It's a damn shame what happened to Crewe. I lived there for many years and it used to be a lively place. Good shopping centre and good nightlife (especially the much loved and much missed Limelight club). The council knocked down a huge chunk of the town centre a couple of years ago in preparation for a big entertainment complex then cancelled the project and currently have no plans to fill the empty space (yet have gone ahead and built a new multistory car park - who the heck is going to be visiting the town centre now?). Mismanagement all around. Thanks for the video.
I grew up here in the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and my parents lived here until their passing. Car park cost £14m. Then there’s the market hall where they ripped out 150 year old wood shops and replaced it with MDF just to have an events space. Don’t forget the £70m Olympic swimming pool that isn’t an onympic swimming pool and is usually desolate except for council employees that get massive discounts. And then there’s that ridiculous and violence giant bee murial on the square made from guns and knives that cost £1.2m paid for by local tax payers and is to travel around the country Mismanagement isn’t the word. The council have looked after themselves and their employees above the residents.
WTF has happened to Crewe!!?? Its now a hellscape of delapidation and utter depression. I feel for the people living here. The Government (both local and National) have let the people down massively. It will almost be impossible to turn this round. Why do we pay taxes at all??? Why pay taxes at all???
Lived in Crewe and Nantwich area for the last 34 years. Yea it’s not that good, but the town centre was never amazing anyway. The shops around the big clock tower were always opening and shut. The market was only half full of stalls on busy days and only people of a certain age went in there shopping anyway. As someone who’s travelled to different places around the country I’ve seen towns in worse states than Crewe. Also people think the council pulled stuff down that didn’t need to. It did, the clock tower was subsiding and would need millions just to keep it up each year. The shops around it where in that bad of a state with asbestos etc. The old bus station had needing replaced for 30 years. Some other towns in the north west had had 2 new bus stations it took crewe to get a new one. As for the multi story car park. Do most of the people commenting on here daily go into the town centre or live close to it. I do. We’ve got multiple park parks closing soon. Crossville club one is owned by a private owner not the council. So they are selling that and the club. As for oak street one opposite farmfoods. That’s having the new youth zone built on it. If anyone is wondering I’ve got nothing to do with Cheshire East or any political party. Think a lot of people live in the past. It takes loads of time for a town to get regenerated. People moaning about empty shops that private landlords own and not the council. Private landlords can sit on empty properties for years. Maybe it’s them you should be moaning to about the state of the closed shops. The old m&s is owned by a private landlord and yet people still complain it’s the councils fault.
Literally only filmed the closed shops… which granted there are plenty but not a true reflection of Crewe, the open shops, facilities or general area to be honest…
He was going to show what shops were open but the video would have been to short it really is that bad absolutely dead the council are screwed no money & been forgotten by the government because we live above Birmingham and are in another country not londonian
Well it's nice to see a true picture of Crewe it's totally over for Crewe ever since we lost the HS2 promise And what the council have done to the town is shocking just a carpark and bus station WTF They have destroyed the history promised a shopping centre but run out of cash so they only had enough for the multi story carpark and bus station it's absolute comedy for anyone looking at Crewe I am ashamed to live here and don't get me started on the pot holes 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Crewe is jaw dropping and for all the wrong reasons. One of the main reasons is the 'anchor' stores moving to the retail park, another is the parking fees they charged for years putting people off going, you could drive to the Trafford Centre, park for free and have a better choice of shops. That, along with internet shopping just made people lose interest in going. Now, there is zero reason to go at all. It is a real shame.
My mum's born and bred, she's now ashamed to say she comes from here. Years of a council and county council that have no interest in the town. Absolute disgrace
Your mum clearly hasn’t travelled to other places in the uk yet alone England thar are worse than crewe and let down worse than their own councils. Go to St Austel in Cornwall and look at the state of it and speak to the locals there how bad it is. Crewe is not the worst town in the country
Thanks. The site to the right of "Metz" (Dirty Duck in my day) was once "The Majestic" where The Beatles played twice (13th and 20th Aug) in 1962.
It's a damn shame what happened to Crewe. I lived there for many years and it used to be a lively place. Good shopping centre and good nightlife (especially the much loved and much missed Limelight club). The council knocked down a huge chunk of the town centre a couple of years ago in preparation for a big entertainment complex then cancelled the project and currently have no plans to fill the empty space (yet have gone ahead and built a new multistory car park - who the heck is going to be visiting the town centre now?). Mismanagement all around. Thanks for the video.
I grew up here in the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and my parents lived here until their passing.
Car park cost £14m. Then there’s the market hall where they ripped out 150 year old wood shops and replaced it with MDF just to have an events space. Don’t forget the £70m Olympic swimming pool that isn’t an onympic swimming pool and is usually desolate except for council employees that get massive discounts.
And then there’s that ridiculous and violence giant bee murial on the square made from guns and knives that cost £1.2m paid for by local tax payers and is to travel around the country
Mismanagement isn’t the word. The council have looked after themselves and their employees above the residents.
WTF has happened to Crewe!!?? Its now a hellscape of delapidation and utter depression. I feel for the people living here. The Government (both local and National) have let the people down massively. It will almost be impossible to turn this round.
Why do we pay taxes at all???
Why pay taxes at all???
All being done on purpose.
He went all over Crewe to find the closed shops. And buildings and then edited it all together
High street is being upgraded and so is high town
What have they built a multi story car park for.?.
Lived in Crewe and Nantwich area for the last 34 years. Yea it’s not that good, but the town centre was never amazing anyway. The shops around the big clock tower were always opening and shut. The market was only half full of stalls on busy days and only people of a certain age went in there shopping anyway. As someone who’s travelled to different places around the country I’ve seen towns in worse states than Crewe. Also people think the council pulled stuff down that didn’t need to. It did, the clock tower was subsiding and would need millions just to keep it up each year. The shops around it where in that bad of a state with asbestos etc. The old bus station had needing replaced for 30 years. Some other towns in the north west had had 2 new bus stations it took crewe to get a new one. As for the multi story car park. Do most of the people commenting on here daily go into the town centre or live close to it. I do. We’ve got multiple park parks closing soon. Crossville club one is owned by a private owner not the council. So they are selling that and the club. As for oak street one opposite farmfoods. That’s having the new youth zone built on it. If anyone is wondering I’ve got nothing to do with Cheshire East or any political party. Think a lot of people live in the past. It takes loads of time for a town to get regenerated. People moaning about empty shops that private landlords own and not the council. Private landlords can sit on empty properties for years. Maybe it’s them you should be moaning to about the state of the closed shops. The old m&s is owned by a private landlord and yet people still complain it’s the councils fault.
Literally only filmed the closed shops… which granted there are plenty but not a true reflection of Crewe, the open shops, facilities or general area to be honest…
He was going to show what shops were open but the video would have been to short it really is that bad absolutely dead the council are screwed no money & been forgotten by the government because we live above Birmingham and are in another country not londonian
I lived in Crewe for 14 months my mtrs is from Crewe and it’s terrible the town centre is a bomb hole
Well it's nice to see a true picture of Crewe it's totally over for Crewe ever since we lost the HS2 promise
And what the council have done to the town is shocking just a carpark and bus station WTF
They have destroyed the history promised a shopping centre but run out of cash so they only had enough for the multi story carpark and bus station it's absolute comedy for anyone looking at Crewe I am ashamed to live here and don't get me started on the pot holes 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Lived in Nantwich and Crewe was always a dump full or rats
And yet house prices still high considering its like the Gaza strip.
Suffered like all the rest !!
Crewe is jaw dropping and for all the wrong reasons. One of the main reasons is the 'anchor' stores moving to the retail park, another is the parking fees they charged for years putting people off going, you could drive to the Trafford Centre, park for free and have a better choice of shops. That, along with internet shopping just made people lose interest in going. Now, there is zero reason to go at all. It is a real shame.
My mum's born and bred, she's now ashamed to say she comes from here. Years of a council and county council that have no interest in the town. Absolute disgrace
Your mum clearly hasn’t travelled to other places in the uk yet alone England thar are worse than crewe and let down worse than their own councils. Go to St Austel in Cornwall and look at the state of it and speak to the locals there how bad it is. Crewe is not the worst town in the country
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GHOST TOWN
😂Looks worse than Blackpool what a dump