WREXHAM | The back streets of Wrexham, Wales

[@tacfoley4443]

I was a small boy living there in the late40's and both early and later 50's. The place still fills my dreams, but this is not the way I remember it. My aunt had a stall in the market, and I still recall very clearly the smell of fruit and vegetables, and feel the slippery cabbage leaves underfoot, and hear the hustle and bustle of this once-great little town. I lived in Bertie Road with my nain and taid, and then, later, Lea Road with my mum....

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

Wrexham looks better in your film that it does in real life sadly. There are some great buildings but the council need to do something about filling all the empty shops, preferably with decent independent businesses. Try visiting Oswestry - lovely little town. Thank you.

[@troygrindley3793]

The worse thing the council ever did was allow the building of Eagles Meadow to go ahead. Took all the best place from the town centre.

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

@@troygrindley3793 I must say the only time I went to Eagles Meadow (Saturday mid morning) it was virtually empty when I would have expected it to be packed. Not even gangs of kids hanging around!

[@irenelucas5240]

Thank you for doing a walk in Wales - now I got to "view" England, Scotland, and Wales from the Mid-Pacific because of your walks. 👍

[@thetruthwillout9094]

Even though I live in Wrexham and have walked those streets countless of times it was still a fascinating watch. Properly strange. 🙂

[@nuka5619]

Cool, a fellow Headz fan

[@thetruthwillout9094]

@@nuka5619 Hell yes, how can you not love Goldie.

[@arianathearyan]

is it busy? cardiff is getting beyond busy and i wanna move out

[@_Micah_Bell]

@@arianathearyan not really in the town centre you will see a few people but its not too busy

[@bexhil7]

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[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thanks Michael!

[@leamatthews3146]

I’m extremely happy right now. My inner soul just cannot describe how happy I am.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

👍

[@Rhyddid_tan]

Beautifully filmed, Wrexham has changed so much over the years, gosh I remember packed streets in the 80s and 90s. These days it feels a little bit like a ghost town. There are some great community led organisations keeping the town afloat, not to mention our education institutions. There is hope for the town. -hopefully they will let you explore the secret underground tunnel system next time. 😀

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Oooh that sounds exciting - not heard of those!

[@thetruthwillout9094]

Unfortunately the council deny the existence of them but everyone knows they are there. I have tried to gain access myself but to no avail. Gutted.

[@liverush24]

The back way into the Hippodrome is still there, even though the Hippodrome itself was demolished in the '90s. I hadn't realised that until now.

[@nuka5619]

My nan has told me about that place loads of times. I just noticed it too, is there any remains of the building or is it completely gone?

[@liverush24]

@@nuka5619 I don't think so. It was burnt down by a building company, supposedly by accident. I don't think anyone thought that it really was an accident, though.

[@nuka5619]

@@liverush24 ahh, what a shame! it’s still interesting to see the remains of the wall/sign though I suppose.

[@johncochrane2707]

I have trouble keeping up with your prolific upload schedule, but I've enjoyed all the recent ones very much indeed. Great stuff.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thank you so much John! Don't worry about missing any - you can catch up at your leisure!

[@lynettehughes4673]

I can't believe that you didn't go up (or down) High Street! The buildings, when you look up, are probably some of the best in the town. Have you been to Oswestry yet? Lovely little market town that's kept a lot of its character.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Not been yet but will do!

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

Oswestry would be my recommendation too, a proper town with a lovely pint sized park in the centre.

[@mozdieloz3826]

11 minutes 58 seconds into your video and The Bells of Saint Giles Church start to ring just as you write its name on screen, as you are walking by it - what a stroke of good timing!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

I fell lucky with that one!

[@mozdieloz3826]

@@GimbalWalkTV As Megastar Harry Hill would say, with his catchphrase, "what are the chances?"

[@humanbeing8338]

The streets are so clean! It's so tranquil and pleasant day! Would love to see the busy day on Wrexham!!!

[@robsimmonds7685]

Nicely done -as usual- Mr Gimbal! 😊

[@andywright3450]

Hey mate great place been before years ago thanku for this walk and vlog 😊💯

[@jason7916]

Could you do a walk around Newquay, especially along the seafront, it's beautiful and one of my favourite holiday destinations 👍👍. Love watching these relaxing walks you do, it does so much for my anxiety and depression due to putting me in a chilled out relaxing mood. Thank you for your amazing videos 👍👍

[@ianlloyd6812]

So many barber shops! I guess walking reasonably early in the morning is good as the ratbags are still in bed! Interesting to see the old Odeon gone, Hippodrome gone, the Horseshoe Inn gone. I believe several shopping centres have been built over the last 40 years on the periphery of the town. That works for the large chain stores but can take the life out of the town. There used to be weekly markets and beats markets regularly. I guess, they also used to be an Army Barracks, coal mines and steel works which are all gone as well! Is there a local industry now?

[@ianlloyd6812]

……”beast markets”…..

[@GimbalWalkTV]

I think currently the biggest and most exciting thing happening is the football club and its Hollywood owners

[@wully0]

I was born and bread in wrexham moved from there 27 years ago to live and work in chester,wrexham has changed a lot since I lived there,lot of shop closed and pubs was 128 pubs in wrexham bk in day 80s chester got a lot shop closed to but not as bad as wrexham,needs revitalising badly

[@thenewmodfather]

Have lived in Wrexham since 2005 and I would never live anywhere else

[@mauricepaddock95]

Maurice When are you taking walks around the smaller villages in North Wales?

[@sandsmine]

these types of well done videos would make a good tv channel.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thanks John!

[@Red_Snappa]

Looking at the comments on here, there's a lot bashing the place. It might not be as BUSY in the town centre these days as it once was, but where is now? It's all on-line shopping with Amazon & the likes now, the town centre's can't compete anymore. But the one thing that almost all people who come here now agree with, is the friendliness of the locals! My cousin who lives down south, comes up here 2-3 times a year and ALWAYS stays in a hotel in the centre - despite family offers to put him up - because he just loves that about the place....people just say Hi and chat. You never get that in the big cities!

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Well said

[@paulhadley5754]

Wrexham has had a lot of changes over the last 50 years

[@GimbalWalkTV]

So true

[@paulinefearnley9379]

Sure was interesting different but interesting enjoyed it as always all the same 😃👍 so keep on walking 🚶🏻❤️

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Great video

[@johnrollins8346]

May I recommend doing a vid from Lichfield in Staffordshire? A very nice historic city.

[@dlittlester]

While you're in Wales, I'd be interested in a walk through Portmeirion. Years ago, I was a fan of The Prisoner.

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

You may find it difficult to get permission to film at Portmeirion.

[@dlittlester]

@@gaynorprice-jones1826 Really? I thought it was now a tourist go-to.

[@gaynorprice-jones1826]

@@dlittlester Yes it is a 'go-to', has been for years. I would recommend everybody to visit if they can, it's a fabulous place, particularly magical with a sprinkling of snow! Things may have changed regarding filming you'd have to check with them but I know that there was a time you had to apply beforehand.

[@trishahaynes2812]

So sad to see what used to be a busy thriving town now looking so empty and run down

[@griffdaz1982]

Can't believe you didn't see a single spice zombie in a shop doorway. This town once used to be full of shoppers and really busy streets. Especially Hope street, the main street (paved-no vehicles) which you missed out as you crossed under the arch. It's been euthanized between a useless council, Amazon etc and the massive useless ugly biggest waste of money white elephant "eagles meadow". I sold local newspaper 1981 age 11 outside the Gas Showroom (now co-op shop) trinity Street and it was hectic from the footfall from buses. I used to then sell to most of the shops (the lovely girls 😃 in Richardson female clothing store) and all pubs and again it really was so busy. Now it's bookies, boarded up shops, pubs, cafe bars, pizza 🍕 and kebab shops. Anyone remember the Monday cattle market 🐑 🐖 🐄. And the great Monday market. Used to get up 4.30am to go and help set up the stalls (curtain stall) then take em down after school for a whopping £5. £10 for the day if you wagged school (diving under stall as the wag man was on the prowl 🤣). It's now replaced by that ugly concrete jungle. There's nothing there that can't be on hope Street except the cinema and bowling. Which could have been situated in the town. Minus the scandalous price parking. I guess it's the price we pay in many towns for the ease of armchair shopping & next day delivery. Still it's sad to see the demise of the town. Whats the answer to it though ... 🤔.

[@thetruthwillout9094]

They must have been lining up in the chemists at the time for their daily fix of methadone. The Monday market used to be brilliant. Like yourself, I used to go down early as a kid to get myself a job to get some pocket money. I used to also help out in the cattle market during the school holidays. Wrexham used to be brilliant but full of smackheads and useless councillors now that won't do anything apart from line there own pockets ( and I could name one or two). Proper shame.

[@nuka5619]

There’s not many homeless in Wrexham town this year, most have been moved into Rhyl. We’ve lost plenty characters since the lockdowns.

[@johnmc3862]

Can you do Peckham? Thank you.

[@bmjinadasa6076]

Good

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Thanks

[@garethhughes6739]

All the towns in N Wales, and you picked Wrexham?! It used to be a proud, busy town centre with plenty of life, a real buzz and some lovely buildings. Sadly, the last couple of decades have seen it turn into an ugly ghost town which has had the life sucked out of it by years of incompetent planning decisions.

[@ryan010able]

do you have suggestions of better towns in N Wales? I ask as myself and my partner were looking at wrexham to move to, and unfortunately, we have found that the place really lacks any life !

[@garethhughes6739]

@@ryan010able What are you looking for in a town? Vibrant and busy? Quaint and pretty? Peace and quiet? Cheap and cheerful?

[@ryan010able]

@@garethhughes6739 vibrant and busy I would say, I'm from cardiff so wrexham was extremely dissapiinting lol. I dont expect anything near as busy as cardiff of course !

[@garethhughes6739]

@@ryan010able Wrexham has things going on - but it's Wrexham, and I wouldn't want to live there. Mold has some decent pubs and restaurants, a theatre, a few gigs and things going on, but not really as vibrant. Forget Buckley, forget Flint! (Although Buckely has the Tiv which is great if you like going to see bands.) Holywell is a small town, but getting better as a place to live - not what you'd call vibrant though. Rhyl is a total sh!thole, full of people you definitely wouldn't want to live anywhere near. Llandudno is lovely, very busy, but a bit more of a mature crowd if you see what I mean! Nice place to live though. Ruthin is a bit like Mold but quieter. Denbigh is like a slightly nicer Flint! Bangor has gone downhill a bit in recent years, but there's a large student population so it's quite a vibrant small city with things going on. Quite honestly, I'd be looking right over in the north east - near enough to the rest of North Wales to be able to take advantage of the beautiful places to be found there, but close enough to Chester (a few miles drive) or Liverpool (under an hour on the train) which are where you'll find loads of gigs, events and other things happening. Basically you're not going to find anywhere up here which has anything like the lively vibe of Cardiff (which is somewhere I love going, to be honest) - but on the whole it's a much nicer end of Wales to live!

[@alynwillams4297]

@@garethhughes6739 65,000 people live in Wrexham making it the most populated place in north Wales. So obviously something must keep these people living there.

[@andyhall3122]

Spice city

[@susanwoods7242]

Can you do Chirk?? Surrounds????

[@marcwhite7733]

Crikey grew up here

[@liverush24]

Why is it so dead these days? It used to be absolutely rammed in and around the town centre. Any weekday.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

A lot of places I film are quiet nown

[@liverush24]

Somebody is camera shy @2:44.

[@simonrichards2779]

I got to be honest, wrexham has become a shit hole. No money been put in by the council and starting to show sadly 😪

[@GimbalWalkTV]

It's a bit grim I have to admit I like to be positive about everywhere I go and put a really positive spin on the places but... 🤣

[@BiggyJimbo]

Everytime I go into Wrexham, I leave feeling depressed and miserable haha

[@iantully8333]

well done enjoyed it but as lynette said should have gone up the high street ,,, any way am in to subscribe any chance of mold and chester if poss and buckley ian and jen and me cat benjelina xxx p,s sorry i just seen you have done chester al wacht it now

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Definitely will do those for you guys! 👍👍❤️

[@theoisaac9948]

👍

[@GimbalWalkTV]

❤️

[@theoisaac9948]

@@GimbalWalkTV Your channel is relaxing.

[@GimbalWalkTV]

@@theoisaac9948 Thank you!

[@porkyparry1]

Should have gone up bridge St towards erddig.It ain't the same since they shut fat cat and Chicago rock

[@januszskrzypczyk4647]

Thank you for sharing.Wrexham is a "Polish town" in Wales.There are 8500 Polish comunity in Wrexham :)))

[@GimbalWalkTV]

That’s good! I didn’t know this! I love Poland so much!

[@rosemariepemberton5290]

Not a polish town at all

[@januszskrzypczyk4647]

@@rosemariepemberton5290 Dear Rosemarie,we,all Polish people have a big respect to you,Welsh and English.We pay taxes and try to be polite.I think it is a pitty you did not noticed " " with the phrase Polish town.It is of course Welsh town.With big respect to you,Janusz,one humble Polish living in Wrexham.

[@tinadavies4195]

@@rosemariepemberton5290 I agree,but I soon think it will be,they think they own it.

[@alynwillams4297]

@@januszskrzypczyk4647 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇱

[@oooooo1915]

Great place still is untill too many foreigners took over changed so much wrexham ppl are brill its bigger than this and shops lots history and interesting old buildings new and old council spread all too far but still a great city

[@GimbalWalkTV]

Great city

[@juanmaguire6482]

Daddios make the nicest ice cream

[@juanmaguire6482]

8:38

[@marleyjones870]

Why Wrexham it's not the best trust me I've lived all my life here

[@Ash-ht7dq]

Same-

[@saltney17]

Grim town wrexham

[@philipmaguire9209]

Red army .

[@RaySagan-en8re]

What a dump!