What a transformation of those £1 houses! I noticed they also took that opportunity to expand and level those sidewalks, making it safer for pedestrians, families, and folks with dogs. Absolutely incredible.
All those 3 houses sold for far too much money. The problem is that too many investors are from out of the city, speculating on the market as Liverpool grows in popularity. Many houses also get converted into multi-occupancy student homes. Just the other side of the River Mersey, properties sell for a fraction of those prices.
I'm Liverpudlian born ( 1954), but my parents migrated to Australia in 1964. I get so homesick for this beautiful city and its people. Every time I hear the 'Pool accent, my heart sings. Dad was from Childwall, Mum from Everton. Been back to visit several times to see family....hopefully again.
Welcome to Liverpool mate! Glad you came through! Living here all my life its actually crazy to see how much Liverpool has developed and changed. I do actually believe Liverpool is in a good way and on the right track. You do see a lot of these older terraced houses falling into disrepair unfortunately but I think a lot of it has to do with how society has changed. These houses were built for workers, get as many in a small amount of space as you can. Back then NOBODY had a car never mind two pair household. These streets and houses just weren't built for the kind of lives people live now. These schemes and stuff for first time owners are really important and hopefully these areas continue to be developed and get some life back into them, because there's something really beautiful about the build of these old houses that new builds just don't have!
@BruceWayne-sz3th I’ve lived here all my life. And I’ve lived in the so called “worst areas” and anything to do with gun violence has been few and far between. Not to downplay when it does happen, because it’s horrible, but I’m pretty sure there’s a good few places that have it worse, Birmingham and London to name a couple. Growing up here I know first hand it’s nowhere near as bad as people from outside Liverpool seem to think it is. Out of curiosity where are you from mate? Is Liverpool perfect? Nope, but nowhere is.
Liverpool is a fantastic city. My daughter went to Uni there in 2015 - i was initially worried due to the reputation it had when i was growing up in the 80s and the awful, unfair, prejudiced press the City had. I was shocked at what a fantastic city it is now. My daughter chose to stay after graduation. I truly believe that the future is looking good for Liverpool.
@@edglue6138swear down only the wannabes not from the city sign off with YNWA when talking about Liverpool like the club didn’t displace residents to expand.
Liverpool doesn't look to bad to be honest with you. Seems to be doing better than a lot of other cities. It was great hearing from the older gentleman as well, he's literally walking history and has seen it all change in his life time.
People say there's no houses or that those there is are too expensive and they can't afford them. To a certain extent that maybe true but there are some areas where there is plenty of houses that are lying vacant but nobody wants them. There is in the UK what I call property hotspots. This is the truth in my own town. The visual evidence proves my point that the property shortage is also a lot about location Unlike the likes of London where you have 30 people going to view one apartment up for rent and they are outbidding each other and paying £2k+ per month in rent, in my hometown you can buy a terraced house easy for less than £100k and a three bedroom semi detached house for less than £150k. Average rent is only about £700 pcm. You can find plenty of homes boarded up. I believe the reason for this is that it is an isolated northern town that's in the top third of most deprived towns in the country. Because of the combination of very poor public transport so it can't be used as a commuter town, meaning if you live here you work here, plus the fact all the jobs in the town are low paying, manual jobs working in factory such as making sofas,.or in a chicken factory, or in a bacon factory, or in a crisp factory, or in a sauce factory means nobody wants to come and live, and make a life here. Even our own young all try to get into university, get a degree and then move away to the richer areas where there's better paid jobs. What they don't understand before they make that move though is how much of a struggle it's going to be finding a place to live and how high the rents are. I am on a good wage for the town but not for the country as a whole. £28k per year. But you can easily buy a house, as I did, as a single person. I paid £70k for my 50s built three bed semi detached house that's roughly 1800sq ft. My mortgage is only about 1/8th of my after tax income. So now it's got so crazy that often your financially better off by living in a poorer area with a decent wage from a none professional job than you are living in an expensive area with a good wage where most of that wage is going on your rent or mortgage per month.
Im from America and had the privilege of visiting Liverpool in 2019 before covid . Had the best time there .Scousers are the nicest most welcoming people in all of England .Looking forward to a longer return visit soon .
I've been to Liverpool, ONLY ONCE. My impression was the magnificent Greek/Roman columns everywhere, grander than London. So I thought she must have enjoyed some glorious good old days.
@raining5881 Yes, but also speculation long after Britain were the first to ban slavery. There would be a lot more of it in Liverpool and all across England if WW2 bombings hadn't razed a lot of it to the ground.
I went to Liverpool about eleven years ago. I really, really loved it. Manchester is also fabulous. I suppose Liverpool is more famous internationally because of the influence of The Beatles and the 1960s renaissance. Both stunning though. Thank you for the video!
We had to sell our house there years ago, because the family member living there was disabled and was being terrorized by yobs, who had smashed the windows and tried to kick down the door... I wish I could have have lived there but I would have been terrorized as I am also disabled. Sold it for a fraction of the value. So I have mixed feelings about the place. I love the city but there is a terrible problem with violent people. As in many big cities. I live elsewhere now - I would not want to grow old in such a place to be honest. No disrespect to the decent people of the city of course. Not that they were in evidence on our street when my relative was being terriorised. IF YOU SEE A DISABLED PERSON BEING HOUNDED, CALL THE POLICE. I didn't realise how angry I am till I started writing this.
I agree with you. There’s a underlying criminal/violent mentality in Liverpool. Maybe it depends on the area & maybe its better now? I don’t know but I left Liverpool 25 years ago and I would never live there again!
I agree...I have horrible memories of what we went through with my disabled sister growing up... some beautiful people but when they are bad they are bad .. some terrible families that you really wouldn't want to live by.. They rule their estates.
Extremes of good and bad. My parents could see that and like so many, moved out to Wollyback land. I don't like outsiders running the place down but we can't always look the other way and make excuses. Some areas are horrible and I wouldn't live there but the city centre is amongst the best in England. @@peachmelba1637
I love Liverpool. I’ve only been twice but hope to go back soon! I really enjoy your videos and love how enthusiastic you are about what you do on them. I have recently completed my masters in urban planning and find it interesting that there’s 40% too much retail space. Definitely very true! So evident in all cities and towns
I can't get enough of these videos, I come back every time because I like your take on it all and your positive attitude. Thanks again. If you ever needed a theme tune for your videos, I'd be more than happy to create a piece of music for you!
Very interesting video. I visited the Anfield area in 2004 and witnessed street upon street of old boarded up terraced houses. Great to see what the £1 a house scheme achieved. I always find it amazing to see how bad a condition these houses are in - it's hard to comprehend how such levels of decay are possible.
I love this video. Being from Merseyside myself, I’ve been waiting for you to do Liverpool and I think you’ve portrayed the city in such a nice way even though the aim of your videos are to show the economical decline of towns and cities. I’ve worked as a taxi driver for 10 years and now a bus driver for 5 years in Liverpool and it’s surrounding areas so I feel I’m well positioned to help you if you come back again like you said you will. Most locals will explain how South Liverpool (where the Beatles came from) has some lovely affluent areas that are often missed by visitors who come for football and only see North Liverpool and come away thinking how deprived Liverpool is. Not the case In all parts and only similar to most cities in the UK with social problems. Despite what people outside the city and especially further south may think. It is a very safe place and okay we have issues like everywhere does and some parts are quite run down but the death of the high street is a nationwide if not a global thing. Liverpool has come along way since the 80’s and Thatchers managed decline. I can put you onto the perfect person. A local historian who can help you with a superb video if you should come back. He would explain things much better than me but I could show you areas away from the city centre and how they’ve changed in my lifetime. Oh and by the way there’s 2 football teams in the city 😂. I’m a Kop season ticket holder at Anfield so I can forgive you for dismissing Everton. It will be interesting to see what happens around the County road, Walton area once they move into their new stadium. Keep up the great videos and thank you for this one
I had a place with black mold due to a change in sewage..anyway I never fully recovered from black mold in my nose recent years have been so much better in my far better flat...rember to wear a mask in these properties I love watching your channel
Yay you made it to my hometown. Great video. Thankyou for visiting. I heard you say you've never been before. I hope you return with your Mrs for the weekend. You'll love it. Take care 😊
Thanks for visting Liverpool - have watched a few of your videos, always interesting. I am on my second stint of living in Liverpool having been here as a student in the 90's and then returned a few years ago. It has come a long way since then. 80's and 90's there were more houses than people and many streets were derelect. What a change in 30 years - rare to see boarded up houses now. The city centre / high street is more vibrant now than then - Waterfront is great, the shopping mall is new to me. M&S moved in there to where Debenhams used to be. First rental house I had was in L9, a 3 bed terrace - it was dry but no carpets upstairs, no central hearing or double glazing and the decor was lime green and orange! There are some nice parts of Orrell Park, and good train connections into town. Anfield still has a bad rep but many streets have been improved and some streets pulled down and new houses built. Best part of Liverpool remains the people - down to earth, friendly, and great sense of humor - and it is still totally acceptable to wear your jammies and curlers to the corner shop to get your milk, or to Home & Bargains.
3D mould is just next level 😄. Btw i love when you describe the conditions and features of the houses you view, you have a way with words and convey your feelings towards it really good.
I moved to Liverpool in 2008 and loved it so much I never left (well, one county over!), I love this city! We bought a fixer upper about 25 min from the city centre in Knowsley We used to live near the £1 houses off Smithdown Rd and there was a lot of crime, you might be the only house on your rd that’s being lived in at the time which makes you a massive target for burglary. We got burgled too on July which is partly why we moved away from the area
Different areas around liverpool are different too, each of the communities and areas have different demographics, and there is a difference in prices in areas, like speke and garston. One of the interesting projects in Liverpool is the proposed tidal generator project which is a green energy and flood defence if it gets funding. If you want to see somewhere a bit more run down take a train across to Birkenhead.
Liverpool is on the up you can see that atleast an effort is being made to spruce the place up its badly needed and overdue I visited about 9 years ago and I could see why people say the goverment leave the North to rot and only care about the South.
Liverpool is an epic place, lived there for four years and loved every minute of it, the people are one of a kind. Life took me to South Wales, but Liverpool was where I thrived x
Brilliant! I’m so glad you’ve finally made it to Liverpool! Until relatively recently Liverpool was the defacto economic powerhouse of the North of England until its post industrial decline after the war with a population only surpassed by Birmingham and London; I think the weight of its built environment really reflects this. It’s a city of contrasts and has a great weather of interesting architecture, both old and new and like you say, it’s setting on the mighty river Mersey is spectacular. Great to see the £1 house initiative seems to be working in parts of Liverpool, the Welsh streets in Toxteth I’m so glad have been turned around. Brilliant little vid that!
My pleasure…. Subscribed a while ago…. I watched your one on Burnley first and noticed you are from Hebden Bridge, which I love. We recently moved from Queensbury, near Halifax so East Lancashire is an area I’m familiar with. I grew up in Barrow in Furness & Liverpool (Childwall) so your recent films have really interested me. We live in Suffolk now (moved for work) which is nice, but my Wife and I miss the North. Keep on doing what you’re doing!❤
Absolutely love Liverpool and the people there. I’m actually ashamed that I let the media make me think it wouldn’t be a nice place. Some of the architecture there is absolutely beautiful, the sense of humour is brilliant and I love the accent. Yes there are areas that have been massively let down that I wouldn’t fancy living in but isn’t that true in every city in the world? Thanks for another great video!
£1 houses, Liverpool council based and bringing receipts. Housing needs to be if not quite so affordable as £1, actually genuinely affordable. That those houses were being sold for 90-105k, I just know that’s often the money older people especially boomers, people who were in their 20s or 30s in the 1980s who were gifted loads of social mobility with Thatcher’s Right to Buy that’s allowed them to accrue asset wealth, the price of the house they own continues to go up, pricing younger people out completely, allowing older generations who succeeded with Right to Buy to purchase them using the money from their inflating house prices. So they vote for political parties that won’t screw up their mortgages, which is why Labour are doing well among middle class older home owners, Liz Truss screwed up mortgages with her budgets, toys immediately get thrown out of the pram, Labour are 20 points ahead. We need more de-commodification of housing, de-commodify so people keep more money to spend on other commodities, this de-commodification is normal everywhere else in the world. Almost every country that isn’t the UK or the United States have large percentage of their housing stock provided through social housing, it makes everything work better. And we had it here in the UK, landlordism was frowned upon. Then came Thatcher with “graph must go up all the time” economics that enabled and coddled landlordism. So these new landlords bought up our council housing stock, let them out for renting at the price of an arm or a leg every month, and now renting is super expensive, because of the political landscape deliberately created! This is the failure of neoliberalism, housing just does not work provided through the free market anywhere in the world, only top earners benefit. All over the world, people commonly cannot afford the maintenance and building of their home, it so often requires an income above the average, and not everyone has an income above the average, some do, quite a few do not. political thinking and economic mindset that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, like a genuinely affordable house. We badly need more schemes like Liverpool’s council, CPO the shit out of empty houses, sell them to people who want to live in it as a utility for a cheap price, let them keep and save more money to do it up! Meanwhile, abolish landlordism (it serves no social utility, they are pointless middle men, they are leeches and have been emboldened to be leeches in this financially minded society constructed over 40 years on from Thatcherism), replace the private housing sector with housing cooperatives for already built detached house neighbourhoods, meanwhile through wealth taxes and Keynesian stimulus (this country’s a sovereign currency issuer with a a central bank, no one gives a damn about deficit BS anymore, we can just spend our way to growth) put all the money into Homes England to build European quality high density social housing, with an emphasis on building upwards rather than detached new build estates that all too often eat into green space and nature areas by building sideways). You build upward, more space sideways for green space. Great video Turnip, I get a lot of my housing knowledge btw from a great channel called NoJusticeMTG, who often talks about the housing crisis and the based ways we can alleviate or solve these issues, I’ll link a great video below where she puts it in much better terms than I can, give it a watch: ruclips.net/video/bfUdiXc1Trk/видео.htmlsi=0DsX6-vhrRHOgZmA
Loved your vid mate. Shared to the Skyscraper City Liverpool Metro Area forum online - pop in some time. We discuss urban regeneration and all the developments in our city. Your brain and passion will be welcomed!!
I was the other side of the Wirral on Thursday doing some work in the ferry port. Wish i had time to cross and check out some of those old buildings. they looked absolutely stunning and well looked after. Brilliant vid and thx for giving me the chance to check out those historic buildings.
I think 7:21 was the old youth/family court which has moved into the newer courts at 8:08. Thanks for coming down and not making us look like a mash up between Bread, Harry Enfield and Crimewatch. The fella who was born in 1936 reminded me a bit of my dad. He was born in 1933 and had memories of the May Blitz over Bootle and of watching dogfights over the Mersey.
Thanks for sharing this video I haven't been to Liverpool yet used to fly from Belfast to Liverpool and drive straight up to lake district and Scotland 😊I want to check it out soon as possible 😀
Excellent commentary. At the beginning when you were talking about Liverpool maintaining its character you demonstrated this beautifully as you walked on a brick street with old fashioned store fronts.
How fab to see those terraced houses refurbished and lived in. Let’s hope the remaining derelict houses are snapped up soon. Liverpudlians are so so friendly - can’t wait to go back for a break and explore more. Thank you for being so passionate and making such informative videos. The BBC will be after you soon! 👏 😊
Hey WT! Love your videos 💕 I moved from South East London where the price of a Studio flat was £220k & bought a 3 bed, 4 level End of Terrace in reasonable condition for £130k. It was worth moving although I miss my long term friends & family. Something had to give & I was sadly priced out of where I grew up 💔
A great City, fantastic people always a joy going back there. I live up near the North East and I get the same sort of vibe in Newcastle, good local accent, football, beer, and the River Tyne. friendly people.
I love Liverpool! My mum's side is from there, my fiancé lives near Woolton and I think it's very beautiful and historical with a rich history. And I love Liverpool FC
The only reality of me getting a "bargain" would be to buy a cheap house, similar. The task is daunting though, but its something I'd love to do (versus spending £450K, on a decent house)
Landlords. I live in Liverpool, a few years ago my grandmother died, her house was much nicer than these but needed some TLC. we sold her house, we told the buyer (who told us he was going to live in it) that the front bay was suffering with subsidance and needed a rebuild to the point it is borderline dangerous. I made a point of walking the dog past most days whilst they "renovated" it. They literally painted it, replaced the kitchen and put it up as 7 student rooms within a month, and to this day it has not had the bay rebuilt.
This is my home city and those £1 houses are in the streets I lived when I had my daughter almost 12 years ago. I was going to email you saying if you love the cheap houses get over there and just saw this and laughed as you’ve beat me to it 🤣🤣
I am not at all surprised the Welsh streets and the Holy Land in Toxteth were successful with the £1 scheme as these houses were for a long time aspirational to working class Scousers in the area. I put a £1 bid in for ANY one of the houses at the "bad end" of Smithdown Road like Garrick Street. I provided bank statements to prove I could pay for its renovation and I am local and could live in it, but I was declined. It's funny how lots of those allocated houses are still totally boarded up.
I am a Scouser living in Scotland now , thanks for showing me liverpool again not been down there for a quite a while and my scouse accent is very noticable i have been told recently.
I’m from the midlands and maybe arrogantly I always thought Birmingham was the second major city but funnily enough man I went to Liverpool a few days ago for the first time, not to offend anyone but didn’t think much about Liverpool previously actually thought it was kinda small but I loved it there! The architecture, the port, was really surprised how much history and culture is there! Again don’t mean to hate but I didn’t realise Liverpool had its own blitz and that’s the reason for the mixed architecture. Being from coventry you’re constantly reminded of the history of the blitz and even the Black Country as a whole doesn’t have the same prestige in the architecture compared to somewhere like Liverpool. Honestly love your videos man! Always come away learning something new! Please do some videos in the midlands one day bro so I can get all nostalgic hahaha
Get yourself over to the wirral,Birkenhead used to be hugely popular for shopping yrs ago,in the 70s as a child I loved it and the old market that burnt down,I come from a family of 6 and we used to live in a one bedroom flat with rats,hard times
My family and I went into Liverpool back in October to visit the museums. It's an astonishing place with so much history that it's impossible to cover everything in a single day. Crossing the River Mersey via the tunnel from Birkenhead and arriving in Liverpool One was quite a tonal shift. I've not seen a city centre so busy in such a long time. My local city is Stoke-on-Trent and it's sad seeing it in such a state, but it was good to see that it's not happening everywhere.
Liverpool the city where i spent my youth. Nightlife second to none. My time wad the 80s and 90s and who can forget grab a granny night in the grafton rooms or mathew street on a Saturday night but if you really wanted to chance it... The Adelphi hotel. A place where people vanished and are still missing 😂
Hahaha literally just put a new shed up in the garden and was way too excited for it... lay the pavers, shed up, and feel so accomplished. got a nice big one to A, actually fit all the garden stuff and be able to move around in there and B, block the neighbours as much as possibile!
Liverpool, onexe a thriving place cos the docs. I've been to Manchester and the buildings there are lovely, great architecture with red brick. I look forward to visiting Liverpool as their buildings look good also! Nice one Turnip! Thanks for the video!💖
Great channel 👏 I love your comments on the property's. The death of the high Streets is interesting. It seems to be all over the UK. Extremely high rent's and rates. It is what it is sadly 😥
All the end of the city I was brought up in them houses , as a plasterer I’ve worked in plenty of properties like them . A good thing with Liverpool is that it’s a building trade city , you could go in any pub and get your house renovated due to the amount of lads on the tools . Really old area you visited That many years ago must have been really nice . Anyway , good vid and nice one for having an optimistic view of north Liverpool .
Do you find that the letting/estate agents/owners are reluctant to let you have a butchers now that you're getting known? Has anyone refused you yet based on the material you post on your channel? (Also, I still remember your video from when you visited the next town along from me, Horden, and I admire the respect you showed for our history and our elderly, even if these days the area isn't in great shape.)
It is getting harder. I always take off my jacket and put on a hat when I go inside. Been recognised a couple times, but no one has said I can’t film yet
Excellent video, as usual. Liverpool is a great city. On another note, I hope you’re wearing a mask when entering those houses bc they don’t look safe to breathe in with all that mold
Outsiders might not believe this, but up until about 20 years ago, Liverpool had virtually no problems with derelict housing. It was a scheme by Labour called Pathfinder that was supposed to reduce housing stock by CPOing whole areas, demolishing them and then replacing them with less new builds, thus driving up prices and in theory eliminating ghettos, that created what would become the £1 neighbourhoods. Well, guess what happened in 2010? The Tories got in and cancelled the whole thing. Leaving Liverpool screwed, with a lot of boarded up streets and no central government funding anymore.
@@peterainsworth8026 Thanks for the translate. Yeah in Australia they call that "Resumed" (Can you say it with that nasally shit-arxed tone in y'voice?), In New Zealand we call it "Compulsory Acquisition" and in the US-of-A they call it "Eminent Domain". Same thing, government takes your land and pays you whatever they want to pay. Especially after the devastating Earthquake in 2011 in Christchurch NZ, the government did heaps of that. By 2012 onwards many houses and commercial buildings had already been either repaired, and sometimes rebuilt completely brand new, to the highest new EQ-resistant standards, and all with local Christchurch City Council approvals. But then central government in Wellington, just barged in like a bull in a china shop, NAY, like a bunch of armed thugs doing a blag on a jewellery store, and took everything they wanted. Demolished even new buildings built to the highest standards. Just so the land could sit empty, or in some cases be sold to other private companies that the government had made arrangements with. (Don't get me started, I'm fair spewin' about it. I've done a few videos on my RUclips channel and blog posts about it. southernislesreporter.wordpress.com. )
@@splashpit Thanks for that. Yeah when I lived in Western Australia it was ALWAYS referred to as "Resumed" (and had to be pronounced with a special shit-arxed tone in one's voice). But I left WA some years ago and some things have undoubtedly changed while I've been away. cheers.
There are very affluent areas of the city you never hear much about such as Mossley Hill, Woolton, Calderstones, Allerton and Grassendale. the less affluent areas are Kensington, Everton, Kirkdale, Fairfield, Dingle and Old swan
The channel 4 series on the £1 houses was good. The original ones were in Wavertree though, not where you were on Wynnstay St. the scheme was difficult for the owners as they couldn’t get insurance as they didn’t actually own the property until the council had signed off the completed renovation so a lot were being robbed while renovations were taking place.
I've been in Liverpool for 3 years, I love it and I wouldn't move anywhere else, compared to most places it seems to be on the up for the most part but still a long way to go
who owns houses and lets them fall into such a state of disrepair. given the housing crisis I'd love to see a video showing how the property's got to this state and what the underlying cause is.
Hope you have not been affected by all the flooding your way, I remember your earlier video on the problems it caused. Really good to see a success story with the £1 houses. What a transformation it made.
Great video as always, hello Turnip can i suggest you doing the death of craftsmanship series where you could visit artisans trying to resurrect crafts of all sort. And maybe the canals of the country and industry surrounding the canal systems. Keep up the fantastic work. This is important work that you bring to the publics attention. 😊😊
9:39 I think the ceiling of that partially burned down house was even worse! You know, the one that had a ripped water supply that was still running? Apparently it happens frequently that the boiler gets stolen when a property is left empty for some time, because of the high value of scrapmetal nowadays.
Would be interesting to chat to some of the people who bought the one pound houses. I do wonder why the council didnt just fix them up gor social housing.
It reminds me of that other great scouse joke...guy with collecting box in the Big House pub on Lime St..to a tourist who'd just arrived....I'm collecting for the disabled people.....Tourist....which ones ?...Collecter...the ones in wheelchairs
Liverpool is a great university city and we still have a vibrant city centre as well as impressive architecture which many cities don't have. We are multi-cultural city too with a large variety in types of restaurants and take-aways from Lebanese to Thai. The problem we have had is that there were too many property developers coming in and making lovely houses into tiny HMO's. The council are trying to clamp down on this, thankfully. Come to Liverpool, you will be impressed!
That first house is in a lovely street and could be made very nice, but it depends on the intention of the buyer. Not everyone in Liverpool has the scouse accent. Something bad happened to that second house because the windows looked reasonably new. Black mould is is caused by a lack of insulation. The people who say avoid, don't want to fix the underlying problem. @14:42, shame about the pebble dashing, but the windows and street door are probably original. @16:12, I imagine that the kitchen was quite something when newly fitted. You can get very cheap plastic windows. They are what a lot of house flippers and landlords install. You don't go over the ceiling price for the area when renovating because you will never make that money back when selling.
the last house was a good size, but the cost to renovate would be big. I think it needs stripped right back to brick walls, floors and ceilings out completely. Im glad I bought my home years ago how youngsters manage now I dont know The £1 houses looked nice all neat and kept tidy.
How can you find a very cheap house which can be renovated?. Are there any sites u can look for? Are the £1 houses still available also whom do you contact to get more information
The Welsh streets weren’t pound houses . They’re situated the other side of town at the top of smithdown road . Also where you are , was once used to film peaky blinders ..
If you get a chance to come back, be sure to check out further north in the docks. Some amazing buildings there and a prime area of regeneration for liverpool. It's where the Ten Streets are and where the Liverpool Waters regeneration is happening.
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"What keeps bringing ya back?"
"The train...lol"
Legend
I know I was so buzzing I met that fella
I came to the comments section, you delivered ty
To Lime Street. Lol.
You can take the Scouser out of Liverpool,but you can’t take the Liverpool out of the Scouser..
@@griswald7156 That was a classic line from the visiting guy, though.
What a transformation of those £1 houses! I noticed they also took that opportunity to expand and level those sidewalks, making it safer for pedestrians, families, and folks with dogs. Absolutely incredible.
Never knew Liverpool was so slummy, so disheartening
All those 3 houses sold for far too much money. The problem is that too many investors are from out of the city, speculating on the market as Liverpool grows in popularity. Many houses also get converted into multi-occupancy student homes.
Just the other side of the River Mersey, properties sell for a fraction of those prices.
They sell for less than a pound?
Same everywhere unfortunately, this country prioritises investors over the common man
Such a shame to see once cared for houses left to rot. I grew up in a terraced house. Mum's pride and joy ❤
I was thinking the same. Sad really.
Its very sad.
I'm Liverpudlian born ( 1954), but my parents migrated to Australia in 1964. I get so homesick for this beautiful city and its people. Every time I hear the 'Pool accent, my heart sings. Dad was from Childwall, Mum from Everton. Been back to visit several times to see family....hopefully again.
It's a huge freemasonic city
@@carolinestephens4082 Geez 😪
@@carolinestephens4082how so?
My mum emigrated to australia in the 1950’s after the war as a single woman.
It’s nice to see a place I have never been that is part of my heritage
You should come visit one day maybe go watch Liverpool fc play
Welcome to Liverpool mate! Glad you came through! Living here all my life its actually crazy to see how much Liverpool has developed and changed. I do actually believe Liverpool is in a good way and on the right track. You do see a lot of these older terraced houses falling into disrepair unfortunately but I think a lot of it has to do with how society has changed. These houses were built for workers, get as many in a small amount of space as you can. Back then NOBODY had a car never mind two pair household. These streets and houses just weren't built for the kind of lives people live now. These schemes and stuff for first time owners are really important and hopefully these areas continue to be developed and get some life back into them, because there's something really beautiful about the build of these old houses that new builds just don't have!
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@BruceWayne-sz3th I’ve lived here all my life. And I’ve lived in the so called “worst areas” and anything to do with gun violence has been few and far between. Not to downplay when it does happen, because it’s horrible, but I’m pretty sure there’s a good few places that have it worse, Birmingham and London to name a couple. Growing up here I know first hand it’s nowhere near as bad as people from outside Liverpool seem to think it is. Out of curiosity where are you from mate? Is Liverpool perfect? Nope, but nowhere is.
Liverpool is honestly my favourite city in the UK, everything is so close together and the gothic architecture is too good.
Its great on the waterfront.
It's one the few cities that still feels like England when you're there
@@mrcaboosevg6089 It has a Irish feel to it, aswell. For obvious reasons.
@@SuzanneO707 not to mention the history of the docks, the music that came from there
@@tmansimpson1 Exactly. Soul & Rock and roll imports. 😉
Liverpool is a fantastic city. My daughter went to Uni there in 2015 - i was initially worried due to the reputation it had when i was growing up in the 80s and the awful, unfair, prejudiced press the City had. I was shocked at what a fantastic city it is now. My daughter chose to stay after graduation. I truly believe that the future is looking good for Liverpool.
Yes my friend
One love
YNWA
Most outsiders an wools all choose to stay here and are also surprised that we are not as bad as the press stereotypes say we are
@@edglue6138swear down only the wannabes not from the city sign off with YNWA when talking about Liverpool like the club didn’t displace residents to expand.
Its literally dying deteroiatimg poverty ridden hell hole what copium drugs r u on
can you spot the evertonian?@@edglue6138
Liverpool doesn't look to bad to be honest with you. Seems to be doing better than a lot of other cities. It was great hearing from the older gentleman as well, he's literally walking history and has seen it all change in his life time.
Great city
Went to Liverpool last year, lovely people and very similar to Dublin I think!
A lot of Irish emigrated to Liverpool during the famine years for work. They are very similar in terms of warmth and welcoming culture, community.
I agree when I went to Dublin the people were very warm and friendly just like people from our city,Liverpool ❤
its the crack 🤣
Welcome to Liverpool! I love it here. It feels very positive and as though we're progressing.
People say there's no houses or that those there is are too expensive and they can't afford them.
To a certain extent that maybe true but there are some areas where there is plenty of houses that are lying vacant but nobody wants them. There is in the UK what I call property hotspots.
This is the truth in my own town. The visual evidence proves my point that the property shortage is also a lot about location Unlike the likes of London where you have 30 people going to view one apartment up for rent and they are outbidding each other and paying £2k+ per month in rent, in my hometown you can buy a terraced house easy for less than £100k and a three bedroom semi detached house for less than £150k. Average rent is only about £700 pcm. You can find plenty of homes boarded up.
I believe the reason for this is that it is an isolated northern town that's in the top third of most deprived towns in the country. Because of the combination of very poor public transport so it can't be used as a commuter town, meaning if you live here you work here, plus the fact all the jobs in the town are low paying, manual jobs working in factory such as making sofas,.or in a chicken factory, or in a bacon factory, or in a crisp factory, or in a sauce factory means nobody wants to come and live, and make a life here. Even our own young all try to get into university, get a degree and then move away to the richer areas where there's better paid jobs.
What they don't understand before they make that move though is how much of a struggle it's going to be finding a place to live and how high the rents are.
I am on a good wage for the town but not for the country as a whole. £28k per year. But you can easily buy a house, as I did, as a single person. I paid £70k for my 50s built three bed semi detached house that's roughly 1800sq ft. My mortgage is only about 1/8th of my after tax income.
So now it's got so crazy that often your financially better off by living in a poorer area with a decent wage from a none professional job than you are living in an expensive area with a good wage where most of that wage is going on your rent or mortgage per month.
❤So lovely, the old man speaking about his memories...
I know he was great
You too, @@wanderingturnip! Always following you 👍
Im from America and had the privilege of visiting Liverpool in 2019 before covid . Had the best time there .Scousers are the nicest most welcoming people in all of England .Looking forward to a longer return visit soon .
Scousers have a bit of a temper aswell 😮
We’d love to have you back. ❤
@@rach623 I would love to be back! Have to have a knee replacement first. I didn't mind the gap very well at the Baker Street Station in London 😂
@@janinerichardsfink1903 Wishing you a speedy recovery. ❤️🩹 🥰
Yay welcome to my city! 😊 I moved here from Luton in 2017 and love it ❤
I've been to Liverpool,
ONLY ONCE.
My impression was the
magnificent Greek/Roman
columns everywhere,
grander than London.
So I thought she must have
enjoyed some glorious good old days.
The slave trade paid for an awful lot of those buildings.
@raining5881 Yes, but also speculation long after Britain were the first to ban slavery. There would be a lot more of it in Liverpool and all across England if WW2 bombings hadn't razed a lot of it to the ground.
Grander than London, hardly. It has some great Victorian architecture, but it is not in anyway comparable.
I went to Liverpool about eleven years ago. I really, really loved it. Manchester is also fabulous. I suppose Liverpool is more famous internationally because of the influence of The Beatles and the 1960s renaissance. Both stunning though. Thank you for the video!
Liverpool is so slummy these days
We had to sell our house there years ago, because the family member living there was disabled and was being terrorized by yobs, who had smashed the windows and tried to kick down the door... I wish I could have have lived there but I would have been terrorized as I am also disabled. Sold it for a fraction of the value.
So I have mixed feelings about the place. I love the city but there is a terrible problem with violent people. As in many big cities.
I live elsewhere now - I would not want to grow old in such a place to be honest.
No disrespect to the decent people of the city of course. Not that they were in evidence on our street when my relative was being terriorised.
IF YOU SEE A DISABLED PERSON BEING HOUNDED, CALL THE POLICE.
I didn't realise how angry I am till I started writing this.
I agree with you. There’s a underlying criminal/violent mentality in Liverpool. Maybe it depends on the area & maybe its better now? I don’t know but I left Liverpool 25 years ago and I would never live there again!
I agree...I have horrible memories of what we went through with my disabled sister growing up... some beautiful people but when they are bad they are bad .. some terrible families that you really wouldn't want to live by.. They rule their estates.
Extremes of good and bad. My parents could see that and like so many, moved out to Wollyback land. I don't like outsiders running the place down but we can't always look the other way and make excuses. Some areas are horrible and I wouldn't live there but the city centre is amongst the best in England. @@peachmelba1637
where abouts did they live, if i may ask? jw
I feel your pain,I am a Guyanese by birth but I visited it and love liverpool
I love Liverpool. I’ve only been twice but hope to go back soon! I really enjoy your videos and love how enthusiastic you are about what you do on them. I have recently completed my masters in urban planning and find it interesting that there’s 40% too much retail space. Definitely very true! So evident in all cities and towns
I can't get enough of these videos, I come back every time because I like your take on it all and your positive attitude. Thanks again. If you ever needed a theme tune for your videos, I'd be more than happy to create a piece of music for you!
Well said, sizzlebird! Plus I think a theme tune would be *brilliant!* 👏 This channel deserves an opening sequence!
Very interesting video. I visited the Anfield area in 2004 and witnessed street upon street of old boarded up terraced houses. Great to see what the £1 a house scheme achieved. I always find it amazing to see how bad a condition these houses are in - it's hard to comprehend how such levels of decay are possible.
I love this video. Being from Merseyside myself, I’ve been waiting for you to do Liverpool and I think you’ve portrayed the city in such a nice way even though the aim of your videos are to show the economical decline of towns and cities. I’ve worked as a taxi driver for 10 years and now a bus driver for 5 years in Liverpool and it’s surrounding areas so I feel I’m well positioned to help you if you come back again like you said you will. Most locals will explain how South Liverpool (where the Beatles came from) has some lovely affluent areas that are often missed by visitors who come for football and only see North Liverpool and come away thinking how deprived Liverpool is. Not the case In all parts and only similar to most cities in the UK with social problems. Despite what people outside the city and especially further south may think. It is a very safe place and okay we have issues like everywhere does and some parts are quite run down but the death of the high street is a nationwide if not a global thing. Liverpool has come along way since the 80’s and Thatchers managed decline. I can put you onto the perfect person. A local historian who can help you with a superb video if you should come back. He would explain things much better than me but I could show you areas away from the city centre and how they’ve changed in my lifetime. Oh and by the way there’s 2 football teams in the city 😂. I’m a Kop season ticket holder at Anfield so I can forgive you for dismissing Everton. It will be interesting to see what happens around the County road, Walton area once they move into their new stadium.
Keep up the great videos and thank you for this one
I didn't know L'pool fc was relocating. When?
Half my family are from Liverpool and despite never having lived there, whenever I go there it feels like home. Absolutely love the place.
I had a place with black mold due to a change in sewage..anyway I never fully recovered from black mold in my nose recent years have been so much better in my far better flat...rember to wear a mask in these properties I love watching your channel
Yay you made it to my hometown. Great video. Thankyou for visiting. I heard you say you've never been before. I hope you return with your Mrs for the weekend. You'll love it. Take care 😊
Thanks for visting Liverpool - have watched a few of your videos, always interesting. I am on my second stint of living in Liverpool having been here as a student in the 90's and then returned a few years ago. It has come a long way since then. 80's and 90's there were more houses than people and many streets were derelect. What a change in 30 years - rare to see boarded up houses now. The city centre / high street is more vibrant now than then - Waterfront is great, the shopping mall is new to me. M&S moved in there to where Debenhams used to be.
First rental house I had was in L9, a 3 bed terrace - it was dry but no carpets upstairs, no central hearing or double glazing and the decor was lime green and orange! There are some nice parts of Orrell Park, and good train connections into town. Anfield still has a bad rep but many streets have been improved and some streets pulled down and new houses built.
Best part of Liverpool remains the people - down to earth, friendly, and great sense of humor - and it is still totally acceptable to wear your jammies and curlers to the corner shop to get your milk, or to Home & Bargains.
3D mould is just next level 😄. Btw i love when you describe the conditions and features of the houses you view, you have a way with words and convey your feelings towards it really good.
I moved to Liverpool in 2008 and loved it so much I never left (well, one county over!), I love this city! We bought a fixer upper about 25 min from the city centre in Knowsley
We used to live near the £1 houses off Smithdown Rd and there was a lot of crime, you might be the only house on your rd that’s being lived in at the time which makes you a massive target for burglary. We got burgled too on July which is partly why we moved away from the area
Different areas around liverpool are different too, each of the communities and areas have different demographics, and there is a difference in prices in areas, like speke and garston. One of the interesting projects in Liverpool is the proposed tidal generator project which is a green energy and flood defence if it gets funding. If you want to see somewhere a bit more run down take a train across to Birkenhead.
Liverpool is on the up you can see that atleast an effort is being made to spruce the place up its badly needed and overdue I visited about 9 years ago and I could see why people say the goverment leave the North to rot and only care about the South.
This government only care about the financially rich.
Liverpool is an epic place, lived there for four years and loved every minute of it, the people are one of a kind. Life took me to South Wales, but Liverpool was where I thrived x
Brilliant! I’m so glad you’ve finally made it to Liverpool! Until relatively recently Liverpool was the defacto economic powerhouse of the North of England until its post industrial decline after the war with a population only surpassed by Birmingham and London; I think the weight of its built environment really reflects this. It’s a city of contrasts and has a great weather of interesting architecture, both old and new and like you say, it’s setting on the mighty river Mersey is spectacular.
Great to see the £1 house initiative seems to be working in parts of Liverpool, the Welsh streets in Toxteth I’m so glad have been turned around.
Brilliant little vid that!
Thanks for watching 😀
My pleasure…. Subscribed a while ago…. I watched your one on Burnley first and noticed you are from Hebden Bridge, which I love. We recently moved from Queensbury, near Halifax so East Lancashire is an area I’m familiar with. I grew up in Barrow in Furness & Liverpool (Childwall) so your recent films have really interested me. We live in Suffolk now (moved for work) which is nice, but my Wife and I miss the North.
Keep on doing what you’re doing!❤
Absolutely love Liverpool and the people there. I’m actually ashamed that I let the media make me think it wouldn’t be a nice place. Some of the architecture there is absolutely beautiful, the sense of humour is brilliant and I love the accent. Yes there are areas that have been massively let down that I wouldn’t fancy living in but isn’t that true in every city in the world? Thanks for another great video!
£1 houses, Liverpool council based and bringing receipts.
Housing needs to be if not quite so affordable as £1, actually genuinely affordable. That those houses were being sold for 90-105k, I just know that’s often the money older people especially boomers, people who were in their 20s or 30s in the 1980s who were gifted loads of social mobility with Thatcher’s Right to Buy that’s allowed them to accrue asset wealth, the price of the house they own continues to go up, pricing younger people out completely, allowing older generations who succeeded with Right to Buy to purchase them using the money from their inflating house prices.
So they vote for political parties that won’t screw up their mortgages, which is why Labour are doing well among middle class older home owners, Liz Truss screwed up mortgages with her budgets, toys immediately get thrown out of the pram, Labour are 20 points ahead.
We need more de-commodification of housing, de-commodify so people keep more money to spend on other commodities, this de-commodification is normal everywhere else in the world. Almost every country that isn’t the UK or the United States have large percentage of their housing stock provided through social housing, it makes everything work better. And we had it here in the UK, landlordism was frowned upon. Then came Thatcher with “graph must go up all the time” economics that enabled and coddled landlordism. So these new landlords bought up our council housing stock, let them out for renting at the price of an arm or a leg every month, and now renting is super expensive, because of the political landscape deliberately created!
This is the failure of neoliberalism, housing just does not work provided through the free market anywhere in the world, only top earners benefit. All over the world, people commonly cannot afford the maintenance and building of their home, it so often requires an income above the average, and not everyone has an income above the average, some do, quite a few do not. political thinking and economic mindset that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, like a genuinely affordable house.
We badly need more schemes like Liverpool’s council, CPO the shit out of empty houses, sell them to people who want to live in it as a utility for a cheap price, let them keep and save more money to do it up! Meanwhile, abolish landlordism (it serves no social utility, they are pointless middle men, they are leeches and have been emboldened to be leeches in this financially minded society constructed over 40 years on from Thatcherism), replace the private housing sector with housing cooperatives for already built detached house neighbourhoods, meanwhile through wealth taxes and Keynesian stimulus (this country’s a sovereign currency issuer with a a central bank, no one gives a damn about deficit BS anymore, we can just spend our way to growth) put all the money into Homes England to build European quality high density social housing, with an emphasis on building upwards rather than detached new build estates that all too often eat into green space and nature areas by building sideways). You build upward, more space sideways for green space.
Great video Turnip, I get a lot of my housing knowledge btw from a great channel called NoJusticeMTG, who often talks about the housing crisis and the based ways we can alleviate or solve these issues, I’ll link a great video below where she puts it in much better terms than I can, give it a watch: ruclips.net/video/bfUdiXc1Trk/видео.htmlsi=0DsX6-vhrRHOgZmA
I feel more educated just from reading this 🙂 excellent contribution.
I did the Beatles tour last year. It was a great trip. Loved the Cavern Club.
Beatles are the reason UK is declining
Loved your vid mate. Shared to the Skyscraper City Liverpool Metro Area forum online - pop in some time. We discuss urban regeneration and all the developments in our city. Your brain and passion will be welcomed!!
Oh ace thanks for that. Could you drop me an email on wanderingturnip2022@gmail.com 👍👍
@@wanderingturnip Hi mate, thanks, I have sent you an email!!
I was the other side of the Wirral on Thursday doing some work in the ferry port. Wish i had time to cross and check out some of those old buildings. they looked absolutely stunning and well looked after. Brilliant vid and thx for giving me the chance to check out those historic buildings.
61000£ for this house is a crime
I think 7:21 was the old youth/family court which has moved into the newer courts at 8:08.
Thanks for coming down and not making us look like a mash up between Bread, Harry Enfield and Crimewatch.
The fella who was born in 1936 reminded me a bit of my dad. He was born in 1933 and had memories of the May Blitz over Bootle and of watching dogfights over the Mersey.
7:21 is the old RBS on the corner of Dale St
Thanks for sharing this video I haven't been to Liverpool yet used to fly from Belfast to Liverpool and drive straight up to lake district and Scotland 😊I want to check it out soon as possible 😀
Found your channel through Wendall and the Scarborough piece. I'm from the US and am really enjoying your content!
Awesome! Thank you! 😀
Excellent commentary. At the beginning when you were talking about Liverpool maintaining its character you demonstrated this beautifully as you walked on a brick street with old fashioned store fronts.
How fab to see those terraced houses refurbished and lived in. Let’s hope the remaining derelict houses are snapped up soon. Liverpudlians are so so friendly - can’t wait to go back for a break and explore more. Thank you for being so passionate and making such informative videos. The BBC will be after you soon! 👏 😊
Hey WT! Love your videos 💕 I moved from South East London where the price of a Studio flat was £220k & bought a 3 bed, 4 level End of Terrace in reasonable condition for £130k. It was worth moving although I miss my long term friends & family. Something had to give & I was sadly priced out of where I grew up 💔
I feel you! (Ex north Londoner here)
A great City, fantastic people always a joy going back there. I live up near the North East and I get the same sort of vibe in Newcastle, good local accent, football, beer, and the River Tyne. friendly people.
My family are from the NE and I have lived in Newcastle and Liverpool and I agree; very similar vibe, though completely different cities.
@@ChrisRoutledge I like to get up to Newcastle at least once a month. I must admit the waterfront of Liverpool from Birkenhead or Wallasey is awesome.
I love Liverpool! My mum's side is from there, my fiancé lives near Woolton and I think it's very beautiful and historical with a rich history. And I love Liverpool FC
Surprised someone paid so much for houses in that state.
The only reality of me getting a "bargain" would be to buy a cheap house, similar. The task is daunting though, but its something I'd love to do (versus spending £450K, on a decent house)
The first house was in a lovely street. Maybe the buyer intended to live in the house.
Landlords.
I live in Liverpool, a few years ago my grandmother died, her house was much nicer than these but needed some TLC. we sold her house, we told the buyer (who told us he was going to live in it) that the front bay was suffering with subsidance and needed a rebuild to the point it is borderline dangerous. I made a point of walking the dog past most days whilst they "renovated" it. They literally painted it, replaced the kitchen and put it up as 7 student rooms within a month, and to this day it has not had the bay rebuilt.
@@DeathwaveUK: what's the betting that your grandma's old house is now an ILLEGAL house of multiple occupation?
Not to mention the students are most likely wrecking it… sadly.
This is my home city and those £1 houses are in the streets I lived when I had my daughter almost 12 years ago.
I was going to email you saying if you love the cheap houses get over there and just saw this and laughed as you’ve beat me to it 🤣🤣
I'm from Newcastle. I always feel that Liverpool has a similar feel in terms of people to home. Similar feeling Glasgow too.
You shouldn't replace those windows in house 1 or 3, as they are the original windows. Repair instead.
Agreed.
I am not at all surprised the Welsh streets and the Holy Land in Toxteth were successful with the £1 scheme as these houses were for a long time aspirational to working class Scousers in the area.
I put a £1 bid in for ANY one of the houses at the "bad end" of Smithdown Road like Garrick Street. I provided bank statements to prove I could pay for its renovation and I am local and could live in it, but I was declined. It's funny how lots of those allocated houses are still totally boarded up.
I am a Scouser living in Scotland now , thanks for showing me liverpool again not been down there for a quite a while and my scouse accent is very noticable i have been told recently.
I’m from the midlands and maybe arrogantly I always thought Birmingham was the second major city but funnily enough man I went to Liverpool a few days ago for the first time, not to offend anyone but didn’t think much about Liverpool previously actually thought it was kinda small but I loved it there! The architecture, the port, was really surprised how much history and culture is there! Again don’t mean to hate but I didn’t realise Liverpool had its own blitz and that’s the reason for the mixed architecture. Being from coventry you’re constantly reminded of the history of the blitz and even the Black Country as a whole doesn’t have the same prestige in the architecture compared to somewhere like Liverpool.
Honestly love your videos man! Always come away learning something new! Please do some videos in the midlands one day bro so I can get all nostalgic hahaha
Get yourself over to the wirral,Birkenhead used to be hugely popular for shopping yrs ago,in the 70s as a child I loved it and the old market that burnt down,I come from a family of 6 and we used to live in a one bedroom flat with rats,hard times
You deserve your own tv show, channel. You are a natural. Such a nice guy too. 😊
My family and I went into Liverpool back in October to visit the museums. It's an astonishing place with so much history that it's impossible to cover everything in a single day. Crossing the River Mersey via the tunnel from Birkenhead and arriving in Liverpool One was quite a tonal shift. I've not seen a city centre so busy in such a long time. My local city is Stoke-on-Trent and it's sad seeing it in such a state, but it was good to see that it's not happening everywhere.
Liverpool the city where i spent my youth. Nightlife second to none. My time wad the 80s and 90s and who can forget grab a granny night in the grafton rooms or mathew street on a Saturday night but if you really wanted to chance it... The Adelphi hotel. A place where people vanished and are still missing 😂
Haunted hotel of inhospitable horror??
Hahaha literally just put a new shed up in the garden and was way too excited for it... lay the pavers, shed up, and feel so accomplished. got a nice big one to A, actually fit all the garden stuff and be able to move around in there and B, block the neighbours as much as possibile!
Liverpool, onexe a thriving place cos the docs. I've been to Manchester and the buildings there are lovely, great architecture with red brick. I look forward to visiting Liverpool as their buildings look good also! Nice one Turnip! Thanks for the video!💖
Great channel 👏 I love your comments on the property's. The death of the high Streets is interesting. It seems to be all over the UK. Extremely high rent's and rates. It is what it is sadly 😥
Great vlog! I was in Liverpool last summer...lively city, friendly people...had a good time!
All the end of the city I was brought up in them houses , as a plasterer I’ve worked in plenty of properties like them . A good thing with Liverpool is that it’s a building trade city , you could go in any pub and get your house renovated due to the amount of lads on the tools . Really old area you visited That many years ago must have been really nice . Anyway , good vid and nice one for having an optimistic view of north Liverpool .
Lads with tools, lol. Same in Manchester, wish we had that waterfront. You can smell the sea.
@@SuzanneO707 haha tools like trowels etc
@@ste2442 Pants with loads of pockets. And pencil behind the ear. 👍
@@SuzanneO707 salt of the earth Blokes
@@ste2442 Don't forget the lasses, working hard too.
Do you find that the letting/estate agents/owners are reluctant to let you have a butchers now that you're getting known? Has anyone refused you yet based on the material you post on your channel? (Also, I still remember your video from when you visited the next town along from me, Horden, and I admire the respect you showed for our history and our elderly, even if these days the area isn't in great shape.)
It is getting harder. I always take off my jacket and put on a hat when I go inside. Been recognised a couple times, but no one has said I can’t film yet
@@wanderingturnipThe wandering celeb 😂
@@wanderingturnip You need a cunning disguise.
Thanks from France. I lived in Liverpool in the 1980's. Never went back, scared that nostalgia would hit me, remembering those happy days.
Saved yourself avoiding Norris Green. Good to see you checking Liverpool out.
Excellent video, as usual. Liverpool is a great city.
On another note, I hope you’re wearing a mask when entering those houses bc they don’t look safe to breathe in with all that mold
Outsiders might not believe this, but up until about 20 years ago, Liverpool had virtually no problems with derelict housing. It was a scheme by Labour called Pathfinder that was supposed to reduce housing stock by CPOing whole areas, demolishing them and then replacing them with less new builds, thus driving up prices and in theory eliminating ghettos, that created what would become the £1 neighbourhoods. Well, guess what happened in 2010? The Tories got in and cancelled the whole thing. Leaving Liverpool screwed, with a lot of boarded up streets and no central government funding anymore.
Please explain what the term "CPOing" means ?
@@KiwiCatherineJemma Compulsory purchase order. They allow the government to buy up land and property irrespective of whether the owner wants to sell.
@@peterainsworth8026 Thanks for the translate. Yeah in Australia they call that "Resumed" (Can you say it with that nasally shit-arxed tone in y'voice?), In New Zealand we call it "Compulsory Acquisition" and in the US-of-A they call it "Eminent Domain". Same thing, government takes your land and pays you whatever they want to pay.
Especially after the devastating Earthquake in 2011 in Christchurch NZ, the government did heaps of that. By 2012 onwards many houses and commercial buildings had already been either repaired, and sometimes rebuilt completely brand new, to the highest new EQ-resistant standards, and all with local Christchurch City Council approvals.
But then central government in Wellington, just barged in like a bull in a china shop, NAY, like a bunch of armed thugs doing a blag on a jewellery store, and took everything they wanted.
Demolished even new buildings built to the highest standards. Just so the land could sit empty, or in some cases be sold to other private companies that the government had made arrangements with. (Don't get me started, I'm fair spewin' about it. I've done a few videos on my RUclips channel and blog posts about it. southernislesreporter.wordpress.com. )
@@KiwiCatherineJemmain Australia it’s called “ compulsory acquisition “ actually.
@@splashpit Thanks for that. Yeah when I lived in Western Australia it was ALWAYS referred to as "Resumed" (and had to be pronounced with a special shit-arxed tone in one's voice). But I left WA some years ago and some things have undoubtedly changed while I've been away. cheers.
Those old buildings are stunning 😍
That old guy is a legend
Walking into a cobweb is unnerving 😮Thank you for the video.
There are very affluent areas of the city you never hear much about such as Mossley Hill, Woolton, Calderstones, Allerton and Grassendale. the less affluent areas are Kensington, Everton, Kirkdale, Fairfield, Dingle and Old swan
The channel 4 series on the £1 houses was good. The original ones were in Wavertree though, not where you were on Wynnstay St. the scheme was difficult for the owners as they couldn’t get insurance as they didn’t actually own the property until the council had signed off the completed renovation so a lot were being robbed while renovations were taking place.
Why are they left to a point where they’re so bad
Cheers for the video. Looking at the docks, and the Pumphouse, brings back memories
Sometimes I wonder if these houses are even save to be open for a viewing.
Very interesting video.
I've been in Liverpool for 3 years, I love it and I wouldn't move anywhere else, compared to most places it seems to be on the up for the most part but still a long way to go
who owns houses and lets them fall into such a state of disrepair. given the housing crisis I'd love to see a video showing how the property's got to this state and what the underlying cause is.
The local council obviously owns these properties otherwise they would not be able to sell them for £1. The council let them get into this state.
Hope you have not been affected by all the flooding your way, I remember your earlier video on the problems it caused. Really good to see a success story with the £1 houses. What a transformation it made.
Big love to Liverpool and the scousers from 🇮🇲 amazing city, awesome architecture and history. Fantastic, friendly, resilient people ❤️
Less betting and pawn shops the better…. Some grand buildings there in Lpool.
When you said “famous for its football team” I’m just gonna assume you’re talking about Everton 🔵 #UTT
Thanks, I thought he was talking about Tranmere Rovers 🤣
Awesome episode. Alo worth a visit in the mersey tunnel tour. Lasts about 2hours an you get a lot of info and ge to see so much!
Great video as always, hello Turnip can i suggest you doing the death of craftsmanship series where you could visit artisans trying to resurrect crafts of all sort. And maybe the canals of the country and industry surrounding the canal systems. Keep up the fantastic work. This is important work that you bring to the publics attention. 😊😊
Great video! Cheers. the £1 houses were also in the Kensington area of Liverpool
Hi can you please tell me where about in Kensington one of my friend really likes Kensington .thanks
That listed building by the town hall, 1 Dale Street, was the RBS bank. X
9:39 I think the ceiling of that partially burned down house was even worse!
You know, the one that had a ripped water supply that was still running?
Apparently it happens frequently that the boiler gets stolen when a property is left empty for some time, because of the high value of scrapmetal nowadays.
Haha yeah that was the one I was thinking off. Glad you thought the same
Happy New Year, Wandering Turnip. Thankyou again for a great video.
Great video. I love these. It can;t be easy getting viewings for auctioned properties.
Would be interesting to chat to some of the people who bought the one pound houses. I do wonder why the council didnt just fix them up gor social housing.
What keeps bringing you back? "The train". 88 years old but he's still got the jokes 😆
It reminds me of that other great scouse joke...guy with collecting box in the Big House pub on Lime St..to a tourist who'd just arrived....I'm collecting for the disabled people.....Tourist....which ones ?...Collecter...the ones in wheelchairs
Liverpool is a great university city and we still have a vibrant city centre as well as impressive architecture which many cities don't have. We are multi-cultural city too with a large variety in types of restaurants and take-aways from Lebanese to Thai. The problem we have had is that there were too many property developers coming in and making lovely houses into tiny HMO's. The council are trying to clamp down on this, thankfully. Come to Liverpool, you will be impressed!
That first house is in a lovely street and could be made very nice, but it depends on the intention of the buyer. Not everyone in Liverpool has the scouse accent. Something bad happened to that second house because the windows looked reasonably new. Black mould is is caused by a lack of insulation. The people who say avoid, don't want to fix the underlying problem. @14:42, shame about the pebble dashing, but the windows and street door are probably original. @16:12, I imagine that the kitchen was quite something when newly fitted. You can get very cheap plastic windows. They are what a lot of house flippers and landlords install. You don't go over the ceiling price for the area when renovating because you will never make that money back when selling.
You can't tell from the video but that first house is very unfortunately located, the busy road elevates towards the bridge. Like facing a flyover.
We need to get these docks working again for coastal shipping. Remove the haulage off the roads and get it back onto ships and barges.
Wow that was very insightful to see the non-tourist areas
If you do not want to watch it all, do not miss the elderly guy around 4:40 mins. Absolute star. Great Post!
the last house was a good size, but the cost to renovate would be big. I think it needs stripped right back to brick walls, floors and ceilings out completely. Im glad I bought my home years ago how youngsters manage now I dont know
The £1 houses looked nice all neat and kept tidy.
How can you find a very cheap house which can be renovated?. Are there any sites u can look for? Are the £1 houses still available also whom do you contact to get more information
The Welsh streets weren’t pound houses . They’re situated the other side of town at the top of smithdown road . Also where you are , was once used to film peaky blinders ..
For overall perspective, be worth including some shots of upmarket areas in the suburbs, such as Childwall or Woolton.
If you get a chance to come back, be sure to check out further north in the docks. Some amazing buildings there and a prime area of regeneration for liverpool. It's where the Ten Streets are and where the Liverpool Waters regeneration is happening.