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- Crowned as the WORST High Street in Britain, one tabloid compared it to a WARZONE! Welcome to Yeovil, I was shocked at the levels of social deprivation, the amount of abandoned empty shops and overall poverty within this UK town!
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This deprived town on the Somerset / Dorset Border statistically is by far one of the poorest in the region, the 2nd highest crime rate being a hub for Violence & Anti-Social Behaviour and now holds the crown for "The Worst High Street in Britain".
I was seriously shocked to see the state of disrepair and desperation that Yeovil finds itself in. Nearly every shop is closed and boarded up! I have never been anywhere like this in the UK!
Hearing from the locals in the street interviews within the vlog was very sad, especially the elderly ladies discussing their concerns for the future with the closure of the bus route from Shepton Mallet - Yeovil, which will leave them stranded!
Yeovil for decades has suffered from a serious lack of investment & support into the local infrastructure and people, leaving this once thriving town a shell of its former self! With a lack of jobs and oppourtunity for the youth and a town centre that is decaying and left to Rot... This is Broken Britain at its finest, the Death of the British High Street Before your eyes!
See the Tabloid article here:
www.dailystar....
Another Headline:
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A quick Google search of Yeovil High Street will inundate you with negative articles, take your pick!
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Many, many towns like this in the north of England...the only places that remain open are betting shops (about 3 on every street!), Turkish barber shops and vaping shops...
You know the score! Very familiar sight unfortunately but I must say Yeovil was seriously bad! What's your worst places in the north? Let me know, heading North soon!
@@JoefishJDefinately Blackpool
Same
Dewsbury 😣
@@jennyhicks1930 sad realit
Lived in Yeovil 30 years and work in one of the remaining open stores. The place is disgusting. The town is ruined, the crime rate is high and all I hear every day is how bad it is from my customers. You missed The Quedam centre which has a few shops in it and no works going on, but Yeovil has very little to offer. The best thing about it are the roads out of it. Oh, and if you see the local MP Marcus Fysh, let me know. He doesn't even live here and only turns up when it's election time, yet people will be slugs to salt and vote him in again next time. We're rubber ducked.
Well what can I say! Yeovil was a Shock! Hopefully the video sheds light on the situation in some way for people like yourself. The locals were very friendly I will say that! Thanks for watching and the comment! Please share the video to any other locals you know. Thanks again
Rishi and his team
Thought there were lots of high tech jobs in Yeovil what with a big helicopter factory being there.
@@SuperNevile well too few jobs in terms of population so you know how it is
@@ChristianoRodríguez-h3k Yes but no but. Surely it's not just the helicopter factory, it's all the satellite businesses and support businesses that were created due to what I still stupidly call "Westlands". Did helicopters originally bring in a lot of people, but the business has shrunk leaving a growing population with no high tech jobs to go to?
You know it's bad when even the Poundlands and pawn shops are closing down!
It was really bad! Sad scenes thanks for watching
Not my burgerland ass thinking pound land was a brothel...
However some porn shops survived.
Indeed- under Brown the two biggest boom shops were Pound shops, and Charity Shops- so if even these can't survive, we're witnessing the death of actually physical shops. We can largely blame the internet, and people using stealth to close things during COVID, and blame the virus.
That's Stoke .
Britain is dying 😞
It certainly is in places! (Optimistic outlook) I hopefully will find some of the good spots
All this shopping isn’t just moved - Amazon don’t pay taxes.
@@ScandalUKAnd all the supermarkets deliver.
@@jasonallen6081 I never imagined visiting the supermarket instead of high street shopping. Problem solved.
Not to worry, I think Amazon are moving into groceries too.
@@ScandalUK We can buy anything from our living room sofas. Even booze and tobacco are delivered, then there's Uber eats, etc, online gambling. We all do it. Everybody that says it's a shame how bad things have become have contributed to it in various ways . Soon the bookies will start to shut because you can just get an app and do it on your kitchen table with a delivery of cider and an Uber eats takeaway.
It's no wonder councils are going bust. All these stores used to pay local taxes and employ people. It's an apocalypse.
They got greedy, hiking business rates and now look, people out of work and no tax revenue. Incompetent councils who destroy places like this and are not held accountable, These people should be in prison, no doubt the corruption runs deep too.
Yes that and mis placed spending I would say. Thanks for watching and the comment
There’s no shortage of overpaid councillors though there still drawing there thousands
They killed the goose that layed their golden eggs by making parking near to impossible.
They do it themselves by setting the rates far too high. The councils protect themselves first, the people and the area the government come last.
I worked for Wilko's in the early- mid 2000's and Yeovil was one of the highest turnover stores in the 300 store group at the time. I had to do some training there once and the town was buzzing. Sad to see but there are plenty of towns on this path especially in the last 10 years.
Yes I totally agree! It's a very sad case of affairs that unfortunately have led the UK to this point! Can Britain turn back the clock and relive some sort of glory day? I doubt it... Thanks for watching and the comment
recently found the channel and subscribed. Austerity has never worked . It robs people of ambition and purpose and stifles business investment . There is money ( wars and covid? ) just not spent where it needs to be. Town centers were a retail destination which needs a rethink.@@JoefishJ
I started to see the decline in 2013 when people were spending less in the shops and doing more window shopping and comparing prices from shop to shop. Now they don't even come into town and city centres because of the street homeless, fake homeless beggars, drug dealers and street hawkers and evangelists. People don't like to be accosted as they go about their business or shopping.
Yes loved Wilkos BHS, and C&A, AND MANY MORE local shops within our community's, yes found C& A still traidding within the EU ❤❤😊
@annettecurtain356 I stopped buying in Wilkos so much when they stopped the Doesn't Cost The Earth range of household cleaners.
Julian Graves went into administration or was sold to another company, but then the previous owners set up Grape Tree to rival Holland and Barrett, but the latter sells more than health food as they sell nutritional supplements and essentials as well.
Whittards of Chelsea disappeared from the high street at the start of the global recession and then reappeared a few months later. Virgin record stores closed. Now, Body Shop is suffering. Woolwirths went out of business.
Use the high street or lose it. Stop shopping online so much.
This is very sad for the people of Yeovil. It must be really depressing to live there xx
Very sad indeed... Especially the elderly ladies at the end of the video! Thanks for watching
High rents , business rates, parking charges, charity chugging and begging. It not exactly inviting is it.
Indeed all of the above, thanks for watching
Rents have dropped. No one wants to take shops even for free rent due to high business rates and energy prices
Came along here and subbed after your guest appearance on Bald & Bankrupt in Weston-Super-Mare. Really well put together and a major eye-opener, Joe. All the best from an ex-pat who saw the writing on the wall and buggered off 30 years ago!
That's awesome to hear thank you for stopping by and saying hi! Hope you enjoy the content and the interview with Mr Bald himself on the channel. Thanks again 👍
Hi me too , love from the EU and Gran Canaria.
Amazon has killed the High Street.
I did the same to Australia but it's endemic
I see the signs here now
It's uncanny
They won't learn
They won't use UK as a model of what not to do
Lucky guy, I go to gran canaria for 4 weeks every winter bloody love it, the UK is completely and utterly screwed.@@philiphowell1505
Could be the same anywhere in the UK..Charity shops, Bet Fred, 1 pound Shop, Cash Convertors , Greg's, Subway, Bank Kebab/ Chicken Shops amd a phone repair shop or two lol .If bit more upmarket maybe a Specs Savers..
You got it! Thanks for watching and the comment. Hope you enjoy the content
What is the point of all the construction??? Why? What a waste of money to do anything there.
Apparently it's been going on years!! But there's literally no shops there. What a waste land. Thanks for watching
Yes all that construction + not a single worker in sight - were they all on a tea break?!
@@christineh4427 yep. Looks more like a money funneling operation.
@@apm763 oh how nice of them. To take money from the workers pocket when he barely has enough to eat, but he can walk comfortably down the dilapidated graffiti covered streets with no shops. And they truly believe they’re doing a good thing, I guarantee.
Thank you for showing what Yeovil is really like. I lived in West Coker and moved away 14 years ago. The area was a bit worse for wear then, but to see what has happened to the town center is heartbreaking. Part of my heart will always be with the UK, but I am very thankful we left when we did.
I was born and educated in Yeovil, but left in 1965. It breaks my heart to see what was a lovely little market town in such a state. Many English towns are full of empty and boarded up premises but, from this video, it appears that someone has been making an effort to improve Yeovil but the various contractors have been beset by financial difficulties. We can only hope that things will improve soon. Thank goodness St John’s church, where my parents were married in 1939 and I was christened in 1943, still stands. This video hasn’t shown Princes Street, which I understand has still remained fairly unspoilt. Can we have another video, please, showing the good parts of Yeovil? - there are still some remaining!
Same here. My family were farmers and Friday was market day when we all went to the town. Unbelievable. What is going on.
Sad scenes thanks for watching and the comment
Its the same up here in scotland. Funny how all the turkish barbers, chineese nail shops and vape stores are still open though 🤔 ( defintly not paying taxes)
🤔 hmmm thanks for watching and the comment
So many Turkish barbers and nail shops all over the UK! Ummm!
That is catastrophic. Imagine the amount of money pulled out of the area by all those closed businesses.
every town and city is getting like this
@@spongebobsquaretits Yecch.
Really bleak for the people. Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the content
I grew up in Yeovil, in fact as a teenager worked in one of those boarded up shops at the beginning of your video, that was in the 1980s. The town was thriving then, every shop full and brilliant nightlife and independent music scene.
I have live abroad for over twenty years now, in Turkey. I live in a suburb of a city, yet still within 5 minutes walk from my home I have a hospital, two supermarkets, two tailors, two shoe repair shops, two bakers, at least three newsagents and a weekly market that frankly you could spend all morning walking around. Now, all those shops etc are privately owned and not part of some massive chain. They work within their means and are not charged extortionate rents and rates by the local council - because the council here still understands the human need of these shops. In short, human need still wins over corporate greed and profit.
As for Yeovil, it depresses me each time I return... It has been allowed to rot, no way in a million years those shops will be filled again. Soon, that whole area will be torn down and redeloped into a trading estate or housing.
Thanks for the video
Hey thanks so much for stopping by! That's really sad to hear your story of Yeovil, one that was a very familiar tale whilst filming. Thanks for watching and the comment. See you on the next one
I believe it was Somerset council who had a £ 50 million surplus and decided to invest it in the Icelandic bank before it went tits up - all while cutting public services to the bone of course and raising council tax - complete and utter bastardry -the Uk is finished .
Making room for our replacements
Nice! Izmir? Also can you speak turkish?
@muckle8 cutting of Council funds by the Tories for the last 13yrs has lead to service cuts all over the country and this is the result. Yet muppets will still vote in there millions for the Tories
Mate, thank you for this video.
It’s bad up here in Blackburn, Accrington etc. Northwest.
My heart breaks for the UK.
35 years of Greed has resulted in holes in our souls, holes in UK finances, holes in our communities, holes in our towns, holes everywhere.
Very tragic.
35 years of Greed and Me, Me, Me has resulted in despair and emptiness.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 really appreciate that. It's sad to see, hopefully something changes for the people of Yeovil and towns alike.
Those defunct mill towns are another level of grim. People in Siberian prison camps wince at what passes for life in Bolton, Rochdale, Burnley, Oldham.
If those towns were animals they'd have been put down a century ago.
Out of town retail parks with huge multi national supermarkets and online shopping has ruined town centres recently but they have been going down hill for some time
exactley peoples shopping habits have changed thats all people are still spending its just elsewhere online, supermarkets and retail parks and stores like b and ms where you can get pretty much everything i really dont see the point of videos like this
Exactly. Too many shops in one town or city. People go to them because you can park more easily there but more difficult to get public transport to. I live a mile from a mini out of town retail park as it is just one row of shops newly built on a brown field site and I prefer to go there than the city centre for certain items and get harassed by drug dealers, beggars, chuggers, Big Issue sellers and hawkers. I used to be one of those harassing though as I would hand out leaflets at protests.
Definitely a factor. Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the rest of the content
I agree with you.Most of the out of town centres are full of people because they can go in their cars.They all look the same and all have the same shops 😞It’s the laziness of the people who don’t go anywhere without the use of their cars who have ruined the centres of the towns.
@MrTyneduncan Unless you live close by an out of town shopping centre and can walk there. But there are fewer buses to them than the city centre. But many people have this old 60s and 70s idea that you should be able to drive to the shops and park nearby for free so when car parking charges were introduced in town and city centres in the 80s they stayed away from them and went to the new out of town retail parks and discount shopping villages like the one in Street and the one in Festival Park near Ebbw Vale.
They won't walk half a mile from the car park, so they would rather park on double yellow lines outside of offices and shops they went into.
That's why the shops around main bus and railway stations would look cheap and shabby as only poor people were seen to be using public transport so were assumed they would use only those shops instead of the department stores and chain stores. So people were even less inclined to take a bus or train to a town or city centre as they had to walk past these shabby shops to get to the nicer shops. It became a vicious circle. Lots of greasy spoon cafes and charity shops are close to bus stations.
It's sad to see this. on the need for more investment in small towns to keep them alive.
Go up to Union Street in Aberdeen. I grew up there, it too has gone steadily downhill for the last two decades. A mile long, made from the same granite as Bond Street in London, wonderful architecture, all dirty, dilapidated, vacants everywhere, footfall is junkies. It's sad.
Of heard it's rough in Aberdeen... Hopefully head upto Scotland one day soon. Thanks for watching and the comment
I always imagined Yeovil to be a prime touristy place, kind of like Bath. What a sad story. Thanks for visiting Yeovil so I don’t have to! 😊
Drive past and head to Wells, very close by. One of the most beautiful cities in the UK, video on my channel. Thanks for watching
Dagenham is worse, much worse!!!!
i got out of Bath 4 years ago and moved to the north east, best decision i have made Bath is circling the toilet. Rampant drug abuse ran by the Albanian mafia they have free rein to do as they want as Bath is now a police-less city. They removed the police station and turnt it into student accommodation. now the police do 1 sweep every 2 months which achieves absolutely nothing.
I got stuck in Yeovil about a week ago, last bus to my destination was 17.20. Ended up paying £50 for taxi to get home. Bus would have been £2. Transport sucks in this area.
Nightmare! Thanks for watching and the comment. Hope you enjoy the content
Surely the Yates Wine Bar is still open ? I see Yeovil Town centre is currently being expensively "Pedestrianised for ALL the invisible pedestrians. They should be doing the reverse to make car use easier if they want to "save the Town Centre" or to even come close.
Sad times for the people of Yeovil. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoy the content
I'm glad that you care ... my life has shrunk now that I'm 76 but I like to totter out to the shops to talk to others
You never know what the next conversation will hold for you..! Thanks for watching and the comment! Hope you enjoy the upcoming adventures and content
Would have called in for a pasty but I can't see a bakery! 😃to be serious though it does look bad to say the least, problem is there are many many towns across the country just the same.This country is going to the dogs! sad. ☹
Very sad sights across the UK thanks for watching and the comment
So sad, we should be looking after everyone in the uk. Thank you for uploading.
Thanks for the kind words! We certainly should I agree. See you on the next one
People don't need 'looking after', adults need to be able to look after themselves and government get out the way
Explain more please.
The retail space you show was built in the sixites and seventies for chains that simply do not exist any more. There are no tenants waiting. They don't exist. Pull the lot down.
Agreed 💯 thanks for watching and the comment
Class video again, Joe! Yeovil is a really sorry sight. I used to go on holiday to Weymouth every year growing up, I now live in the US and would love to see what Weymouth is like today - that would be a request/recommendation for your next seaside town 😀 cheers.
Hey buddy thanks for the comment! Yes Weymouth is definitely on the list mate so keep your eyes peeled for that one. Thanks for the kind words and for watching
I can tell you what Weymouth is like, mate. It's a complete dump. It certainly has more to offer than Yeovil, but not much more. Seeing a 16 year old, pushing a pram with a spliff hanging out her mouth is a common sight in Weymouth. I don't even live there, it's just been our go to spot for a beach since childhood. Now we go to Burton Bradstock.
The Tories have decimated this country
The owners of the building charge way too much rent and people are shopping on line more, plus people have less money after years of austerity
There’s another guy called wandering turnip who does a show on here re the death of the high street hes a lovely cool knowledgeable guy
Yes they have wrecked it but Labour will out do them and make it worse, remember the mess they left behind, both party's are no good.
@@leejames1792 you cant say that the current labour party will fuck things up because a previous one did ,what kind of backwards thinking is that-the labour party now is a very different beast to the one from the past-whats the alternative let these lying cheating tories continue to fill their already full pockets and have 10 more years of austerity and corruption-i say give labour a chance -lets see what they do -lets invest money in deprived towns and cities in the north and south that have been long neglected and start making a difference to the lives of everybody not just the rich
I stay out of the politics but show you the outcome of those decisions made by those in power. Thanks for watching
Why the surprise?
Make parking difficult by reducing number of spaces. Make it unaffordable by exorbitant charges. Make it impossible to find on street parking by putting yellow lines everywhere, in the interest of traffic flow, even on Sunday at 3.00 am. Employ a plethora of traffic wardens to ensure financial gain from aforesaid yellow lines. Ratchet up rates on shops and use them as cash-cows. Decimate affordable public transport just to finish it off. Violla. 😂
Certainly part of the problem I think... Thanks for watching and the kind words. See you on the next one
Wetherslops and betting shops…. What a prospect. Also as mentioned previously barber and vape shops.
And lots of them. Thanks for watching and the comment
Why don't you grow a beard? Then you can use the barber shops.
@@rainerschmid9965 Er… yes… whatever…
I was based in Yeovil around 2008 and had a great time, surprisingly good night life back then for such a small town.
Sad to see the state it's in now. I think amazon prime is one of the biggest factors in all these cases, high streets cant compete. The major supermarkets started the trend back in the 90's.
Yes seems to have been a steep decline into what you see today. Very sad, thanks for watching and the comment!
Agreed supermarkets started the downfall. They started selling dvds, games, clothes and electronic goods. And later began co-op type stores, which all drained the pockets of regular shops. Then ‘out of town’ business parks with ample parking - provided a chunk of big stores in one place very convenient.
Online shopping let’s face it is excellent, easy and almost always cheaper. You won’t waste time trudging to the shops be told it’s out of stock or the price is way more expensive. You’d have to also find a parking spot, pay for parking etc. Unless it’s a niche shop, food outlet or clothes that require checking for fit, most of a traditional high street is now redundant.
this is happening all over this country, it's so depressing....
Agreed thanks for watching
Aberdeen Union Street, despite being a very rich city which has profited from North Sea oil and gas, a city with more millionaires per head than anywhere in the UK outside London, the city centre is just grey and empty.. with crumbling shopping malls. If you go there just think, if that is Aberdeen rich, what on Earth would it be like when it’s poor?
Very sad sights across the UK. Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the content
Local Yeovil person here. He filmed and edited it to look way worse than it is. There is a multi million pound refresh project in progress (hence all the work going on) The whole of the bottom end has been sold and is planned for a complete refurbishment. (hence why everything is empty) He purposely missed the nice bits like the Quedam. I could go on and on about the sneaky misrepresentation this guy has done here. Basically propaganda to reinforce his personal agenda. Hold your head in shame Mr Joe Fish
Totally agree. Don’t get me wrong, the redevelopment is dragging on, but this was filmed and edited in a way to purposely not show the Quedam shopping centre and all of the businesses that are open, to achieve the agenda of the video. Whilst walking through Middle Street he stated only the pub is open, whilst walking past the open Kaspas, the Entertainer and 94 club. Also the attempt to make the young lads seem hard up, was comical. They are all in college and employed. I do watch these videos and I understand you don’t get views going, “Yeah, it’s not too bad”, so have to add drama.
Middlesbrough is just as bad, I recommend a visit! Great video bro :)
Thanks for the recommendation! I think I might be heading north soon enough! Thanks for watching and the comment
Really? 1 of my sons moved up there from London when he was a student at Uni. He made friends, got a good job + is still there. I last visited (I live in USA now) 4yrs ago + stayed in beautiful nearby Yarm but Middlesbro was thriving! R u saying it's all gone downhill in 4yrs?
@@christineh4427 its absolutely grim now. All the shops like marks and spencer, debenhams, house of fraser and h&m have pulled out since then. Yarm is gorgeous still though!
It seems all main streets are cut off for construction. Can't be good for business either...
Yes I've noticed this.
I lived just outside Yeovil around 2007-8 and the high street, Glovers Walk and Quedam were always busy and open. The grounds of the church used to be rammed with people enjoying their days.
Thanks for watching and the comment 👍
i worked in retail from 2000 till 2017, saw it go from booming in earlie 2000s to the decline as the internet took over where people shoped. online buying had been around for a while but the point it started to have a slight affect on shops was around 2006 to 2007 after that it just moved faster and faster by 2012 2014 it was already killing off the hight street the credit crunch didnt help matter ither but ressions come and go, internet shopping was here to stay. use it or lose it, well we lost it. sitting furniture retailers still get visited enough to warrent being open but the internet is still the first port of call when looking for furniture once people have looked online thay still want to handle it, sit in it. sad to see an old way of life go, alot of lost jobs to local areas and points of social contact. but colletively we did it to are selfs. some blame parking charges and road works, it still would have happend. some places have faired worse than others, let it go and acept it, sooner its all turned into apartments, restraunts and coffee shops the better, cause the retailers ant coming back.
Yes could be seen coming really... Thanks for watching and the comment hope you enjoy the upcoming content and adventures
This video is a real shocker. When did the high street drop off like that in Yeovil then? Almost nothing remains.
Apparently it's been like it for years but especially post 2020. Thanks for watching and the comment
2021/ 2020 Yeovil was very nice. Brexit mean brexit. All the best from Poland.
Jimminy cricket, this was depressing. Especially the cuts to transport.
Yes definitely! I often think about those elderly ladies 🙏 thanks for watching and the comment
I moved to Yeovil 3 years ago and the high street looked bad due to lots of shops shutting during Covid. Since then it's got better and there are lots of nice shops in the Quedam Shopping Centre you didn't show in the video, plus quite often they have markets with local, independent stalls at the weekend. The Glover Shopping Centre started going downhill years ago and finally shut for good a few years back and the owners are wanting to sell it, hence no new shops opening up down that end of town. There are other towns with nicer looking high streets, but quite often they don't actually have any of the normal high street shops you want to go to. Yeovil Country Park is awesome and there are lots of other nice parks in the town. Crime is pretty low, a few dodgy areas, but I've lived in much worse places across Somerset & Dorset.
Definitely going to come back oneday and get a guide. Thanks for watching and the comment hope you enjoy the content
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if it were refugees who would need that transport, I bet the Council would find the money.
Im heading out of this place... its depressing 😂😂😂.. wow man thanks for these videos highlighting whats happened to the UK. Its shocking
It really is! Thanks for watching 🙏👍
It's because the Uk is actually poor. People are still denying it. Only the rich can go in real shops.
I agree! Thanks for watching and the comment
Having lived in England for a year a while back, this is very sad to see. In general the state of England looks like it has dropped considerably. Was such a great place to be back in 2008.
Thanks for sharing though mate. Great videos.
Definitely gone down hill fast. Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the rest of the video's.
Try going to morecambe it’s has Going to the dogs very old buildings
Haha brilliant I'm coming!! Heading to some nice spots first, need a break from the depressive places! Thanks for the comment and for watching.
Joe only redeeming feature in morecambe is the market open 3 times a week, next to retail park worth visiting
Go to Harlow Essex town centre next mate, I'd gladly meet up with you and show you around should you need someone.
Or Basildon
100% get me on Instagram if your on there?
@@JoefishJI unfortunately don't have social media like Instagram or Facebook, only Twitter if you are on there?
Truly sad
Really sad scenes Jimmy unfortunately it's the people that suffer in circumstances like this. Thanks for watching and the comment 🙏
When i was growing up it was a treat having a day out at the shops!
Now theres not many shops to go to!
Sad times! Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the rest of the content
And we continue to vote red or blue who continue to fail us
Different legs of the same 🕷️ thanks for watching
high rents high council t ax and the war on the motorist parking charges kills off town centres.
Businesses don’t pay council tax. My local town has free parking at the weekend, it’s still dead.
Thanks for watching and the comment
All caused by greed greedy landlords greedy Councils greedy energy companies and greedy staff in some instances
Agreed thanks for watching and the comment
What do you expect? Online shopping, cashless, all part of the agenda. What do you think the last 4 years were really about?? 🤷♀️
Wasn't a great place in the 80s either, prompted my mates to write this cheery ditty:
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If you want to show something positive from Somerset, check out the singer's gaff at Rockaway Park in Temple Cloud.
Brilliant 👍 thanks for that! Hope you enjoy the upcoming adventures
Salute to three teenage boys. They grew up in some not the nicest area but still keep their heads down. They are good boys and I wish them all the best.
you did miss quite a bit of the rest of the town which isnt as bad as the part where you did film
Sorry about that unfortunately I don't know the town so just walked the main highstreet and surrounded areas.
Greedy Council rents and rates have rinsed every penny of profit so they all shut, and they've been on a super go slow with the paving upgrade the scaffold has been up for years, I live In 1 of the surrounding villages and yes the bus service has been cut
Turn the corner and you'll see a gleaming Tesco or Asda with ten tills ringing non stop. Supermarkets are the new high street. You park for nothing right outside and they sell everything. I saw this in Houston TX in 1994. The only thing that hasnt reached us yet is making each parking bay twice the size to fit the humongous cars that we all now drive round in.
Very valid point 👍 thanks for watching and the comment
@@JoefishJ glad to make a contribution to the topic! My point being that the retail landscape is decaying in one place only to spring up again half a mile away. So it's not as gloomy as you make it look. Vids like this by ordinary people like you are brilliant because it gets us thinking and discussing the world around us so I thank you too.
I love Somerset but tbh it might be that they are going to redevelop the place so leases have not been renewed but also the country is getting worse and dying. I would advise anyone to emigrate if they can but the problem is where?
Thanks for watching and the comment! Honestly I was shocked and saddened especially hearing from the elderly ladies at the end of the video. Very familiar tale now unfortunately. Thanks for watching amigo, see you on the next one!
Yeovil in 2021/2022 was a charming town. All the best from Poland.
Jesus, that's heart breaking. It's so sad that this "technological revolution" is tearing down brick and mortar, but, if we can adapt, we will prevail! In the meantime, people go hungry. I hope they, and all who are affected by this monumental economic shift, can find a new way to prosper.
Thanks for this, and ALL your very cool videos, Joe. Feels like you're a friend giving me a great tour of the real Britain I love so much. (And look at your subscriptions!!) Jen.
I know very sad times Jen! Especially hearing the elderly ladies story in regards to their bus route being closed! Closing them off from society! Thanks for watching and the support as always Jen! There is still some beautiful towns and cities that we'll be heading to soon. I'll show you the real Britain, whilst building a community of like minded individuals along the way. I'll be setting up a members area or something soon for more interaction and extended videos and interviews etc.
Thank you.
The UK is being murdered.
No problem check out my latest video... Seriously shocking.
It's insane to just see all that space empty... I hope those nice ladies don't lose access to their transport.
Greetings from the US. 👋
Hello from across the pond! I know it was heartbreaking hearing their story! Hopefully the video can help in some way. Thanks for watching and the comment!
Ive waited 4 hours for bus in leicester, buses are getting less and less im 50 i don't drive these ladys make some articulate points lets help them.
Funny how all those contractors take millions in public money and go magically 'bust', isn't it?
Bath isn't far away though, I imagine that's looking lovely still.
We shall see in an upcoming video! Thanks for watching and the comment
London and Glasgow are 2 of the worst areas in my opinion but we are discussing a high street problem. Deterioration spreads like a disease.
Indeed! Very strange seems to be a very British phenomenon. Thanks for watching and the comment
I've seen a few death of the high street vids and this is the worst I have seen. There is literally nothing open. Where do people go ?...even with the internet you would still expect to see a few more open than this. It does make you wonder where it's all leading. In 20 years time high streets will be extinct and something parents tell their children about. Everyone will just be sat at home on the internet because there won't be anywhere left to go.....sad.
Thanks for the kind words 🙏 sad scenes indeed! Thanks for watching and the comment!
It's a deliberate policy to control people. Especially men. It will become like North Korea with everyone at home and a handful of nodding dogs in grey suits walking around. Pathetic that people are allowing this fcking shit to happen.
So many folk doing university degrees on things like gender studies, what the UK ,and many other places needs ,is university studies, relating to regeneration of these communities.
Business and management studies is the most popular subject area for University degrees, along with medicine.
Thanks for watching and the comment. Sad times indeed
DO MARGATE NEXT 😂 what absolute Rundown Hellhole
On the list for sure. Thanks for watching and the comment
@@JoefishJ For me it is fascinating , yet tinged with sadness to see our once beautiful, green and pleasant land being exploited and ruined...l have long departed from those shores, having seen it coming, since that Useful idiot Tony Blair and successive Woke governments have left our borders wide open....
This is sad. It was a thriving town when I was last there about 15 years ago
looking at the place now there is no reason to even venture there
Hopefully things change for the people of Yeovil. Thanks for watching and the comment
I live in South Wales a lot of our shops buildings etc are just empty and very run down! Apparently one whole street is being knocked down to build flats on!
It's good that you're drawing more attention to this and I hope other TH-camrs follow suit. Jokes aside, let's put the "Great" back into "Great Britain"
Definitely thanks for watching and the comment
Cheap Chinese imports available online.
Thanks for watching and the comment
You know things are bad when Poundland closes.
Agreed 💯
This once great country is now completely broken and beyond repair
The shopping centre , which is now empty, wiped out the high street. You don’t have to be a genius to work it out.
This happened in Ozfrom 1965 when a local golf course was turned into an isolated shopping complex. The called it Roselands, but it had thorns!!!
It has happened Ias hundred (if not thousands) of once pleasant shopping streets, became retail deserts.
Stavros
Hey thanks for the comment Stavros. Hope you enjoy the content
Not seen anywhere worse that this, although most towns are to an extent like that. Underfunding from government, people shopping online, businesses that shut down during the pandemic. Brexit putting up prices. Electricity and gas price hikes making it more difficult to heat massive shops. Great video though Joe. Shared on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks.
Hey thanks so much for watching and sharing! Really helps my channel when viewers share the video. Hopefully it shines a light on the issue! Thanks for watching and sharing 😁👊👍
The only good thing about this place is the house prices. But that's because the Town is a dump, only good if you work from home or for one of the few large businesses that operate here. If you want any kind of interesting life outside the house this place is awful. I don't leave my house.
Trouble is, most high street shops are now closed due to Supermarkets, which if like me,
are situated in out of the way places, where if you don't have a car, you can't get to.
Many factors at play! Thanks for watching
The country has been in real decline since 1979, but its got far worse since 2010, then brexshit cutting investment off from the EU, this is taking back control and the free market prevailing wonderful isn't it?
I was hoping to find a Brexit or anti Tory comment 😂 Mate, the internet has killed physical outlets for most sectors, nothing else..
What a dumb comment, you said it yourself the country has been in decline for decades even when in the EU, so what evidence do you have that trend would not continue to accelerate as it had? Lazy excuse to blame brexit which btw STILL has not been delivered and if you deny that then there is a word for someone like you. You think the EU are doing well, that their economies are healthy? GTFO.
I agree, a slow and steady decline unfortunately... Very sad sights across the country! Thanks for watching and the comment
@@Zaphod-ef9yz Strange that when i go to small towns in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg the nordic countries they are thriving. They must not have the internet in those counties ya mate.
@@bishton or maybe different demands / economic issues, they are all out of the UK.
Even the migrants don't want to live there
It was a serious shock! Thanks for watching and the comment!
Yoevil. Thats really shocking. Also your video on Weston super mud, what a shock. I didn't think it could get any worse.
Thankyou for drawing attention to this issue.
Here's some more neglected places: Holsworthy, Bideford, Launceston, Newton Abbot, Bridgewater.
Haha brilliant thanks for the comment and for watching. Hope you enjoy the upcoming content, got my eye on a few of your suggestions.
Hello Joe, thanks for your excellent videos that you do so well and professionally well presented. Only 12 years ago Yeovil was nothing like this and now total desolation and dilapidation of a good town once upon a time. I thought the interview outside the church was amusing. Suddenly waltzing up to three pleasant teenage boys with a video cam. If a police car had been there anywhere you might have been stopped and interogated for inciting minors. I hear a voice in my ear of another interfering cop saying 'excuse me Sir, I could'nt help but notice you were talking to those teenage boys, now, if I could take some particulars'. Warm regards Peter Luton UK
Thanks for the kind words and for watching. Really appreciate it thank you
Lots of cities & towns like this here in the US as well. Keep up the good work Joe!👍👍
Awesome thanks for the kind words 🙏
The funny part about all this is they are building a New walkway but with no shops to walk too ! I would like to add you missed the good part on the other side where its full of phone shops & HMV :)
I would like to add that next time you visit you check out nine springs as its one of the most stunning hidden gems in Somerset to walk around and FREE !
The road to no where... Thanks for watching and the comment
Stockport isn't far behind. They've spent years building a bus station which will open soon but there's now nothing there
Yes other viewers have mentioned Stockport... Is it a bad one? Thanks for watching and the comment
I moved to Yeovil in 1984. During the 60s I lived out Somerton and came in here shopping regularly. When my late husband was discharged from the army I decided for my family to live here in Yeovil. It was a lovely shopping centre until the pandemic arrived in 2020, then we couldn’t visit the shops as much, so a lot of them went bankrupt and had to close. We lost the bus station cafe. We still have M&S, Boots is still there and Iceland store. Those works has been going on for a few years now, so it doesn’t encourage anyone to come into town. I haven’t been to town since Christmas and that was to get a bus out to the station. There are also road works all around the outskirts of town. I don’t drive either and I only come to town if I really need to.
Common story across the UK unfortunately!! Hopefully something changes, thanks for watching and the comment!
The emergence of giant superstores is surely one of the reasons for the appalling changes to town centres. A visit to any big food store (Sainsburys, Tesco, etc) usually reveals they sell all the goods that used to be offered by individual shops: a florists, a newsagent & sweetshop, a fishmonger, a greengrocer, a butcher's shop, a chemist, a bakery, a pet shop, a clothes shop, etc. And many superstores also have their own cafe. A TH-cam video I came across recently showed how Slough town centre has been wrecked by an enormous J Sainsbury megastore. Such stores might benefit working men and women with busy lives and cars, but such megastores don't offer the social opportunities that existed when there were multi-faceted town centres to visit - places with cafes and restaurants as well as shops, library, pubs and perhaps a cinema and theatre.
@@PhilBrown-ik1dk Yeovil’s main Tesco store is in town. Asda and Morrisons are out of town. Asda hasn’t got a cafe and we haven’t got a Sainsbury’s.
I think the main reason high streets have died is out of town shopping centres. I'm 75 from Teesside. When I was growing up towns like Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton were full of small independent shops but then The Metro Center at Gateshead opened and later Teesside Park, quickly things changed. In Redcar there was an electrical store called Birkbeck's, founded in the year I was born. Out of town shopping took over and it closed in 2008. You can't blame people for preferring the large out of town chain shops. If you want a new washer they may have 100 to chose from where Birkbeck's had say 10. My cousin and her husband owned a fruit and veg shop in the village of Wheathampstead employing 3 people. The week the out of town Tescos opened their takings dropped by more than 50%. They had to sack the staff and run it on their own but had to close the following year.
This is what happens when you turn high stress into pedestrian only they become dead spots just full sadly of rough sleepers junkies and street drinkers the shops don't get passing trade and normal people are put off by the above people
Some factors there at the cause for sure. Thanks for watching and the comment
Have you visited Camborne, Cornwall? Not the paradise Cornwall is often presented as.....
I have! Thanks for the comment and suggestion they are always welcome!
Online shopping killed many high streets in the UK but not all. Marlow, Bucks High Street is lovely and buzzing!!! Why is this? Think about it?
Definitely a factor! Hope you enjoy the content
Sirs with respect so very many especially young have left England-- after uni the local council's owning the uni -- need the young to leave the areas and live/ work abroad so education depts can charge for 10 years state education and uni education to the countries they leave to work / live in so there we have it breaking of English families which was once the Back one of our society - Hence immigration is welcomed to swell figures ,unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. Also it cost 42,000 £ for 2 shop staff on minimum wage for 40 hours overheads included it does not add up in figures Small shops are a thing of the past .Shopping has become 24 hour shopping on line -- which sells more goods and is creating jobs elsewhere in the millions Streets will transform -- but please be aware of drugs now ciculating and flooding areas -- with family life dissapearing some immigration will take opportunity to become the barons of drugs ,Is this what you want for your daughter/son ?In fairness how the heck do you prevent drugs it's just a way of life in Europe s cities and further East and if there is youngsters to catch in the web ,itWILL prevailent when the young have what Briton has, youngsters with money left from decent parents
Certainly a lot leave for other areas of the country! Thanks for watching and the comment. I hope you enjoy the content
Nothing beats the plaza in Huddersfield we are number one RECOGNISE
Ooo I've heard 'good' things about Huddersfield!
Like all the cities and towns in the UK, years of government austerity policies, industries closed down, communities forgotten and abandoned and the wealth being invested abroad.
Hopefully videos like this shine a light on the situation across the UK. Thanks for watching and the comment
Many people blame online shopping for the epidemic of shop closures in Britain but it's not that simple.
Major contributors are rising rents, both commercial and housing, and central government defunding councils, many of them going bankrupt. The UK is going the same way as the US. In the US, whole city centres have closed or are closing down as property/rents are unaffordable. Many people with jobs are living in their vehicles because they cannot afford rents. As a result, consumption plummets and small businesses close down. Also, shoplifting has increased exponentially leading to more shops closing. Many people flee the worst areas and flock to other more affluent areas/states causing problems for those states too.
I think Britain needs to face up to a new reality where extreme poverty and homelessness will affect not just the current poor and working class but eventually everybody but the rich. The current trends in global politics, economics and conflicts point toward this.
Many factors at play. Thanks for watching
Very good work! I think you need to visit Wrexham High Street and The Eagles Meadow shopping centre to highlight the desperate very similar situation.
Thanks for the tips! It's now on the list thanks for the suggestion 👍
It's not a British town centre anymore. Kebab shops, vape shops, Turkish barber's, phone shops and 1 pound shops selling tat. No pubs, no cafes and druggies or homeless everywhere. That's every town centre these days. But to be fair it looks like the town your in has realised it's a dump and are trying to redevelope it.
Felt like a ghost town... Very sad vibes in the town. Thanks for watching and the comment
lol 😂 when you said Yeovil I thought you meant Waterlooville 🤣🤣🤣 pay us a visit and play spot the difference. I’ll get you started. It’s zero.
Haha brilliant thanks for watching and the comment
I visited Banbury's Castle Quay shopping centre yesterday for the first time in many months.
It used to have a Debenhams, BHS, H&M and M&S but they've all long since gone, as have many of the smaller shops. I counted twelve closed units in one wing alone.
I've heard it's bad. Thanks for watching and the comment