I lived in Plymouth for three years as a student and only have positive things to say about both the city and the people. It's definitely experienced better days but what always struck me was the attitude of the locals who although feeling abandoned by Westminster, just keep smiling and keep pushing forward. And I always love visiting
Brazilian here ! My family and I used to live in Bournemouth then in the pandemic we moved to Plymouth (yesss I know😅) we stayed only 2 years,also during this time my baby was born (at Derriford hospital,was a wonderful experience,no concerns about it),then we came back to Brazil .Plymouth its very different from Bournemouth but we moved because the prices to rent a flat 3 bedrooms in Bournemouth at that point was incredibly expensive and in Plymouth wasn't to bad..But I can see now that things are changing quickly in UK economy..in whole world but see rich countries like US and England in this crises its scary. PS:You know guys that we have one of the best coffee in the world here but I just want to say that I still drinking British tea(with milk of course !at 5 o'clock 😂).Love to you all ,England its my 2o country from my ❤ Best wishes from Brazil
I lived in bournouth and had to move because the price was over the roof , I missed it tho won’t lie , Birmingham is much cheap but I hate it here already and barely spent 2yrs here
I was in Plymouth back in 1983 or so, courtesy of the US Navy. Union St. was where all the clubs were. It was hopping. A shipmate of mine entered a vodka drinking competition and picked up the bottle and drank it like water. He then passed out and was in a coma for day, returning to the ship after about two weeks. Nice shops too. Got some of the coolest clothes I ever had from Plymouth. And my introduction to the "Rag Mag".
Cat is capable of making any location shine, with her quirky Portuguese charm. So keep taking her along mate and you will make the world look a little better 🙂
I was based in Plymouth during the early to mid 80s and Union Street was packed every night. The Grand Theatre pub you showed was a great pub, it was our starting pub for our ships company. I nearly cried when i walked down Union Street a couple of years ago. The decline of the Royal Navy in Plymouth has killed it. There used to be dozens of ships based there but now its a fraction of that. Being from Birmingham, I had the best years of my life in Plymouth. Plymouth will always have place in my heart.
I was born in Plymouth, i am a Janner through and through however, looking at the state of Plymouth now it is really upsetting to be fair. I cannot believe how bad Union street has got along with a lot of Plymouth city centre. I am not sure what my Mum, Granddad or Nan would think of it but i am sure they are cringing at the site of Plymouth. Plymouth city council should be ashamed of themselves for allowing our once lovely city to fall in to such disrepair. I now live in Alberta Canada so wanted to watch your video to see how Plymouth was fairing but got a real shock. Thank you for sharing this video, all the best.
Grew up in Plymouth but I live in the US now. I’ll always have great memories of “Guzz”. I was lucky enough to attend Dance Academy in its last 2 years before the raid. An incredible set up with great DJ’s and amazing people. Ali baba’s and spicy spuds after partying all night .. the nostalgia. Ben your videos are great!
1. Overinflated centralised fiat currency 2. Massive government and cost of running it 3. Unaccountable government debt 4. No way for people to meaningfully escape it
@@LeeAnderssonMPLabour have never ever done any better infact worse . I’m no fan of the Tory party but for Christ sake there not to blame on everything are they
I live in Plymouth for 5 years and it's got so much potential. It's starting to get better. By the sea, Cornwall next door and the Moors are fantastic places to explore. The indoor market place recently is starting to have an eclectic mix of street food stalls from around the world which was pleasing to see ☺️
I moved here 4 years ago myself and I agree. Being objective, it is getting better even since I moved here there are a few new things, but it does have a long way to go in a lot of areas.
In reference to your glee about having "food stalls from all around the world" is tragic to read. It's akin to looking back to when the Dutch acquired Manhattan (which isn't really what happened) for beades, clothing and alcoholic drinks. The point of it all is that having an array of cuisines to choose from is the peak of affairs for you in exchange for your country and, culture then you have a real problem.
I like how Ben keeps it real and goes to Wetherspoons. We all know how bad it is, but it doesn’t matter. Its tradition. Just like drinking beer at 7AM in Gatwick airport.
@ShaunLevett. Well, if people continue going to Wetherspoons to eat that disgusting and embarrassing food, they must be masochists. I'd rather eat a million times at home than throw my money into such low level food. 'Cheap' can be bad taste and bad for your health. 🤢🤢😁
These videos are the opposite however, they aren’t representative since they attempt at painting these cities as some sort of hellhole by showing only the most deprived of areas.
In 1977 I was working away in Plymouth and we used to go to Union Street, it was thriving loads of pubs clubs military and MPs. Hooters was a very popular bar. Shame to see the decline. Thanks Ben.
I worked in Plymouth a few years ago. We rebuild a wall that goes around the dock yards, about 20m down by the ferry. It's a famous old wall that goes all around the dockyards. Anyway, just to say, the people of Plymouth were lovely to us. Union St is a shame, full of beautiful old buildings not being looked after, neither are some of the locals, boarded up buildings but people sleeping on the streets. I did get to see Drakes Island from the Hoe, hadn't seen it since I was 14 on a school trip there for a week. Happy memories.
I lived in Plymouth in 1970s and 1980s. Union Street in the late 1980s was wild. The city was nice and fairly well organised. Wages weren't great and jobs hard to find. But still, it was not as grotty as in your video. Decay in the UK has a lot to do with the debt based money system in my opinion. Nothing is sustainable because the debt based economy relies on growth. If it's not growing the wages stagnate to produce the needed inflation. Nothing is built to last, it's all about quick turnover. Government needs taxes and inflation to pay interest on ever growing debt. They think immigration will keep growth going but I think it's just life support for a dying system. The UK has been going into decay for many years and it's very sad. In my memory a England is a great nation, but in reality it's turned into a dump. Only a small minority of super wealthy people are profiting while normal people are watching their country decaying in real time. 🖤
@@oliverselle2861 A very observant comment. If each year the Uber wealthy take a bigger share of the pie, there isn't much left for normal people and thus an economy
I was shocked to learn that Rishi Sunak the prime minister has a personal fortune of 700 million. So being that wealthy he can easily expect 25 to 30 million a year in earnings from his fortune, obviously using all the tax loopholes possible. Working class people pay their tax deducted directly before payout. Small buisnesses are being crushed by taxes and inflation, along with higher energy prices. Debt based money is scam unless your able to leverage debt to accumulate assets.
Strange you would spend so much time dwelling on the negative for your home town. Union Street is one street. Hope you show more of the positive in your next video.
Ben, you left out some of the history of Plymouth Hoe. As mentioned it is a beautiful harbour but also strategic for the British Navy. More important and famous than the Beatles Sir Francis Drake was playing a game of bowls when the Spanish Armada was spotted. He quipped that he had time to finish his game before being off to pursue them and save England. Additionally, while visiting there we toured the harbour, visited the Pilgrim Steps, viewed docked British Destroyers and Plymouth Gin Distillery. Don’t sell your town short. I enjoyed our short stay and everywhere there is bad if you look for it. We enjoy your videos, commentary and love England.
G day Ben, love your channel, hey, have you got Exeter in your sights for another video? My wife is from there and she has not been back since 2006. She is asking if you do, it would be nice. Keep up the great work mate. David
Francis Drake even came from near Plymouth, which the Beatles didn't. The Beatles = zero connection to Plymouth... except one gig ( my sister went to it) in a cinema which the Council has left to rot.
WOW! I'm an Ex-Matelot and Union Street was like my spiritual home..... WOW, the state of it... I used to LOVE being there... looking at it now, I'll not be going back.
Im from Bristol and ive only ever been to Home park, the home of Plymouth Argyle. Love your content. Been watching loads of your videos of late. So funny at times
Hey Ben, glad that you finally released a video about Plymouth. I've been waiting for it for such a long time. At Uni, I used to walk down to Union Street from Mutley Plain (all the way downhill) to meet up with my mates in the dodgy Stonehouse area. After a couple of rounds in Union Rooms, we would have proceeded to Grosvenor, finishing the night being absolutely broken and pissed. I'aint no luck betting there. The city centre is kinda grim tbh (it reminds me a bit of Coventry at times, they both go hand in hand due to the Blitz), full of chavs and beggars in every corner, asking for pennies from every passerby. I've found it odd not to see you bumping into any of them. However, they opened a museum last year, which is well-preserved and managed, so it would have been worth mentioning it. The Plymouth Hoe is nice, but merely over the summertime, along with a barbecue on Sunday morning. Apart from that, it's definitely dull. Also, a stroll along Mutley Plain would have been interesting, a bit rough at the edge, but a cool place for getting a pint. Take care mate.
I really like Plymouth. We came down for the Sunderland game. I now have a soft spot for PA, as I met some brilliant supporters, some of who came from Camborne. Thought the shopping centre was good, much better than what we have in Hertfordshire.
I was born in Plymouth. Dragged up in medway kent. No matter how bad a picture you've shown. I'm still drawn and yearn to go back and live there. It's in my heart always.
I lived in Plymouth in the 80's - Ziggy's was a cool club off Union Street with club nights run by Jeff Barrett who has Heavenly Records now - we had great early gigs there with Jesus and Mary Chain etc. Also Woods / Monroes too. The Minerva was the only pub that was safe for punk types to go to without getting punched though!
Exactly this. As a Plymouth native, I totally appreciate my city as much as I can get disillusioned by it. It's in balance. Inept councils are to blame. I totally understand that videos such as this are there to highlight degradation and I get that. But it's still such a shame that, as locals, we know of those little nuggets of gold about our city that aren't portrayed. Such as - much lower crime rates than other cities, a thriving and well-respected university that brings culture/diversity, a great modern museum, being an ocean city, The Hoe (yes, the The Hoe was mentioned - but that was the only positive) and lovely Barbican/Plymouth Gin Distillery/The National Aquarium, The Lido, many lovely parks, woods and green spaces across the city. Looking at the footage of the derelict old ABC cinema was very sad, but it made it look like we didn't have any other cinemas! It should've mentioned that we have a city centre cinema, an out of city one and an Arts Cinema in the city centre. I also thought it a bit silly that it looked like the only cooked breakfast available was at Wetherspoons! What about eating at the fabulous Plymouth family-owned Early Bird on Mayflower St in the town centre? It also could've been mentioned how our local businessman Chris Dawson bailed out our town centre Wilkinsons - that would've been something positive to mention. Plymouth was bombed during WWII and that's why some of our architecture is an eyesore. We are certainly, on the whole, very lucky to live where we do, compared to others places up and down the country.
@@monicanath4859 It used to be. I’ve grown up here, they’ve run it down and the people here are not as nice and respectful as they once were, standards have declined here big time.
It actually breaks my heart watching this. I was in the navy and was based in Plymouth from 2010-2014. It was clear that Union Street and the city centre was a shadow of itself even back then. But, I had some great times there. Now, watching this, it’s not even a shadow of what it was 🥺.
On the contrary, it’s improved vastly since 2014. This video skips over the dozens of brilliant independent businesses along the street, doesn’t mention Plymouth’s biggest annual street party and forgets that The Millennium and C103 are now in community ownership and being redeveloped. Zero engagement with any of the fab organisations and Ben only spoke with three blokes - not a true reflection at all! Lots more to be done, but come see for yourself, we’re here!
please stop. everyone is noticing how bad Plymouth has gotten. full of foreigners walking around staring at woman trying to peacock at men, walking around shouting on facetime and rapping in public@@nadineproost1766
@@nadineproost1766 Why destroy more than 100 mature trees in Armada Way? Why leave Union Street to rot? Why so much concrete? Why an empty boarded up high rise in town?
@@nadineproost1766 FACTS. This video ONLY shows the negative sides, but the positives hugely outweigh them. Poor taste to make a disingenuous video about your hometown.
I was a student there from 1987-1991. Fantastic night scene with a different club having "student night" every day of the week and very affordable. Locals were friendly but we avoided Union St on the weekends. I went back in 2018 for a night and was amazed at how much it had declined. Great memories.
I went to university there back 2001-2005 and visit most years since. The new shopping centre is so much better than the old precinct, but it has sucked the life out of the town and casued many shops to close. The big department stores are all gone. The Royal William Yard and Barbican are completely separate areas and full of nice restaurants and independent shops. Union Street has completely died. C103, Millennium and the Dance Academy were huge clubs and there would have been thousands of people out on a weekend. I guess you are too young to remember them Ben? I forgot to add that the new £47 million Box museum is open and a great addition to the city. They are currently renovating the city centre streets.
The previous Museum and Art Gallery and Public Library were great. Why spend 47 million£££ on the ugly Box and move the Library, with its local history collections to a disused concrete shop in Armada Way where trees aren't any more and no birds sing?
Look at that beautiful Portuguese smile, she lights up the place doesn't she? What a ray of sunshine she is. I was getting depressed bro! She even had a nice Latte' waiting for you. Behind you at that cafe, I could see the sun rising, the clouds parting. Like the old saying goes, Home is where the heart is. You probably still have some love for it, if you have family there and good memories. Those clean cut youngsters you spoke to briefly, that's the hope of the future, that's what they are Ben. Even those two Afghan kids were fairly clean cut. I didn't see any hooligans that I could judge to be involved or engaged in hooliganisms. That's a good thing for Plymouth and the UK.
❤❤Awesome Kat is back 😻I just love her and I hope y'all had a wonderful Valentine's Day 💕Great video 🥰sad about all the abandoned building's 😿stay safe 💖love from Oklahoma
Hi Ben. Glad to see "Birdman" dancing outside Poundland at 11:20 He has been around the streets enjoying himself since I was a teenager in the mid 90s. Glad to see you both look well. Much love from another Plymouthian.
Look forward to your next plymouth video. Here's some places I recommend: East hoe beach. The Nowhere Inn. Food 4 U kebab. Drakes circus obviously. Barbican, Union rooms at night, when it's full of drunk teens and 20 somethings. The Uni, the Market, and as for food, you can't go wrong, so many great places at night. Oh and, the freemasons at north hill leave their doors open if your into urbex, I found that building fascinating. And maybe go north into the (sometimes wealthy, sometimes poorer) Suburbs where people are very different to the inner city folk. Show off the beaches, Dartmoor, and everything in between, the shitest places, but also the nicest. Then you'll really have Plymouth in a nutshell.
@@tobyrouse The barbican escaped 're-development' by Abercrombie and his minions. Royal William Yard is very expensive flats and commercial development by Urban Splash Property development. Urban Slash was involved in constructing its developments with flammable cladding as used in Grenfell Tower. No connection to the citizens of Plymouth.
@@tobyrouse gated communities for the rich Union street left to rot. Half the city centre trees cut down the reveal the rotting concrete buildings with empty abandoned shops.
Mad isn't it. People don't care about the town/city centres anymore. Shopping online is easier, cheaper and means you don't have to go into the nasty, hostile high streets. No investment from government or councils to attract people into towns/cities because it's not in their interests. The only places that seem to be doing well are bookies (so we gamble our money away) off-licences (so we drink our lives away), fast food places (so we can eat ourselves into obesity) and vape shops. Oh yeah and barbers which are basically fronts for money-laundering. Anyway, I'm leaving next month, see ya when I see ya blighty. Great video Ben!
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
@@Harryjw67 it's touristy, but still has a fishing industry with a beautiful harbor. They have preserved most of the buildings and homes built by Captains and other well off original residents. I hope you make it some day.
@@signoresantinoburnett1169 nice one, I visited Toronto last summer to meet some friends I have out there. Very cool city. (Planning to fly out to Nova Scotia this autumn too) 🇨🇦👌
My mum, 2 sisters and I arrived in Plymouth, 1978, to get car ferry to Santander. We waited for hours, because of dock workers strike, only to find out Spain had just issued Visa requirements for Australians and South Africans. We had to go to Southhampton to get Visa. Good thing was there were 4 or 5 other families that had the same problem, so the adults and kids partied together for a couple of days until the next ferry
@@mikem9892you would be surprised as not all English country towns are nice, some are beautiful though. I lived in Ripley in Derbyshire, countryside all around but the area was a dump, it's boring & lots of drink & alcohol problems. It was an old mining town & after the mining industry closed, a lot of people lost their jobs & those towns have become deprived so I would like to see Ben film some of those old run down mining towns of England.
@@BackpackerBen you disrespected your home town by only showing the bad side of it. All large cities have bad things. In Plymouth the good things FAR outweigh the bad. C'mon.
The last part where you was high up seeing where the Beatles were is nice part of Plymouth,I used to visit my dad's uncle Fred when I was around 9 or 10 years of age ,it used to be a stopover before we holiday in Cornwall,so I do remember Plymouth vaguely ,nice review mate and Katarina she's lovely girl 👍🏼🙏🏼🙂
England is looking more like a third world country every year. I'm from Oldham. It used to be a thriving town centre with literally dozens of pubs, a huge open air market. Now there are 2 pubs. I live abroad now. I think I got out just in time.
It's also where ships departed for Massachusetts in 1620. One of my ancestors sailed from Plymouth about ten years later, although he was from Norfolk.
Great video Ben' I have fond memories of Plymouth back in the day. Shopping in Dingles and one night we ended up on Union Street, at Diamond Lil's bar. things change and all that's gone. However, there is always the Barbican and Plymouth Hoe> I once visited the gallery of the Plymouth legend artist Robert Lenkiewicz, who allegedly killed his wife. The surrounding scenery of Plymouth is amazing and so are the locals.
Ive been in Plymouth for 51 years, ive seen the change, like the chap said with all the pubs, so many of them started going down there at 17 years of age, absolutely fantastic night's out, they had so much here, growing up the Saturday morning pictures, ice rinks, roller skating, open air markets, so much to do and now its completely finished, i have so many great memories but at the same time sad feelings driving past most nights of the week. its funny as whilst working students would ask me what it was like years ago and it would all come flooding back, if i ever leave Plymouth it will always be in my heart
OMG Ben I must say my husband and I had an amazing wk end about 5 yrs ago we left our home in South Wales and meet amazing people who showed us where to go to have a lovely wk end 👏👏
The Barbican area is still a lovely historic harbour area full of nice restaurants and arty shops. Taking a boat trip is also worth doing. Don’t forget the Mayflower pilgrim fathers story and the links with USA. Still worth it for a city break or short holiday touring Devon and the Southwest.
Sad to see my home city turn into a right Sh"thole still some of the best and kindest people you will always find in Plymouth of all ages who will always help you regardless of the decay and rot that will never change as you know Ben. Union Street was visited by many right around the country they were good times now a distant memory but a great one.
I live a few miles away from Plymouth and I go there sometimes, it's an interesting place with some nice scenery best seen on a fine summer day, there are also lots to see from history. This video shows some of these buildings from past times and although they are all decaying and run down, I find them very interesting.
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
I’m on board with a lot of the historic factors of decline you’ve outlined, but I don’t think it’s quite right about immigrants being completely subsidised to be there. Let me tell you as a white, first-world Australian who wanted to immigrate to the UK (if only I could get a visa to be allowed to work there) it’s really hard to do this. You can’t get on benefits there and it’s illegal to work without a visa so you have to be able to survive doing dodgy cash work for 4+ years (I think it was) until you can apply for permanent residency. If I wanted to study in the UK I’d have to pay huge international student fees, to do a masters; for all my own living expenses, without being able to earn. So I don’t know how the immigrants you’re talking about are being supported by your governments there - unless maybe they’re refugees??? I don’t know.
@@tegannorthwood1891 Tegan, I am also an Australian, and have travelled through England/Scotland, and the US/Canada, too, on many occasions between 1984-2013 and I can't believe how all of these places have sunk into sociological cesspits. All of which are directly linked to these societies actually facilitating influxes of people with no worthwhile skills, and let alone decent standards of education to benefit these societies. This brings me to answering your perceptions. Just prior to Christmas I rang the office of the Member for Ipswich (in England) Tom Hunt, and his staff member put him on to chat with me. And one of the things I asked him about was: How do the hundreds of thousands of people in Britain illegally, survive (which are basically some of the things that you've just espouse)? Tom Hunt's reply to that was with saying: "How most of these limbo immigrants survive, is because they work illegally for wages that are no more than 60 percent of what's lawfull. Unfortunately, it's nigh on being an impossibility to be able to just track down the scum employers expoliting these vulnerable people, let alone being able to prosecute them". However, Tom also told me that illegal immigrants are ceded benefits by the government, too. And a few councils in London's broughs, at least 6 of the 50, fast-track them into properties they control. But, whatever it is or, it isn't, the grave tragedy for all the societies that have allowed people from Third World cradles to swarm in over the past 20 years have sealed their fates for sociological oblivion, because the vast, majority will never get much past the first or second rung of the socio-economic ladder.
Tegan, to garner what I'm suggesting with Britain being destroyed from mass-immigration of non-Europeans can be found in the SkyNews Australia story from april 3, titled: 'UK becoming 'literally unrecognisable' from migrant invasion.' Trgaically, the people in Britain that open-borders are going to most rabidly afflict are those under 40 years of age who have been pickled-up in the previous 30 years and, indeed, nutralised into believing that, only racists and xenophobes want to control immigration.
I've lived in a lot of places all over the world, and moved to Plymouth 5 years ago. It's my favourite place I've ever lived and I will stay here. I know you're only showing the 'rough' parts here, but there are so many beautiful parts you haven't (plus it's close to some of the most amazing scenery and countryside this country has to offer, with the moors and beaches a very short drive away). The friendliest people I've ever met, some amazing foodie places - go to Jackas bakery on the barbican if you haven't! I've never felt happier or more settled in a place and I felt at home straight away, and that's saying something. I've never felt unsafe or worried about crime, even when I've walked down Union Street I met so many friendly lovely people.
Plymouth was my home in the mid seventies. I went to the Art college there and had two great years. My dad was in the RAF and based at Mountbatten. Later he was President of the Athenaeum which you had in the background. The city was vibrant and friendly. Union st had a reputation but it was busy.
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
it's rough but not as bad as luton or some of these places on your journey. shame some of the royal money isn't spent on fixing iconic buildings and streets, it would lift up communities across the uk.
In the heart of the UK, where the sea meets the land, Lies the city of Plymouth, with stories to expand. A place of mixed reputation, where history unfolds, But struggles and troubles, its narrative holds. Backpacker Ben, with camera in hand, Embarks on a journey, to understand. From Union Street's grit, to Plymouth Hoe's grace, He captures the essence, of this complex place. The characters of Plymouth, with tales to tell, Their lives intertwined, with the city's swell. From highs to lows, they share their strife, In a city where challenges define life. Union Street, notorious and bold, A microcosm of the stories untold. Plymouth Hoe, iconic and grand, A contrast to the struggles, on every strand. Welcome to Plymouth, where history lies, And struggles and troubles, meet tearful eyes. Yet amidst the chaos, resilience blooms, In the city of struggles, where hope consumes. So let us explore, with open hearts and minds, The city of Plymouth, where resilience finds. For in the stories of struggles and troubles, we see, The strength of a city, resilient and free.
Ahh yeah I remember there was one meal called a jasperizer. Massive burger or something like that. Basically everything in a burger bun Good Times down quayside.
I worked in a Heating and Air Conditioning office on Union Street when I was 17, an apprenticeship right out of school in 1975, my first task at 8AM was to wash out the entrance with hot water due to people pissing and throwing up in the doorway almost every night.....what a treat 😞Was glad when I was at Bath Technical College for the training part of the job. Looks even worse down there today. Sad that people cannot even clean up a mess!
I went to the art college in the mid nineties, union street was amazing, went back last year for a catch-up with some college friends and it’s a bit sad to see what it’s like now, the Barbican is still nice though
Ben, at the beginning of the viseo when you said, ".....I've never shown you guys my home town of Plymouth.....," I thought to myself, this would be a fine time for Catarina to appear. Well, lo and behold.....!! SPLENDID job, mate! And Catarina had the latte and Portuguese version of crumpets waiting for you, too!! Good show Catarina!! CHEERS to both pf you!! From far West Texas.
Doesn't look too shabby and quite nice actually. Cleaner than some downtowns I've been in the US (Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Los Angeles.) Think I might stop by and check out Plymouth when I visit the UK this Spring. Cheers!
Trust me, there are far nicer places to stop, i mean look at the buildings, doesn't get much uglier. Come and you'll be disappointed, i'm only an hour up the road and Plymouth has always been a dump.
You need to compare it with continental European cities. The problem with Plymouth UK is precisely that the old city having been destroyed during the war it was 're-built' hurriedly on an American grid and motor vehicle centric plan... with cars first - people pushed out of the centre to depressing suburbs and the centre left with priority to cars on very wide roads and commercial buildings with very little for people ( pedestrians ... public transport) Horrible. That American town plan is catastrophic..... your shopping malls are closing ....
i live in plymouth and i can definitely say its been dying over the years but you need to make an extended video about the history that plymouth hoe and the barbican and drakes island have. its actaully amazing to think how old this city is.
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
@@markferguson7563I did not know about the Lima declaration, thank you. As to the illegal immigrants, its mind blowing how they get the 5 star treatment whilst the indigenous population gets kicked into the corner. I fear nothing will change anytime soon though
@@gregmurphy2691 Greg, thanks for replying. First, I will hark back to the Lima Declaration: way in the mid-1960s, both England’s, Enoch Powell, and George Lincoln Rockwell, in the US were predicting that, the big movers and shakers in the manufacturing spheres of Britain the US, and Europe were inaugurating plans that eventually became the Lima Declaration. Another intellectual to research is the Frenchman, Jean Raspail. He is the author that you MUST google up is the author of the novel, ‘Camp of the Saints’. In this work Raspail foretold us back in 1972 that, governments of Western nations would not only dismantle their borders, and allow millions of culturally unassimilable interlopers from the Third World to OVERRUN their dominions, but INCREDIBLY SO with how these governments would also pass laws (masquerading as HATE-SPEECH), to make it illegal for indigenous White peoples to complain about these re-colonisation agendas. I live in Sydney/Australia - not to be confused with Sydney in Canada - and can state CATEGORICALLY that, my city and, indeed, with Melbourne that people of Anglo/European extractions, sine 2000, have gone from comprising being 85% of their populations, to now being the COLLECTIVE MINORITIES. So much so that, there are now 60 suburbs in Sydney, where peoples of non-Anglo/European (and, also, non-Christian) cradles account for between 65-85% of all the residents. To bring this horrifying reality to bear came to pass quite recently, 3 weeks ago, in fact, where I travelled ion a train from Burwood, to Liverpool. This entails 15 stations, and at EVERY ONE of them, people of non-AE heritages accounted for between 90, to 100 percent of every person on the platforms. Clearly, this isn’t immigration, but re-colonisation, come the cultural transmogrification of Sydney. In closing, I will reiterate that you google up ‘Camp of the Saints’, and, indeed, its author, Jean Raspail, with him predicting OVER 5 decades ago, all of the extreme treachery that our politicians, acting at the direct behest of powerful industrialists, have imposed upon us.
Unbelievable that so many city centres look like this in the UK. Everything shut down and boarded up. If I didn't watch your videos, I wouldn't even know. Always great stuff you are showing us
Tbh I did almost 45+ cities/town in England in my way to visit all the clubs from the Premier League to the League One and Plymouth was more than decent with some lovely sights. Middlesbrough or Stoke on the other end...
Stokes tragic I've lived in over 300 towns since 1998 and the decline between then and now is absolutely insane there's two ends of the spectrum. Boarded up or mini Dubai with high rises so far you can't breathe
I live in Plymouth.....if the city centre isn't that bad, how bad are Weston and Luton!!????? The whole uk is rotten and decaying.... I'm 40 and its the worst ive seen it
it's a beautiful coastal city with a little decay in some parts of it. Usually it takes a long time to redevelop the decayed parts. I don't know how safe it is there but it seems to be safe enough. Yes the weather looks horrible but it's winter and it's England. In overall, the city looks okay!
My family have long ties to Plymouth and i was born there....left many years ago but thanks for highlighting it.👍..even though there are sad decaying sides to Plymouth.
I am from Birmingham, but I have thankfully seen other parts of the world, I just think its sad the state a lot of our country is in! what is going on with it? where is the vision? to make society and the appearance of areas better for everyone from all walks of life not just the rich.. There should be more decent affordable housing for everyone. why is litter, boarded up buildings, graffiti everywhere seen as the norm.. something needs to be done, It's bad enough that we have to spend a lot of time surrounded by rain and grey overcast skys all of the time, that does not help to make us feel better about our situation, just get's depressing. Our country and those in it should want the best for it.
Exactly, its like the people have been brainwashed into accepting it, country is a mess, taxes keep going up and what do you get, a dirtier uglier place to live, no excuse at all.
Watched bald and Simon for years and subscribed to you now mate, I bumped into Simon in a coffee shop a few weeks back, genuine sound lad! Looking forward to see all your ventures for this year! Nice to see some positivity restored in the current climate!
Great video, mate. I actually stayed at a hostel opposite that theatre a few years ago when I was gigging in Plymouth with a band I used to play in. I remember being surprised that it was derelict, and how the rest of the area was really run down. I had breakfast the next morning in that exact Wetherspoons, eating the exact same thing, funnily enough!
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for another awesome video today. I Love watching and learning new things. It’s also nice to see Kat (Cat?) with you again 😊. Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
I went to that place, believe it was called Dance Academy, went to Legends of the Dark Black in March 2000, DnB & Hip Hop, was a great night. I travelled all they way from London, and stayed with some friends who went uni there.
I am from the North East of England(Sunderland) and I lived in Plymouth for 2 years for work and I never felt more safe than I have anywhere in the UK tbh, There is some run down areas like with all cities in the UK, but I felt I could walk anyway and feel safe. Maybe that says more about the North East than Plymouth. Popping down to The Hoe and Barbican in the evenings and weekends was great.
The planners didn't destroy the Hoe or the Barbican... the horrible rest is planners' work. Unfortunately now the council, which cut down all those mature trees in Armada Way are now cutting down the trees on the Hoe to make it 'more welcoming' they say.
Made me laugh Ben, when you decide to do a long video in the summer be great to do it with you being from the muff myself , so many great places you could show , Plymouth has declined but so has everywhere in England, proud to be a janner and glad your flying the flag for Plymouth in TH-cam , think what would be great would be a hike on Dartmoor with Mr Bald, and a wild camp , would make an epic video , be glad to arrange it with you in the summer months , ATB Adam
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975. In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth. And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England. Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble. Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events. But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute. But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in. Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year. Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
This is where I'm from, I haven't lived there full-time since 2012, and I still miss the place. Amazing nightlife, cheap drinks and food, also you forgot to show them goodbodies or jakes if they are still running.
I was in Plymouth about 6 years ago and enjoyed it. One thing I remember was the ability to walk around and not worry too much about crime-something unheard of in cities in the states. My wife is originally from there . I remember going on a pub crawl down on the barbican and really enjoyed it. I ended up at the kings head and my wife said the locals kept giving me free beer and played “born in the USA” . Overall enjoyed my time, will be coming back this summer and am interested to see how much it has changed. Thanks for posting this! I really enjoy your channel .
I'm from plymouth, lived here since i was 6 after i moved from Germany. I love it here and i always see good things about our hospital, Derriford Hospital, and all i can say is it's shit. Recently I've had an anything-but-good experience after my father had a stroke that was left to a 'headache due to stress' he nearly died. Derriford is being sued by my family for the negligence. Be careful in derriford. Do not let yourself be ignored and left alone by the hospital.
Which the Council is not willing to undertake _ they prefer spending 37 million £ on cutting down 150 mature trees and replacing them with a plastic children's playground and surveillance cameras and lighting.....and much concrete and asphalt
22:00 Kat was probably referring to the Abbey Road cover, which was taken at a crossroads in St. John's Wood, London. Nice video, cool to see where you're from even if it's a bit derelict.
I lived in Plymouth for three years as a student and only have positive things to say about both the city and the people. It's definitely experienced better days but what always struck me was the attitude of the locals who although feeling abandoned by Westminster, just keep smiling and keep pushing forward. And I always love visiting
The blame is on the mayor and the poor leadership. They need to be voted out!
As a young sailor in the USN I had a visit to Plymouth onboard the USS Essex, the year was 1957, I remember it as a nice town great people.
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1957, how old was you then.... 20 something ?
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Awesome man would love to hear more of your stories
Why don't you front Tuder Evens ??
ASK HIM WHATS HAPPENED ?? Fucking useless TWAT...
The UK is a country in severe decay and we need more videos like these.
have u been living under a rock@@joycecottingham9432
All part of a plan.
@@joycecottingham9432 Managed Decline Never vote Tory
@@veritas2145exactly
not where i live, its bloody lovely round here
Brazilian here !
My family and I used to live in Bournemouth then in the pandemic we moved to Plymouth (yesss I know😅) we stayed only 2 years,also during this time my baby was born (at Derriford hospital,was a wonderful experience,no concerns about it),then we came back to Brazil .Plymouth its very different from Bournemouth but we moved because the prices to rent a flat 3 bedrooms in Bournemouth at that point was incredibly expensive and in Plymouth wasn't to bad..But I can see now that things are changing quickly in UK economy..in whole world but see rich countries like US and England in this crises its scary.
PS:You know guys that we have one of the best coffee in the world here but I just want to say that I still drinking British tea(with milk of course !at 5 o'clock 😂).Love to you all ,England its my 2o country from my ❤
Best wishes from Brazil
I lived in bournouth and had to move because the price was over the roof , I missed it tho won’t lie , Birmingham is much cheap but I hate it here already and barely spent 2yrs here
Boa sorte..
I was in Plymouth back in 1983 or so, courtesy of the US Navy. Union St. was where all the clubs were. It was hopping. A shipmate of mine entered a vodka drinking competition and picked up the bottle and drank it like water. He then passed out and was in a coma for day, returning to the ship after about two weeks. Nice shops too. Got some of the coolest clothes I ever had from Plymouth. And my introduction to the "Rag Mag".
Great comments here, love to hear this. I was 4 in 1983, have lived in Plymouth my entire life.
Plymouth has become a shithole and no one events know what a janner is now
Union Street used used to be nicknamed the longest rowing boat in the world, 100 oars, (whores), on either side😅😂
I was working there at the same time
Cat is capable of making any location shine, with her quirky Portuguese charm. So keep taking her along mate and you will make the world look a little better 🙂
I lived there in the mid90's and it was great. Went back to visit 5 yrs ago and couldn't believe how bad it as become. Very sad
I was based in Plymouth during the early to mid 80s and Union Street was packed every night. The Grand Theatre pub you showed was a great pub, it was our starting pub for our ships company. I nearly cried when i walked down Union Street a couple of years ago. The decline of the Royal Navy in Plymouth has killed it. There used to be dozens of ships based there but now its a fraction of that. Being from Birmingham, I had the best years of my life in Plymouth. Plymouth will always have place in my heart.
Totally agree, I loved Union Street back in the early 90's when I was in the mob.
I was born in Plymouth, i am a Janner through and through however, looking at the state of Plymouth now it is really upsetting to be fair. I cannot believe how bad Union street has got along with a lot of Plymouth city centre. I am not sure what my Mum, Granddad or Nan would think of it but i am sure they are cringing at the site of Plymouth. Plymouth city council should be ashamed of themselves for allowing our once lovely city to fall in to such disrepair. I now live in Alberta Canada so wanted to watch your video to see how Plymouth was fairing but got a real shock. Thank you for sharing this video, all the best.
Grew up in Plymouth but I live in the US now. I’ll always have great memories of “Guzz”. I was lucky enough to attend Dance Academy in its last 2 years before the raid. An incredible set up with great DJ’s and amazing people. Ali baba’s and spicy spuds after partying all night .. the nostalgia. Ben your videos are great!
What on earth has happened to England, It may not have been perfect but I remember the 70s and life was much better 😔
Lets think, they all voted "Tory." There you go.
Grey, gloomy with cold and boarded up buildings. Totally neglected. I guess Pakistan and England have one thing in common, crook politicians.
1. Overinflated centralised fiat currency 2. Massive government and cost of running it 3. Unaccountable government debt 4. No way for people to meaningfully escape it
@@LeeAnderssonMPTory, labour, they're all the same WEF puppets.
@@LeeAnderssonMPLabour have never ever done any better infact worse . I’m no fan of the Tory party but for Christ sake there not to blame on everything are they
I live in Plymouth for 5 years and it's got so much potential. It's starting to get better. By the sea, Cornwall next door and the Moors are fantastic places to explore. The indoor market place recently is starting to have an eclectic mix of street food stalls from around the world which was pleasing to see ☺️
I moved here 4 years ago myself and I agree. Being objective, it is getting better even since I moved here there are a few new things, but it does have a long way to go in a lot of areas.
In reference to your glee about having "food stalls from all around the world" is tragic to read.
It's akin to looking back to when the Dutch acquired Manhattan (which isn't really what happened) for beades, clothing and alcoholic drinks.
The point of it all is that having an array of cuisines to choose from is the peak of affairs for you in exchange for your country and, culture then you have a real problem.
I like how Ben keeps it real and goes to Wetherspoons. We all know how bad it is, but it doesn’t matter. Its tradition. Just like drinking beer at 7AM in Gatwick airport.
You know it
It's also part of the reason many independent pubs, with actual tradition, have closed down. They can't afford to compete
@@BackpackerBen does Cat have an onlyf4ns account?
My local ‘Spoons was closed down last year!!!
In Hove, Sussex. No more cheap pint & steak for £10-12. Or £6 breakfast.
@ShaunLevett. Well, if people continue going to Wetherspoons to eat that disgusting and embarrassing food, they must be masochists. I'd rather eat a million times at home than throw my money into such low level food. 'Cheap' can be bad taste and bad for your health. 🤢🤢😁
I find these some of your best videos. Really enjoy seeing the towns and cities in the UK up close and personal that don't just show fluff.
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These videos are the opposite however, they aren’t representative since they attempt at painting these cities as some sort of hellhole by showing only the most deprived of areas.
@@KtT-sn8cyyes but we know about the nice parts already.
In 1977 I was working away in Plymouth and we used to go to Union Street, it was thriving loads of pubs clubs military and MPs. Hooters was a very popular bar. Shame to see the decline. Thanks Ben.
I worked in Plymouth a few years ago. We rebuild a wall that goes around the dock yards, about 20m down by the ferry. It's a famous old wall that goes all around the dockyards.
Anyway, just to say, the people of Plymouth were lovely to us.
Union St is a shame, full of beautiful old buildings not being looked after, neither are some of the locals, boarded up buildings but people sleeping on the streets.
I did get to see Drakes Island from the Hoe, hadn't seen it since I was 14 on a school trip there for a week. Happy memories.
I lived in Plymouth in 1970s and 1980s. Union Street in the late 1980s was wild.
The city was nice and fairly well organised. Wages weren't great and jobs hard to find. But still, it was not as grotty as in your video.
Decay in the UK has a lot to do with the debt based money system in my opinion.
Nothing is sustainable because the debt based economy relies on growth. If it's not growing the wages stagnate to produce the needed inflation. Nothing is built to last, it's all about quick turnover. Government needs taxes and inflation to pay interest on ever growing debt. They think immigration will keep growth going but I think it's just life support for a dying system.
The UK has been going into decay for many years and it's very sad. In my memory a England is a great nation, but in reality it's turned into a dump.
Only a small minority of super wealthy people are profiting while normal people are watching their country decaying in real time. 🖤
@@oliverselle2861 A very observant comment.
If each year the Uber wealthy take a bigger share of the pie, there isn't much left for normal people and thus an economy
I was shocked to learn that Rishi Sunak the prime minister has a personal fortune of 700 million.
So being that wealthy he can easily expect 25 to 30 million a year in earnings from his fortune, obviously using all the tax loopholes possible. Working class people pay their tax deducted directly before payout.
Small buisnesses are being crushed by taxes and inflation, along with higher energy prices.
Debt based money is scam unless your able to leverage debt to accumulate assets.
Strange you would spend so much time dwelling on the negative for your home town. Union Street is one street. Hope you show more of the positive in your next video.
@@genaburghoff For example???
Ben, you left out some of the history of Plymouth Hoe. As mentioned it is a beautiful harbour but also strategic for the British Navy. More important and famous than the Beatles Sir Francis Drake was playing a game of bowls when the Spanish Armada was spotted. He quipped that he had time to finish his game before being off to pursue them and save England. Additionally, while visiting there we toured the harbour, visited the Pilgrim Steps, viewed docked British Destroyers and Plymouth Gin Distillery.
Don’t sell your town short. I enjoyed our short stay and everywhere there is bad if you look for it. We enjoy your videos, commentary and love England.
No I haven’t, will have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion @jettyharrison4377 !!!
G day Ben, love your channel, hey, have you got Exeter in your sights for another video? My wife is from there and she has not been back since 2006. She is asking if you do, it would be nice.
Keep up the great work mate.
David
summer will make a way better info vid
Francis Drake even came from near Plymouth, which the Beatles didn't.
The Beatles = zero connection to Plymouth... except one gig ( my sister went to it) in a cinema which the Council has left to rot.
@@BackpackerBen add all the history of the barbican, Mayflower steps especially
I did a training course in Plymouth. Great city. I loved it. I want to go back.
WOW! I'm an Ex-Matelot and Union Street was like my spiritual home..... WOW, the state of it... I used to LOVE being there... looking at it now, I'll not be going back.
Im from Bristol and ive only ever been to Home park, the home of Plymouth Argyle. Love your content. Been watching loads of your videos of late. So funny at times
Awesome! Thank you!
Geddon Janner
Hey Ben, glad that you finally released a video about Plymouth. I've been waiting for it for such a long time.
At Uni, I used to walk down to Union Street from Mutley Plain (all the way downhill) to meet up with my mates in the dodgy Stonehouse area. After a couple of rounds in Union Rooms, we would have proceeded to Grosvenor, finishing the night being absolutely broken and pissed.
I'aint no luck betting there.
The city centre is kinda grim tbh (it reminds me a bit of Coventry at times, they both go hand in hand due to the Blitz), full of chavs and beggars in every corner, asking for pennies from every passerby. I've found it odd not to see you bumping into any of them. However, they opened a museum last year, which is well-preserved and managed, so it would have been worth mentioning it.
The Plymouth Hoe is nice, but merely over the summertime, along with a barbecue on Sunday morning. Apart from that, it's definitely dull.
Also, a stroll along Mutley Plain would have been interesting, a bit rough at the edge, but a cool place for getting a pint.
Take care mate.
I really like Plymouth. We came down for the Sunderland game. I now have a soft spot for PA, as I met some brilliant supporters, some of who came from Camborne.
Thought the shopping centre was good, much better than what we have in Hertfordshire.
I was born in Plymouth. Dragged up in medway kent. No matter how bad a picture you've shown. I'm still drawn and yearn to go back and live there. It's in my heart always.
Same 🤝
I lived in Plymouth in the 80's - Ziggy's was a cool club off Union Street with club nights run by Jeff Barrett who has Heavenly Records now - we had great early gigs there with Jesus and Mary Chain etc. Also Woods / Monroes too. The Minerva was the only pub that was safe for punk types to go to without getting punched though!
Thanks for continuing the UK tour. I really appreciate it! I hope you will do some more episodes.
Good to see the dream team back together 😊
Sad to see city's condition. it's just not only Plymouth, you drive 5 minutes outside london it is more or less the same.
Oz was the club on union street i went to in the 90's.
Worked down there the summer of 96, great days, great club, great people.
Ngl Plymouth is a really nice place, it feels safe and people have pride in where they live which by UK standards is pretty fucking good
Exactly this. As a Plymouth native, I totally appreciate my city as much as I can get disillusioned by it. It's in balance. Inept councils are to blame. I totally understand that videos such as this are there to highlight degradation and I get that. But it's still such a shame that, as locals, we know of those little nuggets of gold about our city that aren't portrayed. Such as - much lower crime rates than other cities, a thriving and well-respected university that brings culture/diversity, a great modern museum, being an ocean city, The Hoe (yes, the The Hoe was mentioned - but that was the only positive) and lovely Barbican/Plymouth Gin Distillery/The National Aquarium, The Lido, many lovely parks, woods and green spaces across the city. Looking at the footage of the derelict old ABC cinema was very sad, but it made it look like we didn't have any other cinemas! It should've mentioned that we have a city centre cinema, an out of city one and an Arts Cinema in the city centre. I also thought it a bit silly that it looked like the only cooked breakfast available was at Wetherspoons! What about eating at the fabulous Plymouth family-owned Early Bird on Mayflower St in the town centre? It also could've been mentioned how our local businessman Chris Dawson bailed out our town centre Wilkinsons - that would've been something positive to mention. Plymouth was bombed during WWII and that's why some of our architecture is an eyesore. We are certainly, on the whole, very lucky to live where we do, compared to others places up and down the country.
It was a really nice place. It’s a dump now
It looks like a really beautiful, peaceful place! I do hope they can rebuild Union Street and the city centre slowly!
Looks like a shit hole to me.
@@monicanath4859 It used to be. I’ve grown up here, they’ve run it down and the people here are not as nice and respectful as they once were, standards have declined here big time.
It actually breaks my heart watching this. I was in the navy and was based in Plymouth from 2010-2014. It was clear that Union Street and the city centre was a shadow of itself even back then. But, I had some great times there. Now, watching this, it’s not even a shadow of what it was 🥺.
On the contrary, it’s improved vastly since 2014. This video skips over the dozens of brilliant independent businesses along the street, doesn’t mention Plymouth’s biggest annual street party and forgets that The Millennium and C103 are now in community ownership and being redeveloped. Zero engagement with any of the fab organisations and Ben only spoke with three blokes - not a true reflection at all! Lots more to be done, but come see for yourself, we’re here!
please stop. everyone is noticing how bad Plymouth has gotten. full of foreigners walking around staring at woman trying to peacock at men, walking around shouting on facetime and rapping in public@@nadineproost1766
@@nadineproost1766 Why destroy more than 100 mature trees in Armada Way? Why leave Union Street to rot?
Why so much concrete? Why an empty boarded up high rise in town?
@@nadineproost1766 FACTS. This video ONLY shows the negative sides, but the positives hugely outweigh them. Poor taste to make a disingenuous video about your hometown.
@@jagoisvara8178 Can you provide examples of modern positives.....?
Been away from home a long time so nice to see this. A good honest video. I know it can be a dump but its my home and I love it.
I get ya 🤝
I was a student there from 1987-1991. Fantastic night scene with a different club having "student night" every day of the week and very affordable. Locals were friendly but we avoided Union St on the weekends. I went back in 2018 for a night and was amazed at how much it had declined. Great memories.
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I went to university there back 2001-2005 and visit most years since. The new shopping centre is so much better than the old precinct, but it has sucked the life out of the town and casued many shops to close. The big department stores are all gone. The Royal William Yard and Barbican are completely separate areas and full of nice restaurants and independent shops. Union Street has completely died. C103, Millennium and the Dance Academy were huge clubs and there would have been thousands of people out on a weekend. I guess you are too young to remember them Ben?
I forgot to add that the new £47 million Box museum is open and a great addition to the city. They are currently renovating the city centre streets.
The previous Museum and Art Gallery and Public Library were great. Why spend 47 million£££ on the ugly Box and move the Library, with its local history collections to a disused concrete shop in Armada Way where trees aren't any more and no birds sing?
Look at that beautiful Portuguese smile, she lights up the place doesn't she? What a ray of sunshine she is. I was getting depressed bro! She even had a nice Latte' waiting for you. Behind you at that cafe, I could see the sun rising, the clouds parting. Like the old saying goes, Home is where the heart is. You probably still have some love for it, if you have family there and good memories. Those clean cut youngsters you spoke to briefly, that's the hope of the future, that's what they are Ben. Even those two Afghan kids were fairly clean cut. I didn't see any hooligans that I could judge to be involved or engaged in hooliganisms. That's a good thing for Plymouth and the UK.
❤❤Awesome Kat is back 😻I just love her and I hope y'all had a wonderful Valentine's Day 💕Great video 🥰sad about all the abandoned building's 😿stay safe 💖love from Oklahoma
I worked on the door at the really old rave club on Union Street in 1993 was like a theatre inside, good times
Hi Ben. Glad to see "Birdman" dancing outside Poundland at 11:20 He has been around the streets enjoying himself since I was a teenager in the mid 90s. Glad to see you both look well. Much love from another Plymouthian.
Look forward to your next plymouth video. Here's some places I recommend: East hoe beach. The Nowhere Inn. Food 4 U kebab. Drakes circus obviously. Barbican, Union rooms at night, when it's full of drunk teens and 20 somethings. The Uni, the Market, and as for food, you can't go wrong, so many great places at night. Oh and, the freemasons at north hill leave their doors open if your into urbex, I found that building fascinating. And maybe go north into the (sometimes wealthy, sometimes poorer) Suburbs where people are very different to the inner city folk. Show off the beaches, Dartmoor, and everything in between, the shitest places, but also the nicest. Then you'll really have Plymouth in a nutshell.
The beatles photo of them crossing the road was outside the abbey road studio in London, not Liverpool, thats where they're from.
I'm from Plymouth too. Good to see a successful youtuber from here. You've done really well.
Awesome! Thank you!
Jesus, Plymouth has changed so much since i was last there 10 years ago - sad to see no money being put in to restore buildings or modernise anything.
the money men want it to fall down so they can build more student accommodation and gated communities to make maximum profit
@@qedamawiessene5827Where are these gated communities being built in Plymouth?
There is lots of development, and the Barbican and the Royal William Yard are humming. Ben is going for the grungy side....
@@tobyrouse The barbican escaped 're-development' by Abercrombie and his minions.
Royal William Yard is very expensive flats and commercial development by Urban Splash Property development.
Urban Slash was involved in constructing its developments with flammable cladding as used in Grenfell Tower.
No connection to the citizens of Plymouth.
@@tobyrouse gated communities for the rich Union street left to rot. Half the city centre trees cut down the reveal the rotting concrete buildings with empty abandoned shops.
Mad isn't it. People don't care about the town/city centres anymore. Shopping online is easier, cheaper and means you don't have to go into the nasty, hostile high streets. No investment from government or councils to attract people into towns/cities because it's not in their interests. The only places that seem to be doing well are bookies (so we gamble our money away) off-licences (so we drink our lives away), fast food places (so we can eat ourselves into obesity) and vape shops. Oh yeah and barbers which are basically fronts for money-laundering.
Anyway, I'm leaving next month, see ya when I see ya blighty. Great video Ben!
Where are you heading to?
@@Carts147 gonna be travelling full-time as a digital nomad mostly in Latin America to start with. Will be documenting it all on my channel
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
I randomly saw your leaving video. Good luck mate.
@@NTL578 thanks mate, appreciate it 🙏
Sad to see the once beautiful old buildings left to rot. The Ho? was nice. Great seeing Kat.
Terrific content once again. Thanks Ben
Its called the Hoe, genuinely Plymouth Hoe
thanks for that
Wow youtube deleted my comment correcting him on the spelling of the place...
I used to live near Plymouth Massachusetts and still visit when I can. Of course its full of history and lovely scenery.
As someone from Plymouth UK, I’ve always wanted to see Plymouth, Massachusetts.
@@Harryjw67 it's touristy, but still has a fishing industry with a beautiful harbor. They have preserved most of the buildings and homes built by Captains and other well off original residents. I hope you make it some day.
@@Harryjw67 I'm in Toronto Canada and even my family would take vacations in Plymouth or near by Cape Cod. Beautiful area.
@@signoresantinoburnett1169 nice one, I visited Toronto last summer to meet some friends I have out there. Very cool city. (Planning to fly out to Nova Scotia this autumn too) 🇨🇦👌
My mum, 2 sisters and I arrived in Plymouth, 1978, to get car ferry to Santander. We waited for hours, because of dock workers strike, only to find out Spain had just issued Visa requirements for Australians and South Africans. We had to go to Southhampton to get Visa. Good thing was there were 4 or 5 other families that had the same problem, so the adults and kids partied together for a couple of days until the next ferry
That explains why you kept on traveling Ben. Nice sharing your hometown. More UK vid please.
You got it! If it doesn’t drive me mad 😆
I'm a Yank would love to see him do some vids of small towns out and about the English countryside
@@mikem9892you would be surprised as not all English country towns are nice, some are beautiful though. I lived in Ripley in Derbyshire, countryside all around but the area was a dump, it's boring & lots of drink & alcohol problems. It was an old mining town & after the mining industry closed, a lot of people lost their jobs & those towns have become deprived so I would like to see Ben film some of those old run down mining towns of England.
@@BackpackerBen you disrespected your home town by only showing the bad side of it. All large cities have bad things. In Plymouth the good things FAR outweigh the bad. C'mon.
The last part where you was high up seeing where the Beatles were is nice part of Plymouth,I used to visit my dad's uncle Fred when I was around 9 or 10 years of age ,it used to be a stopover before we holiday in Cornwall,so I do remember Plymouth vaguely ,nice review mate and Katarina she's lovely girl 👍🏼🙏🏼🙂
England is looking more like a third world country every year. I'm from Oldham. It used to be a thriving town centre with literally dozens of pubs, a huge open air market. Now there are 2 pubs. I live abroad now. I think I got out just in time.
You've not been to the third world then!
Brexit will make it much worse for you guys.
Dont worry its happening here in the states too
@@jonjohnson2844
I don't need to, the third world is coming to us.
Where did you go mate?
Plymouth and Torquay are both really similar nowdays both was prosperous now both completely eyesore.
I have lived in both places ..... s a d.
And people cross the channel in rubber rafts …And as an Aussie this is where Captain Cook set off from..such a shame ..
People cross the channel because of TERRORISTS, those TERRORISTS being BRITISH ARMED FORCES.
Australia is not much better.
Imagine the dumps they come from to think that's better, must be some freebies.
It's also where ships departed for Massachusetts in 1620. One of my ancestors sailed from Plymouth about ten years later, although he was from Norfolk.
Now you know why Captain Cook left here.
Great video Ben' I have fond memories of Plymouth back in the day. Shopping in Dingles and one night we ended up on Union Street, at Diamond Lil's bar. things change and all that's gone. However, there is always the Barbican and Plymouth Hoe> I once visited the gallery of the Plymouth legend artist Robert Lenkiewicz, who allegedly killed his wife. The surrounding scenery of Plymouth is amazing and so are the locals.
Kat's smiles are something, aren't they? Oh hey Ben nice UK content. Keep me coming. Thanks.
Thanks! Will do!
Went there about 34 years ago for a surf comp weekend. Partied all weekend. Great memories!
Ive been in Plymouth for 51 years, ive seen the change, like the chap said with all the pubs, so many of them started going down there at 17 years of age, absolutely fantastic night's out, they had so much here, growing up the Saturday morning pictures, ice rinks, roller skating, open air markets, so much to do and now its completely finished, i have so many great memories but at the same time sad feelings driving past most nights of the week. its funny as whilst working students would ask me what it was like years ago and it would all come flooding back, if i ever leave Plymouth it will always be in my heart
OMG Ben I must say my husband and I had an amazing wk end about 5 yrs ago we left our home in South Wales and meet amazing people who showed us where to go to have a lovely wk end 👏👏
The Barbican area is still a lovely historic harbour area full of nice restaurants and arty shops. Taking a boat trip is also worth doing. Don’t forget the Mayflower pilgrim fathers story and the links with USA. Still worth it for a city break or short holiday touring Devon and the Southwest.
Sad to see my home city turn into a right Sh"thole still some of the best and kindest people you will always find in Plymouth of all ages who will always help you regardless of the decay and rot that will never change as you know Ben.
Union Street was visited by many right around the country they were good times now a distant memory but a great one.
I live a few miles away from Plymouth and I go there sometimes, it's an interesting place with some nice scenery best seen on a fine summer day, there are also lots to see from history. This video shows some of these buildings from past times and although they are all decaying and run down, I find them very interesting.
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
I’m on board with a lot of the historic factors of decline you’ve outlined, but I don’t think it’s quite right about immigrants being completely subsidised to be there.
Let me tell you as a white, first-world Australian who wanted to immigrate to the UK (if only I could get a visa to be allowed to work there) it’s really hard to do this. You can’t get on benefits there and it’s illegal to work without a visa so you have to be able to survive doing dodgy cash work for 4+ years (I think it was) until you can apply for permanent residency.
If I wanted to study in the UK I’d have to pay huge international student fees, to do a masters; for all my own living expenses, without being able to earn.
So I don’t know how the immigrants you’re talking about are being supported by your governments there - unless maybe they’re refugees??? I don’t know.
@@tegannorthwood1891 Tegan, I am also an Australian, and have travelled through England/Scotland, and the US/Canada, too, on many occasions between 1984-2013 and I can't believe how all of these places have sunk into sociological cesspits. All of which are directly linked to these societies actually facilitating influxes of people with no worthwhile skills, and let alone decent standards of education to benefit these societies.
This brings me to answering your perceptions.
Just prior to Christmas I rang the office of the Member for Ipswich (in England) Tom Hunt, and his staff member put him on to chat with me. And one of the things I asked him about was:
How do the hundreds of thousands of people in Britain illegally, survive (which are basically some of the things that you've just espouse)? Tom Hunt's reply to that was with saying:
"How most of these limbo immigrants survive, is because they work illegally for wages that are no more than 60 percent of what's lawfull. Unfortunately, it's nigh on being an impossibility to be able to just track down the scum employers expoliting these vulnerable people, let alone being able to prosecute them".
However, Tom also told me that illegal immigrants are ceded benefits by the government, too. And a few councils in London's broughs, at least 6 of the 50, fast-track them into properties they control.
But, whatever it is or, it isn't, the grave tragedy for all the societies that have allowed people from Third World cradles to swarm in over the past 20 years have sealed their fates for sociological oblivion, because the vast, majority will never get much past the first or second rung of the socio-economic ladder.
Tegan, to garner what I'm suggesting with Britain being destroyed from mass-immigration of non-Europeans can be found in the SkyNews Australia story from april 3, titled:
'UK becoming 'literally unrecognisable' from migrant invasion.'
Trgaically, the people in Britain that open-borders are going to most rabidly afflict are those under 40 years of age who have been pickled-up in the previous 30 years and, indeed, nutralised into believing that, only racists and xenophobes want to control immigration.
Destroying mature trees and the birds that nest in them , as Plymouth has just done is nothing to do with economic decline ....
I've lived in a lot of places all over the world, and moved to Plymouth 5 years ago. It's my favourite place I've ever lived and I will stay here. I know you're only showing the 'rough' parts here, but there are so many beautiful parts you haven't (plus it's close to some of the most amazing scenery and countryside this country has to offer, with the moors and beaches a very short drive away). The friendliest people I've ever met, some amazing foodie places - go to Jackas bakery on the barbican if you haven't! I've never felt happier or more settled in a place and I felt at home straight away, and that's saying something. I've never felt unsafe or worried about crime, even when I've walked down Union Street I met so many friendly lovely people.
The lack of nightlife and theaters and cinemas closing down is cos of everyone wanting to stay home glued to their smartphones and Netflix.
People growing up ,lack of young people.
@@peterbushby9009 THere's a big University with thousands of students ( young people!)
Every Weatherspoons has a completely unique carpet!
Plymouth was my home in the mid seventies. I went to the Art college there and had two great years. My dad was in the RAF and based at Mountbatten. Later he was President of the Athenaeum which you had in the background. The city was vibrant and friendly. Union st had a reputation but it was busy.
One of my first GFs was a student at the art college. 🙂 We had good times! ( a long time ago),
Thanks for sharing where you're from Ben. It's sad when cities degrade over the years. Good to see Cat again. Cheers mate!
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
sad! thanks mate for watching
it's rough but not as bad as luton or some of these places on your journey. shame some of the royal money isn't spent on fixing iconic buildings and streets, it would lift up communities across the uk.
In the heart of the UK, where the sea meets the land,
Lies the city of Plymouth, with stories to expand.
A place of mixed reputation, where history unfolds,
But struggles and troubles, its narrative holds.
Backpacker Ben, with camera in hand,
Embarks on a journey, to understand.
From Union Street's grit, to Plymouth Hoe's grace,
He captures the essence, of this complex place.
The characters of Plymouth, with tales to tell,
Their lives intertwined, with the city's swell.
From highs to lows, they share their strife,
In a city where challenges define life.
Union Street, notorious and bold,
A microcosm of the stories untold.
Plymouth Hoe, iconic and grand,
A contrast to the struggles, on every strand.
Welcome to Plymouth, where history lies,
And struggles and troubles, meet tearful eyes.
Yet amidst the chaos, resilience blooms,
In the city of struggles, where hope consumes.
So let us explore, with open hearts and minds,
The city of Plymouth, where resilience finds.
For in the stories of struggles and troubles, we see,
The strength of a city, resilient and free.
I like Stoke, Tunstall is lovely.
I have a lot of good memories in Plymouth, and cap N jaspers was always a go too place for a munch 👌
Ahh yeah I remember there was one meal called a jasperizer. Massive burger or something like that. Basically everything in a burger bun
Good Times down quayside.
Laughing my head of at the several scenes at the start where Cat has to pretend she's not there 😂
I worked in a Heating and Air Conditioning office on Union Street when I was 17, an apprenticeship right out of school in 1975, my first task at 8AM was to wash out the entrance with hot water due to people pissing and throwing up in the doorway almost every night.....what a treat 😞Was glad when I was at Bath Technical College for the training part of the job. Looks even worse down there today. Sad that people cannot even clean up a mess!
For some context instead of constant negativity - Some of us are still fortunate to live in some really nice areas of the UK
I went to the art college in the mid nineties, union street was amazing, went back last year for a catch-up with some college friends and it’s a bit sad to see what it’s like now, the Barbican is still nice though
The Council has been able to destroy the barbican yet!!
I suppose they've tried.
Ben, at the beginning of the viseo when you said, ".....I've never shown you guys my home town of Plymouth.....," I thought to myself, this would be a fine time for Catarina to appear. Well, lo and behold.....!!
SPLENDID job, mate!
And Catarina had the latte and Portuguese version of crumpets waiting for you, too!!
Good show Catarina!!
CHEERS to both pf you!! From far West Texas.
Doesn't look too shabby and quite nice actually. Cleaner than some downtowns I've been in the US (Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Los Angeles.) Think I might stop by and check out Plymouth when I visit the UK this Spring. Cheers!
Trust me, there are far nicer places to stop, i mean look at the buildings, doesn't get much uglier. Come and you'll be disappointed, i'm only an hour up the road and Plymouth has always been a dump.
You need to compare it with continental European cities. The problem with Plymouth UK is precisely that the old city having been destroyed during the war it was 're-built' hurriedly on an American grid and motor vehicle centric plan... with cars first - people pushed out of the centre to depressing suburbs and the centre left with priority to cars on very wide roads and commercial buildings with very little for people ( pedestrians ... public transport) Horrible. That American town plan is catastrophic..... your shopping malls are closing ....
i live in plymouth and i can definitely say its been dying over the years but you need to make an extended video about the history that plymouth hoe and the barbican and drakes island have. its actaully amazing to think how old this city is.
Plymouth is like the norm for the UK, poverty and despair 🙄
Yes and no. There are beautiful, well maintained parts of England. But like the US, large swaths of the cities have fallen into blight.
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
@@markferguson7563I did not know about the Lima declaration, thank you. As to the illegal immigrants, its mind blowing how they get the 5 star treatment whilst the indigenous population gets kicked into the corner. I fear nothing will change anytime soon though
@@gregmurphy2691 Greg, thanks for replying.
First, I will hark back to the Lima Declaration: way in the mid-1960s, both England’s, Enoch Powell, and George Lincoln Rockwell, in the US were predicting that, the big movers and shakers in the manufacturing spheres of Britain the US, and Europe were inaugurating plans that eventually became the Lima Declaration.
Another intellectual to research is the Frenchman, Jean Raspail. He is the author that you MUST google up is the author of the novel, ‘Camp of the Saints’. In this work Raspail foretold us back in 1972 that, governments of Western nations would not only dismantle their borders, and allow millions of culturally unassimilable interlopers from the Third World to OVERRUN their dominions, but INCREDIBLY SO with how these governments would also pass laws (masquerading as HATE-SPEECH), to make it illegal for indigenous White peoples to complain about these re-colonisation agendas.
I live in Sydney/Australia - not to be confused with Sydney in Canada - and can state CATEGORICALLY that, my city and, indeed, with Melbourne that people of Anglo/European extractions, sine 2000, have gone from comprising being 85% of their populations, to now being the COLLECTIVE MINORITIES. So much so that, there are now 60 suburbs in Sydney, where peoples of non-Anglo/European (and, also, non-Christian) cradles account for between 65-85% of all the residents.
To bring this horrifying reality to bear came to pass quite recently, 3 weeks ago, in fact, where I travelled ion a train from Burwood, to Liverpool. This entails 15 stations, and at EVERY ONE of them, people of non-AE heritages accounted for between 90, to 100 percent of every person on the platforms. Clearly, this isn’t immigration, but re-colonisation, come the cultural transmogrification of Sydney.
In closing, I will reiterate that you google up ‘Camp of the Saints’, and, indeed, its author, Jean Raspail, with him predicting OVER 5 decades ago, all of the extreme treachery that our politicians, acting at the direct behest of powerful industrialists, have imposed upon us.
@@gregmurphy2691 Racism and xenophobia are inappropriate.
The guy with a sandwich chasing a pigeon away at 13 mins sumed it all up really. Great video. Thanks
I lived in England for a few years in the early 80's. The good part of Plymouth reminds of that time. Sue was True Blue! And Hello to Cat!
Unbelievable that so many city centres look like this in the UK. Everything shut down and boarded up. If I didn't watch your videos, I wouldn't even know. Always great stuff you are showing us
Crazy ain’t it mate
Tbh I did almost 45+ cities/town in England in my way to visit all the clubs from the Premier League to the League One and Plymouth was more than decent with some lovely sights. Middlesbrough or Stoke on the other end...
Stokes tragic I've lived in over 300 towns since 1998 and the decline between then and now is absolutely insane there's two ends of the spectrum. Boarded up or mini Dubai with high rises so far you can't breathe
Up your fucking standards lad, this is a complete shithole.
I was in the Navy 80's, 90's, Plymouth was great back then. Loads of great pups all over town. Union street was heaving. Looks miserable now.
Same as me. Union Street was my spiritual home..... state of it now...
2:22 - Cat in the background 😂😊
😂😂
I saw Her too
2:02 made me happy
Brass up 💪
I live in Plymouth.....if the city centre isn't that bad, how bad are Weston and Luton!!????? The whole uk is rotten and decaying.... I'm 40 and its the worst ive seen it
it's a beautiful coastal city with a little decay in some parts of it. Usually it takes a long time to redevelop the decayed parts. I don't know how safe it is there but it seems to be safe enough. Yes the weather looks horrible but it's winter and it's England. In overall, the city looks okay!
My family have long ties to Plymouth and i was born there....left many years ago but thanks for highlighting it.👍..even though there are sad decaying sides to Plymouth.
I am from Birmingham, but I have thankfully seen other parts of the world, I just think its sad the state a lot of our country is in! what is going on with it? where is the vision? to make society and the appearance of areas better for everyone from all walks of life not just the rich..
There should be more decent affordable housing for everyone.
why is litter, boarded up buildings, graffiti everywhere seen as the norm.. something needs to be done, It's bad enough that we have to spend a lot of time surrounded by rain and grey overcast skys all of the time, that does not help to make us feel better about our situation, just get's depressing.
Our country and those in it should want the best for it.
Exactly, its like the people have been brainwashed into accepting it, country is a mess, taxes keep going up and what do you get, a dirtier uglier place to live, no excuse at all.
Watched bald and Simon for years and subscribed to you now mate, I bumped into Simon in a coffee shop a few weeks back, genuine sound lad! Looking forward to see all your ventures for this year! Nice to see some positivity restored in the current climate!
thank you mate! appreciate that
Great video, mate. I actually stayed at a hostel opposite that theatre a few years ago when I was gigging in Plymouth with a band I used to play in. I remember being surprised that it was derelict, and how the rest of the area was really run down.
I had breakfast the next morning in that exact Wetherspoons, eating the exact same thing, funnily enough!
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
Can’t believe you stayed in that hostel 😂
@@BackpackerBen I've stayed in worse! 😅
🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for another awesome video today. I Love watching and learning new things. It’s also nice to see Kat (Cat?) with you again 😊. Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
I went to that place, believe it was called Dance Academy, went to Legends of the Dark Black in March 2000, DnB & Hip Hop, was a great night. I travelled all they way from London, and stayed with some friends who went uni there.
I am from the North East of England(Sunderland) and I lived in Plymouth for 2 years for work and I never felt more safe than I have anywhere in the UK tbh, There is some run down areas like with all cities in the UK, but I felt I could walk anyway and feel safe. Maybe that says more about the North East than Plymouth. Popping down to The Hoe and Barbican in the evenings and weekends was great.
The planners didn't destroy the Hoe or the Barbican... the horrible rest is planners' work.
Unfortunately now the council, which cut down all those mature trees in Armada Way are now cutting down the trees on the Hoe to make it 'more welcoming' they say.
Crazy how the US and UK have similar struggles (minus gun violence of course).
Don’t kid yourself, the UK has knife violence and acid attacks instead
Use to go to a few raves in Plymouth back in the 90's. Plymouth warehouse Dance Paradise.
Heard it was mental
Made me laugh Ben, when you decide to do a long video in the summer be great to do it with you being from the muff myself , so many great places you could show , Plymouth has declined but so has everywhere in England, proud to be a janner and glad your flying the flag for Plymouth in TH-cam , think what would be great would be a hike on Dartmoor with Mr Bald, and a wild camp , would make an epic video , be glad to arrange it with you in the summer months , ATB Adam
There are two other TH-cam channels I’ve watched a number of times, which also bemoan the economic and, MOREOVER, sociological demise of big towns and cities across England. All of the dire circumstances afflicting these places have come to pass through a confluence of causes. I’m nearly 70, which means I was in my early 20s when the Lima Declaration was inaugurated on May 1, 1975.
In essence, the purpose of the Lima Declaration entailed Western manufactures being able to dismantle factories, which produced anything from motor vehicles, fridges and washing machines and right through to furniture in their own hemispheres and transferring them to places in the Developing (formerly the Third) World. The innate motivation for transferring the means to produce manufactured commodities was purported to be the means to assist poorer societies to enhance their wealth.
And whilst that aspect certainly came to pass with countries in Asia, initially with South Korea, and Taiwan and by the mid-1980s with China, this date and event was also the death-knell for Western nations. The three worst affected Western nations from the Lima Declaration were France, the US, and worst of all with Britian: pertinently with England.
Within a decade of the Lima Declaration being signed, at least 60 major manufacturing hubs in the nominated trio of countries, were dismantled and transferred to a developing society in Asia. However, with respect to the US, it also lost manufacturing capacity to Mexico, in the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement]. began to crumble.
Quite simply, due to these major manufacturing capacities being closed down across Britain (once more, ostensibly in England), and transferred to a foreign base between the mid-1970s, and as far as the late-1980s, is the intrinsic reason why the country is now in the diabolical economic and sociological kerfuffle we’re bearing witness to, via the TH-camrs covering these events.
But how incredible it is that, in both Britain, and the United States, which have been economically ravaged by having their manufacturing bases disassembled from around 5 decades (thereby, making, perhaps, as many as 10 million made redundant: either directly, or indirectly), are now both, and, mindboggling so with the US, being inundated with millions of il-educated, and low-skilled interlopers from Third World countries. With regards to the US, it’s estimated that 700,000 people (of the near on 8 million that have arrived in the past three years) JUST FROM sub-Saharan Africa, with education levels that equate to between year 7 to 9 levels, have managed to permeate its dominions. And, INDEED, hardly ANY of THEM have any worthwhile skills needed to contribute.
But the common-denominator with both Britain, and the US, with germane respect to the interlopers who are invading their territories, is to have councils and charities bending over backwards to throw them some money (albeit, rather small amounts), and to house them: AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR TAXPAYERS: Yet, in the exact same interim, they can’t find accommodation for their own displaced citizens to live in.
Apropos to that, Back Packer Ben, interviews a refugee as to how and what he’s doing. To that we find he’s living in student accommodation, whilst studying electrical related skills. Alas, what wasn’t queried is with how, who and why is paying for all of these nuances. Needless to say, his accommodation and education costs are, one more, being paid by British taxpayers. Speaking of which, it’s estimated that the tax payers of Britain will have a billion pounds of THEIR money spent on, and directed to these interlopers to sustain them, JUST in the coming year.
Alas, it wasn’t just bad enough that, the equivalent of the WEF, back in 1975, ordained the agenda to dismantle wealth producing, and job generating capacities for Western nations, which culminates with the sociological dystopias in Western nations, but now we’re being swamped with millions of people from the Third World who will OVERWHELMINGLY NEVER, EVER be of a NET-BENEFIT to any society that they occupy.
Exactly, well done you Sir. People are afraid to say, & afraid of the truth @markferguson7563
Had some great away days to Plymouth following Sunderland! Our longest away day on the calendar and it's a great day out!
This is where I'm from, I haven't lived there full-time since 2012, and I still miss the place. Amazing nightlife, cheap drinks and food, also you forgot to show them goodbodies or jakes if they are still running.
Jakes was everything when I was a student there! Hope it's still going🤞
I was in Plymouth about 6 years ago and enjoyed it. One thing I remember was the ability to walk around and not worry too much about crime-something unheard of in cities in the states. My wife is originally from there . I remember going on a pub crawl down on the barbican and really enjoyed it. I ended up at the kings head and my wife said the locals kept giving me free beer and played “born in the USA” . Overall enjoyed my time, will be coming back this summer and am interested to see how much it has changed. Thanks for posting this! I really enjoy your channel .
I'm from plymouth, lived here since i was 6 after i moved from Germany. I love it here and i always see good things about our hospital, Derriford Hospital, and all i can say is it's shit. Recently I've had an anything-but-good experience after my father had a stroke that was left to a 'headache due to stress' he nearly died. Derriford is being sued by my family for the negligence. Be careful in derriford. Do not let yourself be ignored and left alone by the hospital.
I love Plymouth!
Fantastic video mate , really enjoyed this good insight into Plymouth
🤝
@@BackpackerBen you should check out Eastbourne parts of the town are on the decline
Plymouth is a nice town. Union Street represents an opportunity. To redefine and re-create.
Which the Council is not willing to undertake _ they prefer spending 37 million £ on cutting down 150 mature trees and replacing them with a plastic children's playground and surveillance cameras and lighting.....and much concrete and asphalt
22:00 Kat was probably referring to the Abbey Road cover, which was taken at a crossroads in St. John's Wood, London. Nice video, cool to see where you're from even if it's a bit derelict.