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I lived in Coventry in the 60's - early 70s. Broadgate was much nicer when Lady Godiva was surrounded by grass & flowers. Have they changed the double-decker buses from wine colour? I used the buses all the time to go everywhere in Coventry. As I watched this video I was saying the names of the places & shops I knew as you passed them. Would love you to turn left as you walk down the Precinct & go to the market area, presuming it's still there. Thanks for a great video. More please. It makes me very nostalgic watching them. Greetings & thanks from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪🙂
Thanks for the vlog of Coventry UK . I used to live in Coventry, born and raised up until 16 years old but the moved to California USA in 1984 , only been back twice , seems the same. Please upload more of Coventry....🥰
I used to live in Coventry when I was 8 yrs old back in 1988. Me and my mother used to walk down the coventry city centre and it felt like every one was white and staring at me and my mother because I was brown, what a contrast it is now.
Growing up in coventry people staring at each other is a coventry thing, I never realised I did it until I moved to another city and my girlfriend at the time asked why I kept staring at people when I walked past. Went back to coventry a few years ago and it really struck me that a lot of people do it no matter any colour differences. There is a famous saying about being 'sent to coventry' you should look it up.
It's just some school hanging around outside the Mcdonalds in the burges. Coventry centre is quite safe and clean, never had any problems there. A A few of the inner city areas and suburban areas though can be pretty rough.
The Burges was rough as hell in the 80s especially around the taxi rank at night, it is where everyone who wanted to fight hung around after the nightclubs closed. I've seen running battles there between certain areas of the city and some serious blood spilt.
Looks just like any other normal British city in terms of demographics. But it is rough as hell, and there are lots of bad people in that city. More so than most others.
@@neilrobinson5115 no mate. The caliphate of Londonistan is a different place. His highness the Emir of Londonistan, Sadiq Khan, cannot tolerate the celebration of British culture. Just look at the recent celebration of St. George’s day, the celebrators were surrounded by the police like bunch of criminals. British culture is an offensive thing in Londonistan.
I miss Coventry it’s so different no matter where I go home is home it’s changed so much all one way system and most of the shops have closed which I saw growing up sadly it’s not the same miss the old City centre no decent shops left will be visiting soon
I grew up in Cov. In the 70s at any time of day there would be at least 3 fights going on in the precinct normally between groups of National Front affiliated skin heads and some Asians. Or at kicking out time outside Park Lane night club or Busters ( remember them) someone would be getting knifed or filled in. That’s why Ghost Town was written. Still love the city and culture though. Always will!
One of the best songs ever, and very actual... all western europe and US cities are becoming ghost towns full of litter and grafiti except a few touristic instagram hotspots. Living in Belgium we were shocked when we visited dirty cities like Brussels, Liège or Charleroi, but now it's becoming the new normal in most places.
70s and 80s veteran, fighting in the Burges was the done thing back then after the clubs chucked out. Have a row, off to the parson's nose and a taxi home.
@@w4ka997I walk most of that route on a fairly regular basis. Quite a few Chinese students studying at Warwick University are housed in Coventry. Most of them in specialist student accommodation. Plenty of tower cranes. Usually a good sign.
I have heard it said that Coventry was a no go area during the late 70s - early 80s after 5 or 6 pm so I suppose at least they've beaten their own record.
@@mirandamcmanus2097 Yep It was starting to become a wealthier and growing city either side of the Lockdowns from what I heard. Warwick arts centre worth checking out too...
@@nickfoxy I was born in 1979 but all my elders and other elders tell me the 70s was a very bad time with the 3 day working week and mass electric shortages . these was white elders i spoke to in london was it similar in coverty back in the 70s?
First time I went to Coventry I stepped foot out the taxi and there were 3 crackheads fighting down an alley or sidestreet near that pub at the start of the video. Great wetherspoons though 👌
It is not too big, but it has everything that you need. It's easy to walk around. Since the Coventry University is located in the city itself, you can see there are plenty of international students. I love the fact that the city is very diversed. I'm always spoilt for food choices as there are so many varieties. Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Turkish.. the city has it all. I love visiting Coventry Market. Even though the building is not modern, the ambience is lively, vibrant with friendly business owners and I've noticed the elderly have been enjoying going there too.
I used to live there several decades ago, when did it become a third world city I wonder? In hindsight the Luftwaffe should have been left alone to complete their mission.
I respect all elders . you such a old person yet are soo nasty.people are people we all feel pain we all get old we all die, if you have noting positive to say then dont say anything at all
As been since I lived in Longford in 1963-64 went to foxford but the old Indian lot hadn't reached Longford till around 1966. When England won the world cup that was it if you got as far as the Ritz cinema you had done well once you get over the new inn bridge you were in another country at least you thought you were I left Coventry moved to rugby and I haven't looked back since untill now slowly but surely the dark mists are approaching and it's not Halloween for a nother month
I went to London for the patriots rally in Trafalgar Square. What a eye opener London is. Can't express my shear dicust the way the place has changed since the sixties so glad I don't live there I would not feel safe ieven if I had the fifth army at my side
when i used to live in Coventry, long ago there was alot of skin heads and i remmber they started the guardian asian angels to protect the asian people in foleshill from the skin heads, even in my primary school the white kids and even the teacher called me racial slur and derogotory words like what reform party campiagner called pm rishi sunak, of course i was angered and shocked I never told any one about these racist words as they treated me like a second class citizens, so I believed I was just a guest in england eventhough I was born in england and this was in late 1980s in Coventry.
This is utter crap i have walked everywhere im 39 now and if you ok others are ok if you start starring at people he will get checked we all brothers and sisters in cov it should be us v outsiders not us v us
So we know who built the buildings, laid the pavements, planted the trees, installed the electricity. What is the contribution to this society from the immigrants?
@@kazirahman-bw7cn you said yourself you immigrants will rebuild our country for us,, you can't have it both ways m8,, I was born in a hospital,it doesn't make me a doctor
@@waynenash6008 yeah , i guessed as much , when i was 10-years-old boy this old white male asked me where i was from when i was with my brother in library. i told him i was english and he said what you just said
2-Tone music, ska, black and white together. It’s what Cov is known for, and we’re proud of this cultural diversity. Which other town/city can say it’s responsible for the creation of an entire genre of music, all created because of it’s diversity.
Isn't a bad place, people make it a bad place especially some migrants who doesn't know how to live in with other people, and this generation of new kids who behave really bad including English
We have a place in southampton called the jungle always has been and always will be called that, be very careful at nite there all mayor city's have there own jungles know our country is ruined!😢
Go looking for trouble and you will find it. Keep yourself to yourself and trouble will still find you. Coventry is a cesspit. Stay away for your own sake.
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I lived in Coventry in the 60's - early 70s. Broadgate was much nicer when Lady Godiva was surrounded by grass & flowers. Have they changed the double-decker buses from wine colour? I used the buses all the time to go everywhere in Coventry. As I watched this video I was saying the names of the places & shops I knew as you passed them. Would love you to turn left as you walk down the Precinct & go to the market area, presuming it's still there. Thanks for a great video. More please. It makes me very nostalgic watching them. Greetings & thanks from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪🙂
Still full of us Mick's 👍🍀🇮🇪☘️
Thanks for the vlog of Coventry UK . I used to live in Coventry, born and raised up until 16 years old but the moved to California USA in 1984 , only been back twice , seems the same. Please upload more of Coventry....🥰
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you it remember me those days. I lived in Coventry. I dont have money to visit again. I love Coventry. ❤❤❤
I used to live in Coventry when I was 8 yrs old back in 1988. Me and my mother used to walk down the coventry city centre and it felt like every one was white and staring at me and my mother because I was brown, what a contrast it is now.
Growing up in coventry people staring at each other is a coventry thing, I never realised I did it until I moved to another city and my girlfriend at the time asked why I kept staring at people when I walked past.
Went back to coventry a few years ago and it really struck me that a lot of people do it no matter any colour differences.
There is a famous saying about being 'sent to coventry' you should look it up.
It's just some school hanging around outside the Mcdonalds in the burges. Coventry centre is quite safe and clean, never had any problems there. A A few of the inner city areas and suburban areas though can be pretty rough.
The Burges was rough as hell in the 80s especially around the taxi rank at night, it is where everyone who wanted to fight hung around after the nightclubs closed. I've seen running battles there between certain areas of the city and some serious blood spilt.
The entire city is a no-go area for me. Dire place.
The next Leicester with many more to follow 🇬🇧🏴🤷♂️
Amercan here, been to Coventry in 1971 during a tour of the UK, only thing I saw there was the famous church that was bombed by the Germans in WWII.
Cathedral,
@@waynenash6008 Which is essentially still a church.
@@apathyintheuk265 no..its a cathedral
@@ianharris879 I know what it is (clearly more than some)
As I correctly stated - A cathedral is very much a church.
You're welcome.
Looks nice when it’s warm.
1 Week for 12 Month
I'm from Cov , I love to visit Cov and see the different ethnicities 😊
Carry on don't look at lady Godiva or you may end up blind
I must be missing something! Looked pretty mixed to me!
Looks just like any other normal British city in terms of demographics. But it is rough as hell, and there are lots of bad people in that city. More so than most others.
I’m surprised the chap at 4:30 carrying the Union Jack M&S carrier bag wasn’t arrested.
It’s more lenient outside Londonistan.
@@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv it should be lenient everywhere,it’s the nations symbolistic flag.
@@neilrobinson5115 no mate. The caliphate of Londonistan is a different place. His highness the Emir of Londonistan, Sadiq Khan, cannot tolerate the celebration of British culture. Just look at the recent celebration of St. George’s day, the celebrators were surrounded by the police like bunch of criminals. British culture is an offensive thing in Londonistan.
@@JanBanJoovi-ol1qvoh dear, you really believe this 5hit. 🤦🏽 please go educate yourself.
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I miss Coventry it’s so different no matter where I go home is home it’s changed so much all one way system and most of the shops have closed which I saw growing up sadly it’s not the same miss the old City centre no decent shops left will be visiting soon
went to uni there 30 years ago ,would have liked to have seen more , is the courtyard pub still there ? and the kings head
We live and die in these towns!
Lived and worked here in the 90s. It has greatly improved, still a likeable compact city
I've lived and studied in Coventry
I grew up in Cov. In the 70s at any time of day there would be at least 3 fights going on in the precinct normally between groups of National Front affiliated skin heads and some Asians. Or at kicking out time outside Park Lane night club or Busters ( remember them) someone would be getting knifed or filled in. That’s why Ghost Town was written. Still love the city and culture though. Always will!
One of the best songs ever, and very actual... all western europe and US cities are becoming ghost towns full of litter and grafiti except a few touristic instagram hotspots. Living in Belgium we were shocked when we visited dirty cities like Brussels, Liège or Charleroi, but now it's becoming the new normal in most places.
70s and 80s veteran, fighting in the Burges was the done thing back then after the clubs chucked out. Have a row, off to the parson's nose and a taxi home.
Thanks
😊🎉❤😊🎉❤😊🎉❤😊😊❤ beautiful 😍❤️😊
There’s a Coventry in Africa? Who’d of thought eh.
Can you tell me how many African people you saw in this video please
@@w4ka997I walk most of that route on a fairly regular basis. Quite a few Chinese students studying at Warwick University are housed in Coventry. Most of them in specialist student accommodation. Plenty of tower cranes. Usually a good sign.
It's people like you who give tyrants like Starmer the ammunition they need to take away all of our liberties.
There's a Africa in Coventry
I miss it so much 💯👌🏻🫶🏻
will not be long before it is a case of spot the white one
yeah, its great aint it!
I have heard it said that Coventry was a no go area during the late 70s - early 80s after 5 or 6 pm so I suppose at least they've beaten their own record.
Looks like a good pedestrian shopping area. With alot of shops still open. Most places are just board city's
@@mirandamcmanus2097
Yep
It was starting to become a wealthier and growing city either side of the Lockdowns from what I heard. Warwick arts centre worth checking out too...
Absolutely right - see my comment about life in the 70s
@@nickfoxy
👍 🧐🎓
@@nickfoxy I was born in 1979 but all my elders and other elders tell me the 70s was a very bad time with the 3 day working week and mass electric shortages . these was white elders i spoke to in london was it similar in coverty back in the 70s?
First time I went to Coventry I stepped foot out the taxi and there were 3 crackheads fighting down an alley or sidestreet near that pub at the start of the video.
Great wetherspoons though 👌
😂😂😂😂😂Casual Coventry experience!! Glad you enjoyed your time here
It is not too big, but it has everything that you need. It's easy to walk around. Since the Coventry University is located in the city itself, you can see there are plenty of international students. I love the fact that the city is very diversed. I'm always spoilt for food choices as there are so many varieties. Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Turkish.. the city has it all. I love visiting Coventry Market. Even though the building is not modern, the ambience is lively, vibrant with friendly business owners and I've noticed the elderly have been enjoying going there too.
I go here all the time?
Try going there at 4.30am?!! Lol
4.30am? For how much money? 😎💵
I used to live there several decades ago, when did it become a third world city I wonder? In hindsight the Luftwaffe should have been left alone to complete their mission.
I respect all elders . you such a old person yet are soo nasty.people are people we all feel pain we all get old we all die, if you have noting positive to say then dont say anything at all
You know covs down bad when there’s two bookies next to each other
Bookies and bookies 😢😢 nice 😢😢😢😢
Foleshill... Now an Asian colony.
Now? It was in the 80s.
As been since I lived in Longford in 1963-64 went to foxford but the old Indian lot hadn't reached Longford till around 1966. When England won the world cup that was it if you got as far as the Ritz cinema you had done well once you get over the new inn bridge you were in another country at least you thought you were I left Coventry moved to rugby and I haven't looked back since untill now slowly but surely the dark mists are approaching and it's not Halloween for a nother month
I went to London for the patriots rally in Trafalgar Square. What a eye opener London is. Can't express my shear dicust the way the place has changed since the sixties so glad I don't live there I would not feel safe ieven if I had the fifth army at my side
I'm afraid to comment because TH-cam have threatened to close my account because of my moderate opinions.
Can’t say anything these days, without being called what you are.
No, it depends on what you are saying
Nothinks changed lol kids have always hung out there after school for years n years
Looks like every other city centre in the country. Shame, since years ago they were all so different from oneanother.
Wow C&A became Primark
Wasn't canda was Owen and Owens
THIS - TOOOOOOWN is gonna be like a ghost town !
Not changed much really since I was a child. I’m 68. In 20 years time most of the newcomers will be more English than I am.
The Burges Cov. Yep like most of Cov now it's a dump!
wow there are even some folks managing to walk without a phone in their hand??????? x
Just basic shops now.
Tasty bit of irony, Coventry has been " sent to Coventry "
I'm noticing a pattern.
You good at knitting then ?
@@tonypriest3567 one of the last breed of knitters out here...
Like planet of the apes in London
Lol😂
when i used to live in Coventry, long ago there was alot of skin heads and i remmber they started the guardian asian angels to protect the asian people in foleshill from the skin heads, even in my primary school the white kids and even the teacher called me racial slur and derogotory words like what reform party campiagner called pm rishi sunak, of course i was angered and shocked I never told any one about these racist words as they treated me like a second class citizens, so I believed I was just a guest in england eventhough I was born in england and this was in late 1980s in Coventry.
Współczuję Anglikom że muszą żyć w tym paskudnym mieście
This is utter crap i have walked everywhere im 39 now and if you ok others are ok if you start starring at people he will get checked we all brothers and sisters in cov it should be us v outsiders not us v us
Either you're 3ft tall or the camera is strapped to your belt?. How do you film discreetly and so low?.
I am a dwarf.
@@WalkTheUkIn4K2024 Serious?
@@wanderingwilliam5031 I think he’s on an electric longboard, on his belly , with the camera strapped to his head ;)
Coventry is Detroit of uk
Was.
Don’t be so stupid 😂 how could u compare Detroit to cov
So we know who built the buildings, laid the pavements, planted the trees, installed the electricity.
What is the contribution to this society from the immigrants?
im a strong man i can laid oall the pavements again , why not pay us and us immigrants will rebiuild coventry
No thanks ,go and build your own country
@@waynenash6008 england is my own country i was born in england
@@kazirahman-bw7cn you said yourself you immigrants will rebuild our country for us,, you can't have it both ways m8,, I was born in a hospital,it doesn't make me a doctor
@@waynenash6008 yeah , i guessed as much , when i was 10-years-old boy this old white male asked me where i was from when i was with my brother in library. i told him i was english and he said what you just said
And Bradford is even Worse ..
Outside McDonald's it's always kids and youths mucking about
What’s no go about it ?
The only good thing to come out of cov was the Specials
2-Tone music, ska, black and white together. It’s what Cov is known for, and we’re proud of this cultural diversity. Which other town/city can say it’s responsible for the creation of an entire genre of music, all created because of it’s diversity.
It's just noisy brainless youngsters sitting on mums neck still 😂is many smaller city's like villages and it's not that bad
It’s turned into a sh#t hole now ,I boycott the town centre like everyone else I know
Britain is not Britain anymore
Isn't a bad place, people make it a bad place especially some migrants who doesn't know how to live in with other people, and this generation of new kids who behave really bad including English
We have a place in southampton called the jungle always has been and always will be called that, be very careful at nite there all mayor city's have there own jungles know our country is ruined!😢
It’s not diverse enough
It’s still ‘ too white ‘ even with one white person. Diversity os ‘their’ strength and our loss
Go looking for trouble and you will find it. Keep yourself to yourself and trouble will still find you. Coventry is a cesspit. Stay away for your own sake.
Yes, please do.
It's best to just not go to Coventry full stop as it is a sh*thole
At last someone with my sentiments exactly