Boarded Up Bishop Auckland in Durham & Weatherspoons Review.

We took a trip to bishop Auckland after reading about in 2022 there were 34 retail outfits closed down and I wondered if it was getting worse with all the problems the high streets are having.. and it is and with a high crime rate I thought I was in for a disappointing visit. But to my surprise I actually loved it and was loving my visit. Join me and Keano today and you may want to visit yourself! I work for a company called cooplands and it’s a very good quality bakers you should pop in one day and try the products you will always come back for more ✅👍 #explore #property #foodblogger #weatherspoons #abandoned #buildings #abandonedbuildings #castles #abandonedbuildings

[@reneecalvert4153]

Its getting too be like a ghost town, like a lot of places nowadays. Thank you For taking us along with you, you handsome chaps 😊

[@Madsoutandabout]

Thanks for watching

[@illuminationwallart]

Thank you for checking out our legal graffiti walls. My apologies for the last comment i didn't catch our part when I skimmed the video. We painted the big Stan mural as a gift for the town, trying to make the old buildings look less hideous 😅

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate no problem ✅👍

[@jillmartin8601]

I went to Bishop Auckland Grammer and can't believe this is the same town that used to be so bustling a vibrant. Moved to Australia in 1970 and now live in New Zealand but travelled back regularly until my mother passed away in 1997. She would have been devastated to see it like this.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate very sad

[@derekthompson5153]

Born in Ferryhill in 1950, but lived in Bishop Auckland until 1975. The vlog was poignant, but sad for me to see the town so bad. I could tell you everything about how the town was back in the day. Stan Laurel's surname was Jefferson until he changed it.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Class mate cheers

[@alanbrown3135]

terry mate bishop born n bred red n white wish i knew you were in town would of loved to meet ya safc

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate enjoyed it

[@dougb100]

Sad to see, in the late 50s early 60s used to go shopping on Bishops Main Street as the main shopping location from Weardale.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Yes mate was busy then hopefully it can bounce Doug

[@susanbeaumont6063]

You make me hungry just watching the Vlog. Another good walk-about. Thank you.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers Susan

[@BenH2705]

Moving back up to the north east in April so it’s nice to see what surrounding places are like

[@Madsoutandabout]

Good stuff mate

[@derekdeljohnson7922]

You didn't mention Bishop Auckland high street was once the main route for Blackpool , Kendal and the lake district . A fantastic video lads and a great place to visit . I'd rather had a good cheese burger than pizza or steak pudding 😅

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks for that information

[@carlmayne3519]

I was in tears with laughter through some of this video .. I decided to put on google translate *for my brummy wife) and FFS it couldn't get a word right lmao, the castle scene was hilarious (try it with subtitles) ... love it so much lol ... Then Keano being 'the wrong way round' lin spoons lol .. gods i love you two so much you're an awesome duo .. PLEASE keep these videos coming ... let me know how to pay for your next fish and chips so Keano doesn't have too :D

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂😂 cheers mate much appreciated

[@briggsahoy1]

Hi guys, great video, expat Geordie, Canada.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@jammiesafc449]

another fantastic video so look forward to theese and all the knowledge about different places you and keano are definitely up there with laurel and Hardy there's a lot worse places than Bishop Auckland it actually looks nice waiting for the next one 🤣👍

[@Madsoutandabout]

Class place really enjoyed it mate

[@paulferri3441]

Another excellent vlog Terry such a shame to see another town ending up in this state so much for levelling up😢

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@hairysticks74]

Bishop Auckland is where I grew up and lived until the early 90s. Went to King James I school and have some cracking memories of the place. I revisited last year and was gob smacked, everything is closed. Sad times.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Very true mate cheers

[@victorthirlwell6216]

enjoyed that terry thanks as always there's only one keano

[@Madsoutandabout]

Sure is he’s class mate

[@johnvaughan8011]

Love the Stan Laurel mural and statue!

[@Madsoutandabout]

Class mate

[@illuminationwallart]

@@johnvaughan8011 thank you it was great fun to paint it 😆

[@johnvaughan8011]

Good laugh you guys, cheery!

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@leejmusic9321]

Found your other channel it's brilliant!! I'm from bishop

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks

[@leejmusic9321]

@@Madsoutandabout love it. I used to go urbexing,, you should go to kettleness and sandsend tunnels. Old abandoned railway tunnels. Lots of history. But go steady in there 👌

[@leejmusic9321]

​@@Madsoutandabout Why do I feel like I know that bloke your with.. IV definitely met him from somewhere. Mebay work or something

[@stephenm8898]

You know the Stan Laurel statue Terry? There's a roubdabout just behind it where you can either go right for the bus station and left for the train station but if you go straight over it onto Princes Street and that was where he lived and was christened at the church over the road (St Peters i think)

[@Madsoutandabout]

Thanks for that mate cheers

[@stephennesbitt6059]

Great vlog.Shame the way the Newgate St has gone in recent years.Some time ago I remember it packed with people and the market was busy,near to the town hall.Great drinking place with the pubs down to the market place.Where there was a couple of nightclubs!Unfortunately alot of large retail shops including the football club moved upto retail park up the road towards West Auckland.Beales occupied what was originally a big Coop. I think Mctintyres is supposed to becoming a Stack,similar to Seaburn?As they say there is regeneration,particularly around the park and the market place.Talk of converted some of empty shops into flats.Redoing the bus station and maybe a new park behind Newgate St.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate yes town hall area was class

[@Hotchochero]

Few more closed down since aswell. I work in one of the shops you passed. Such a shame.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Terrible mate cheers

[@nostromo332]

the shop at 14.30 was a boots chemist, some bigger shops went out of town, including argos, to tindale crescent 2 miles away from where you are now. i was born near to where the stanley statue is and if you had gone up princes street youll have found a blue plaque on a house where he lived when he was younger.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Brilliant mate cheers for that

[@lohanette]

There is no market. They have a food festival in market place once a year but that’s it. More shops have closed since you did this video. You should’ve counted the barbers on Newgate street, 13!

[@Madsoutandabout]

Sorry and thanks more have closed nightmare cheers

[@michaelcolledge3721]

The building after the gap near the queens head is my lasses work York nursery theres a canny fish shop there aswell mate hope ya keeping well

[@Madsoutandabout]

Nice one mate cheers

[@joshualane1104]

I moved here about 5 years ago. Live in west Auckland. The gaming hideaway isn't actually closed, its a VR only thing that you have to book in advance.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks for the info

[@nickyguy9599]

Ruffer shut the pubs and built the tower eyesore

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@marcusgirling]

I live in bishop Auckland near the town centre I know the bus station is getting built also some of the shops are getting demolished and probably rebuilt some are getting restored I know there’s projects doing to try and bring it uptdate but it be a while

[@Madsoutandabout]

That’s great news mate

[@Michael-p2o2l]

Think the market on Fridays

[@SAFC1]

Should do a walk from where roker park was used to be to the stadium of light

[@Madsoutandabout]

Good idea thanks mate

[@patrickscott838]

Bishop Auckland looks really nice! Very clean looking on the streets! Dangerous?

[@Madsoutandabout]

Just crime rate mate but nice tbh

[@hyosunggt125rcomet]

Bishop was a great place in the 80s/90/00s. Had loads of shops, banks, bakers with an amazing market back then and great pubs. Then shortly afterwards Council introduced parking fees that didn't help and like most places everything went downhill when internet shopping was in full swing, lockdowns finished the rest off. Now they like to waste money on rebuilding "market place" (if you can call it that, lol) & bus station. Would make more sense to build a bus station at St Helens, that's where everything is happening now. That shopping centre was the birth of our supermarket, I remember it being "Fine Fare". Has changed many times since then and now nothing, quite sad when you see how things have changed. That place with squatters was always a bakers, was once a Bakers oven, then went to Greggs. Yea, shame really watching the slow decay of our towns, wonder where it will all end.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers thanks for the comment

[@alanpercival840]

I usually come to bishop to go to specsavers once a year today i walked from tenters st along rear of morrisons to halfords i walked down newgate to market place i was shocked at the boarded up shops some dubious looking males in doorways must admit it was scary i am 72 yr old male i feel the street should be flattened make it a park grass trees seats a tram line up to the retail end for the shoppers this street is a disgrace

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate that sounds horrendous and I agree with you

[@TheWeardale1]

i do like bishop - as i moved to that area (well, more weardale) after Murton in 2002 ish... and i used to start going down to bishop after 2008... i dated a woman from shildon for a short while and we used to drink in that wetherspoons - that would have been sept 2010... shame about all the shops now, but go cycling down the railway lines and sometimes nip into the grounds of the castle...they sometimes have free events on there and you can go inside for free...they do a nice food festival there too in april(?)... and before xmas we went to the xmas market with friends, rented an airbnb flat and got real drunk... the plum porter been in wetherspoons was decent @ 1.99 apint..

[@Madsoutandabout]

Very nice place mate

[@onemeko]

Terry you should of took wincy as your minder You know it makes sense👍

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂😂totals rice

[@TinWhistleTV]

I am thinking of moving up north and might consider Bishop Auckland.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Seems canny mate

[@Bony1991]

🤣🤣 aye aye gan for Eldon lane mate you’ll love it same as everywhere these days though some parts ok some rough lol

[@SAFC1]

If you didnt know Terry all of the wilkos in the uk have closed down and have turned into either Poundland or a b and ms for example my local one turned into a b and ms and it used to be a wilko

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks

[@knightowl55]

Stan laurel died in 1965 and its the river guanless that runs through the park then into the wear!😊

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks for the info much appreciated

[@MauriceMarriott-ux2zz]

Everything has moved up to the new shopping area at Saint Helens and new shopping area opening up up the road from the town opposite Bishops Football ground

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks

[@gaz.7770]

You should see Newton Aycliffe town centre it’s a dump

[@Madsoutandabout]

Will have a look mate cheers

[@karendunn7960]

my first wife was from Bishop auckland i was from shildon then i moved to Notingham and got my second wife from there

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cool cheers mate

[@kevinstevens8910]

Who remember when sports direct was a JOB LOT store.

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂

[@philalexander4672]

Dennis Waterman was from Bishop Auckland too.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate was he

[@philalexander4672]

He also starred in 'A Captain's tale' about West Auckland winning the then World Cup. They won it twice in a row by the way.@@Madsoutandabout

[@stephenwalker7870]

It's the same up and down the country town centres dying full of charity shops

[@Madsoutandabout]

True mate but some nice places here still

[@leejmusic9321]

The one where ypu looked into the window was boots

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks

[@stephenm8898]

'We got married on the Thursday two days before the lockdown on Monday' Eh?

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂

[@stuartgough8831]

Hi guys the gaming hideaway which you said was closed down actually isn't closed it's a place for the bairns to go for gaming birthday parties

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks I never knew ✅👍

[@anotherelvis]

I read the autobiography of #fionahill. Apparently she grew up there.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers for that

[@kevinstevens8910]

Castle eden

[@Marko37-73]

Sorry guys but this is a familiar story in most of our towns and cities, too many retail parks with free parking has put an end to town centre shopping

[@Madsoutandabout]

Very true mate

[@darrenmoore7131]

Dont know what the answer is for bishop auckland, Kynren show brings people in but theres no were for them to spend there money

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@graemenicol6377]

Isn't there a registry office in Hartlepool where you can get married?

[@Madsoutandabout]

No clue mate 😂😂

[@justincase6645]

Its dead!! Cant believe how quiet the place is ,

[@Madsoutandabout]

It was mate very

[@neilreed6675]

A see council lads doing nothing as per usual Lloyd Ames

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂

[@Bony1991]

Eldon lane near there now that’s wild

[@Madsoutandabout]

True mate

[@ghanditw]

same bloke owns all the empty pubs he a billionaire and a bible basher he also owns the castle and runs the kinren. he trying to turn bishop into a art gallery.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Really cheers mate

[@georgebrown1917]

The big building on the left side was coop.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@graemenicol6377]

So is there no co-op in Bishop Auckland know or had it moved into another building ?

[@darrenmoore7131]

There's no co op now. The old co op building been empty a long time now , would cost £££'s just to bring building up to standard

[@legendarycheekymonkey]

Typical Mackem can barely read 🤣 That sign said Stan Laurel moved to Bishop at 14 months not years. In the market square where you were on about it being a good place for pubs, back in the late 90's early 2000's it was packed every weekend, people used to come from miles around just for the nightlife. Most pubs shut at 11pm but the Queens and the Postchaise were open until 2 or 3am so everyone used to work their way down the street and finish off the night there, they used to be filled wall to wall and you could barely move in the square at kicking out time. Biggest miss for me is the Tut and Shive pub, used to be in there all the time. The Green Tree is still open and is a really nice pub. As for the shops, it also used to be busy and had loads of market stalls in the square on Thursday and Saturday. The big Victorian building you weren't sure of used to be the Co-op department store, it had a little cafe and loads of shop space. The big one near the bank where you put your phone on the window used to be Boots but they moved up to the retail park. I've lived in and around Bishop most of my life and it's sad to see it now, used to be a lovely place.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks for that and yeah im dyslexic 😂😂😂