I live in suffolk now ( Born in Denton )in a seaside town . I walked from the top of London Road to the top of the town recently 48 closed shops ,units & Pubs ,thats one in every 3 :/ the ones that are left i cant eve see how they make money ( lace curtain shop ?! in a world where no one uses them ) half of them are closed but have a sign saying ring this mobile well be down in 2 mins , its a friggin joke NO ONE wants to work for £1.45 an hour ( what min wage actually equates to ) .Now the scammer sunak wants to kill millions of people on PIP & those who have mental illness . The words Lynch Mob & Burning torches are i hope soon in Use . Tories have wrecked the North west & made my holiday town essentiall;y " Little Albania "
I read a few years ago that a female hockey group using Dewsbury Sports ground started to get harrassed by muslim youths. The girls complained to the police who predictabley told them to go and play hockey elsewhere. The mens rugby team found glass being scattered on the rugby pitch, they too complained and they too were told to go play rugby elsewhere. After a while of the sportsground not being used, the 'local' muslim community made a derisory offer for the ground and bought it and built a mosque and islamic religious centre. Anyone notice this sort of thing anywhere else?
Didn't the Grantham witch sell off playing fields? Anyway where are all the white men, I thought they would love a punch up them musilms. PS,those rugby players sound like a load of whimps, why didn't they sort them out them Muslims?
Yes that's an old trick , Hassidic jews would do similar in north London ... All organised religion should be discouraged ... The fly tipping in the area will be the tinkers in the caravans ... But what does it matter the imposter governments have asset stripped the country and flogged all the good stuff off and left the UK for dead ... Sad innit
Have you noticed anywhere in the north where it Isn't happening? That would answer your question much quicker. All the beautiful stone buildings Makes you proud doesn't it ? Shame.
@@bobharrison4711 it’s government policy to run down councils, that way they can give a tax break to the lazy billionaires. Who already have handouts, whilst we subsidise their employees wages.
Must be truly heartbreaking for the elderly people who've always lived there and remember an entirely different and much happier place just 40, 50 or 60 years ago.
Those elderly people are responsible for: a) doing nothing when the migrant horde first started being dumped on the UK; and b) persecuting and not supporting those who did try to ‘do something’. So for the most part I don’t feel sorry for these elderly cowards.
Too true mate, my home town used to be a vibrant, prosperous northern market town, we had three John Lang shops back in the seventies for Gods sake, Woolworths, J & Bs, Caddy’s Marks & Spencer’s etc. Now it’s just a haven for idle foreigners and drug dealers (guess who?). So glad I don’t live here any more.
Why are shops closing down to do with foreigners. Shops closed down because they are not making a profit end off. The money is all in the south and all the investments are in the South and there are more foreigners in the South.
@@damonmelendez856 HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THOSE ELDERLY PEOPLE HAVEN'T WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES, FOUGHT TO KEEP THIS ISLAND FREE FROM ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND TOSSERS LIKE YOU WHO PROBABLY HAVEN'T WORKED A DAY IN THEIR LIVES. 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹
@@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 That's not true. They understood what they were fighting for and were proud to do it. They had courage and patriotism unlike most today who have been brainwashed and emasculated by 'woke' ideology.
@@donaldjuan4934 Look up. Clouds are not supposed to be made from lines, of which one side stays straight and the other leaches, disperses, falls. Look up.
I'm 75 and remember spending weekends at my grandads in Dewsbury when the town was full of life and people. Magnificent Victorian architecture built with civic pride still stands, but now an epitaph to the proud people who once walked its busy streets.
Most of our towns are in decline like this. Ridiculous local Councils forcing businesses to shut with high business rates and ridiculous parking charges. Third world immigration and its over
@@neilbower9052 The councils have large contingents of anti-British people.. they see the deliberate rovination of our town centres as a pre-war tactic of 'jihad' to weaken their foe from within.
Our town centres have been devastated by online shopping, out of town retail parks and high business rates AND the utter stupidity of local government planners.
Same ! I now live in Australia , have returned a few times. Last time 7 yrs ago, what a hole then . Dare l return again as l know it’s going to be worse.
Post empire, post industrial Britain is fucked. And when you ask who runs Dewsbury, well....for years now it's been the Pakistani community, same as Bradford. The local council gave it over to them in fear of excluding but over including them.
yeah yeah yeah, not your fault is it. Do you moan on social media about the seaside towns dying while sat on your sun lounger in Spain? Ain't no hypocrite bigger than a white english racist bigot hypocrite
Only people that have businesses in small local towns are Asian people. because white people don't want to work, so don't give me that it's cos of us, ok
Talking utter bollocks. High business rates. Lack of investment. Online shopping. Supermarkets' proximity to town centres is a recipe for disaster for smaller shops. Nothing to do with Pakistanis. Engage your limited brain before making stupid comments.
What a contrast of those old pictures of the town and how it looks now. Problem is this is a pattern of decline around the Country and its getting worse.
I've got a plan , if all us labour councils spend money on ridiculous projects like fancy bike lanes, bus lanes one way streets , out of town shopping centres bigger better guildhall/ town halls and make sure most of this is government money . When we all declare bankruptcy we can blame the government and retire on our luxurious pensions
@@MichaelWillby Bike lanes are provided under legisltaion made by central govt as part of the plan to de carbonise the country. Out of town shopping centres were built due to relaxed planning laws , and forcing councils to grab as much council tax as possibe due to their incomes being slashed by 40% ( bet you would find that difficult), . It is always easy to blame , much harder to analyse the situation, Yes councils bear some of the blame but by far and away most of it was rooted in tory austerity cuts over 14 years, producing a reduction in average life span,, especially in northern england, and higher levels of poverty than has been seen since the 2nd world war.
@@booth2710Its the same everywhere and even those in the armed forces as i was in the seventies, all the married quarters etc well maintained but not any more, everything just left to rot away, mould and damp everywhere.
Grew up in Dewsbury/Ravensthorpe left in 76 not the Dewsbury I knew and loved as a kid it was safe and everyone watched out for everyone else. Great shops and a market that’s was second to none don’t really need to leave everything was there. Now it’s just a shell off a town dirty with boarded up shop fronts sad because the people from Dewsbury are really lovely people well the people I know who grew up there and still live there including family.
Used to go for a days shopping in the 1970, could buy anything(better than Amazon). Loved the place well worth the travel of an hour each way! So sad..
@davewalkden7248 Huddersfield's MP is? Ah, the longest serving Labour MP. So using your logic Huddersfield should be booming. But it isn't, is it? Why? Kirklees Council.
The initial wave into textile towns like Dewsbury were hard working and admired Britain's industrial heritage and work ethic. They walked around wearing the worsted and flat caps they helped to produce. Then came the radicals who took advantage of the foothold. Walking around in pyjamas became fashionable even influencing some of the chavs to do the same. And the corrupt politicians took advantage of the radicals as a means of crushing the culture of the working classes who represent the greatest collective threat. And here we are with a media obsessed about voting for the next round of BS in the downward spiral of mediocrity. You couldn't make it up (unless you had an imagination like Monty Python).
@@Isochest I looked that up and it's not related to anything imams may or may not do. Are you absolutely sure you're not thinking of the catholic church, because they cover that kind of thing up all the time.
My Dad used to put his three piece suit to go shopping in Dewsbury in the seventies. Now its a gathering place for the roughest dregs in the town. Never go there the council killed it by charging high rents for shops that only bookies can afford. The row of shops you showed were once WhSmiths argos boots Holland and Barrett. Utter shit hole. Used to have Cinema nice pubs even Wetherspoons have now gone old Turk is a good pub and bats on. but otherwise Dewsbury is a ghetto now.
@@dazdaz105 no suprise either. My dad still lives there, knows a bloke that works for kirklees. Rides arrived in a van doing the square root of f all. When his van needed replacing (probably ashtray was full), they asked him what van he wanted. ! Surely you select the most suitable van, then tell the employee what he's getting. Anyhow, he's in a fortune and does knack all. So much so even my dad had told him he's annoyed cos he takes the piss so much.
And I thought Rotherham was bad! This is so sad, but unfortunately it's happening everywhere up and down the country, town centres rotting away before our very eyes. I love this sort of content though, good stuff mate. Keep 'em coming👍🏻
Take a look at photos of Dewsbury from around the seventies and eighties it was a busy market town to which people came from miles around to shop, the market was well known throughout Yorkshire, luckily for us we now have a Dewsbury shaped by imigration and diversity what a lovely place where nobody visits any more, the whole country is going this way, it must be stopped or we are done
It's way to late for most towns and cities - just Ghettos - the culture that replaces the indigenous white are far removed from what created these abodes. These islands will never return with diversity comes a rabble of ethics who walk around in pyjamas and other distinct head gear indoctrinated by eastern lifestyles - what next donkeys and camels to replace motor cars, 45 gallon barrels burning wood and rubbish to cook on.
I used to love Friday/Saturday night in Dewsbury. The Old Anchor, The Old Turk, John F Kennedy, Black Bull, Bretts, and my all time favourite, the Black Tulip which became the Dyers Arms
@@gmc9451An elite who abandoned their own people get replaced. Instead of a bunch of old boys there will be an Islamic Council of crusty old religious psychopaths
Newsflash. It's the 1% who destroyed your industries and hsmnered you with austerity that did this. They're super happy that you're too thick to blame them and that you're blaming immigrants.
Yes you're right, l visited York last summer, I felt very uneasy about the "multiculturalism" around the Shambles. Some of our "multicultural" brothers were plainly hostile towards us.
I saw a picture of Oldham in 1945 recently on Facebook. Rows and rows of immaculate terraced houses with women in unison cleaning their windows and not a scrap of litter anywhere. Today, those same streets are full of old mattresses, rubbish piled sky high. The houses are filthy. Nobody cares.
Dewsbury evolved as a town centre to serve the needs of the local and wider population, and in doing so, it grew into one of the country’s busiest little towns, right up to the 1980’s! What happened? The government changed the population over the next 30 years from a largely white Christian one to an Asian non Christian populace! Result…you can see in the video!
I had the misfortune of visiting Dewsbury around five years ago. During the commute into the centre, it felt like Islamabad. The bandstand-looking structure in the town square was full of street alcoholics, and the side entries smelt of urine. Or you could see the version of the Dewsbury tourist information😁! Dewsbury is also home to a diverse community, offering a variety of cultural experiences, from its thriving arts scene to its array of international cuisine. Lol!
Top Content. I've Subscribed. I've been living out of the UK for +20 years... France, Spain, Portugal, Holland....and none of the places I've visited are remotely like the situation in many of these UK towns...
Really? Aren't the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris, also run down & crime ridden due to the changing demographics, of the last 3 or 4 decades. Doesn't the centre of Paris & it's tourist attractions, have a major problem with pickpockets, & aggressive beggars, largely from Eastern Europe & North Africa?
We used to visit Southern France every year - Palavas Les flow was beautiful but we stopped going since they were bussing in a certain religion of piece that lined the beachfront every day and youths gloating over the few ladies that were brave enough to don a bathing suit.
@@annbarns652online shopping has been going on the last 25 years at least. And we were still able to accommodate it. Just all of a sudden we are unable to. So it is down the the greedy landlords
The population of the town has changed, this change has also brought along a change in buying habits. I am surprised that there are still some pubs about.
Truth is cash is tight. I'm fitting out a camper and buy almost everything off temu and ebay. If I bought from a town store I couldn't afford it. When I do have to buy from the UK I have noticed many places will intentionally try to rip you off. For instance I needed some little electrical connectors on the day, went to CEF and they wanted to charge me 15 quid more than a shop I'd just perused around the corner for the exact same item which I actually paid under 4 quid for. Feels very much like we are all trying to rip each other off all the time.
It's actually not the internet. It's people's need for instant gratification. Amazon/e-bay et al. filled the gap. Councils then tax drivers through charging for parking before you even get to the shops then you get chugged before you get into the door by someone with a large bucket that doesn't actually take coins but wanting you to set up a direct debit.
@@ouroborosirvington Yep, I saw a thermos in a shop window for £40, it was £25 an Amazon - but then you can also get scammed on Amazon and need to shop around for everthing. I find a lot of stuff comes from China (Aliexpress etc.) and same thing marked up 4 or 5 times by the time it is on Amazon Marketplace
The Broom that will sweep Europe clean. Like in Pakistan the Islamists sign their own death warrant. The problem it is ours too. Islamists' "Allah" is the God of Self Destruction
to hold any political office in the UK you should be able to trace your heritage back at least 5 generations, some people say 10 but at least 5, we have 70 MPs +1 PM, The Welsh and Scottish first ministers, the Capitals Mayour and countless towns and cities Mayours are all of foreign heritage, foreigners make up the ruling majority on many town councils and they are affiliated to NO political party (they are independents because that has fewer rules and regulations so much easier to get elected into power) and they do NOT put Britain first, they have flags of their own countries flying from their houses and on their cars, Paintings of "home" on their sitting room walls, it's all online for anyone to check, have you ever wondered how many foreign MPs there are in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, the successful countries with very high standards of living, almost Zero is the answer,
We have first generation American Congressmen and women all the time. If I moved to the UK and lived with my aunties something tells me you wouldn’t be remotely upset if I became a citizen and ran for office.
I was born in dewsbury and lived there till I was 21, when I went back to visit my parents it got so you couldn’t go into dewsbury at night as you felt so out of place and unsafe as a white woman. Next and Matalan full of women in burkhas in big black SUV’s with private registrations.. very sad
Wet sad to see these major English towns North & South in severe decline. I am veiling from Scotland it’s the same in the once thriving towns here. Next they have the planned 15 minute cities & more lockdowns so I won’t expect any improvements.
Dewsbury is the only town in england where there are more gambling shops than pubs This is what happens when? Most of the pubs close down in a town centre. Cheers cheers
Some wonderful buildings. We've got thousands of young men sitting on their backsides in hotels. Couldn't we get these people to clean, renovate or repair these areas? Or would that violate their human rights?
@user-en5um8is2k we manage to spend billions on these people, yet simply watch as our own towns and communities are left to rot. I agree with you on one level, it's truly pathetic!
Who are 'these people' ? Refugees are not allowed to work until their claims are finalised and are forced to subsist on an absolute pittance. They do however provide a very convenient scapegoat for the grasping billionaire class who stole our utilities, housing stock, pensions while at the same time decimating our industrial base and National Health Service. If you want to talk about £billions maybe examine the £78 billion stolen in dividends by the private water company owners, the £4 billion in dodgy PPE from Tory donors or the £37 billion blown on an unworkable track and trace system set up by David Camerons university pal Dido Harding. That takes a bit of effort though doesn't it, much easier to do what Rupert Murdochs rags tell you and blame immigrants
@@user-en5um8is2k Its the government at fault, everyone wants to live in safety and have full bellies - regardless of their origins. It's not the way to deal with things.
No the money goes to the south. The North is left to rot. All our political parties are turds. The country is fucked. It doesn't take long to realise this when you see town after town with the same air of neglect and desperation. Look at Wales, the biggest employer there is now the government, there are no other jobs. Even the shop owners there are complaining that no one has any money to spend
Sorry mate I was being sarcastic ..I do know my history ...Agree with you up to a point ..Not so sure any of the British forces of the day would however....and they had to fight it
@@kelvinlewis4065 I agree the British were brave and up for a fight but Britain was a militarily smaller power by then nothing unusual about countries growing in power and then declining just like Dewsbury and other northern cities
Bookies - the common thread linking the most deprived areas on Britain. I feel like the evil of gambling addiction is something many people are more than happy to sweep under the rug. Boozer looked half decent though. Another interesting video pal (only recently found your channel) but it's worth pointing out that _descent_ & _decent_ are very different words 🤣
Yeh....i have been baffled by those gamble safe and take a time out adverts. If you have to say that then somet is clearly wrong. Thanks mate, just changed it now 🤣 typo!
I grew up here. I left as soon as I possibly could. There’s one main reason it has ended up like this. I totally despise driving through there now everything closed run down disgrace of a place now. The pubs shut down, McDonald’s shut down, dorothy Perkins shut down, all that remains are pound shops and discount stores and boy racers and drug dealers, I certainly wouldn’t let my missus walk through there alone, such a fall from grace, such a shame.
I remember when our little town high street had its own 'Trigger' road sweeper who treated the town like the Forth Bridge and went up and down all day every day and kept the streets spotless. Council appear to have better things to spend our taxes on nowadays. Not sure what that might be though as they keep what they do well hidden from those that pay the bills.
wrecked by kirklees council. The same as they have done to Batley and Heckmondwike. Step outside Kirklees footprint to the likes of ossett which still has a market or Mirfield which is Kirklees but has a parish council and it is a different picture.
Mirfield, somewhere that butts against Dewsbury along the River Calder, does feel entirely different. It's still busy and a place to visit .... like it's on a different continent, somehow.
you wouldnt believe it , but back in the day this town was buzzing, had an odeon cinema, and all the students were filling up the pubs from nearby Dewsbury college, there was a massive indoor and outdoor market, had some good ole times here, what a shame , just like the rest of UK rundown and we all know why? the bloody governments , dont matter if its Labour or Tory both as bad.
apparantly the big thing on most town high streets these days is supposed to be Money Laundering, Nail Bars and mens hairdressers. Imagine that a hairdresser (mens) that is that busy, they can afford a prime spot on the high street, whats that, they pay nothing to anyone, change ownership every year or 2 , find the one that has been in your town the longest and then go check them out !
Cheers pal. You get your bad bits everywhere i suppose. England is also always wet, grey cold and windy so everywhere is always twice as bad 🤣 Atleast in Aus the rough parts are most of the time good weather
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO London is cliche, would like to know about other places, esp up nortjh. Most movies tv shows are set in London. UK is much more than it's capital.
It's more than one reason for the decline unfortunately. High rent and rates are part of it, often in towns and cities like this the retail units are owned by one or two large landlord companies who often refuse to reduce rents, they'd usually rather see them stay empty in the vain hope a large chain who can afford the costs move in. The business rates are the second major factor, again pricing many smaller retailers out of the city centres. Another factor is the local authority, Kirklees Council is in a financial mess and on the verge of bankruptcy so is making huge cuts to services and that, inevitably, leads to less street cleaning, less upkeep of council owned areas and buildings making the place look even worse. This in turn makes the city centre even less attractive to potential investors and business owners. Then there's the impact of online shopping, one of the biggest reasons for the decline in city centre shopping. The final reason is the demographic of the people in the area, Dewsbury has a very high immigrant population and like it or not they often don't have the same incomes and spending power as the indigenous older generations had. Not only that but as more and more immigrants move in these wealthier more middle class residents tend to move out or shift their spending to other towns and cities to avoid them. It doesn't have to be that way though, Barnsley, Wakefield and Leeds itself have also suffered massively but are trying to do something about it. Barnsley has reinvented the town centre, and are trying to attract those smaller, more eclectic independent retailers into the town, although many feel the council are neglecting other areas in favour of the centre. Wakefield is embarking on a similar strategy at last, refurbishing and rebuilding many of the old mills around the waterfront areas, trying to work with the owners of the run down Ridings Shopping Centre and have decided to go after those smaller independent retailers and try and attract them into the city centre. Wakefield still has a long way to go, it's often filthy due to a lack of daytime street cleaning and it has a high number of vacant retail units, especially due to one large, greedy commercial landlord. Wakefield also has a huge problem with druggies and alcoholics who hang around the pedestrianised areas outside the cathedral.
Thanks for the walkabout, am coming over to an event at the town hall next month and said to the missus we should go earlier and visit a few pubs. I’m definitely not going to do that now, I’ve never been to Dewsbury before but from what I saw on your video, our visit will be a one-off
Go back thirty years ago and Dewsbury was thriving and then in 2004ish it went downhill. Thanks in no part to the big Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, supermarkets, add to that the large shopping centre in Ravensthorpe, White Rose Shoping centre just 15 minutes down the A653 in Besston, South Leeds. All aided by the wonderful councillors who voted for it on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees, Wakefield, York) that we had to get extra funding for West Yorkshire and York. Sadly Leeds seems to get the lion's share of funding a lot of the other's miss out, especially North Kirklees, which has caused real controversy. Kirklees college whose built a new campus in Dewsbury, and a new Police Kirklees HQ, taking over the old site of Dewsbury Technical College! It took Dewsbury all its time to save its hospital, when it was on its own before the merger it had no debt unlike the Mid Yorks group it finds itself in. The only none run down area is the A653 corridor, Shaw Cross, and Chidswell at the top of the hill.
I lived in Dewsbury for 15 years. Here are the reasons it's in decline: - Poor (Kirklees) council planning and policy (Locals would testify that Huddersfield received much more attention and funding than Dewsbury over the years and a planned 10 million pound investment in Dewsbury town centre was abandoned after the 2007 financial crash. - Its close proximity to Leeds doesn't help as Leeds has a huge shopping precinct which attracts shoppers from Dewsbury and its environs - Underlying trends (nationally and internationally) away from town centre shopping in favour of online shopping - Shopping in Dewsbury town centre was always a frustrating experience due to the poor parking facilities. It compares badly to Mirfield retail park with its free, close proximity, parking. - High historical unemployment and poverty in Dewsbury. People simply don't have the money to shop for anything other than essentials, which they tend to buy at Asda, Lidl etc. - Cost of living crisis and generally poor underlying UK economy. I object to the posts suggesting this decline is to do with the muslim population. This is just factually incorrect. If anything, the muslims are keeping the town centre alive with their (still popular) market stalls which attract visitors to the town centre twice a week. It should also be noted that I was burgled 3 times whilst living in Dewsbury. On each occasion the person was caught and on each occasion it was a young white person. I never had any problems from the local muslim population.
@@ellismeah8110 Nope, just the accurate version from someone who actually lived there. It makes little logical sense to blame the decline of Britain's high streets on Islam. How does that work? Did Marks and Spencer decide to close its Dewsbury store because of Islam, or perhaps because takings were low because the locals couldn't afford their extra special food? Take yer pick.
Good to hear your side of the story , we live in a large city , and it's very devided like most towns and city's , now, there was a time when most people got on , but over the last 10 years theirs been an explosion of millions of migrants into the country ,putting a massive strain on local resources
@@ellismeah8110 Indeed. But to be fair, in the case of Dewsbury, the majority of the dentists, doctors, care and healthcare workers are also migrants, so yes, they draw on resources, but they also contribute greatly to the support infrastructure. Let's face it...the real reason our services are under pressure is all of those years of crippling austerity and very poor local authority planning.
I have to deliver here and Bradford most of the week, day in day out these places are depressing and not good for your mental well being.. No hope, no future.
Just an idea - why not interview some of the local people you encounter on your walks? What have they got to say about the rubbish state of things? It'd be interesting to hear their points of view.
Similar thing has happened in Heckmondwike, about 2.5 miles away. It was a busy market town, with Tuesday and Saturday being market days. There were plenty of independent businesses, from florists to chemists. Then Morrisons opened in the town centre. Slowly but surely the local shops started to close down. The market has disappeared completely from Heckmondwike. Many shops are boarded up. Online shopping has had drastic effects. Very sad to see.
Not to worry, the globalist Agenda is still on course. Nothing like destabilising a country to weaken and divide everyone, the WEF plants will make this worse as years go on. Dread to think what this country will be like by 2035. Probably collapsed and civil war 😨
Import the third world become the turd world. Shame really as there looks to be some nice architecture that's now going to be left to rot to make the 'New Britons' feel more at home. Have you been to Saviletown (no relation other than the hobbies i suppose if you catch my drift) yet? Don't think the New Britons would even let you film around 'their area'.
Market days are Wed & Sat, the Town has died a slow painful death it's so sad. The Town next door Batley pretty much the same, just gambling shops, pound shops and charity shops. Batley famous for the Batley Variety club back in the day, famous singers and comedians used to come there. Also home to Fox's Biscuits. Heckmondwike seems to be clinging on, alot less to lets..
I have to admit I didn't watch the whole video but I felt that it was pretty revealing that he doesn't seem to actually talk to anyone? There's loads of towns all over the UK that are on the decline but there is more to a community than whether it still has a Spoons. Talk to people, find out what's actually going on! There might be community projects, arts and culture that is hidden slightly beneath the surface that you're not gonna find by just walking around pointing at buildings
I agree. Overall I found this video to be one of the most boring I have ever seen. I did watch the whole video hoping it might improve towards the end. It didn't.
If I flew 12 or 14 hours to get there and walked around Dewsburry I doubt I would find anyone to talk to either.. I guess it is boring if you live there, it’s interesting to me.. what is happening to these towns - I like watching travel videos with people on streets.. I like watching this guy too.. it is very telling about what the society is.. where are the people to talk to..?
@@honestplaces I with respect disagree, you would open peoples eyes basically you hear so much bs about we’ve got to build more houses etc and I have always thought there a lot of residential properties that would just be repurposed. The same for commercial properties tidied up and perhaps rent free to get a business up and running and secure.
I come from Kettering which I thought was a bit of a dump.After looking at this.I realise I was wrong. I’d say most of the shops in the town centre are currently occupied.I don’t know what the answer is but some towns remind me of Beirut in the 70s.The government only seem to give a Fck about themselves.
It's so depressing in the direction the UK is going. I can't offer any solutions, but I think these types of videos should be shown to the London-centric crowd.
All the shops opposite the town hall have not had their leases renewed as it’s all going to be flats. I was born in Dewsbury, it’s an absolute disgrace how the town has been let go to rack and ruin. Huddersfield is going the same way, same as most towns sadly . 😔
True, people probably will look at this and think what a dump but anyone who remembers how it used to be in the 70s will just feel so sad. Daisy Hill is unrecognisable.
@@freemantle252 I’m 70 and the Dewsbury I knew was lovely, it was a pleasure to go down Dewsbury on a Saturday afternoon. Caddy’s ice cream parlour, Baileys Cafe, Market loads of shops, and a choice of cinemas. 👍🏻 Dewsbury park and cafe, a different world. I lived on the Flatts behind the station, and loved going to Dewsbury when I was small, over the railway into town. It’s so sad to see it all now 😔
Great video mate. Thanks for showing us around. I’m glad to say that I will probably never venture there. However, I do like the look of some of those abandoned buildings 😉 Might be worth the journey to check some of those out for a mooch!
I'm from Dewsbury, just totally gone now. Nothing left. Use to be a top town but that was back in last century when we had all best shops, and a cinema, then the famous market they came from far and wide to see. Now look 😔
👍 As a virtual tourist, from videos like this will explore using the google street views over the years and can notice the gradual decline. June 2023 many streets deserted but most streets were clean (few instances of junk and rubbish on back streets).
Everywhere you go and it’s the same thing that’s happening.Gone are those days of the 80’s where town centres were bustling and you went to town to buy everything. Life’s what we make it wherever we live in the country. Great channel you’ve got here
I lived in Mirfield as a kid and loves going to Dewsbury, it looks like it has gone down hill so much , such a shame, the market was brilliant back in the day, I live near London now so not been back for a few years , last time I just went to matalan so not right into the town bit, the council need to sort it out
I currently live in Mirfield and Dewsbury used to be so thriving years ago. There is nothing there now just rot and decay. My parents used to come over to Dewsbury to shop as it was one of the best places... Its now a shadow of its former place.
Manchester's hill with all the flats! - th-cam.com/video/M40d1Cs4-LE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=96-EtwtdPnGNR1qi
Just an ordinary British place described by a local peasant.
I live in suffolk now ( Born in Denton )in a seaside town . I walked from the top of London Road to the top of the town recently 48 closed shops ,units & Pubs ,thats one in every 3 :/ the ones that are left i cant eve see how they make money ( lace curtain shop ?! in a world where no one uses them ) half of them are closed but have a sign saying ring this mobile well be down in 2 mins , its a friggin joke NO ONE wants to work for £1.45 an hour ( what min wage actually equates to ) .Now the scammer sunak wants to kill millions of people on PIP & those who have mental illness . The words Lynch Mob & Burning torches are i hope soon in Use . Tories have wrecked the North west & made my holiday town essentiall;y " Little Albania "
Wonder why just like Bradford , look who took over and control of it , it is a no go area Shit hole .
We all know why Dewsbury is in decline , same as Bradford , Rochdale etc
EU beurocrats?
The towns I've mentioned have something in common .
@@ronaldbarker6626 all up north do you mean?
We have a racist here 😂
@@unitedfan1364We have a realist here.
I read a few years ago that a female hockey group using Dewsbury Sports ground started to get harrassed by muslim youths.
The girls complained to the police who predictabley told them to go and play hockey elsewhere.
The mens rugby team found glass being scattered on the rugby pitch, they too complained and they too were told to go play rugby elsewhere.
After a while of the sportsground not being used, the 'local' muslim community made a derisory offer for the ground and bought it and built a mosque and islamic religious centre.
Anyone notice this sort of thing anywhere else?
Didn't the Grantham witch sell off playing fields?
Anyway where are all the white men, I thought they would love a punch up them musilms.
PS,those rugby players sound like a load of whimps, why didn't they sort them out them Muslims?
Yes that's an old trick , Hassidic jews would do similar in north London ... All organised religion should be discouraged ... The fly tipping in the area will be the tinkers in the caravans ... But what does it matter the imposter governments have asset stripped the country and flogged all the good stuff off and left the UK for dead ... Sad innit
Have you noticed anywhere in the north where it Isn't happening? That would answer your question much quicker. All the beautiful stone buildings Makes you proud doesn't it ? Shame.
Police r cxxts to
Everywhere has been turned in to an ethnic/woke circus in most towns, where the happiness of people not born in the UK are put first 😂
This country is just an utter shit hole now. Quality channel 👌🏻
Cheers pal...appreciate it 👍
Kirklees Council has got to be the WORST EVER.
@@bobharrison4711 it’s government policy to run down councils, that way they can give a tax break to the lazy billionaires. Who already have handouts, whilst we subsidise their employees wages.
Go and live elsewhere then
Must be truly heartbreaking for the elderly people who've always lived there and remember an entirely different and much happier place just 40, 50 or 60 years ago.
It's the same all over Britain.
Multiculturalism, On line shopping. Council corruption.
Ruination.
Those elderly people are responsible for: a) doing nothing when the migrant horde first started being dumped on the UK; and b) persecuting and not supporting those who did try to ‘do something’. So for the most part I don’t feel sorry for these elderly cowards.
Too true mate, my home town used to be a vibrant, prosperous northern market town, we had three John Lang shops back in the seventies for Gods sake, Woolworths, J & Bs, Caddy’s Marks & Spencer’s etc. Now it’s just a haven for idle foreigners and drug dealers (guess who?). So glad I don’t live here any more.
Why are shops closing down to do with foreigners. Shops closed down because they are not making a profit end off. The money is all in the south and all the investments are in the South and there are more foreigners in the South.
@@damonmelendez856 HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THOSE ELDERLY PEOPLE HAVEN'T WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES, FOUGHT TO KEEP THIS ISLAND FREE FROM ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND TOSSERS LIKE YOU WHO PROBABLY HAVEN'T WORKED A DAY IN THEIR LIVES. 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹
If the men who ran up the beaches could see the country now they would not have gone an inch up the beach.
Grandad woulded in battle of the somme he qould have gone eather
Whilst I get your point, the young men of 1945 were of the era not to question the instruction of their 'betters'.
Which makes it all the worse. Betrayed by traitors. Enjoy your day. @@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893
Propaganda was more controlled back then and they believed the Germans were the enemy
@@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 That's not true. They understood what they were fighting for and were proud to do it. They had courage and patriotism unlike most today who have been brainwashed and emasculated by 'woke' ideology.
Utter gloom, what a bleak country England has become!. Good video, as always.
It's always raining too, as they spray the skies.
@@G-ra-ha-m I think Britain was well known for rain long before the Jet Age so that silly theory can be put to bed.
@@G-ra-ha-m Don't be silly.
@@donaldjuan4934 Look up. Clouds are not supposed to be made from lines, of which one side stays straight and the other leaches, disperses, falls. Look up.
Tories out.
I'm 75 and remember spending weekends at my grandads in Dewsbury when the town was full of life and people. Magnificent Victorian architecture built with civic pride still stands, but now an epitaph to the proud people who once walked its busy streets.
Most of our towns are in decline like this. Ridiculous local Councils forcing businesses to shut with high business rates and ridiculous parking charges. Third world immigration and its over
yeah, always the immigrants fault, always somebody else's fault, never yours.
@@neilbower9052 The councils have large contingents of anti-British people.. they see the deliberate rovination of our town centres as a pre-war tactic of 'jihad' to weaken their foe from within.
@@neilbower9052as i was reading his comment i knew immigrant scapegoating was on its way and i was not disappointed.
That's one reason why town councils are in the shit
Another useful idiot lefty comment🤪
Our town centres have been devastated by online shopping, out of town retail parks and high business rates AND the utter stupidity of local government planners.
Pedestrianisation and lack of free parking.
And foreigners.
LMFAO always their fault isn't it tory boy. @Paxanglorum
LMFAO@@cornishhh
yeah, always the forinners fault, where are all the big hard bwitish men? Thought they would 'bee art protecktin are whey ovv life' @@dirkbogarde44
You know a town is a shit hole when Wetherspoons, McDonalds and the Pound Shop closes down
Dead right!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 👍👍👍
You know it's a shyte hole when they are there in the first place.
Whilst 'cash converters', paddy power, drug dealers and tattooists are thriving.
😂
I’m from Dewsbury. I tell people I’m from ‘near Leeds’
I used to do that when i lived outside of Manchester 🤣
Same here!
@@coolkitty2075 loooooool orchard park then😂
Same ! I now live in Australia , have returned a few times. Last time 7 yrs ago, what a hole then . Dare l return again as l know it’s going to be worse.
Same. i used to say i lived in between leeds and huddersfield if they pressed me further.
Post empire, post industrial Britain is fucked. And when you ask who runs Dewsbury, well....for years now it's been the Pakistani community, same as Bradford. The local council gave it over to them in fear of excluding but over including them.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT PAKISTAN ANS YOU WILL SEE WHAT THESE AREAS WILL BECOME!!!!!
yeah yeah yeah, not your fault is it. Do you moan on social media about the seaside towns dying while sat on your sun lounger in Spain? Ain't no hypocrite bigger than a white english racist bigot hypocrite
Only people that have businesses in small local towns are Asian people. because white people don't want to work, so don't give me that it's cos of us, ok
Talking utter bollocks.
High business rates. Lack of investment. Online shopping. Supermarkets' proximity to town centres is a recipe for disaster for smaller shops. Nothing to do with Pakistanis. Engage your limited brain before making stupid comments.
Let me quess all hard working people own there own home. In brandford dewsbury. Whlie sit on your ass and complain. Let me quess your on the dole
What a contrast of those old pictures of the town and how it looks now. Problem is this is a pattern of decline around the Country and its getting worse.
Very big contrast! Small towns in the uk are at risk
The retail parks with their free parking are taking a lot folk away from our town centres..
@@honestplaces14 Tory scum years
I've got a plan , if all us labour councils spend money on ridiculous projects like fancy bike lanes, bus lanes one way streets , out of town shopping centres bigger better guildhall/ town halls and make sure most of this is government money . When we all declare bankruptcy we can blame the government and retire on our luxurious pensions
@@MichaelWillby Bike lanes are provided under legisltaion made by central govt as part of the plan to de carbonise the country. Out of town shopping centres were built due to relaxed planning laws , and forcing councils to grab as much council tax as possibe due to their incomes being slashed by 40% ( bet you would find that difficult), . It is always easy to blame , much harder to analyse the situation, Yes councils bear some of the blame but by far and away most of it was rooted in tory austerity cuts over 14 years, producing a reduction in average life span,, especially in northern england, and higher levels of poverty than has been seen since the 2nd world war.
Its a shame, Growing up in Birmingham places like Dewsbury were where you'd aspire to live round relaxed,clean & beautiful 😞now its just another Brum😢
Corrupt councils giving priority to people who send their money home is a big problem
The best thing about Dewsbury is it makes Huddersfield look better.
It like standing next to a fugly friend ? 😊
🤣
Only if you are very, very drunk.
Some of them buildings have got beautiful stonework, proper built.
Makes you really wonder what the future holds. So many lovely buildings left to rot. Very sad.
Been like this for years. Tragic
the future is not good - for any of the UK
It will look like scenes out of a movie called "Children of Men", have a look.
I shudder to think what is coming in the Uk - wished I had left when I had some energy/ funds to do so - like living in an open air prison now .
@@booth2710Its the same everywhere and even those in the armed forces as i was in the seventies, all the married quarters etc well maintained but not any more, everything just left to rot away, mould and damp everywhere.
Grew up in Dewsbury/Ravensthorpe left in 76 not the Dewsbury I knew and loved as a kid it was safe and everyone watched out for everyone else. Great shops and a market that’s was second to none don’t really need to leave everything was there. Now it’s just a shell off a town dirty with boarded up shop fronts sad because the people from Dewsbury are really lovely people well the people I know who grew up there and still live there including family.
Alot of people have the same story. It is quite sad
Big up milco!
Used to go for a days shopping in the 1970, could buy anything(better than Amazon). Loved the place well worth the travel of an hour each way! So sad..
A few words can explain the state of Dewsbury - Labour run Kirklees Council. Same in Huddersfield, everything they control turns to shite.
Ah, so nothing to do with the town's Tory MP then..? No, of course not...
@davewalkden7248 Huddersfield's MP is? Ah, the longest serving Labour MP. So using your logic Huddersfield should be booming. But it isn't, is it? Why? Kirklees Council.
@@davewalkden7248labour aren't in power, 14 Tory years
@@chromiumphotography5138the truth is MPs do nothing but agree with their leaders who are told by the WEF what to do.
It's all corrupt.
labour and conservatives have been taking it in turns screwing us over for decades now
ruined by one group of people, same as many old mill towns in the north.
Buggered. Literally
The initial wave into textile towns like Dewsbury were hard working and admired Britain's industrial heritage and work ethic. They walked around wearing the worsted and flat caps they helped to produce. Then came the radicals who took advantage of the foothold. Walking around in pyjamas became fashionable even influencing some of the chavs to do the same. And the corrupt politicians took advantage of the radicals as a means of crushing the culture of the working classes who represent the greatest collective threat. And here we are with a media obsessed about voting for the next round of BS in the downward spiral of mediocrity. You couldn't make it up (unless you had an imagination like Monty Python).
@@Isochest Are you blaming catholic priests?
@@donaldjuan4934 Have you heard of Luwat literally Buggery in Arabic? Practised on little boys by imams.
@@Isochest I looked that up and it's not related to anything imams may or may not do. Are you absolutely sure you're not thinking of the catholic church, because they cover that kind of thing up all the time.
I admire your bottle, mate, wandering round some pretty rumpty places with your camera. Mind what you're doing, son.
Cheers 🤣 i run fast so go that in my locker
Dewsbury is a soft town I live here nobody gives a fuck about this baldy
yeah a camera like that could buy a couple of arm shots
Yes
Would need to if you went into ravensthorpe or saville town. No go shit hole areas of Dewsbury
My Dad used to put his three piece suit to go shopping in Dewsbury in the seventies. Now its a gathering place for the roughest dregs in the town. Never go there the council killed it by charging high rents for shops that only bookies can afford. The row of shops you showed were once WhSmiths argos boots Holland and Barrett. Utter shit hole. Used to have Cinema nice pubs even Wetherspoons have now gone old Turk is a good pub and bats on. but otherwise Dewsbury is a ghetto now.
Yeh if you rocked up in a 3 piece suit now you'd be robbed! Rent has killed the town as you say!
Dewsbury had 3 cinemas at one point
Hmmmm. Well we all know why most of the Kirklees Council areas have gone down the U-Bend don’t we. . . .
We do?
spot on truth@@nicks4934
I'm from Huddersfield originally. Got out 30 years ago. Another shit hole. That's kirklees council as well, another council that's going bankrupt.
@@georgegently3026 you mean GONE !
@@dazdaz105 no suprise either. My dad still lives there, knows a bloke that works for kirklees. Rides arrived in a van doing the square root of f all. When his van needed replacing (probably ashtray was full), they asked him what van he wanted. ! Surely you select the most suitable van, then tell the employee what he's getting. Anyhow, he's in a fortune and does knack all. So much so even my dad had told him he's annoyed cos he takes the piss so much.
And I thought Rotherham was bad! This is so sad, but unfortunately it's happening everywhere up and down the country, town centres rotting away before our very eyes.
I love this sort of content though, good stuff mate. Keep 'em coming👍🏻
Is rotheram really that bad!?
@@honestplaces yup
Not as bad as bad as Dewsbury no, but it is really bad
@@darrenreynolds9462 worth a visit for a video then?
Shit Britain.....
Take a look at photos of Dewsbury from around the seventies and eighties it was a busy market town to which people came from miles around to shop, the market was well known throughout Yorkshire, luckily for us we now have a Dewsbury shaped by imigration and diversity what a lovely place where nobody visits any more, the whole country is going this way, it must be stopped or we are done
underfunding more like...
It's way to late for most towns and cities - just Ghettos - the culture that replaces the indigenous white are far removed from what created these abodes. These islands will never return with diversity comes a rabble of ethics who walk around in pyjamas and other distinct head gear indoctrinated by eastern lifestyles - what next donkeys and camels to replace motor cars, 45 gallon barrels burning wood and rubbish to cook on.
80’s and 90’s Dewsbury used to be a great night out - used to be there most weekends. Many happy memories…
You should've seen it in the 50s & 60s it was even better .
@@ronaldbarker6626 a bit before my time but wouldn’t doubt it at all
I used to love Friday/Saturday night in Dewsbury. The Old Anchor, The Old Turk, John F Kennedy, Black Bull, Bretts, and my all time favourite, the Black Tulip which became the Dyers Arms
@@timrobinson9192 The Glue Pot was the best I think, come out of there cross the road and in to the Tulip, great times
@@spongebobsquaretits Aye! I forgot about The Glue Pot. The town was buzzing with life back then. EDIT: Love the name BTW 😂🤣😂
It starts with a broken window! You do know what's happening. Such lovely stone buildings built by a better class of people than us?
Not a better class. Dewsbury was prosperous before the Thatcher and Major governments followed an agenda of de - industrialisation.
You speak for yourself
I was born in Dewsbury its terrible a community torn apart by crime, drugs and benefits and a MP who lets it rot why no job centre strange
It is a strange odd place....no prospects
Doesn’t look like there are any jobs, so why would they need a job centre
And Diversity Mongers.👳♂️
'Torn apart by benefits'. Well, that's a novel take. Ben Habib would likely agree with you, so be careful.
i would say its decline in manufacturing wouldn't you which is obvious
The frightening thing is eveywhere will look like this within two decades
TH-cam channels TurdTowns and Wandering Turnip have been highlighting this very real issue. Personally I believe it is intentional and very sinister.
They are going to let it all turn to a slum and buy everything up for cheap, and depopulate us.
@@gmc9451An elite who abandoned their own people get replaced. Instead of a bunch of old boys there will be an Islamic Council of crusty old religious psychopaths
Less than 2decades
@@gmc9451 The Protocols.
Oh and take a look people this will be every town and city within 10 years but remember diversity is our strength!
Newsflash. It's the 1% who destroyed your industries and hsmnered you with austerity that did this. They're super happy that you're too thick to blame them and that you're blaming immigrants.
York started already
Yes you're right, l visited York last summer,
I felt very uneasy about the "multiculturalism" around the Shambles.
Some of our "multicultural"
brothers were plainly hostile towards us.
@@KKTR3 No hope for the rest of us if York is in decline.
I saw a picture of Oldham in 1945 recently on Facebook. Rows and rows of immaculate terraced houses with women in unison cleaning their windows and not a scrap of litter anywhere. Today, those same streets are full of old mattresses, rubbish piled sky high. The houses are filthy. Nobody cares.
So, so sad to see. Used to be a thriving Yorkshire town. Bad, sad times.
Dewsbury evolved as a town centre to serve the needs of the local and wider population, and in doing so, it grew into one of the country’s busiest little towns, right up to the 1980’s! What happened? The government changed the population over the next 30 years from a largely white Christian one to an Asian non Christian populace! Result…you can see in the video!
I think it's more the Tory government fucking the country. Keep the racism going though, it's a good look for you.
I had the misfortune of visiting Dewsbury around five years ago. During the commute into the centre, it felt like Islamabad. The bandstand-looking structure in the town square was full of street alcoholics, and the side entries smelt of urine. Or you could see the version of the Dewsbury tourist information😁! Dewsbury is also home to a diverse community, offering a variety of cultural experiences, from its thriving arts scene to its array of international cuisine. Lol!
Levelling up nicely i see
Get up the road to Batley, and look at all the takeaways. Must be 150 in a tiny area, how does that work ?
Money laundering, same as the "Turkish" barbers.
@@user-kx3fq1zo6f either that or Money hoovering by the bookies.
No one cooks at home simple
@@jkmcgregor7797 you can't be that th!ck surely?
@@user-kx3fq1zo6fThey are taking over Devon towns, they are everywhere in the south west.
Top Content. I've Subscribed. I've been living out of the UK for +20 years... France, Spain, Portugal, Holland....and none of the places I've visited are remotely like the situation in many of these UK towns...
Really?
Aren't the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris, also run down & crime ridden due to the changing demographics, of the last 3 or 4 decades.
Doesn't the centre of Paris & it's tourist attractions, have a major problem with pickpockets, & aggressive beggars, largely from Eastern Europe & North Africa?
We used to visit Southern France every year - Palavas Les flow was beautiful but we stopped going since they were bussing in a certain religion of piece that lined the beachfront every day and youths gloating over the few ladies that were brave enough to don a bathing suit.
I think a lot of those shops have closed down because of greedy landlords asking for silly money for the rental....
Keep up the good work 👍
You sure it is not because of online shopping?
Very true mate. Cheers pal 👍
@@annbarns652online shopping has been going on the last 25 years at least. And we were still able to accommodate it. Just all of a sudden we are unable to. So it is down the the greedy landlords
The population of the town has changed, this change has also brought along a change in buying habits. I am surprised that there are still some pubs about.
Great video. The internet has killed retail shops. Many people shop for items online. It is unfortunate, but society has changed.
Yup....still should be cheaper rent for coffee shops hang out places etc though 👍
Truth is cash is tight. I'm fitting out a camper and buy almost everything off temu and ebay. If I bought from a town store I couldn't afford it. When I do have to buy from the UK I have noticed many places will intentionally try to rip you off. For instance I needed some little electrical connectors on the day, went to CEF and they wanted to charge me 15 quid more than a shop I'd just perused around the corner for the exact same item which I actually paid under 4 quid for. Feels very much like we are all trying to rip each other off all the time.
No shit sherlock
It's actually not the internet. It's people's need for instant gratification. Amazon/e-bay et al. filled the gap. Councils then tax drivers through charging for parking before you even get to the shops then you get chugged before you get into the door by someone with a large bucket that doesn't actually take coins but wanting you to set up a direct debit.
@@ouroborosirvington Yep, I saw a thermos in a shop window for £40, it was £25 an Amazon - but then you can also get scammed on Amazon and need to shop around for everthing. I find a lot of stuff comes from China (Aliexpress etc.) and same thing marked up 4 or 5 times by the time it is on Amazon Marketplace
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING British is now on borrowed time.
They are coming, and nothing will stop them now.
R.I.P UK
The Broom that will sweep Europe clean. Like in Pakistan the Islamists sign their own death warrant. The problem it is ours too. Islamists' "Allah" is the God of Self Destruction
Best reply I have ever read.
Welcome to Dumpsville !!! 😮
I owned “Gold Pot” amusement arcade situated in pioneer house. Had to close it as wages, shop rents and rates were so high.
Dual nationals should not have the vote let alone any position of political or legal authority
My mother is one, I'm American. My grandfather was born and raised in Doncaster. My mother wasn't out there voting in the UK...
to hold any political office in the UK you should be able to trace your heritage back at least 5 generations, some people say 10 but at least 5,
we have 70 MPs +1 PM, The Welsh and Scottish first ministers, the Capitals Mayour and countless towns and cities Mayours are all of foreign heritage, foreigners make up the ruling majority on many town councils and they are affiliated to NO political party (they are independents because that has fewer rules and regulations so much easier to get elected into power) and they do NOT put Britain first, they have flags of their own countries flying from their houses and on their cars, Paintings of "home" on their sitting room walls, it's all online for anyone to check, have you ever wondered how many foreign MPs there are in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, the successful countries with very high standards of living, almost Zero is the answer,
We have first generation American Congressmen and women all the time. If I moved to the UK and lived with my aunties something tells me you wouldn’t be remotely upset if I became a citizen and ran for office.
*subject, but I just woke up.
@@hazeleverett1064
I would be if you decided to keep your voting and full citizenship rights for the USA.... Go back to mind reading school
I was born in dewsbury and lived there till I was 21, when I went back to visit my parents it got so you couldn’t go into dewsbury at night as you felt so out of place and unsafe as a white woman. Next and Matalan full of women in burkhas in big black SUV’s with private registrations.. very sad
Wet sad to see these major English towns North & South in severe decline. I am veiling from Scotland it’s the same in the once thriving towns here. Next they have the planned 15 minute cities & more lockdowns so I won’t expect any improvements.
An interesting place despite the commercial decline . There is a lot of fine old buildings with great stonework to them .
It’s all boarded up shops and bearded up faces…
True story…. 💯
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Would have been beautiful before we were enriched 😢
Dewsbury is the only town in england where there are more gambling shops than pubs This is what happens when?
Most of the pubs close down in a town centre. Cheers cheers
Some wonderful buildings. We've got thousands of young men sitting on their backsides in hotels. Couldn't we get these people to clean, renovate or repair these areas? Or would that violate their human rights?
Aye, blame the people who've been here 5 minutes rather than your own ruling class who've destroyed your communities over the last 40 years. Pathetic
@user-en5um8is2k you're right! It is pathetic! Millions of pounds spent each day indulging scroungers whilst our towns and communities waste away!
@user-en5um8is2k we manage to spend billions on these people, yet simply watch as our own towns and communities are left to rot. I agree with you on one level, it's truly pathetic!
Who are 'these people' ?
Refugees are not allowed to work until their claims are finalised and are forced to subsist on an absolute pittance.
They do however provide a very convenient scapegoat for the grasping billionaire class who stole our utilities, housing stock, pensions while at the same time decimating our industrial base and National Health Service.
If you want to talk about £billions maybe examine the £78 billion stolen in dividends by the private water company owners, the £4 billion in dodgy PPE from Tory donors or the £37 billion blown on an unworkable track and trace system set up by David Camerons university pal Dido Harding.
That takes a bit of effort though doesn't it, much easier to do what Rupert Murdochs rags tell you and blame immigrants
@@user-en5um8is2k Its the government at fault, everyone wants to live in safety and have full bellies - regardless of their origins. It's not the way to deal with things.
Dewsbury has the 2 common denominators for guaranteed decline.
Shocking. Have the English people had the pride knocked out of them. What is the government spending money on - certainly not towns like this.
No the money goes to the south. The North is left to rot. All our political parties are turds. The country is fucked. It doesn't take long to realise this when you see town after town with the same air of neglect and desperation. Look at Wales, the biggest employer there is now the government, there are no other jobs. Even the shop owners there are complaining that no one has any money to spend
All the money ends up in the Cartels' pockets. I bet there have been some plush gaffes built in Mirpur, Peshawar Islamabad etc....out of council Dosh.
@@Isochest so depressing !
@@Kay-ph1kb Unless Postal voting is banned we could see this Mafia become even more powerful. It could spark civil war!
i was born in and brought up in dewsbury. Online shopping and multiculturism could be to blame.
"Could be"!!?
Is.
Won 2 World Wars ,then lost our country.
Actually Britain played a junior role in WW2 IT was won by the Soviet Union fighting for 3 of the 5 year war alone against Germany
Sorry mate I was being sarcastic ..I do know my history ...Agree with you up to a point ..Not so sure any of the British forces of the day would however....and they had to fight it
@@kelvinlewis4065 I agree the British were brave and up for a fight but Britain was a militarily smaller power by then nothing unusual about countries growing in power and then declining just like Dewsbury and other northern cities
As in WW1 ..and WW2...especially in WW1...When we did play a massive role ...I'm glad that I wasn't there
Germany is much nicer than our dump country Britain, they have issues too but it ain't no run down grubby tink infested mutt hole like the UK
Bookies - the common thread linking the most deprived areas on Britain. I feel like the evil of gambling addiction is something many people are more than happy to sweep under the rug. Boozer looked half decent though.
Another interesting video pal (only recently found your channel) but it's worth pointing out that _descent_ & _decent_ are very different words 🤣
Yeh....i have been baffled by those gamble safe and take a time out adverts. If you have to say that then somet is clearly wrong. Thanks mate, just changed it now 🤣 typo!
Thought all of that gambling would have gone on-line too.
If you study History, you will learn a lot about how countries become partitioned and eventually taken over... This is already happening in the UK.
I grew up here. I left as soon as I possibly could. There’s one main reason it has ended up like this. I totally despise driving through there now everything closed run down disgrace of a place now. The pubs shut down, McDonald’s shut down, dorothy Perkins shut down, all that remains are pound shops and discount stores and boy racers and drug dealers, I certainly wouldn’t let my missus walk through there alone, such a fall from grace, such a shame.
I remember when our little town high street had its own 'Trigger' road sweeper who treated the town like the Forth Bridge and went up and down all day every day and kept the streets spotless. Council appear to have better things to spend our taxes on nowadays. Not sure what that might be though as they keep what they do well hidden from those that pay the bills.
Yeah wonderful stuff, starting with Ramadan celebrations.
Inflated salaries and gilt edge pensions after 25 years of grift.
wrecked by kirklees council. The same as they have done to Batley and Heckmondwike. Step outside Kirklees footprint to the likes of ossett which still has a market or Mirfield which is Kirklees but has a parish council and it is a different picture.
Ossett is lovely. Like Dewsbury and Batley used to be
Common, take back control already!
wrecked by tories who underpaid Kirklees by nearly 70 quid per head.
Mirfield, somewhere that butts against Dewsbury along the River Calder, does feel entirely different. It's still busy and a place to visit .... like it's on a different continent, somehow.
you wouldnt believe it , but back in the day this town was buzzing, had an odeon cinema, and all the students were filling up the pubs from nearby Dewsbury college, there was a massive indoor and outdoor market, had some good ole times here, what a shame , just like the rest of UK rundown and we all know why? the bloody governments , dont matter if its Labour or Tory both as bad.
Yeh i know. Heard stories of how good it was. Shame!
Ah the state of our once great nation!
Typical Kirklees town Laubour controled of course
Go to Saville town.. Its pretty thriving and you can't buy a house there unless you have connections
I remember as a kid in the late 80s and 90s that town bustling! And the market! Heck it is dead!!
apparantly the big thing on most town high streets these days is supposed to be Money Laundering, Nail Bars and mens hairdressers. Imagine that a hairdresser (mens) that is that busy, they can afford a prime spot on the high street, whats that, they pay nothing to anyone, change ownership every year or 2 , find the one that has been in your town the longest and then go check them out !
Love your video's mate👍I am from Australia and have a fascination for England. Never been but I like seeing the "real" parts of the country.
Cheers pal. You get your bad bits everywhere i suppose. England is also always wet, grey cold and windy so everywhere is always twice as bad 🤣 Atleast in Aus the rough parts are most of the time good weather
I live in Australia mate but came from round there! I watch these to remind me how lucky I am for living in the Barossa valley 😂🇦🇺❤️
@@oliverearnshaw6189 alright for some!
Isn't London real for you?
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO London is cliche, would like to know about other places, esp up nortjh. Most movies tv shows are set in London. UK is much more than it's capital.
It's more than one reason for the decline unfortunately. High rent and rates are part of it, often in towns and cities like this the retail units are owned by one or two large landlord companies who often refuse to reduce rents, they'd usually rather see them stay empty in the vain hope a large chain who can afford the costs move in. The business rates are the second major factor, again pricing many smaller retailers out of the city centres. Another factor is the local authority, Kirklees Council is in a financial mess and on the verge of bankruptcy so is making huge cuts to services and that, inevitably, leads to less street cleaning, less upkeep of council owned areas and buildings making the place look even worse. This in turn makes the city centre even less attractive to potential investors and business owners. Then there's the impact of online shopping, one of the biggest reasons for the decline in city centre shopping. The final reason is the demographic of the people in the area, Dewsbury has a very high immigrant population and like it or not they often don't have the same incomes and spending power as the indigenous older generations had. Not only that but as more and more immigrants move in these wealthier more middle class residents tend to move out or shift their spending to other towns and cities to avoid them.
It doesn't have to be that way though, Barnsley, Wakefield and Leeds itself have also suffered massively but are trying to do something about it. Barnsley has reinvented the town centre, and are trying to attract those smaller, more eclectic independent retailers into the town, although many feel the council are neglecting other areas in favour of the centre. Wakefield is embarking on a similar strategy at last, refurbishing and rebuilding many of the old mills around the waterfront areas, trying to work with the owners of the run down Ridings Shopping Centre and have decided to go after those smaller independent retailers and try and attract them into the city centre. Wakefield still has a long way to go, it's often filthy due to a lack of daytime street cleaning and it has a high number of vacant retail units, especially due to one large, greedy commercial landlord. Wakefield also has a huge problem with druggies and alcoholics who hang around the pedestrianised areas outside the cathedral.
Thanks for the walkabout, am coming over to an event at the town hall next month and said to the missus we should go earlier and visit a few pubs. I’m definitely not going to do that now, I’ve never been to Dewsbury before but from what I saw on your video, our visit will be a one-off
Go to the West Riding on the station, superb pub
there isnt a few pubs, just a couple
Go back thirty years ago and Dewsbury was thriving and then in 2004ish it went downhill. Thanks in no part to the big Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, supermarkets, add to that the large shopping centre in Ravensthorpe, White Rose Shoping centre just 15 minutes down the A653 in Besston, South Leeds. All aided by the wonderful councillors who voted for it on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees, Wakefield, York) that we had to get extra funding for West Yorkshire and York. Sadly Leeds seems to get the lion's share of funding a lot of the other's miss out, especially North Kirklees, which has caused real controversy. Kirklees college whose built a new campus in Dewsbury, and a new Police Kirklees HQ, taking over the old site of Dewsbury Technical College! It took Dewsbury all its time to save its hospital, when it was on its own before the merger it had no debt unlike the Mid Yorks group it finds itself in. The only none run down area is the A653 corridor, Shaw Cross, and Chidswell at the top of the hill.
I lived in Dewsbury for 15 years. Here are the reasons it's in decline:
- Poor (Kirklees) council planning and policy (Locals would testify that Huddersfield received much more attention and funding than Dewsbury over the years and a planned 10 million pound investment in Dewsbury town centre was abandoned after the 2007 financial crash.
- Its close proximity to Leeds doesn't help as Leeds has a huge shopping precinct which attracts shoppers from Dewsbury and its environs
- Underlying trends (nationally and internationally) away from town centre shopping in favour of online shopping
- Shopping in Dewsbury town centre was always a frustrating experience due to the poor parking facilities. It compares badly to Mirfield retail park with its free, close proximity, parking.
- High historical unemployment and poverty in Dewsbury. People simply don't have the money to shop for anything other than essentials, which they tend to buy at Asda, Lidl etc.
- Cost of living crisis and generally poor underlying UK economy.
I object to the posts suggesting this decline is to do with the muslim population. This is just factually incorrect. If anything, the muslims are keeping the town centre alive with their (still popular) market stalls which attract visitors to the town centre twice a week.
It should also be noted that I was burgled 3 times whilst living in Dewsbury. On each occasion the person was caught and on each occasion it was a young white person. I never had any problems from the local muslim population.
You give the PC version
@@ellismeah8110 Nope, just the accurate version from someone who actually lived there. It makes little logical sense to blame the decline of Britain's high streets on Islam. How does that work? Did Marks and Spencer decide to close its Dewsbury store because of Islam, or perhaps because takings were low because the locals couldn't afford their extra special food? Take yer pick.
Karen Matthews wasn't a Muslim either - but don't let the truth get in the way of a good racist narrative.. 😂
Good to hear your side of the story , we live in a large city , and it's very devided like most towns and city's , now, there was a time when most people got on , but over the last 10 years theirs been an explosion of millions of migrants into the country ,putting a massive strain on local resources
@@ellismeah8110 Indeed. But to be fair, in the case of Dewsbury, the majority of the dentists, doctors, care and healthcare workers are also migrants, so yes, they draw on resources, but they also contribute greatly to the support infrastructure.
Let's face it...the real reason our services are under pressure is all of those years of crippling austerity and very poor local authority planning.
White flight, the new normal
Exactly
I can see york going this way on the outskirts.
I have to deliver here and Bradford most of the week, day in day out these places are depressing and not good for your mental well being.. No hope, no future.
This is really sad. Thanks for the video. Oh, and it looks like you are wearing a Suffolk sheep. lol
The sheep is wearing me! 🤣
Looks so delightful
Sign me up for a weekend
Away.
Just an idea - why not interview some of the local people you encounter on your walks? What have they got to say about the rubbish state of things? It'd be interesting to hear their points of view.
Similar thing has happened in Heckmondwike, about 2.5 miles away. It was a busy market town, with Tuesday and Saturday being market days. There were plenty of independent businesses, from florists to chemists. Then Morrisons opened in the town centre. Slowly but surely the local shops started to close down. The market has disappeared completely from Heckmondwike. Many shops are boarded up. Online shopping has had drastic effects. Very sad to see.
Litter is a nationwide problem. Look at any roadside and it's unbelievable the amount of rubbish lying there.
Litter and the splattering of spit and snot...
Uk has fallen
Up north yes!
Not to worry, the globalist Agenda is still on course. Nothing like destabilising a country to weaken and divide everyone, the WEF plants will make this worse as years go on. Dread to think what this country will be like by 2035. Probably collapsed and civil war 😨
Import the third world become the turd world. Shame really as there looks to be some nice architecture that's now going to be left to rot to make the 'New Britons' feel more at home.
Have you been to Saviletown (no relation other than the hobbies i suppose if you catch my drift) yet? Don't think the New Britons would even let you film around 'their area'.
"Now then, now then, guys 'n' gals"! 😆😅
Market days are Wed & Sat, the Town has died a slow painful death it's so sad. The Town next door Batley pretty much the same, just gambling shops, pound shops and charity shops. Batley famous for the Batley Variety club back in the day, famous singers and comedians used to come there. Also home to Fox's Biscuits. Heckmondwike seems to be clinging on, alot less to lets..
Going to Batley soon....it best be a dump 🤣
@@honestplacesgo to the new plaza in Batley. You get looked at like a piece of shit if you’re white
I have to admit I didn't watch the whole video but I felt that it was pretty revealing that he doesn't seem to actually talk to anyone? There's loads of towns all over the UK that are on the decline but there is more to a community than whether it still has a Spoons. Talk to people, find out what's actually going on! There might be community projects, arts and culture that is hidden slightly beneath the surface that you're not gonna find by just walking around pointing at buildings
I agree. Overall I found this video to be one of the most boring I have ever seen. I did watch the whole video hoping it might improve towards the end. It didn't.
make a video yourself then
If I flew 12 or 14 hours to get there and walked around Dewsburry I doubt I would find anyone to talk to either.. I guess it is boring if you live there, it’s interesting to me.. what is happening to these towns - I like watching travel videos with people on streets.. I like watching this guy too.. it is very telling about what the society is.. where are the people to talk to..?
Should get you on GB news or talk to and show the true state of some parts of the UK it would open peoples eyes.
Too shy for that 🤣
@@honestplaces I with respect disagree, you would open peoples eyes basically you hear so much bs about we’ve got to build more houses etc and I have always thought there a lot of residential properties that would just be repurposed. The same for commercial properties tidied up and perhaps rent free to get a business up and running and secure.
I’m confident a Tory mouthpiece will platform someone showing UK economic decline.
I come from Kettering which I thought was a bit of a dump.After looking at this.I realise I was wrong. I’d say most of the shops in the town centre are currently occupied.I don’t know what the answer is but some towns remind me of Beirut in the 70s.The government only seem to give a Fck about themselves.
Atleast beirut has nice weather
Excellent video, really appreciate your efforts s as it’s been about 30 years since I was last in that area.
It's so depressing in the direction the UK is going. I can't offer any solutions, but I think these types of videos should be shown to the London-centric crowd.
Afew video do....i'm not big enough 🤣😭
All the shops opposite the town hall have not had their leases renewed as it’s all going to be flats.
I was born in Dewsbury, it’s an absolute disgrace how the town has been let go to rack and ruin.
Huddersfield is going the same way, same as most towns sadly . 😔
True, people probably will look at this and think what a dump but anyone who remembers how it used to be in the 70s will just feel so sad. Daisy Hill is unrecognisable.
@@freemantle252 I’m 70 and the Dewsbury I knew was lovely, it was a pleasure to go down Dewsbury on a Saturday afternoon.
Caddy’s ice cream parlour, Baileys Cafe, Market loads of shops, and a choice of cinemas. 👍🏻 Dewsbury park and cafe, a different world. I lived on the Flatts behind the station, and loved going to Dewsbury when I was small, over the railway into town.
It’s so sad to see it all now 😔
Great architecture there.
Great video again bro ! Good stuff ! Thank you for sharing!!👊🏽👊🏽🔊🔊🔊🏆🏌🏾♂️💫
Cheers pal 👍
Great video mate. Thanks for showing us around. I’m glad to say that I will probably never venture there. However, I do like the look of some of those abandoned buildings 😉 Might be worth the journey to check some of those out for a mooch!
the destopian reality of Britain's north
It’s not Britains north. It’s Englands north. Huge difference 🙄
Newcastle is still nice
These "gambling" arcades are the perfect front for laundering money. They are always mostly empty but put ££££'s through the tills every day-
I'm from Dewsbury, just totally gone now. Nothing left. Use to be a top town but that was back in last century when we had all best shops, and a cinema, then the famous market they came from far and wide to see. Now look 😔
Oh and you just depressed the hell out of us all😂
👍 As a virtual tourist, from videos like this will explore using the google street views over the years and can notice the gradual decline. June 2023 many streets deserted but most streets were clean (few instances of junk and rubbish on back streets).
Streetview is ace for that, love a good street view sesh!
Heartbreaking.
Everywhere you go and it’s the same thing that’s happening.Gone are those days of the 80’s where town centres were bustling and you went to town to buy everything.
Life’s what we make it wherever we live in the country.
Great channel you’ve got here
I know mate, shame init. Cheers pal 👍
Nice looking Town ,Your tour Disturbed me, England needs another Cromwell Very Soon.
No we do not he was a nightmare!
No we do not , Cromwell was a nightmare!
I used to love going to dews bury market. I’m sick of seeing gambling shops. They ruin people’s lives
I lived in Mirfield as a kid and loves going to Dewsbury, it looks like it has gone down hill so much , such a shame, the market was brilliant back in the day, I live near London now so not been back for a few years , last time I just went to matalan so not right into the town bit, the council need to sort it out
I currently live in Mirfield and Dewsbury used to be so thriving years ago. There is nothing there now just rot and decay. My parents used to come over to Dewsbury to shop as it was one of the best places... Its now a shadow of its former place.