Thank you for taking the time to go down Curtis Walk and show our little row of shops there. I run Crafts ‘n’ Coffee - we do coffee, homemade cake and lots of craft courses - and we do find that there’s hardly anyone about in the afternoons, on any day of the week. Most people are out in the mornings. Gainsborough Marketplace isn’t much busier on market days - Tuesday and Saturday. A few stalls on Tuesdays and usually only a couple on Saturdays. It’s largely because most people go to Marshalls Yard shopping centre and don’t bother to come into the centre of town. They say they don’t come because there’s nothing there, but there’s not much there because they don’t come - chicken and egg, but what comes first? An awful lot of the marketplace shops DON’T survive because of this, as you can see, and landlords don’t seem to understand that keeping rents high, and indeed increasing them, won’t ever encourage new shops to open. It’s a real shame, as Gainsborough has a lovely town centre and it needs new life breathed into it.
I don't believe that Marshalls yard is the culprit. When the council sold off the indoor market, that was the beginning of the end of the market. I was a bus driver then and I saw the drop off in traffic to town on Tuesdays and Saturdays begin at that time. The indoor and the outdoor market was pretty much one place back then. But at least we have an Argos now. 🙄
Always a lovely town and still is. You probably filmed on a wednesday, half day closing! Reason why so quiet. Impressed by how clean it looks in comparison to many towns. i moved away 7 years ago. Thankyou for the tour.
Remember calling in to Gainsborough on a Sunday morning for breakfast when my dad used to take me fishing. Can't remember where the final destination was but they were happy days.
I went the other day with my best friend who's opening up his own shop there. I was helping him decorate the place for a bit. It's not a bad little town, to be fair. It's quite nice in places.
I live in Gainsborough and the town has changed so much, houses going up everywhere you see. But the town centre like so many others in the U.K. unfortunately has so many empty shops. A sign of the times I guess. Nice video though !!
The Old Hall is as spectacular inside as it is outside. A few years ago we set out with our granddaughter to visit the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft but I had misread the opening times and it was shut. As English Heritage members we had a look for something near to visit which turned out to be Gainsborough Old Hall. We had an interesting time exploring the Hall and then carried on to Cleethorpes for a walk on the sands before driving home.
Ah I will have to visit inside too in that case! Ps well done on being a fellow English Heritage member - great charity and great buildings that they protect!
I took my daughter's on the guided tour of the Old Hall, I Had lived in Gainsborough for 26 years before moving away, and just as the tape recorder described the Grey lady ghost walking through walls a lady in grey walked through one of the walls where the lath and plaster had been removed, leaving the wooden frame. I can still, after 15 years, get them laughing with that memory. Silver Street is a particular memory as I bought my first two bikes from Beaumont's.
I call at Gainsborough most Wednesdays and Saturdays with my friend on the way back from the Carboot Sale and Market at Torksey Lock a few miles up the road, I really like it there, that Riverside walk is lovely and peaceful
I see a few comments saying about how lockdown has effected towns etc but in all honesty it’s been like this in Gainsborough for years, it used to be busy at one time and on market days especially (Tuesday and Saturday) but even that was starting to die off. It’s a shame really
I've lived here 4 years, it's shocking how the banks and shops have closed up in that time, loads of them. With not so many replacements. changing times I suppose.
Could you please tell me what it’s like to live in Gainsborough? I want to move from the south, as I live in an urban area, and I crave a quiet community close to countryside. Gainsborough looks lovely, but I’ve heard mixed reports about dodgy youths and the area being deprived, whilst others can’t sing it’s praises high enough.
King Cnut came down that river (the Trent) to land in Gainsborough. In almost any other country that would be a Heritage site, with a visitor centre and a museum, and the dockside would have been properly beautified to reflect its thousand-year-old splendour. Apart from this startling lack of self-appreciation, the town is a shell of a place, where you can pick up a terraced house for 60 K, in a place where there's no decent jobs and a glut of problem teenagers who tear through the streets every evening looking for single men to beat and rob.
Thanks for this wonderful video! Just reached state retirement age, 66, great value property in Gainsborough (20-25% cheraper than Lincoln?), might move there from Bedford (climate almost identical - Lincoln, anyway!)
Hi 👋 great video - I've never been there but yes it's a 👻 ghost town -. Did you go very early in the morning or v late in the evening...is that why it's deserted...if you went at peak time- then sad why it's quiet....
What has happened to what used to be lovely Gainsborough? The reason why it looks so deserted in your excellent video is because there is little to attract people to shop there. So many shops show signs of neglect. Hundreds of nice houses are being built in the town, but sadly we have very few amenities both for local people and visitors ... It makes one wonder what happens to the monthly council tax... Marshal's yard is lovely and well worth a visit... How nice it would be to continue the experience with some nice shops and tea rooms In the town centre... Come on councilors at West Lindsey open your eyes and work for the people who vote for you....
very nice video not like some where you have to walk around people , although i do think it could be improved on ,the waterfront for instance yes some of it looks pretty new but the ground floors could become little gifty type shops ,upper floors would make super apartments for people working in the larger towns and could commute car or rail , and the river itsself could thrive with pleasure barges going up and down to the next place up and down river theres plenty of what appear to be well kept steps and jetty for boarding and disembarking but of course all this takes money and investors and theres not a lot of either around at the moment .
@@Jovex. It's closed now unfortunately I think it was a money issue I think someone had bought it but they haven't done anything yet with it. It might be done by the end of the year even though no progress has started
Like this at every town unfortunately but looks clean which nice to see, money is not available to spend unless we really need to nowadays sadly. Nice video 👍
Along the riverside walk you can see an old concrete wall near the buildings, this was the old side of the river along with the buildings forming the old flood barrier...
Where has W.H. Smiths gone and how long ago?I moved 12 years ago as I needed to work. So not been back since 2016, and that was up on Cassies with my dog.
I'm pretty sure gainsborough was a huge victim of deindustrialisation, most of the riverside was demolished as well as most of the historic streets, after marshall's closed too.
not any more. there were changes to the channel up towards Hull. Though every tide change you can see the river change direction for a while, which is weird to watch!!!!
Had somegood nights in the horse and groom when visiting a cousin in gainsborough in 90s 👍 our fatman stef chapman 👌 also met the imfamous terry suitcase 👍 and the hustler 👍 good times playing pool in there and getting stoned lol
horse and groom, or the 'doom and gloom' as it used to be known back in the 90s lol. Was the only place you'd ever see terry suitcase, he lived at that pool table in the doom & gloom and literally lived upstairs
Spent many happy years in Gainsborough, along the river banks both sides. Nice to see the place has been tidied up to what it once was when Marshalls and Roses were in full swing but it is obvious the place is suffering a slow decline.
We have 2 market days a week - Tuesday and Saturday - but we have hardly any stalls. Tuesdays maybe 4 or 5 - if it’s not raining - and Saturdays we’re lucky to get 2 😞
Wednsday is early closing day that is why not many people about shoud have been filmed on a Tuesday when the market is on you missed Gainsborough Cycles my shop near the Old Hall
can you get to the Morrisons store by walking along the riverside walk? as i am maybe moving there soon and would like to know where the local supermarkets are? thanks
I like Gainsborough, it's a lot busier than this on market day, if you don't mind me asking where are you from? I live in Scunthorpe which is a 40 minute bus ride from Gainsborough
It's got about 20k people living here. The town centre is more lively on the 2 market days (saturday not as busy as tuesday). But there's a lot more people at Marshall's Yard. Over the 4 years I've been here, lots have closed - there were more pubs, nightclubs, a dept store, more banks, and not so many empty shops. Covid didn't help, but I think it's the same all over the UK.
Hi- just noticed you recorded this great video at 2pm in the afternoon - I'm shocked - where are the people... it's a lovely sunny/dry day to go shopping as well.... Is it because people have no Money 💰...Shame ..
One of the finest market towns around spoilt when cobbled stones removed out of market place, part of its history. I've lived all of My 78 yrs in this wonderful town only to see its History be dragged out of it, and be replaced with something not hal as good.
Born here and live here. Town centre soulless. Huge new housing development but not the infrastructure to go with it. If you were filming this in the 70s or 80s it would be packed
Great video, thanks. I'm hoping to move to Gainsborough early next year (2023) despite never having set foot in the place. The town looks nice (bar all the boarded up shops) though eerily quiet....ghost town like.
Years ago when the Specials sang Ghost Town; it was like it was specially written for our old town. I miss the countryside around Gainsborough most of all. You can walk down the Trent past West Burton Power Station and not see another person once you get beyond Iron Bridge. Or if you have a bike, you can bike along the Trent as far as Scunthorpe area (gunnes etc), or ride over Keadby Bridge, and follow the villages back to Gainsborough and back down Ramper Road and back over the bridge. Or go towards Heapham and all those little villages as far as Harpswell, Fillingham, and go as far as Scampton if you are energetic enough. Lovely in the sun. There is a windmill at Heapham called Hewitts Windmill It did as far as 2009 had big sails attached to it. You can't miss it as it at the side of the road in a farm yard.
Town centre is on par with Chatham and Paignton for sheer magnitude of being rundown . Looks like all the money spent on the retail park . If it wasn’t for the Old hall and eating at the Clockhouse there is no reason to visit
I use to work in Gainsborough and noticed a lot of locals leaving. And noticed more people from London moving into the area for the cheap property. Atmosphere has completely gone nobody talks to you anymore. I felt like I was living in a part of London
When I was a teenager in the early seventies Gainsborough was designated a London overspill town. Due to the lack of opportunity, most went back but the London/Essex accent was not unusual for a while.
Council tax on commercial property here is by far one of the highest in uk (along with boston and thats dead) ive ever seen considering im from Berkshire says alot, especially considering the town is quiet past lunch time. commercial landlords here are completely over the top with rents one tiny retail unit not even on the highstreet is topping 750 pm and successions of failed businesses come and go because of this greed council and landlords have indulged in which is killing businesses and putting off others. On top of that there is the parking issues, council really needs to address parking nearer to town centre and stop visiting people parking in residential streets causing immense inconvenience for us residents every market day or football match, even staff working at pist office the council itself and marshalls yard ALL park in residential streets away from town because of the lack of free parking for them. No ones winning but no ones doing anything about it either, yet they still continue to build commercial buildings with absolutely no parking. Gainsborough is a very pretty town and it has a safe freindly feeling majority of the time, but these other issues are the noose
Colourful town compares to dull grey like Wolverhampton, Rotherham, etc. But hasn't got as many cathedrals as other towns. Such wonderful infrastructures wasted in the UK, towns after towns have become ghost towns. The old ancestors built infrastructures for the people to last centuries, the new ones abandoned them.
I agree, it is becoming a ghost town. I do not think it is because people cant afford to shop here. I think it is because there is not much here to buy. I live here and i am strugglimg to find clothes and shoes that are affordable, unless i
ODFOD! This is literally as cheap as chips. You’d struggle to find anywhere cheaper than this dump. Not 30 years ago there were crappy houses being sold at £500 each. Normal people choose to *not* live in this dump. Where TF do you live that you think Gainsborough is unaffordable?
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Thank you for taking the time to go down Curtis Walk and show our little row of shops there. I run Crafts ‘n’ Coffee - we do coffee, homemade cake and lots of craft courses - and we do find that there’s hardly anyone about in the afternoons, on any day of the week. Most people are out in the mornings.
Gainsborough Marketplace isn’t much busier on market days - Tuesday and Saturday. A few stalls on Tuesdays and usually only a couple on Saturdays. It’s largely because most people go to Marshalls Yard shopping centre and don’t bother to come into the centre of town. They say they don’t come because there’s nothing there, but there’s not much there because they don’t come - chicken and egg, but what comes first? An awful lot of the marketplace shops DON’T survive because of this, as you can see, and landlords don’t seem to understand that keeping rents high, and indeed increasing them, won’t ever encourage new shops to open. It’s a real shame, as Gainsborough has a lovely town centre and it needs new life breathed into it.
Ah no that’s so sad to read
Some places really sold their soul when taking the money from shopping centre developers
I don't believe that Marshalls yard is the culprit. When the council sold off the indoor market, that was the beginning of the end of the market. I was a bus driver then and I saw the drop off in traffic to town on Tuesdays and Saturdays begin at that time. The indoor and the outdoor market was pretty much one place back then. But at least we have an Argos now. 🙄
Thank you for the really interesting videos. They are extremely helpful for anyone thinking of relocating.
Thanks so much ❤️
Always a lovely town and still is. You probably filmed on a wednesday, half day closing! Reason why so quiet. Impressed by how clean it looks in comparison to many towns. i moved away 7 years ago. Thankyou for the tour.
Remember calling in to Gainsborough on a Sunday morning for breakfast when my dad used to take me fishing. Can't remember where the final destination was but they were happy days.
Fishing round that area must be great
I went the other day with my best friend who's opening up his own shop there. I was helping him decorate the place for a bit.
It's not a bad little town, to be fair. It's quite nice in places.
I live in Gainsborough and the town has changed so much, houses going up everywhere you see. But the town centre like so many others in the U.K. unfortunately has so many empty shops. A sign of the times I guess. Nice video though !!
Thanks Philip
I will be back another time to film again
Had some good night in the horse and jockey when visiting a cousin in Gainsborough 👍 met the legend that was Terry suitcase 👌
I live in Gainsborough as well
my home town, I moved to Nottingham in June 2024 very much miss it so this was lovely to view
Thank you
Such a great city
The Old Hall is as spectacular inside as it is outside.
A few years ago we set out with our granddaughter to visit the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft but I had misread the opening times and it was shut.
As English Heritage members we had a look for something near to visit which turned out to be Gainsborough Old Hall.
We had an interesting time exploring the Hall and then carried on to Cleethorpes for a walk on the sands before driving home.
Ah I will have to visit inside too in that case!
Ps well done on being a fellow English Heritage member - great charity and great buildings that they protect!
I took my daughter's on the guided tour of the Old Hall, I Had lived in Gainsborough for 26 years before moving away, and just as the tape recorder described the Grey lady ghost walking through walls a lady in grey walked through one of the walls where the lath and plaster had been removed, leaving the wooden frame. I can still, after 15 years, get them laughing with that memory. Silver Street is a particular memory as I bought my first two bikes from Beaumont's.
Very quiet town but the walk along the river looks great thanks Neil for another great video
Thanks 👍
I call at Gainsborough most Wednesdays and Saturdays with my friend on the way back from the Carboot Sale and Market at Torksey Lock a few miles up the road, I really like it there, that Riverside walk is lovely and peaceful
@@KathleenCook-cj7vw as long as you avoid the dog shxt everywhere
'This town is coming like a ghost town'... Good video for future historians looking at how some places were post C*vid.
Very very quiet isnt' it!
Marshalls Yard has killed the town centre - such a shame
I see a few comments saying about how lockdown has effected towns etc but in all honesty it’s been like this in Gainsborough for years, it used to be busy at one time and on market days especially (Tuesday and Saturday) but even that was starting to die off. It’s a shame really
Crazy - how on earth do the shops stay open?
@@GimbalWalkTV I guess they must get a slow flow of people and then busier on Saturdays but I can’t imagine they’re thriving
I've lived here 4 years, it's shocking how the banks and shops have closed up in that time, loads of them. With not so many replacements. changing times I suppose.
You’ve literally got to go back to the 70’s though to see how vibrant Gainsborough used to be
I really enjoyed watching this. Our town has some hidden gems. Thank you X
You’re welcome
I really enjoyed visiting!
Please share with anyone you know who might like it ❤️❤️
Could you please tell me what it’s like to live in Gainsborough? I want to move from the south, as I live in an urban area, and I crave a quiet community close to countryside. Gainsborough looks lovely, but I’ve heard mixed reports about dodgy youths and the area being deprived, whilst others can’t sing it’s praises high enough.
Looks like the River Trent needs a New Boat to offer Trips up & down the River !!!
It's crazy go back to wen Marshalls factory was open it was a buzzing town with loads of shops and parades
Yeah quiet now!
King Cnut came down that river (the Trent) to land in Gainsborough. In almost any other country that would be a Heritage site, with a visitor centre and a museum, and the dockside would have been properly beautified to reflect its thousand-year-old splendour. Apart from this startling lack of self-appreciation, the town is a shell of a place, where you can pick up a terraced house for 60 K, in a place where there's no decent jobs and a glut of problem teenagers who tear through the streets every evening looking for single men to beat and rob.
Thanks for this wonderful video! Just reached state retirement age, 66, great value property in Gainsborough (20-25% cheraper than Lincoln?), might move there from Bedford (climate almost identical - Lincoln, anyway!)
I actually saw you film this. I was walking up Curtis walk. Excellent video and a proper set up.
Ah in that case hello and almost good to meet you and thank you very much 👍👍❤️
@@GimbalWalkTV you too buddy. ✊✊
Hi 👋 great video - I've never been there but yes it's a 👻 ghost town -. Did you go very early in the morning or v late in the evening...is that why it's deserted...if you went at peak time- then sad why it's quiet....
What has happened to what used to be lovely Gainsborough? The reason why it looks so deserted in your excellent video is because there is little to attract people to shop there. So many shops show signs of neglect.
Hundreds of nice houses are being built in the town, but sadly we have very few amenities both for local people and visitors ... It makes one wonder what happens to the monthly council tax...
Marshal's yard is lovely and well worth a visit...
How nice it would be to continue the experience with some nice shops and tea rooms In the town centre...
Come on councilors at West Lindsey open your eyes and work for the people who vote for you....
very nice video not like some where you have to walk around people , although i do think it could be improved on ,the waterfront for instance yes some of it looks pretty new but the ground floors could become little gifty type shops ,upper floors would make super apartments for people working in the larger towns and could commute car or rail , and the river itsself could thrive with pleasure barges going up and down to the next place up and down river theres plenty of what appear to be well kept steps and jetty for boarding and disembarking but of course all this takes money and investors and theres not a lot of either around at the moment .
Thank you Dawn ❤️
You've been into town more recently than I have and I live in the town. I've never even heard of sweet Caroline's, looks like a nice place.
Im back there again soon for a new one!
@@Jovex. It's closed now unfortunately I think it was a money issue I think someone had bought it but they haven't done anything yet with it. It might be done by the end of the year even though no progress has started
Interesting video I have visited a couple of times as i was thinking of moving up there , quite liked it.
Lots of intersting history with the blue plates everywhere. A "ducking stool" heck !! Loved the ending ^_^ Keep walking 👍
Tuesday is market day in the town centre. Go back on a Tuesday, and it wont be as quiet. They pack up at 2-3pm, so go early.
Like this at every town unfortunately but looks clean which nice to see, money is not available to spend unless we really need to nowadays sadly. Nice video 👍
Thanks Jason
Along the riverside walk you can see an old concrete wall near the buildings, this was the old side of the river along with the buildings forming the old flood barrier...
Ah thank you - good info 👍👍❤️
Unfortunately you missed out Marshall's Yard, which is now the main shopping area. Then you would have seen where the people were.
I will have to return and do another
Where has W.H. Smiths gone and how long ago?I moved 12 years ago as I needed to work. So not been back since 2016, and that was up on Cassies with my dog.
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Thanks Michael
Het mate great walk looks a lovely place thanku .😊💯
Thanks mate - hope you're well.
Have a TOP week!
Been to Gainsborough old hall many times,beautiful building and haunted 😎
Oooohhhhh 👻
Nice job ! pitty the town is so empty, even more so now....hopefully someone will get life back into it 🙂
I'm pretty sure gainsborough was a huge victim of deindustrialisation, most of the riverside was demolished as well as most of the historic streets, after marshall's closed too.
Yes true
This is a perfect city for me nice n quiet n deserted
It’s just a town
You could do much worse than old Gainsborough..nothing happens here. But it's reasonably safe and the country side is beautiful and still free.
You will have to visit October time when it’s high tide the agar or Eage? a big wave goes down the river
Oh yes - I'd love to see that
not any more. there were changes to the channel up towards Hull. Though every tide change you can see the river change direction for a while, which is weird to watch!!!!
So sad, like a lot of town centres, seeing so many empty shops.
This one shocked me
Had somegood nights in the horse and groom when visiting a cousin in gainsborough in 90s 👍 our fatman stef chapman 👌 also met the imfamous terry suitcase 👍 and the hustler 👍 good times playing pool in there and getting stoned lol
horse and groom, or the 'doom and gloom' as it used to be known back in the 90s lol. Was the only place you'd ever see terry suitcase, he lived at that pool table in the doom & gloom and literally lived upstairs
It's a very clean ghost town! Where are the population 🤔? Great filming as always though thankyou.😀👍
Spent many happy years in Gainsborough, along the river banks both sides. Nice to see the place has been tidied up to what it once was when Marshalls and Roses were in full swing but it is obvious the place is suffering a slow decline.
Mate the town is generally filthy
So many memories watching this video. Thanks 😊
Our pleasure!
I live in Gainsborough it's always quiet x
Very!
I would love to see the two Railway stations.
Will do my best
There is only 1 station standing now ( lea road).
@@idriswilliams9110 I am very sorry to hear that.
My bad central is still running I know ya can get to skeggy on a Sunday at least
@@idriswilliams9110 cleethorpes
Great walk but where are the people such a shame. Feel sorry for the businesses. Loved the riverside thank you and keep on walking 🚶🏻👍❤️
How on earth do those shops stay open?
That must have been the quietist town youve covered!
So, that's a massive area for a market, is at least one held regularly?
We have 2 market days a week - Tuesday and Saturday - but we have hardly any stalls. Tuesdays maybe 4 or 5 - if it’s not raining - and Saturdays we’re lucky to get 2 😞
@@handiann Thanks for the heads up, that's a shame it's not busy
I used to lived there many many years ago..Didn't have maccy kfc amd m and s then..So different
Lots of changes
Wednsday is early closing day that is why not many people about shoud have been filmed on a Tuesday when the market is on you missed Gainsborough Cycles my shop near the Old Hall
I don’t think it was filmed on a Wednesday Trevor, as our shop was open and we’re closed on Wednesdays 😊
can you get to the Morrisons store by walking along the riverside walk? as i am maybe moving there soon and would like to know where the local supermarkets are? thanks
No as Morrisons is up the hills.
There's a supermarket on the riverside. It's lidl I think, Morrison's is miles away on park springs
Better than the rain walk through Horncastle
Ive not been there yet. I really must give it a visit
@@GimbalWalkTV Really sorry i thought it was you who did the walk through Horncastle
I know this place, so I speeded you up a bit. Did you enjoy your jog along 😆
ha ha thank you! Probably the fastest I've travelled in a long time!
Used to live here now live in Ireland the only day it's busy is market day
I like Gainsborough, it's a lot busier than this on market day, if you don't mind me asking where are you from? I live in Scunthorpe which is a 40 minute bus ride from Gainsborough
Sheffield!
But as you can see from my channel I'm traveling every day!
Not a lot here nice riverside walk though. Thank you. xxxxxxx
Thanks Dee ❤️
Anyone know what the tree is with the swaying tendrils outside the library?
Good question!
It's a form of silver birch, a weeping one. Not sure which exact one. It's lovely though.
think its a weeping willow, i remember when it was about 5ft high
Do you think Covid bankrupt this town. It looks like it would have been really busy at one time
It’s very quiet isn’t it
It was like this before covid
It's got about 20k people living here. The town centre is more lively on the 2 market days (saturday not as busy as tuesday). But there's a lot more people at Marshall's Yard. Over the 4 years I've been here, lots have closed - there were more pubs, nightclubs, a dept store, more banks, and not so many empty shops. Covid didn't help, but I think it's the same all over the UK.
Hi- just noticed you recorded this great video at 2pm in the afternoon - I'm shocked - where are the people... it's a lovely sunny/dry day to go shopping as well.... Is it because people have no Money 💰...Shame ..
Yeah it was mid afternoon
I was really shocked at how dead it was
One of the finest market towns around spoilt when cobbled stones removed out of market place, part of its history. I've lived all of My 78 yrs in this wonderful town only to see its History be dragged out of it, and be replaced with something not hal as good.
Cannot recall being anywhere, being so quiet.
Scarily quiet!
Shame the town has never made the most of the river. No riverside restaurants, bars or even a boat trip.
Born here and live here. Town centre soulless. Huge new housing development but not the infrastructure to go with it. If you were filming this in the 70s or 80s it would be packed
Such a shame to see so many empty, boarded up shop units. A lot of high streets have the same problem unfortunately.
So true
Great video, thanks. I'm hoping to move to Gainsborough early next year (2023) despite never having set foot in the place. The town looks nice (bar all the boarded up shops) though eerily quiet....ghost town like.
Oh dear! 🙁
Years ago when the Specials sang Ghost Town; it was like it was specially written for our old town. I miss the countryside around Gainsborough most of all. You can walk down the Trent past West Burton Power Station and not see another person once you get beyond Iron Bridge. Or if you have a bike, you can bike along the Trent as far as Scunthorpe area (gunnes etc), or ride over Keadby Bridge, and follow the villages back to Gainsborough and back down Ramper Road and back over the bridge. Or go towards Heapham and all those little villages as far as Harpswell, Fillingham, and go as far as Scampton if you are energetic enough. Lovely in the sun. There is a windmill at Heapham called Hewitts Windmill It did as far as 2009 had big sails attached to it. You can't miss it as it at the side of the road in a farm yard.
Town centre is on par with Chatham and Paignton for sheer magnitude of being rundown . Looks like all the money spent on the retail park . If it wasn’t for the Old hall and eating at the Clockhouse there is no reason to visit
don't strike me as an inspiring place i regret to say
I am even strugging with food shopping at the moment, with these
delivery problems the shops are having sometimes the shelves are empty.
Oh no - sorry to hear that. These are tough times right now aren't they?
I use to work in Gainsborough and noticed a lot of locals leaving. And noticed more people from London moving into the area for the cheap property. Atmosphere has completely gone nobody talks to you anymore. I felt like I was living in a part of London
Oh no!
When I was a teenager in the early seventies Gainsborough was designated a London overspill town. Due to the lack of opportunity, most went back but the London/Essex accent was not unusual for a while.
When was it you lived in Gainsborough? As I was london overspill, I moved there in 1969. Left in 1992.
Gainsborough doesn’t wake up until 4pm when the drugs have worn off
Bit like Alford
didnt go to marshalls yard,usually more peoplr there
No idea where that is / is it far?
@@GimbalWalkTV gainsborough town center,near the high street its a shopping complex
Council tax on commercial property here is by far one of the highest in uk (along with boston and thats dead) ive ever seen considering im from Berkshire says alot, especially considering the town is quiet past lunch time.
commercial landlords here are completely over the top with rents one tiny retail unit not even on the highstreet is topping 750 pm and successions of failed businesses come and go because of this greed council and landlords have indulged in which is killing businesses and putting off others.
On top of that there is the parking issues, council really needs to address parking nearer to town centre and stop visiting people parking in residential streets causing immense inconvenience for us residents every market day or football match, even staff working at pist office the council itself and marshalls yard ALL park in residential streets away from town because of the lack of free parking for them. No ones winning but no ones doing anything about it either, yet they still continue to build commercial buildings with absolutely no parking. Gainsborough is a very pretty town and it has a safe freindly feeling majority of the time, but these other issues are the noose
Sounds tricky
Looks like a lively place but deserted. Planning deoartment need to put their thinking caps on...
Colourful town compares to dull grey like Wolverhampton, Rotherham, etc. But hasn't got as many cathedrals as other towns. Such wonderful infrastructures wasted in the UK, towns after towns have become ghost towns. The old ancestors built infrastructures for the people to last centuries, the new ones abandoned them.
Towns in the UK don’t have cathedrals. We save them for the city’s. Gainsborough is a small, rural market town. It’s not comparable to Wolverhampton.
More life on Mars.
Deserted
I agree, it is becoming a ghost town.
I do not think it is because people cant afford to shop here. I think it is because there is not much here to buy. I live here and i am strugglimg to find clothes and shoes that are affordable, unless i
It’s Gainsborough bridge but everyone calls it Trent bridge.
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Clenliness due to lack of people maybe?
Maybe
Normal people can't afford to live in such places.
ODFOD!
This is literally as cheap as chips.
You’d struggle to find anywhere cheaper than this dump.
Not 30 years ago there were crappy houses being sold at £500 each.
Normal people choose to *not* live in this dump.
Where TF do you live that you think Gainsborough is unaffordable?
its a cheap place, not much work there and relatively high crime rate for a small town (or at least it was during the 90s)
What a dismal place !
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Gainsborough a 3 horse town one dead one dieing n one lame, always been a run down town
Oh crikey
Jesus christ what filter have you put on this? Gainsborough does not look like this 😂😂
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