes it always amazes me how some folks are driving around in Audis and BMWs when sleep all day and seem to keep coming and going in the night? I wonder what job they must have to let them keep nipping home? Stoke has to be the most utter depressing place going. The trouble with many in stoke is that they don’t travel out of the city and have become conditioned to it and can’t see what a utter 💩hole it really is compared to many other places.
All planned and started soon after the 60s! Thank the governments and the ones who made out they were on the workers side but taking backhanded under the table
And to think back in the early to mid nineties we would travel the length of the country every other weekend, just to visit a nightclub in Stoke. Rip Club Kinetic. And that church is a travesty. The same sh1t is happening up north too now.
@@akanonymoss I think the country is like another world now. I personally have not had any problems with the changes that are taking place but I know the welfare system we have can't cope and that will affect us all. I know it will take time,but I think it will all work out fine in the future. But who knows. Hope you have a good day.
@@terryfowler4288 agreed, I'm currently (English) on ESA and welfare due to a very back road accident a few years back (had a few surgeries this year alone), iv already been stripped of £130 a month just in the last 8 weeks or so yet was told things had gone up inline with inflation, that's why there is so many different payments they give with one then take more away with the other. Imagine that happening to hundreds of thousands of people like myself and think where is the difference going? It's not roads and healthcare that's for sure.... Bishop Auckland isn't as bad as Middlesbrough for example but it's only because the incoming demographic is slightly different, here it's more African and they all seem to have cash but right now aren't bothering folks much. Although there is a few small groups of what look like Pakistanis I see locally, that look at you like your the devil in their back yard whenever walking past. And while in hospital recently I saw one of them with a four man escort so he ain't no angel. Personally I think it has to get much worse before it can get better, but definitely agree at some point it will get better. You too, have a good day and always watch your back.
@@terryfowler4288 I did reply mate in depth but must have used some hurty words as its been immediately deleted by YT. Not gonna bother retyping it all, but yeah I agree basically. Keep your head on a swivel and have a good day too 👌🏼
I ran a car park with my dad in Hanley years ago and there was a mosque which caused traffic chaos every Friday. I asked the traffic warden why are you allowing them to park on double yellow lines he told me the traffic wardens are told to stay away from the council.
@@DJMtv1938You should film it with their registration plates. I used to but we got shit to the point the police refused to protect us when dust heads tried to rob us. In the end we had no choice but to sell up and move on. We became a problem for the police and council we knew their agenda and we knew they were getting funded by the EU to create this mess. I guess they won in the end but it worked out well for me. I now live in the tropics after building a life here with several businesses. I returned this June to Stoke on Trent the first time in 6 years and was utterly shocked by what I saw in Hanley. Apart from weddings and funerals I won't be returning to live, which is a damn shame because I'm a proud Stokie.
It comes to something when you got asked if you were lost by simply walking down the street! I remember how thriving Hanley used to be - so depressing now! Thank you for your video.
❤️it was nice to an actual local for a change 🤣it’s all so very sad the way Hanley/ this city as gone. Remember to like and subscribe Hanley gives me plenty of material to work with 🤣😢
@@DJMtv1938, I’ve just come back to town for a while, and it’s a shame to realise that I’m pleased I’ll be leaving again soon! I discovered your channel this evening, so I will subscribe because I would like to see what’s going on out there. Awful business; it’s so depressing!
Cheers for that 👍the channel may not be to everyone’s liking but I just film what I see and say what i think some agree some don’t but I think the one thing we can all agree is that the city is one big 💩hole 😞
When me and my sis were kids our parents would take us and our gran shopping in Hanley (we live the other side of Stafford) and it was a treat instead of the same old limited shops where we lived.
**Economic Decline** - Loss of ceramics jobs. **Retail Struggles** - Rise of online shopping and malls. **Urban Decay** - Empty buildings and neglect. **Social Issues** - More crime and economic hardship. **Competition from Nearby Cities** - Manchester and Birmingham are more attractive. Heartbreaking for those who remember how it used to be.
Awww.... ST1's has shut down - I used to love that place. I once (mid 2000's) spent £140 on the 'expensive £20' lap dances (as opposed to the cheap £10 version - if you know, you know..Lol.). Never any trouble there either, probably because there were two bouncers at every doorway!... Great fun. :)
I know this video was from a while back but I do go round our towns on my bike regularly. It’s worse than 10 months ago. We’re done for mate Hanley , Burslem and Tunstall are all same . Keep safe mate 👍
Had a guy try and dip into my bag ,it was probably the worse elbowing he ever had,FYI it all happened in a charity shop. The church is now owned by a company who intended to change it's worship to another religion,however it is protected by a caviat meaning it can never be used as a mosque,temple etc unfortunately the buyers presumably expected to bypass the law I'm not religious but God bless the Church
There is nothing keeping youngsters in Stoke-on-Trent, I don't blame them for leaving. Went to Hanley with some friends who were visiting us, Hanley on a Saturday night and it was a ghost town, nothing open. Really embarrassing.
its the same across the united kingdom unfortunately the truth is you have to look at what is going on behind the scenes... if you look at it biblically GOD has said this would happen at the end of days. which is what we are in right now. its inevitable that cities and towns will crumble and that europeans will take this country over... very sad but true.
Makes me wonder in these streets how many customers they serve in a day....probably count on one hand I remember when you went into town and you had to dodge people because it was so busy...saturdays was manic!!!!! Memories now Becky 🇬🇧
I at to pop into Hanley city centre for the first time in quite a while and OMG what a dump it's turned into. It's certainly not the place it used to be that's for sure. Don't think I'll be popping back any time soon.
Turning that once beautiful church into a Mosque is a very bad move there are two many Mosques in Stoke on Trent in my opinion as for the state of Hanley it's a shame and a waste Stoke on Trent in my opinion is one of if not the most creativity places in the UK the decline of Hanley should be blamed on the government
@@DJMtv1938 there is another thing that I hate Stoke for and that is the lack of employment opportunities for people especially if people have a disability
Same happening in Ireland, heroin replaced by crack ;locals replaced by unvetted single men from Africa & homes for all while the Irish sleep in families houses (if they're lucky) ☘️ Our past history aside, who'd have thought that our islands would be so easy to conquer while we slept.
I’ve been watching and reading about what’s going on in Ireland and it’s terrible my friend I hope the Irish have more passion than what we do and rise up against this replacement of its people. Sadly over here some folks are to scared of been accused of been racist so they will skip along happy with there and there children’s destruction of this country has long as it’s a quite life for them.
@@DJMtv1938 it's so similar similar...those who do speak up are labeled racist and 'far right'. The police (Gardai) cover up immigrants' crime on citizens. At first I thought it was a theory until I saw a crime scene where a woman was s*xually assaulted and it wasn't even on the news. This is done for fear of the Irish rioting. The media reported yesterday on an outbreak of scabies in a city center camp but no word about an Irish woman dying on a Dublin street, destitute. And if I even told you about a hate speech Bill the government are planning to enter as law you wouldn't believe me. Hopeless
At least the streets are cleaner rubbish wise ,thanks to me and my man Nathan, litter picking for stoke on trent city council,some of us do do our job,,your welcome
Hanley has become as big a slum as its neighbour Newcastle U Lyme. Council tax rises year after year after year and the city centres decline further and further and further. Someone remind me what we pay council tax for???? Fkd if I know. The two hotels ( best western and the one opposite stoke station have I belive 1200 immigrants)
Well about the stained glass windows they wont be left as they are but they will be replaced with different patterens, hundreds of yrs ago mosques had some of the best stain glass in any city, And they did promote the use of it I think when that building is finished it be really well done and look a lot better than it is now, I'm not muslim just saying they do a great improvement,.
I seem to be able to judge a town or city depending on its football fotunes. Stoke seems to be bucking the trend as it it is in the EPL Campionship league and still going strong. Well done Stoke City.
I remember that hotel back in the 80's. I went there for a wedding evening do with my then girlfriend and her family. The wedding was her cousin. I got completely drunk and was a total idiot, I fell out with my girlfriends parents because I was such a dick that night. The hotel then was awesome, something to behold, top notch establishment. Hanley back in the 80's was a busy bustling place to go shopping on a Saturday. I had some gerat times in Hanley in my younger years. It breaks my heart to see how run down it is now.
I remember living there when I was 17 in the ymca. There used to be a good student night on a Monday ,town was packed but now days its dead.every where is shut the government down south don't care because its cheap labour if ya keep the city in destitute.
Also, 90% of the people you see on the streets asking for money are already in receipt of Universal Credit. The money they ask from you is for their habit. A lot of them even have a place to live but pretend to be homeless during the day to beg. Walk around the city at 4am and 90% of the time you will find the streets empty because they have all gone back to their B&Bs or flats.
I remember the good days mate the fantastic nightlife and the town buzzing with shoppers and diners. All Sadly gone and replaced with cheap shit looking shops selling vapes,kebabs, or dodgy Eastern European shops selling under the counter cigarettes. Dust heads dossing on every street corner etc,etc
Wow! Not been up Hanley in years. Can't believe how bad it is. And it's no wonder why some of us choose to relocate to other parts of the country. I will always have a place in my heart for Stoke on Trent, its my hometown,but would i want to move back there......no thank you.
Just discovered your channel, You made me realise after living in Stoke On Trent what a sad dump it is, Shouldn't say that because there are some decent areas, I live in one😁, Not been to Hanley for about 15 years, Place full of drugged up scum, illegals, beggers, didn't realise how many shops had closed down,I venture into Longton now and then just to get the bird food in, beggers always outside B&M, puts people right off, Your a brave man cycling around ..Stay safe and Take Care..😃🤨
@Heavens24Angel thank you my friend 👍their is some small decent areas of stoke but admittedly they are getting harder to find but there is plenty of decent stoke people to find 👍
@@DJMtv1938 That's so true, I'm sure there are plenty of decent people still in Stoke..Just didn't realise how bad it had become 😐, Take Care out there 🙂🙂
Really good assessment of Hanley during the day. Might add, when i have to go ie work, it gets no better at night. What happened?? Between 1980 - 1990, it was excellent and then it dropped off a cliff. Why?? Can this city centre ever recover?? I certainly never go during the day, shopping etc, Stoke train station for me where generally, its packed with all ages travelling north to Manchester/Liverpool or south to Birmingham/London all at Stoke on Trents expense. Then for some reason, somebody decided to build a multi storey car park just below where unity house once stood and nobody actually goes to Hanley. Work that out.
It’s taken roughly 30 years to completely destroy what was once a vibrant and busy town centre in the 90s you would have to be in certain pubs before a certain time if you wanted to get in the place if you went Yates after 9pm the chances are you were standing outside waiting to be let in. This city has been in decline way before the usual excuses of covid,cost of living or online shopping are used to hide behind a decline.
Okay I grew up in Newcastle, what's the problem with takeaways? Even as someone in London now there are fish and chip shops and curry places that can hold there own against really good ones here. And at least it's some kind of business.
Different rules for them. Always have been. Years ago it was written in stoke on trent. U have your queen but we have your country. Now we haven't even got are Queen. We have nothing.
At one time the council spent a lot of money on Hanley and didn't bot 17:15 her with stoke and yet stoke should be the main town where all the potbanks are or were. It's very sad indeed too see the decline.
you talk a lot of sense mate,i have been wondering for years about the mosque in Shelton, cars parked everywhere praying time, not a cop or traffic warden dare put a ticket anywhere near a vehicle,go down Stoke on Hill ST park a foot out the box bang fined£80,they just brought a place in Castle to turn into a mosque by the tennis courts, 600k and now they askin for donations,them Turkish banks or barbers fk me,they are popin up everywhere,people will not go against foreigners for this race card play,i dont give a fk,ive ad enough and i think a lot have now,thanks for your vids really are good its a cryin shame what your filming but your doin a great job......Jim J
Thank you my friend ❤️ I’m hoping this is a turning point in history and people are beginning to realise and speak out more now against the two tier system in place in this country I won’t hold my breath though😞
I was talking to two elderly gentleman who had been a member of the gym for over 30 years it was a little social club for them to get them out the house since they had been widowed they were told on the Friday they will no longer be allowed to use the gym the new residents moved in on the Monday they are like lost sheep now with nowhere to go and have lost there social circle 😞
@@DJMtv1938 mate it’s absolutely terrible. Why couldn’t they have made it into a social club for all of our elderly people who are lonely, perhaps coffee mornings/provide them a meal, or for the homeless. Or even a museum. Maybe I’m thinking outside the box mate but there is so much potential. We were in hanley yesterday and there are a hell of a lot of takeaways and abandoned shops. So sad to see what has become of hanley. My lady was crapping her pants because she felt unsafe just going to look around. Back in 2000 hanley was bustling. The indoor market used to be packed out with shops and people. Naff all in there now. So sad. I’m glad you are covering these local issues, especially the dust heads. They are vermin!!!!
Yes have seen that one smokers choice? That guy was talking shit though, wouldn't of thought monkey dust was being sold in shops only by scum bag street dealers
I remember how all the Potteries thrived ... some 25 to 35 years ago, and clearly it was down to the pottery itself, exported all over the world. I saw for myself and visited the factories and watched artists painting fine China pottery ... but alas it all went into decline, the factories closed, the outlets closed. You have to ask yourself ... where was the forward planning by the successive Stoke councils? .... where was the help to develop and help entrepreneurial ideas? .... all questions that no longer matter, because it's possibly too late to rejuvenate. You only need to look at what makes up the local councils, and ask yourself, whilst they're all bickering about what to spend money on, indecisiveness and bad decisions have all helped the decline of the Potteries. No amount of "levelling up" will see the area brought into line the way it used to be. And especially since the fairly recent advent of the scourge of drugs ... probably the nail in the coffin. As you point out and diplomatically ... who wants to be mithered and harrassed by drug-users and immigrants? Nobody, so the footfall declines further and the real estate value plummets even more, eventually becoming a total wasteland. It's not just a shame ... it's a bloody crime. It sickens me to see it, but luckily for me but not selfishly ... I moved away with my job some twenty odd years ago. Great video and balanced opinion, I enjoyed watching it ... depressing as it is. Well done.
I'd say I can;t believe they turned that curch into a mosque, but they turn everything else intoa mosque. that church was beautiful, even as it fell into disrepair, such a part of hanleys history. precisely why they converted it.
@@DJMtv1938 i imagine the little one by edensor high, st james and the little one on chaplin will all go the same way in time. the council doesnt even maintain the wsr bames on the side of the one on chaplin i saw last visit
Isn't there a famous sculpture college in Stoke? That homeless woman sounded English. The barbers and Muslim shops where I live, the people are really friendly. Where's thr local health food shop? Local business?
@theallornothingpodcastwith4442 he did a great video I love Billy’s videos I’ve now moved out of stoke and seeing his latest video he shocked me how worse it has got in the last 4 months since my last video
I grew up in Stoke in the late 90s/00s, it wasnt perfect but it was nice then. Shocking to visit home today. My missus grew up in the soviet union and refused to move to Stoke. That speaks volumes right there.
That really does say it all my friend 💯👍
There doesn't seem any way back for the six towns. So sad, grew up there in the 1960s - left in '69 - now not recognisable. My dad had a butcher's shop in Longton when the pot banks were in full swing - customers queuing out of the door on pay day, the place was really busy and alive.
My dad used to work on Cartwright and edwards factory in longton
I remember the name. I was back in Stoke at the weekend for the football. Longton goes from bad to worse.@@lynseyleese7475
Longton has had a lot of work done recently and is getting there.
And, coincidentally, my dad also worked at Cartwright and Edwards 👍
Longton is going nowhere. Reply in 5 years time, we'll see
@@duncancartlidgeonline2457 They eere good day's:)
Thank you for your no messing and honest approach in exposing this apocalypse of a town 😢 I am so angry and extremely sad 😔 at the site of this now shithole that once was a vibrant and happy area and atmosphere to go to....hang your heads in shame powers that be this is not progress.
Leveling up coming any day now..... LOL
Same in Ireland they arrive and open a kebab shop in a small town in the west of ireland and stand around all day. Clearly a front for something. Never hardly see anyone inside these places.
2003 Hanley was booming.
20 years later, it is cross roads for drug dealers and dumping ground for monkey dust!
Blame the mayor!
I had a family member who worked the markets and back in its day it was not uncommon to have to go the bank several times a day to cash in because the toll would be flowing
been living in a couple place in stoke and all areas are sadly getting bad now. gota say tho was abit pissed when you said they are beyond help! I was a heroin addict was on hanley streets for a year eventually got my 1st flat took a couple more year get clean once i moved a second time but been clean now 10yrs. we aint beyond help its just hard to get out of, especially for ppl with mental health conditions like me.
Yep very much all across there area now unfortunately even in Newcastle
I guess it's much easier for him to blame brown people and addicts than blame the real culprits...THE GOVERNMENT
Well done 👍
Dark days ahead.
British people got excactly what they voted for, they would not listen to Mr Powell, shame on them..
We didn't vote for this. Enoch was very popular with the public. This was done to us.
As the future generations we need to put a stop to this.
Votes do nothing if someone is going to change things the deep state will not let it happen
@@SaintOsburgYou did vote for this. It's just that you were naive enough to believe that a Tory government would only target people on benefits, when YOU were the real target all along.
@@Poltergeist-218 You made a lot of assumptions in your comment.
It's time to take it back , it's not just the immigrant's it's the council That make all the decisions! Get them out as well and start again !!
Shocking what been planned all along and what Joke on trent is now like. There is no fight back at all and nothing will stop it now until there is nothing left....own nothing and be happy!
Absolutely 👍 💯 I noticed the name lordflashheart you not on twitter by any chance are you? 👍
Is it beyond the wit of HMRC to check the books of the so called Turkish barbers/money launderers ?
It’s unbelievable that the average person on the street can see for themselves what a front these places are. Yet them in authority turn a blind eye?
the councils don't care so long as they get their cut.
Take aways and barbers all over the place along with small tat shops!
@@mistermood4164is that a pun??😅
ive not ventured into hanley centre in years even though i live only a few miles away, i drive through sometimes and its always dead with dodgy folk wandering around
called in the big tesco last week to pick something up, first time ive been there and that was an experience, there is some fine specimens loitering around there, its on a par with the bus station
nice to see Robertos still open and looking good, thats been there as long as i can remember
Fantastic place robertos have some great memories there
I was born in SOT well, 'Castle and grew up there. Fenton VI Form College and Keele University. I've been away for 16 years now. Whenever I come back, I'm really taken back at what's happened. Newcastle isn't great, but Hanley is awful and Fenton. Longton, Middle Port, and the like look as if they have escaped from the third world.
@ganrimmonim absolutely 💯 👍😞
I moved up here just shy of ten years ago as this is were my partner comes from and oh my did I make the wrong decision glad we are looking to move back down south
17:06 Stoke-on-trent town centres were beginning to struggle back in the 90s long before the internet became a problem. The closures of manufacturing and the pottery industry is the real reason why our town centres began to decline and the council raising rental rates on business premises. It was also when the once known EEC trading block turned themselves into the present day EU.
Correct 👍
You mean when the pot banks fucked off to china
Leveling up coming any day now.....
Thank you , someone with some sense as to where the real problem is instead of blaming people with brown skin who are Trying to live
Yea that’s why Labour have promised to crackdown on money laundering shops you know the ones mostly ran by ethnic minorities 🤡
I wonder how things might change if all the Politian's, do-gooders and everyone else who want to let these scroungers in to our country were made to foot the bill for every hotel being used to house them, the cost of the life boat services taxing them in to Dover instead of the hard working tax payer having to foot the cost without ever being asked if they want to pay for this. It's only a thought but or a dream that will never happen.
There is something very sinister at play here with all this invasion and pretence of nothing can be done. All this snowflake talk of it’s online shopping that’s killed the towns but nobody dare say no it’s all the 💩that we importing that is making people feel unsafe so they no longer go into towns.
Hey wouldn't foot the bill.
I used to love going to Hanley, if it was wet it did not matter there was plenty of shops under cover. The kids were in the pushchair and we were up and down in the lifts at Lewis,s it was wonderful.I noticed the change when Woolworths and C and A closed. So sad to see how bad things are now. Sue from Nantwich,
It really is a depressing place to visit now 😔I go nantwich a lot I love the place the food and drink festival the other week was heaving
C and a ? So you lve been away for ages then ....... Best stay in white Nantwich then eh sue
It’s like the council have just given up and abandoned Hanley, will it ever return to its former glory 🤷♀️. Good video DJM.👏
The only thing I know is that it can only go one way now and that is up. because i really don’t think it can sink any lower than what it is now already.
I spent 6 months walking around the same route you just walked ,it’s a bizarre story how I ended up there but now sitting back in Sunny Western Australia makes me ask myself how did I end up in such a dump.I mean it ,it has to be the lowest point in my life.
It’s so dreary and dull .I did not have a car and just walked into Hanley daily .I felt like a foreigner although I am from Uk .
The back of my house were drug dealers ,it was awful.The streets were dirty ,potholes ,people looked depressed.
I left in Late May 2023 I see tour video was shot in July .I saw mosques being built and old church turned into a mosque .
My street in Cobridge was full of BMW and Mercedes but no one seemed to work .figure that one out .Anyway I will put it down to a horrendous experience and vow to never return ever to Stoke ,Hanley,Cobridge .For Ken Shit Hole 😂
🤣🤣you described it perfectly 👍and yes it always amazes me how some folks are driving around in Audis and BMWs when sleep all day and seem to keep coming and going in the night? I wonder what job they must have to let them keep nipping home? Stoke has to be the most utter depressing place going. The trouble with many in stoke is that they don’t travel out of the city and have become conditioned to it and can’t see what a utter 💩hole it really is compared to many other places.
Fair Play to ya mate
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I left the UK in 07 and served my country in the 80’s
It’s disgraceful what has happened to a once proud and powerful Nation
❤️it really is 😔
All planned and started soon after the 60s! Thank the governments and the ones who made out they were on the workers side but taking backhanded under the table
And to think back in the early to mid nineties we would travel the length of the country every other weekend, just to visit a nightclub in Stoke. Rip Club Kinetic. And that church is a travesty. The same sh1t is happening up north too now.
Where up north?
@@terryfowler4288Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool etc
@@akanonymoss I think the country is like another world now.
I personally have not had any problems with the changes that are taking place but I know the welfare system we have can't cope and that will affect us all.
I know it will take time,but I think it will all work out fine in the future.
But who knows.
Hope you have a good day.
@@terryfowler4288 agreed, I'm currently (English) on ESA and welfare due to a very back road accident a few years back (had a few surgeries this year alone), iv already been stripped of £130 a month just in the last 8 weeks or so yet was told things had gone up inline with inflation, that's why there is so many different payments they give with one then take more away with the other. Imagine that happening to hundreds of thousands of people like myself and think where is the difference going? It's not roads and healthcare that's for sure.... Bishop Auckland isn't as bad as Middlesbrough for example but it's only because the incoming demographic is slightly different, here it's more African and they all seem to have cash but right now aren't bothering folks much. Although there is a few small groups of what look like Pakistanis I see locally, that look at you like your the devil in their back yard whenever walking past. And while in hospital recently I saw one of them with a four man escort so he ain't no angel. Personally I think it has to get much worse before it can get better, but definitely agree at some point it will get better. You too, have a good day and always watch your back.
@@terryfowler4288 I did reply mate in depth but must have used some hurty words as its been immediately deleted by YT. Not gonna bother retyping it all, but yeah I agree basically. Keep your head on a swivel and have a good day too 👌🏼
I ran a car park with my dad in Hanley years ago and there was a mosque which caused traffic chaos every Friday. I asked the traffic warden why are you allowing them to park on double yellow lines he told me the traffic wardens are told to stay away from the council.
Can 100% believe that because I see it with my own eyes in longton and cobridge on a Friday the council could clean up but nope nowhere to be found.
@@DJMtv1938You should film it with their registration plates. I used to but we got shit to the point the police refused to protect us when dust heads tried to rob us. In the end we had no choice but to sell up and move on. We became a problem for the police and council we knew their agenda and we knew they were getting funded by the EU to create this mess.
I guess they won in the end but it worked out well for me. I now live in the tropics after building a life here with several businesses. I returned this June to Stoke on Trent the first time in 6 years and was utterly shocked by what I saw in Hanley. Apart from weddings and funerals I won't be returning to live, which is a damn shame because I'm a proud Stokie.
Subbed to keep up to date with this soft genocide of the Stoke people.
@NDTViThailand thank you my friend ❤️👍
@@NDTViThailand it’s a shame so many peoples eyes are closed wide shut to what is happening. All of this is by design
Can’t shop in peace without someone asking for money
Yes U can actually, I've shopped many times here and not a single person has asked me or my mum for money
@@Isla_1444 I get stopped a lot round town hun
@@lynseyleese7475 okay well that's U just ignore them
It's not just Stoke, the whole country is grim.
Very true but I’m afraid stoke was in decline way before anyone else 😔
It comes to something when you got asked if you were lost by simply walking down the street!
I remember how thriving Hanley used to be - so depressing now!
Thank you for your video.
❤️it was nice to an actual local for a change 🤣it’s all so very sad the way Hanley/ this city as gone. Remember to like and subscribe Hanley gives me plenty of material to work with 🤣😢
@@DJMtv1938, I’ve just come back to town for a while, and it’s a shame to realise that I’m pleased I’ll be leaving again soon!
I discovered your channel this evening, so I will subscribe because I would like to see what’s going on out there.
Awful business; it’s so depressing!
Cheers for that 👍the channel may not be to everyone’s liking but I just film what I see and say what i think some agree some don’t but I think the one thing we can all agree is that the city is one big 💩hole 😞
The results of an incompetent council, rising costs, internet shopping and a big monkey dust problem.
When me and my sis were kids our parents would take us and our gran shopping in Hanley (we live the other side of Stafford) and it was a treat instead of the same old limited shops where we lived.
The one place hanley has taken from us is the nhs walk in centre
Keep up the good work mate
**Economic Decline** - Loss of ceramics jobs.
**Retail Struggles** - Rise of online shopping and malls.
**Urban Decay** - Empty buildings and neglect.
**Social Issues** - More crime and economic hardship.
**Competition from Nearby Cities** - Manchester and Birmingham are more attractive.
Heartbreaking for those who remember how it used to be.
Awww.... ST1's has shut down - I used to love that place. I once (mid 2000's) spent £140 on the 'expensive £20' lap dances (as opposed to the cheap £10 version - if you know, you know..Lol.). Never any trouble there either, probably because there were two bouncers at every doorway!... Great fun. :)
All civilisation is here !
I know this video was from a while back but I do go round our towns on my bike regularly. It’s worse than 10 months ago. We’re done for mate Hanley , Burslem and Tunstall are all same .
Keep safe mate 👍
Had a guy try and dip into my bag ,it was probably the worse elbowing he ever had,FYI it all happened in a charity shop. The church is now owned by a company who intended to change it's worship to another religion,however it is protected by a caviat meaning it can never be used as a mosque,temple etc unfortunately the buyers presumably expected to bypass the law I'm not religious but God bless the Church
So vibrant, exciting and full of life
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The Red Sea restaurant building was the original Hanley terminus railway station until the new one was built later across the road.
Not, or ever been a train station in Hanley?????
There is nothing keeping youngsters in Stoke-on-Trent, I don't blame them for leaving. Went to Hanley with some friends who were visiting us, Hanley on a Saturday night and it was a ghost town, nothing open. Really embarrassing.
its the same across the united kingdom unfortunately the truth is you have to look at what is going on behind the scenes... if you look at it biblically GOD has said this would happen at the end of days. which is what we are in right now. its inevitable that cities and towns will crumble and that europeans will take this country over... very sad but true.
It isn't Europeans taking the country over. It wouldn't be as bad if it was.
It's so sad, in the 80's and 90's Hanley was a thriving place with a real buzz about the place. Now its depressing and scary.
It’s all so sad and depressing the place just needs the lights turning off on it now and let it die
@@DJMtv1938 I half expect to see tumbleweed rolling down the streets.
Everything closed! Wow!
Makes me wonder in these streets how many customers they serve in a day....probably count on one hand
I remember when you went into town and you had to dodge people because it was so busy...saturdays was manic!!!!!
Memories now
Becky 🇬🇧
I remember them days well ❤️
I at to pop into Hanley city centre for the first time in quite a while and OMG what a dump it's turned into. It's certainly not the place it used to be that's for sure. Don't think I'll be popping back any time soon.
Utter depressing place
It's been like that for years. Always remember seeing folk rummage in a skip 30 odd years ago back of M&S
Same as every town centre in the country. Unfortunately.
Turning that once beautiful church into a Mosque is a very bad move there are two many Mosques in Stoke on Trent in my opinion as for the state of Hanley it's a shame and a waste Stoke on Trent in my opinion is one of if not the most creativity places in the UK the decline of Hanley should be blamed on the government
Totally agree in that area alone there is 3 mosques already
@@DJMtv1938 I thought that there was four in the Hanley area alone as didn't they convert the Church Restaurant into one?
@@DJMtv1938 there is another thing that I hate Stoke for and that is the lack of employment opportunities for people especially if people have a disability
Yes sorry you are right there is 4 👍
@@DJMtv1938 maybe if you didn't sell Christianity off for money and turn back to god
Same happening in Ireland, heroin replaced by crack ;locals replaced by unvetted single men from Africa & homes for all while the Irish sleep in families houses (if they're lucky) ☘️ Our past history aside, who'd have thought that our islands would be so easy to conquer while we slept.
I’ve been watching and reading about what’s going on in Ireland and it’s terrible my friend I hope the Irish have more passion than what we do and rise up against this replacement of its people. Sadly over here some folks are to scared of been accused of been racist so they will skip along happy with there and there children’s destruction of this country has long as it’s a quite life for them.
@@DJMtv1938 it's so similar similar...those who do speak up are labeled racist and 'far right'. The police (Gardai) cover up immigrants' crime on citizens. At first I thought it was a theory until I saw a crime scene where a woman was s*xually assaulted and it wasn't even on the news. This is done for fear of the Irish rioting. The media reported yesterday on an outbreak of scabies in a city center camp but no word about an Irish woman dying on a Dublin street, destitute. And if I even told you about a hate speech Bill the government are planning to enter as law you wouldn't believe me. Hopeless
Totally agree with all you say, very strange to see , time I came back to Stoke
I think you have covered that many towns now mate that you got no choice to do another lap of them all 🤣👍
At least the streets are cleaner rubbish wise ,thanks to me and my man Nathan, litter picking for stoke on trent city council,some of us do do our job,,your welcome
It resembles a ghost town
Watching 10 months after this video was posted and even more shops have closed since this time 😔
They need a gardener at that mosque its a right mess!!!!
Becky 🇬🇧
Its not just stoke its everywhere
Hanley has become as big a slum as its neighbour Newcastle U Lyme. Council tax rises year after year after year and the city centres decline further and further and further. Someone remind me what we pay council tax for???? Fkd if I know. The two hotels ( best western and the one opposite stoke station have I belive 1200 immigrants)
I had my wedding reception there and it was called the grand hotel at the time...ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING TOTALLY HEARTBREAKING
becky 🇬🇧
We get people sitting outside tesco every day asking for money
Fuk'd ! Like.there isn't enough Mosques
Dust heads not forgetting the poor homeless people
Well about the stained glass windows they wont be left as they are but they will be replaced with different patterens, hundreds of yrs ago mosques had some of the best stain glass in any city, And they did promote the use of it I think when that building is finished it be really well done and look a lot better than it is now, I'm not muslim just saying they do a great improvement,.
I believe the windows are protected? I could be wrong but from what I’ve seen and read so far it does seem that way.
I seem to be able to judge a town or city depending on its football fotunes. Stoke seems to be bucking the trend as it it is in the EPL Campionship league and still going strong. Well done Stoke City.
late '70s - early 80s It was a vibrant town - many happy memories of that time
I remember that hotel back in the 80's. I went there for a wedding evening do with my then girlfriend and her family. The wedding was her cousin. I got completely drunk and was a total idiot, I fell out with my girlfriends parents because I was such a dick that night. The hotel then was awesome, something to behold, top notch establishment. Hanley back in the 80's was a busy bustling place to go shopping on a Saturday. I had some gerat times in Hanley in my younger years. It breaks my heart to see how run down it is now.
Sadly Hanley is now on a life support machine and just wanting to go 😢
Cost living is affecting us yet our government are sitting pretty
I remember living there when I was 17 in the ymca. There used to be a good student night on a Monday ,town was packed but now days its dead.every where is shut the government down south don't care because its cheap labour if ya keep the city in destitute.
Also, 90% of the people you see on the streets asking for money are already in receipt of Universal Credit. The money they ask from you is for their habit. A lot of them even have a place to live but pretend to be homeless during the day to beg. Walk around the city at 4am and 90% of the time you will find the streets empty because they have all gone back to their B&Bs or flats.
A church turned into a mosque 😮🤬
More will turn start going to church ⛪️ on Sunday
Stoke, the only city to sell it's own TownHall. 😆 Fail. 🤣🤣
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Hi mate stoke wasn't like that years ago I been there back in the day what a big change it is now
I remember the good days mate the fantastic nightlife and the town buzzing with shoppers and diners. All Sadly gone and replaced with cheap shit looking shops selling vapes,kebabs, or dodgy Eastern European shops selling under the counter cigarettes. Dust heads dossing on every street corner etc,etc
Wow! Not been up Hanley in years. Can't believe how bad it is. And it's no wonder why some of us choose to relocate to other parts of the country. I will always have a place in my heart for Stoke on Trent, its my hometown,but would i want to move back there......no thank you.
Stoke will always be home to me but at the moment it’s not the home I know or recognise 😞
What a fantastic place it was in the 90s. So sad
Yep 👍
Its like watching the Walking 😱😱😱😱😱dead
🤣yep on repeat 👍everyday is ground hog day here.
Just discovered your channel, You made me realise after living in Stoke On Trent what a sad dump it is, Shouldn't say that because there are some decent areas, I live in one😁, Not been to Hanley for about 15 years, Place full of drugged up scum, illegals, beggers, didn't realise how many shops had closed down,I venture into Longton now and then just to get the bird food in, beggers always outside B&M, puts people right off, Your a brave man cycling around ..Stay safe and Take Care..😃🤨
@Heavens24Angel thank you my friend 👍their is some small decent areas of stoke but admittedly they are getting harder to find but there is plenty of decent stoke people to find 👍
@@DJMtv1938 That's so true, I'm sure there are plenty of decent people still in Stoke..Just didn't realise how bad it had become 😐, Take Care out there 🙂🙂
Really good assessment of Hanley during the day. Might add, when i have to go ie work, it gets no better at night. What happened?? Between 1980 - 1990, it was excellent and then it dropped off a cliff. Why?? Can this city centre ever recover?? I certainly never go during the day, shopping etc, Stoke train station for me where generally, its packed with all ages travelling north to Manchester/Liverpool or south to Birmingham/London all at Stoke on Trents expense. Then for some reason, somebody decided to build a multi storey car park just below where unity house once stood and nobody actually goes to Hanley. Work that out.
It’s taken roughly 30 years to completely destroy what was once a vibrant and busy town centre in the 90s you would have to be in certain pubs before a certain time if you wanted to get in the place if you went Yates after 9pm the chances are you were standing outside waiting to be let in. This city has been in decline way before the usual excuses of covid,cost of living or online shopping are used to hide behind a decline.
Wilkos has gone into liquidation
Our hanley library they are building flat on there soon
Okay I grew up in Newcastle, what's the problem with takeaways? Even as someone in London now there are fish and chip shops and curry places that can hold there own against really good ones here. And at least it's some kind of business.
Different rules for them. Always have been. Years ago it was written in stoke on trent. U have your queen but we have your country. Now we haven't even got are Queen. We have nothing.
Hanley night life was brilliant about 10 years ago now its a dump
Certainly is 👍
Such shame how our city has gone
It’s the West in general is lost
Unfortunately I have to shop in hanley and I hate having to shop here I need a change scenery
Then piss off out of there
that hotel my dad was one the men who did the roof
My home town unfortunately I hate living in stoke on trent
At one time the council spent a lot of money on Hanley and didn't bot 17:15 her with stoke and yet stoke should be the main town where all the potbanks are or were. It's very sad indeed too see the decline.
you talk a lot of sense mate,i have been wondering for years about the mosque in Shelton, cars parked everywhere praying time, not a cop or traffic warden dare put a ticket anywhere near a vehicle,go down Stoke on Hill ST park a foot out the box bang fined£80,they just brought a place in Castle to turn into a mosque by the tennis courts, 600k and now they askin for donations,them Turkish banks or barbers fk me,they are popin up everywhere,people will not go against foreigners for this race card play,i dont give a fk,ive ad enough and i think a lot have now,thanks for your vids really are good its a cryin shame what your filming but your doin a great job......Jim J
Thank you my friend ❤️ I’m hoping this is a turning point in history and people are beginning to realise and speak out more now against the two tier system in place in this country I won’t hold my breath though😞
We had our wedding at the quality hotel and it was beautiful but now it’s crap
I was talking to two elderly gentleman who had been a member of the gym for over 30 years it was a little social club for them to get them out the house since they had been widowed they were told on the Friday they will no longer be allowed to use the gym the new residents moved in on the Monday they are like lost sheep now with nowhere to go and have lost there social circle 😞
@@DJMtv1938 mate it’s absolutely terrible. Why couldn’t they have made it into a social club for all of our elderly people who are lonely, perhaps coffee mornings/provide them a meal, or for the homeless. Or even a museum. Maybe I’m thinking outside the box mate but there is so much potential. We were in hanley yesterday and there are a hell of a lot of takeaways and abandoned shops. So sad to see what has become of hanley. My lady was crapping her pants because she felt unsafe just going to look around.
Back in 2000 hanley was bustling. The indoor market used to be packed out with shops and people. Naff all in there now. So sad.
I’m glad you are covering these local issues, especially the dust heads. They are vermin!!!!
💯 mate 👍
@@DJMtv1938 just keep it up mate you are doing brill. Keep raising awareness 👍🏻
@@DJMtv1938 do Waterloo road, bloody horrendous up there!
No Hope.
Do you really think some of theses shops supply the monkey dust that is destroying the city?
Yes without doubt see my other video where a user admits to buying from one of these shops
Yes have seen that one smokers choice? That guy was talking shit though, wouldn't of thought monkey dust was being sold in shops only by scum bag street dealers
I remember how all the Potteries thrived ... some 25 to 35 years ago, and clearly it was down to the pottery itself, exported all over the world. I saw for myself and visited the factories and watched artists painting fine China pottery ... but alas it all went into decline, the factories closed, the outlets closed. You have to ask yourself ... where was the forward planning by the successive Stoke councils? .... where was the help to develop and help entrepreneurial ideas? .... all questions that no longer matter, because it's possibly too late to rejuvenate. You only need to look at what makes up the local councils, and ask yourself, whilst they're all bickering about what to spend money on, indecisiveness and bad decisions have all helped the decline of the Potteries. No amount of "levelling up" will see the area brought into line the way it used to be. And especially since the fairly recent advent of the scourge of drugs ... probably the nail in the coffin. As you point out and diplomatically ... who wants to be mithered and harrassed by drug-users and immigrants? Nobody, so the footfall declines further and the real estate value plummets even more, eventually becoming a total wasteland. It's not just a shame ... it's a bloody crime. It sickens me to see it, but luckily for me but not selfishly ... I moved away with my job some twenty odd years ago. Great video and balanced opinion, I enjoyed watching it ... depressing as it is. Well done.
Thank you 👍and I don’t think there is anything to add to them comments you have absolutely hit the nail firmly on the head 100%
No prizes for guessing why I don't live in Stoke.
Spare a thought for us that do 😩🤣
We have parts of Copenhagen the same.
Really? Would be great to see it if you know of any channels to watch it👍
Disgraceful, that church is our heritage
Yep very sad indeed 😞
lol 😂 then go pray more often at the church ⛪️
Proper saddening mate 👍 cobridge at night be an interesting one 😬
Might have to film that from the car 🤣👍
@@DJMtv1938 😂😂brilliant had some of the best nights/days up Hanley and newcastle back in the day
I'd say I can;t believe they turned that curch into a mosque, but they turn everything else intoa mosque. that church was beautiful, even as it fell into disrepair, such a part of hanleys history. precisely why they converted it.
Absolutely 👍
@@DJMtv1938 i imagine the little one by edensor high, st james and the little one on chaplin will all go the same way in time. the council doesnt even maintain the wsr bames on the side of the one on chaplin i saw last visit
Isn't there a famous sculpture college in Stoke? That homeless woman sounded English. The barbers and Muslim shops where I live, the people are really friendly. Where's thr local health food shop? Local business?
I hope the homeless lady is safe
Even KFC went out of buisness. Oh my godness.
Absolutely bang on mate,not offensive at all,just the total truth.🫡
Billy Moore's latest videos show that things haven't improved.
@theallornothingpodcastwith4442 he did a great video I love Billy’s videos I’ve now moved out of stoke and seeing his latest video he shocked me how worse it has got in the last 4 months since my last video
The internet and online shopping is to blame
Mate id rather live in Detroit than there i mean that, depressing
Can I come with you 😩🤣🤣
@@DJMtv1938certainly can
Please do keep us updated on the church. Thanks
Yeah, since the Christians have kept up with the up keep of it. I wonder if it could get any worse right?
They keep getting away with it that’s the trouble
it's not goin be a mosque matey..they did buy it but the convent won't allow it
It's been published that it will be a mosque even our Muslim nabs was on about this last weekend
@@nicolacollis2977 i dont think it will be a mosque matey there was a big write up about it the coe won't sell it
@@nicolacollis2977 Yes it did get published it's also been publised again since stating that they can't use it as a place of worship matey.
What's a dust 'ead?
Third world springs to mind shocking keep reporting
Watching this was so depressing, we have lost ourselves?
We really have 😢and I see no appetite from anyone to fight back 😞
good video it is a dump we stay away from it not safe at all
It’s vile