My mate lived in Loudon Grove off Berkley Street, and we were trapped by the bollards next to Mrs Lings chippy when the riots exploded. It was insane. I lived off Prinny Ave and pulled our louvre windows out, so I could join him and watch the Police with the riot shields. I'm white, he was black and the people in the riots were all mixed culture and race. I went to Shorefields and my mates were of every colour under the sun. I'm proud I'm from L8, it's made me who I am today. He's still one of my best mates. Nice one Errol!
Gramby in 85, from the front line lovely thai sticks and nice sensi also great rocky, 👍 love my fellow bros of all colours. I'm 57 now and long for the 80s, and 90s great music 🎶 wonderful eras. One heart,One love,One blood,One God,One race HUMANITY, JAH .ALL LIVES MATTER ❤
@paulwilliams4420 is right brother ,your correct you jogged my memory, 40 years of smoking the nice stuff and things are a bit cloudy ,you take care and be lucky. All lives matter 🙏 ♥️
Errol is the same age as myself Bill and agree 100% with his views 👍 And seeing that Tree lined once PROUD Street , with those Bricked up windowed houses behind you, Bill How SAD is that ???
Great vid mate. Toxteth is the oldest black community in Europe. My brother was in canning house bail hostel in 85,i use to bunk off school and go and visit him from Kirkby Remember one time, these black church Baptist goers were there offering all the young offenders to join the church to get baptised and there be a buffet afterwards. Me and my brother went for a laugh for the free scran. I was only 15 in the care system. So we went to this church in Toxteth & got baptised singing all these church songs. I forgot I'd given them my details. About a month later in my way home from school walking through Northwood Kirkby all me mates saying Purple Akis looking for you winding me up. When I got home my little foster mother looked white and rollocked me saying don't bring 3 black meat heads to my door again with bibles. They'd come looking for me cause I'd not attended the church 😂
Great vid and chat with a gentle soul. Its criminal to let the area go like that. Have great memories living there in the 80s. We were always skint but never poor if you know what i mean.
I lived in Sunnyside just over the road from granby street,,I have walked down that street many times without any troubles,,,The community what makes granby street
I grew up in ldn then moved to Liverpool for university, scousers are one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Liverpool is literally the opposite of London, in ldn all you care about is money everyone wants to be on top of the ladder no sympathy or community at all man, yeh I had some racist experiences in Liverpool but that don’t mean the whole city is like that
@@alfredbahounassoni8116 Liverpool now is much more inclusive. You can walk round most places now without any issue. Good luck mate. Glad you liked Liverpool.
Get him on for a full podcast he talks alot of sense. Im a londoner & always hear of racial division in liverpool, croxteth n toxteth. but only hear from 1 side would be interesting to hear from a black mans perspective that grew up there
@Tayloradrift point me in the direction of some black people that grew up in toxteth and croxteth speaking about how it was for them growing up. You make it sound as though there's been loads of black people speaking on it so I expect quite a few links sent my way
I'm not exaggerating that every deprived area in Liverpool in around the 70,s 80,s and 90,s, are 100% different than how they are now. The communities have all been destroyed with people, good neighbours and families all being dispersed to different parts of the city and county while the slum areas where these amazing communities were have about 96% of them have been knocked down and replaced with shitty paper thin houses, which although are nicer inside, still there is no community base there at all. Thousands of victorian homes and victorian infrastructure buildings like pubs, bungis baths an loads more amazing buildings , some very large and beautiful have all been knocked down instead of taking the option to refurbish them back to a lovely victorian feel and style like they done to about 3 streets in anfield. One of the main reasons the council destroyed all of these communities was that they along with the police decided that the only way they can disrupt and slow down the rampant deprivation and criminality that the city had in the whole of North liverpool, South sefton and like east Liverpool estates like canny farm and Huyton estates along with notorious Kirkby then the South end of Liverpool is quite nice with a good few posh areas which have been left alone by the council and police so they are still steps above the poorer residents in the city. There is in South Liverpool like a band of areas which are the furthest suburbs and they was also very problematic with crime, drugs and deprivation like the estates of speke, garston mud men, netherly, belle vale and Lee park, they were basically run by crime families in the estates . And again large percentages of these estates that had unfixable problems they just knocked a load of them down like in the north end and sent the communities far and wide across the city.
Good lad Errol . And Cliffy and all the lads. I’ve spent most of my life between Granby lodge lane and Tiber Street where my dad was born in the early 40s It certainly has changed so much . Even back in the 90s and early noughties the community was always strong and reliable . Very fractured these days . Really is a shame
Grandparents from Northumberland St L8 used to love going there docks at the bottom of the street,cobbled streets and Jerry Marsden mother had the sweet shop across the road,she once cracked me across the head for having a toy snake in her shop scared her to death lol
Another good Vid Bill! I grew up in Speke and still live here now. When we were younger we knew everyone but now nobody talks to each other on the street anymore. I think the whole of Liverpool is the same. Lost that community spirit
The community spirit was not lost, but taken away by the actions of councils and big developers, moving local people to outlying areas of Liverpool, and further afield, and replacing them with other people who have/had no connection with these areas.
Fascinate me this "revisit" type of content Bill, maybe thats because im a similar age who's fought similar demons and as you get a bit older you tend to reflect much more
So I dated a bird who’s ex husband was in the Liverpool drugs squad and she said he brought it home That’s why they are the filth , the bizzys will ruin ya life , make you lose ya house or ya car and job Then take the shit home and share it out …. filth bill so no I don’t care for a dirty bizzy
Chatting to real bruddahs. Hearing about some of the shit that went on back in the late 70s/early 80s is mad. Hard to imagine the brutality compared to these days. Different levels
I grew up in cairns St and was born in jermyn St. Love seeing these videos. I lived in the middle of Granby but I was only 10 in the riots. We heard everything but didn't see anything as mum wouldn't allow us out obviously. But I loved L8 Still do. But it has definitely changed..
Born and raised on Granby street. The community when I was growing up was amazing. The diversity, the togetherness, the spirit was something you couldn’t get anywhere else. They tore down the old houses and shipped everyone out and by the time the rebuilt them it was many years and everyone had settled elsewhere, thus breaking the community down. Such a shame, best memories and life experiences along that street. ❤
I lived through the riots back then in '81. What kicked them off was an amalgamation of things. Chronic unemployment, chronic racism and police brutality. People had simply reached a tipping point. Youths came in from outside of Toxteth to join in with the riots. It became a social catastrophe. And yet, even now, Toxteth is still stigmatised for something that happened over 40 years ago. Granby Street has been left, abandoned, whilst not far from there, Myrtle Street has had huge investment. I blame, too, every single city council for this abandonment.
This feller spoke to him few times in the anfield light house he his good man and helped him clean up the kitchen with my mate really appreciated what he does billy moore
Wise words wise lad that nice man talking Billy remember Billy if you put L8 on your job application you would not get the job i lived in L8 in the 80s government let the people down now it's a ghost town lad
Cool Dude Errol. Billy I'm luvvin these clips lad. My late Mum was born in Ivy Street which was at the bottom of Granby. The area was deemed posh back then. They lived in a big rented house. Her Mum Ellen Cooke, Nee Siega was widowed twice, and had 12 kids, all gone now. Ellen used to keep the parlour (front room) tidy, she would have local people in, they would pay her shillings to read their tealeaves. My Mum loved the Rialto, which was a beautiful building....Kudos to the lovely people of Granby xx 👍
very sad they way its gone great content and very true what are friend say shout out to erol and his truth l think the same its all gone area is not the same shout out to billy n family n young joe
Billy, Errol's story needs capturing for prosperity. The L8 community was unique in this country but the 'state of managed decline' set by the 1980's government along with everything else going on at the time has obviously worked.
Hi Billy love your story's I get you I've got loads of story's you must be younger as I spent most of life in jail, we were 1st to move in new Risley we watched it getting built, my family from Kingsley Rd there Jamaicans back in 81 they didn't like Somalis keep good work up lad👍✌✌
I’m from Bradford but as a teen we had a family move from Liverpool to Bradford called Briggs. I ended up grafting with Some of them and they had a Jamaican friend called Phil who came from granny street. He was a loose canon and often let off shots on our street with his converted Mac like it was normal while visiting Bradford. He took me to granby street to collect some resin but on arriving he left me and a fellow friend in the car while he went into a property. In the time we was waiting outside I was surrounded by a Afro carribean gang with pistols wanting to know who we was and why we was parked on granby street. My ass fell out but as soon as Phil came out of the house and they realised we was with him it all calmed down and we ended up spending most the day gettInit stoned and chilling out with the lads. I admit it was one of the most tense moments of my life but in the end worked out ok . Sad to see the street like that.
Hi billly can't believe he was 16 in 1980 its sad alright i remember places but there not there anymore your lucky like u was today to find someone u no i gave up going back to the well my old places cheers
hiya Billy hope you and ur brother are ok gr8 contents has always mate, i used to go down toxteth with my father i was only about 7 or 8 years old carnt remember that much we use to go in a big house a friend of my fathers it was nick named the blue house i think it got burnt down for some reason or the other i do remember it been chaos in that gaff, anyway take care Billy godbless you bruvv, 👊😉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍,
In tone of voice maybe but that's it, this guy couldn't be more opposite personality wise, this guy talks total sense instead of talking about himself non stop. Never met a Rasta who wasn't cool af and humble just like Errol here.
Born and bred in the area until the council pulled down the streets and destroyed the neighbourhood, moved families out to skem, hough green + speke . Loved growing up around lodge lane , granby , upper parliament st 👍
Came to the UK 28 years ago as a student. Couldn't agree more regarding the segregation. It's sad as it feels like to each their own. I didnt witness the riots but my uncles where here and they speak about the unity then.
Just watched this!!!! Billy respect and all that!!!!! But what he saying is what was going on in the sixties!!!! Love the Caribbean and all ,,,,,, but sounds like their going though that period off time!!!!!!! What happens if we go to war!!!!!? Are we as 1 or are we fighting for us with out????? This whole life thing is a total disaster!!!! We should be United (((( no football pun intended))))),,,, if it comes fight or flight !!!! Will we will they ???? My grandad fought !!!!! And why? Thanks Tony fuc~~~~ blare!!!! Sold us all down the river!!! Hence the state of England now!!!! And present government can’t get out off !!!!! Nice life Tony!!!!!!! Are they going stick up fight !!!!! No !!! But saying that same shoe size I’d run here as well !!!!! Come but join? We can all work together ❤️
0:26 It was a place you went to score your brown (smachhh😁) back in the mid eighties for £15 a quarter. Manchester, Moss Side, was £20 a quarter, but so, so much better quality!🤣🤷♂️
Liverpool Riots I had been to the flicks with the wife and while drive-in over upper Parly st we saw a fire towards the top of Parly street. The next day in the paper we read that there had been a riot. After the riots had been over for good few weeks, I was grabbing a late-night scran at the Lux takeaway at the bottom of Parly I witnessed a young girl about 14-15 harling abuse at the Paddy wagon which had stopped at the lights. So when she returned to the queue back inside the Lux I asked her why they had set fire to their own local shops, this making life more difficult for themselves. As for weeks I could not get my head around this action of the rioters. The answer however was very simple, she told me that they would not let them on the Bus with petrol bombs to burn down Woolton.
You've probably seen the euro bins that our in the streets around there bill I empty them and I get to see all communities on a daily basis. There is a divide but not in any underline tension way people just get on with there day and mind there own business. I've never had a problem with anyone around the area in fact the majority are very polite because in some cases we have to block a street for a few minutes in some cases to empty the bins and they sit behind us in cars with patience. Believe me in some areas we get moaned at and shouted at to move the wagon.
People in the UK are segregated and divided all over the country and in all UK cities and towns ,older generations are the cause of the racism and divisions that exist today they played thier part.
Need to do a full podcast with him Bill. A font of history that needs telling.
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Totally agree! A podcast with Errol would be brilliant!
All those beautifully built houses just left to rot! Scandalous
Totally agree, it's a disgrace that good house are left to be destroyed
They will eventually be bought and done up. Then sold/rented out for a fortune
Welcome to third world Britain
Tories for ya mate 💯✌🏻
We need more of this fella , spitting facts , and a nice man to boot 👊
My mate lived in Loudon Grove off Berkley Street, and we were trapped by the bollards next to Mrs Lings chippy when the riots exploded. It was insane. I lived off Prinny Ave and pulled our louvre windows out, so I could join him and watch the Police with the riot shields. I'm white, he was black and the people in the riots were all mixed culture and race. I went to Shorefields and my mates were of every colour under the sun. I'm proud I'm from L8, it's made me who I am today. He's still one of my best mates. Nice one Errol!
Erroll is a cool man we need to hear more from him 😎
Gramby in 85, from the front line lovely thai sticks and nice sensi also great rocky, 👍 love my fellow bros of all colours. I'm 57 now and long for the 80s, and 90s great music 🎶 wonderful eras. One heart,One love,One blood,One God,One race HUMANITY, JAH .ALL LIVES MATTER ❤
Lodgy Lodge Lane was the Front line Bro !
@paulwilliams4420 is right brother ,your correct you jogged my memory, 40 years of smoking the nice stuff and things are a bit cloudy ,you take care and be lucky. All lives matter 🙏 ♥️
build more houses they say - Nope - repair the old ones and rejuvenate areas
Good point
Totally!
What a lovely fella, well spoken. He knows how many beans make five.
Love that little ditty, never heard it before 🦋
Errol is the same age as myself Bill and agree 100% with his views 👍
And seeing that Tree lined once PROUD Street , with those Bricked up windowed houses behind you, Bill How SAD is that ???
Granby was my playground, born on Granby st ,66 ,went to Granby school ,lived in Beaumont grove. place was amazing . a pool of life
My auntie and cousins lived in cam grove had some good times round there
Gorgeous old houses
Great vid mate. Toxteth is the oldest black community in Europe. My brother was in canning house bail hostel in 85,i use to bunk off school and go and visit him from Kirkby Remember one time, these black church Baptist goers were there offering all the young offenders to join the church to get baptised and there be a buffet afterwards. Me and my brother went for a laugh for the free scran. I was only 15 in the care system. So we went to this church in Toxteth & got baptised singing all these church songs. I forgot I'd given them my details. About a month later in my way home from school walking through Northwood Kirkby all me mates saying Purple Akis looking for you winding me up. When I got home my little foster mother looked white and rollocked me saying don't bring 3 black meat heads to my door again with bibles. They'd come looking for me cause I'd not attended the church 😂
Times were different back then ,fantastic era 70/80s.Yes he is spot on about community spirit as we were all in the same boat.
Spot on mate
Very true, same here in Glasgow, all in the same boat.
Your spot on
Brilliant this! Your giving the people a voice! Keep it going! I think this is the beginning of something special!
Definitely got that right no community anymore need to unite bring it back x
Races and communities are suspicious of each other and difference of opinions create divisions in the UK.
Great vid and chat with a gentle soul. Its criminal to let the area go like that. Have great memories living there in the 80s. We were always skint but never poor if you know what i mean.
I lived in Sunnyside just over the road from granby street,,I have walked down that street many times without any troubles,,,The community what makes granby street
Them houses would be absolutely a steal in London (Brixton) just wouldn't be left to rot. Criminal.
I grew up in ldn then moved to Liverpool for university, scousers are one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Liverpool is literally the opposite of London, in ldn all you care about is money everyone wants to be on top of the ladder no sympathy or community at all man, yeh I had some racist experiences in Liverpool but that don’t mean the whole city is like that
@@alfredbahounassoni8116 Liverpool now is much more inclusive. You can walk round most places now without any issue.
Good luck mate. Glad you liked Liverpool.
I am from barrow I love it when came to see my family St off gramby I loved it
Lovely fella Erroll. Get him on the podcast mate.
Get him on for a full podcast he talks alot of sense. Im a londoner & always hear of racial division in liverpool, croxteth n toxteth. but only hear from 1 side would be interesting to hear from a black mans perspective that grew up there
Where have you been all your life? You only ever hear of the Black mans perspective.
@Tayloradrift point me in the direction of some black people that grew up in toxteth and croxteth speaking about how it was for them growing up.
You make it sound as though there's been loads of black people speaking on it so I expect quite a few links sent my way
@@danhan835 plenty of footage out there if you look. You Tube, old newspaper articles etc.
@@danhan835 There is an interesting one you might like to have a look at involving the one and only Michael Showers
divide and conquer he's right. love to see full podcast with this fella
Really interesting video. I am living in Liverpool for 5 years and good to know what happened in the city back in the days.
I'm not exaggerating that every deprived area in Liverpool in around the 70,s 80,s and 90,s, are 100% different than how they are now. The communities have all been destroyed with people, good neighbours and families all being dispersed to different parts of the city and county while the slum areas where these amazing communities were have about 96% of them have been knocked down and replaced with shitty paper thin houses, which although are nicer inside, still there is no community base there at all. Thousands of victorian homes and victorian infrastructure buildings like pubs, bungis baths an loads more amazing buildings , some very large and beautiful have all been knocked down instead of taking the option to refurbish them back to a lovely victorian feel and style like they done to about 3 streets in anfield. One of the main reasons the council destroyed all of these communities was that they along with the police decided that the only way they can disrupt and slow down the rampant deprivation and criminality that the city had in the whole of North liverpool, South sefton and like east Liverpool estates like canny farm and Huyton estates along with notorious Kirkby then the South end of Liverpool is quite nice with a good few posh areas which have been left alone by the council and police so they are still steps above the poorer residents in the city. There is in South Liverpool like a band of areas which are the furthest suburbs and they was also very problematic with crime, drugs and deprivation like the estates of speke, garston mud men, netherly, belle vale and Lee park, they were basically run by crime families in the estates . And again large percentages of these estates that had unfixable problems they just knocked a load of them down like in the north end and sent the communities far and wide across the city.
Good lad Errol . And Cliffy and all the lads.
I’ve spent most of my life between Granby lodge lane and Tiber Street where my dad was born in the early 40s
It certainly has changed so much . Even back in the 90s and early noughties the community was always strong and reliable . Very fractured these days . Really is a shame
a0Q 4:11
Mass immigration for you
Grandparents from Northumberland St L8 used to love going there docks at the bottom of the street,cobbled streets and Jerry Marsden mother had the sweet shop across the road,she once cracked me across the head for having a toy snake in her shop scared her to death lol
Remember them day's in 81 82 I was in Dyson Hall at the time of the riots and I got to know some top lad from Liverpool.
I was in the Royal Liverpool Hospital in town for the riots aged eight
Another good Vid Bill! I grew up in Speke and still live here now. When we were younger we knew everyone but now nobody talks to each other on the street anymore. I think the whole of Liverpool is the same. Lost that community spirit
Yes because it's full of non Whites and foreigners now.
The community spirit was not lost, but taken away by the actions of councils and big developers, moving local people to outlying areas of Liverpool, and further afield, and replacing them with other people who have/had no connection with these areas.
Had mates from Park Lane area & remember scoring pot at the pool hall on Granby & late drinking in the Nigerian
That's sad, my mum & me visited good Irish friends Shaun & Franny & their kids. We went there often in the 70s !!!
Fascinate me this "revisit" type of content Bill, maybe thats because im a similar age who's fought similar demons and as you get a bit older you tend to reflect much more
we divided but the bizzies still the same, their the biggest firm on the streets.
So I dated a bird who’s ex husband was in the Liverpool drugs squad and she said he brought it home
That’s why they are the filth , the bizzys will ruin ya life , make you lose ya house or ya car and job
Then take the shit home and share it out …. filth bill so no I don’t care for a dirty bizzy
I should say ya kids or even ya life … they don’t care but as long as they’re alright
another great pod cast.. the fella was talking sense. good podcast bill...#respect..
Absolutely spot on. Communities are so important
Chatting to real bruddahs. Hearing about some of the shit that went on back in the late 70s/early 80s is mad. Hard to imagine the brutality compared to these days. Different levels
I grew up in cairns St and was born in jermyn St. Love seeing these videos. I lived in the middle of Granby but I was only 10 in the riots. We heard everything but didn't see anything as mum wouldn't allow us out obviously. But I loved L8 Still do. But it has definitely changed..
good to see the consistent uploads good watch this channel
Born and raised on Granby street. The community when I was growing up was amazing. The diversity, the togetherness, the spirit was something you couldn’t get anywhere else. They tore down the old houses and shipped everyone out and by the time the rebuilt them it was many years and everyone had settled elsewhere, thus breaking the community down. Such a shame, best memories and life experiences along that street. ❤
@bigjockknew7277 no idea what this means. But you’re entitled to your opinion!
@bigjockknew7277 behave you absolute loon. I’m telling my personal experience, I’m not arsed if you agree or not.
I use to live there when I was young in the 90s, best childhood 👍🏽
@@aimen23 you probably know me or definitely my brother
@PinkAngelDesigns Yeah I remember now you owe money 😂😂😂😂
Should do full interview with errol seems top man
Great video, good to hear the story from the horses mouth so to speak. Keep it up buddy
Fuck me last time I was on Granby , 1984 it was buzzin’ !!
Great video billy I use to live off lodge lane in early 70s
Granby was booming when i was a kid in the Sixties
Great vid Bill please more from Earl 💯💪💯
The guy knows how to emphasis the true way of the 70s 80s through till today 👏👏👏👏👍🏻🫡
I lived through the riots back then in '81. What kicked them off was an amalgamation of things. Chronic unemployment, chronic racism and police brutality. People had simply reached a tipping point. Youths came in from outside of Toxteth to join in with the riots. It became a social catastrophe. And yet, even now, Toxteth is still stigmatised for something that happened over 40 years ago. Granby Street has been left, abandoned, whilst not far from there, Myrtle Street has had huge investment. I blame, too, every single city council for this abandonment.
Well said, and the likes of dirty micky showers are nonces
I think I pass there on Monday with my dog and I thought the same thing ever so much abandon houses I’m just at the corn is Princess Park 👍😊
love it, my neighbourhood, true words spoken by Errol, 81 wus der lar
Awrite Billy hope alls good 👍🏻 from Scotland UK of GB ALWAYS 🇬🇧
Would love a full video with this guy .
Love it
Billy - Loved that What a proper bloke Errol was , Lets have him on again , Thank you 😄
Great vid.
Billy, great knowledge from the Jamaican lad... Plenty of empty buildings& so much homelessness, something should be done about this
When is he going back to Jamaica?
Shame the community dont know each other very sad
Erroll makes the best corn bread
@2:05 can tell ye back in tocky Bill haha "ye lie" Haven't heard that in time!
A bet that brings memories ,
Love the little videos billy
This feller spoke to him few times in the anfield light house he his good man and helped him clean up the kitchen with my mate really appreciated what he does billy moore
Wise words wise lad that nice man talking Billy remember Billy if you put L8 on your job application you would not get the job i lived in L8 in the 80s government let the people down now it's a ghost town lad
Cool Dude Errol. Billy I'm luvvin these clips lad. My late Mum was born in Ivy Street which was at the bottom of Granby. The area was deemed posh back then. They lived in a big rented house. Her Mum Ellen Cooke, Nee Siega was widowed twice, and had 12 kids, all gone now. Ellen used to keep the parlour (front room) tidy, she would have local people in, they would pay her shillings to read their tealeaves. My Mum loved the Rialto, which was a beautiful building....Kudos to the lovely people of Granby xx 👍
very sad they way its gone great content and very true what are friend say shout out to erol and his truth l think the same its all gone area is not the same shout out to billy n family n young joe
Bring Bill back ..you will get the truth from him .Do a full podcast ..
Divided we fall , we all need to stand together !!
There's no left or right
In the middle we all sleep😶
Billy, Errol's story needs capturing for prosperity. The L8 community was unique in this country but the 'state of managed decline' set by the 1980's government along with everything else going on at the time has obviously worked.
Would have liked more of this.
Cool just finished a full podcast with Errol today.
Hi Billy love your story's I get you I've got loads of story's you must be younger as I spent most of life in jail, we were 1st to move in new Risley we watched it getting built, my family from Kingsley Rd there Jamaicans back in 81 they didn't like Somalis keep good work up lad👍✌✌
Toxteth aka Tocky 🥷🏿
I’m from Bradford but as a teen we had a family move from Liverpool to Bradford called Briggs. I ended up grafting with Some of them and they had a Jamaican friend called Phil who came from granny street. He was a loose canon and often let off shots on our street with his converted Mac like it was normal while visiting Bradford. He took me to granby street to collect some resin but on arriving he left me and a fellow friend in the car while he went into a property. In the time we was waiting outside I was surrounded by a Afro carribean gang with pistols wanting to know who we was and why we was parked on granby street. My ass fell out but as soon as Phil came out of the house and they realised we was with him it all calmed down and we ended up spending most the day gettInit stoned and chilling out with the lads. I admit it was one of the most tense moments of my life but in the end worked out ok . Sad to see the street like that.
did you know coilin sullivan aka wally?? he used to tell me stories about the toxteth riots
Yea full pod cast with this gent would be great
Alright Billy mush gud lil video erroll seemd a gud un too🙌💯👍
Hi billly can't believe he was 16 in 1980 its sad alright i remember places but there not there anymore your lucky like u was today to find someone u no i gave up going back to the well my old places cheers
hiya Billy hope you and ur brother are ok gr8 contents has always mate, i used to go down toxteth with my father i was only about 7 or 8 years old carnt remember that much we use to go in a big house a friend of my fathers it was nick named the blue house i think it got burnt down for some reason or the other i do remember it been chaos in that gaff, anyway take care Billy godbless you bruvv, 👊😉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍,
'Tokky Rocky' lol.
He sounds like frenchy 😂
In tone of voice maybe but that's it, this guy couldn't be more opposite personality wise, this guy talks total sense instead of talking about himself non stop. Never met a Rasta who wasn't cool af and humble just like Errol here.
A filthy sexual abuser?
top man
Born and bred in the area until the council pulled down the streets and destroyed the neighbourhood, moved families out to skem, hough green + speke . Loved growing up around lodge lane , granby , upper parliament st 👍
Nice 1 Billy
If you weret known around there you would get taxed.but thats were the best weed come from. I could listen to more of his storys.
Hundreds of empty properties and plenty homeless people don’t make sense
Came to the UK 28 years ago as a student. Couldn't agree more regarding the segregation. It's sad as it feels like to each their own. I didnt witness the riots but my uncles where here and they speak about the unity then.
Just watched this!!!! Billy respect and all that!!!!! But what he saying is what was going on in the sixties!!!! Love the Caribbean and all ,,,,,, but sounds like their going though that period off time!!!!!!! What happens if we go to war!!!!!? Are we as 1 or are we fighting for us with out????? This whole life thing is a total disaster!!!! We should be United (((( no football pun intended))))),,,, if it comes fight or flight !!!! Will we will they ???? My grandad fought !!!!! And why? Thanks Tony fuc~~~~ blare!!!! Sold us all down the river!!! Hence the state of England now!!!! And present government can’t get out off !!!!! Nice life Tony!!!!!!! Are they going stick up fight !!!!! No !!! But saying that same shoe size I’d run here as well !!!!! Come but join? We can all work together ❤️
A developers dream area. As the houses actually seem okay
UNITY HAS GONE WELL SPOKEN ERROL
Thanks Billy ,another excellent video .
Hope ya good bill used to live on ducie street in the ninetees boss place bk in the day stay safe bill wdgu
Great crack rasta
Big Respect to all who went thru this nightmare .... The Police back then were worse than any Gangster of the day. To some degree .. They still are.
Billy your a legend thanks for covering the real life of Merseyside,,,
Do full podcast with him bill 👍🏻🦁🇪🇹
0:26 It was a place you went to score your brown (smachhh😁) back in the mid eighties for £15 a quarter. Manchester, Moss Side, was £20 a quarter, but so, so much better quality!🤣🤷♂️
0:47 need doing up bud..outside white inside all colours❤️🇬🇧💯 1:14
Liverpool Riots
I had been to the flicks with the wife and while drive-in over upper Parly st we saw a fire towards the top of Parly street. The next day in the paper we read that there had been a riot.
After the riots had been over for good few weeks, I was grabbing a late-night scran at the Lux takeaway at the bottom of Parly I witnessed a young girl about 14-15 harling abuse at the Paddy wagon which had stopped at the lights.
So when she returned to the queue back inside the Lux I asked her why they had set fire to their own local shops, this making life more difficult for themselves. As for weeks I could not get my head around this action of the rioters.
The answer however was very simple, she told me that they would not let them on the Bus with petrol bombs to burn down Woolton.
Jesus if look as well as Errol does when I’m pushing 60 I’ll be a very happy man 😅
Granby dude. Was there 30 years ago
Needs no introduction Gramby st bill
By any chance did you bump into scouse trappin tremz on your travels in L8 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You've probably seen the euro bins that our in the streets around there bill I empty them and I get to see all communities on a daily basis. There is a divide but not in any underline tension way people just get on with there day and mind there own business. I've never had a problem with anyone around the area in fact the majority are very polite because in some cases we have to block a street for a few minutes in some cases to empty the bins and they sit behind us in cars with patience. Believe me in some areas we get moaned at and shouted at to move the wagon.
People in the UK are segregated and divided all over the country and in all UK cities and towns ,older generations are the cause of the racism and divisions that exist today they played thier part.