Burslem is it really that Bad?

Join us on a walk around Burslem Stoke-on-Trent in August of 2023 and we like. Is it any cleaner than what it was a few years ago we check out where Robbie Williams used to live and remember a lot of the old shops. Enjoy the video
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[@dolylloyd]

Heart breaking. All our heritage is going down the drain.

[@franciscomyatt352]

Spent three happy years at the School of Art 76/79, Bozlum was such a thriving place even then, crying shame what our towns are now becoming and all the heritage going down the pan.

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Thanks for the comments and thank you for watching

[@gordonbennet1094]

I spent 3 yrs at Burslem Art School ten yrs before u - 1965. Amazing experience. Burslem remains etched into my memory. I recall every building, street, and pavement, and - even then -so many derelict buildings and canals ...

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

@@gordonbennet1094 wow

[@trockfield4593]

Wow, I was there then (Foundation Art, 77/78) - do you remember Les Morgan (RIP)? Arthur Berry was still tutoring then as well I remember. I used to hang around the BA studios quite a bit during my time there.

[@meggermum]

Thank you for showing us Burslem as it is now, not as I remember it as a child. The building that was an Indian restaurant/take away was once the Millston pub that my great uncle Percy owned when I was a child. My mum also worked there, you also showed the Leopard Pub I had my surprise 50 birthday there, it is so sad to see these once lovely and loved buildings now in such a state.

[@AziraphalesAshes]

Found this cos of Lemmy's autobiography - "I started life in Stoke-on-Trent, in the West Midlands of England. Stoke consists of about six towns clustered together. Burslem was the nastiest, so it’s only fitting that I was born there." Not sure he'll ever have a statue erected in his honour with that kind of attitude!

[@pamjohnsongrey865]

Thank you enjoyed the history and walk around the town...

[@1122geoff]

The one opposite Rumblelows you said needed painting was the old RAF veterans social club upstairs

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Wow thats brill thanks for confirming

[@museonfilm8919]

There's so much potential there for re-development (and I don't mean knocking everything down). The problem seems to be the mindset of defeat - once garbage is strewn around and buildings get boarded up, those with the means to get out, get out quick. The rest just accept it's over.

[@akaPixelChick]

Omg what, happened to the roof of the leopard ?? Was there a fire there… you just confirmed it for me lol😊

[@joansalmon9097]

I felt so sad watching this as I remember Burslem from the 1960s when I worked in Burslem Public Library which was then housed in the Town Hall.....it was a thriving and busy community back then and there were still many potbanks in operation; the decay set in with the decline of the pottery and mining industries which had been the lifeblood of the Potteries for centuries.

[@SunshineMix101]

'Great vid' but sad in many ways. 'Not sure it merits a vid' of its own but I'd love to take a look at where the Old Rec' football ground was in Hanley before the Valiants moved to Burslem. Maybe include it in any later update vids? :)

[@ukthermal1695]

Robbie only lived there till he was 4yrs old 😂 he never lived there as an adult

[@philippamclean9366]

Heartbreaking what is going on.

[@tracysmith245]

makes you wonder

[@dodgeboy9052]

The River Trent ran down at the bottom of our street"Shipstone" in Nottingham... had many a happy days as a kid there in the 50s...under the fence and played in a place called brownies...i.e Justtake a minute to just look at those buildings ... built with no computers in those days. ...I salute the builders of yesteryear .. !!

[@1122geoff]

The one with blue shutters opposite Woolworths was Home and Colonial stores once

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Wow

[@BlackwoodMorgan]

Some really great architectural pieces. Why it is so run down ? Why does it look like a ghost town ?

[@pamjohnsongrey865]

My late Mother left Burslem UK in 1945 ,she would not recognise her hometown ..

[@roybond5404]

Some amazing buildings there , what a shame .

[@straighttalkingguy7366]

Correction Robbie did write angel Englebert recorded it later . But because Englebert sings older songs I thought it was an older song

[@1122geoff]

We should think we are lucky the windows aren’t broken yet in the beautiful Wedgwood institute building

[@daveeardley1]

Johnson & matthey printed ceramic transfers I work there form 1972 to 1978

[@shaneraven2621]

Does it have to be paved everywere, there's no greenery, its all slabs its like the old song, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot , !!!!

[@museonfilm8919]

Laziness. It's like landlords who buy nice big houses, and pave over the grass, or worse, use those nasty slate chips (which end up migrating around the neighbourhood!)

[@user-og9xo9hq5d]

An interesting, if depressing, account. I remember Bozlem of the 1960s. "The Burslem Scheme 1960" ought to be repeated. Two points (both in "The Burslem Scheme 1960" [kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGXZoYSkpq6Mj7s]): 1) the fountain 8:08 in your video was moved as a corner wall decoration outside John Maddock's pottery in Newcastle Street, where Home Bargain stands now. 3:14 & 11:41 2) The Leopard in 1960 9:35 & 12:16 also in the opening shot "1960s Burslem, UK, Busy High Street, Shoppers, 16mm"[kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKacaHWIj9B7fs0]

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

Thanks for watching bill

[@straighttalkingguy7366]

Wrong the song Robbie sang was an old song sung by Englebert Humperdinck

[@thegurch7313]

Wow, i really enjoyed that, a great video, really nicely shot well done on a splendid job...and I'm surprised to see no one has left any sort of racist slant in the comments as some brits have a habit of blaming "others" for the downfall in the high street.

[@DarylPritchardvideos]

thank u for watching