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@@stevieb9490 Hi Brian! Hope you're well ar kid! Don't be bitter lad. I know it probably doesn't look like much but life's about community (the people around you). Just out of interest... where are you and how's your community? Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree I suppose....
Disgusting, yet all that litter can easily be cleaned up in a matter of days. Council and environmental services provider must be taken into account on the other hand local people, the mosques, businesses, schools, madrasas, everyone must work together to keep the place neat and tidy. Covid has shown us how important taking care of the environment is. THX for your great video
If the people put the rubbish in the proper place and not dump it on the Streets there wouldn't be the need to clear it up it's not the councils fault That this is becoming a land fill site
@Tabula Rasa what kind of fuck? You mean like damage and destroy or do you mean the old "in out in out"? Either answer makes the mind boggle, I have crazy images in my mind right now. Birmingham always seems an OK plac when I have visited, lozels back in the 90s was a bit hectic but I've always found brummies good decent people, they always think I'm some kind of gentleman, or posh guy from my accent as I'm from the south west (Devon)
@@recall2880 alright pal, yeh it's pretty relaxed down here, you have the 16 year old acting like they are from a drill video but they are not really dangerous, the older generation can come across very hillbilly and diversity is not in their vocabulary but there is alot of good people here too, there's a good club scene around the Plymouth area (South Devon) , jobs seem to be pretty plentiful up here in my area (North Devon) I'm more of a del boy myself, I hustle my way through life whilst avoiding the 9-5 stress and I do OK, get by like that and so do alot of others. Where I live is coastal, I look out my window and can see the beach and the sea but I take it for granted, my mate in cannock thinks I'm crazy for not being down the beach everyday, I've lived back here in westward Ho! For over a year and not been once! I like fishing but carp fishing, all fishing is good here tho if that's your thing. Lots of decent food places but again not very diverse, I can't get West Indian food here, no African foods at all, plenty of fish and chips, they are decent, the Chinese, Thai,Turkish Indian and Pakistani food places are no match for Birmingham, everytime I eat in Brum I think that it's much better. Overall, the thing I would say is life is slow, nothing is rushed, I dunno if that's the fresh air or the high grade of our weed but life is deffo on the go slow!! Hope that helps answer your question!
I live on a run down housing estate dont get the bit outdated less they demolish it and rebuild it. Council spent a lot of money planting trees new turf walkways cladding must have cost millions 6 months later shit hole again not the people a.
Just to let you know -if you happen to live in that area - that I emailed Handsworth councillor Hendrina Quinnen about the poor state of the streets (this video as a receipt). I asked why the place look like that and why no one has done a good Spring clean in that area? She replied to me that she doesn't cover that area anymore and that I need to direct my concerns to the new councillor. So I emailed her again asking for the contact details of that "new councillor" but she never replied... The City Council doesn't care! "Peasants pay your Council tax and sh•t the F up!" basically that's the message. Someone in the comment section said that if she lived there she wouldn't be pay her council tax. My response to that is: If you live there, stop paying your Council Tax because you are clearly not getting any return on investment. The councillors there are paying to do jacksh•t! Are they even living there?
Could try waasim zaffar, lozells area councillor. Labour member of the council for more than 10 yrs. Henrina Quinnen is another serial labour política, since 2009 actually. Given the state the area she was in charge of is, why is she still there? IT is not good for democracy but Labour are unfit for government these days. They are so out of touch with the needs and demands of ordinary people, like living in a clean, neat, tidy neighbourhood.
I thought you filmed a brilliant video and yes there are parts that could be cleaned up in a day , the council don’t really care though , why not have the community service people do it ?
The problem is that Birmingham City Council does not care. They will send you warnings if you don't pay council tax and threat you with legal actions if you don't pay. Most of people then get scared and will pay it nevertheless. As long as not a whole area with ten thousands of people refuses to pay it, nothing will change. The council can just provide rubbish service and does not need to fear consequences. This is how it is unfortunately. And people nowadays do not have the courage anymore to stand up for what is good and to go against what is bad. Especially in UK, US and France you can see that clearly. People do not care anymore... So it becomes socially acceptable. The state of this area is a mixture of a lot of different problems. Neglect from council, lack of investment, government cuts, the people living there, too much uncontrolled immigration, careless society in general, lack of integration, poverty and much more... The result you can see in the video.
This video, especially the start makes me depressed, not from that side of the city but I have been through these areas People, even If we live in Poverty at least have some fking pride and not make our own environment a bad place to live, Keep it clean! watching this and thinking how I am ever going to have a decent life if ''This is it''.
It breaks my heart when i go to these areas in Birmingham ( i have moved to a new city for work) - people pay council tax but council are not doing their bit. The residents need to pursue their councils to sort the mess.
people pay council tax ?Last year (2018/19) Birmingham City Council issued around 444,000 bills to resident households totalling more than £382m in council tax - with a collection rate of 94.4 per cent, which meant more than £21m was unpaid. The national average collection rate is 97 per cent.
An analysis of police street level crime data shows that there were 298 crimes reported on or around Lozells Road between September 2017 and August 2018. Diversity is our strength
@@phezzfromthelane30 Sorry to inform you but you but you don't need anyone's permission to leave a comment in a comment section. And ps unlike you, I'm not broke!
Interesting. I left Birmingham England a few years ago. So it was nice to see familiar roads and shop etc, that I recognised. Shame about the garbage/ rubbish..huhhh
@Laura JaneAshley You are the only one racist here, I wonder why? Your comment has no basis, it's like someone saying imagine raising a child in a white neighbourhood with all the pedos, rapists and serial killers.
@Laura JaneAshley yes cuz white people in Middlesbrough and Liverpool arent living in squalor. Mrs benefits street....Foodbanks and children running around in underpants in bordered up houses in Stoke.....Hey guys look im a rashist who blames immigrants when we ourselves have our own poor and homeless. Blame the non whites...
I was born there but I'm glad my mother had the sense of pride to work hard to be able to move us out. When your in the shit you eitger wallow in it or you be proactive and bring pride to your kids and make a change.
Did you get to visit those flats? If you ever get flats offers in that area, please do a “house tour” . I am really curious to see how these houses look inside. You might find some gems, you never know. Lol
@@citiesthroughmyeyes i was skeptical once as I've heard not so favourable things about Lozells, but the council home I moved into with my family is lovely. Never had an atrocious experience in the 4 years I've lived here compared to other parts of Birmingham.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes tbf the houses are and flats are quite massive the problem with this area specifically villas road there are TONS of supported living and care homes for drug users n mentally I’ll around and they kind of get to do what they want... so results
Yes I love this video ! I didn’t realise you did this video until I scrolled through your videos and came across this. 😊❤️ I grew up in this area so it is very close to home, it is good to see Lozells Road and some of the shops on there still open and functioning, some places are a little run down but to be honest they have been like that for years. But good job keep the videos coming. 😌👍🏾
A Somalian gang runs Villa Road, you pointed the camera straight at them when you got to the alley next to the barbershop on the left. They sit there all day every day selling class A's. In the summer they get the deck chairs out to relax while they"work". You should watch who you point the camera at.
I was born on Heathfield Road and grew up on those streets. As a kid, I felt safe as I knew everyone but 40 odd years later, I wouldn't touch that part of Handsworth & Lozells at all. If I'm honest, it looks like a dump.
I was born there and lived on mayfield road in 1965. Moved to West Bromwich in 1978. When things started getting bad. Still nice memories though me and my brother playing around lozzels growing up. Good days indeed. Sadly long gone now. 🏴🇬🇧🏴👍🏼
Lol. It was very unpleasant and difficult to film the litter, the fly tipping, etc. But I am not going to photoshop reality. I show it as it is... Btw, thanks for watching!
Hopefully, the area will look better in 30 years otherwise I'll be back there again for another video Lol. Btw, I rewatched the beginning of this video and I couldn't stop laughing 😆 I can't believe I did this! Ha ha
That's a reflection of the State of Birmingham and West midlands the roughness and hostility of the people , a lot of areas are like this people are hateful miserable areas are segregated and divided with Rif Raf locals no sense of care or community in areas and the council are part of the problem, years of austerity and cuts and nothing done in communities.
Not just in this place it's everywhere around our towns if you want to live somewhere nice then clean it up its not all the councils responsibility but the people who live there ,pick your rubbish up and dispose of it properly then it's an easy job to keep it clean but then humans can't do that.
Not every part of England is like this, have a look at Moseley, kingsheath, Warstock, Billseley and Hollywood in the South of Birmingham and Solihull clean streets these are the posh parts of Birmingham Sutton Coldfield too.
@@wajidhussain1161 Why are these areas clean because they are simply predominant whiter areas and have a image to portray we all know Birmingham city council have race biased about areas.
Englands not all like this !! ... there are some beautiful places and countryside.. I'm sure every country has it's not so nice areas along with its nice areas .. dont tar the whole of England with the same brush because of 1 or a few bad areas 🙂
You know, I actually like the people in the area. I had a breakdown around that area a few months ago and a stranger came up and asked if I was alright. Offered to stay with me and help if I wanted them to. The environment is run down, sure, but the people here don't always reflect that.
I agree with what you said and that’s what make the whole situation so unfair. Making these types of videos you quickly see the contrast between areas. Some places are pampered, polished. Others don’t even have pedestrian traffic lights. The Council gladly take our taxes and laughs all the way to the bank. I know Bham City Council is watching my videos. Anytime I film a dirty area and throw it onto RUclips, it gets cleaned up within a week (Moseley Rd, Bradford St)...so I just need to show more areas in Birmingham.
@@citiesthroughmyeyeswhy don't the people there clean it up yes the council could help more by taking some rubbish but even if council cleans it up it will end up same next day it's people make an area a shithouse it's not the council's fault although council could have street cleaners but they have no money for anything now so things will just get worse
Birmingham for you lots of poverty ,crime and chavs . Birmingham city council are very racist and bias and it reflects all over the city with the segregation.
@@jadasmith1977 Seems about right. Not mocking the poor as I was brought up with nothing - just educated yourself and do something with your life is all I’m saying
I live about 3 or 4 miles away from this place, I tell you hand on heart just prior to this video the council must of done a clean up. It’s usually 10 times worse. It’s standard practice that people from these areas don’t use dust bins they just toss there stuff out in the street, same goes for old fridges, settee,s , beds any old junk. It’s ashame they were probably nice places once.
Ashamed to say it, but I was born in Handsworth, however it never looked like this back in the day!! Now it's a dump full of rats, which I sawin the video. They're clearly not productive 😲😞👎🏾!!. So, happy my parents moved to a nice town for a quality of life and prospects💯❤👍🏾🙏🏾.
There’s no shortage of cool people living in Handsworth. It’s always been a creative hotspot and I wish the council would prioritise this community in the same way it does others. It’s always been a Cinderella postcode. I love Handsworth i was born and bred here I still go back to visit regularly. ❤
Wow! I never recognised the place, I used to visit my girlfriend who lived in Lozells street getting off my bus at the block off flats that was were that supermarket is at the end of your video and the crown and cusion pub. I'm going back to the early 1970's and there was non of that rubbish laying around back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane even though I never recognised it lol
Yrs ago that was lovely road, I used to go lozells girls school now look at it, the people living there are to blame for all that rubbish, wouldn't want to be walking round there now
Lived in Thornhill rd (off Soho rd ) in the 60's.. left in 1970 .. ended up farther out , in Stourbridge . Emigrated to Oz ( Victoria ) in 1990..now retired in Queensland ..watching this, i don't live in a different country, i live on a diffferent planet !
Such a shame to see what has become of many parts of our once great nation. Please let me qualify my use of the word “great”. I was referring to a country that once had a social security system that was the envy of the world, a county that was able to care and provide for the underprivileged and working class. I was not referring to ancient history and our colonial past.
@Jas Singh if you too the time to read a history book? Throughout history humans have done the same thing for thousands of years, unfortunately humans are a nasty species, but blaming one country or culture for what humans do naturally is stupidity.
There are numerous historic events, which would suggest that the UK was once in far better shape than it is today. Economically, socially and culturally it is not the same country it was.
@@davidelyas2128 you have based your rather myopic response purely on an assumption of my interpretation of the word “great”. Most nations have a history or murder, rape and pillage, in India (where I have travelled extensively) murder and gang rape is sill a fairly common occurrence. So, perhaps in order to clarify my point, when I was referring to our “great” nation, I was actually referring to its social, cultural and economical status, which in recent years seems to have been on the decline - my comment is not one related to racism or xenophobia but purely an observation regarding the apparent decline of a country that once seemed to have its act together. I now live in Asia, China to be precise, and in my opinion, from personal experience the UK can learn a lot from the order and discipline of some Asian countries.
@Jas Singh please read my response to @David Elyas - I have no misplaced patriotism at all my friend, I left the UK 33years ago to live overseas and have not lived there since. Interesting point to note, why do so many people want to emigrate to a country which was founded on rape, pillage and murder - could it have been because of its once “great” social and economical power, and the promise of a better life ?
Take your rubbish to a aminty site If know the bins are not emptied regularly clean up your place we're you Live with volunteers and don't get called Scum by other community's if you want change it starts with you
@@user-or6kr8uh8q don’t forget the poverty in these areas and lack of funding. Look at other surrounding areas. West bromwich, dudley, Wolverhampton ect. These parts of the west mids are so underfunded
@@citiesthroughmyeyes yes I still in in Handsworth. I still walk and cycle in Handsworth park. I used to drink from the fountain in the 70s that is situated at the bottom of the hill in the park. I feel safe in Handsworth.
I like Handsworth Park. You reminded me that I need to record the park.. One month from now I will have more time in my hands to film parks, make docs, etc.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes Handsworth Park has so much history. Now there is an annual 10k in September but not since Covid-19. People walk regularly there but they never did in the 70s. They moved the swings which used to be by the Bandstead and, the Park Rangers office used to be just behind the old location of the swings too. Looking forward to your video.
The grey sky......people with so many clothes on to keep warm. Lozells changed by still the same. I didn't see the supermarket corner of hearhfield road Lozells road, where is it ?
Walking around Paradise... # Lozell's Road = Toothless Tina "F@ck Off" at 7:45 minutes in. Beautiful area, it is a version of the afterlife similar to heaven minus the clouds, harps and angels. Typically seen as an ideal place of beauty, a massive lush enclosed concrete jungle with with every known exotic plant, animal, and bird. thought when she'd died, she'd gone to Paradise in Lozell's Road
my nan had a house on villa rd in the 30s she lived there till late 70s and the houses were knock down in the middle 80s my mum and her sisters grow up there
Comment section is jokes. This area looks like many parts of towns and cities in the UK. Why people are trying to alude to race as a factor i dont understand coz we all know that differing demograpics live in some areas and it can still look just like this.
@@manair2090 likely to be as a result of poverty not race. But there's some that can only equate negative outcomes to race to maintain their ego and the ill status quo.
I really want to move here, miss the "ghetto"...brought up in areas like this, it never leaves your heart...shottas on the corner, trash dumped, and awesome culture everywhere, it's a rollercoaster for the senses...and after living in these kinds of areas all over the UK, I've found there is a LOT less racism in these parts, everyone gotta get along so it's usually pretty welcoming...spoke to so many people, met a guy who was an immigrant who nearly died being smuggled in, I have 4 Korans all gifted to me by various cultures, some lady in a shop made me fried plantains, I've cooked and had partys with people of different cultures all being happy together....it's beautiful and insightful.... community, it's all about community
Multicultural is the causes racism and segregation in Birmingham as locals are very backwards and racist and no one integrates at all go to areas and see how segregated areas are by race no social cohesion or integration at all.
@@vavavroom4001 Sutton Coldfield is not multicultural it's very affluent racist and segregated and then you have other area which are poor and not integrated at all people live seperate lives in their racist backwards behaviour .
@@sarahfemi9862 where do you live, under a rock? Its not the 1970s. Theres loads of asians in solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Streetly etc who are doing well for themselves, some of which have lived there for 25 years. The last census in 2011 showed the asian population at around 8 % in sutton Coldfield and I guarantee its gone up since then. I got loads of Asian mates in these areas and they mix with white people just fine?
@@vavavroom4001 Rubbish lots of racism in Sutton Coldfield and many areas of Birmingham whites are still the minority in areas of Birmingham look around you and see lots of segregation and segregated areas with little integration at all people are not progressive or integrated at all in Birmingham and West Midlands many don't like change .
And now council tax in these areas rising by around 21% over the next few years with services being slashed like never seen before, what will it look like 3 years from now?
It is the worst area in Birmingham.I paied Council tax ,but all the time I needed to worry about rubbish;they will take or not.Milions mice and rats around.To live there is like nightmare.Now I live in West Bromwich, no any problems.
I lived there in the 70's, amazingly it is just the same, don't think the litter has been picked up since then.
I agree with you on that one. The place is a dump.
HAHAHAH BCC was crap then too?...
Lol hahaha
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@Archie Brock Instablaster :)
Thanks Joseline for showing us Birmingham today, the world I knew in the 1950's has vanished. Take care.
Long gone my freind a great shame
Ghouraba Stranger Yes, worst luck.
On the plus side if this video survives the test of time people will be viewing this 50-100 years from now when we're all long gone.
Talos 2kX Very true, except who knows.It may be a ghost town .
I'm sure we're all gonna say that one day, all the best
It looks like a third world developing country
LoL
You have clearly never been to one then
It looks like England . And it is England . Let’s not pretend is was some wealthy posh area that the people forced to live their ran down.
@@gol.drodger5261I agree & by the clouds looks like depressing day lol!!!
@@stevieb9490 Hi Brian! Hope you're well ar kid! Don't be bitter lad. I know it probably doesn't look like much but life's about community (the people around you). Just out of interest... where are you and how's your community? Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree I suppose....
Disgusting, yet all that litter can easily be cleaned up in a matter of days. Council and environmental services provider must be taken into account on the other hand local people, the mosques, businesses, schools, madrasas, everyone must work together to keep the place neat and tidy. Covid has shown us how important taking care of the environment is. THX for your great video
Its there shite let them lie in it if there to f..king lazy to clean it dirty ba...ds nothing to do with local councils
If the people put the rubbish in the proper place and not dump it on the
Streets there wouldn't be the need to clear it up it's not the councils fault
That this is becoming a land fill site
What has the mosques got todo with what about churches gudwaras????
@@andrewjohnston7386 I agree leave it there for them to clean up. Let them get rats if they want to live like it.
Same goes for the council estates in white neighborhoods.
Where everyone's on benefits.
Best thing to come out of Birmingham is the train out.
The Last Train From Snow Hill...
Lmao
Lol😊😊😊😊
When I was a kid in the 40's and 50's it was a lovely place
Speaks volumes about the residents
Thats savage doesnt make everyone who lives here wrong horrible pple ...
@Tabula Rasa what kind of fuck? You mean like damage and destroy or do you mean the old "in out in out"? Either answer makes the mind boggle, I have crazy images in my mind right now.
Birmingham always seems an OK plac when I have visited, lozels back in the 90s was a bit hectic but I've always found brummies good decent people, they always think I'm some kind of gentleman, or posh guy from my accent as I'm from the south west (Devon)
@@westcountryoddities8107 what’s Devon like to live? Out of curiosity
@@recall2880 alright pal, yeh it's pretty relaxed down here, you have the 16 year old acting like they are from a drill video but they are not really dangerous, the older generation can come across very hillbilly and diversity is not in their vocabulary but there is alot of good people here too, there's a good club scene around the Plymouth area (South Devon) , jobs seem to be pretty plentiful up here in my area (North Devon) I'm more of a del boy myself, I hustle my way through life whilst avoiding the 9-5 stress and I do OK, get by like that and so do alot of others. Where I live is coastal, I look out my window and can see the beach and the sea but I take it for granted, my mate in cannock thinks I'm crazy for not being down the beach everyday, I've lived back here in westward Ho! For over a year and not been once! I like fishing but carp fishing, all fishing is good here tho if that's your thing. Lots of decent food places but again not very diverse, I can't get West Indian food here, no African foods at all, plenty of fish and chips, they are decent, the Chinese, Thai,Turkish Indian and Pakistani food places are no match for Birmingham, everytime I eat in Brum I think that it's much better. Overall, the thing I would say is life is slow, nothing is rushed, I dunno if that's the fresh air or the high grade of our weed but life is deffo on the go slow!! Hope that helps answer your question!
@@westcountryoddities8107 I loved Devon, would like to go back there sometime
No area is shit.
People make it shit
Totally agree, it's not little Britain anymore
You said it for me👍
Well said
Must be the guy giving the friendly wave when he sees a camera.
I live on a run down housing estate dont get the bit outdated less they demolish it and rebuild it. Council spent a lot of money planting trees new turf walkways cladding must have cost millions 6 months later shit hole again not the people a.
Just to let you know -if you happen to live in that area - that I emailed Handsworth councillor Hendrina Quinnen about the poor state of the streets (this video as a receipt). I asked why the place look like that and why no one has done a good Spring clean in that area? She replied to me that she doesn't cover that area anymore and that I need to direct my concerns to the new councillor. So I emailed her again asking for the contact details of that "new councillor" but she never replied...
The City Council doesn't care! "Peasants pay your Council tax and sh•t the F up!" basically that's the message. Someone in the comment section said that if she lived there she wouldn't be pay her council tax. My response to that is: If you live there, stop paying your Council Tax because you are clearly not getting any return on investment. The councillors there are paying to do jacksh•t! Are they even living there?
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Could try waasim zaffar, lozells area councillor. Labour member of the council for more than 10 yrs. Henrina Quinnen is another serial labour política, since 2009 actually. Given the state the area she was in charge of is, why is she still there? IT is not good for democracy but Labour are unfit for government these days. They are so out of touch with the needs and demands of ordinary people, like living in a clean, neat, tidy neighbourhood.
I thought you filmed a brilliant video and yes there are parts that could be cleaned up in a day , the council don’t really care though , why not have the community service people do it ?
The problem is that Birmingham City Council does not care. They will send you warnings if you don't pay council tax and threat you with legal actions if you don't pay. Most of people then get scared and will pay it nevertheless. As long as not a whole area with ten thousands of people refuses to pay it, nothing will change. The council can just provide rubbish service and does not need to fear consequences. This is how it is unfortunately. And people nowadays do not have the courage anymore to stand up for what is good and to go against what is bad. Especially in UK, US and France you can see that clearly. People do not care anymore... So it becomes socially acceptable.
The state of this area is a mixture of a lot of different problems. Neglect from council, lack of investment, government cuts, the people living there, too much uncontrolled immigration, careless society in general, lack of integration, poverty and much more... The result you can see in the video.
Is there some kind of a petition we can do? Like, that's injustice right there. I wonder why the council is neglecting this area.
This video, especially the start makes me depressed, not from that side of the city but I have been through these areas People, even If we live in Poverty at least have some fking pride and not make our own environment a bad place to live, Keep it clean! watching this and thinking how I am ever going to have a decent life if ''This is it''.
It breaks my heart when i go to these areas in Birmingham ( i have moved to a new city for work) - people pay council tax but council are not doing their bit. The residents need to pursue their councils to sort the mess.
What could the council do to help?
Get all the people to have some pride in their area and come together and clean it up themselves .
people pay council tax ?Last year (2018/19) Birmingham City Council issued around 444,000 bills to resident households totalling more than £382m in council tax - with a collection rate of 94.4 per cent, which meant more than £21m was unpaid. The national average collection rate is 97 per cent.
Good idea might be ,if the people who live in the area didn't throw their rubbish on the streets in the first place
Always people hanging around the streets on corners in hoodies looking menacing up to no good ,no wonder all the white people left
The mosque looked spotless, the rest should take note and clean up.
But they're not clean at heart
@@ShadowMoon96 Shut up you IDIOT
I would refuse to pay my council tax if I lived here.
An analysis of police street level crime data shows that there were 298 crimes reported on or around Lozells Road between September 2017 and August 2018.
Diversity is our strength
Nobody asked ur broke ass nothing
@@phezzfromthelane30 Sorry to inform you but you but you don't need anyone's permission to leave a comment in a comment section. And ps unlike you, I'm not broke!
@@phezzfromthelane30 lol
They would have to pay me .
Interesting. I left Birmingham England a few years ago. So it was nice to see familiar roads and shop etc, that I recognised. Shame about the garbage/ rubbish..huhhh
Looks like you got out in time
Yea but we also can't say brums not short of small businesses. From the outside looking in I see the neglect now
Same
I lived in Hamstead Road in a block of flats for two years, everyone was friendly and respectful 😊
I see evil lurking in those streets, close calls and runnings
@Laura JaneAshley You are the only one racist here, I wonder why? Your comment has no basis, it's like someone saying imagine raising a child in a white neighbourhood with all the pedos, rapists and serial killers.
@Laura JaneAshley yes cuz white people in Middlesbrough and Liverpool arent living in squalor. Mrs benefits street....Foodbanks and children running around in underpants in bordered up houses in Stoke.....Hey guys look im a rashist who blames immigrants when we ourselves have our own poor and homeless. Blame the non whites...
@@blademanx that's stoke-on-foil for you shouldn't be surprised
@Laura JaneAshley you been ran through!!
@I am the Best how do you act a colour? Nonse
I was born there but I'm glad my mother had the sense of pride to work hard to be able to move us out. When your in the shit you eitger wallow in it or you be proactive and bring pride to your kids and make a change.
One thing I love about these areas, like Newtown, Perry Barr etc is the community spirit people have!
Palis ate scum of earth
Looks a nice area. Locals look super friendly and welcoming.
Tell me ur joking bro🤣🤣
😂😂😂. If he is joking, good one. If not then you need to get 2 specsavers to get yer eyes tested lad
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It's not I live there
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I used to be on the housing list for Birmingham and I was always getting offers of flats in this area, hmmm I wonder why now.
Did you get to visit those flats? If you ever get flats offers in that area, please do a “house tour” . I am really curious to see how these houses look inside. You might find some gems, you never know. Lol
Hi no never visited any of the places and luckily I no longer need to move.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes i was skeptical once as I've heard not so favourable things about Lozells, but the council home I moved into with my family is lovely. Never had an atrocious experience in the 4 years I've lived here compared to other parts of Birmingham.
Now you know why
@@citiesthroughmyeyes tbf the houses are and flats are quite massive the problem with this area specifically villas road there are TONS of supported living and care homes for drug users n mentally I’ll around and they kind of get to do what they want... so results
Lived 50 metres away from Lozells Rd, on Frances Rd for 3 months in spring 1997. Felt like a different universe
Yes I love this video ! I didn’t realise you did this video until I scrolled through your videos and came across this. 😊❤️ I grew up in this area so it is very close to home, it is good to see Lozells Road and some of the shops on there still open and functioning, some places are a little run down but to be honest they have been like that for years. But good job keep the videos coming. 😌👍🏾
A Somalian gang runs Villa Road, you pointed the camera straight at them when you got to the alley next to the barbershop on the left. They sit there all day every day selling class A's. In the summer they get the deck chairs out to relax while they"work".
You should watch who you point the camera at.
Yet no one does anything about these lawless mobs. Why should decent law abiding people allow these criminals to control the streets?
I left birmingham about 25 years ago and after seeing this video i am glad i did it now looks like a dump.
Where do you live now?
Me too Clive,used to live in bordesley green.....what a shithole brum is now eh
@@sametoyoutoo8509 i now live in asia so no one can accuse me of being racist.
@@clivehoseason1462 I will guess more hong Kong asia than iraq....am I right?
@@asmrfoodieuk7965 good guess but completely wrong.
Can't get over how smooth that camera quailty is
Trust me when I say that was that road on a good day lol
I was born on Heathfield Road and grew up on those streets. As a kid, I felt safe as I knew everyone but 40 odd years later, I wouldn't touch that part of Handsworth & Lozells at all. If I'm honest, it looks like a dump.
I was born there and lived on mayfield road in 1965. Moved to West Bromwich in 1978. When things started getting bad. Still nice memories though me and my brother playing around lozzels growing up. Good days indeed. Sadly long gone now. 🏴🇬🇧🏴👍🏼
Lol funny welcome to handsworth. Use to live around there moved up to Mosley. Love the beginning of your video lol
Lol. It was very unpleasant and difficult to film the litter, the fly tipping, etc. But I am not going to photoshop reality. I show it as it is... Btw, thanks for watching!
Hiya. I know not a very nice opening to Ur video lol but best show how it it's hopefully we can look back and say wat a shit hole lol
Hope we be around in the next 30 years to look back at it. Great vids 👍
Hopefully, the area will look better in 30 years otherwise I'll be back there again for another video Lol. Btw, I rewatched the beginning of this video and I couldn't stop laughing 😆 I can't believe I did this! Ha ha
@@citiesthroughmyeyes Hiya lol I know the opening of Ur video was brilliant lol loved it lets u know wat kind of area we dealing with lol
That's a reflection of the State of Birmingham and West midlands the roughness and hostility of the people , a lot of areas are like this people are hateful miserable areas are segregated and divided with Rif Raf locals no sense of care or community in areas and the council are part of the problem, years of austerity and cuts and nothing done in communities.
Not just in this place it's everywhere around our towns if you want to live somewhere nice then clean it up its not all the councils responsibility but the people who live there ,pick your rubbish up and dispose of it properly then it's an easy job to keep it clean but then humans can't do that.
Agry
dang it makes los angeles look like the ritz carlton
I hope the council never clean up the litter! It would be a waste of time, thanks to all the thick scum. Where is Barry Scott when you need him?
lool this is hilarious but I love it haha. didn't enjoy distributing around these ends though 😂😅
the music was a great touch btw loool
Filming that road was a lot of fun 😀
a fantastic post,thank you.yea this is what our england has become,its a damn disgrace.
Not every part of England is like this, have a look at Moseley, kingsheath, Warstock, Billseley and Hollywood in the South of Birmingham and Solihull clean streets these are the posh parts of Birmingham Sutton Coldfield too.
Wajid Hussain Yes but most of Birmingham is now a rubbish tip, I remember it in the 1950's, these area's were clean and respectable.
@Laura JaneAshley shut your racist mouth , u properly live in Spain n refuse to learn Spanish
Parts around greater Manchester is like this.
@@wajidhussain1161 Why are these areas clean because they are simply predominant whiter areas and have a image to portray we all know Birmingham city council have race biased about areas.
Sad to see the once great Birmingham City reduced to this!
It's high diversity until the population, environment fully changes to 3rd world. Let's celebrate it! :)
Coming to a town near you soon.
@Ibangyourmum what about Led Zeplin & Balck Sabbath?
@Ibangyourmum Shit, that only leaves Duran Duran
Reduced to what? You're only basing your invalid opinion on one problematic road.
Probably a nice place to live-back in the sixties.
icl i've been liiving in birmingham most of my life and Ive never seen this bad
And this England, that green and pleasant land
Absolutely dump! Corner shops, junkies, gangs, filth, dilapidated buildings with box houses
It was once sadly, not anymore.
Englands not all like this !! ... there are some beautiful places and countryside.. I'm sure every country has it's not so nice areas along with its nice areas .. dont tar the whole of England with the same brush because of 1 or a few bad areas 🙂
I live by Onestop shopping center but grew up in Lozells. Things will only change if the people want things to change...evidently they don't...
Wow, makes me grateful to live were I live.🇮🇪🍀
I would love in Ireland over Englistan any day
Top of the morning to ‘ya! (FFS, it had to be done)
I was born here. It’s a shithole. But my heart, friends, family and memories live here. Although I’m in Great Barr now, I still love Lozells.
You know, I actually like the people in the area. I had a breakdown around that area a few months ago and a stranger came up and asked if I was alright. Offered to stay with me and help if I wanted them to.
The environment is run down, sure, but the people here don't always reflect that.
I agree with what you said and that’s what make the whole situation so unfair. Making these types of videos you quickly see the contrast between areas. Some places are pampered, polished. Others don’t even have pedestrian traffic lights. The Council gladly take our taxes and laughs all the way to the bank. I know Bham City Council is watching my videos. Anytime I film a dirty area and throw it onto RUclips, it gets cleaned up within a week (Moseley Rd, Bradford St)...so I just need to show more areas in Birmingham.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes what about Ashton make a video on that
@@citiesthroughmyeyes actually make a video on Smethwick
@@citiesthroughmyeyeswhy don't the people there clean it up yes the council could help more by taking some rubbish but even if council cleans it up it will end up same next day it's people make an area a shithouse it's not the council's fault although council could have street cleaners but they have no money for anything now so things will just get worse
Do people drop out of school at the age of 9 in Birmingham wearing nothing but a tracksuit?
Edit: Those streets are absolute grim
Birmingham for you lots of poverty ,crime and chavs . Birmingham city council are very racist and bias and it reflects all over the city with the segregation.
@@jadasmith1977 Seems about right.
Not mocking the poor as I was brought up with nothing - just educated yourself and do something with your life is all I’m saying
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sad reflection on society which ever way you look at it 💔 😥
100%
Only serten parts of society
@@martinmcmullen5161 Certain
Been like this since the 80s glad i moved out
omg is this even birmingham ,can't recongnize it anymore
You can thank immigration for that
@@baz9653 looks like the council has let this area down its because of immigration there's still shops.
@@saiedahussain2873I wouldn’t call them shops. They run money laundering inside them. That’s the only reason the “shops” survive.
This what you get where multi cultural community lives
Thanks alot for this video cause I still don't understand why my girl was around this area when she should be at work lol bait up ting!
😂😂
I live about 3 or 4 miles away from this place, I tell you hand on heart just prior to this video the council must of done a clean up. It’s usually 10 times worse.
It’s standard practice that people from these areas don’t use dust bins they just toss there stuff out in the street, same goes for old fridges, settee,s , beds any old junk.
It’s ashame they were probably nice places once.
Yes just 70, 60 years ago.
Safe neighbourhood. Peaceful.
Ashamed to say it, but I was born in Handsworth, however it never looked like this back in the day!! Now it's a dump full of rats, which I sawin the video. They're clearly not productive 😲😞👎🏾!!. So, happy my parents moved to a nice town for a quality of life and prospects💯❤👍🏾🙏🏾.
Bro you nee to take the HANDSWORTH OUT OF THE TITLE thats LOZELLS
It starts off in Handsworth, until he got to The Villa Cross
That bro is a woman
Oi oi keith
That’s a really run down area,I’ve never seen so much rubbish dumped on the streets.Buildings in a bad state of repair,just general neglect.
Love the music! Great video as much as some of these inner city area's of Birmingham are messy the food is awesome, varied and cheap
Thank you for watching the video, I really appreciate 🙂
The food 🙄 is that all you can say
@@jamesjameson4566 What's wrong with that? There are some shitholes in Manchester that I only go to for the food...
@@samdobie6748 aren't you the edgy one 🙄, am I supposed to be impressed?
@@jamesjameson4566 Don't see why you're whinging that he just mentioned food being the only good thing about a run down area
Clean up our streets. Littering should be slapped with massive fines.
There’s no shortage of cool people living in Handsworth. It’s always been a creative hotspot and I wish the council would prioritise this community in the same way it does others. It’s always been a Cinderella postcode. I love Handsworth i was born and bred here I still go back to visit regularly. ❤
Keep making these videos around birmingham
Thank you for support, I appreciate it 🙂
My dad's family came from Lozells and he worked at Archers garage in Rookery Road, Handsworth. Glad we're Blues fans, nicer up there.
Nice instrumentals used. 💯👊🏾💥💥
Thank you 🙂
Brave to be walking around in lozells. Used to be Wild West at one point.
People didn't seem that bothered about my camera on their faces. Some seemed completely cool about it.
@Kahsin What would happen? People ask you what you were doing there?
@Kahsin lies
@Kahsin Lozells Road was a very different place in the 80s, before the riots.
@Kahsin did anyone (gang) approach u during that time also the burger boys are black gangs init
The one thing that makes me mad about that area is the amount of rubbish on the side of the street
I agree
Wow! I never recognised the place, I used to visit my girlfriend who lived in Lozells street getting off my bus at the block off flats that was were that supermarket is at the end of your video and the crown and cusion pub. I'm going back to the early 1970's and there was non of that rubbish laying around back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane even though I never recognised it lol
I can’t believe they’re allowed to cook rotisserie chickens on the sidewalk
Nice parking.....
This place wouldn't look out of place if you copied and pasted it into Detroit or Philadelphia somewhere, on skid row.
Holding the 2022 commonwealth games 2 mile from here
Bet they don't bring the athletes through here
The start lmao 0:07
classic handsworth
Always vile shit around villa park
Yrs ago that was lovely road, I used to go lozells girls school now look at it, the people living there are to blame for all that rubbish, wouldn't want to be walking round there now
Up the villa
I hope that lady sees this video
I know where I'm going on holiday this year 😂
Pmsl 🤣 😂😂😂
@@chanelgez2146 a fortnight wouldn't be enough.
@@kevinoreilly205 Is 1 star a thing in these dumps? Self catering all the way, probably preferable to sleep in an armoured vehicle.
Man what a dump! My family escaped Lozells in '67 and came to Perth, Western Australia........thank God!
Lived in Thornhill rd (off Soho rd ) in the 60's.. left in 1970 .. ended up farther out , in Stourbridge . Emigrated to Oz ( Victoria ) in 1990..now retired in Queensland ..watching this, i don't live in a different country, i live on a diffferent planet !
Lozells can be tasty loike!!
But, many a great pint drank in the Heron!
People just need to get on with it.
Beautiful church and mosque across the road from each other ❤️❤️
Such a shame to see what has become of many parts of our once great nation. Please let me qualify my use of the word “great”. I was referring to a country that once had a social security system that was the envy of the world, a county that was able to care and provide for the underprivileged and working class. I was not referring to ancient history and our colonial past.
@Jas Singh It is pretty much human nature.... Better to be the oppressors, rather than the oppressed.
@Jas Singh if you too the time to read a history book? Throughout history humans have done the same thing for thousands of years, unfortunately humans are a nasty species, but blaming one country or culture for what humans do naturally is stupidity.
There are numerous historic events, which would suggest that the UK was once in far better shape than it is today. Economically, socially and culturally it is not the same country it was.
@@davidelyas2128 you have based your rather myopic response purely on an assumption of my interpretation of the word “great”. Most nations have a history or murder, rape and pillage, in India (where I have travelled extensively) murder and gang rape is sill a fairly common occurrence. So, perhaps in order to clarify my point, when I was referring to our “great” nation, I was actually referring to its social, cultural and economical status, which in recent years seems to have been on the decline - my comment is not one related to racism or xenophobia but purely an observation regarding the apparent decline of a country that once seemed to have its act together. I now live in Asia, China to be precise, and in my opinion, from personal experience the UK can learn a lot from the order and discipline of some Asian countries.
@Jas Singh please read my response to @David Elyas - I have no misplaced patriotism at all my friend, I left the UK 33years ago to live overseas and have not lived there since. Interesting point to note, why do so many people want to emigrate to a country which was founded on rape, pillage and murder - could it have been because of its once “great” social and economical power, and the promise of a better life ?
The areas neglected by successive governements
Its neglected by its residents. I dont think the government go around throwing rubbish everywhere.
@@user-or6kr8uh8q yeh but they don’t pick it up .. n not fly tip the actually wheely bin they’ll leave it for weeks until it piles up
Take your rubbish to a aminty site
If know the bins are not emptied regularly clean up your place we're you
Live with volunteers and don't get called
Scum by other community's if you want change it starts with you
@@user-or6kr8uh8q don’t forget the poverty in these areas and lack of funding. Look at other surrounding areas. West bromwich, dudley, Wolverhampton ect. These parts of the west mids are so underfunded
It looks very similar to the UK.
It is the UK: Handsworth in Birmingham, England.
Looks more like Afghanistan
Just looks the same as every were else just shit every were
You pick the two years I was away from Lozells lol a lot changed since this video lol
Where is handsworth this is The dump called lozzells
This is just a very small part of Handsworth. My grandmother used to send me to the shops on lozells road in the 70’s
Do you still live in Handsworth or do you now live somewhere else?
@@citiesthroughmyeyes yes I still in in Handsworth. I still walk and cycle in Handsworth park. I used to drink from the fountain in the 70s that is situated at the bottom of the hill in the park. I feel safe in Handsworth.
I like Handsworth Park. You reminded me that I need to record the park.. One month from now I will have more time in my hands to film parks, make docs, etc.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes Handsworth Park has so much history. Now there is an annual 10k in September but not since Covid-19. People walk regularly there but they never did in the 70s. They moved the swings which used to be by the Bandstead and, the Park Rangers office used to be just behind the old location of the swings too. Looking forward to your video.
Lozzels is not handsworth
The grey sky......people with so many clothes on to keep warm. Lozells changed by still the same. I didn't see the supermarket corner of hearhfield road Lozells road, where is it ?
Walking around Paradise...
# Lozell's Road = Toothless Tina "F@ck Off" at 7:45 minutes in.
Beautiful area, it is a version of the afterlife similar to heaven minus the clouds, harps and angels.
Typically seen as an ideal place of beauty, a massive lush enclosed concrete jungle with with every known exotic plant, animal, and bird.
thought when she'd died, she'd gone to Paradise in Lozell's Road
Lmao your sarcasm kills me mate 👌🤣🤣🤣
These videos are everything 😀
Loool! My most "popular" & controversial video 😀
Somehow you popup on my newsfeed 🤔
WOW WOW WOW!!! I love it!
Birmingham looks so diverse!
Not diverse areas in Birmingham are very racist and segregated depending where you live.
It's not nice
Walked this route just to learn more about maths(scary) and computers. Thought about voluntary litter picking!
People are like wtf, do your thing, it’s good to see a uk version just like the USA
Can you go to Aston, Birmingham some day maybe around Villa Park on a match day might be good, thanks for the videos
I did a walk along Witton Rd, Aston ruclips.net/video/NtIaE-mjJ7E/видео.html
I also did a tour of Aston Hall ruclips.net/video/qEVcwbNPMlY/видео.html
@@citiesthroughmyeyes cheers thank you just saw it there now
I've seen people order food from the chippy, go to their car to eat it, throw the rubbish out the window drive off.
my nan had a house on villa rd in the 30s she lived there till late 70s and the houses were knock down in the middle 80s my mum and her sisters grow up there
Ratingham.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong is this England ?
Ye
Comment section is jokes. This area looks like many parts of towns and cities in the UK. Why people are trying to alude to race as a factor i dont understand coz we all know that differing demograpics live in some areas and it can still look just like this.
Find a Asian area that doesn't look like this...... I'll wait 🤣
Hodge Hill.
@@sallikeschickenandchips Try again. Hodge Hill has 13.9% ethnic minority population vs 30% average across Birmingham.
I live in Manchester and any area that looks anything like this as a very high percentage of Asian/African population.
@@manair2090 likely to be as a result of poverty not race. But there's some that can only equate negative outcomes to race to maintain their ego and the ill status quo.
It's like how squatters treat someone else's house
And this is a first word country lol 😆 😂
Was!
Until the government allowed these so called "refugees" move in lol
@@ammar6937 we have inhabited this island for centuries you clown never made it look like this shithole
Marty McFly, "What is this, Hell or something?"
Doc Brown, "I can't imagine Hell being much worse!"
I really want to move here, miss the "ghetto"...brought up in areas like this, it never leaves your heart...shottas on the corner, trash dumped, and awesome culture everywhere, it's a rollercoaster for the senses...and after living in these kinds of areas all over the UK, I've found there is a LOT less racism in these parts, everyone gotta get along so it's usually pretty welcoming...spoke to so many people, met a guy who was an immigrant who nearly died being smuggled in, I have 4 Korans all gifted to me by various cultures, some lady in a shop made me fried plantains, I've cooked and had partys with people of different cultures all being happy together....it's beautiful and insightful.... community, it's all about community
Multiculturalism really adds to an areas prosperity!!!!
Multicultural is the causes racism and segregation in Birmingham as locals are very backwards and racist and no one integrates at all go to areas and see how segregated areas are by race no social cohesion or integration at all.
Thats bs look at places like sutton Coldfield. Multicultural and clean!
@@vavavroom4001 Sutton Coldfield is not multicultural it's very affluent racist and segregated and then you have other area which are poor and not integrated at all people live seperate lives in their racist backwards behaviour .
@@sarahfemi9862 where do you live, under a rock? Its not the 1970s. Theres loads of asians in solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Streetly etc who are doing well for themselves, some of which have lived there for 25 years. The last census in 2011 showed the asian population at around 8 % in sutton Coldfield and I guarantee its gone up since then. I got loads of Asian mates in these areas and they mix with white people just fine?
@@vavavroom4001 Rubbish lots of racism in Sutton Coldfield and many areas of Birmingham whites are still the minority in areas of Birmingham look around you and see lots of segregation and segregated areas with little integration at all people are not progressive or integrated at all in Birmingham and West Midlands many don't like change .
Brilliant tour of hands worth 🇬🇧🥰
Thank you Bev Green 🙂
Bud you need google maps ,its Lozzells !
Lozells is between hands worth and Aston ?
@@bevgreen4800 Bev not heard of Google maps or are just taking the piss ?
@@akumar7366 You’re right. It is Lozells must’ve been a mistake
And now council tax in these areas rising by around 21% over the next few years with services being slashed like never seen before, what will it look like 3 years from now?
How they laughing at Enoch Powell
Bet you don’t say that to other lads in boxing gym
@@goldgiverbeatz7433 why would you think that
It is the worst area in Birmingham.I paied Council tax ,but all the time I needed to worry about rubbish;they will take or not.Milions mice and rats around.To live there is like nightmare.Now I live in West Bromwich, no any problems.
I bet its a bit dodgy round here come night time. What's the shadiest part of Brum would you say?
@K Maan Thanks for the reply 👍
Newtown can be on top if you don't know people
@K Maan not at all. I would rather walk Soho Rd top to bottom at night than walk around Yardley in the daytime
Newtown
Look how the place looks so Narsty 🧐..Nice posh looking Temple and Church though !! 🤷🏾♂️🤔