"Is WIGAN Becoming TOO MODERN?" - A question that hasn't been uttered since TV went colour.
@anonUK11 ай бұрын
This would have been in colour- but the OB cameras' colour circuits conked out somewhere round Stoke...
@Hacienda_2710 ай бұрын
@@TinLeadHammerthe Beatles filmed in colour 5 years earlier 😂
@Stephen-lx9nm14 күн бұрын
Not in the uk @@Hacienda_27
@Stephen-lx9nm14 күн бұрын
@@Hacienda_27Only colour ii Manchester is brown Boom your kids know
@ryanwarren297011 ай бұрын
The announcer is really laying into Wigan. It's like some kind of Monty Python style mockumentary. And those songs are wild. I have gotten better laughs out of this than anything else all week.
@vaughnshinkus41787 ай бұрын
As an American, all the documentaries on this channel feel like Monty Python mockumentaries.
@nellyfett268111 ай бұрын
This has been a presentation by the Wigan tourist board.
@Evemeister1210 ай бұрын
The words "wigan" and "modern" in the same sentence is a rare thing.
@crankjazz11 ай бұрын
The postmark for wigan in the 1970s read "Modern Wigan has no peer".
@sglenny0019 ай бұрын
Lol
@uphollandlatic9 ай бұрын
Sorry to be pedantic but it was “..no pier.” This was a three way pun. ‘No pier’ - getting rid of the old image. ‘No peer’ - nowhere better and ‘No peer’ - Wigan’s resident member of the House of Lords, I think Lord Ashton, had recently died.
@nevittwoods17306 ай бұрын
How can i stay away😄
@sharefail11 ай бұрын
Me looking down on the other watchers of this video looking down on the presenter looking down on wigan looking down on the past
@nicholasbuttery51110 ай бұрын
Home of Britains oldest BMX Shop since 1981 called ALAN`S.
@linalmeemow10 ай бұрын
Spent a fortune in there on records when it was on Mesnes Street - best punk rock record shop in the country!
@johnmcmahon567010 ай бұрын
Same. It's a shame Alan's doesn't still sell music, but there's a great mainly second hand LP emporium - Static Records - in The Old Courts
@linalmeemow10 ай бұрын
@@johnmcmahon5670 I moved to Leicester in the mid 90s, haven't been to Wigan since...
@nottinghamsoul77907 ай бұрын
Nice clip of the Casino before the all nighters started in '73
@brianmmacu11 ай бұрын
The people singing along to the song looked like they were being held hostage
@heraldeventsandfilms597011 ай бұрын
Those poor b'stards.
@Pikestnt11 ай бұрын
That, at least, hasn’t changed in 54 years. Singalongs at folk clubs still look forced. 😀
@Pikestnt11 ай бұрын
Well if we’re throwing out random non sequiturs: “So-called BBC” “Brexit” and “Modern comedy isn’t funny”
@heraldeventsandfilms597011 ай бұрын
Therefore you are attending them. Why?
@Pikestnt11 ай бұрын
What can I say? I’m a glutton for punishment - I like being forced to sing
@philipmilner963811 ай бұрын
I think in this day and age, would prefer to live in a 19th century built houses, than the modern concrete monstrosities
@DissociatedWomenIncorporated10 ай бұрын
@@PGHEngineer if you’re an engineer, shouldn’t you live aboard a starship?
@DissociatedWomenIncorporated10 ай бұрын
@@PGHEngineer I grew up with TNG, and it formed a solid foundation for my ethics and sociopolitical viewpoints, to this day I’d still describe my political ideology as “Star Trek”. As a nerdy little girl with a very rough childhood, I was really lucky to find a show that provided the positive role models that didn’t exist in my real life. But yes, it does have the side effect that the 21st century is rather disappointing. Not so much the tech side of it, I mean sure I’d love us to be more advanced but it is what it is, more so in the slow pace of ethical and social development. I want us to be the Federation, instead we’re the Ferengi.
@borealico11 ай бұрын
The photograph in this is amazing. Beautiful filming and what a document. How is Wigan today? Was it preserved as it was once on a time?
@pcalf10111 ай бұрын
😂 no it's thoroughly awful. Born and bred there. I try to escape as often as possible.
@jamesanthony931611 ай бұрын
Crusty folk singer with his protest songs was right. Wigan became just another anonymous Northern town
@borealico11 ай бұрын
@@jamesanthony9316so sad. Same thing happened to lots of small cities in Sweden around 60s and 70s. Yes the folk singer was indeed right.
@stubamford140511 ай бұрын
I got out of this shite hole 20 yrs ago and have never been back
@apathyintheuk26510 ай бұрын
@@jamesanthony9316 Well, it was destined only to be a museum piece otherwise.
@martinbingham212710 ай бұрын
Wigan became a better town when the reporter left.
@chrisbayes297210 ай бұрын
People from Wigan are called Wiganers, they surely should have known that!
@richardchadwick40287 ай бұрын
I visited Wigan( Granny and Grandad ) in the 1970s great place .most of those modern buildings looked awful when they were first built ..
@NorthenSoul10 ай бұрын
Now I know where REEVES AND MORTIMER got the influence from for MULLIGAN AND O'HARE
@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo10 ай бұрын
Im in absolute tears this is like an accidental sketch 😂
@Mr.1.i8 ай бұрын
I come from wigan grew up on an estate called norley hall in pemberton it was built in the 1950s its a nice estate with trees along the avenues and fields
@andydixon298011 ай бұрын
Richard Ashcroft was to be born the following year and put Wigan on the musical map in 26years.
@whiteyvegas11 ай бұрын
George Formby played golf?
@andydixon298011 ай бұрын
Oh I forgot about George 'Turned out nice again...hee hee' Formby.@@whiteyvegas
@robt439011 ай бұрын
Northern Soul and Wigan Casino (largely thanks to amazing rail links) put the town on the map long before t’Verve took liberties with that Rolling Stones orchestral sample (and momentarily became known the world over), thank you very much.
@bid8411 ай бұрын
What is a Wigan?
@nickmitchell644310 ай бұрын
Such a shame his lyrics are terrible
@ahassen123610 ай бұрын
From Los Angeles to Liverpool as they say 😊
@RDJ19977 ай бұрын
Being from Liverpool, I often find myself doing a double take before realising I’m actually not in LA
@Thomas-px2lh11 ай бұрын
People from Wigan are called pie eaters.
@GBPaddling10 ай бұрын
Leythers are Lobby Gobblers.
@sleepingwarrior46183 ай бұрын
And Keir Stamer is a twunt.
@stuartsaint458111 ай бұрын
Was that song about the Douglas reused for Phoenix Nights?
@simonhodgetts653011 ай бұрын
It’s close…….but it’s also a generic folk type song! Reminds me, where’s me sneakers……….
@Hacienda_2710 ай бұрын
@@simonhodgetts6530send the buggers back 😂
@Hacienda_2710 ай бұрын
Well, there's A headline you'll never read again
@user-jr3dx7wl6j11 ай бұрын
This reporters delivery is almost comically snide and condescending. Turns the stomach
@pcalf10111 ай бұрын
On reflection it is a little unfair. As all northern and Midlands towns and cities were socioeconomic wastelands, not just poor old Wigan.
@nevittwoods17306 ай бұрын
& woun't he loov it🎸
@spooj11 ай бұрын
I read this too quickly and for a second thought it said is Wogan becoming too modern, oh Tel!!!
@edwardmclaughlin793510 ай бұрын
The presenter sounds like Michael Palin acting like a presenter.
@mikeatcora9 ай бұрын
A snapshot of Wigan that's slowly being destroyed by small minded planners with big ideas. There's a lot of this film that has buildings that are still there, the cooling towers were demolished in 1989, the Grand hotel is still there (Buddy Holly stayed there whilst touring). The place still has lots to offer and is always worth a visit, best if the sun is shining to see the parks etc. There are no functioning mills, all posh flats now for the better off.
@parzivalthewanderer96879 ай бұрын
Ironic that the old walkable housing and cobbled streets, which he calls dreary and ugly, are now the desirable places over the concrete modern places, which have aged into a dreary unkempt mess without color or character.
@Scottinuk11 ай бұрын
I could swear that’s Jarvis Cocker at 2:44 😂
@ukmud621810 ай бұрын
Quite alot of the buildings shown are gone
@ozzie-sk9dh11 ай бұрын
Did the reporter get out of Wigan alive back to the south? He didn’t deserve to. 😂
@missmuffet387411 ай бұрын
Agreed. What an absolute @rsewipe he was.
@CinemaMusic559 ай бұрын
Look at the state of this so-called folk singer's nails.....and this man was a school teacher!
@matthewbland876510 ай бұрын
Mulligan and O'Hare
@Reknaw1556 ай бұрын
My girlfriend is from Wigan, they are funny people, they have a small village mentality, you goto a bar you often see the same people. In Liverpool you'll never see the same people even if you go out everyday. A night out it's a dam sight better than Manchester I would say.
@mangore6236 ай бұрын
“…it’s swinging…” At the end of a noose. Completely grim place.
@jasonayres11 ай бұрын
(1:45} That reminds me. I must cut my fingernails tonight.
@simonhodgetts653011 ай бұрын
And clean them…..maybe he’d been digging spuds that afternoon…….
@unclejoe795810 ай бұрын
Black, but from what I remember Wigan lads weren’t known for their hygiene. A lot of lads only got wet at Wigan baths. Dirty fingernails were the norm considering most men were working with either metal or coal.
@ianbrodie86589 ай бұрын
Shame about the Casino.
@themadplotter10 ай бұрын
This could be Rotterdam or Liverpool or Wigan or Rome? Cos Wigan is anywhere, anywhere alone….
@dawnyWestScotland11 ай бұрын
Shame there’s always something thrown and dumped in todays waters, usually a supermarket trolley 😢
@stonehengeminstrel11 ай бұрын
Wigan Pier may only be a 2 foot jetty sticking out of the canal footpath in reality, but it still remains 2 foot longer than the thousands of towns without one 🤣. It's a case of my 2 foot pier is still bigger than yours! 😊 Oh the irony...
@highpath4776Ай бұрын
was it rebuilt?
@mikey20334 ай бұрын
Is keith still with us?
@matthewtrow569810 ай бұрын
The guitarist at 1:25 - never knew Jeremy Corbyn was that old! - blimey!
@sglenny0019 ай бұрын
Never knew he could play gigtar
@FlatDerrick9 ай бұрын
You might want to invest in a pair of glasses. They look nothing like each other.
@josephe36976 ай бұрын
E must av bin a pitmon with is black fingernails!
@rymacreeks2k0710 ай бұрын
Wigan got cooked so bad here LMAOOO
@jblogs100010 ай бұрын
this was when wigan was part of lanc,s then was pushed into manchester the worse day for wigan
@sarahyoung303311 ай бұрын
I'm from Skelmersdale and would go on weekends and it was awful. I recently took my fiancé there and he was shocked. Hardly any shops, smells so bad and not worth going
@tinyplanet_36011 ай бұрын
This coming from someone from skem 😂😂😂
@sensemaya110 ай бұрын
Skem is worse.
@linalmeemow10 ай бұрын
Ah, Skem - when Britain is given an enema, Skem's where they stick the tube...
@Delicious_J9 ай бұрын
Frig off your from Skem hahahaha
@sarahyoung30339 ай бұрын
I really don't care. Skelmersdale is an awful place. I admit it
@marine4lyfe8511 ай бұрын
Like putting a beauty spot on the face of a plain woman..lol
@dukedepommefrite11 ай бұрын
That dudes dirty fingernails 🤮
@rymacreeks2k078 ай бұрын
manky
@jmorris02310 ай бұрын
Is it insane to move to Wigan?
@da90sReAlvloc11 ай бұрын
Wasn't the wrestler dynamite kid. From Wigan
@bobclover463411 ай бұрын
Yes, him and The British Bulldog both came from Wigan.
@GBPaddling10 ай бұрын
Golborne.
@nationaltwin9 ай бұрын
@@GBPaddling Isn't Golborne in Wigan?
@GBPaddling9 ай бұрын
@@nationaltwin Yes, so is Leigh, but they're not happy about that either.
@nationaltwin9 ай бұрын
@@GBPaddling Fair enough
@evertonshorts937611 ай бұрын
The folk club is still going...
@Sheblah1Ай бұрын
Why does he keep pronouncing it "Wiggum"??
@tsr20711 ай бұрын
The BBC seems to enjoy putting these patronising reports on line with the presenter mocking the locals. Cant really find fault with the decision makers of the time as they had really seen poverty and must have been desperate to improve the town.
@csr708011 ай бұрын
This is something often forgotten now. Those soulless big concrete or brick housing estates? Yeah they're not beautiful nor very inspiring, and probably weren't when they were new, but there was so much really really *really* bad quality housing that I'm sure a lot of people were exceedingly happy to move out of. Same goes for the typical Russian (Soviet) "commie block" btw. Yeah it's awful in many ways, but back when they went and built thousands of them everywhere all over the Soviet Union, a lot of people were living in huts or old army barracks. It was extremely bad. A shared commie block flat was great in comparison, as much as it sounds awful from today's perspective.
@anth51226 ай бұрын
The town has since been demolished
@TheGinglymus10 ай бұрын
It's funny all this romanticism towards the Victorian industrial revolution, which was modern and a past that was very harsh to most people. Post war development was actually to give everyone something in a contemporary way.
@bengaliinplatforms126810 ай бұрын
And it did nothing but destroy it. Name one community that actually improved after these projects? Giving everyone something is not good for the soul of an Englishman, it's the path to his demise. Better sanitation and public housing doesn't mean the death of beauty. And these creeps would tear down one beautiful building after another for their own narcissism, not for the people that went in them.
@cunkmusic87488 ай бұрын
Wigan.... Where the m6 is cobbled..
@NoosaHeads11 ай бұрын
The photography was superb, but the singer was as bad as I've ever heard in my life.
@BadgerBotherer111 ай бұрын
I thought he was quite good. Certainly better than today's corporate, manufactured, pap pop.
@avus-kw2f2137 ай бұрын
I love old shitty buildings
@richardkrispell790410 ай бұрын
Dreary grey Wigan, can it get any worse… then someone starts singing nasal folk songs to cheer the locals up. Hilarious.
@richardcotton84352 ай бұрын
It's definitely becoming more multicultural thanks to nandy Pandy
@mc-yt2rc10 ай бұрын
how did the human race survive the 70's look???
@KittyKat-vb1nd9 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@mci68302 ай бұрын
Wonder if Keith is still around to witness today's plastic population.
@scotmorley852611 ай бұрын
I'm putting nothing in my mouth from Wigan
@ekurisona66311 ай бұрын
what awful reportage 🤮
@jamesbomd350310 ай бұрын
FUNNY FROM 1935 TO 1942 THE HIGEST PAID MOVIE STAR IN THE WORLD CAME FROM WIGAN GUESS WHO ?
@ANDREWLewis-p9j11 ай бұрын
Wigan is and always will be a dump with useless rugby and football team's 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@linalmeemow10 ай бұрын
They know how to use apostrophes though - I'm assuming you're a semi-literate Saints fan? The irony of your comment given Wigan were crowned world club champions just a couple of days later is delicious.
@ANDREWLewis-p9j10 ай бұрын
@linalmeemow no, I am not a Saints fan is being picky over an apostrophe the best your intelligence can do. I did work in Wigan for eight years. What a dump
@linalmeemow10 ай бұрын
@@ANDREWLewis-p9j I could also pick on the rest of your dreadful grammar and punctuation if you like? What about the world club championship win then, or would commenting on how wrong you got that show your lack of intelligence?
@heiltd128610 ай бұрын
No apostrophe 's' in plurals in English. This is basic grammar not rocket science. The plural of 'TEAM' is 'TEAMS' not 'TEAM'S'.
@ANDREWLewis-p9j10 ай бұрын
@heiltd1286 Do the letters 4.Q mean anything to you? Nobody bothers with the English lessons except morons from Wigan