Hanley Bus Station - Stoke-on-Trent

My Documentary capturing real people in Stoke-on-Trent at the infamous Hanley Bus Station!

[@sclitchmusic]

So weird seeing the old bus station, there's a new one now. Mindblowing honestly

[@oldnook]

im stoke and proud, ive lived here over 40 years, but ive seen it go from a thriving city , to a shambles in the last 20 years.

[@jacobmassey3897]

I've lived in this shithole my whole life and was relieved to finally get out and move up to Leek earlier this year.

[@curtisowen]

A great piece of Hanley history ❤

[@PurityVendetta]

My grandparents lived in a house that was on the corner of Charles Street and Birch Terrace before the bus station was built. Unfortunately, the bus station is a symptom of the industrial decline of the Potteries and the corruption that has been rife in the Labour run council and the rot that set in with Thatcher's government. Since then there has been the commoditisation of education, the lack of opportunities and a complete lack of will to implement any real long term solutions backed with the cash to make them effective. Those older folks remind me of the fab people I grew up knowing. Real people with fascinating stories to tell. I no longer live in Stoke on Trent but as time goes by I do think about happy memories of growing up in the city. My memories of the shambolic school that let me down and some of the less nice people like the gang of skinheads who attacked the small group of friends I was walking home with in the old bus station. I suppose the bad memories always give way to the good.

[@teresarobinson1741]

Sad to hear

[@Truthseeker1515]

As a student at Keele University in the early 1990s, I took the National Express to Gatwick Airport twice at midnight, an eerie experience! Never again. Good that a new station has been built! Long overdue!

[@michealjones7195]

The words made in stoke on trent used to mean something but now that the potteries industy has been shipped off abroad so they can get away with slave labour stoke is now full of warehouses and agencies giving out minimum hour contracts its a god daamn shame!

[@michealjones7195]

girly boy you can allways move

[@perth45]

it makes me sick that only a couple of years ago when someone made a negative remark about Stoke, the local newspaper 'The Sentinel'....were giving away 'I'm proud of the Potteries' car stickers....and you could see them everywhere,......THATS why Stoke will never change...too many people here think its ok the way it is....and its a SHIT-HOLE.....!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KDCW3534A]

I originally hail from stoke, looking at films like this makes me glad I left the sh*thole!!!

[@si002]

Yes me too!!!

[@heras3031]

Same

[@dids3384]

haven’t left yet but can’t wait to do so :/

[@si002]

@@dids3384 what's been going on there lately then 😂

[@mrsidburnar1]

Crap hole

[@Szaam]

I'm from Walsall, but I live in Stoke for uni. It ain't the most attractive place but the vast majority of Stokies I've met are good people. Chavs are just chavs, you can't use them as examples of local people. I'm hardly from the most picturesque place on earth anyway so I've got no reason to be snobby, haha.

[@HappyNeilHarvey]

Wow am I glad I left . My family still live there thats the only thing i miss. I will never go back. I know you`ll understand why i feel this way ,after you`ve seen this vid.

[@juliepownall2000]

l used to work in Stoke on Trent place called Come n save next to Bevans music shop in the late eighties in Longton the people are very nice but the place needs regeneration l believe he passed away Mr Ellis bevan a few years back ...nice guy l am from manchester 😊

[@BreezyRider66]

I grew up in Bucknall in the 70's/80's so we'd be up 'anley (duck) all the time. Stoke like many other places in the UK lost the prosperity and self respect it once had a long time ago with the demise of the potteries, the mines, the Michelin factory, etc. At least in the past there was work, now it's little wonder they head straight for Stoke whenever they want to film somewhere deprived...

[@millward1988]

fuckin born n bred m8 safe to all da stokies

[@gizzthegremlin]

An excellent video, loved every bit of it. The lovely man talking about his cat and the PDSA is a real star! Hope you are keeping well and don't worry the bus station is due for demolition soon!

[@jackoboymm]

Does anyone know (Scribbler09) the xbox gamer? He's often seen cruising round Bus station.

[@alexcrossfield6576]

Dead on.proper Stokie accent " compared to Nottingham and other places I think this town is filthy, and I don't know how the council, have got a cheek to call this a city centre! Because it's nothing but a junked up little town"

[@ajaja7390]

Now you can see why they closed it and built a new bus station.

[@HelenM1994]

How can you say that? Some places in Stoke are nice. Its just that bus station that's crap!

[@si002]

Not just the bus station

[@theTideswellman]

nice work, love the characters. Paints a bit of a bad picture but, I really liked the old guy who got a bit upset. Hope you bought him a brew.

[@teresarobinson1741]

My thoughts entirely

[@jordan95hd83]

It's not like this now, there's a new bus station that's better.

[@Jaikay1]

Barely. It's got better in the last 30 years, but in the last 10 it's barely changed. Same scum, they're just spread out over a bigger space.

[@hh-ck3yw]

Shithole on trent

[@jordan95hd83]

@@hh-ck3yw, not the whole of Stoke is a shithole.

[@hh-ck3yw]

@@jordan95hd83 yes it is a shithole They might as well knock everything down and rebuild the city

[@israeladesanya4596]

Where are you from

[@SeeDaRipper...]

Bloody nora, know hanley bus station like the back of me hand...i left Stoke for Bristol some 16 year ago, and unlike Chris Lawton underneath...i still love my hometown (warts an all) UTMP!

[@perth45]

PROUD OF WHAT??????...

[@Tavi_186]

may be a shit hole, but great football team. love stoke city from romania

[@lratcliffe9151]

I live in stoke, and i agree that hanley bus station is rough, i thought that in the 70's and it isn't any better now. However, i think that most people think this about the bus/train depo's where they live as well. the fact is: What can we do as a nation to make these places better!... iff you know how please let me know...

[@piplup2009]

i live in longton and its bus station is better than that shithole i think they are changing the name from hanley to stoke shopping centre city or something

[@hinaahmed92]

dump

[@yampydoo123]

lived just over the road from the bus station 15yrs ago it was just the same then . 15yrs on still no change? like the vid tho but i think most towns in the uk have places just like this .

[@KieW357]

to true

[@Dalagonash]

The guy at 1:58, was always in Tesco Hanley on a Wednesday around 6ish, saw him all last year whilst working there.

[@danwoodward23]

This is a really decent documentary

[@si002]

It actually is!!!

[@mrSeandobson007]

hanley bus station is that good they made a horror/scifi film there lol and they didn't have to spend money on it making it look bad

[@si002]

😂

[@jamesisace93]

Yep it sure is

[@ollm55]

oh dear. great video, really sums up what I think of stoke, not a nice place to live at all. if you dubbed the voices I don't think viewers would take much more persuasion to believe this was shot in Ukraine or Moldova.

[@TheXboxGamer32]

Hanley is honestly the worst part of Stoke-on-Trent. The only genuinely nice part of Stoke-on-Trent is Alsager.

[@milels6917]

Boot camps are needed Teaching the bug….how to live Black Maria in my day bundle them off to some workers is what we need I can see now why they pulled the bus station down it became a den of lazy layabouts

[@john111257]

terrible place..in the 70s it was alive...the new one won't work..no money in STOKE ON TRENT

[@MissLauren151]

im form stoke and im not a chav but it is a grim place especially the bus station

[@si002]

Place was a shithole. Visited again recently, still a shithole. Nothing changed.

[@hh-ck3yw]

@@si002 they might as well knock everything down in stoke and rebuild the city

[@si002]

@@hh-ck3yw I think that's the only sensible option. Hopefully they can do better.

[@leecondliffe1701]

Stoke is not that bad stop posting negative shit

[@IshmaelSkyes]

The negativity is one of its worst aspects.

[@JohnJohnson-tw8qk]

Great cafes in the bus station when I visited Hanley back in the day gone down hill since

[@si002]

It's definitely gone downhill recently, the state of what's left of it.

[@sarahh117117]

ive lived in stoke all my life,and the people 2day not all but most of the young one,s have little respect,for any1 or anything,its a real dump now,the council should watch this,and take a good look at them selfs,and wonder why stoke has gone down hill....

[@si002]

Sarah I don't think anything has changed, ten years on......

[@JuJuHounds15]

Stoke is a dirty place, but I'm proud to be a Potter xxxx

[@lisablack8425]

just looking at that place and i can smell the strong and disgusting aroma!

[@si002]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@jamesgravil]

Damn, kinda reminds of the Midgar slums from Final Fantasy 7... without the cross-dressing! :-)

[@TheXboxGamer32]

One of the guys was drugged up. Horrible. (4:47)

[@samcornett]

brilliant, really well made you have defintley highlighted the fatcs well. Hanley bus station is a fucking disgrace, i feel sorry for the people who have to use it everyday, Thankgod ive left stoke.. keep up the film making you have talent :)

[@si002]

Yes I left and feel exactly the same

[@jacobmassey3897]

Those two lads were definitely smack heads and are probably dead now

[@Jack31360]

R they dirty ???

[@HelenM1994]

I know what you mean. ITS NOT ALL BAD!

[@crombie2405]

Why dont you move back here then we could do with another Big Issue seller.

[@danmiddleton7893]

There is nothing worse than going into this bus station. I cant wait until they start building the new one in march/april 2011

[@ricardothealien]

lived in stoke my whole life and it sucks i hate living here if i got a chance to leave i would

[@dellboid]

Its not that bad. I'm from Cheadle nearby and moved away and there are some parts of the old place I miss. Trust me, there are a lot worse places than Stoke, I especially miss the characters you find around the place, believe me when I say Stoke is full of weird and wonderful people.

[@ricardothealien]

yh but i find that there is nothing to do here, nowhere to go.

[@dellboid]

***** Well the simple solution to that then is to leave quite simply put. Theres noting really stopping you. I left relatively easily for pastures new, but honestly, Stoke isn't that much different from many other places in regards to what you're talking about. I live in lancaster now and I've found 90% of the north west to be even worse than Stoke, so just bear that in mind when thinking about these things.

[@Jaikay1]

Create your own chances man - i'm sure you're capable of far more than you realize, just believe in yourself mate. I'm in the exact same position, in the exact same city lol - I'll be out of this shithole soon and so you will if you try pal ;)

[@chrishowell9821]

I'm from Cheadle too, the ness grove area. But moved away from Stoke on Trent, there are no prospects for anyone there, there are no jobs and the drug problems are out of control. two of the old characters i miss are Georgey Pegg and Duke, them two were always in the black horse or the castle, i always used to play cards with them back in the good old days. I now live in Oxford and it's 10 times the place that Stoke and Cheadle are.

[@Pcr06]

Preston bus station is much worse than this.

[@si002]

Is it?

[@dannywallace9418]

Alton towers

[@dominicgibson9529]

This bus station was a bin from the moment it was built.

[@Dunnethy09]

Dont get how you can be proud from coming from Stoke hahahahahaha

[@SpeakwithNickNow]

Great footage, superb editing and great sound. You presented Hanley bus station just as I remember it. I was waiting for a lighter hearted moment at night just to balance it out - but I guess Hanley Bus Station is what it is.

[@keelyt9357]

Stoke has always been ma home but it’s gone to shit all the immigration and knife crime and ruined it for me

[@si002]

Yes it's all shite, glad I got out of the hole nearly 20 years ago

[@_Tracker]

🌹 Always love you Ma 🌹 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

[@fix-and-drive-diy-repairs]

Demolished and there's new one which is so congested!

[@fantumfreek]

Really enjoyed that, thanks.

[@jamesgravil]

If Hell exists, it must look a bit like Stoke on Trent.

[@si002]

I have to disagree with that comment. It would look a LOT like it!!

[@stoke101]

good god how bloody typical, do you live on state handouts

[@thedukiestdukeofall]

the pothead aaaaaaaaaahahahaha

[@MartinHand]

4:38 heroin... not weed LOL

[@xenbear]

stoke on trent are a tribute to what labour councils in england can do for you...move across the border into cheshire and the change is almost immediate....

[@john86779]

i used to live there in the scum and danger est place but im in a nicer place now the philippines

[@SomeoneAbitGood]

3:20 cobridge to change me socks LMFAO!

[@si002]

Yes they must have been RANK!!!

[@bertvsrob]

seems like just yesterday

[@cappaslappa]

that bus station is fooking dire!!

[@Filchie]

wow im still proud to call this place home :D

[@puddingmush]

/Face Desk, some of the people on this are pathetic XD good laugh though...

[@hannibal3blue]

Excellent short film. Well done that man. Or woman.

[@averus32cm]

Nice to see this place finally come to a close.

[@melaniebaby09]

@rockabillystraycats6 Yeah Well That It ... Pisses Me Of I Mean London's A Shithole So's Blackpool And Loads Of Other Places Lol ... "Born In Stoke,Live In Stoke,Die In Stoke " Thats My Moto !!!

[@si002]

Born in Stoke, lived in Stoke, moved out of Stoke!

[@monseurkez]

Christ this video is embarrassing

[@deano1864]

Lived in stoke all my life. It isn't to bad.

[@casper_1017]

been there so many times, 101 back to Stone

[@iluvgtasan]

They make stoke seem a lot worse than it actually is

[@DaffaBun]

Lost my phone to a dirty chav in Hanley, doesn't say much for Stoke in general though; there are lots of pretty places, it's the dense city area's like Hanley/Newcastle-U-Lyme that CAN be horrid. From my experience; the area's around Penkhull (the fields and whatnot) are quite beautiful.

[@smegheadbaker5091]

this is the old bus station...

[@GrahamEdwards-kq4fx]

I remember in the 70's and early to mid 80's it was a decent bus station .By the time it was closed ,and replaced a few years ago ,it had become a the drug culture .Graffitti .empty shops etc . A GHETTO of a shit hole

[@bencarter7410]

I use to catch the bus to work at 9 no issues and at back again at night around 8ish just drunks and druggies that never really did anything.

[@si002]

Except piss up the walls

[@tatonkascot]

I left Stoke in 1987 and thought Hanley Bus station was bad then but this documentary is scary, both as a reflection of this particular place and of British society as a whole. Brilliantly produced piece of work all the same.

[@si002]

Yes stoke in '87 was rough too

[@PB-mo1fs]

Very interesting.

[@emilymoore7932]

well ive lived in stoke my whole life, its not half as bad as portrayed, I never use buses anyway I walk everywhere, im not a lazy bastard like most.

[@Jaikay1]

its a fucking shit hole, get real. I live here too, it's a complete dump. I always hear people saying 'Ahh it could be iraq or africa duck' - Obviously there's always worse places, but is that really a good way to live life? It's like settling for human shit instead of dog shit because it smells a bit less.

[@komisan_]

Jaikay1 honestly It ain't that bad. There is some rough areas of stoke and good areas. Hanley is a shit hole. But some areas are really nice and clean.

[@philmoreton6515]

Emily moore stoke is a good place we ain't got a high crime rate just petty crime. It would be better if stoke was just for stokies though. If they don't like stoke best suggestion is for them to fuck off. The grass ain't always greener

[@si002]

@@komisan_ what areas are really nice and clean?

[@hh-ck3yw]

@@Jaikay1 agreed

[@leprofesseurarsenewenger6021]

Itz my favorite place in Stoke. It gets us out of here after we play Toke City Rugby Club!

[@micktomlinson8173]

why is it when ever there a documentary about stoke they go straight to hanley bus station and interview any1 they can find that as 2 teeth in there head or on drugs

[@MrSam4850]

Because they’re the only people in Stoke-on-Trent...

[@si002]

Or even one tooth would be lucky

[@mrsose1872]

Really good mini film.

[@scoppio07]

I live here. What's up with it?

[@DarrenMatthews-d9k]

brings back memories from early 90's when used to go to Morley's Bakehouse then cut through to go to Shipley's to play pool

[@jamesgravil]

lol that chubby guy at about 2:20 looks like Ian Holm! "My dear Gandalf!" ha ha

[@blaisineful]

I loathed the bus station, only used it if I absolutely had to and never at night.

[@akaPixelChick]

My dad worked here on the buses for many many years.

[@si002]

I wonder what he thinks of it now. What a state.

[@OMG-seriously]

omg 6.05 heartbreaking

[@cappaslappa]

Ps: I avoid hanley bus station at all costs, when are we gonna get a new one??

[@ajaja7390]

We have one now👍👍

[@si002]

@@ajaja7390 far from perfect though

[@Tauryluck]

My friend & I always piss ourselves at the woman at 4mins 56secs,hahahaha.

[@Nate7114]

lmaoo, i want that accent

[@spd47]

Great little doc,as good as anything you will see on the tv,lets face it this is England warts and all.

[@MY4TT]

am gonna take pride in where i live cause not all of stoke is ahit.. jus most of it espescially hanley