I Walked Around SWINDON'S HIGHEST CRIME Areas; Walcot and Eastcott

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
  • In this video, I take a walk around the two worst and highest crime areas in Swindon, and those are Walcot and Eastcott.
    It's an eye opening look at how Swindon, and the UK in general is becoming more deprived in areas and the challenges some areas face - and what they look like.
    If you live in Swindon or any of the areas covered in this video, we'd love to hear from you!
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    00:00 - Intro to Swindon’s Highest Crime Districts
    00:26 - Walcot
    03:18 - Eastcott
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Комментарии • 261

  • @keving331
    @keving331 8 месяцев назад +90

    Some viewers may not understand the significance of the sofas in gardens. This is not fly-tipping or being too bone idle to bother getting the Council or licensed disposal firm to remove the furniture. On sink estates like these, the presence of a sofa in front garden is a status symbol. It shows that the occupants have enough benefits handouts to enable them to replace an old sofa with a new one. Those with benefits handouts that they don’t know what to do with go to the next stage and adorn their gardens with an Argos kiddies’ trampoline and, for those with the very highest status, there’ll be an illuminated reindeer or Santa Claus, on top of the porch for maximum effect.

    • @user-yg9qs8bn9g
      @user-yg9qs8bn9g 8 месяцев назад +19

      You're killing me !!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад +15

      hah, that deserves to be pinned so we can educate those who don't know.

    • @Ineedanewbrainwashagent1.
      @Ineedanewbrainwashagent1. 8 месяцев назад +13

      You forgot to mention the large screen tv that covers the entire wall of the living room .

    • @keithpassant5063
      @keithpassant5063 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@Ineedanewbrainwashagent1. cutting down on heating bills....

    • @jerrysartain2539
      @jerrysartain2539 7 месяцев назад +7

      Walking from the train station to Swindon Town football stadium is compable to walking through Mogadishu at the heights of war.

  • @darylevans5075
    @darylevans5075 8 месяцев назад +46

    I travel quite a bit round Bulgaria, and there are many small, poor villages there. There are many dilapidated buildings, where people have left to find work. But they do seem to be proud of their country, there are a lot of Bulgarian flags flying, and can't recall seeing discarded fridges and sofas littering the place.
    Maybe we, as a country, have lost pride in being British. Understandable given the weakness and selfishness of successive governments.

    • @StennMathis
      @StennMathis 7 месяцев назад +9

      What happened is Britain has grown complacent and fat off of past glories.
      We still bang on about the war and beating the Germans but since then sold our industry to every Chong Tunde and Rajesh...
      What have we done to feel proud of since the war or Boudicca? I'm not talking about a beautiful country side and rural areas that most brits don't even frequent anyway... And all the world has beautiful architecture not just England... So what do we produce that the rest of the world values needs or admires? At this point the greater part of the earth is at least bilingual but no, not us brits we're British!
      I could go on but see what I mean? The world has moved on in innovation whilst we're still "Dann the pub"

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 7 месяцев назад +9

      Half the Bulgarian population landed in Swindon/Bristol areas the other half in London bringing there rubbish with them.

    • @user-mf5ue6rc5n
      @user-mf5ue6rc5n 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​​@@CARLIN4737Hold your horses right there !!!!
      Bulgarians in Britain are WORKING their asses off ,paying taxes ,not doing crimes and murders like Muslims and Africans .We are not loud like Muslims ,we are an Orthodox White Christians with very good manners and can only help the economy of the UK .
      If you are talking about the Gypsies they are problem of India cause they originate from there .Yes they are lazy ,don't pay taxes and rely on government help . But still Bulgarian gypsies are civilised and not murderers and rapists like most of the illegals .
      If Polish ,Bulgarians ,Romanians, Lithuanians leave the UK your construction will be in so much trouble since we built most of it .

    • @bobbymozza
      @bobbymozza 7 месяцев назад

      Have you seen videos of the Roma housing estates? Search "Bulgaria litter".

    • @bigboost2641
      @bigboost2641 7 месяцев назад +3

      This seems to have increased along with diversity!

  • @dWFnZWVr
    @dWFnZWVr Месяц назад +5

    0:40 When I was at college in Swindon this was the local subway. One day in my final year (2016) some friends and I went there for lunch. A man came in with a metal pipe and full balaclava, smashed the counter and robbed the place. We missed our afternoon seminar providing statements to the police. The place was closed for about 2 weeks after that. A friend and I also had our bikes stolen at knifepoint while spending an afternoon cycling from Coate water over the M4. We stopped on a bench to eat some sandwiches we’d packed and were approached by two men asking to borrow the bikes; we said no. They said they were going to take them anyway and when we stood up to stop them, we quickly had knives put to our stomachs. We then let them take the bikes. We were a good 10 minute cycle away from civilisation and on a bridlepath only accessible on foot or cycle from coate water. We didn’t fancy bleeding out there.
    When I was younger I did a paper round and one day as I cycled onto Springfield road in old town, I saw an older gentlemen with his trousers around his ankles doing the five knuckle shuffle and depositing his remains into someone’s front garden. I was also followed by a man when walking my dog across a field just off the old railway line (also when I was younger). I stopped to pick up after my dog and he stopped in sync and pretended to mess with a shrub with his foot. I continued to look at him and he caught my eye at which point he sprinted away.
    I left Swindon after university in 2020 and moved to Cornwall. Never looked back. My sister, her husband and my nephew still live in Swindon as do many of my pre-university friends. The traffic is awful, the town is dull, it’s full of perverts, pregnant teens and migrants - the next London overflow town beyond Slough.
    Not for me.

  • @ukexplored
    @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад +14

    Hope you enjoyed this look inside a couple of the highest crime areas in Swindon. As always, all comments, questions, and feedback is welcome!

    • @Budgiearmy
      @Budgiearmy 8 месяцев назад

      Your the gota

    • @Budgiearmy
      @Budgiearmy 8 месяцев назад

      Goat*

    • @Budgiearmy
      @Budgiearmy 8 месяцев назад

      The English flag belongs to and history teacher lol

    • @justincook8329
      @justincook8329 7 месяцев назад

      This is the bad bit pls look at the good bit🤗

    • @dodgeboy9052
      @dodgeboy9052 6 месяцев назад

      Modern day Slums ... NOT the properties. ... but the way people. accept to live and look after their home n Neighbourhood.. Well. done Swindon ...Mind you I see that the local council. has a weed management program while they sit on their arse n earn over 80 thou a year ..

  • @davidthomas3826
    @davidthomas3826 7 месяцев назад +9

    It looks almost dystopian. The decay and neglect prove that we have just given up

  • @electronicearnings
    @electronicearnings 8 месяцев назад +2

    I love sofa and fridge freezer counters and the bit at 4:50! (That bit is my favourite!)

  • @garrymcgauran4978
    @garrymcgauran4978 7 месяцев назад +6

    Sad to see this about Walcott. I used to visit my cousins on Frobisher Dr every few summers in the 80's. I have fond memories of playing on the streets and parks around there. It was certainly different to rural Ireland where I grew but I remember it being a happy and fun place. I even joined my cousin on his early morning paper round, where we'd pick up the papers at 6am from the newsagents in Sussex Square and deliver to the surrounding flats and houses. There were a few tough nuts knocking about the square, but never anything that bothered us much. The local boozer, The Bulldog, did have a reputation but it never stopped my parents and aunts & uncles going there. Whilst my relations moved from that area in the 90's, it's still sad to see it painted in such a poor light. I'm sure there are lots of good people still living there. My cousins for their part went on to do good things with their lives.

    • @pgsmith22
      @pgsmith22 7 месяцев назад +3

      Ah, The Bulldog! Now there's a name from my forgotten past!

  • @SaraSamGo
    @SaraSamGo 8 месяцев назад +5

    Hi @ukexplored - great vid! I was just wondering if you have ever gotten lost while you’re walking around these areas?

  • @_boracic_atreus_23
    @_boracic_atreus_23 6 месяцев назад +7

    I live abroad but recently came over to London on a quick business trip. I actually grew up in Swindon and after seeing your previous video on the town center decided to extend my stay over a weekend to go back and visit the town. Not been there since probably around 2009. Its genuinely depressing to see what it has become. Swindon never had the greatest reputation...being so close to nice places like Bath, Oxford and Cheltenham and the bigger, more exciting places like Reading and Bristol, it always had a bit of a downmarket, provincial rep. But the town center and the old town were always bustling places. I've spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe and Russia and the town centre resembles the kind of deprived, run down cities you find in places like Serbia and Bosnia (that is NOT a comment on immigration, I have no idea of what the demographics are of Swindon these days, it is simply an observation of similarity). It feels like it is a doom cycle of decline. The nightlife was genuinely pretty decent not so long ago and always really busy. You had to queue to get into places like Walkabout, the Brunel Rooms etc. My hotel was right in the center of town and on Saturday night I could barely recognize the place compared to how it was when I grew up. The nightlife has literally gone. In the 90s and 00s Swindon was a pretty good place to live, it had worked hard to improve its reputation and there was a lot of jobs and industry, but now it just looks like a run down backwater of a failed state.

    • @strattonlad1228
      @strattonlad1228 5 месяцев назад +1

      You are spot on. Swindon is a shadow of its former self. Night life used to be great.

  • @chris-non-voter
    @chris-non-voter 7 месяцев назад +20

    Coming to a town near you - or your town. This country has had it. Its been infested with a sub culture that will eat away anything nice.

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад +7

      The wealth divide is definitely becoming more polarising, which is depressing. But I have hope that something will change, we have to.

    • @bigboost2641
      @bigboost2641 7 месяцев назад

      Import 3rd world people and you import 3rd world problems.

  • @unkutmusic3293
    @unkutmusic3293 5 месяцев назад +2

    The tower blocks you mentioned are in the parks - park north to be exact theres a park south as well

  • @Budgiearmy
    @Budgiearmy 8 месяцев назад +2

    Goddesses thank you dollop much I'm explored your the GOAT OF YT!!!!!!

  • @richardarthur-nycstories
    @richardarthur-nycstories 7 месяцев назад +4

    You're getting closer to the area that I grew up in, Park South. Though I haven't visited there since the 90s. After football we used to walk through Walcot to get to Park South, but Walcot was a paradise compared to Park South back then. Back in the early 80s I used to drink regularly in a pub in Eastcott called The George, and by all accounts I was born there as well, assuming that the old Victoria Hospital was in Eastcott.

    • @freespeechadvocate7492
      @freespeechadvocate7492 7 месяцев назад

      The old Victoria Hospital it on the roundabout that joins Kingshill road to Okus road. Its flats now but still has the same exterior. I was born and bread in Walcot in 1976 and through the 80s and 90s, I was to scared to go to Parks South, mainly Cavendish Square.

    • @barbarahalkyard1901
      @barbarahalkyard1901 6 месяцев назад

      Some people just have no respect.For the communities they live in. Disgusting how some people live.I was born on a council estate . The neighbours looked out for one another. You took pride in the area . No anti social behavior.Parents knew where their children where and who they where with. Im 71 now not got many years left on this Planet .And the way it is these days I honestly couldnt care less.This country has gone right down the toilet.

  • @jonathans183
    @jonathans183 8 месяцев назад +8

    I live locally. Walcot west is a wealthy area walcot East is poor and deprived that's why the house prices are high. If it was Walcot east only prices would be a lot lower. As for eastcott agreed in the main what you say but there are worse areas like Manchester road and gorse hill.

  • @DavidJohnson-cl4zk
    @DavidJohnson-cl4zk 6 месяцев назад +3

    The sofa and freezer counters I feel would of been over shadowed by the mattress count

  • @gracemae8599
    @gracemae8599 8 месяцев назад +8

    You need to visit Easton lockleaze and St Paul’s in Bristol!

    • @Ohnooooohnoooonnono
      @Ohnooooohnoooonnono 8 месяцев назад +2

      Nah, Knowle west n hartcliff got the top sofa levels and L dubz

    • @gracemae8599
      @gracemae8599 8 месяцев назад

      @@Ohnooooohnoooonnonowell obviously but Easton is very neglected aswell and is very scatty

  • @markhayden1
    @markhayden1 5 месяцев назад +2

    I had no idea that places like this were even possible in the UK!

  • @peterlewis1443
    @peterlewis1443 4 месяца назад +1

    Yikes, that was a bit of a shock... I remember the Eastcott area around Crombey St from the 1970s and 80s and it seems to have gone downhill quite seriously, what a shame...

  • @pgsmith22
    @pgsmith22 7 месяцев назад

    Eastcott meanwhile, is super high density. Is typically the location for first time home buyers, and those needing to benefit from social housing, or multiple occupancy, low rent options. i.e. those who own the land have no interest or financial capacity for enhancement or maintenance. But for little tear aways, its a fun place for mischief.

  • @ThatGuyOverThere47
    @ThatGuyOverThere47 8 месяцев назад +2

    Would like to see you do a video on West Brom

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, it's on my to-go list. Apparently West Brom has the worst crime rate in the West Midlands, there must be something crazy going on over there.

  • @tony359
    @tony359 7 месяцев назад

    May I suggest you look into the framerate you use to shoot your videos? There is an excessive amount of stuttering which is pretty annoying. This should be the by-product of framerate conversion. If you do your final encode at 60Hz, make sure you shoot at 60Hz and so on.
    I hope this helps! :)

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks. It is annoying, I agree and I have tried to resolve it. We use three different cameras, and the editing software does throw out some errors. I haven’t checked what frame rate all devices record in actually, I’ll see if I can at least sync them.

  • @mabbrey
    @mabbrey 8 месяцев назад +9

    the uk in a nutshell

  • @chrislawton4692
    @chrislawton4692 7 месяцев назад +3

    Not quite sure a lot of that was Eastcott. I live in the area and a few scruffy alleyways and some tags doesn’t make it rough. If you went round the front it would have seemed perfectly normal terrace town houses.

  • @michaelrose1839
    @michaelrose1839 7 месяцев назад +4

    I live in Swindon, and went to school in Walcot in the early 1980s. It has never been as bad as people make out, and other than your usual bullying at school, I never experienced any problems.

    • @jimjarvis2309
      @jimjarvis2309 7 месяцев назад

      But, hang on Michael, haven't you realised that the country is in a spiral of decline? And this is no longer 1980. I fear you may be part of the problem if you think everything is rosy for our kids.
      Spoiler alert: We have had Blair since then and major uncontrolled immigration. I did a short video revealing one aspect of the problem:
      ruclips.net/video/b1isUTWScho/видео.htmlsi=pNiXM67qgFCh1_Rj

    • @chrisdawson6156
      @chrisdawson6156 Месяц назад

      What was swindon like back in the early 1980s

    • @michaelrose1839
      @michaelrose1839 Месяц назад

      @@chrisdawson6156 I always found it to be a nice place to grow people, and never really had any problems with the people living here.

  • @rozruszany
    @rozruszany 7 месяцев назад +2

    Mieszkałem w Swindon w 2007-2008 Maxweel Street. To było bardzo fajne miasto 😢

  • @Snagprophet
    @Snagprophet 7 месяцев назад +7

    I live in one of the satellite towns and come in for shopping, cinema etc and I've always had a positive-ish view of Swindon but a lot of the residential areas are really shit. Rose tinted glasses, that said Canal Walk, main shopping area, is really shit. Not worth going for, mostly just pound shops really. Not like the good old days with Woolworths, Burger King, GAME, Disney Store etc

    • @5uper5kill3rz
      @5uper5kill3rz 7 месяцев назад

      I used to go there to the Cinema as a kid before they built the one in Witney, occasionally I go to the designer outlet, Shaw Ridge/ retail parks but I've never actually been to the residential areas, however Swindon is mocked a lot by Oxfordshire for being run down

    • @MoochieGamez
      @MoochieGamez 6 месяцев назад

      Just saying those shop names brought back memories :,)

  • @LawrenceTimme
    @LawrenceTimme 5 месяцев назад +1

    Crazy how expensive these houses are in these dumps

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  5 месяцев назад

      Yes, it's sad because it means greedy landlords often buy properties and turn them into HMOs and further degrade the areas.

  • @johnsbox
    @johnsbox 6 месяцев назад

    I think some of the shots are from the Park estates. Don't recall them in Walcot. I grew up in Walcot East, but it seems from the footage that it is now much worse. At least the local shops look a lot better than Sussex Square which they replaced. Let's hope the new council can find a way forward and make the council estates worthy of living in.

    • @ricardoaguiar3353
      @ricardoaguiar3353 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yes johnsbox , you are correct. To the casual viewer , getting Park North / South mixed up with Walcot wouldn´t be an issue . But having been brought up in Walcot it was a big deal as both areas had a certain antipathy towards each other . During the early seventies I remember quite a bit of gang conflict between the 2 areas.

  • @freespeechadvocate7492
    @freespeechadvocate7492 7 месяцев назад +1

    Im a Walcot man, born and bread although I live is oldtown now which is really nice but Walcot has got worse in the last 20 years since I moved from there in 2001. The worst area in Swindon is Pinehurst followed by Town Centre and broad green.

  • @neilkinsella9680
    @neilkinsella9680 4 месяца назад +1

    The tower blocks are in park north not Walcot

  • @BarryBethal-yv2oz
    @BarryBethal-yv2oz 8 месяцев назад +9

    This looks like one of the most run down areas of your videos so far I live in stoke on Trent I thought that was bad but compared to this it’s not to bad

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah, Swindon needs some help. I've been following a channel on Stoke on Trent, you have some areas with the back alleys like in this video and they get dumped in too a lot. Too many people think it's OK to just dump stuff behind their houses!

    • @The670533
      @The670533 5 месяцев назад

      All the women in the market would say "alright duck" in Stoke and still do. I'd cycled everywhere and Stoke at least has a very simple traffic system (very rare). I do drive and passed on first attempt in that county Staffordshire. It's the furthest south you'll encounter Fred Dibner voices. Oo reight aah weir next to Doooorbysheeeer. XXX

    • @BluenoseBeerReviews
      @BluenoseBeerReviews 12 дней назад

      I tend to say that Swindon is a shit Cov...

  • @proton600
    @proton600 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve lived in eastcott for 3 years and had zero issues.

  • @SharpblueCreative
    @SharpblueCreative 7 месяцев назад +1

    I live in Stratton st Margaret on the edge of Swindon, be interested to see a video from there.

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад +1

      Looks like the area has a crime rate of 50. I’m guessing the worst you face is someone nicking a bottle of milk or a public disturbance from two seniors arguing about a parking spot 😂. But seriously, what’s your take?

    • @SharpblueCreative
      @SharpblueCreative 7 месяцев назад

      @@ukexplored no take, just would like to see how it compares to the rest of the place.

  • @dandelves
    @dandelves 6 месяцев назад

    Used to live in Swindon. Can't say i ever had any problems in these areas

  • @theabandonedhunter3604
    @theabandonedhunter3604 7 месяцев назад +1

    I enjoy these videos? Have you done any in Worcestershire?

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! I haven’t been to Worcester yet, but I have a relative there and she’s given me the rundown on the places I should visit 😀

    • @theabandonedhunter3604
      @theabandonedhunter3604 7 месяцев назад

      @@ukexplored there is also one in Droitwich Spa worth a visit called The Westlands, the one pub in the estate has just been bored up again. Saddlers Walk in Worcester isn’t great either (sorry if I have offended anyone reading this)

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад +1

      Alright thanks, I’m always noting this stuff.
      And no one should ever be offended, unless they’re the ones flytipping! 😂 we should be ashamed of how the government and higher ups are behaving, that’s for sure.

    • @theabandonedhunter3604
      @theabandonedhunter3604 7 месяцев назад

      @@ukexplored Westlands is definitely one mate… 👍

  • @warmbeerfreezone
    @warmbeerfreezone Месяц назад

    Missed a sofa at 5.27 in front garden under rubbish facing house behind wall 🛋

  • @strobel6028
    @strobel6028 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nothing at all on Hull. Hull invented the term CHAV, which is council house and violent. I couldn’t believe that in this video there were no houses on fire. Some of these areas had had the grass cut, which is impressive.

  • @Bertie22222
    @Bertie22222 Месяц назад

    You mention Walcot when you're showing the flats in Park north and Cavendish square in Park South

  • @MarkR06
    @MarkR06 4 месяца назад

    Hope you can do Cardiff soon 😊

  • @skeptic9876
    @skeptic9876 7 месяцев назад +1

    thumbs up for kitty at 4:50

  • @Fireflythebest
    @Fireflythebest 7 месяцев назад +2

    As someone who lives here, the place is a hell hole. You hear more domestics here than you do genuine conversations

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      The people who leave messages saying it’s perfectly fine and they never hear a thing must be the ones involved in the domestics! 😂

  • @loosesurfer
    @loosesurfer 2 месяца назад

    As a swindonian i desperately want to get out just font want to end up anywhere as bad or worse any advice on where to move in the uk 😢

  • @uk_central348
    @uk_central348 8 месяцев назад +2

    Do some Birmingham Coventry videos next

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, those are on the to-do list for sure.

  • @katb4149
    @katb4149 2 месяца назад

    I live in Eastcott, about a 2min walk from the "Top Boy" graffiti wall. I've never felt particularly unsafe here. The amount of fly- tipping in alleyways & graffiti tags everywhere though is shocking & makes it depressing.

  • @sirjohnjohns
    @sirjohnjohns 17 дней назад

    Swindon is such a beautiful place, really. I just hate the fact that it will stay ‘empty’. What do I mean by that? I heard that the town centre is dead and there are no shops or anything like that. Someday, when I grow up, I want to see it with my eyes but this will happen in merely 5 years or so.
    The persons who are going to read this and live there/ ever visited Swindon: What places do you recommend to go to and what not?

  • @user-sk3tn1hr8t
    @user-sk3tn1hr8t 2 месяца назад

    Ha! I have a mate who lives on Lennox Drive. A 30 year old woman was found dead In a Walcot street around Christmas/New Year time.

  • @MESSY-AF
    @MESSY-AF 7 месяцев назад +1

    beautiful england

  • @pgsmith22
    @pgsmith22 7 месяцев назад

    I grew up in Old (west) Walcot and i think its perception here, is skewed by being grouped with Central South, because Old Walcot was much better than New (east) Walcot, and Park South. The Queens Drive divide between the two is freaky.

  • @emmanewman9863
    @emmanewman9863 7 месяцев назад +1

    Ps since when was old town called eastcott? Are you referring to eastcott hill and road. I’m shocked at some of the alleyways. I have not been home in years, and I’m shocked.

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      Are you talking about where the footage was shot? I looked up the council boundary for Eastcott and tried to stick within those lines. But one thing I come across on a frequent basis is people disputing boundaries, I do my best. 😱

    • @derekp2674
      @derekp2674 6 месяцев назад

      Before the railway came to Swindon, Upper Eastcott was a hamlet roughly halfway between Old Town and the site where the Station and Railway Works were to be built.
      There was also a farm called Lower Eastcott further down the hill (near where Broad St now meets Carfax St).
      Eascott Hill and Eastcott Road are what became of the old lane from from Old Town to Upper Eastcott.
      Further west, there was another small hamlet called Westcott.

  • @unkutmusic3293
    @unkutmusic3293 5 месяцев назад +1

    Also eastcot is in oldtown

  • @Davross
    @Davross 5 месяцев назад

    With the caveat that I left Swindon 22 years ago........ It's not pronounced Eastcott, rather Estcott. However it's not even referred to as Eastcott but rather Old town. Never felt particularly dangerous, not like some of the estates begining with a p anyway. A little scruffy perhaps but never dangerous. The idea that statistically it's got the highest crime rate in Swindon now seems bizarre to me. Much has obviously changed since I've been away.

  • @jwithington9347
    @jwithington9347 6 месяцев назад +1

    This channels great, should there be a change in 30 years these videos will be very interesting to look back on. These places look as bad as rust belt areas in america or like 70s new york

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks, yeah I agree - it’s going to be interesting to see how these areas change going forward.

    • @jwithington9347
      @jwithington9347 6 месяцев назад

      @ukexplored hopefully they don't decay to the level of some cities in america that half abandoned and lawless. It is possible they could change for the better as look at Poland, cities that were once abandoned ruins full of serious crime and poverty look better than most cities here now, the regeneration there is incredible

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 7 месяцев назад +1

    Westcliff near Southend will give Swindon a run for its money?

  • @kimmaddison8686
    @kimmaddison8686 Месяц назад

    sofa in garden is great u can rent it out 4 10 a night with blanket pillow and cup of tea

  • @Andy-wx4wx
    @Andy-wx4wx 3 месяца назад

    The alleyways are eye openers, its as if you are walking in a deserted town film set with zombies just around the corner!!!

  • @cartoonhead9222
    @cartoonhead9222 6 месяцев назад

    3:48 Ahhh good times. I once spent a hot summers day with a mate frisbeeing assorted floppy discs and CDs we found in a skip onto the roof of that permanently abandoned church.

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад

      Haha, I don’t know why but that cracked me up.

    • @rebeccahayes1007
      @rebeccahayes1007 4 месяца назад

      It's been a squash club for years and years, quite popular too

  • @samanthab1752
    @samanthab1752 7 месяцев назад +2

    I live in one of those tower blocks and all I can say is what fun!! Antisocial behaviour on a daily basis, class a drug dealers living in the building, it's always fun watching the police dragging people out of cars by gunpoint for dealing and the noise all the time is awful! The building is in severe disrepair with a water pump breaking down and not fixed and elevators that don't work properly and a list of other things, mould in the flats and a ventilation system which barely works and also breaks the 2015 laws put in place by the government, its never ending with the issues of the building and local area, 3 times I have seen the glint of a knife in a low lifes hand aimed in my direction and the issues with drugs around the area are bad, some mornings I get to see a flock of crack heads sometimes with their children all waiting around the local phone box for the dealer to drop the brown!!! Then a 15 year old chav turns up on a surron with the drugs carrying a machete!

  • @vanzyli
    @vanzyli 3 месяца назад

    It's quite stark how there aren't a lot of people on the street - or are you just avoiding filming people?

  • @lifetruthseeking5808
    @lifetruthseeking5808 7 месяцев назад

    Could you ever do Scunthorpe lol

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      Yeah, one day I'm sure I will. Scunthorpe has a reputation that deserves a visit 😄

  • @michaelburggraf2822
    @michaelburggraf2822 3 месяца назад

    Loosing more than 3000 jobs in car manufacturing cannot be expected to have no effect on a location. How has that been compensated ?
    And a cost of living crisis won't improve anything.
    If people start loosing a positive outlook and aren't offered proper chances to improve their lives some people will start neglecting their surroundings and, later, themselves. That can kick off a vicious cycle turning an area ready for being entered by corruption and crime.
    Deindustrialisation has made many places struggling - here in Germany too. But even more conservative politicians understand that decline is difficult to stop once it has started and hence try to avoid it early.

  • @kaiserphoenix01
    @kaiserphoenix01 7 месяцев назад +1

    How is average house prices still £250,000 though. What am I missing?

    • @5uper5kill3rz
      @5uper5kill3rz 7 месяцев назад +2

      Just goes to show how unaffordable housing is becoming...I live in Oxfordshire which practically borders Swindon, Walcot is about 35 mins from my house, yet my parents bought our house for £250,000 way back in 2007 and the average on my street now (according to right move) is over £450,000...I can't afford to move out but if I was going to then I'd be looking at the towns/villages closer to Swindon as they're cheaper, ironically this helps fuel price increases but to answer your question I think it's because Swindon is actually very close to more expensive places so £250,000 comparatively is very cheap.

  • @emmanewman9863
    @emmanewman9863 7 месяцев назад +1

    Walcott has been rough for over 30 years.

  • @zeckham100
    @zeckham100 3 месяца назад

    You got any good areas over there?

  • @chrisdawson6156
    @chrisdawson6156 Месяц назад

    Yes I have to say the alleyways in Swindon are absolutely appauling makes me sick we are suppose to have a local MP who was born and bred in Swindon but I don't like her I hope there is a way back for Swindon

  • @skalessibbons7349
    @skalessibbons7349 7 месяцев назад

    Nice cat.

  • @joehilliard154
    @joehilliard154 6 месяцев назад

    Have you spoke to resident to get their thoughts on what it's like living in these areas rather than showing the bad parts? Thought not

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад

      I have actually, I know several people who live there and was shown around by two friends on the day.
      Do you ever ask questions before assuming things? Thought not.

    • @joehilliard154
      @joehilliard154 5 месяцев назад +2

      So where is that in the video? Fed up of stupid RUclipsrs coming to our own town and showing a biased view. Despite being poor in these areas the communities are incredible despite the struggles they face.

  • @dave-jk6en
    @dave-jk6en 6 месяцев назад

    I’ve lived in Swindon all my life and never heard anyone calling that area Eastcott

  • @skeptic9876
    @skeptic9876 7 месяцев назад

    i think you missed a sofa at 5:26

  • @MemesFromFreddy
    @MemesFromFreddy 7 месяцев назад +1

    as someone who lived in swindown for quite awhile i admit walcot east is a fucked up place

  • @thehumancanary131
    @thehumancanary131 5 месяцев назад +1

    Why don't the British have any pride in their neighbourhood? In Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and many, many other countries - the streets are clean and rubbish is minimal. 🤔🤔🤔

  • @ukskywatcher9598
    @ukskywatcher9598 7 месяцев назад

    Seen way worse alleys in Swindon the place is full of them

  • @86karl
    @86karl 7 месяцев назад

    Missed a sofa at 5 min .27 lol

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      I did? Damn 😂 there were so many I became desensitised!

  • @chesterdonnelly1212
    @chesterdonnelly1212 7 месяцев назад +1

    I live in Swindon and I never go to these scruffy areas.

  • @fkez0510
    @fkez0510 7 месяцев назад

    Nah what 💀
    I went up to Swindon once to visit this girl. We literally walked under that part at 0:44

  • @iamphoenix3564
    @iamphoenix3564 8 месяцев назад +2

    Coventry bro

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  8 месяцев назад +1

      It's coming, I've done a little research in Coventry, I'll get round to it.😀

  • @priscillas.5314
    @priscillas.5314 6 месяцев назад +1

    Why don't people list bulky items, like sofas, on websites? Many would happily come and collect them and, if they're in really good shape, they might actually even pay for them!

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад +1

      I know, right, they have so many other options, but they decide to take the lazy way out that affects everyone else around them by just dumping the stuff.

    • @priscillas.5314
      @priscillas.5314 6 месяцев назад

      @@ukexplored You're doing a great job, I've only just found you and I thank you so much for what you're doing. It is a really interesting and informative material that I wouldn't find anywhere else.

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks, Priscillas, appreciate having you hear and always love hearing people enjoy my videos, that's why I make them!

  • @astra-rb6sz
    @astra-rb6sz 6 месяцев назад

    Never any excuse for mess .

  • @Hutchy46
    @Hutchy46 7 месяцев назад

    you missed a sofa on the count! lol

  • @jhynton95
    @jhynton95 7 месяцев назад +1

    SN2🎉

  • @stfcgerome3906
    @stfcgerome3906 6 месяцев назад

    Missed a sofa at 5:27

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад

      The one I zoomed in on? The counter flicks up to 6 for it.

  • @barrygreen5782
    @barrygreen5782 8 месяцев назад +2

    These towns and cities are hogging like a ghost town everything is being closed down etc 😢😢😢

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      Yeah, it’s sad, honestly, isn’t it.

  • @Nutcase-Ninja
    @Nutcase-Ninja 7 месяцев назад

    I've a sibling whom lives in one of those towers lol

  • @hood3429
    @hood3429 7 месяцев назад

    Most of first part is park north

  • @Great_WesternTVFan
    @Great_WesternTVFan 3 месяца назад

    Eastcott looks like a suburb of Luton lol

  • @DJSwezzleMusic
    @DJSwezzleMusic 8 месяцев назад

    By far the most run down place you have covered.

  • @jstone247
    @jstone247 2 месяца назад

    How could people continue to live in such areas. Sad and pointless existences.

  • @vincerees841
    @vincerees841 7 месяцев назад +4

    Very amusing did make me giggle when I was a kid growing up in penhill the dogs went round in gangs and the cats carried flick knives ... Yes that woman was obviously attacking vloggers 😂 yes and lucky for us old feckers we don't have long to suffer millennial UK .... Man the lifeboat

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      That’s hilarious. Be careful what you wish for though, replacing the Millennials with Gen Zs comes with its own set of problems! 😂

  • @everythingeverywhereanyone
    @everythingeverywhereanyone 8 месяцев назад

    Love going to Swindon for shopping from chippenham

    • @jondixon4937
      @jondixon4937 7 месяцев назад +6

      that's strange, I love going to Chippenham shopping from Swindon. Your town centre is much nocer.

  • @The670533
    @The670533 5 месяцев назад

    Most of the time, there is an industrial estate.

  • @chrisdawson6156
    @chrisdawson6156 Месяц назад

    When you said a Woman stabbed a bloke in the neck was she arrested

  • @cassiegregory6757
    @cassiegregory6757 6 месяцев назад

    Yeap it sucks I'm moving out

  • @kimmaddison8686
    @kimmaddison8686 Месяц назад

    back alley with a matress ha ha if u go collect sofa old tv table you can have yout own outside home

  • @dodgeboy9052
    @dodgeboy9052 6 месяцев назад

    Modern day Slums ... NOT the properties. ... but the way people. accept to live and look after their home n Neighbourhood.. Well. done Swindon ...Mind you I see that the local council. has a weed management program while they sit on their arse n earn over 80 thou a year ..

  • @velvetinedrapes4359
    @velvetinedrapes4359 3 месяца назад

    3:10 maybe its not pride and just a reminder. Like that old joke about visiting Bradford. Spot on a domino and that 😂

  • @JackTom-ts7wk
    @JackTom-ts7wk 6 месяцев назад

    Do Eldene

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  6 месяцев назад

      I’d never heard of Eldene, but I just looked at google news, some serious crimes going down over there!

    • @JackTom-ts7wk
      @JackTom-ts7wk 6 месяцев назад

      Eldenes a serious little place on Swindon

    • @JackTom-ts7wk
      @JackTom-ts7wk 6 месяцев назад

      It’s funny cus it’s a nicer and smaller area then penhill, pinehurst but crime is just as bad

  • @Montana-qw4jz
    @Montana-qw4jz 7 месяцев назад

    Swindon’s factory thingy close down everyone’s lost there jobs

    • @CraigAplin-hi9jk
      @CraigAplin-hi9jk 7 месяцев назад

      Swindon has jobs galore. BMW, Nationwide, Zurich, Iceland, M&S, Aldi, Outlet village, B&Q, Historic England, Research council, GWR, Network Rail, majority of these are head offices. These are only 5% of what Swindon looks like. The author of this video should do a comparison to the better parts. Its so one sided. Swindon isn't run down at all, these are minor examples. There is deffo money in Swindon.

  • @bernierose719
    @bernierose719 7 месяцев назад +1

    Don’t the council employ people to clean the streets ?

    • @CatClub-jc3fp
      @CatClub-jc3fp 7 месяцев назад +3

      They can pick up rubbish from the streets, but the biggest issue is people don’t look after their houses, and install a kicked in UPVC door as their garden gate

  • @danozz7390
    @danozz7390 7 месяцев назад +2

    Been living near the area for 5yrs and not seen any crime, poverty or danger on the streets, not sure where your getting your stats from? If your looking for a high crime area in Swindon try somewhere beginning with P 😂

    • @ukexplored
      @ukexplored  7 месяцев назад

      I’ve done videos on the he P’s as well 😀 the stats are from either the census data or official police stats, but of course they only tell part of the story.
      Glad to hear you’ve not had any problems. Maybe you’re in the eye of the storm? 😂
      In all seriousness there is good and bad everywhere, even down to street level. Sounds like you live in a nice spot 👍

  • @santorini8423
    @santorini8423 7 месяцев назад

    We shouldn’t mock these people, have you seen how much they have to pay for 20 Bensons?

  • @abc33944
    @abc33944 Месяц назад

    How about the councils or gov
    Making use of themselves and making public broadcasts on NOT littering
    They need to start closing roads for cleaning and collecting dumped rubbish
    The public will soon get the message