Lived here nearly 10 yrs now and noticed last 5 yrs or so see it decline and now Mecca bingo has gone. Would not recommend a holiday here anymore town centre just depressing but residents are lovely even though lots of Snobs Chavs.Agree with some comments about the town needing good spruce up as streets are so filthy with overflowing bins sticky pavements Sefton just takes money out of town
Had a lovely holiday here in 1997, we were complete strangers ( South Africans ) when we arrived , left with some wonderful new friends. What a lovely place. Thanks South Port.
Thanks for putting this together. Part 2 to include the marine lake, pier, pleasure area perhaps. Let’s see Sefton Council invest in preserving this wonderful place and attracting businesses and tourism.
I miss the little gangs of sparrows that used to be all over Southport. As a kid in the 1960s they were around your feet when we sat on benches, even in Lord Street. Fond memories of those cheeky sparrows!
Ha ha wonderful memories! I think the sparrows might have been hiding away on this day considering it was raining a lot - hopefully they're still out and about when the sun is shining :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - this may not have been the sunniest or busiest day in Southport's history, though the town certainly has a real appeal whatever the weather, in winter and summer as you very rightly say :) Thank you so much for watching!
@Ethiopia Hindu hey, i appreciate the sentiment, but honestly, i was just commenting on the video. Brotain is trashed. They let all the ungrateful asylum seekers in and now england isn't even really white anymore. Its just a socialist country run by the greedy and power hungry.....there is no "Great" Britain anymore. It's a second rate country. Its sad, but what ive seen on tv in the last 20 years makes me glad im not there anymore. Take care
Thank you for this.I cant believe Southport is still relitively unchanged from when i was a lad. Holy Trinity Church where i was a choirboy, even down to the Outfitters used to buy school uniforms. Thanks for this!
Thank you for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - I suppose it's nice to see that some places stay the same, especially somewhere as pretty as Southport! Holy Trinity is rather impressive from the outside - I'm sure it was even more so inside :)
14:05 St George's United Reformed Church, I think, is no longer used for worship. It was put up for sale in June 2022 due to only having a tiny congregation. You then make a confusing comment about such a 'new', but 'big' and 'so much history' filled town. Eh?
Wonderful. So many happy excursions from Wigan to Southport when we were kids. My brothers and sister crammed into a speedboat on the 'lakes' was the 'treat of treats'. Such fun in innocent times...
Ah those are wonderful memories! With all those things to do in Southport a day out must have been an absolute treat at a young age - I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and that it brought back some nice memories :) Thank you so much for watching!
I just came to Southport last week to work. I haven't looked around the town yet but watching this video made me want to stroll now and see its beauty.
You've got a lot to look forward to! I'm really glad to hear that this video has whetted your appetite a little - but there's nothing that compares to strolling around the gorgeous streets of Southport (especially on a properly sunny day!) Thank you so much for watching - I'm so glad you enjoyed the video :)
I remember ribble bus station & just outside was a duke box sort of tea shop hang out & bikers like me would hang around buy hey i am 71 now there land of sunshine Thailand 17 years but as old folks do we often reflect on our " golden days"
Awesome walk in the town of Southport. Very beautiful the medieval buildings are and very historical. Your history lessons were great. Your walks are always enjoyable. Hope to see more soon. How is your weekend going. Mine is going good we have lots of rain in Canada. Have a great day 😀😀
Absolutely! It's a beautiful town and you've got the seaside right on your doorstep - must have been a nice place to get a bit of a release from time to time :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you very much! Indeed - my architectural knowledge certainly doesn't rival that of Pevsner, but I do love to visit towns across the UK and learn more about architecture :) Thank you for watching - I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I was there with the boys in August 2020 and you couldn't see the pavement because of people it was red hot it's a lovely place I can't wait to go back we stayed at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Lord Street opposite the ice cream parlour I remember that because it used to cost me £7 every time I left the hotel & crossed the road lol l l
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Southport is a gorgeous seaside town, one of many across the country :) Thank you for watching and for your very kind words - it really means a lot to hear!
i'm from southport, i miss southport, i have family and friends in southport, as much as ive travelled i still would live in southport, ive lived around the world but southport is just nice. thanks for a lovely video
I’m miss so much too, I grew up in churchtown love it, I live in Australia now but if I had to move back to the uk southport would be number one , but I love Australia way more
A lot of buildings are now getting renovations done. Plus a new conference center and are is getting built. The fairground at last has a great owner in Norman Wallis who is transforming it
Ha ha absolutely! Southport looks gorgeous in the sun - it's a bit of a shame I visited to film on this cloudy day... Though before I started filming it was bucketing it down, so this was probably the best of that day 😊 Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video from this cloudy day :)
Thank you for pointing that out! Southport's always changing even in the modern day with its Victorian heritage :) Thank you for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Great video, chapel street changed much, it used to be a road for cars and pedestrians, and some of the good old shops are still there, including the restaurant i worked as a part-time, haha. Thank you so much!
Thank you for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video! Nice to hear your old restaurant is still there, Southport has a great blend of old and new like few other places in Britain :)
Lots of memories there. First impression was - "Oh look, it's raining" :) Wouldn't look right without a shiny road and puddles... Still, whenever I get back from Australia, Southport is a must visit place. There's something special about it. Lots of things actually - inclding the lifeboat house a mile or more from the sea!
It's a lovely town indeed - especially if the sun is shining a little brighter than it was on this day :) I'm sure you have many great memories of wonderful trips to the seaside from St Helens - you're lucky to have Southport so close! Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK I enjoyed it very much, lovely to see somewhere close to home! Yes we are very lucky in St Helens, we of course have the two great cities of Liverpool and Manchester on our doorstep too and St Helens has plenty of lovely parks itself too. Very lucky to live here 😊
A lot of people in Southport do not accept the Merseyside label. It's historically a Lancashire town- and a very attractive town it is too.People's Yorkshire identity in now defunct psuedo counties like Cleveland and Humberside is generally acknowledged. But it should also be accepted that many retain a Lancashire identity in so called Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Pretty sure that the Thatcher government abolished the Metropolitan counties like Merseyside. Last point: Southport is more than 15 miles north of Liverpool city centre.
Interesting to know! It certainly makes sense that these newer counties since 1974 haven't quite overtaken the identity of historic counties like Lancashire with thousands of years of history - and the people of Southport certainly should be proud of their Lancastrian heritage :) Perhaps it's the Merseyrail train that put the town in Merseyside, we may never know! Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK Whitehall bureaucrats with no connection to the town made the decision. Just because a Mersey rail train serves the town from Liverpool, doesn't make it a Mersey town! From a geographical standpoint, Southport is at the southern tip of the Ribble estuary. The River Mersey current fizzles out at Formby to the south.[ Formby is another town worth visiting, preferably not on a wet October afternoon with the town looking like a ghost town]. You seem to be sensitive to Yorkshire peoples identity, being careful not to label Middlesbrough a Cleveland town, or Saltburn a Cleveland resort. Perhaps you could do the same for Lancashire towns like Bolton or Southport .
Oh no! Sorry about that - I must have been thinking of Birkenhead and had a bit of a keyboard slip - thanks for the correction :) And thank you so much for watching! I'm really glad you liked the video!
It really is! No wonder Paris based some of its own design off Southport: a really lovely seaside town with so much to discover :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
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Lived here nearly 10 yrs now and noticed last 5 yrs or so see it decline and now Mecca bingo has gone. Would not recommend a holiday here anymore town centre just depressing but residents are lovely even though lots of Snobs Chavs.Agree with some comments about the town needing good spruce up as streets are so filthy with overflowing bins sticky pavements Sefton just takes money out of town
Had a lovely holiday here in 1997, we were complete strangers ( South Africans ) when we arrived , left with some wonderful new friends. What a lovely place. Thanks South Port.
One of the UK’s best Victorian seaside towns in need of TLC. My family and relatives have lived here for the last 150 years at least!
It is a great place but you're right it's not quite at its heyday - I'll certainly be heading back there one day though because I loved it so much! :)
Thanks for putting this together. Part 2 to include the marine lake, pier, pleasure area perhaps. Let’s see Sefton Council invest in preserving this wonderful place and attracting businesses and tourism.
I miss the little gangs of sparrows that used to be all over Southport. As a kid in the 1960s they were around your feet when we sat on benches, even in Lord Street. Fond memories of those cheeky sparrows!
Ha ha wonderful memories! I think the sparrows might have been hiding away on this day considering it was raining a lot - hopefully they're still out and about when the sun is shining :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Im from southport and have lived in the states for twenty years. Thank you very much for this tour. I love the winters almost as much ad the summers.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - this may not have been the sunniest or busiest day in Southport's history, though the town certainly has a real appeal whatever the weather, in winter and summer as you very rightly say :)
Thank you so much for watching!
@Ethiopia Hindu but youre Ethiopian? Thats calling the kettle black, don't you think? No pun intended
@Ethiopia Hindu hey, i appreciate the sentiment, but honestly, i was just commenting on the video. Brotain is trashed. They let all the ungrateful asylum seekers in and now england isn't even really white anymore. Its just a socialist country run by the greedy and power hungry.....there is no "Great" Britain anymore. It's a second rate country. Its sad, but what ive seen on tv in the last 20 years makes me glad im not there anymore. Take care
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Thank you for this.I cant believe Southport is still relitively unchanged from when i was a lad. Holy Trinity Church where i was a choirboy, even down to the Outfitters used to buy school uniforms. Thanks for this!
Thank you for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - I suppose it's nice to see that some places stay the same, especially somewhere as pretty as Southport! Holy Trinity is rather impressive from the outside - I'm sure it was even more so inside :)
14:05 St George's United Reformed Church, I think, is no longer used for worship. It was put up for sale in June 2022 due to only having a tiny congregation. You then make a confusing comment about such a 'new', but 'big' and 'so much history' filled town. Eh?
Wonderful. So many happy excursions from Wigan to Southport when we were kids. My brothers and sister crammed into a speedboat on the 'lakes' was the 'treat of treats'. Such fun in innocent times...
Ah those are wonderful memories! With all those things to do in Southport a day out must have been an absolute treat at a young age - I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and that it brought back some nice memories :)
Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks for the video I live in Australia now, used to be my hometown, I do miss it still,but love Australia way more.
Southport's a lovely place - you're lucky to have it as your hometown! Though I'm sure you get quite a bit more sun down under :)
I just came to Southport last week to work. I haven't looked around the town yet but watching this video made me want to stroll now and see its beauty.
It's a town, not a city. Liverpool is a city 😊
Ow i see, thank you for correcting me! I think I need to do my research more on a lot of things but thank you 😊
You've got a lot to look forward to! I'm really glad to hear that this video has whetted your appetite a little - but there's nothing that compares to strolling around the gorgeous streets of Southport (especially on a properly sunny day!)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm so glad you enjoyed the video :)
Princess park ,southport
I remember ribble bus station & just outside was a duke box sort of tea shop hang out & bikers like me would hang around buy hey i am 71 now there land of sunshine Thailand 17 years but as old folks do we often reflect on our " golden days"
Awesome walk in the town of Southport. Very beautiful the medieval buildings are and very historical. Your history lessons were great. Your walks are always enjoyable. Hope to see more soon. How is your weekend going. Mine is going good we have lots of rain in Canada. Have a great day 😀😀
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Southport is a fascinating place indeed full of riveting history :)
If their is only one thing I have learnt in lockdown is that I am blessed to live in Southport...
Absolutely! It's a beautiful town and you've got the seaside right on your doorstep - must have been a nice place to get a bit of a release from time to time :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
No mention of major Annual Flower Show? Oversight.
Thank you for making this 📸 video. 🤝
You're welcome! Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed it :)
Nice vid son. But er , leave the architecture to Pevsner
Thank you very much! Indeed - my architectural knowledge certainly doesn't rival that of Pevsner, but I do love to visit towns across the UK and learn more about architecture :)
Thank you for watching - I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I was there with the boys in August 2020 and you couldn't see the pavement because of people it was red hot it's a lovely place I can't wait to go back we stayed at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Lord Street opposite the ice cream parlour I remember that because it used to cost me £7 every time I left the hotel & crossed the road lol l l
Sounds like some good memories! Southport is a lovely place indeed and a lot of fun to visit on holiday! Thank you so much for watching :)
Awesome video ! Thanks (:
You're welcome! And thank you so much for watching - Southport is an awesome place for a day out by the sea :)
Southport is class, sat on Lord Street having a coffee ☕ just fabulous
Absolutely SUPERB all your walk vids are just GREAT !!!! many, many thanks
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Southport is a gorgeous seaside town, one of many across the country :)
Thank you for watching and for your very kind words - it really means a lot to hear!
I’m a retired dci from this area and I can’t tell you about the things I saw during my time there
We arrived on a Saturday afternoon, the roads outside South Port were quite, however once inside the town it was very busy.
Yes it is a drug filled town but then every where you go as got bad parts lovley place better when weather nice 👌
Home on the Range 💚
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you liked the video!
Great video thanks iam from southport and still live here and work here Great in the summer full of life
Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - it's a lovely place indeed, I hope you're having a happy new year and looking forward to the summer :)
A shadow of itself. No real fair and the new pier is borrrrring
i'm from southport, i miss southport, i have family and friends in southport, as much as ive travelled i still would live in southport, ive lived around the world but southport is just nice. thanks for a lovely video
You're welcome - it's easily one of the nicest towns I've been to (even on a rainy day!). You're lucky to call it your hometown :)
I’m miss so much too, I grew up in churchtown love it, I live in Australia now but if I had to move back to the uk southport would be number one , but I love Australia way more
A lot of buildings are now getting renovations done. Plus a new conference center and are is getting built. The fairground at last has a great owner in Norman Wallis who is transforming it
@@markshirley01He hardly does anything to it. Keeps proposing big things, but does more things in a smaller way.
Great video thank you have lived here all my life.
How wonderful! Southport's such a lovely place! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - thank you very much for watching :)
Rule number 1...check weather forecast before starting a walk.😊
Ha ha absolutely! Southport looks gorgeous in the sun - it's a bit of a shame I visited to film on this cloudy day... Though before I started filming it was bucketing it down, so this was probably the best of that day 😊
Thank you so much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video from this cloudy day :)
Queen Victoria's statue used to be in the middle of the junction by the traffic lights. It was moved to its current location a few years ago.
Thank you for pointing that out! Southport's always changing even in the modern day with its Victorian heritage :)
Thank you for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Great video, chapel street changed much, it used to be a road for cars and pedestrians, and some of the good old shops are still there, including the restaurant i worked as a part-time, haha. Thank you so much!
Thank you for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video! Nice to hear your old restaurant is still there, Southport has a great blend of old and new like few other places in Britain :)
Lots of memories there. First impression was - "Oh look, it's raining" :) Wouldn't look right without a shiny road and puddles... Still, whenever I get back from Australia, Southport is a must visit place. There's something special about it. Lots of things actually - inclding the lifeboat house a mile or more from the sea!
I know Southport very well, I’m from St Helens which isn’t far away and have been going to Southport since I was very young! Lovely town to visit 😊
It's a lovely town indeed - especially if the sun is shining a little brighter than it was on this day :) I'm sure you have many great memories of wonderful trips to the seaside from St Helens - you're lucky to have Southport so close!
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK I enjoyed it very much, lovely to see somewhere close to home! Yes we are very lucky in St Helens, we of course have the two great cities of Liverpool and Manchester on our doorstep too and St Helens has plenty of lovely parks itself too. Very lucky to live here 😊
A lot of people in Southport do not accept the Merseyside label. It's historically a Lancashire town- and a very attractive town it is too.People's Yorkshire identity in now defunct psuedo counties like Cleveland and Humberside is generally acknowledged. But it should also be accepted that many retain a Lancashire identity in so called Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Pretty sure that the Thatcher government abolished the Metropolitan counties like Merseyside. Last point: Southport is more than 15 miles north of Liverpool city centre.
Interesting to know! It certainly makes sense that these newer counties since 1974 haven't quite overtaken the identity of historic counties like Lancashire with thousands of years of history - and the people of Southport certainly should be proud of their Lancastrian heritage :) Perhaps it's the Merseyrail train that put the town in Merseyside, we may never know!
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK Whitehall bureaucrats with no connection to the town made the decision. Just because a Mersey rail train serves the town from Liverpool, doesn't make it a Mersey town! From a geographical standpoint, Southport is at the southern tip of the Ribble estuary. The River Mersey current fizzles out at Formby to the south.[ Formby is another town worth visiting, preferably not on a wet October afternoon with the town looking like a ghost town]. You seem to be sensitive to Yorkshire peoples identity, being careful not to label Middlesbrough a Cleveland town, or Saltburn a Cleveland resort. Perhaps you could do the same for Lancashire towns like Bolton or Southport .
I'm pretty certain that the metropolitan counties happened in the mid 1970s. That was before Margaret Thatcher was PM, during a Labour government.
Nice video of the town I grew up in. Royal Birkdale though, not "Birkhead"!
Oh no! Sorry about that - I must have been thinking of Birkenhead and had a bit of a keyboard slip - thanks for the correction :)
And thank you so much for watching! I'm really glad you liked the video!
Royal Birkdale?
Southport is a very elegant city! 🥰👍
It really is! No wonder Paris based some of its own design off Southport: a really lovely seaside town with so much to discover :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK not to ne rude its not a city and its not that elegant once you have been there for a while
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Like it’s neighbours Liverpool and Manchester Southport has a very high crime rate and I would never go there with my family