Is there Any Hope for this Once Great City?
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2023
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The Third Episode of the Death of the High Street!
I went to Stoke-on-Trent today, a city which I knew very little about before hand. It sits in the midlands, above Birmingham, and I was really keen to get down there and see the state of the high street.
It is made up of 6 towns, which joined together to make the city Stoke-on-Trent. This fact alone can show why it is hard to get tourists to explore all of these places each needs its own pulling factor.
I started out in Hanley and it was clear that the high street there is suffering a lot. A huge amount of empty and boarded up shops were clear to see. I did come across new shops opening up which was great to see.
You have all the usual suspects leaving this place such as Marks and Spencers and British Home Store.
I also wanted to follow the levelling up trail here as Stoke received the largest amount of funding, a huge 56 million in 2021. I was really looking forward to seeing where this was being spent.
This video also turned into an exploration into the pottery history of Stoke. I had no prior knowledge aside from knowing what the old chimneys looked like, so I was hoping the city would lead me in the right direction as the visit stoke website said it would. I ended up stumbling across some amazing things and so found my trip to be a balance between both good and bad.
I met some great people, and I will put below the two businesses I came across who I chatted to and gave me great insight into the real Stoke-on-Trent.
The Canadian Pine Company and Drop City Books
If you know the town, do let me know your thoughts Also, please hit me up with other places that you think I should visit.
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Hello, local here! Thanks for the really sympathetic video to the area. Firstly Etruscan is pronounced Ee-trusk-en 😀. I try to avoid Hanley for reasons obvious, but Piccadilly is usually far more lively on other days with interesting small owned businesses open. The run down factory/bottle kiln by the canal in Longport was the Price and Kensington Tea Pot factory - which unfortunately was left to ruin by previous owners. That bit used to have fly tipping on it but has been cleaned up. The building by where you stood filming that wasn't abandoned though, people use it from what I've heard, including a potter. Just a short walk down the canal would have taken you to a beautiful park with 2 lakes. As for the bottle kiln you went in - it was used as a filming location for Peaky blinders, as was the rest of Middleport pottery.
Most of Britain is a dump these days. The decline is heartbreaking.
It's a shame! It's not just Stoke it's happening all over UK, this government have broken the people, our community's, culture's, ways, families & values.
So much respect for you for not filming the people doing drugs. Always makes me feel so uncomfortable when people upload footage of people who are completely out of it and clearly have not consented to being filmed. Fair play to you 👏🏻
56 million is ridiculously low to 'level up' a place. To put it in context, in the last 12 months, it was reported today, that the govt has spent 3.97 BILLION £s on the asylum system, paying hotel bills etc. Also, 56 million is equivalent to just 112 London apartments. 56 million to improve a British city.🙄
I was a delivery driver late 60s Hanley being my main delivery . Fresh salmon and venison to Lewis’s, full load of clothes to C&A and shop deliveries to Hanley town centre . I’m sitting here in tears seeing on film what I now see in real life . High cost of rates for shops and markets , high car parking no wander Retail Parks are booming . R.I.P potteries you were great once
We are thrd world citizens nowadays in our own country we truly are screwed
Broken Britain, more towns and cities will deteriorate like this.
I was born in Stoke and grew up in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. In the 1990s as a teenager Hanley was the place to go for shopping and it also had some decent clubs. It's so sad to see what it's like now (I have lived abroad for 20+ years). The decay is devastating. Thank you for making this video and shining a light on the destruction and abandonment that Stoke has suffered. Up the Mighty Potters!
Theres no hope for the country let alone Stoke
Nice to see a young lad interested in his past and culture. Enjoyed it very much and subscribed.
I'm a 19 year-old New Zealander who is a massive Stoke City fan. Earlier this year I travelled to Stoke-on-Trent to watch two home games (Hull, Huddersfield). Was only in the city for the matchdays (I stayed in Manny), but it was so sad to see the city of which the football team I love. All the Stokies were so welcoming - although couldn't believe there was a Kiwi who had actually heard of Stoke/had the desire to actually go up there. Felt at home, loved the place even with it's flaws. I'll be back one day - hopefully to a more revitalised place. City and the people need it.
I,ve been away from the UK for donkeys years now and ten minutes into this video I started to cry. Thank you for your enthusiastic effort here, Im so glad that there are young people who see the beauty of places behind the ugliness. Well done.
Your video brought me to tears 😢 I'm a Stokie born and bred but ive lived in Paris for 5 years. Even in in that short time the city centre has gone really downhill. Its my friend who owns the new book shop and I'm happy to say it's open now and looking beautiful. I'm on the train now to London and then Paris but Stoke will always have a huge place in my heart
Excellent channel. What Stoke needs is what so many other towns/cities need - a huge drop in business rents and rates, plus a new way of looking to get local people to set up and run businesses from the town. Indoor arenas etc aren't going to get the high st revived.
I was born and raised in stoke, i'm 46 now and lived here all my life, generations of my family worked at the Spode pottery in the heart of Stoke on Trent. I went to Boothen primary (now demolished) and Trent Valley High, i've walked every square inch of it over the course of my life.
As a southerner I lived near and worked with a lot of Stokies, I was surprised how run down some parts were but I have to say Stoke has some of the warmest and funniest people in England. I hope things get better for them.
am really getting nostalgic after watching the video. Memories of Stanley's Ice Cream shop in Honeywall, Savoy cinema in Newcastle, the SPACE scheme in August, walking through Harpfields cemetary, avoiding Trent Vale, that weird piece of rock on the small grass verge opposite Vale Street, Orme Park, the dairy with cartons of OJ for 10p which was on Loomer Road as well as the park opposite Romney Avenue in Chesterton (that is going back to the 70's), the old Palace Picture Cinema in Tunstall, 7 videos for 7 nights for £5 from Hanley Blockbusters, going to the record fairs at the YMCA on Harding Road. So many good memories
Just found this channel today. You are so respectful of ppl living there and the history. I think other channels are just a piss take. You are creating historical docs here love. Thank you.
Fantastic video, but it shocks me to the core.