Hope you all enjoyed the video. Please leave any comments, feedback, or just say hello! I had some tech issues with the filming and rendering, apologies for the lag. Thanks for watching!
@SpikeRidge5 ай бұрын
If possible please do a video in my hometown (Stoke-on-Trent)
@yarnyellow884 ай бұрын
Hi, I sent this video to local media and the council has responded. A council spokesperson said: "Coventry is a great city and a wonderful place to visit. "Our city is full of hard-working people, and we are working with a range of partners, including landlords, to support improvements as well as seeking private sector investment. In terms of fly-tipping our officers do regular checks across the city and deal with fly-tipped materials on our land straight away. "We also routinely serve notices on tenants, landlords and landowners to clear their land and make repairs on their properties. In the past year alone we have served over 800 notices to force removal of waste from private land. "Of course there is always more to do. But there is much to celebrate in our city too. "This issue is also about personal responsibility, and we encourage anyone who sees fly-tipping to report it anonymously".
@richardgoldins47904 ай бұрын
@yarnyellow88 I'm a 84 baby born and bred but also I travel football nomore tho my heath bad and you can get away tickets nomore...but fly tipping is everywhere...trouble with coventry everywhere needs making new bell green wood end tile hile ball hill far gosford
@richardgoldins47904 ай бұрын
Lmfao this dude from hartlepool and he talking about coventry lol
@yarnyellow884 ай бұрын
@@richardgoldins4790 the trouble with Coventry is the council doesn't care. I caught my neighbour fly-tipping 3 days in a row recently. People seem to think it's normal.
@2tone2thebone.5 ай бұрын
We live and die in these towns ...PUSB .
@markgreet35432 ай бұрын
Shit place, great bands.
@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw2 ай бұрын
The shittier the place, the better the bands that came out of it. Back in the day, the main three avenues of escape from deprived working class areas for boys and young men were football, boxing or starting a rock band. Not everyone was able to play football or box at the highest level, but many at least tried to play a guitar.
@markgreet35432 ай бұрын
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw maybe i don't really think deep about these things.im at work mate ok.
@martinspeer2622 ай бұрын
Coventry is a city
@markgreet35432 ай бұрын
@@martinspeer262 yes i know its a city, im from leicester which also is a city, coventry is in the west midlands, leicester is east midlands, im not sure if your from the uk? But anyway there we go back to sunday rest.😆
@shellingout2 ай бұрын
Born in Wyken in 63 and moved to Cambridge in 1977. Coventry was a great place to be and I have some fond memories of all places, we’d walk and cycle all over as kids, through Bell Green and Stoney Stanton Rd, Wood End Henley Green to Memorial Park, Saturday pictures at the Odeon. The Morris common on our doorstep and a walk across the railway tracks onto a slow transporter trailer, hop on the back and jump off before new street Birmingham and go silver Blades skating. From 10 to 14yr we were streetwise. Today, I worry for kids coz not everyone is who you think they are, back then there was no wolves amongst us.
@Wsadef20 күн бұрын
Exactly. I've moved to Coventry in 2010, then moved to Birmingham in 2017 and came back to Coventry in 2024 for a short visit. I saw massive downward spiral in terms of people gradually since 2010. But it just went downhill from 2017, very rapidly. Way too many "wolves" around.
@ianwharton16984 ай бұрын
I was born in Willenhall Coventry and I’m very proud of that, growing up around there was great. Coventry is what it is but please don’t think everywhere looks like that. You’ll find bad areas in every city ours is no different but real Coventarians are some of the best people you’re likely to meet.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
Same here mate. Born in Willenhall 1966. Different times then but rapid decline throughout the '70's. You'll struggle to find genuine Coventrians in the city today. You import the third world - You become the third world.
@dwburns77094 ай бұрын
@apathyintheuk265 Cardiff close myself... back in the 80's it was a brilliant place to live.. proper sense of community and we all stuck together... sadly that is not true anymore.
@Random-ln5mt3 ай бұрын
Well stop looting the third world. @apathyintheuk265
@coventrypunx10142 ай бұрын
@@dwburns7709Dogberry close myself . Everyone used to call you lot the Dunsmore possie . Great times dossing about over the Hostels . We used to go in Boliler rooms to keep warm during the winter.
@rayc15032 ай бұрын
@domthegamer5995I've worked in different areas in Coventry and there's a heck of a lot of Roma Gypsies around Foleshill and Hillfields. It mostly looks like a dump. I remember going over to see relatives when I was a kid in the late 90's. It used to look half ok back then.
@yarnyellow884 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this video. I have lived in all of the areas featured except Bell Green but remember walking there from Henley Green to go shopping when I was a kid. I currently live in Foleshill which is the worst area for fly-tipping according to the council. I have also collected hundreds of photos of fly-tipping in Foleshill, Hillfields and Henley Green over the past 4yrs. The bed dumped in Hillfields at 5:00 has been there since August 2023 because I took a photo of it when I went to look at the flat it's at the back of. I also saw a resident dumping rubbish outside their own home nearby. I reported it to the council and the social landlord responsible for the area (Citizen). I turned down the flat because it was even worse inside and the area stank so bad it made me gag. In September 2023, both the council and Citizen said they had removed the fly-tipping which is clearly false because it's still there in your video. In April 2023, the council also admitted that crime and prostitution in Hillfields are "tolerated by all agencies". It's no wonder the area is the way it is (Hillfields is renowned for prostitution). I also grew up in a house directly opposite the tower block in Henley Green. There used to be shops and a pub around the block which were knocked down when I was a kid. I still remember some of the shopkeepers. Nothing has been done since and the derelict car park is still there but has been blocked off. The tower block was originally built by the council but was sold decades ago. However, the council recently leased it back for more than it's worth to house homeless families. The lease was agreed in 2017 for 5yrs. The block is not fit for habitation but the council is still dumping homeless families in there. You also mentioned that Henley Green is one of the most deprived areas in England. This is why the Henley College was built. However, it recently closed and plans have been put forward for new housing on the site. The Henley College campus has merged with the City College campus which means students from Henley Green will now have to pay travel costs to get there. The council also sold the lease for Riley Square in Bell Green because it was the easy option. However, the developer recently defaulted on a loan and have been suspended from regenerating the site. Most residents were moved out of the block facing the main road because it was due to be demolished. There are only a few stragglers left who will probably be forgotten about while the building rots. Residents have given up because the council simply doesn't care. This is the area with the lowest election turnout and it's also the seat of the council leader. It's totally shameless. I set up a new political party in 2019 to tackle some of these issues (Coventry Citizens Party). Our candidate in Willenhall has been working tirelessly in the area over the past 5yrs including carrying out regular litter picks. He came 50 votes short of winning in this year's council elections but got no mention in local media (typical bias). I will send this video to local media to see if the council have any comment on the issues you have highlighted. I also note you avoided Wood End in your video. That was very wise! Sometimes the buses don't even go there.
@yarnyellow884 ай бұрын
A council spokesperson said: "Coventry is a great city and a wonderful place to visit. "Our city is full of hard-working people, and we are working with a range of partners, including landlords, to support improvements as well as seeking private sector investment. In terms of fly-tipping our officers do regular checks across the city and deal with fly-tipped materials on our land straight away. "We also routinely serve notices on tenants, landlords and landowners to clear their land and make repairs on their properties. In the past year alone we have served over 800 notices to force removal of waste from private land. "Of course there is always more to do. But there is much to celebrate in our city too. "This issue is also about personal responsibility, and we encourage anyone who sees fly-tipping to report it anonymously".
@upton_ogood2 ай бұрын
'typical bias'? I'd go further and call it tyranny by media. Great comment and thanks for your efforts in the community, you'll get my vote next time.
@upton_ogood2 ай бұрын
@@yarnyellow88 Q. How did you know the council spokesperson was lying.. A. I could see his mouth moving.
@apathyintheuk265Ай бұрын
Fair play, kid.
@S.Holloway5 ай бұрын
Poor old England will never be the same.
@EgoChip3 ай бұрын
From my perspective, this country is getting exactly what it deserves.
@pizza41492 ай бұрын
@@EgoChip😂
@acardiff79002 ай бұрын
@@EgoChipDull far left, wokey that touches its self over its country and peoples decline that or yet another Islamist who will find out what provoking us means for you lot 🤡
@jamesrobert41062 ай бұрын
@@EgoChipWhich perspective is that exactly?
@EgoChip2 ай бұрын
@@jamesrobert4106 Mine. As in not yours, not someone else's. Is that a foreign concept to you? Are you of the hive mind?
@paulbroderick84384 ай бұрын
I was brought up in Hillyfields, Bell Green and Foleshill. Those high rises are absolutely disgusting. Immigrated to the USA decades ago. Greetings from Phoenix, Arizona.
2 ай бұрын
@domthegamer5995 I'm also from Coventry, now living in Tempe, AZ. It's great here if you can take the summer heat. It's brutal. Portugal sounds a good bet.
@WithCars95 ай бұрын
Props to this man for walking through all that disgusting litter and drug crap
@Lisafer155 ай бұрын
Do we all get props for having to walk around this shit hole?
@WithCars95 ай бұрын
@@Lisafer15 if you do then yeah sure
@Lisafer155 ай бұрын
@@WithCars9 gee thanks! Now I'll never have to be bitter about having no choice but to move back here to the shitty of everyone else's culture!
@WithCars95 ай бұрын
@@Lisafer15 you're very welcome 🙃
@tacticaldelusion4 ай бұрын
I feel sorry for Coventry, it used to be a massive industrial city and wealthy in most areas. The majority of the city was destroyed in WW2 and with that came the redevelopment in the 50s and 60s which left us with the dump it has been for decades. Unemployment due to death of industry has rocked the place and we all know it as chav central now. Shame, just a reminder this is the 6th richest country in the world.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
The 'majority' of the city was not destroyed - City centre most certainly. After that selective factories were targeted - a lot also being close to the city centre.
@tacticaldelusion4 ай бұрын
@@apathyintheuk265 What are you talking about? Over 42,000 homes were damaged sufficiently to require rebuilding, that was over half the housing stock of the entire city. In one of the first raids on Coventry 4300 homes were destroyed and two-thirds of the buildings in the city centre were damaged. Coventry was carpet bombed, you make it sound like the Luftwaffe selectively bombed specific targets which isn't exactly true. The city changed completely in a very short space of time, the redesign through the 50s and 60s were meant to be a city of the future but it turned into a city of concrete blocks and loss of employment.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
@@tacticaldelusion The City centre was a highly populated residential area back then - as well as being a hub for industry as well as the ancient historical artefact. It was a win win as far as a wartime target was concerned - cripple the war effort and demoralise the people of a City. I can assure you the Luftwaffe did bomb selective targets - garnered from intel. Do you honestly think they flew over 600 miles to just casually drop bombs at will with an endless supply of fuel in the vague area of the outlying suburbs - that didn't occupy critical industry? Your last paragraph concerning 'loss of employment' is quite frankly embarrassing. Have you not heard the term, 'Boom Town'? Good god, man, have yourself an early night.
@hughzapretti-boyden91872 ай бұрын
@@apathyintheuk265 the ignorance is strong in you. Coventry was a town & was only designated city status after vast swathes were flattened by the germans & was rebuilt. Technology didn't exist for precision bombing in 1940. The germans carpet bombed areas because that's all they could do.
@apathyintheuk2652 ай бұрын
@@hughzapretti-boyden9187 The ignorance in me? My god, you'd be crowned queen of the world for it! You are utterly clueless.
@RealmsOfThePossible4 ай бұрын
You missed wood End and Stoke Aldermoor.
@coventrypunx10142 ай бұрын
I grew up in Willenhall . The Aldermoor was always a doss Hole . But way worse now . Rubbish and Shite everywhere
@RaymondMoore-c4g2 ай бұрын
I grew up in Stoke Aldermoor, somehow you just don't see it when you live in the middle of it,
@letscatchthemall68622 ай бұрын
WOODEND should of been No1
@theabandonedhunter36045 ай бұрын
Wicked video mate! I cover Coventry for work and it certainly has bad areas BUT every town and City does these days. Cracking watch as always!! ….Smithy
@missruzl145 ай бұрын
Not every Town and city. Have you been to Tunbridge wells?
@theabandonedhunter36045 ай бұрын
@@missruzl14 I will be honest no I haven’t but it does look a lovely place
@missruzl145 ай бұрын
@@theabandonedhunter3604 it's beautiful. I've not seen these types of places around Crowborough or Tunbridge wells. 😁we are so lucky
@theabandonedhunter36045 ай бұрын
@@missruzl14 Crowborough also looks beautiful from what I’ve just seen
@TreviscoeАй бұрын
@@missruzl14 Used to live there. I've never seen a place with so many private roads.
@AndrewSvonja5 ай бұрын
im still trying to get of the coventry ring road!! which psycho designed that!
@mitchellrudkin41995 ай бұрын
😂
@hvacrwrld14023 ай бұрын
I grew a five o clock shadow on it once mate.
@AndrewSvonja3 ай бұрын
@@hvacrwrld1402 😆
@upton_ogood2 ай бұрын
It works ..or at least it did until they recently started redesigning it!
@bistokidok2 ай бұрын
If you can’t drive on the ring road you shouldn’t be driving
@edvorak1795 ай бұрын
I grew up in Henley Green in the 90's and have fond memories of going to Woolworths in Bell Green. It did have it's rough spots at the time but nothing like what is being show in the footage, I remember playing with friends in some of those green areas in Broad Park that are now covered in litter. Moved up north in the early 2000's and glad we never went back.
@JuiceTerry874 ай бұрын
Yeah Bell Green looks desperate now. I just about remember when Sainsbury's was there, it later became Kwik Save next door to Woollies
@Filip-cv9nt2 ай бұрын
Just curious in which city you live now ?
@jimmyskyblue60575 ай бұрын
We moved out of Coventry in the 70’s when I was a kid, to the outskirts. My Dad was a copper in Coventry back then, and his beat was Bell Green area, he always used to say it toughened him up.
@JJ-te2pi2 ай бұрын
The Coventry South MP is more focused on Gaza than her own city.
@likeitis96055 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this video. I lived in Stratford -Upon-Avon and I used to visit Coventry a lot, it's very sad to see it this way.
@ukexplored5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! It’s sad to see a lot of areas looking like this, especially those that were once flourishing.
@finregan93225 күн бұрын
You know you live Woodend, come on now, trying to make out your all posh 😅
@Weekend4438452 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Coventry, moved away 20 years ago and so glad I did as it was going downhill rapidly even back then. I go back now and I can't believe how bad the place is.
@FutureTechHQ5 ай бұрын
Been living in cov for 10+ years and can agree it’s been a shit time
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
You need to discover the world, pal - I can assure you there's a lot more shit going on.
@jamesmason84362 ай бұрын
May I ask where? Since it's not all like this, I promise.
@SeanTheDomesticTerroristАй бұрын
@@jamesmason8436 Yeah the only places it isn't like this is like Binley Woods(the outer side), Earlsdon,Stivichall, Finham & Keresley
@jamesmason8436Ай бұрын
@@SeanTheDomesticTerroristAllesly, Gibert Hill, Kenilworth Road, large parts of Coundon, most of Cheylesmore. Could go on...
@Niggleblade198622 күн бұрын
By me 🤣@@SeanTheDomesticTerrorist
@thebrowns10175 ай бұрын
I grew up in a small town about half way between Coventry & Leicester. When I was a teenager in the 1960s & 70s, we often went to Leicester but never went to Coventry - it wasn't safe. I worked in housing in the 1980s and Bell Green was no better then.
@greengemaudio48304 ай бұрын
Definitely bias in the comment you made, Leicester definitely has problems and deprived areas. I live in Coventry and been to Leiceister several times I'd only argue Leicester does have higher paying jobs but it many of the problems that Coventry has. Go to St Matthews, Braunstone, Westcotes. That being said many towns and cities are decling in the UK
@petermihajlovic45564 ай бұрын
@@greengemaudio4830 The average wage in Coventry is higher than in Leicester
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
I take it you support Leicester? Good job you never came to Coventry.
@jamesmason84362 ай бұрын
@@greengemaudio4830Coventry has been in terminal decline since the '70s and was arguably worse in the '80s and '90s than now. However, I am referring to the worst parts of it, which was all I knew growing up. There are nice parts, such as where I live now, and it's night and day really.
@BogushCh29 күн бұрын
Cov dangerous in the '60s and '70s? You're mad, not to mention pathologically prejudiced.
@TheWhitehawker5 ай бұрын
Why the hell are there so many super deprived areas of the UK ?
@JessicaFuller-t2x5 ай бұрын
It's crazy, isn't it 😱
@thathurt5 ай бұрын
Hmmm it's almost like the people in charge dont care. 🤔 They take our taxes and spend them on their mates or vanity projects. Also, immigration doesn't work.
@Azrael1st5 ай бұрын
Everywhere is kind of much the same rundown or soon to be rundown block of houses in the uk.
@MrDirkles5 ай бұрын
There are two industry's left in the UK. One is buying and selling houses to each other and the other is renting ( unfit to live in) houses to the poorest in society
@velvetinedrapes43595 ай бұрын
I think part of it is they let the area go completely to rot so the land becomes so cheap they sell it to developers who then build crappy new builds on them and charge ridiculous rates.
@-Atmos13 ай бұрын
Coventry has changed since the 1980's . I enjoyed living there , the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met anywhere . Back in the 80's I walked through Hillfields every day , there was no litter then , just graffiti saying " ZION IS HELL " . The ingredients to cook a whole curry cost what a bunch of Coriander costs now . Inflation is eating this country along with other factors .
@Ineedahandle75Ай бұрын
Honestly Coventry has hardly changed in 40 years. I grew up here in the 1980's and there are still just as many homeless people. All the regeneration seems to have come to nothing.
@uk_central3485 ай бұрын
Cheers for covering Coventry mate place has turned into a complete ghetto public needs to know that cities like this need serious improvement
@EgoChip3 ай бұрын
Turned in to? I lived there in the late 90's and as soon as I was old enough I got the hell out. It has always been rough as hell. Cheylsmore, Stivichall and Earlsdon aside, I don't think there's an actual good area in Coventry.
@PearlDakin2 ай бұрын
This is what becomes of having consecutive Labour councils do to a city.Ruined by, the council for years. Now turning into a third world Dump. Well done you shitty councilors. Ruined a once beautiful city. Now a ghetto.
@davidrobinson8954Ай бұрын
The saddest thing is how obvious it is those areas have just been left to rot people in need at their lowest point will probably be dumped there by the authorities continuing the cycle.
@neilfletcher49515 ай бұрын
I've lived in all these places from 1960 until 1990 back in the day Bell Green with all the shops was great Hillfields was so diverse where I brought my Reggae records from as it had a shop that imported Jamaican reggae.... Lived here in a rented room... Henley Green like Wood End has always been dodgy... The plan was to build houses for families flats and bed sits for singles or small families and then bungalows for the older population it was a social experiment that went wrong lots of the flats and bedsits have since been demolished... I lived in two flats here and a house... Willenhall was always deprived like Wood End and Henley green I lived in a bedsit here and later a bungalow.... Foleshill is again deprived but has some great shops for veg and fruit but the housing is cramped it is probably more diverse than Hillfields.... But with all that said although I was broken into multiple times especially in wood end the people I became friends with were fantastic it's just some crime "Families" spoiled it for everyone else....
@BlackRose-vi2yg5 ай бұрын
These areas are an absolute dump. Cov city centre is even worse the last language you hear is English and I am 1st gen ethnic minority myself. Absolute dive of a city now.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
Echo that for the rest of the country - If you import the third world, well what a surprise - You become the third world. Get the tories out but for god's sake DO NOT vote labour in! You want change? Vote for change!
@dps84355 ай бұрын
Lived in those flats in Riley square,got mugged going home from work in hillfields ,Coventry is a filthy sewer.
@The_Walrus_Was_Paul_19845 ай бұрын
I moved away from Cov 10 years ago to Devon, grew up in Woodend/Bell Green, still have family and friends who live there, is a shame to see.
@Nzwarriord4 ай бұрын
Me too moved out off cov still have house though nearly 10 years lived in finham area also lived in Stoke Foleshill etc now in rural Derbyshire best thing I ever did
@JJ-te2pi2 ай бұрын
This is called white flight, making the city even worse.
@jamesmason84362 ай бұрын
Wood End and Bell Green were rough 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago and 40 years ago. I know this firsthand.
@jamesmason84362 ай бұрын
@@NzwarriordFinham is nice tbf.
@Nzwarriord2 ай бұрын
@jamesmason8436 too much youngsters taking drugs etc the public footpath on the kenpas highway side of the car dealer is a meeting drop off point for youngsters the area,not so great as 20years ago pub was OK stychall arms back in the day
@songscoops42055 ай бұрын
The council should have a copy of this to see how well they are doing..
@BlackRose-vi2yg5 ай бұрын
What can they do? Unfortunately, a lot of people in these areas won't help themselves. Not up to taxpayers to fund better lives for them if they cannot be asked. Life is too short to worry about everyone.
@songscoops42055 ай бұрын
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Coventry has a zero-tolerance policy toward people who drop litter, which includes litter thrown from vehicles. We have a team of officers who carry out regular patrols, issuing fixed penalty fines of £100 to offenders. Our aim is to reduce litter through enforcement and education. As per the council website....I don't think it's working.....
@songscoops42055 ай бұрын
@@BlackRose-vi2yg Coventry has a zero-tolerance policy toward people who drop litter, which includes litter thrown from vehicles. We have a team of officers who carry out regular patrols, issuing fixed penalty fines of £100 to offenders. Our aim is to reduce litter through enforcement and education.
@andydudley17754 ай бұрын
council housing and the police .have decided to ignore victims .they now blatently between them making up what ever fits best in reports about crime .with out even talking to the victims .it best way to get premotion make it up between them.the lot ignore your employers the public .make every thing look rosey .now if a victim persists he treated as hostile and farmed by the police untill they find a reason to arrest you to shut you up .making victims out of criminals to teach them a lesson.we got councilors like the tory marcus lapsa latching on to homeless charities to use banned landlords like hannor jackson as volentry staff council has a mantra they keep too if you leave you home you not be rehomed .so marcus and hannor seen best to exploit that by giving unfit homes to the most needy of junkies .and if you living next to one of these drug dens police will laugh treat you the same hannor coke head jackson had contracts with the police and council .we got pcso and now sacked pc birds .trying to evict honest people so there crackheads farmed area spon end can get worst for the repeat custom .untill they was banned from the area .coventry is been used by the tory here and the police for far too long .and the people doing this does not even live here .
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
@@songscoops4205 Your 'team' is clearly way too small.
@TobotronPrime5 ай бұрын
I honestly don’t really understand why there’s a correlation between poverty and throwing your rubbish all over the place. There’s no social reason apart from being stupid for doing it.
@JohnDuffy-bq8wg4 ай бұрын
Totally agree, I live in Northampton beautiful park behind me, just been across it plastic bottles everywhere, and it really is a lovely park, some people just live like pigs, nothing to do with poverty, I'm skint but I still use the bins provided or take rubbish home
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N.
@samueloneill32464 ай бұрын
There's quite a few reasons poverty can cause littering. Crime, lack of education, lack of pride in the area. For me the main problem is a lack of public services like street cleaning, proper disposal, available bins etc. Take a nice area like kensington - you drop litter, a council cleaner will have swept it up by the end of the day. You fly tip a sofa, a resident will report it (which again links back to having pride in the area) and the council will arrange disposal. Poor areas don't get that same level of public service, so the rubbish problem just gets exponentially worse.
@horuslupercal23855 ай бұрын
Well done on surviving Coventry, mate. Another great video 👍
@truebro775 ай бұрын
Asians fly tip. It's their culture. We import it, we get it. That simple
@velvetinedrapes43595 ай бұрын
Yeah unfortunately they don't seem to understand that nature and the environment are both nice and important. It's weird it just does not compute in their brain.
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO4 ай бұрын
If you were more intelligent than a fart you would know that fly-tipping and littering isn't exclusive to ethnic minorities; I have also known native white British do the same, Dunce.
@andydudley17754 ай бұрын
@@velvetinedrapes4359 i think they showing there respect for our invatation.this how they repay people by looking at us like shit and treating us that way too.i found one of the shops charged me £1.80 for a pint of milk adding a $1 for the use of the card not tell me .i went in to tell them i was hit with the racist card police called the lot .
@discodave17474 ай бұрын
You got more Caucasian unemployed bin dippers in Coventry,then Asians.
@azsnee96374 ай бұрын
Im from foleshill and i can tell you its not asians. We are the minority here its romanians who are doing ALL of it.
@danielward70085 ай бұрын
The best bit of Coventry is the A45 to Birmingham- and I say that as someone who doesn't like Brum.
@sbaby-kg8hn4 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Nzwarriord4 ай бұрын
You mean m69 north bound
@thebouncer91074 ай бұрын
@@Nzwarriord No way. Leicester is even worse than Coventry. M40 for me, there are some decent places in that direction - and no, London is not one of them!
@Nzwarriord4 ай бұрын
@thebouncer9107 I've moved out of cov 9 years ago Derbyshire lovely countryside very slow pace off live lived in cove 30 years Stoke Foleshill still have property finham area but I can't reconside the place especially Foleshill looks like Baghdad no offence
@thebouncer91074 ай бұрын
@@Nzwarriord Good move. UK cities are just rat holes now. Rural areas are still nice.
@firstnamelastname-uq9hr2 ай бұрын
You forgot to investigate Wood End its just as bad as Bell Green,if you mix them up you end up with some one who lives in Bell End, known as a Bellendian, there's plenty of them around , especially on the roads, they have cars that keep backfiring so that we know where they are.☠💩🦨🩲💉🗑🤨
@ctrmediawalsall42625 ай бұрын
Nice to see you back! 🙂🙏
@ukexplored5 ай бұрын
Thanks, man! Going to try and get out and about more often!
@ctrmediawalsall42625 ай бұрын
@@ukexplored That's nice!
@susanpearson13414 ай бұрын
This video needs sending to the Coventry city council thay should be ashamed of all this rubbish when thay keep putting council tax up were is all this money being spent Coventry has become like a third world country
@Carboggg5 ай бұрын
That shopping centre at the start of the video was once a thriving one. Hillfields has long been a hole but now filled with people from the third world. So to the Foleshill and Stoney Stanton Rd areas The indigenous population are increasingly avoiding the city centre as well now. It too is looking increasingly like a third world country. The council are all in favour of continued mass immigration into the city, so ithings are only going to get worse and worse. .
@stogieguy74 ай бұрын
Discovered your channel not long ago and it’s nice to see new stuff posted. Keep up the great work!
@jimmyj81614 ай бұрын
Grew up in Bell Green still go back regularly, love the place and the people ❤❤❤
@EgoChip3 ай бұрын
They should just merge Bell Green and Wood End as one district, and rename it Bell End.
@hughzapretti-boyden91872 ай бұрын
@@jimmyj8161 if you loved the place & the people you wouldn't have left!
@bigprob87445 ай бұрын
I thought woodend would of been in the top 5, one of the roughest estates in Britain back in the 80s,must be seing better days today
@RealmsOfThePossible4 ай бұрын
Still as bad even though they pumped millions into 'revamping' the estate.
@ChristopherPin4 ай бұрын
Wasn't brave enough to go there 😅
@80PercentScottish2 ай бұрын
@@ChristopherPin I used to live in Bell Green back when it wasn't too bad. I used to walk my German shepherd in Wood End and the amount of boarded up houses that have been turned into drug dens is crazy. A really dangerous place.
@AndrewSvonja5 ай бұрын
i used to work in walsgrave as you come into coventry the sign states "city of peace"..
@abc339445 ай бұрын
City in pieces
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
And?
@RingoCANUK4 ай бұрын
Import the third world get the third world, I lived in Coventry growing up, moved out to Lincolnshire and loved the countryside and then moved to Canada and now even Canada is experiencing this and again it's the same demographic that when they arrive things get messy and crime rates rise.
@stevemcgowen4 ай бұрын
Kind of what happens when former empires start to collapse. Those they subjugated start moving to their former colonialist oppressors.
@leecheetham22695 ай бұрын
Hilfields used to be far worse.
@D1Snr2 ай бұрын
That's what I said. Hillfields was definitely worse back in the 80's and early 90's.
@SeanTheDomesticTerroristАй бұрын
Worst thing i've personally seen/had to deal with in Hillfields is when i was doing Work Experience with Openreach, Call out for a Fault @ Thomas King House & as we were pulling up Two Subsaharans were in the street as Kids were coming out of school, one of them in the open pissing against the wall whilst families with young kids were just leaving school around the corner & as were waiting to be buzzed into the block those lads are there standing around trying to get our attention, whilst we're trying to ignore them & they start talking to themselves saying "ah yeah just keep ignoring us because you think we're just a bunch of ni**ers". Most ignorant bullshit i've seen in a while.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
"Hillfields - Diverse" 😂😂😂 Yeah - diverse in varying shades of brown.
2 ай бұрын
All white British in the 1970s.
@apathyintheuk2652 ай бұрын
I don't think so. But the issues that have been commonplace for the last twenty years were not evident back then.
@Bukem-c3wАй бұрын
Haha 😂😂😂 agreed, I remember when Hillfields was an all white British shithole, ah.....good times...
@truebro775 ай бұрын
this is what diversity brings
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO4 ай бұрын
If you were more intelligent than a fart you would know that the state of the U.K. has nothing to do with ethnic diversity; since 2010 successive Tory governments have destroyed and under funded public services.
@garyduncan35134 ай бұрын
Looks like it's India but no ones willing to recycle anything or work
@JessicaFuller-t2x5 ай бұрын
All that litter though, never seen anything like that in person.
@thathurt5 ай бұрын
Come to Northampton. 😆
@helopi85 ай бұрын
Birmingham litter is next level fridges sofas etc all dumped in road or on pavements
@bkk5655 ай бұрын
Birmingham is definitely worse. Well, certain areas anyway
@ryanevans1265 ай бұрын
Mate why didnt u go wood end that area rough
@rayc15032 ай бұрын
Good God we've worked there and I feared our vans were going to get broken into. One of our vans was actually broken into and cleared out in an Area called Spon End if I remember correctly. Coventry has a vast majority of council houses, CHAVS & some seriously underbelly. I turn down any work there now. I almost got into a fight in the Bell Green Aldi because some scutters were que jumping.
@Budgiearmy5 ай бұрын
Nice to see you posting after so long hope your doing well!😊
@AlexCraigGH5 ай бұрын
Zooms in on the Coventry city flag as if it’s a bad thing?
@Geoffbrower0073 ай бұрын
Honestly! The producer of these videos should find something more productive to do rather than spending lots of time filming areas and then making his own comments which are useless to the public. By associating crime, drugs, fly tipping and poverty with specific races of people leads to racial hatred. The local authorities, police forces and residents are well aware of their surroundings. Issues and problems faced by towns and cities have always existed. One should not rely on a video like this to understand an area. Not all places shall look like the grounds of Balmoral Castle. UK Explored videos are boring and monotonous having seen a few. This video shows the producer is judgemental by suggesting whoever lives there is responsible for how the area appears.
@AlexCraigGH3 ай бұрын
@@Geoffbrower007 all I’m saying is, I grew up in an area from this video. I’ve traveled all over the country. Lived in a few other cities. Honestly Coventry is a lot better than most. Is this because it’s looked after by the council? No. The country is on its arse. But if the creator of this video, spent his time with me. Who knows the city like the back of my hand. Or another person who grew up here. Maybe the video would be a lot more informative. Anyone can film a few closed down shops and run down flats and go oh what an awful area. Speak to the people involved I say.
@Geoffbrower0073 ай бұрын
Hi Alex I totally agree with you 👍☺️✅the producer UK Explored has done the same thing in videos he took of other towns and cities and some people were stupid enough to believe it which led to openly racist comments directed at ethnic groups 😡fly tipping, poverty and crime have always been in populated areas and specific races of people are not to blame, they haven't caused it, a majority of the residents are law abiding citizens but due to the incompetence of UK Explored he's created a platform for racism 😡👎👎👎👎👎this won't be tolerated now and wasn't tolerated in the past👿filming dumped rubbish, fly tipping and showing some crime headlines is not indicative of the people who live and work there 😠the man from UK Explored really does need educating and I've told him the same. Coventry is a nice city as we know it well and we won't be defeated by ignorance, Alex, you have a super day 😊cheers
@owendavies69052 ай бұрын
Not sure where you get some of the data from but I don’t see any part of Coventry as predominantly white. Very much minority white in fact. Even Foleshill for example is well off. I could genuinely drive up and down Foleshill Road for a week non stop and not see a single white person
@ukexplored2 ай бұрын
Yeah I know, it's from the Census data. Makes you wonder if a lot of people don't fill out the paperwork, hmm.
@owendavies69052 ай бұрын
Oh 100% a lot of people will blame immigrants but that’s not completely the issue. It’s the overpopulation and illegals that are the issue. The census data is probably accounting for 1 in 6 of each household that are actually legal. Good video from you nonetheless mate
@matildamartin28116 күн бұрын
I think the saddest street in Coventry must be Ball Hill .
@kristinajendesen71112 ай бұрын
Blimey! You're brave walking round those areas. Surprised Wood End isn't on the list. I was born there in 1960 but luckily we moved to Canley in 1964 which was a great place to grow up at the time. There used to be a pub called the 'Live and let live' in Wood End its nickname was the 'Live and let die' though. A workmate back in the 80s said that he went to play darts there. One of the other players opened his jacket to get his darts out and there was a massive concealed blade. He let him win. I escaped Coventry in the mid 80s thankfully and never went back.
@TonyWhitleyАй бұрын
I remember (in the early 80s?) someone being found at the bottom of one of the tower blocks with multiple stab wounds. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances! It turned out he'd got into an argument with his missus, shouted "I'll show you!" and started stabbing himself. That didn't work so he went to the top of a neighbouring tower block and threw himself off. Nice that he didn't make a mess outside his own home :) I used to lock my doors when driving past the 'Live and Let Die' but our old house in the Brierley Road estate (in Henley Green) not far from there still looks fine, it was very localised. I only go back for funerals nowadays.
@luton_gmanrock5 ай бұрын
I tell you why there is so much litter, white goods and mattresses on the streets - the local councils charge too much at the waste centres. Council tax is not used for the bin men to clean the streets - shameful. When I lived in Luton, a car was £10 to even enter, then they charged on top for you to bring your waste. In Ireland, you can take mattresses for 10 euros each and get them recycled into new. Great scheme, but lets face it, if you are proper skint, you can't afford to recycle.
@KillaRockinBird4 ай бұрын
The Council charge about £16 for 5 items to be removed (big items like a fridge, a mattress, a sofa or 5 bags of rubbish is classed as 1 item) then if you want 5 more removed it's another fiver. I think that's pretty reasonable because if you can't drive or you haven't got a big enough car to fit your fridge freezer in, then you can just call them and they'll pick it up from the roadside outside your house. The tip is free to use, unless you have a van. Then I don't know what the charge is, but you could just save your time and petrol and pay £16 for the service I mentioned. People are just lazy and don't want to pay or do anything about their problem of getting rid of their item that they bought.
@BluenoseBeerReviews4 ай бұрын
I moved to Foleshill in 2017, leaving in 2019 and it genuinely didnt feel that bad. Id make the occasional shopping trip over to Bell Green and that was notably rougher. Left the midlands in 2019 and now live in the countryside...much nicer.
@cjg284 ай бұрын
I lived in Hillfields for 2 years in late 90’s. Not the best years of my life
@stevekimberley489222 күн бұрын
Sadly, the city has gone downhill badly over the years. We moved to Cov in '56 when I was three, and in truth it was a good place - even Bell Green, which we lived on the outskirts of. Once a village, it was hugely developed post-war, including Riley Square. In its early days it was a superb shopping centre with quality shops and a Sainsbury's supermarket, a good library, health provisions, and dentist (in the sixties). The decline was rapid though, to the point that it's now beyond repair, as you have seen. We recently sold my mother's house after she passed, and as you also allude, house prices are surprisingly high. It's a little confusing tbh. I hope for some future improvements there, but one gets the sense that the local population is well past caring, which is all rather sad.
@jayneshorter54185 ай бұрын
I lived in Coventry my family still do it’s the same lot place’s definitely changed since I lived their I lived their in the 70s and 80 s no rubbish anywere then but I wasn’t from these areas x
@michaelwittmann2644Ай бұрын
I had the misfortune of driving and walking through Foleshill Road, Coventry. It was, shall we say, undesirable. Foleshill Road is approximately one mile long, and every building along it, and I am not exaggerating when I say, was a shop owned or run by Asian and Middle Eastern peoples. Some shops were shuttered, and the general area was grimy, litter-strewn, and rundown. The Town Centre and the surrounding area where the Lady Gadiva statue was situated weren't any better and heaving with people who generally looked dejected, out of work, and covered in tattoos and face staples. If I hadn't known better, I would have thought I was in Bangladesh, Calcutta, or Cairo.
@missunderstood783028 күн бұрын
Brooo this also makes me sad I'm 39 nearly 40 now. When I was 18 19 yrs old Foleshill Road was beautiful 😍 everyone got along. No gangs. No fly tipping. No rubbish on the roads. Everything was good. Now I won't say but the romainains have destroyed Foleshill road
@michaelwittmann264425 күн бұрын
@@missunderstood7830 From my experience, most, if not all, Northern towns and cities have degenerated into the same mongrelised hell holes. I live in Cambridgeshire, and my nearest town is St Neots, a once quiet rural market town until about 20 years ago. That was when the rot started. Mass immigration and nonstop sink estates spring up like mushrooms. Local amenities, roads, hospitals, schools, surgeries, etc, are now suffocated by the extreme volume of those who do not speak English, dress differently, look differently, have a lower value on life, and have no intention of intergrating. This influx of strangers has created benefit ghettos and rampant crime. I weep for my culture and my fellow natives.
@jonhcrease85502 ай бұрын
Cheers for filming my nans house in Willenhall mate 👍
@frankiecook91135 ай бұрын
Absolutely love this channel! Would love you to come to my hometown of Preston and review the New Hall Lane/Ribbleton area. It is rife with drugs, crime and prostitution.
@ukexplored5 ай бұрын
Thanks, man. I’ll check it on Street Maps and look up some stats. I’ll get to Preston at some point this year if it’s of interest.
@frankiecook91135 ай бұрын
@@ukexplored I will look forward to your video if you decide to come here :)
@brothersman5245 ай бұрын
Coventry is seriously horrible. I did live around Foleshill for a bit while doing part time study at University of Warwick, Driven all round Hillfields and Bell Green and it was horrid. The only best parts of Coventry is on the west side around Tile Hill, Allesley, Westwood and Burton Green
@iamphoenix35644 ай бұрын
Tile hill is horrible mate especially around jardine crescent surprised he didn’t go there
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
Tile Hill? 😂😂
@ryandunn54994 ай бұрын
Tile hill!!! your having giraffe mate. I'm very surprised it's wasn't mentioned as there is a very high crime rate usually violent
@brothersman5244 ай бұрын
@@ryandunn5499 That is why I actually put Tile Hill in - to see the responses I will get LOL so I was having a bubble bath mate
@covmiss14 ай бұрын
@@brothersman524 🤣🤣
@asdrattyler19062 ай бұрын
Should go to Nuneaton next, only 20 min drive from Coventry!
@maryhall94825 ай бұрын
Very good video the litter is shameful maybe the local MP could organise a weekly litter pick they do one here where i am not far from Coventry
@unusedsub30035 ай бұрын
Still more aesthetically pleasing than a Barrett Homes new build housing estate.
@80PercentScottish2 ай бұрын
The decline in Bell Green has been severe. My nan lived there and I loved visiting as a kid. Riley Square was a vibrant shopping place full of friendly locals. There's definitely been "white flight" over the years. I eventually moved in with my nan as a late teen until my early 20s before she died. Bell Green just got worse and worse, and the crime is getting worse all the time. And now, they're turning off the streetlighting after midnight. It is becoming like the Streets of Rage.
@redmeth074 ай бұрын
The countries council estates are being turned into slums similar to Africa India and Pakistan. Wait a minute? What’s the majority ethnicity groups in these areas?
@jamesb312Ай бұрын
You're talking rubbish, yes, these estates are bad, I personally wouldn't want to live in, or near such a place, but a lot of them are no worse than a lot of the council estates where the majority of the residents are British. Have you been to the slums in the countries you mention? There is no comparison.
@kazkumar6168Ай бұрын
@@jamesb312dont waste your time mate, you won’t be able to enlighten this kind of ignorance. That being said, I do agree with your comment
@monacophotographyevents2384Ай бұрын
@@kazkumar6168 Yes, @redmeth07 makes Such a ridiculous, uninformed comment. The slums in the places mentioned aren't supplied with electricity, running water or sanitation, let alone any sort of benefits system.
@neilfletcher49515 ай бұрын
Bell Green used to be a place people wanted to live when the shops were there in the 60s it was buzzing now it's a sad place
@Carboggg3 ай бұрын
@@neilfletcher4951 While it was never exactly a good looking centre it was at least clean and as you said a thriving place. Sainsbury's. Co-op.Quick Save. Wool shop. Shoe menders. Hair dressers. Butchers. Very busy cafe. Woolies. Dick shepherds. Jones's. Launderette. Barbers. Started to go downhill once Sainsbury's left which caused a knock-on effect.
@MidlandsClassicMotors4 ай бұрын
I visited wood end, coventry about 20 years ago and it was the worst estates I'd ever seen in the UK half of it was boarded up or burnt out it must of improved a lot to not make this list.
@craig58202 ай бұрын
Nah it’s still fkd like most of Coventry tbf
@kriskalpa4 ай бұрын
the buildings do not cause the crime, the people in them cause the crime. High rise buildings are almost always local authority homes and they are often filled with the uneducated or undisciplined. with military service and private policing, combined with govt legislation to jail wrongdoers indefinitely, these places would be transformed.
@brianhannon32534 ай бұрын
Nothing to do with poverty either,in the rough areas near where I live the jobless criminals rule the roost,posh cars ,posh clothes they don't even hide it ,until they get caught and cry victim
@kriskalpa4 ай бұрын
@@brianhannon3253 yeah.
@zakeriaabdi693Ай бұрын
I lived in Foleshill between 2007 and 2017, everyone knew each other in that area, from hanging in the local parks, and they were all good lads focused on footy and school, from 2018 onwards they started to transition in to becoming dealers and killers, and I don't know what flipped that switch in the neighbourhood but it hit them just before 18 when the rest of us started university. The lads that went down the crime route were not intellectually challenged either, one of them was in the 2nd year of an engineering diploma and applying to universities when I left Coventry but he later got 3 years for being caught with a brick of coke in 2021! I hope the fact I left Coventry didn't contribute to them going down the wrong path because this is truly heart breaking!
@teaboyuk5 ай бұрын
Genuinely sad to see the fate and state of my old hometown. But, it is the Detroit of the UK and similarly to Detroit has befallen the same fate. Very surprised to see you didnt go to my old council estate Stoke Aldermoor ("the aldermoor") just to the north of willenhall. Very much like the chatsworth estate in "Shameless" or these days just like Somalia 😉
@ukexplored5 ай бұрын
That are doesn’t show up on the crime and poverty stats I was using. Possibly too small an area and is included in a larger ward. There were a bunch of smaller areas , mostly neighbouring the ones I went to, that were struggling though. I drove through a couple.
@teaboyuk5 ай бұрын
@@ukexplored yes it will be listed as stoke most likely lower stoke rather than upper stoke depressingly predictable language. Great video though, you're very brave!
@stevejones19725 ай бұрын
Stoke Aldermoor was the area used for Onslow's house (Michell Close) in Keeping Up appearances - they needed a run down slum area to portray the poverty he lived in, and Stoke Aldermoor has always had a bad reputation. (Hyacinth's house was at Heather Road, Binley Woods Coventry by the way) I was born in Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry and lived there for my childhood, fortunately my parents could afford to live in Stivichall, so I was not exposed to the rougher areas of the city, but over the last 20 years Coventry has got really bad. 14 years or Tory austerity, benefit cuts and rising poverty have not helped.
@teaboyuk5 ай бұрын
@@stevejones1972 I lived on the estate very very near to where they filmed onslows house ! It was great the film crew were pretty good to us kids. The director was a stuck up bell end as was Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth) which is a shame because I liked her as hetty wainthrop. Geoffrey Hughes (onslow) was great and really down to earth gave us all signed promo photos. He was a good boy.
@SeanTheDomesticTerroristАй бұрын
All i can say is about the moor is thank fuck they havnt paved over all the green down bye the Sowe, can still remember visiting my Great Grandparents when they lived in The Lindfield flats across the road, always fun driving by now after a good bit of rain to see the flooding.
@Mark28644Ай бұрын
I used to work at Foleshill back in the very early 1980s. I worked at the Alfred Herbert Toolmakers factory site at Edgewick, off Crossroads. I'd just not long left school at the time & took up an apprenticship there. I used to go to the nearby Edgewick Park for my launch breaks & then browse around the local shops too. Many happy memories indeed. Hard to believe that's 44 years ago now.
@susiedunn32412 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Willenhall, alot of good people. Unfortunately our Labour Council have neglected the city, we used to have neighbourhood wardens, they dealt with alot of fly tipping and anti social behaviour , also got involved with schools with after school clubs, they decided to knock this scheme on the head due to central government cuts. My husband was one of the wardens, he loved the job, so very rewarding. I hope the Council see this video. Thanks for making this
@peakfreans68Ай бұрын
I noticed you briefly showed st Oswolds church in Tile Hill. The architect was Basil Spence, the man also behind Coventry cathedral.
@leefranks93324 ай бұрын
I lived in coventry living my childhood in woodend and henley green living on Winston avenue such a lovely area in the late 70s early 80s nows cov is a dump it's so dirty, no one has any pride anymore
@billrankin5 ай бұрын
The government has no money to do up these places due to half the world living here on benefits
@porcelain_doll23215 ай бұрын
And don’t forget they also send millions to other countries 🙄 it’s clear to see charity starts at home
@iamthestig15 ай бұрын
@@porcelain_doll2321 Both of these are Labour policies, brought in by the Blair regime...
@sm95714 ай бұрын
Not just half the world alot of lazy english too, busy with drinking n dope
@bensims75014 ай бұрын
@porcelain_doll2321 we have it way better than so many people in the world. If you wish to improve your situation then please don't let youtube stop you
@peterwickett90884 ай бұрын
Everyone here loves the old benefits Lazy people
@AndrewSvonja5 ай бұрын
...also near baggington there was a roundabout system which has been altered now with a bypass which was known locally as "suicide island"!! having used it i know why!!
@argopunk5 ай бұрын
The 1950s city planners didn't foresee drug culture taking over the public housing hoods they would be building for the next 20 years.
@Azrael1st5 ай бұрын
Why would they build such horrifyingly ugly buildings for the masses. It really does feel like the upper elite British class was trying to separate the poor and needy from them.
@theabandonedhunter36045 ай бұрын
Totally agree with this
@MrDirkles5 ай бұрын
The rules first social housing tenants are as clear as can be. Sadly, the rules are never applied. It's almost like they want it to be like this🤔
@ladylaois81845 ай бұрын
Or cultural enrichment
@Magizmo20075 ай бұрын
@@ladylaois8184so your just going to ignore the predominantly whyte demographic as stated 🙄
@ezehielll4 ай бұрын
And where is Woodend ?🤔🤔
@juniorreid8255 ай бұрын
like St Louis Missouri was very poorest deprivation and even more poverty strickens compared to Coventry 😢😢
@seanmurphy170422 күн бұрын
I used to work for the council in cov, obviously we worked all over the city, woodend for me was the worse as our mobile work unit was broken into a couple of times and you needed some industrial tools to get in those things.but I will say we always got offered cups of tea and bickies etc, in these rough areas, but when in the more affluent places you got an attitude of contempt and requests for special treatment, and phonecalls to councillors. Obviously not everyone was like that but a surprising amount were.
@debdoubleday63122 ай бұрын
Your absolutely right about all the litter EVERYWHERE 😢..it's so awful 😢..you should of had a walk around the local park..it's full of rubbish!
@Mark28644Ай бұрын
My mate lived in Bell Green for a bit then moved to Jardine Crescent off Plough Lane up Tile Hill way.
@Bingo-zd1gp5 ай бұрын
Hi I love watchering your videos they are brilliant in one of your videos you was in my home town West Bromwich there is good and bad in West Bromwich keep up the good work from Marie 😊
@dsean40405 ай бұрын
Used to do a milk round in foleshill all around them high rises, and your right it has a high Asian population, for some reason too they always used to have full fat milk…just thought I’d put that out there to see if anyone knows why…oh and during my time as a milkman covering most of the West Midlands foleshill was the only place where I had milk nicked off the back of my van, they were white lads (if anyone is wondering)
@lisapinfold5065 ай бұрын
Possibly to make kulfi, zype of dessert 😊
@lisapinfold5065 ай бұрын
Ugh, dumb phone
@audie-cashstack-uk48815 ай бұрын
Full fat milk is milk the flavour the protein the calcium is in the fat why would anyone drink use anything else I put milkmon my cereal not piss water
@billieboy89 күн бұрын
Every town , every major city in the country has areas like this.
@DLiotine3 ай бұрын
Coventry is engulfed in a cloud of weed smoke. It sucks walking around everywhere
@thathurt5 ай бұрын
You are brave going to Cov. 😆
@ashleyjackson825 ай бұрын
What about Canley ?
@cynicaldodgyknees62484 күн бұрын
I was talking with a bus-driving friend some years back and asking about his most dangerous Coventry routes. “Bell Green? Willenhall? Wood End?” I suggested. “Nah! They’re pussycats” he replied. “Tanyard Farm, by a mile”.
@billieeilish2755Ай бұрын
you should do nuneaton next i really like these videos
@FFTsteel4 ай бұрын
And, so, what are Coventry councils doing about it?
2 ай бұрын
Obviously nothing. They are building on green belt land to accommodate the latest influx of immigrants.
@JuiceTerry874 ай бұрын
I grew up in Henley Green and I'd say even despite how bad it looks in this video, it's in a better state than it was in the late 90s, especially Manor Farm.
2 ай бұрын
I dated a girl who lived on Manor Farm Estate. We used to go to the Shire Horse pub (now gone).
@JuiceTerry872 ай бұрын
Yeah, my dad drank in there and I did a couple of times. Burnt down August 2003. It was next to the block of flats in the caption.
@Swallabat3 ай бұрын
I actually own a small part of the litter strewn ground you show in your documentary. Every effort I make to clean it up (to date:) is carefully undone by people who can't clearly communicate in my language. (as soon as I leave) who are without exception, my neighbours" If they can't even speak to me, and have made it clear that they see my activities (and presumably me) as unwanted, is it me who's the racist? The police are unintersted in co-operating with me in amy meaningful way, the council appear overwhelmed, and that "multiculturalism" just means that I am surrounded by several enclaves of semi-protected people whilst I have no rights or support in my effort to clean up my bit, whatsoever. Finally after three years of me absorbing aggravation and interference (and endless fly tipping) a person spoke to me the other day coherenlty and sensibly, but only to ask me to cut down a tree and suggest that I sell my bit of ground and move on. (he wasn;t making an offer, just wants me gone) I was born here, but this isn't my country anymore, if it ever was. My early life traiinng turned out to be completeley unsuited to the way the country has "progressed" during my life. This isn't how it could be, at one point Britain, (and England in particular) "raised the world up" by developing the industrial revolution, ad wrkabel laws etc.. We showed other people how to live! People looked to us for leadership. Some still do, even after the massive decline I've witnessed in "English culture". In practice, the lack of "Englishness" around me genrally, these days, just means that I can't leave ANY TOOLS on my ground, without first being able to build a secure building(!). I need to be delievered and collected with my tools, so as not to expose the car to the area any longer then we have to, so it's really difficult to do anything constructive, and have it stay done, so as I can move forwards..I guess anyone else who has aspirations to make inprovents in these areas, faces the same problems. even if I collect and sort the litter though, there are still charges and obstacles to getting it processes by the local waste facilities, which I always thought was a BIG PART of why we pay our taxes, to have litter and sewage processed in central locations rather than ad-hoc as our council seems to prefer. Something needs to be done!!
@denniscostabile42644 ай бұрын
The worst of Coventry? Are there any nice neighborhoods? Dude, I live in Pittsburgh U.S., which has a reputation of being the worst industrial city in this country of 320 Million. The reality is, this is one of the most spectacular cities in the world.
@apathyintheuk2654 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Dswatches5 ай бұрын
Why do deprived people have children…
@macman14694 ай бұрын
Because you can fuck for free . It's one of the few things the poor can afford .
2 ай бұрын
Benefits.
@missunderstood783028 күн бұрын
Stoney stanton road is my road. Romanians have destoyed it bro
@Mark28644Ай бұрын
These areas that are shown in this video. Where all once thriving communties some years back. No boarded up shops & litter everywhere either. Such a shame about their decline it really is. And there some great people in them who help serve their local community, as well. They're not all bad.
@incognito964 ай бұрын
Lived in wood end, and hillfrields , they used to be good but know not so good.
@frankiefugazi4 ай бұрын
And They are all on the No.21 bus route too, goes from Wood End To Willenhall, through all these hoods. If you're visiting Cov, that's the bus to not accidently hop on. 🤣
@ravsingh53473 ай бұрын
That's a good one 😄
@SeanTheDomesticTerroristАй бұрын
Was gonna say the only part of that journey you're unlikely to get stabbed or spat at on is passing by Cheylesmore