An excellent video, loved every bit of it. The lovely man talking about his cat and the PDSA is a real star! Hope you are keeping well and don't worry the bus station is due for demolition soon!
As a student at Keele University in the early 1990s, I took the National Express to Gatwick Airport twice at midnight, an eerie experience! Never again. Good that a new station has been built! Long overdue!
My grandparents lived in a house that was on the corner of Charles Street and Birch Terrace before the bus station was built. Unfortunately, the bus station is a symptom of the industrial decline of the Potteries and the corruption that has been rife in the Labour run council and the rot that set in with Thatcher's government. Since then there has been the commoditisation of education, the lack of opportunities and a complete lack of will to implement any real long term solutions backed with the cash to make them effective. Those older folks remind me of the fab people I grew up knowing. Real people with fascinating stories to tell. I no longer live in Stoke on Trent but as time goes by I do think about happy memories of growing up in the city. My memories of the shambolic school that let me down and some of the less nice people like the gang of skinheads who attacked the small group of friends I was walking home with in the old bus station. I suppose the bad memories always give way to the good.
Great footage, superb editing and great sound. You presented Hanley bus station just as I remember it. I was waiting for a lighter hearted moment at night just to balance it out - but I guess Hanley Bus Station is what it is.
I left Stoke in 1987 and thought Hanley Bus station was bad then but this documentary is scary, both as a reflection of this particular place and of British society as a whole. Brilliantly produced piece of work all the same.
l used to work in Stoke on Trent place called Come n save next to Bevans music shop in the late eighties in Longton the people are very nice but the place needs regeneration l believe he passed away Mr Ellis bevan a few years back ...nice guy l am from manchester 😊
Wow am I glad I left . My family still live there thats the only thing i miss. I will never go back. I know you`ll understand why i feel this way ,after you`ve seen this vid.
Dead on.proper Stokie accent " compared to Nottingham and other places I think this town is filthy, and I don't know how the council, have got a cheek to call this a city centre! Because it's nothing but a junked up little town"
I live in stoke, and i agree that hanley bus station is rough, i thought that in the 70's and it isn't any better now. However, i think that most people think this about the bus/train depo's where they live as well. the fact is: What can we do as a nation to make these places better!... iff you know how please let me know...
Bloody nora, know hanley bus station like the back of me hand...i left Stoke for Bristol some 16 year ago, and unlike Chris Lawton underneath...i still love my hometown (warts an all) UTMP!
The words made in stoke on trent used to mean something but now that the potteries industy has been shipped off abroad so they can get away with slave labour stoke is now full of warehouses and agencies giving out minimum hour contracts its a god daamn shame!
I grew up in Bucknall in the 70's/80's so we'd be up 'anley (duck) all the time. Stoke like many other places in the UK lost the prosperity and self respect it once had a long time ago with the demise of the potteries, the mines, the Michelin factory, etc. At least in the past there was work, now it's little wonder they head straight for Stoke whenever they want to film somewhere deprived...
lived just over the road from the bus station 15yrs ago it was just the same then . 15yrs on still no change? like the vid tho but i think most towns in the uk have places just like this .
I'll forget the password for this account in the morning I guarantee but I actually joined youtube just to say that this is the best film making i've seen yet about Stoke. It's lucid but attractive, it shows the area without hiding the bad parts. I think you've captured the S**thole we live in perfectly, something that I've been waiting for. Succinct and Brilliant, well shot, great meaning (if very localized), perfect timing with every shot. You're talented as F**k. Keep it up.
Lost my phone to a dirty chav in Hanley, doesn't say much for Stoke in general though; there are lots of pretty places, it's the dense city area's like Hanley/Newcastle-U-Lyme that CAN be horrid. From my experience; the area's around Penkhull (the fields and whatnot) are quite beautiful.
Its not that bad. I'm from Cheadle nearby and moved away and there are some parts of the old place I miss. Trust me, there are a lot worse places than Stoke, I especially miss the characters you find around the place, believe me when I say Stoke is full of weird and wonderful people.
***** Well the simple solution to that then is to leave quite simply put. Theres noting really stopping you. I left relatively easily for pastures new, but honestly, Stoke isn't that much different from many other places in regards to what you're talking about. I live in lancaster now and I've found 90% of the north west to be even worse than Stoke, so just bear that in mind when thinking about these things.
Create your own chances man - i'm sure you're capable of far more than you realize, just believe in yourself mate. I'm in the exact same position, in the exact same city lol - I'll be out of this shithole soon and so you will if you try pal ;)
I'm from Cheadle too, the ness grove area. But moved away from Stoke on Trent, there are no prospects for anyone there, there are no jobs and the drug problems are out of control. two of the old characters i miss are Georgey Pegg and Duke, them two were always in the black horse or the castle, i always used to play cards with them back in the good old days. I now live in Oxford and it's 10 times the place that Stoke and Cheadle are.
I'm from Walsall, but I live in Stoke for uni. It ain't the most attractive place but the vast majority of Stokies I've met are good people. Chavs are just chavs, you can't use them as examples of local people. I'm hardly from the most picturesque place on earth anyway so I've got no reason to be snobby, haha.
it makes me sick that only a couple of years ago when someone made a negative remark about Stoke, the local newspaper 'The Sentinel'....were giving away 'I'm proud of the Potteries' car stickers....and you could see them everywhere,......THATS why Stoke will never change...too many people here think its ok the way it is....and its a SHIT-HOLE.....!!!!!!!!!!!
brilliant, really well made you have defintley highlighted the fatcs well. Hanley bus station is a fucking disgrace, i feel sorry for the people who have to use it everyday, Thankgod ive left stoke.. keep up the film making you have talent :)
why is it when ever there a documentary about stoke they go straight to hanley bus station and interview any1 they can find that as 2 teeth in there head or on drugs
oh dear. great video, really sums up what I think of stoke, not a nice place to live at all. if you dubbed the voices I don't think viewers would take much more persuasion to believe this was shot in Ukraine or Moldova.
Doesn’t look that bad on this was a right state near the end and now it’s absolutely horrendous, the old one that is never been in the new one and never will, always remember going the shop across from the cafe get a drink then waiting for my bus and have at least 1 person ask for change for the bus and someone if not the same person off their tree screaming and shouting honestly surprised they haven’t knocked the old one down yet, only thing I can guess is that it’s because of the shops left or being a listed building, place is rotting more than some teeth in Stoke and that saying something
So weird seeing the old bus station, there's a new one now. Mindblowing honestly
A great piece of Hanley history ❤
im stoke and proud, ive lived here over 40 years, but ive seen it go from a thriving city , to a shambles in the last 20 years.
I've lived in this shithole my whole life and was relieved to finally get out and move up to Leek earlier this year.
An excellent video, loved every bit of it. The lovely man talking about his cat and the PDSA is a real star! Hope you are keeping well and don't worry the bus station is due for demolition soon!
As a student at Keele University in the early 1990s, I took the National Express to Gatwick Airport twice at midnight, an eerie experience! Never again. Good that a new station has been built! Long overdue!
My grandparents lived in a house that was on the corner of Charles Street and Birch Terrace before the bus station was built.
Unfortunately, the bus station is a symptom of the industrial decline of the Potteries and the corruption that has been rife in the Labour run council and the rot that set in with Thatcher's government. Since then there has been the commoditisation of education, the lack of opportunities and a complete lack of will to implement any real long term solutions backed with the cash to make them effective.
Those older folks remind me of the fab people I grew up knowing. Real people with fascinating stories to tell.
I no longer live in Stoke on Trent but as time goes by I do think about happy memories of growing up in the city. My memories of the shambolic school that let me down and some of the less nice people like the gang of skinheads who attacked the small group of friends I was walking home with in the old bus station. I suppose the bad memories always give way to the good.
Sad to hear
Great footage, superb editing and great sound. You presented Hanley bus station just as I remember it. I was waiting for a lighter hearted moment at night just to balance it out - but I guess Hanley Bus Station is what it is.
Great cafes in the bus station when I visited Hanley back in the day gone down hill since
It's definitely gone downhill recently, the state of what's left of it.
Does anyone know (Scribbler09) the xbox gamer? He's often seen cruising round Bus station.
I left Stoke in 1987 and thought Hanley Bus station was bad then but this documentary is scary, both as a reflection of this particular place and of British society as a whole. Brilliantly produced piece of work all the same.
Yes stoke in '87 was rough too
Excellent short film. Well done that man. Or woman.
Nice to see this place finally come to a close.
l used to work in Stoke on Trent place called Come n save next to Bevans music shop in the late eighties in Longton the people are very nice but the place needs regeneration l believe he passed away Mr Ellis bevan a few years back ...nice guy l am from manchester 😊
The guy at 1:58, was always in Tesco Hanley on a Wednesday around 6ish, saw him all last year whilst working there.
My dad worked here on the buses for many many years.
I wonder what he thinks of it now. What a state.
Wow am I glad I left . My family still live there thats the only thing i miss. I will never go back. I know you`ll understand why i feel this way ,after you`ve seen this vid.
This bus station was a bin from the moment it was built.
Really good mini film.
Dead on.proper Stokie accent " compared to Nottingham and other places I think this town is filthy, and I don't know how the council, have got a cheek to call this a city centre! Because it's nothing but a junked up little town"
nice work, love the characters. Paints a bit of a bad picture but, I really liked the old guy who got a bit upset. Hope you bought him a brew.
My thoughts entirely
I live in stoke, and i agree that hanley bus station is rough, i thought that in the 70's and it isn't any better now. However, i think that most people think this about the bus/train depo's where they live as well. the fact is: What can we do as a nation to make these places better!... iff you know how please let me know...
Really enjoyed that, thanks.
This is a really decent documentary
It actually is!!!
I used to love that cafe in the old bus station. Chip bap and a cup of tea great stuff
Bloody nora, know hanley bus station like the back of me hand...i left Stoke for Bristol some 16 year ago, and unlike Chris Lawton underneath...i still love my hometown (warts an all) UTMP!
I love being in Hanley early in the mornin, it's proper mint. All quiet and nice and chilly too.
The words made in stoke on trent used to mean something but now that the potteries industy has been shipped off abroad so they can get away with slave labour stoke is now full of warehouses and agencies giving out minimum hour contracts its a god daamn shame!
girly boy you can allways move
This is awesome! Well done whoever made it :]
Very interesting.
wow im still proud to call this place home :D
Fantastic!! MORE!!!
Now you can see why they closed it and built a new bus station.
I grew up in Bucknall in the 70's/80's so we'd be up 'anley (duck) all the time. Stoke like many other places in the UK lost the prosperity and self respect it once had a long time ago with the demise of the potteries, the mines, the Michelin factory, etc. At least in the past there was work, now it's little wonder they head straight for Stoke whenever they want to film somewhere deprived...
It's really well done - nice job!
been there so many times, 101 back to Stone
🌹 Always love you Ma 🌹
💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
brings back memories from early 90's when used to go to Morley's Bakehouse then cut through to go to Shipley's to play pool
lived just over the road from the bus station
15yrs ago it was just the same then .
15yrs on still no change? like the vid tho but i think most towns in the uk have places just like this .
I live here. What's up with it?
lol that chubby guy at about 2:20 looks like Ian Holm!
"My dear Gandalf!"
ha ha
Demolished and there's new one which is so congested!
excellent video.
Itz my favorite place in Stoke. It gets us out of here after we play Toke City Rugby Club!
I'll forget the password for this account in the morning I guarantee but I actually joined youtube just to say that this is the best film making i've seen yet about Stoke. It's lucid but attractive, it shows the area without hiding the bad parts. I think you've captured the S**thole we live in perfectly, something that I've been waiting for. Succinct and Brilliant, well shot, great meaning (if very localized), perfect timing with every shot. You're talented as F**k. Keep it up.
Can you still get on here then?
@@si002 hahaha. 12 years later all I do is watch RUclips these days.
@@SeanRodrieguez... and comment on a reply to a comment from 12 years ago 😂
I thought you might have been smashed when you wrote the original comment!!!
@@si002 pretty sure I was mate!
that bus station is fooking dire!!
good god how bloody typical, do you live on state handouts
Yep it sure is
This is ace!!! I come from Stoke and am proud even thought some parts are a crap hole. =)
Yes I suppose it's not all bad!
It's a cesspit, what say you twelve years later?
@@thehoodedman543 well put it this way... I don't live there anymore haha!
@@SarahArielBelle So you agree with me then? Are you sure your proud when you laugh?
Which part of Stoke are you at.Goodbye my lovely.
Hanley is honestly the worst part of Stoke-on-Trent. The only genuinely nice part of Stoke-on-Trent is Alsager.
Very informative, very real.... helps alot to the people who never have lived in Stoke.... Thanks for sharing the video
hanley bus station is amazing if ure travelin through come and see stokes amazing landmark
😂 😂 😂
This documentary is 10 years old tomorrow at 6AM. Unbelieveable. :O
15 years old
@@Kurogumo Nearly 16 years old now! Not long until 6th December! 😂
@@Samuel2k10 😂
@@si002Nearly 19 years old now… 20 years is creeping up! 😂
If Hell exists, it must look a bit like Stoke on Trent.
I have to disagree with that comment. It would look a LOT like it!!
I originally hail from stoke, looking at films like this makes me glad I left the sh*thole!!!
Yes me too!!!
Same
haven’t left yet but can’t wait to do so :/
@@dids3384 what's been going on there lately then 😂
seems like just yesterday
Ps: I avoid hanley bus station at all costs, when are we gonna get a new one??
We have one now👍👍
@@ajaja7390 far from perfect though
Lost my phone to a dirty chav in Hanley, doesn't say much for Stoke in general though; there are lots of pretty places, it's the dense city area's like Hanley/Newcastle-U-Lyme that CAN be horrid.
From my experience; the area's around Penkhull (the fields and whatnot) are quite beautiful.
3:20 cobridge to change me socks LMFAO!
Yes they must have been RANK!!!
R they dirty ???
lol @ 5:23, that little soz kicking the sign to try and look 'ard
soz odd
lived in stoke my whole life and it sucks i hate living here if i got a chance to leave i would
Its not that bad. I'm from Cheadle nearby and moved away and there are some parts of the old place I miss. Trust me, there are a lot worse places than Stoke, I especially miss the characters you find around the place, believe me when I say Stoke is full of weird and wonderful people.
yh but i find that there is nothing to do here, nowhere to go.
***** Well the simple solution to that then is to leave quite simply put. Theres noting really stopping you. I left relatively easily for pastures new, but honestly, Stoke isn't that much different from many other places in regards to what you're talking about. I live in lancaster now and I've found 90% of the north west to be even worse than Stoke, so just bear that in mind when thinking about these things.
Create your own chances man - i'm sure you're capable of far more than you realize, just believe in yourself mate. I'm in the exact same position, in the exact same city lol - I'll be out of this shithole soon and so you will if you try pal ;)
I'm from Cheadle too, the ness grove area. But moved away from Stoke on Trent, there are no prospects for anyone there, there are no jobs and the drug problems are out of control. two of the old characters i miss are Georgey Pegg and Duke, them two were always in the black horse or the castle, i always used to play cards with them back in the good old days. I now live in Oxford and it's 10 times the place that Stoke and Cheadle are.
Lived in stoke all my life. It isn't to bad.
many a time ive bin chinned in that place after dark lol.
needs a good clean up, better lighting, and security or somet
A bomb 💣 would have done the trick, it would have done a few pounds of improvements.
@@si002 well its not even there anymore. There is a whole new station. Never been there mind.
@@PUNKF001 I thought parts of the old bus station were still there.
very well made. i just wish i had a camera on me down there sometimes, some of the shit i've seen happen.
Yes actual shit in that bus station I expect. And piss.
Ay the old hanley bus station isn’t all abandoned now
Yes some life in the old place thankfully
to true
got a new bus station now finally
That's a dump too. The remains of the old one look better.
Bloody hell I'm glad they made a new one up by Victoria hall
...which is not much better...
@si002 its a lot better.
I'm from Walsall, but I live in Stoke for uni.
It ain't the most attractive place but the vast majority of Stokies I've met are good people. Chavs are just chavs, you can't use them as examples of local people.
I'm hardly from the most picturesque place on earth anyway so I've got no reason to be snobby, haha.
It's not like this now, there's a new bus station that's better.
Barely. It's got better in the last 30 years, but in the last 10 it's barely changed. Same scum, they're just spread out over a bigger space.
Shithole on trent
@@hh-ck3yw, not the whole of Stoke is a shithole.
@@jordan95hd83 yes it is a shithole They might as well knock everything down and rebuild the city
Where are you from
this video has alot of potentialll
Damn, kinda reminds of the Midgar slums from Final Fantasy 7... without the cross-dressing! :-)
Great little doc,as good as anything you will see on the tv,lets face it this is England warts and all.
omg 6.05 heartbreaking
im form stoke and im not a chav but it is a grim place especially the bus station
Place was a shithole. Visited again recently, still a shithole. Nothing changed.
@@si002 they might as well knock everything down in stoke and rebuild the city
@@hh-ck3yw I think that's the only sensible option. Hopefully they can do better.
One of the guys was drugged up. Horrible. (4:47)
it makes me sick that only a couple of years ago when someone made a negative remark about Stoke, the local newspaper 'The Sentinel'....were giving away 'I'm proud of the Potteries' car stickers....and you could see them everywhere,......THATS why Stoke will never change...too many people here think its ok the way it is....and its a SHIT-HOLE.....!!!!!!!!!!!
fuckin born n bred m8
safe to all da stokies
There is nothing worse than going into this bus station. I cant wait until they start building the new one in march/april 2011
this is the old bus station...
love it. think this is brilliant.
i feel a hint of shane meadows
Brilliant Stuff.
Why dont you move back here then we could do with another Big Issue seller.
It's like any other bus station isn't it? As it was when I lived there. In Stoke, not the bus station. Lovely man though. Bless.
fookn hell man i used 2 live in s-o-t an used this bus station alot ive only been gone from there 16 yrs it cant be that bad im sure?
It can be
Stoke 91 crew in the house!
Used to love meeting older birds at the grab a granny night when I was 21 yeeeeerrrrrrr
hahaha! fucking yes mate
brilliant, really well made you have defintley highlighted the fatcs well. Hanley bus station is a fucking disgrace, i feel sorry for the people who have to use it everyday, Thankgod ive left stoke..
keep up the film making you have talent :)
Yes I left and feel exactly the same
My friend & I always piss ourselves at the woman at 4mins 56secs,hahahaha.
I know what you mean. ITS NOT ALL BAD!
Those two lads were definitely smack heads and are probably dead now
why is it when ever there a documentary about stoke they go straight to hanley bus station and interview any1 they can find that as 2 teeth in there head or on drugs
Because they’re the only people in Stoke-on-Trent...
Or even one tooth would be lucky
a bus station for the prem!!
I saw the old man at 2.33 in morrisons today! he was wearing the same coat lol
Probably still got it
hanley bus station is that good they made a horror/scifi film there lol and they didn't have to spend money on it making it look bad
😂
I went there today :D
its a bus station what do people expect? its not grand central station
oh dear. great video, really sums up what I think of stoke, not a nice place to live at all. if you dubbed the voices I don't think viewers would take much more persuasion to believe this was shot in Ukraine or Moldova.
Stoke is a dirty place, but I'm proud to be a Potter xxxx
Doesn’t look that bad on this was a right state near the end and now it’s absolutely horrendous, the old one that is never been in the new one and never will, always remember going the shop across from the cafe get a drink then waiting for my bus and have at least 1 person ask for change for the bus and someone if not the same person off their tree screaming and shouting honestly surprised they haven’t knocked the old one down yet, only thing I can guess is that it’s because of the shops left or being a listed building, place is rotting more than some teeth in Stoke and that saying something
Yes same happened to me someone asking for money
How can you say that? Some places in Stoke are nice. Its just that bus station that's crap!
Not just the bus station