Marsh Lane,Bootle - The hardest hit area in Sefton, Liverpool.

[@random_precision_software]

Omg that's where i started using in 1988 i haven't been there or seen it for a very long time... and i literally felt watching this Billy!

[@lindagallagher3711]

So very sad beautifull buildings!! Can't believe how good that art work is these kids are ruining their life instead of concentrating what their good at they would rather destroy things and get in trouble it's sad. Great podcast Billy enjoy them all your such a lovely down to earth genuine guy .

[@jbird4627]

Grew up on the lane, our youth club as kids is there The Brunny Boys Club. The boozer opposite is The Solly, it’s like the twilight zone you go in of a Friday night and leave Monday morning. The boozer that you’ve shown vandalised is The Chaucer, learnt more there than I did in school, you grew up fast!! I’ve nothing but boss memories of Marsh Lane. 👌🏼👍🏼

[@jayonfnxx]

Same

[@stevecunningham5598]

I used to work in The Chaucer in the mid 80s it was a fantastic pub , the locals were good people who looked out for each other, the pub was chocker every Friday Saturday and Sunday and no hint of trouble, its a crying shame what happened to it.

[@SinbadioMoore77]

Did you know Matty and Gloria Moore?

[@stevecunningham5598]

@markkennedy9535 I'd probably know them by sight but the name isn't familiar sorry.

[@joycetownsend7585]

Another great video Billy.👍👍

[@mummyd1990]

Lived on Southey street in 2007 loved Bootle,thank you so much for this and keep safe and well always.

[@criartoros]

Good video mate. Brings back memories. I moved to Fernhill Rd Bootle in 87 From Kirkby. Crocky was very bad to in the 80s. Nick named it smack city. Remember a 15 year old lad Jimmy Fitsimonds sadly passed away cause of heroin. Was very sad&all over national news. There use to be a regular article in the Echo in the 80s called heroin a generation in peril like 4 page pullout. Some great history & nostalga. Godblessx

[@saraprva4172]

In 80s V young & new to UK I went with a freind to Bootle got of train & kids asking if you wanted to score, then went to a tower block, up to a door & scored £5 of brown through the letter box. Back in Croatia yesterday after 2 week in UK including few days in Liverpool - wonderful people Billy(my daughter follows you) love from Split utft

[@tonymanley1130]

I was born in Scott street off marsh lane in 73. The best thing by parents ever did for me was to move us out of the area in 78 otherwise I’d have involved in the stupidity that was happening in the 80s. I’m always proud to say I’m from Bootle it’s just a shame the place hasn’t changed for the better in 40 odd years

[@SinbadioMoore77]

I was born in Blair walk off marsh lane in 77, me and my sister set fire to our maisonette by accident aged 5 😕

[@richardburton2726]

top video Billy,I worked on some houses back in 1995 on thornton ave-bootle,we went to near by boozer at night,but I cant remember the same,lovely people though,best regards to juddah...

[@harryturnbull1884]

Used to hang out at Marsh Lane Community Centre in late 80s/90s, was a good crack - not literally like. Also had a sitdown with Wacker Lawson and Brian the Arse Slicer in the Muncaster but still here to tell the tale.

[@pleasantville4529]

Bootle, being part of Sefton, has the same local council as the likes of, Crosby, Hillside, Formby, Ainsdale, Birkdale, and Southport. The people of Bootle pay the same rate of council tax, as all the other aforementioned Boroughs. There is something fundamentally wrong with todays society, when certain areas are left to decline, while others receive the handouts. Its bordering on criminal neglect.

[@davidjonas7243]

True mate. It can be seen in Liverpool as a whole, with the difference between it’s north and south ends.

[@LIVERPOOLandFARBEYONDNEWS]

People who don't know about marsh lane or haven't experienced it would probably find it hard to believe me and think I'm exaggerating when I say in 2023 Marsh Lane is looking at its best and at its least deprived in over 40 years.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Something which Lawrence Kenwright has been trying to highlight for years!!

[@lloyds053]

@@davidjonas7243 Blundellsands Formby birkdale are more affluent areas than any in the south end mate

[@davidjonas7243]

@@lloyds053just a fact mate. The north end is the most deprived place in Liverpool. The stats are up for everyone to see. One of the most deprived in the country.

[@ratatat9790]

The street in the background of The Chaucer, Coleridge St..my dear 'arl uncle and auntie lived there and i was always down there. Loved the bones of him. He probably saved me from a life on the wrong side of the tracks. R.I.P. Uncle Lol

[@liverpudlian6205]

Use to go marsh lane in late 80s for this and that havent been there for at least 30 years as moved over the water but watching your vid bill its changed alot mate never use to be like that good video bill

[@danny2me70]

I'm 54 and I remember hearing the word smack and smackhead in the early 80s on brookside and didn't understand it till a few years later .

[@David-nm4yc]

Tennant's Super on Tap. That's when you know it's a rough yard.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@micahbodha6129]

We had it in our local up in Scotland. Buckfast & thunderbirds on the optics😂

[@liam208]

Haha 😂

[@chinook1093]

I haven't been on this channel for a while due to youtube being a bell end to me but so glad i found it again , hope you been well my man 💙

[@audreysimon696]

Born and bread off Marsh lane it was brilliant in the 1960 road was called Blair Street off Chaucer street I loved it there xx

[@marto395]

Used to drink in the Sali after work in the late 80s with me dad and a few workmates who lived in Marsh Lane. Me dad grew up around there so everyone knew him. I remember when Neil the manager started getting the Tennants Super on draught after we’d all been working in Glasgow. Neil was Scottish so he knew what the Tennants results would be. 😂 I was a fresh faced 20 year old and watching everyone in the pub shitfaced, don’t know how we got home to Netherton sometimes 😂

[@robwood8331]

Tetleys super eeeegh lol

[@TheBoysInYourHouse]

it would be really interesting doing a video about "dodge"/ netherton. would be interesting to hear your perspective

[@Gang-zy7lq]

Have woody sorting you lad start chatting dodge lol

[@robwood8331]

Just wish you coukd make your vids longer always so interesting and needed

[@PeterSothern]

Really enjoy your travels around liverpool billy. Can you do one around the bullring. I was born and raised there

[@tuxster123]

Great watch bill 👍 i think them two houses are privately owned and also the jawbone may be the oldest pub....😊

[@davidjonas7243]

Sefton council has never cared about Bootle. It’s too close to the city centre, only two and half miles from millers bridge to the pier head. Sefton only cares about the posh areas, such as Crosby, Formby, and the likes of Maghull. There needs to be a new reworking of the council districts. The whole north end of Liverpool, including Bootle, is severely neglected. Just look at the Everton area, parts of Croxteth, and the surrounding places.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Something which Lawrence Kenwright has been trying to highlight for years!! A change to the whole ward system on Merseyside!!

[@bigbelly5098]

Used to go to a gym there called the Brunny, opposite the Salisbury pub. Run by a legend called Vic Burdett.

[@roykendrick1509]

There should be a statue, he did so much for the lads , RIP Vic

[@jonhunter8737]

Used to do electrical repairs for Merseyside Improved Houses(MIH). Loads of jobs on the poets streets, Dryden, Cowper, Grey St, Little Grey street etc. Some of the older people had their houses like palaces!! And yeah, Friday afternoon early darts, couple of pints. Good times.

[@mikeomahony5508]

Do Everton Bill, around Goodison.....

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Nah 😂

[@TheRealMike1976]

Goodison is in Walton though

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

@@TheRealMike1976 I’d prefer it if it was in the jail. 😆

[@mrjasondylan]

​@@TheRealMike1976Walton in 5 minutes from Bootle.

[@johnmiller1300]

And that muncaster has been empty since the 80s Sefton council is a disgrace.

[@johnmiller1300]

Flames night club just by there closed years ago but had many a good night in there door men to the dance floor the DJ would say when a punch up would start 😂😂😂

[@lloyds053]

Remember it opened up about 96/97 was 10p a bottle 🤯 was rammed, they put it up to 50p an it died a death 😂😂

[@johnmiller1300]

@@lloyds053 87-88 I went

[@lesscotford1419]

Ha yeah fella, used to love playing in those old houses just up the flyover in L22 back in the 70s. Sad decline.

[@tommyhassan3545]

Thatcher done that to a lot of areas in the 80s

[@scousemick7509]

My auntie Joyce's local was the solly in the back ground as u was talking I could here my mates mum Mary I had to move away to get clean Billy now 9 years clean all I want is to be back there where my kids live

[@kenjewell5619]

It saddens me to say the whole lot needs demolishing and rebuilding and something needs to be in place to keep the kids occupied. I have fond memories of the Bootle and Sefton areas growing up as a kid.

[@jamesdean1148]

brought up there in the 60s tough place but some good people there.all changed now

[@tomjones4756]

Billy marsh lane is we’re my dad started his addiction when he was 16 when it landed in the 80s the gear. Died 47 in 2012. No wonder the area is in the state it’s in and still nothing has been done. Sort it out 😮

[@davidlloyd2225]

4:05 take the power bak in all areas..peace and blessings hopifully 2 all billy❤️🇬🇧💯 5:32

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

As an American, if I had to compare Bootle to one of our cities, it would probably be Baltimore.

[@barrieturner6316]

Use to live in sailsbury house and my nan and grandad lived on the Irlam estate

[@davidhayes4650]

😂😂 He's not lying bout the Tenants Super, after you had a swallow you could sort of taste the fumes goin up your hooter. 😂

[@EHHHWA]

Hey billy my friends went in there 2 days ago and they found a gun we are going back this Friday to see if its still there it was found under the floorboards

[@lesthomas769]

Is the Langton Castle still going

[@pauldonnelly3179]

Interesting fact - heroin came into Bootle after the police in Wirral clamped down on the supply on the Ford/woodchurch estates, a few of the pushers then went to Bootle and set up shop (and Wirral drug addicts flooded into Bootle to score)

[@iancameron6124]

crazy to think years ago I would come across some hellhole AND be glad I got roof holes or not , but incredible, because I think even addicts who been clean for years should get a lot from this billy, going back must bring strange emotions,

[@nomadscouser4063]

The munky ha my local for many years When george had it think he was the last great pub

[@thescallytrader]

You should show the nice part of Liverpool Billy otherwise people will think its a total shithole. Not entirely sure where to tell you to go though. Old New Heys School in Woolton. Allerton Golf Club.

[@spookygeek9459]

Yes totally agree 😊👍

[@joeexotic5831]

Dunno if Robbie still runs the solly, rough as toast it may be round there, used to be alright back in the day. Whos who and wheres where of my life last few days

[@barrieturner6316]

Yes robbie still runs the solly he's my aunties ex husband

[@siray6835]

Is the jawbone still open Bill ?

[@MarkJones-w9d]

Yep

[@ThomasSpitzer1]

Liberpool is definitely improved since the 90s

[@Jako-fh8zg]

It’s a bloody shame. I did a placement under the flats near there in 1998, some v decent ppl live there. Seems as though Britain thinks it’s ok to let this happen, there’s one of these in every city. They don’t engage the youth when they can and should

[@TubesWatch]

Fairplay billy if them walls could speak

[@StephenForster-gl5fc]

Seeing how bad things are in the UK is so disheartening,but this is what happens when governments don't invest,,if you don't put the veg into the pot ,all your going to eat is water😢

[@martinvegas1327]

Isn't Kev's Cab from Bootle?

[@peterlpool1387]

Probably the all backward.

[@martinvegas1327]

They're👀@@peterlpool1387

[@davidstanyer7289]

Boss areas at the time marsh Lane and the Irlam Estate ruff areas the Heroine came out loads of lads and girls died of them streets bill sad to say

[@tonyelvisuk1]

Wow that's so sad mate😢

[@timspooner59]

My first wife came from bootle in 1960^s

[@robwood8331]

Country been destroyed and continues to be. Its the future of our kids and grandkids we have to save.

[@chasey2327]

allegedly the John fella at 7:13 looks uncannily like liverpool serial killer John Sweeney (google it) - he's defo still in jail tho right?? hope i'm way off with that one lad but seeing someone who's same age, same name, from same city with same face u think hang on...

[@Mkbshg8]

Bloody ell you might be right there, whats going on???

[@donnybrasco9330]

That’s definitely ain’t John sweeney 😂😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@Mkbshg8]

@@donnybrasco9330 I mean it can't be because he's still inside but hes a ringer for him.

[@davegonnaway6007]

I'll take it mate be alright that lick of paint lol.

[@jamiepatton7460]

Love ya Billie Lad haha X

[@knottybogeye6387]

Dont pay council tax,

[@jonertiger]

Early 80s i thought croxteth was

[@peachmelba1637]

I would agree... I'm 55 and I remember heroin being openly smoked on tinfoil on the 14 bus ... they actually demolished flats as it was the only way to get rid of some of the problem... Norris green wasn't far behind, you couldn't leave your house without it being burgled by heroin addicts.

[@ratatat9790]

Sparra was bad. I lived over the shops then.I had to smash the windows in the stairwell of the flats to let the air in 'cos the smackheads would line up the stairs chasin' and the fkin fumes would come under the door. Not to mention them knocking on the door all the time for foil and matches.

[@pauldonnelly3179]

Neither were the first place, Ford estate Birkenhead was the first estate in the UK where smack flooded in around mid 81

[@Ste63Grace]

I always thought heroine addiction began with Curtis Warren doling out testers to the kids goin home from xchool in the south end.🤔

[@stinkyfinn6977]

Nope started withe the old school armed robbers from Liverpool investing their money in smack but only selling it in Birkenhead as they didn't want to shiz on their own doorstep, but 2 lads brought it back over the water

[@LIVERPOOLandFARBEYONDNEWS]

​@@stinkyfinn6977ye your right i think it was some gangster families from kirkby sent a load of it over to the Ford and woody estates on the Wirral as they supposedly had some morals about shitting on your own doorstep. Anyway after 6 months of seeing how much was to be made just off them 2 estates tgeir morals got lost so they shipped it back over to Liverpool. I think the 1st places they flooded it with was crocky an bootle and totally destroyed them 2 places. I think all that happened in just under a year and in just over that year when they sent it over the water that Liverpool became notorious as the UK,s 1st smack city and the rest is an embarrassing history

[@ratatat9790]

Why was he addicted to female heroes was he?

[@annehoughton8850]

Yes I know my got he’s parole in 3 March after serving 11 And Now They Have Delayed it Why He Never Killed Anyone??

[@davidmckay2386]

Woodchurch ford nocky prenton North end .smack distroyed them ests in 80s ......

[@ds.3577]

Seen that ‘keos’ graffiti everywhere round liverpool

[@Allegedly2right]

Electric Soup the Scousers canny take the proper bevy haha that’s a man’s drink Tennants Souper

[@kevgorry1850]

I even new a bird clare heaton she even sold crack an smk ther

[@pjg_77]

People make ghettos. And leaving your door open back in the day is also nonsense as there wasn’t Fck all to Nick lad that’s why the doors were left open lad 😂

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

I think people may of been talking about the 50s and 60s when trust wasn’t an issue and doors of houses were left open.

[@pjg_77]

@@Eleventhearlofmars our grandparents back then still had Fck all to Nick though really mate !! But get what you’re saying still

[@bencooper8050]

Boot hill!!

[@lottierose8668]

remember smack eds climbing up the outside of chestnut house in the 80s to score

[@MarkJones-w9d]

Why didn't they just walk in , no concierge back then

[@grahamsullivan5719]

Billy John passed away sadlly

[@theallornothingpodcastwith4442]

❤️

[@annehoughton8850]

justice For All

[@garyrigby21]

Not an area of Liverpool i know well i stick to the South end

[@TheRealMike1976]

Never venture north of the Rocket lol. Liverpool's like 2 separate cities.

[@garyrigby21]

@@TheRealMike1976 exactly I've always seen it as 2 separate cities North and South but I always say north of Kensington the east and north east are different again I mean Huyton and Kirkby

[@TheRealMike1976]

@@garyrigby21 they have those funny green road signs in Huyton and Kirkby😁

[@lloyds053]

​@@TheRealMike1976ahh mate don't get ahead of yourself, don't forget speke an garston are south end, absolute dumps. I own houses in the north an south end but it doesn't make me any better than some1 from bootle or seaforth

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

@@TheRealMike1976 That’ll be you now entering Knowsley Mike🤔🤔

[@wayneholland4703]

👍

[@jonathanhart8570]

Yeah it was the kids...but who paid them

[@drpeterthompson5894]

1k too go r William. I predict30 september 50k!

[@kimkennedy4154]

No 200 quid has been put anywhere near that place smells of a insurance claim that and blame the scouse kids 😡

[@annehoughton8850]

Meant my Son I need too be Going down the CourtS It not Right in the morning Here We Come

[@Gang-zy7lq]

No it well bill

[@pjg_77]

When the Union stuff was happening in the 80s & the miners lost, the painters & decorators lost, ship yards lost, then these little pit villages were flooded in Turkish heroin at the time. Makes you think eh ?! Just suddenly tons of cheap decent smack.

[@deanpike8376]

Agree, Thatcher flooded the poorest areas with smack. Her and het lackeys should be dug up and fed to pigs

[@jazztheglass6139]

The Iranian revolution was in 1979. wealthy Iranians couldn't emigrate with gold. A lot of them bought heroin, strapped it to themselves and emigrated to Europe. 1979 is the same year Pakistan a previous producer, outlawed poppy fields due to the United Nations. It was a major source of foreign currency for the country. They moved the fields to Afghanistan, ISI showed them how to make it in base form - #3. ISI then smuggled it back to Pakistan. It was then sold in Europe. The billions it made financed their nuclear bomb project

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Yeah, it’s not decent heroin any more, it’s the worst danced on 💩ever. I got hooked in the 80s when £5 would buy you an experience. I stopped using 15 years ago because it was becoming that crap . Now being a drug rehab worker I’m constantly being told that the gear going around now doesn’t even give you any kind of buzz and many addicts are stopping using saying it’s not worth spending the money on. There are exceptions of course but some are beyond help and just can’t get out of the lifestyle.

[@pjg_77]

@@Eleventhearlofmars I know a lad who smokes here & there & goes for pîss tests at his drs, he admitted to smoking gear over the weekend. His test come back negative for heroin but positive for benzodiazepines!! Just says it all. He told me the gear is now white, not brown anymore

[@pjg_77]

@@Eleventhearlofmars good on you for turning it around brother 🙏🏻🙏🏻 my pal said that his drug worker done 5 experiments with street gear about 2 years ago & the highest one they done was 4%. Lowest was 2% gear !!

[@veronical.lianmaseras4543]

Billys visits are good but inevitably much the same. Might be better to research and comment from a historical perspective of the flooding of Heroin to these communities across Britain in the 1980’s and then the MDMA in the 1990’s. It wasn’t organic Billy. Who exactly was doing it Billy and WHY, that’s a video worth watching!

[@uhmeee649]

Peal rd 😂

[@briancorrigan4858]

You’re talking rubbish! You showed 3 abandoned properties empty for at least 10 years,all which suffered from arson……go to any city in England and you will find the same. They re not even in Marsh Lane!!!i One is in Chaucer Street,and 2 in Irlam Road. Do your homework before slagging off Marsh lane. By the way look at the increase in house prices in the area. I am cancelling my subscription. You have lost your credibility totally.

[@Benny18-18]

The baby spits the dummy 😮

[@ratatat9790]

Everyone knows when you say Marsh Lane it means the general area.

[@TheRealMike1976]

Horrible place.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Agreed 👍👍

[@user-yh9sn1ye1j]

stroll on the purple tin on tap tennents super same league as special brew lol