@@mjh5437 which is disappearing at a fast rate with all the new builds popping up left right and centre on former supposedly protected “greenfield” sites. 😡
@@mjh5437 Jaywick still counts as country side. Never seen so many toothless inbreds in a place, and they all blame foreigners for their sad existence.
The answer is they don’t care about the ordinary people of that area, because they don’t live in the affected areas and most of them come from privileged backgrounds - we see the same kind of attitudes from our corrupt traitor TD’s back home in Ireland and it’s disgusting - even the socially deprived area of Manchester where I’ve lived for 21 years is not nearly as bad as my home village in Rural Ireland where I still have extended family and it’s all by design - with the next Irish general election coming up next year, there is no longer a political solution to this, you can’t vote your way out of this, you can’t fix a corrupt, rotten and broken system from within that is rotten right down to its rotten foundations, you have to either let that rotten system destroy itself or dismantle the entire rotten system
I'm returning to the North West soon and I am extremely worried. I've been living right in the center of London and a European capital for the past 30 years almost and 3 years in Manchester as a student.
I live just down the road from Accrington (Blackburn) and Accringtom was one of the best towns to shop until it went down hill and like Blackburn its nothing but a dump now. Burys where I shop but like Accrington and Blackburn, Bury will soon be the next ghost town as people nowadays feel safer behind closed doors and shopping online rather than risk going out and getting stabbed.
Accrington is probably most famous for the 'Nori' brick (Accrington Brick), the red brick you see a lot of terraced houses and factories are made from. Also the Accrington Pals, known as the 11th battalion whom fought in the First World War and sadly most of them didn't return home alive.
I remember the clangs they made when you threw them in a pile and the weight of them would make the steel wheelbarrow wobble as you pushed it, the handles would slightly bend then spring back. Then I'd pick the whole thing up and throw it into the back of a tipper wagon. I spent a whole day once hammering a channel into a wall made out of them with a steel bolster and 4lb lump hammer for electrical wiring.
I was born in Accrington, and I've always been fond of the town; its people (when you see them), its history, and architecture. Unfortunately, of all the towns in Northwest England, it has one of the sadest stories; poor decisions made by the council, terrible economic problems, poverty, immigration etc. The good news is that it has had a significant amount of money acquired recently that should improve the town centre, at least aesthetically. I've posted this video on all the Accrington Facebook chat pages, and the main one 'Hyndburn Chat', has taken it down, I wonder why?
In my 21 years living in a socially deprived area of Manchester at age 53, yet in the time I’ve lived here, I’ve got extended family in my home village in Rural Ireland barely 20 miles from Dublin and I’ve seen that village fall into managed decline by design and by comparison, the speed of its decline has been far worse than Manchester - my family in Rural Ireland are in no position to move out of the area, not even into Dublin, let alone move outside Ireland
I'm sorry to hear about your famaly's village. I don't think it is really a competition, it's bad here and I take your word for it, it's bad there. I live in Rochdale, I know how bad things can get. It's a fairly infamous town at this point and, unfortunately, I cannot say it doesn't deserve the infamy. Things were already fairly shit here before I was born. @@michaeljohndennis2231
I'm just glad I am not in the city, they are far worse in my opinion. I prefer to be out of the way, even if it is in a dumpster, better than being caught in the shit storm of our cities. @@michaeljohndennis2231
One man's desolation, is another man's paradise. That is if you are an urban explorer. 😀 'Levelling Up' my backside, it was just a sham! Great stuff and interesting as usual Charlie. 😎
I reside in a town where you cant make a complaint to the police. At the police station. You have to phone. Our local police station is now flats.the police station in town doesn't have a complaints counter. You have to ring. And the furthest is just holding cels. Its mad. 🏴
I grew up in Accy during the 70's and 80's - I agree, definitely good memories, but yes, it's changed a lot over the years. I still go over there once a week as I still have friends and family there and it's almost unrecognisable these days.
Blackburn is the same change so much since the late 80s and 90s, it used to have a weekend nightlife in the town center with nightclubs like 'Manhattan Heights' etc all gone now, weekends have a dead city center. All because of the 'From The River To The Sea' people having moved in.
I grew up on Hollands Pies, my dad worked there for over 25 years, first as one of the drivers then later (due to health reasons) as a supervisor - I remember as a child going out in the delivery van with him during school holidays.
A woman was killed and dismembered in accrington they took her body parts to a takeaway in the town centre , but also his accomplis who helped him dispose of the body worked on the meat processing at Hollands pies factory I shit you not
The really sad thing is that Accrington has got lots of nice buildings be they occupied or not, surely it wouldn't take a huge amount of money to get it back on its feet ??? We spend £8 billion per year on paying illegal immigrants to stay in 4 Star hotels, with three meals a day- all found - a tad amount of that would get the town back on its feet !!!
Anyone else got the earworm "Accrington Stanley, who are they?" I'll see your Accrington and raise you Newport (S.Wales). Mordor lost to Da Port in the last round.
I live on the outskirts of accrington for about 2 years now. Only ever go into the town for the train station or big tesco. I just get the vibe it's not worth checking out at all. Luckily I work elsewhere and I can avoid the town centre. Rossendale is much nicer, you should check it out.
Many towns in North Wales are in decline, as are many towns and villages in Rural Ireland - certainly the cost of living crisis and the after effects of Covid has definitely had an impact but it’s surely not the only reason - if a village, town or suburban area of a city like Manchester falls into decline, it’s very difficult for them to recover, if at all - I can’t help feeling that this is managed decline and on purpose
some people in uk pay more than half of their income to rent a place to live, it's a great country for absentee landlords, rather like ireland was 200 years ago.@@jlsiu
I visited Neath, for a holiday, lol, ha, I've lived in liverpool, manchester, but was shocked at how run down the place is, not much going on and streets filled with beggars. The 'hotel' i stayed in was shittier than a dole hostel.
fell asleep on a train once and woke in Accrington, I didn't know it was Lancashire! Luckily i didn't leave the train station and got on the next train outta there!
Surprised no-one has mentioned one of Accrington's most famous son's - Jon Anderson - YES's former lead singer - even he pissed off long ago to California.
Chernobyl was an ancient town/village before the power stations were built there. The entire area around the plant is really beautiful. Even pripyat is beautiful especially during the summer. I've been to both places a couple of times before the war.
Googled the MP...28 year old Conservative MP.... daughter of local mayor...what does she bring to the table at the age of 28?? MP's salary, sizeable though it is, doesn't attract our best or brightest, our most experienced. Halve the number of constituencies/MPs and double the salary. Look atbthe people in the cabinet, most are too ordinary to make decent decisions. We need better and more capable people in parliament from which to draw the decision makers.
I spent around 4 months of my life in the Dunkenhalgh in Accrington and I thought it was great. Fine people fine town. Great video as always Veitchmeister
When you see a Town become run down and becoming a waste land its not the fault of the people its all the Fault of the Council the Town where i live is going the same way the main shopping street is full of closed shops charity shops and estate agents the council allowed a developer to build a shopping complex about half mile out of town which you can only drive to wonder how many brown envelopes were passed to the council
It’s really sad the downfall off Accrington used to be a lovely place to look at lovely shops parks on the green belt amazing buildings, nightlife a place to be.
accrington produced chris atherton (pro uk skateboarder) and thats enough for me, any felow british skaters should know how legendary and humble that guy is. he alone makes accrington worth the visit
it was one of the first places around lancashire to have a proper skatepark too. its supported skateboarder culture too (or at least tolerated us there). we used to travel there and skate the steps at the side usually and often met other skaters. this was all before "the game" came out too! so in that respects accrington was certainly welcoming of people from other cultures (be it skateboarders or radical islam lol). this charlie guy is a highly narcissistic prat living a sad life bumbling around with a camera trying to gain likes and subscribers but he is correct in how grim it is in our northern towns. constantly talking about struggling people with no empathy or understanding as he roams around looking to film them and drag a situation out of people. hes getting fairly well known for his behaviour and personality too which is fairly sad to think how disliked he will be in the future before he realises people arent as foolish as he once believed and has to live with the repercussions of being so openly rude and judgemental. billy moore is a much better travelling podcaster and hes an ex "crackie" doing a much better and honest job and hes full of understanding and empathy so unlike charlie he gets to film the real side of things because he has no agenda and isnt just a narcissist with a camera and microphone
Go JC, it's your birthday We gon' reunion like it's your birthday We gon' sip communion like it's your birthday And you know we don't give a schmuck it's not your birthday You can find me in the temple, scriptures full of judgemental'
I’m from Accrington. Tony Blair’s immigration enrichment ruined Accrington. Unlike Blackburn it had very little Islam until it began in 1997. Now it feels half the town is Pakistani. Pubs have all but disappeared.
You like to blame others, truth is your town was destined for this demise regardless of any migration because there’s no investment, opportunities, little scope to work and nothing for those born there to stay for
@@PedroGonzalez11111 Of course some of that is true. But tell me how politicians importing thousands of welfare dependent m u slims to swamp the entire area helps? What benefit did it bring to us natives- it only brought more Labour votes. We didn't have a lot of wealth but we had our communities, our town, our people and our shared history and heritage. Its a microcosm of what is happening / has happened to most of England. I doubt you live anywhere near "diversity" or you would know.
Clicked on the video then had few sips of beer and for a few seconds I thought I'm watching Bald and Bankrupt video. Cause Intro sounded just like Bolds intro 😂
So much beautiful architecture in Britain even in smaller towns and villages, it is an absolute shame what is happening and only God himself can help us now.
I don’t thinks it’s as bad as people make it out to be. Accrington is no different to other towns in Lancashire. Hyndburn has more traveller sites than anyone else. The McDonalds near the railway arches can get a bit rough at times.
Wow, at last Charlie, you arrived at my wonderful town, NOT! Actually we do have some nice victorian architecture, a wonderful old Market Hall that i used to work in in the 90s when i was a Markets Officer, Asst Market Superintendent. The Town Hall is nice, the old Victorian Market Hall and other interesting buildings and areas, like the Old Warner Street with its independent, bespoke shops, still quite a few pubs but no where near the number that there used to be, Accrington seemed to have a pub on every corner and almost every street at one time, now on to viewing your video blog Charlie, yes its now rough and quiet but remember this was once a great Market town with a vibrant market and used to be very busy, thanks for visiting mate
I love walking through little towns that I've never been to before, but dear lord this is beyond depression. I can't trust that people live here. What an astronomical waste.
Ummm so where were the crackies? Do they only come out at night? That downtown was just weird with no one around. Did the zombies move on to some other area to destroy?
Some beautiful old architecture there,how sad to see so much of it apparently abandoned and going to rack & ruin....In London some of those buildings would be worth £££ millions
I always imagine ancient architects planning a cuboid building with lots of glass and then all standing around in agreement that it would look terrible
shame our paths didnt cross on your visit , the vape shop was the fire station then relocated to a smaller location , the magistrate you shown was also police hq with cells then again relocated to broadway to a flat essentially , croppers butchers you noted forced out of the market hall with extortionate rent , ironically the market hall has been given over 20 million or should i say the council and its being squandered by forcing vendors out into shipping containers whilst they prat around with it to achive a naive pipe dream ,keep up the work charles
Commentary on this video was first class! Charlie you have surpassed yourself, Accrington brought out the best in you :) That is one positive from Accrington so its not 100% bad and the sub was very nice at the start :)
The facard at the beginning of your video was the biggest Conservative club in England. It was burnt down about 15 years ago. The church facing is being developed into residential. Accrington is a decent town. Its lots of history with connections to 'Alice in wonderland ' Tiffany and much more
Come to chesterfield with the crooked spire Charlie , on a Thursday is a good choice , has a flea market that is usually buzzing , a midlands market town , people say its going down hill , but looking at other places its done well to hang on somewhat , its also on the edge of the peak district , the other side from you
Was in town this afternoon and it's not the best, but then again I only go to town rarely at night time for a booze up which it's still quite good for - but agree would be good for the Veitch to give his take on it - let us know if you visit Charlie and I'll buy you a pint or 2 at the Spoons
Visited Chez Vegas like 10 years ago. All the way from Cambridge. Planned to go Peak District hiking on Saturday but had to cut it short for hungover after the Friday night out there...
It was a great town back in the 80s then the bag heads where moved in by various councils, and has now just full of poverty, stricken shit hole made worse by council, still moving in other peoples problems because of the cheap rents, even though it’s not that cheap anymore😢
Used to be nice, about 50 years ago, like most places in Britain.
So what area is nice in Britain these days? Jaywick??
Only the countryside.@@mickyarams
Then Labour ruined it like everywhere else.
@@mjh5437 which is disappearing at a fast rate with all the new builds popping up left right and centre on former supposedly protected “greenfield” sites. 😡
@@mjh5437 Jaywick still counts as country side. Never seen so many toothless inbreds in a place, and they all blame foreigners for their sad existence.
It's funny how you never hear a politician talk about the destruction of our town's up and down the country. Never hear a dickie bird.
If you call someone a dicky bird in a democrat area of the US you might get thrown in jail for misgendering them.
The answer is they don’t care about the ordinary people of that area, because they don’t live in the affected areas and most of them come from privileged backgrounds - we see the same kind of attitudes from our corrupt traitor TD’s back home in Ireland and it’s disgusting - even the socially deprived area of Manchester where I’ve lived for 21 years is not nearly as bad as my home village in Rural Ireland where I still have extended family and it’s all by design - with the next Irish general election coming up next year, there is no longer a political solution to this, you can’t vote your way out of this, you can’t fix a corrupt, rotten and broken system from within that is rotten right down to its rotten foundations, you have to either let that rotten system destroy itself or dismantle the entire rotten system
Politicians don't live in places like Accrington, so they don't care.
😂🤦🏻♂️
I'm returning to the North West soon and I am extremely worried. I've been living right in the center of London and a European capital for the past 30 years almost and 3 years in Manchester as a student.
I live just down the road from Accrington (Blackburn) and Accringtom was one of the best towns to shop until it went down hill and like Blackburn its nothing but a dump now. Burys where I shop but like Accrington and Blackburn, Bury will soon be the next ghost town as people nowadays feel safer behind closed doors and shopping online rather than risk going out and getting stabbed.
Such a shame what's happened to our towns
Burnley has a good town centre.
Oh come on, Blackburn isn't anywhere near as bad as Accrington
Someone from Accy won that speedboat on Bullseye in the 80's 😂
😆
I saw an episode with two planks from Accrington on either Challenge or Dave or Gold, a few months ago lol.
Accrington is one of those towns that look much better in the dark 🤣
Accrington is probably most famous for the 'Nori' brick (Accrington Brick), the red brick you see a lot of terraced houses and factories are made from. Also the Accrington Pals, known as the 11th battalion whom fought in the First World War and sadly most of them didn't return home alive.
Is it true it was meant to be iron brick but they stamped it the wrong way around and kept it?
@@Lewis3M Yes, that's true.
I remember the clangs they made when you threw them in a pile and the weight of them would make the steel wheelbarrow wobble as you pushed it, the handles would slightly bend then spring back. Then I'd pick the whole thing up and throw it into the back of a tipper wagon. I spent a whole day once hammering a channel into a wall made out of them with a steel bolster and 4lb lump hammer for electrical wiring.
surely it would be kcirb nori ?@@Lewis3M
And Accrington Stanley from the milk advert
Just a peaceful town that needs investment people seem nice too
Far from peaceful
CSI must be a difficult job there, considering so many share the same DNA.
Yeah from Pakistan
Nice to see Boris' "Levelling Up" worked a treat in Accrington. So many sheckles, all landed at Ali McLaren's house! 😮
I was born in Accrington, and I've always been fond of the town; its people (when you see them), its history, and architecture. Unfortunately, of all the towns in Northwest England, it has one of the sadest stories; poor decisions made by the council, terrible economic problems, poverty, immigration etc. The good news is that it has had a significant amount of money acquired recently that should improve the town centre, at least aesthetically. I've posted this video on all the Accrington Facebook chat pages, and the main one 'Hyndburn Chat', has taken it down, I wonder why?
Do you know anything about Brexit, because I want a relations between our country of Denmark connections to Accrington - 🇩🇰🤝🏼🇬🇧 ?
Ved du noget om Brexit, fordi jeg ønsker et forhold mellem vores land Danmark forbindelser til Accrington - 🇩🇰🤝🏼🇬🇧 ?
The best bricks on planet earth are from Accrington.
The finest engineering brick on the world.
NORI
I am 30 and I am now realising I grew up in the post apocalypse. This is the north west in a Nutshell.
Where in Hull do you now live?
In my 21 years living in a socially deprived area of Manchester at age 53, yet in the time I’ve lived here, I’ve got extended family in my home village in Rural Ireland barely 20 miles from Dublin and I’ve seen that village fall into managed decline by design and by comparison, the speed of its decline has been far worse than Manchester - my family in Rural Ireland are in no position to move out of the area, not even into Dublin, let alone move outside Ireland
Rochdale. 🤣 @@JoeyMx
I'm sorry to hear about your famaly's village. I don't think it is really a competition, it's bad here and I take your word for it, it's bad there. I live in Rochdale, I know how bad things can get. It's a fairly infamous town at this point and, unfortunately, I cannot say it doesn't deserve the infamy. Things were already fairly shit here before I was born. @@michaeljohndennis2231
I'm just glad I am not in the city, they are far worse in my opinion. I prefer to be out of the way, even if it is in a dumpster, better than being caught in the shit storm of our cities. @@michaeljohndennis2231
That speedboat was probably won on bullseye in 1988.😂
“Come and look what you could have won”. “Yours for the throw of a dart”. You can’t beat a bit of Bully.
@@michaeljohnson-li5nnyou can’t beat a bit of gammon.
Funnily enough, Jim Bowen (Bullseye presenter) was from the Accrington area.
@@sjacraneStop throwing that phrase around. It says more about the person who casts it than the intended target.
"Accrington Stanley? Who are they?"
"Exactly!"
Charlie, 'Fat Boy' was the Nagasaki bomb, 'Little Boy' was Hiroshima's.
😂 this was my first thought 👍
* Fat man
Fat man.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but it was Fat Man and Little Boy.
Fat man and little boy
One man's desolation, is another man's paradise. That is if you are an urban explorer. 😀
'Levelling Up' my backside, it was just a sham!
Great stuff and interesting as usual Charlie. 😎
Birthplace of Ron Hill the marathon runner and retailer.
And jeanette winterson
@davecarson3D Not the only fruits eh.
I don't think all those shops were shut down. They were closed because it's Sunday. Sunday is a poor day to visit any town.
Sadly no.Accy is a fucking dump.
I reside in a town where you cant make a complaint to the police. At the police station. You have to phone. Our local police station is now flats.the police station in town doesn't have a complaints counter. You have to ring. And the furthest is just holding cels. Its mad. 🏴
Most of the London police stations have shut down too,with the inevitable criminal results.
The town of my birth and have good memories in the 70s and 80s. I heard its not the same and hit hard times.
I grew up in Accy during the 70's and 80's - I agree, definitely good memories, but yes, it's changed a lot over the years. I still go over there once a week as I still have friends and family there and it's almost unrecognisable these days.
Blackburn is the same change so much since the late 80s and 90s, it used to have a weekend nightlife in the town center with nightclubs like 'Manhattan Heights' etc all gone now, weekends have a dead city center. All because of the 'From The River To The Sea' people having moved in.
anyone else old enough to remember school trips to accy baths
McLaren man seems to be doing ok. You'll see a lot of his customers in Charlie's videos.
Yes he is into a lot of dodgy sh*t
HOLLANDS PIES, was bought out by asians now its £4,50 for 4 pies or puddings .
Leave the two sisters pies alone.
I grew up on Hollands Pies, my dad worked there for over 25 years, first as one of the drivers then later (due to health reasons) as a supervisor - I remember as a child going out in the delivery van with him during school holidays.
I still love Holland's pies & Steak & Kidney Puddings - especially their Meat & Potato pies.😋
Curry pie?
A woman was killed and dismembered in accrington they took her body parts to a takeaway in the town centre , but also his accomplis who helped him dispose of the body worked on the meat processing at Hollands pies factory I shit you not
The really sad thing is that Accrington has got lots of nice buildings be they occupied or not, surely it wouldn't take a huge amount of money to get it back on its feet ??? We spend £8 billion per year on paying illegal immigrants to stay in 4 Star hotels, with three meals a day- all found - a tad amount of that would get the town back on its feet !!!
Anyone else got the earworm "Accrington Stanley, who are they?" I'll see your Accrington and raise you Newport (S.Wales). Mordor lost to Da Port in the last round.
That's an easy call with Greenock. I'd also be all in with Port Glasgow .
Accrington had a hand in tiffany glass, and the Nori brick formed the foundations for the empire state building
An apprentice at Tiffany saved a lot of glass from the skip and shipped it home to Accy,hardly a hand in it.
I'm in Accrington & sorry i missed you. It would've been a pleadure to have met you. You're right about Accrington 😀
Even the Pound Shops go bust in Accy!!!
I live on the outskirts of accrington for about 2 years now. Only ever go into the town for the train station or big tesco. I just get the vibe it's not worth checking out at all. Luckily I work elsewhere and I can avoid the town centre. Rossendale is much nicer, you should check it out.
Many towns in North Wales are in decline, as are many towns and villages in Rural Ireland - certainly the cost of living crisis and the after effects of Covid has definitely had an impact but it’s surely not the only reason - if a village, town or suburban area of a city like Manchester falls into decline, it’s very difficult for them to recover, if at all - I can’t help feeling that this is managed decline and on purpose
My local town since the 80s has added 10k plus new taxpayers but somehow has declined into a shithole.
No idea how.
Shooting RUS big mistke.
some people in uk pay more than half of their income to rent a place to live, it's a great country for absentee landlords, rather like ireland was 200 years ago.@@jlsiu
I visited Neath, for a holiday, lol, ha, I've lived in liverpool, manchester, but was shocked at how run down the place is, not much going on and streets filled with beggars. The 'hotel' i stayed in was shittier than a dole hostel.
wye independant media, facebook, thankyou for giving us the courage to film in public charlie !!!
@charlie it’s nothing to do with Christian ethics. Half the country is atheist now and I think that is part of the problem.
I now know to avoid Accrington then
Immigration ruined it
fell asleep on a train once and woke in Accrington, I didn't know it was Lancashire! Luckily i didn't leave the train station and got on the next train outta there!
Surprised no-one has mentioned one of Accrington's most famous son's - Jon Anderson - YES's former lead singer - even he pissed off long ago to California.
Always wanted to see modern day Chernobyl, thanks Charlie 👍
Chornobyl is basically just the power plant. Pripyat is the city.
@@JoeyRhubarb I know and 70% of people wouldn't know where I'm on about if I said that.
Chernobyl was an ancient town/village before the power stations were built there.
The entire area around the plant is really beautiful. Even pripyat is beautiful especially during the summer. I've been to both places a couple of times before the war.
@@garethjohnstone9282 May take a trip some time. Thanks for info! 🙂
I blame the looney left muslims driving house prices down and destroying Accrington
Surprised you didn't take a walk by the local landfill, there's a footpath that runs the length of it and its quite a view
The local landfill site must be really picturesque😁😆😅🤣
Accy full of smakky
So that’s what Tory’s mean by levelling up!
At least they have an actual Christmas tree. Manchester just has a hollow wire structure with lights. It's rather symbolic
You know its bad when the corner shops are gone and the Pakistanis gave up
musis have taken over mate
Islam _is_ cancer.
All those "empty" buildings and people choosing to sleep in tents according to Braverman I say bring back full squatters rights.
2:57 Charlie, I really think they're polished granite not italian marble.
That`s what I thought too.
Polished turds morelike
More than likely as Carnegie was born in Scotland
Charlie, if you think Accrington is bad, 9:31 please pay a visit to dewsbury,west yorks it will make Accrington look palatial, I kid you not…..
My grandad lived for many years in accy....westwood street was where his last house was.
Good memories..r.i.p jack🙏
Googled the MP...28 year old Conservative MP.... daughter of local mayor...what does she bring to the table at the age of 28?? MP's salary, sizeable though it is, doesn't attract our best or brightest, our most experienced. Halve the number of constituencies/MPs and double the salary. Look atbthe people in the cabinet, most are too ordinary to make decent decisions. We need better and more capable people in parliament from which to draw the decision makers.
She's actually an excellent MP and very proactive. Unfortunately, most of the council are labour!
I spent around 4 months of my life in the Dunkenhalgh in Accrington and I thought it was great. Fine people fine town. Great video as always Veitchmeister
dunks in riston not accy
@jeanettewilliams6075 Close enough! Walked up to Rishton on a daily basis, Accrington was the same distance if I turned right instead
Clayton.
@@jeanettewilliams6075postcode wars, village mentality
thats some comparitively swanky place outside of accrington isnt it ?
The only shops that havent closed down is a betting shops and pawn brokers
When you see a Town become run down and becoming a waste land its not the fault of the people its all the Fault of the Council the Town where i live is going the same way the main shopping street is full of closed shops charity shops and estate agents the council allowed a developer to build a shopping complex about half mile out of town which you can only drive to wonder how many brown envelopes were passed to the council
"Northern Powerhouse" & "Levelling Up" they say .
When that applies to Manchester and Leeds only , and the rest of it is pure Turd Town .
The Derian House charity shop isnt abandoned. It was just closed!!
Did you go today?? 🤭
Theyre shut!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣Kx
It’s really sad the downfall off Accrington used to be a lovely place to look at lovely shops parks on the green belt amazing buildings, nightlife a place to be.
I'm quite surprised to see how interesting Accrington really is.
accrington produced chris atherton (pro uk skateboarder) and thats enough for me, any felow british skaters should know how legendary and humble that guy is. he alone makes accrington worth the visit
it was one of the first places around lancashire to have a proper skatepark too. its supported skateboarder culture too (or at least tolerated us there). we used to travel there and skate the steps at the side usually and often met other skaters. this was all before "the game" came out too! so in that respects accrington was certainly welcoming of people from other cultures (be it skateboarders or radical islam lol). this charlie guy is a highly narcissistic prat living a sad life bumbling around with a camera trying to gain likes and subscribers but he is correct in how grim it is in our northern towns. constantly talking about struggling people with no empathy or understanding as he roams around looking to film them and drag a situation out of people. hes getting fairly well known for his behaviour and personality too which is fairly sad to think how disliked he will be in the future before he realises people arent as foolish as he once believed and has to live with the repercussions of being so openly rude and judgemental. billy moore is a much better travelling podcaster and hes an ex "crackie" doing a much better and honest job and hes full of understanding and empathy so unlike charlie he gets to film the real side of things because he has no agenda and isnt just a narcissist with a camera and microphone
I lived here like 5 years ago, crazy how quickly it has become a ghost town
Empty buildings vs housing shortage.
FIGHT!
Charlie you have been there during working days.Caputuring real moment of activities..
Go JC, it's your birthday
We gon' reunion like it's your birthday
We gon' sip communion like it's your birthday
And you know we don't give a schmuck it's not your birthday
You can find me in the temple, scriptures full of judgemental'
I’m from Accrington. Tony Blair’s immigration enrichment ruined Accrington. Unlike Blackburn it had very little Islam until it began in 1997. Now it feels half the town is Pakistani. Pubs have all but disappeared.
You like to blame others, truth is your town was destined for this demise regardless of any migration because there’s no investment, opportunities, little scope to work and nothing for those born there to stay for
He was trying to buy himself votes to stay in power and if we'd have left the EU 30 years ago there'd still be some industry left in this country
@@PedroGonzalez11111 Of course some of that is true. But tell me how politicians importing thousands of welfare dependent m u slims to swamp the entire area helps? What benefit did it bring to us natives- it only brought more Labour votes. We didn't have a lot of wealth but we had our communities, our town, our people and our shared history and heritage. Its a microcosm of what is happening / has happened to most of England. I doubt you live anywhere near "diversity" or you would know.
Clicked on the video then had few sips of beer and for a few seconds I thought I'm watching Bald and Bankrupt video. Cause Intro sounded just like Bolds intro 😂
So much beautiful architecture in Britain even in smaller towns and villages, it is an absolute shame what is happening and only God himself can help us now.
"My dad says if you drink your milk, when you get older you'll be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley"
"Who are they"?
"Exaccccckkktly"
On a positive note, I may be able to buy a house there! Hard to tell the difference between Burnley and Bolton. Bacup is cool.
"X is a lovely structure", yeah the stuff created by our ancestors when they cared for their local communities. What remains from our ruins.
"and degenerate gambling" *autism noises intensify* lmao that got me
I don’t thinks it’s as bad as people make it out to be. Accrington is no different to other towns in Lancashire. Hyndburn has more traveller sites than anyone else. The McDonalds near the railway arches can get a bit rough at times.
Wow, at last Charlie, you arrived at my wonderful town, NOT! Actually we do have some nice victorian architecture, a wonderful old Market Hall that i used to work in in the 90s when i was a Markets Officer, Asst Market Superintendent. The Town Hall is nice, the old Victorian Market Hall and other interesting buildings and areas, like the Old Warner Street with its independent, bespoke shops, still quite a few pubs but no where near the number that there used to be, Accrington seemed to have a pub on every corner and almost every street at one time, now on to viewing your video blog Charlie, yes its now rough and quiet but remember this was once a great Market town with a vibrant market and used to be very busy, thanks for visiting mate
I love walking through little towns that I've never been to before, but dear lord this is beyond depression. I can't trust that people live here. What an astronomical waste.
Ummm so where were the crackies? Do they only come out at night? That downtown was just weird with no one around. Did the zombies move on to some other area to destroy?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣wow this guy smashed Accrington to pieces
As far as I can tell, it's been like that for 20 years.
Life in a shite northern town, Charlie , and I'm a resident 😭😭😭
Some beautiful old architecture there,how sad to see so much of it apparently abandoned and going to rack & ruin....In London some of those buildings would be worth £££ millions
like a lot of our smaller towns across the UK its seen better days, its a shame that its been allowed to rot, I bet its was lovely BITD
Hi Charlie
Cannot see any parking restrictions here, love that.
Clearly a vibrant place Victorian time's
28 days later..
I love your video's, but they end so raw. Can you say; 'thank you for watching, have a good day, bye'
Another area sadly lost to cultural enrichment.
Hello from Oregon
"There's a body of water" given what I'd seen so far, my brain auto-corrected it to, "There's a body in the water"
There seems to be less litter there than in my town.
I always imagine ancient architects planning a cuboid building with lots of glass and then all standing around in agreement that it would look terrible
The difference from South of Manchester with Knutsford, Wilmslow, and Alderley Edge.
The gutted building used to be the nightclub Lar-De-Dars, very big in the 80s/90s. We used to get the Mancs coming up at the weekends.
Great video Charles your very loquacious 😊👍
A great word,one not often seen or heard these days!
Still waiting for the tory leveling up funds to arrive.
My Town 💪
Wish I knew you were local mate
I used to work with one of those veterans. Lovely fella :-)
shame our paths didnt cross on your visit , the vape shop was the fire station then relocated to a smaller location , the magistrate you shown was also police hq with cells then again relocated to broadway to a flat essentially , croppers butchers you noted forced out of the market hall with extortionate rent , ironically the market hall has been given over 20 million or should i say the council and its being squandered by forcing vendors out into shipping containers whilst they prat around with it to achive a naive pipe dream ,keep up the work charles
A crumbling empire
Commentary on this video was first class! Charlie you have surpassed yourself, Accrington brought out the best in you :) That is one positive from Accrington so its not 100% bad and the sub was very nice at the start :)
really i live in accy isnt as bad as people say
The facard at the beginning of your video was the biggest Conservative club in England. It was burnt down about 15 years ago. The church facing is being developed into residential. Accrington is a decent town. Its lots of history with connections to 'Alice in wonderland ' Tiffany and much more
You missed the Victorian Arcade Charlie!! 😕Kx
Peppermint Place nightclub use be the place to be back in the day
Rember as young teen meeting a girl on myspace and going on the train to meet her in Accrington , place was feral
As was she
Come to chesterfield with the crooked spire Charlie , on a Thursday is a good choice , has a flea market that is usually buzzing , a midlands market town , people say its going down hill , but looking at other places its done well to hang on somewhat , its also on the edge of the peak district , the other side from you
Chesterfield and Dronfield are lovely places . Great if you enjoy walking with stunning views . Sheffield on your doorstep.
Was in town this afternoon and it's not the best, but then again I only go to town rarely at night time for a booze up which it's still quite good for - but agree would be good for the Veitch to give his take on it - let us know if you visit Charlie and I'll buy you a pint or 2 at the Spoons
Visited Chez Vegas like 10 years ago. All the way from Cambridge. Planned to go Peak District hiking on Saturday but had to cut it short for hungover after the Friday night out there...
@@masterRabbit78 A thirsty town indeed
The sun inn in Chesterfield is good
So sad to see, once great industrial towns, looking like a dystopian wasteland.
It was a great town back in the 80s then the bag heads where moved in by various councils, and has now just full of poverty, stricken shit hole made worse by council, still moving in other peoples problems because of the cheap rents, even though it’s not that cheap anymore😢