ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- I explore Downtown Bournemouth taking in the sights, sounds and views of empty shops. Is bournemouth Dying or is it going through a minor blip? Either way it's safe to say Bournemouth isn't what it used to be.
Join me on an adventure of a lifetime!
SUPPORT THE CHANNEL.
www.buymeacoff...
Production Equipment I use...
DJI Action 4 www.amazon.co....
iPhone 14 shorturl.at/BEHUY
DJI Osmo Mobile 4 www.dji.com/uk...
Clothing...
On Cloud Walking trainers shorturl.at/sZ168
Crew Clothing Puffer Jacket (No longer Available)
Lowe Pro Camera Bag www.lowepro.co...
CONTACT ME
/ explorizm.tv
![[Live] ศึกมหึมันส์มวยไทยสังเวียนเดือด เวทีมวยชั่วคราวสวนสยาม | จันทร์ 30 กันยายน 2567](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pM1k6f7JXUc/mqdefault.jpg)
Just for info pigeons don’t poop when flying, enjoy the videos thanks
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh they do. Spend £35 on a wash, drive around for a bit and you'll see exactly what these pigeons are capable of
@Geeforce252 sorry to say they do lol.and have done on me. Meant to be lucky not sure about that lol 😆
Yes they do
Such a shame to see the deterioration. The government seem to have money for wars, but not the homeless and the upkeep of towns and roads.
They're not spending anything on wars, they're money laundering between their rich mates, you must be seriously daft if you think your tax money is actually going to ukraine etc any of those fake wars to buy them bread lol.
Immigration
The gov. can do both the terrible war and the upkeep of Britcutta , matter of intellect and moral .
So much homeless where I live I see so much 😔
This is intentional
I grew up in Poole in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. Bournemouth was an elegant, Victorian styled haven when Poole was dirty, uncultured in the main, and smelly from the gasworks. I attended Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Winter Gardens, walked across the road to that splendid little corner from the curved bus station opposite. saw traffic travel up and down Poole Hill, Richmond Hill and other roads off of Bournemouth Square. The park half way up Richmond Hill was a particularly attractive and peaceful haven.There was a church to one side of the park where I sang in a concert with a student group called Gli Amici della Musica during college holidays. Everything about the place was pristine, posh and proud. The lower pleasure gardens were vibrant with bands playing in the bandstand, and attended Christmas pantomimes in the Pavilion Theatre. I skated in Westover Road ice rink. I can also remember Westbourne and Bournemouth West rail station, all of which were also elegant and charming. Now look at the area. it's a mere shadow of its former elegance, ugly to the core.
😢
I was there in the 70's , very nice posh place to visit , still nice but not like before ...
Totally agree lived through b,mouth all my life lovely town untill??? Saying no more
@@gazzathebazza7967 OK until what ? You scared of saying something your entitled to free speech you know .
I was born in Bournemouth and enjoyed the 70s when growing up. At 20 years old I moved to London. Now when I visit, it's just a shell of what it used to look like, very sad 😔
Criminal. In the 70s it was the place to go ! Who is shutting down the UK & Why ?
WEF
That will be our government
@@GavBA1972 fake government ....pandits working for the " City of London " , the financial crooked hub
Tories
@@MadailinBurnhope oh dear, you are fast asleep aren't you.
Hi - well done for giving an unbiased tour of Bournemouth how it is today. I have lived in this town since 1984 and I’m sad to say I have watched this once grand pristine seaside town and its ‘blue rinse’ reputation sadly decline into rot and ruin (as witnessed by yourself) I would have loved to have seen a video of the times then compared to the sorry state it is in today. 😢Did you know that Bournemouth has the highest homeless population outside of London? BCP council are basically bankrupt and their priorities of town improvement are sadly lacking. Thanks again for your time videoing
The UK looks so dystopian these days. I've been in Spain for 15 years and the city councils invest a lot of money to keep the areas aesthetically pleasing and well-managed. It makes such a difference to the pride people take in their environment.
This is something I've never understood. Even when we build new stuff we then leave it to become dirty, run-down and eventually an eye sore. Councils should keep the streets clean, use pressure washers and mandate local buildings are kept clean and the front of shops are swept and cleaned - just like we used to do.
@@JayDee-iy5be Council can only do so much. If there is no community spirit so much so the residents are not invested in the upkeep of their own neighbourhoods then...I've long understood Spain has a community spirit. The more 'diverse' Britain becomes and the longer people spend starring at their phones, the more community spirit fades...
get real lol spain is turning into a 3rd world country, economy there is a shambles.
Agreed however I’m in Barcelona and only the centre is looked after, the suburbs look awful, lack of investment and you can see issues drugs, crime, it’s the same everywhere in Europe. If you can afford to live in a high class area perhaps you can avoid but trust me many European courses are unsafe and are not as attractive as they once were…
Spain is just a richer mindset .
All the UK looks the same its all by design!
Last time I was in Bournemouth it was 1979 and it was about the poshest place I had ever seen. All the shops were open and busy. I spent the night in the winter gardens watching a band play then went to a restaurant
(a real one not a fast food botchalism outlet) one thing I do remember is how many flowers there were everywhere. Shops. Hotels. Roundabouts. People homes. The whole place had gone flower planting crazy. It looked fantastic. we had a nice time in a nice place. Nothing bad to report about the place. Sounds like it's changed a bit...
We used to go to Bournemouth for the August Bank holiday weekend.
It was always lovely right up until the last time we went in 2007.
The decay had set in by then and we decided never to bother again.
Yes i remember now... lots of flowers
It is off season in winter.
The rot started when the McDonald's opened.
Heart breaking to see how bad things are in bournemouth now ,i used to go there on the train as a kid to westover road ice rink.Then when i was older i moved to boscombe and would walk from pier to pier ,then explore all the department stores .It was full of life ,loved it ,seeing vlogs like this fill me with sadness .It is good the you show it warts and all though.
it’s a dump now too many knife attacks , there was a case recently about two people who killed someone , they swapped shoes to try and trick the police it was bournemouth gardens 😢 they didn’t get murder should of been life sentence , i miss the 80s before social media and crime
And mass immigration.
House burglaries and car theft (joy riding - boy racers) violence on the seafront on bank holidays, mods and rockers, football hooliganism was MUCH worse in the 80’s and early 90’s. It was an epidemic. Gangs of “casuals” and vandals was a rife in the 80’s.
Car crime and burglaries have drastically reduced. Football related gangs are very rare, not an everyday week, full police riot operation.
Drug related, especially stabbing violence is obviously up, gangs shoplifting and snatching phones or items left on display in a car is obviously up. Homelessness is up.
Crime was a serious problem in the 80’s - 90’s. Especially downtown on a Saturday night after closing times in the pubs.
The amount of clubs and pubs has massively reduced too.
It's like that everywhere
I used to live in bmouth and now live in soton , it's the same shit here and everywhere in the country
And yet here you are. On social media.
Loved Bournemouth in the 70s,80s and 90s, seeing the benefits of diversity I wouldn’t wish to visit again.
You lost the election to Labor, diverse team of England has reached 2 finals in a row and more immigrants are coming. Must be a tough day in the office. 😂😂😂
@@cristianoreddevil9736 I didn’t vote, last time we won major honours in 66 there was no diversity in the team, figure that one out.
Same everywhere now.
I have lived in Bournemouth for over 30 years. Bournemouth was such a lovely place year's ago with a beautiful beach. I would say castlepoint is better for shops & Poole is better than Bournemouth now. The only thing Bournemouth has to offer is the beach 👍
i grew up in Bournemouth during the 70's and 80's It was a fantastic place and as kids and teens we used to spend weekends meeting up with friends hanging out in the gardens and going to cafes and having Beech parties during the Summer. It was full of Families on holiday and of course lots of old retirees . Bournemouth had a sort of exclusive and wealthy reputation full of top end Jewellery shops, Boutiques and Art Galleries. The town has declined rapidly in the last 15 years or so I guess the 2008 financial crash, the decline in the wealthier retiree population and the influx of international population have gone a long way to bringing about its decline. A friend of mine lives just off Old Christchurch Road and he is desperate to move out. He said he wont go out after dark. He only lived there for 2 years and said its changed a lot even since he moved there. He said there are issues with homelessness drugs and general degeneracy in the town and a growing number of illegal immigrants being put up in some of the Hotels like the Roundhouse and others dosnt help. Just a few weeks ago the riot police were called out to stop a gang fight in the street out side the Roundhouse Hotel !
Bournemouth has gone downhill in the last 10 years or so. I would definitely not feel safe being out at night in the town centre. Very very sad.
wonder why. weird innit?
It's one of the safest towns in the UK. Incredibly low violent crime rate.
@@acex222 cant tell if thats sarcasm or not lol
The whole country is a dump now.
If you think that the UK is a dump, then 99% of the world by that logic is a huge dump
I agree
I'd heard a lot of horror stories about how downhill Bournemouth has become compared to even ten years ago (when I was a student there), and even though the town centre clearly has taken a hit, I don't think it's as bad as it's been made out to be. It's not irredeemably salvageable (in fact from the video I can see there are some new shops popping up). I could easily see it returning to what it was quite quickly if more cash gets injected into the council.
I was at uni in the 90s there...took my partner there 2019....Trust me its worse in the flesh...and especially the night time. I was shocked.
Wow! When I was Younger in the 80’s & 90’s Bournemouth was always known as a Retirement Town/Place. How Sad 😢 unfortunately all the UK is now Like it, but especially Seaside Towns
Apparently all the shop windows are bifocal 😂
Literally I used to love going to Bournemouth every summer for the beach (if u can actually find a spot becoz its so overcrowded) and the town centre and I've definitely noticed the decline even in the last 5 to 10 years. Everywhere smells like urine and the homeless issue has gotten way out of hand like many places in the UK 😔 Nothing seems like it used to be. My last visit was so depressing and I thought..... just get me out here! I'm glad to go to home!! When i think of Bournemouth i just think of ...... hot urine underpass and thats it.
I live in Bournemouth and have to say that a grey winters day isn’t really a true reflection of the town. I don’t remember having been anywhere in the UK recently and not being glad to come home to Bournemouth. It might not have the high street it used to have etc, but nowhere does.
I went to Bournemouth once. It was closed
I remember a time when you could walk down Old Xchurch Rd at 2am . The place was alive with people coming out of the clubs Adriano’s , Whiskeys , Hell . Everyone high on happiness , not drugs ! A beautiful , vibrant safe town and lovely people .
Bournemouth has a lovely beach and is great for a day or two in summer, but besides that has little more to recommend it.
The walk from the train station to the centre is really rundown and depressing, and the town centre itself asides from the central park gardens, is nothing to write home about.
It improves as you go west towards Sandbanks, but still somehow lacks the depth and variety of some other south coast towns such as Brighton or Exeter/Exmouth.
Even Christchurch, just down the road, is much nicer.
Bournmouth used to be a nice safe holiday destination ,i wonder what changed that !!
WHAT?
Bournemouth used to be a place where people retired to such a shame its gone down hill
Which is why it's called G-d's Waiting Room.
It's still nice in most of it.
It still is but they don't live in or visit the Town centre.
@@marklatimer7333 Same in lots of places unfortunately.
Lived in Bournemouth 1951 to 1972 and oh has it gone down hill. My daughter still lives there and confirms what many say in these comments that Old Christchurch Rd and Horseshoe common are no go areas as is Boscombe High St (Christchurch Rd.) If you are looking for who to blame - council, council, council.
If you want to blame the council council council, then you really need to blame the voters voters voters.
@@JackChurchill101 Considering the turn out for local elections I think you might mean "blame the Non-voters non-voters non-voters"?
Childhood memories walking thru the winter gardens thru to the beach. Magical past the bandstand, the little river running over the pebbles, the band playing, feeding the squirrels. Always wanted to retire to Bournemouth, glad i didn,t. Wonderful walks along the Chines, but don,t know what us like now.
I’m 55 and grew up there. I lived abroad for 12 years. I can’t believe what I came back to. It’s a shit hole. I will never go back there. It used to be lovely. Bournemouth was posh and poole was working class. Now they are both horrible and like any other shit hole town in the Uk. Very sad.
Was a frequent traveller to Bournemouth. Late '80s til early 2000's. Was considered my second home. Parents and many relatives from there. I knew my way around South West quite well. Am stunned to see what it looks like in 2024. Barely recognise it. Such a shame.
Thanks for showing us and your TH-cam channel!
Greetings from Canada🇨🇦
Greetings to you too! Thanks for watching 🙂👍
@MarieSommers-vw8sn it’s true every town is struggling especially those that depend on tourism like Bournemouth, Margate, Blackpool… the list goes on. This video is merely a document of what it looks like in its current state and yes some parts do look ropey… even you know that. It will get better, and Margate is the perfect example. Thanks for your comment 🙂
@@explorizm Margate is still a dump, sorry.
I havent been for a few years but it's my favourite place. Ive seen seaside towns far more run down than that.
My family migrated to Western Australia in 1964 when I was 12. Best thing we ever did. In 1n 1954, when I was 3 years old we went for a holiday to Bournemouth. We stayed in a caravan park. Like many in those days we were very poor. My parents, my 4 year old brother, and I lived in one room without a bathroom in Earls Court.
I remember that holiday like it was yesterday. At nights everyone would gather around a big bonfire and sing songs and dance. That's how it used to be, folks. Who remembers the hop picking holidays and Butlins Holiday Camps? When I was 10 we couldn't afford Butlins so we went to Waltons at Norfolk Broads. The staff wore green blazers instead of the red used by Butlins. We had a fantastic time. You don't have to be rich to be happy if you are surrounded by family and good people.
I am 73 now, wealthy enough, with 4 uni degrees and I have lived and worked in about 54 countries. I spent 18 years in the Australian Army, including as a Major Force Liaison Officer for the US led MFO in 1982-83. I was in the Gaza, Israel, and West Bank. The Israelis were killing the Palestinians and stealing their land way back then. As an independent peacekeeper I saw it all first hand.
Memories.
Coming from an Aussie that’s vey rich.
Thank you for sharing 🇬🇧💕🥳🥳
@@grbbbc🤭
John 11.25-26 Jesus said unto her I AM the resurrection and the life he that believes in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever lives and belives in me shall never die believest thou this Amen
I enjoyed this and thought that, in general, Bournemouth looked pretty good. I moved here (to Boscombe) about nine months ago and do not regret it at all; in fact, I wish I had done so years ago. It's a good place to live, partly because of the easily accessible environmental benefits, but also because of the generally relaxed atmosphere and the amenities such as a plethora of public spaces and gardens. My suspicion is that many people who have lived in the town (city) a long time or those who return after a long absence, have very nostalgic recollections of a temps perdu and are minded to be very critical and pernickety. For those relocating here recently, it seems a very civilised place to live , possibly one of the nicest in the UK, with many positive features which greatly outweigh any deterioration in standards, which of course, is hardly confined to Bournemouth!
Agreed. I left the area in 2010 and moved to London. Bournemouth, Pool, XChurch are much nicer than London.
Glad you like it, I lived above the Aldi in Boscombe for 5 years and people like to talk about boscombe like it’s skid row. No doubt the town is struggling I’m hopeful it can be turned round
i lived in charminster branksome boscombe poole mudeford its lovely.
@grahamlouden6096 I live at the end of Boscombe in Boscombe East, bottom of Pokesdown Hill. Southbourne is lovely now although years ago it was quite rundown. The bit between Boscombe and Pokesdown is a sorry state now with many closed shops converted into flats. I still feel safe walking though even at night if I have to but at 70 years old, I don't go out much at night. Boscombe does have a great nightclub that has gone through a number of changes from The Opera House, the Academy, and now the 02 Academy. We went to see Sam Ryder there last year following his success in the Eurovision Song contest. My kids have grown up and married but still all live here rather than moving away, which is a blessing for me, with having lost my hubby 7 years ago, I just hope my grandchildren will still have a future here.
I lived in Boscombe for five years, until 2022. It was awful. Constant burglaries, fights on the street, my bike vandalised, shops empty. Completely dead in winter. Nothing to do.
Boscombe even worse than Bournemouth and that's saying something .
Wow was it that bad every day where u felt it like that daily ?
Boscombe has all shops open, you don't get asked for change every 2secs unlike central bmouth with no shops open apart from Greggs and Primark an crack heads literally everywhere!
@@nuzoe7134boscombe is a much nicer place to be than central Bournemouth now
Ex Bournemouth lad assisted in building the roundhouse hotel way back in 69 for Bison, glad I got out.
This was a wonderful place to stay in the 60s, but UK cities are now a disgrace. Thanks for the good video which confirms my fears.
Bliss was a swanky bar back in 2005ish. Toko was next door. I lived above them in a student flat for a year. Behind them is St Peters church, the burial place of Mary Shelly. I woke up one day to find Billy Connolly interviewing a tramp about it for his World Tour tv show.
That street used to be buzzing, so it's really sad to see it in that state.
I think Pop World is where Walkabout used to be. I worked there for a bit. I used to get asked why an English fella was working in Walkabout (for backpackers) so much that I would put on an Aussie or Safa accent when on shift. That lead to ladies asking why I had an Australian accent an hour ago, but speaking with an English one in bed!
Cameos used to be called Elements, it was notorious because of a stabbing that occurred there and an Eastenders episode was filmed there.
What has happened to the place? It really was the Costa del Bournemouth years ago. If you went to Uni there, you had a good time... I lived on top of a multi-storey car park in a uni halls that was falling apart called Glenfell House and still had a mental time. I think Slinky might have had something to do with that though!
Crikey can't believe the place is buzzing with shoppers "ALL THREE OF THEM"
The old shop front on the right (No. 7) at 13:34 is one of the original arcade shops. It should say 'Cigars' in the brass at the base of the window. Used to catch the trolley buses in that street - electric-driven, using an overhead wire system to power them. Little blue sparks in the winter gloom. Born in the now demolished Boscombe Hospital, lived in a couple of places, such as Alum Chine, left 30 years ago - now looks like a right dump!
I remember the trolleybuses!
Magnificent, pristine yellow trolleybuses with fast acceleration, no external advertising and the borough coat-of-arms on the side, together with a fleet of immaculate buses, too - in keeping with the refined nature of the town itself. Everything was spotless, flowers everywhere. Deterioration was gradually setting in when I stayed there for a few months in 1988. In the 1950s and 1960s Bournemouth was pure class. The town's demise is tragic.
Loved the nightlife in 80’s and 90’s - Royal Exeter Hotel, Madisons, The Academy in Boscombe. Happy times!
same here , I was going there from Belgium to learn English & have great fun
I lived there in the 90s. It was a great laugh back then. The place looks kinda gutted and post apocalyptic now. There were shabby areas but the place had a buzz to it back then. I'm not sensing any of that from this video
The Maison Royale, La Cardinale, The Rooftop, The Centrals Bars, Spats Wine Bar, The Criterion and the New Fox Pub everyone of them I remember as being a bit of a sh1thole.
I moved to Bournemouth from the U.S and it's always sad to hear that it's gone downhill over the years. I don't think it's terrible, to be fair, but there are a lot of homeless and a lot of stores/shops completely shut down and out of business.
I hope things improve in the future and more life returns to the area.
Doesn't matter if its no hands or not to the viewer ! Don't recognise the place, it is 20yrs since I was there...... What about going to Christchurch or Poole, surely it isn't as run down there ? Brownsea Island ?? Wimbourne.....Ringwood....There you are - that will last you until mid summer 😄Then you can go on to Torquay 😆
Poole is the Southern Lancaster. It's like Christchurch and Highcliffe combined, with a cross Channel ferry port, and a very big natural harbour. Lots of mentally backward people, basically.
@@therespectedlex9794 I know Poole well as we lived in France until 7years ago & we used to sail from there often, or Portsmouth. Why are there lots of mentally backward people, do they flock there, are they sent there... or what ?
@JVSwailesBoudicca I think it's a very sheltered middle class area, similar to Lancaster. When people are too lucky, the minds of their children get softer and weirder. But sometimes the exact reasons for their dyslexic state baffle me. Highcliffe is especially like an autistic colony, and Christchurch isn't far off. Or maybe they're Midwich Cuckoos, or children from that other movie The Damned, filmed in Weymouth.
*Dysgenic (not dyslexic)
Holidays there in 1950 made me feel jealous, is was so nice.
Old Christchurch Road is a No-Go Zone at night, unless you're a drug dealer.
Back in the 70s, Bournemouth was a really nice place. Now it's a shit-hole.
Writing from India. I did my Masters at Bournemouth Uni in 2006. It used to be so posh and beautiful then. I used to work weekends at House of Fraser selling suits. Those were the best 2 years of my life. Happy memories.
Thanks for all your hard work, yes bournemouth has changed over the years, it all looks so sad. As a young lad bournemouth was the holiday resort for lots of people with the summer shows and boat trips to swanage. I'ts a pity we cannot put the clock back !!!
13:30 the booths make the arcade look tacky. If Waterstones move out it's game over.
Burger King here in the USA is always open correct, some are full of people some not, because there, part of a worldwide Corp. When I was a kid over there , we would play crazy golf in the park there , is that still there
I was in Bournemouth in 1979 as a student I had greatest time in my life.
I use to go Alcatraz and Adrianos at the weekends great memories ❤
I was there 10 years later. B'mth like history town for student. in 1988-89 it 's time for accademy ,bubble .
@@LMP2395 hahahaha 1989 I migrate to United States Newyork from Turkey
I used to go to Alcatraz, Adrianos, European café. I lived in Bournemouth in 1979 and 1980. Wonderfull times. May be we meet each other hahaha
@@CristinaLopez-mg7hv best time of my life back then. I was 16 years old
Was my first European trip I remember I flew from Istanbul to Heathrow with British Airlines 3 hours 50 minutes flight.i was so excited 😃😃😃
@@CristinaLopez-mg7hv maybe who knows I remember wonderful times
Love Bournemouth and boscombe, in summertime they come alive and it's all vibrant and beautiful, great video...🌴🍷🍸
I liked it when it had trolleybuses, the near unique turntable is a listed structure at Christchurch.
Been living in Bournemouth all my life (34 years) and unless you live or work in Bournemouth town centre, most people genuinely have absolutely no reason to need go into town. Absolutely absurd parking prices is a major reason people use other places to shop (castlepoint for example). We had many many empty shops before covid and then the pandemic was really the nail in the coffin 😅
Been there 35 y
Brighton is the same. I want to move to Spain now. Uk gone to pot
@@terrytezzbigtel living in a warmer climate does sound incredibly appealing to be honest! But I’d miss watching my cherries 🍒 every week
@terrytezzbigtel Brighton is a million times better than Bournemouth, there's really no comparison
Although it's not as nice as it used to be, Bournemouth is still way better than many other towns and cities in the UK. If people would cut 75% of their online shopping and then councils and landlords would for once stop being so greedy, it might improve the state of many places on this miserable little wet island.
The Roundhouse hotel where you started is the scene of a lot of migrant gang violence. The Subway toward the end of Old Christchurch Road was the scene of a brutal murder by one of those migrants. I went in to a cake shop toward the end of the road, the basement toilet was covered floor to ceiling in diarrhea.
I walked round Bournemouth town centre a few weeks back and was shocked to see the utter state of the town now. Litter, graffiti, broken windows, weeds everywhere, closed down department stores and empty shopping malls. Now all there is left are takeaways, taxi firms, nail bars and barbers.
It doesn't look too bad on here.
@@002lisamarie You've clearly got no standards then!
@@RealistGunner It's nicer than many places in the UK.
@@002lisamarie And that says it all.
Glory holes in too many lavs. Also, the college lavs required student passes (or keys, maybe) to unlock them. Could be a bit more charitable about people traipsing in for a Jimmy Riddle. What's the worse thing that could happen?
Real shame. In 1990 I spent a summer working at the Dormy Hotel, which is long gone, and had a blast in Bournemouth with fond memories. Sunbathing in the day and Boscombe Academy in the evening dancing to old school classics. I remember even bumping into Rick Buckler of the Jam and having a coffee with him!The gradual changes would be exactly that for those living there but for me to see thirty odd years later is a shock.
I worked at the Royal Bath and the pier cafe 91 and 92 while at uni. Also frequent at the academy remix and show bar and a place I think called bauhauss in Old Christchurch Rd.
Burger king get loads of Deliveroo/Uber orders. I'm not sure why exactly, as it's some of the most god-awful shit a person could eat. I enjoyed your vid! Couldn't help cracking up at some of the OAPs whizzing past you on their scooters hahaha! (No offense intended to them of course, but it's just kind of amusing how they do that). Total ghost town on the day you recorded this, but today it was crowded 'cause the sun was out. In a few months I'm sure it'll be totally packed with people, as it usually is during the summer. 🌞 🌊 Check out the Oceanarium sometime if you haven't yet, mate.
🐢🐠🐧👍
(The audio is very good btw).
Wishing you safe travels. 😉
We all know why bournemouth is down the pan but can't say it because of PC.🙄🙄
The big furniture shop was called Maples, once had a gigantic red and black circular bed in the window.
yes it was ..i bought a sofa there many years ago
Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein is buried in St Peters as is Percy Shelley her husband the poet.
So that's why Weatherspoons is named after her. But they seem to be honouring Boris Karloff more on the signs outside.
I found not I was looking I came across
@@allylou5151 Are you thinking of Julius Caesar? 'Veni Vedi Veci'
Ive lived in Dorset since birth, ive watched the decline of Bournemouth over the last decade. I had the misfortune of having to go there six months ago ( been visiting for 50 years), i shall avoid a return trip. Large groups of men hanging around so it didn't feel very safe.
I visited Bournemouth a number of time in the 2000's on long distance bicycle tours, and was last there in 2010. I wanted to see how it looked now.
I lived there for many years. It looks much the same to me. Violent crime has risen mostly everywhere in the Uk towns and cities.
would be nice to see boscome pier and the gardens keep up the great filming x
Boscombe Pier is a shadow of it's former self. I couldn't believe it when it it was rebuilt, just a stump. It used to have a theatre on the end of a longer pier at one time that was later turned into a roller skating rink.
It is very sad to see that Bournemouth, our home is being destroyed by the council. I have 2 Questions do you think they would change all of house of fraser (and the empty floors on top and the closed shops near it into a shopping centre? And do you know what happened to the NCP Hinton road car park?
Who knows, I know there are lots of plans! Unfortunately no, I noticed that had closed too.
Cameo was meant to have been closed down a few years ago. As you can see above the club, the whole block is empty. The only reason the club is still open it because it's doing very well and they keep renegotiating the lease for another year. I believe they want to knock it down and re-develop that area. I go to Bournemouth every year, my birthday and we do Be At One and Cameo.
Oh yeah! Take everyone over to “ The Gaza Strip” commonly known as Charminster Rd???
Get ya peeps hon that hole.😂😂😂😂😂
I left Bournemouth in 2008 to live in France. Bournemouth was dyng then because the transport to Bournemouth doesn't work. The locals can not afford to park in town so they shop out of town. Bournemouth is all hills so lugging shopping about is a nightmare. The students don't mind because everything is for them. Holliday makers go where the sun is and again it is always about where to park and how much. Bournemouth had something that locals could relate too like Londoners do and that was the colour of the yellow buses but they have gone too. Pedestrianising the town has killed it because pedestrians are actualy people. I am surprised Smiths is still there but they just happen to be where the buses stop. One could get off the bus buy a paper and then go somewhere else. We have some very old towns here in France but they still can have aretisan shops and cafes because there is still traffick acces and parking and buses that can get around. They even have trams and metros at an affordable amount. Those towns are always full of people. I will never go back.
I want move to France, sick of the UK looks like right dump now
Been living in Bournemouth as an International student from Namibia since 2023 and I've been enjoying it. People say it used to be nicer though. Love the beach 🏝️
@@MrMarmite5164 Perhaps.
When did we allow chewing gum to be spewed all over the pavement? Degrades every street in the UK. And all pedestrianisation does is make town centres so depressing. This could be anywhere in the UK. We've had enough and we're off. Life could be so much more pleasant than this.
Bournemouth has gone downhill but the first week of January won't see any seaside resort at its best. Not the town it was, that's for sure but going back on a warm sunny summer day might give it a bit of balance. However, it's still pretty terrible compared with its heyday! Sad
You missed the oldest cafe in Bournemouth, Norwegian Wood
It's very simple. The UK is overpopulated and Bournemouth has been culturally enriched.
i lived in bournemouth for 16 years and only just left last year as the influx of foriegn nationals and students has exploded in bournemouth. i cant believe sports direct has gone. and a few new stores have popped up. the popworld bar used be the australian bar .
Sports Direct is back not too far from the old one and it's MUCH better than the old one with a mini Game store in the branch
@@bestbest91 post a picture of it if you can? would like to see what it looks like?
also is the keith jones christian bookshop still open near st peters church?
Definite Dystopian look and feel. Grey dull uninteresting.
I live nearby, it’s an absolute dump compared to what it was ………. You hardly ever hear English spoken, filth everywhere………. Sad 😢
I was there a couple of weeks ago and walked through the town centre on the way to the hotel and I have to say it’s gone seriously downhill in some places. Having 3 big stores close in a short space of time won’t have helped and lots of closed down shops. Really don’t know why councils can’t incentivise shops to fill the empty ones, would definitely improve the look of things. Such a shame because it’s always been one of my favourite places.
I lived around the area for ten years until 2010. Its still a beautiful place, if you look up above the ever changing shopfronts. The ethnic sector then was exclusively in Charminster. Good to see O' Neils pub managed to stay in business. I wonder if the same infamous slum landlord is operating?
I am from Saint Petersburg, Russia. I became interested in the Bournemouth football club after our Demin bought it and brought it into the Premier League. I read the reviews and regret that everything is so deplorable. World Zionism is doing everything to ensure that the White population decreases or is oppressed at home.
10 years ago Bournemouth even in the winter looked clean and bright even above eye level, what ever has become of of it I am not sure I would like to take my kids on holiday there, i don't think I would like to have a night out in Bournemouth!! the council wants to get a grip.
You only have councillors to blame!!!!!! Be careful how you vote. Vote them back in and get more of the same!
A bleak day in January doesn't do Bournemouth justice, but it has definitely changed.
Can believe the state of it now compared to how it was in the 90's, disgusted at my home town
You mentioned Margate had been rejuvenated.
You should do a video of margate - especially the town center, high street and Northdown road.
It hasn’t been rejuvenated.
A very small section has been given a lick of paint.
The media will tell you “margate is on the up”.
They have honestly been saying the same thing since 1991.
It’s NOT been rejuvenated.
Everything has declined even more, in reality.
Nice to see my home town how it is as don't get to get down and see it. Thanks for the vids gives me good memories!
really gone to shit though hasnt it
It used to be fabulous, but sadly due to corruption in the council more. Seedy, grubby and not to mince words, a shit hole
Was born here in 1943, during an air-raid. Glad to see the bomb damage has been repaired.
I loved Bournemouth it was a lovely place, safe and buzzy. I live in Christchurch but have not been to Bournemouth for a few years now although it's only a short bus ride away. It has nothing to offer and doesn't. Feel safe anymore
I wanted to live in Hawaii in the 80s, went on TH-cam 10 years ago to find its a tip now, very sad, most places are in decline for one reason or another
There is also a fabulous place if you like "Antique Lighting". 1155 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth.
An absolute mess compared to 20 years ago. Used to be beautiful 😒
Bournemouth is a terrible place, theres nothing and hardly anybody there anymore. Apart from a lovely sandy beach that really is it. So glad ive left😊
There are a lot WORSE places. I moved down in 1986 from Coventry. That's a real 5hith0le as are most places North of the Midlands.
Thanks for watching
It is awful. I know there are worse but I’ve lived here for 30 years and have seen it going downhill. I went into Bournemouth last week. Druggies everywhere. In the underpass near Asda one was sat smoking cannabis but on other occasions I’ve seen druggies under there openly shooting up and smoking crack cocaine. Also, openly p**sing in Asda car park when there’s a toilet in Asda!
Damn. That's hard to hear since I'm going there on vacation this summer ;-; (it's a study trip)
I don't think it's a bad place overall but I get your point about that area around Asda.@@elainech6387
16:50 That's a shocker. Don't they have Yellow Buses anymore?
Nope Yellow buses went bankrupt or something like that, you can find articles online about it as it was in the local newspaper..
They stopped all services.. I think some people Yellow bus employees went over to More buses, and More buses kept some original Yellow bus routes which was nice to do. Hope that helps 🙂
Maybe you could feature Winton as people have their mixed opinions on it
Looks like most towns in U.K. now.
My parents could ruin anywhere but I hadn’t realised how successful their retirement to Bournemouth had been
@@steveemmett-inotherwords 🤣
Last time i was there was 1972 I think it's changed a bit but there was lots of scousers living there, bit like eastbourne because of the arctic roll factory. Ah disco I remember Chelsea Village if I am correct.
Didn’t the Chelsea village become the Cardinal? I was at the Outlook Club on the top floor most weekends in the early 80s
@@jimmysalford8415 No idea mate, l lived in Barton and never went there a lot and l left the area in early '73.
@@jimmysalford8415 I used to work in the Outlook! Then Maison Royal, Great times.
It was the pinewoods express that brought liverpudlians to Boscombe.
I moved from Bournemouth 26 years ago, had lived there since I was 7, 68 now, I used to have a bedsit off Old Christchurch road, and was married at the registry office, which now looks like its called "Wiggles"? It looks very sad now, but I guess many towns are going/gone this way. thank you for this wander around my old haunts👍👍
Yes - it’s a strip bar called ‘Wiggle’ - I used to work at the nightclub opposite
I think some of the residential roads in Westbourne and Branksome are still very nice.
Totally disgusting toilets in bus station and Asda
6:35 Horseshoe Common! I have not heard that name since 1967 when I used to play there as a kid; if you take the road up the hill on the right - that you just walked past - there is a pond where I used to catch Newts, and just up from that you come up on to Dean Park road where we used to live, and left - for Blandford Forum - another nice town just 20 miles north where we lived a few years and Dad was a CID (Police). He got sick of that and in 1970 we moved to Sweden as my mum was Swedish. England was GREAT then and moving to Sweden was like going behind the Iron Curtain - the only good thing was the Girls - who ALL wanted to talk English with you...Ha the Pavillion! The whole family went there for the Policemans Ball every xmas and it was the height of the whole year. Thanks heaps mate! You made my day and I could write a book..I was 12 when we left England and I HATED Sweden - now in northern NZ since 40 years. Cant get further away than that...
Got a shock to see Beales store boarded up and shut on a visit last year....always took my parents in there for coffee on our visits from Weymouth...had intended to do same again...!!...Happy memories of times sadly gone...Anybody know where the years went....???!!!???
I would say the town got too big for its boots , it has a very transient population students a foreign visitors. Also it’s degraded gradually from the less desirable parts of the town with influx of drugs and homelessness. People haven’t got the money for this expensive town any more and it’s flogged its soul to transient travellers. It needs to take a good hard look at its self and stop trying to exploit people soo much. The council also seem clueless about how to run the town and don’t seem to care about people.
The video here only shows a small part of Bournemouth there are areas like kinson Winton Charminster Thrope Southborne all with there own characteristics
What you’re really showing here is the commercial side of central Bournemouth which indeed has gone down hill! But there are still very nice ares to live to the north town.
On a positive note the self phone charging bench you showed maybe a sign that the town exploiters are realising they have care about people more rather than exploit 😂