I'm from 'Castle born n bread. Even went to Keele to do my degree. I moved to London fourteen years ago. Every time I come home, I am very taken aback by what's happened to Newcastle.
Left 34 years ago to go to University in Hertfordshire. Coming home to see my folks has always been bittersweet as I saw Newcastle slowly but surely degrade. I was there last week and was shocked and appalled at the amount of closed shops (Roebuck shuttered) and the ironic signage from Newcastle-under-Lyme council promising that they are "Investing in your future"!. What will they do. Also what is the plan with the land where the council offices were that are knocked down. WHEN?! EXACTLY?!
Yet another informative vlog from a well spoken narrator. Would I be alone in thinking that the high percentage of (Newcastle and also the Six Towns) Turkish barbers, nail bars, and vape shops (considering their close proximity, and foot-fall ratio) are 'fronts' for unscrupulous activities?
You most definitely would not be alone In that thought 👍it amazes me that the average person on the street can see these shops for what they are but them In positions of authority seem to be none of the wiser? Why are HMRC not all over these shops taking a look at the books.
I grew up around Castle. It all seemed quite normal until I moved to Leeds in 2010 and it took over a year to adjust to the difference. Part of me misses Castle and Stoke. Everything there always felt so familiar. But it's not a healthy place. The people there are somehow at once the nicest and meanest, toughest and softest people I've ever met.
Newcastle was such beauty but wow how its changed..it was a day out and absolutely brilliant... Maxims was my favourite club and thats gone Breaks your heart how stoke on trent and newcastle under lyme have ended up... Becky 🇬🇧
Brilliant video mate. Made me laugh that you said that a bloke had spontaneously combusted and left his underpants hahaha 🤣 Great to watch, very sad times though. 👍🏻
Thank you for showing what Newcastle is like today, it shocked me, I heard recently, Clark’s, WH Smith we’re closing, your video showed a lot of the shops I was familiar with closed. The stones used to be vibrant, now in a very sorry state, and the civic offices demolished, very glad to see Wrights still going. Very glad I retired to North Wales from the Civic offices at 60. Hanley and Crewe also look in a sorry state. It’s very sad to see. Just thinking of some of the old names, Pauldons, Henry Whites, Blacks, Marsdons, Brockleys, Brassingtons that are no longer there.
Thank you my friend really appreciate the feedback and glad people enjoy them. I sometimes look at the video and think nah nobody is going be interested in this shall I post or not? So it’s good get the feedback 👍❤️
It's a shame what's happening to Newcastle like the tile of video said it used to be the posh place to go...I used to school in Newcastle and have family in Wolstanton Porthill and Bradwell... Great video thanks
It is a nice place, friendly people, i go to Newcastle quite regular & i'd move there if i had half a chance, it's very much a town from a few decades ago not that i mean it hasn't caught up, it's just like a bygone time we once had
The pubs that are left seem to be ok. Bridge St. Ale House is charmingly ramshackle, if a bit cliquey. Boat & Horses always good for cheap Bass. Greyhound (technically Hartshill, but only just) is nice, if a little expensive. Hopinn worth the trek up King Street even if it is uphill.
I remember around ten years ago, I went on a works Christmas meal at an Indian restaurant in N-U-L. It was my first and last foray in what’s known as “Castle”. After the meal had ended we decided to go for a few drinks in the towns local pubs. On the way out of the restaurant my work colleague said to me “you do get a better class of person in Newcastle (Under Lyme) opposed to Hanley”. We walked around the corner and to my amazement there were two youths fighting in the street who were worse for ware due to the obligatory over drinking. I couldn’t help but laugh at the situation. I then decided to end the night prematurely and go home. My memories of N-U-L. 😂
Should just be the one council combining both authorities. Same as here in Liverpool. Where you can't see the physical boundary between the city of Liverpool. And the artificially created boroughs of Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Halton. 🤔🧐🤒
You ain't wrong . Born and bread in Newcastle and don't like to step foot across the border. Which is Albert Street. Half a mile up Basford bank. One side of the road is newcastle and tother is stoke. All that matters is the black friar is back to a rock pub from a alcoholic bar.
I lived in Castle between 1988 and 2007 (first in the Westlands, then in May Bank), and whenever I go back it seems to get worse every time, with more stuff closed and demolished. Back in 1989 when I was at school (Sneyd High - I believe it's changed its name several times since I left), we had a class project about how to improve the town centre. My suggestion was to knock it all down and start again. Laughed out of the class, obviously, but it seems I was merely a third of century before my time. Still, the pubs are ok. I see you resisted popping into The Boat & Horses for a pint of Bass when you went past. 😂
@@DJMtv1938 I've known several people new to Castle try and get to the Boat via the High Street and the roundabout underpass. They invariably end up in Morrison's car park.
I am totally horrified, it’s been a while since I’ve been in Newcastle but the way it has degenerated so fast is unbelievable. The local councillors have a lot to answer for, it’s a disgrace.
It's been a longtime since ive been to Hanley I had to visit a new building in Newcastle recently. I noticed that there is a place opposite the Weatherspoons that seems to be full of pretty sad people, How depresive, It saddens me so much to see how its all changed from the memories i have in my mind from the past..
I’m from Westlands and born in Bradwell and it’s heartbreaking to see how bad Newcastle has become. Students night on a Wednesday night in castle and catching the Zanzibus to Zanzibar for a pound a pint..great memories
I live about 15 miles away from NUL... I only tend to get there nowadays to go to the Vue cinema! You're right, it's certainly gone downhill (I remember working and drinking there in the 90's / 00's, it was a lively place!) but not nearly as much as parts of Stoke. I still think it's a pretty decent place.
What is it with Stoke and the immediate area that it's always p---ing grey 320 days a year? it's like the sun gets stolen at Wolverhampton...lived here for a couple of years now and can never get over how the greyness makes everything seem worse than it is?. Perhaps it even compliments how bad it is in reality...
its sad i went to sandbatch not long ago i think that has some nice pubs and shops the only thing is trentham gardens but if you are like me and do not drive it is hard to get around one bus an hour not worth going without the car
@starwarsroo2448 I agree we have had a tough few years but something feels like this year is going to be the worst I can’t put my finger on it or explain why but I just get this nagging feeling that this year is going be the pinnacle of it all.
@DJMtv1938 There's going to be a collapse, not just Britain, but the whole of the West ( or what's left of it) don't want to say too much on here, some of the things you kinda mentioned in your vid
I was born on red street in ches last year i was riding a pedal bike to work every day to castle down the a34 in one year I had my bike stolen from outside my place of work just across the market from cash converters . I had someone in a mask try to push me off while I was on my way home so he could steal my new bike . And the final straw was getting blocked by about 6 lads who decided to show me their knife collection in exchange for my new new bike . I have a driving license but buying and running a car was expensive but after 3 bikes and countless taxi and bus tickets it actually works out cheaper so I got a shitbox rover 25 for £400 and used that for about a week until it got broken into in the multistory car park behind the cinema and a replacement window cost me nearly as much as the car I have had to quit my job and get one in a slightly less crime ridden hellscape . It's failing so much because you can't regularly go there without getting mugged or attacked if you travel there everyday the possibility of somthing happening to you is so great that people just left and now everything is closing and it's more overrun with druggies and gangs
While i agree about the amount of shops closing.you called merrial street depressing and yes it is butyou failed to say that part of it where the empty shops are is to be knocked down and rebuilt.unfortunatly itsthe council to be blamed for how there dpending the money.i believe they are knocking one of the multi story car parks down to be replaced with another costing about 40 million.i wouldlike to know who is going to use them there are not enough people coming into the town to warrent one let alone two.but Newcastle is a nice town despite whats happening .perhaps people think of it as posh because of the Royal charter it was given and its a old market town.but drive around outside the main areas of stoke on trent and there are some lovley areas.its swings and roundabouts.every town .city in the Country has got areas that are run down.and don't forget internet shopping has done a lot towards closing a lot of these shops down.
Rebuilt with what? More empty shops? There is enough empty shops now so why build more empty ones? Has for other places around the country this channel is about local towns and areas going into decline.
@DJMtv1938 wow I didn't expect an answer and neither did I expect one with so much aggression.why are you answering me like that.?I was merely saying what I had read .believe me I am not the planner of Newcastle and actually I agree with what you about it.and yes I do know what your channel and where your channel is about I was just saying about the lack of shop is partly through online shopping.look I was Born and bred in Newcastle.77 years of seeing it change and not for the better.perhaps you did not like me saying about you comment about Merrial street.but It is a comment page and free speech is allowed to a point as the guidelines say.keep comments respectful.but you went at me with no respect.
@DJMtv1938 no I'm sorry but how you answered my comment was not nice.and yes thanks I do know where your channel is about as I said before.but I'm afraid people who comment are going to mention other places because it matters.so sorry but you are going to have to keep battling because stoke on trent and Newcastle are going to be compared.it doesn't mean we don't still love our area I'm proud to come from here and I welcomed your channel when it came up on my feed.i sincerely hope it does well and this area gets noticed.good luck to you.
I'm an american who happens to be in Stoke today. I was a fan of your videos before i came. Would love to share a pint with you today and talk about where you think things have gone off the rails here. Its a bank holiday today, maybe you are available?
Hi my friend thank you for watching ❤️it’s no bank holiday for me today 😞I’m just about to set off for work in the next hour. Would love know what brings you to stoke though all the way from the states? I mean this is one hell of a place to point to on the map🤣most people usually just give it a miss? I’ve noticed though that I’m getting a good little share of my audience from America which absolutely amazes me ❤️
Thought it was a shit hole when I got out of there 20 year ago. Night life was fading fast then. But to see all these businesses gone to shit is sad. Born a chess lad but thank fuck I'm in Lincolnshire
Sad thing is your film was done 10 months ago and yet more shops have closed, including that wedding dress shop "Dressed to the nines". However, the town was dying a long time before what you say is a migrant issue.
All towns are slowly dying but….whenever their is a influx of migrants folks no longer feel safe whilst migrants hang around it’s not racist or bigoted to connect the two.
I'm from 'Castle born n bread. Even went to Keele to do my degree. I moved to London fourteen years ago. Every time I come home, I am very taken aback by what's happened to Newcastle.
Now I think it's worser than down Stoke, lived here 43 years and I wouldn't want my mum walking round the town in the day now.
It's awful like all of our towns 😢
Left 34 years ago to go to University in Hertfordshire. Coming home to see my folks has always been bittersweet as I saw Newcastle slowly but surely degrade. I was there last week and was shocked and appalled at the amount of closed shops (Roebuck shuttered) and the ironic signage from Newcastle-under-Lyme council promising that they are "Investing in your future"!. What will they do. Also what is the plan with the land where the council offices were that are knocked down. WHEN?! EXACTLY?!
@@sophierae536 unfortunately same in a lot of areas throughout the UK
We live in chesterton we very rarely go into Newcastle no it's bad 😢
Yet another informative vlog from a well spoken narrator.
Would I be alone in thinking that the high percentage of (Newcastle and also the Six Towns) Turkish barbers, nail bars, and vape shops (considering their close proximity, and foot-fall ratio) are 'fronts' for unscrupulous activities?
You most definitely would not be alone In that thought 👍it amazes me that the average person on the street can see these shops for what they are but them In positions of authority seem to be none of the wiser? Why are HMRC not all over these shops taking a look at the books.
Most takeways too are just money laundering fronts. The scale of the industry is fantastic.
@@kevinhancock9475 And who are the fly-tippers?
I grew up around Castle. It all seemed quite normal until I moved to Leeds in 2010 and it took over a year to adjust to the difference. Part of me misses Castle and Stoke. Everything there always felt so familiar. But it's not a healthy place. The people there are somehow at once the nicest and meanest, toughest and softest people I've ever met.
THE COUNCIL AND GOVERNMENT HAVE ALOT TO ANSWER FOR....ABSOLUTELY DIGUSTING
BECKY 🇬🇧
Newcastle was such beauty but wow how its changed..it was a day out and absolutely brilliant...
Maxims was my favourite club and thats gone
Breaks your heart how stoke on trent and newcastle under lyme have ended up...
Becky 🇬🇧
Yes, even the mighty castle is falling.
Getting to the point you could put a fag paper between the two now 👍
Forget N U L. The whole of the UK will be like that soon.
Brilliant video mate. Made me laugh that you said that a bloke had spontaneously combusted and left his underpants hahaha 🤣 Great to watch, very sad times though. 👍🏻
1:29 Was that Lyme Brook?
Nice to see a few open market stalls are still just hanging on by a thread.
Queens gardens still looks ok :)
It’s the under pass by basford roundabout next to the holy inadequate pub 👍
@@DJMtv1938 Thanks DJ :)
Thank you for showing what Newcastle is like today, it shocked me, I heard recently, Clark’s, WH Smith we’re closing, your video showed a lot of the shops I was familiar with closed. The stones used to be vibrant, now in a very sorry state, and the civic offices demolished, very glad to see Wrights still going. Very glad I retired to North Wales from the Civic offices at 60. Hanley and Crewe also look in a sorry state. It’s very sad to see. Just thinking of some of the old names, Pauldons, Henry Whites, Blacks, Marsdons, Brockleys, Brassingtons that are no longer there.
It’s very sad Newcastle always used to feel special when you lived in stoke and went over into castle 😔
I went down castle a few months ago. Was living abroad for 15 years....what a dump
Blacks is still open, but round the corner from where it used to be.
Another really good video....very informative ...keep up the good work young man
Thank you my friend really appreciate the feedback and glad people enjoy them. I sometimes look at the video and think nah nobody is going be interested in this shall I post or not? So it’s good get the feedback 👍❤️
It's a shame what's happening to Newcastle like the tile of video said it used to be the posh place to go...I used to school in Newcastle and have family in Wolstanton Porthill and Bradwell... Great video thanks
Thank you my friend 👍❤️yep years ago I always wanted to live in maybank now I just think is so overpriced for a area that’s in decline 😔
@@DJMtv1938 I'll say. Bought a terraced house in May Bank in August 1997 for £27k and sold it 10 years later for £72k .....
@matthewlawrenson3628 and I bet they going for about £130,000 smart move though friend 👍❤️
It is a nice place, friendly people, i go to Newcastle quite regular & i'd move there if i had half a chance, it's very much a town from a few decades ago not that i mean it hasn't caught up, it's just like a bygone time we once had
Best lie about castle on the Internet 😂
Its a bit like Liverpool people move in their thousands across the Mersey every year! But i dont know a single person who has moved the other way! 🤔🧐
Newcastle used be buzzing and full of showers and now we barely have any shops or pubs left such a shame
The pubs that are left seem to be ok. Bridge St. Ale House is charmingly ramshackle, if a bit cliquey. Boat & Horses always good for cheap Bass. Greyhound (technically Hartshill, but only just) is nice, if a little expensive. Hopinn worth the trek up King Street even if it is uphill.
I remember around ten years ago, I went on a works Christmas meal at an Indian restaurant in N-U-L. It was my first and last foray in what’s known as “Castle”. After the meal had ended we decided to go for a few drinks in the towns local pubs. On the way out of the restaurant my work colleague said to me “you do get a better class of person in Newcastle (Under Lyme) opposed to Hanley”. We walked around the corner and to my amazement there were two youths fighting in the street who were worse for ware due to the obligatory over drinking. I couldn’t help but laugh at the situation. I then decided to end the night prematurely and go home. My memories of N-U-L. 😂
🤣🤣❤️👍
Should just be the one council combining both authorities. Same as here in Liverpool. Where you can't see the physical boundary between the city of Liverpool. And the artificially created boroughs of Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Halton. 🤔🧐🤒
The internet is to blame and councils with false promises 😢
You ain't wrong . Born and bread in Newcastle and don't like to step foot across the border. Which is Albert Street. Half a mile up Basford bank. One side of the road is newcastle and tother is stoke. All that matters is the black friar is back to a rock pub from a alcoholic bar.
🤣that’s good to hear about the black friar it should never have stopped been a rock bar.
Ha! I lived on Albert Street for a few years, and agree with you. I did live in The Brampton beforehand, such a different world!
Ha! I lived on Albert Street for a few years, and agree with you. I did live in The Brampton beforehand, such a different world!
@InTheWordsOf soon has you get over basford roundabout you can feel the change 😩🤣
Another great video mate. I look forward to your uploads.
❤️thank you my friend 👍
I lived in Castle between 1988 and 2007 (first in the Westlands, then in May Bank), and whenever I go back it seems to get worse every time, with more stuff closed and demolished.
Back in 1989 when I was at school (Sneyd High - I believe it's changed its name several times since I left), we had a class project about how to improve the town centre. My suggestion was to knock it all down and start again. Laughed out of the class, obviously, but it seems I was merely a third of century before my time.
Still, the pubs are ok. I see you resisted popping into The Boat & Horses for a pint of Bass when you went past. 😂
🤣🤣I love a good pint of bass and especially in the boat love that pub ❤️
@@DJMtv1938 I've known several people new to Castle try and get to the Boat via the High Street and the roundabout underpass. They invariably end up in Morrison's car park.
@matthewlawrenson3628 🤣🤣
You couldnt walk round it was that busy in the 70s. The market was buzzing.
I am totally horrified, it’s been a while since I’ve been in Newcastle but the way it has degenerated so fast is unbelievable. The local councillors have a lot to answer for, it’s a disgrace.
The way you cycled to Newcastle is where I walk all the time 😂
🤣we go tandem next time 🤣👍
Looked after failed block flats nr underpass/roundabout few yrs ago opp library etc
I’ve heard it’s been brought now not sure if that’s true though
It's been a longtime since ive been to Hanley I had to visit a new building in Newcastle recently. I noticed that there is a place opposite the Weatherspoons that seems to be full of pretty sad people, How depresive, It saddens me so much to see how its all changed from the memories i have in my mind from the past..
I’m from Westlands and born in Bradwell and it’s heartbreaking to see how bad Newcastle has become. Students night on a Wednesday night in castle and catching the Zanzibus to Zanzibar for a pound a pint..great memories
I remember them days well 🥲❤️
I live about 15 miles away from NUL... I only tend to get there nowadays to go to the Vue cinema! You're right, it's certainly gone downhill (I remember working and drinking there in the 90's / 00's, it was a lively place!) but not nearly as much as parts of Stoke. I still think it's a pretty decent place.
is it an electric bike you use? or pedal
Pedal mate 👍
High streets are finished now….everybody drives to out of town locations now..and internet shopping..
What is it with Stoke and the immediate area that it's always p---ing grey 320 days a year? it's like the sun gets stolen at Wolverhampton...lived here for a couple of years now and can never get over how the greyness makes everything seem worse than it is?. Perhaps it even compliments how bad it is in reality...
🤣🤣I fully understand what you mean ❤️👍
They don't even cut the trees on pathways......the roads left to turn to rubble apart from the odd emergency repair. Do they know something we don't ?
its sad i went to sandbatch not long ago i think that has some nice pubs and shops the only thing is trentham gardens but if you are like me and do not drive it is hard to get around one bus an hour not worth going without the car
Nothing posh about it now loads of closed shops and drugs around.
You're a smart man, the vape shops everywhere, barely see anyone vaping. I get dirty looks and abuse regularly and ive lived here a long time
It definitely feels like a stranger in my own town 😔
@DJMtv1938 those words I say regularly funnily enough. This year is going to be the most difficult year imo
@starwarsroo2448 I agree we have had a tough few years but something feels like this year is going to be the worst I can’t put my finger on it or explain why but I just get this nagging feeling that this year is going be the pinnacle of it all.
@DJMtv1938 There's going to be a collapse, not just Britain, but the whole of the West ( or what's left of it) don't want to say too much on here, some of the things you kinda mentioned in your vid
I was born on red street in ches last year i was riding a pedal bike to work every day to castle down the a34 in one year I had my bike stolen from outside my place of work just across the market from cash converters . I had someone in a mask try to push me off while I was on my way home so he could steal my new bike . And the final straw was getting blocked by about 6 lads who decided to show me their knife collection in exchange for my new new bike . I have a driving license but buying and running a car was expensive but after 3 bikes and countless taxi and bus tickets it actually works out cheaper so I got a shitbox rover 25 for £400 and used that for about a week until it got broken into in the multistory car park behind the cinema and a replacement window cost me nearly as much as the car I have had to quit my job and get one in a slightly less crime ridden hellscape . It's failing so much because you can't regularly go there without getting mugged or attacked if you travel there everyday the possibility of somthing happening to you is so great that people just left and now everything is closing and it's more overrun with druggies and gangs
Absolutely 💯
Remember those luxury flats being built 20 odd years ago, was thinking of buying one glad I didn’t.
Yep I remember that to 👍
I have been there too once. This was may be 20 years ago. It has changed for the worse.
While i agree about the amount of shops closing.you called merrial street depressing and yes it is butyou failed to say that part of it where the empty shops are is to be knocked down and rebuilt.unfortunatly itsthe council to be blamed for how there dpending the money.i believe they are knocking one of the multi story car parks down to be replaced with another costing about 40 million.i wouldlike to know who is going to use them there are not enough people coming into the town to warrent one let alone two.but Newcastle is a nice town despite whats happening .perhaps people think of it as posh because of the Royal charter it was given and its a old market town.but drive around outside the main areas of stoke on trent and there are some lovley areas.its swings and roundabouts.every town .city in the Country has got areas that are run down.and don't forget internet shopping has done a lot towards closing a lot of these shops down.
Rebuilt with what? More empty shops? There is enough empty shops now so why build more empty ones? Has for other places around the country this channel is about local towns and areas going into decline.
@DJMtv1938 wow I didn't expect an answer and neither did I expect one with so much aggression.why are you answering me like that.?I was merely saying what I had read .believe me I am not the planner of Newcastle and actually I agree with what you about it.and yes I do know what your channel and where your channel is about I was just saying about the lack of shop is partly through online shopping.look I was Born and bred in Newcastle.77 years of seeing it change and not for the better.perhaps you did not like me saying about you comment about Merrial street.but It is a comment page and free speech is allowed to a point as the guidelines say.keep comments respectful.but you went at me with no respect.
No aggression whatsoever. But it’s a constant battle of people comparing this city to other city’s which is not what this channel is about.
@DJMtv1938 no I'm sorry but how you answered my comment was not nice.and yes thanks I do know where your channel is about as I said before.but I'm afraid people who comment are going to mention other places because it matters.so sorry but you are going to have to keep battling because stoke on trent and Newcastle are going to be compared.it doesn't mean we don't still love our area I'm proud to come from here and I welcomed your channel when it came up on my feed.i sincerely hope it does well and this area gets noticed.good luck to you.
A lot of these old multi car parks would now collapse under the weight of electric cars. Same everywhere. They will go down like a pack of cards.
Truth teller. Where are they staying?
visit n u l on a sunny day its packed with shoppers, true to say n u l as a different feel to it than the rest of stoke on trent..
Packed with shoppers? Which shops is that then?
Love Newcastle under lyme
Better than Hanley
I'm an american who happens to be in Stoke today. I was a fan of your videos before i came. Would love to share a pint with you today and talk about where you think things have gone off the rails here. Its a bank holiday today, maybe you are available?
Hi my friend thank you for watching ❤️it’s no bank holiday for me today 😞I’m just about to set off for work in the next hour. Would love know what brings you to stoke though all the way from the states? I mean this is one hell of a place to point to on the map🤣most people usually just give it a miss? I’ve noticed though that I’m getting a good little share of my audience from America which absolutely amazes me ❤️
where is everybody
Was there the other week. Another dead town.🤦♂️. Send me your address mate. I'll send you our band's CD. No copyright on that.👍
Thanks 🙏
Lost😢
Thought it was a shit hole when I got out of there 20 year ago. Night life was fading fast then. But to see all these businesses gone to shit is sad. Born a chess lad but thank fuck I'm in Lincolnshire
You one of the lucky ones who got out of the place then 🤣👍
Sad thing is your film was done 10 months ago and yet more shops have closed, including that wedding dress shop "Dressed to the nines". However, the town was dying a long time before what you say is a migrant issue.
All towns are slowly dying but….whenever their is a influx of migrants folks no longer feel safe whilst migrants hang around it’s not racist or bigoted to connect the two.
Subbed 😊
Thank you my friend 👍
youve got a good life then
Why are there so many Turkish hair dressers
Can I get a cheap house here ?
Stoke yes! but over the boarder in Newcastle then you will be paying more.
Are you a migrant?? You can get anything