Rough Day In Britain’s Most Brutal Town 🇬🇧

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"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!" Sir John Betjemen, 1937, Continental Dew.
Old John didn't think much about Slough, and the reputation of this Berkshire town hasn't improved much since then. It was even the location for then grim yet hilarious Ricky Gervais comedy 'The Office' If this town really is such a depressing, brutalist, soulless dump then I had to see it with my own eyes. Is Slough really THAT bad?
#britain #slough #streetinterview #brokenbritain #london #decline #uk

[@WendallExplores]

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[@VloggingALife]

Hi bro

[@democracyforall]

In any place where there is less social interaction more mental illness will follow, in London you go out to lecister square and thousands upon thousands sets around and you sort of set around and that alone does allot of psychological healing where there is no such an interaction and no church gathering and no mosque or temple gathering mental problems , we human being are not meant to be alone....

[@AdamsLTFC420]

Come to Luton

[@Jasmine-uy9lq]

Was that staged? Or did you you conveniently forget your wallet 🤔

[@rog3833]

Was ready to buy that tracker card - only to be a bit gutted its i phone only. Android? lol x

[@somnumna2606]

Without Slough we would never have had The Office.

[@laganas2008]

I don't agree with that in the workplace!

[@janetwestwood9194]

🚬💅🫦💨🍷✌️❣️🇬🇧

[@derekmaloney8837]

Who cares about that Shittee programme... That sht helped society go downhill

[@thundercatsaga6136]

Or Eric Hitchmough

[@howard1707]

I was born and raised in Windsor and 50+ years ago a shopping trip Slough was a treat, how on earth has Slough fallen so far.

[@poeticnije]

35yrs ago from Amersham, We used to go to Slough shopping on very rare special occasions. Shame to see it like this! However, I'm now in Oxford and the same thing is happening here.

[@zivkovicable]

I lived in Windsor until "92. For me the Windsor squaddies were more of a problem on a night out than anything Slough had to offer. . I definitely feel safer in South London where i moved to believe it or not.

[@fuck4317]

Windsor. Where the enrichment was first imported back in the 50s. A literall domino effect for the entire country.

[@RBC0405]

How is Oxford on the decline? Love that place, haven't been in a while​@@poeticnije

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

Large Eastern European population

[@eddieryan888]

When I was a kid in the early 70,'s I moved to Slough and got a job in Unitube on the industrial estate. The people there took me under their wings as I was only a young fella. I will never forget the kindness and support they gave me. I returned to Ireland later on but the memories I have are only good ones. I would like to return there for a visit. God bless Slough and it's people.

[@marydaniel3252]

I think you may see a BIG DIFFERENCE!!

[@beccymalloy]

Well that's lovely to hear you had a positive experience! That probably also says a lot about you :)

[@shivaunt71]

That's wonderful.

[@liveonabike9473]

What you're documenting is not just a decline in British living standards and social cohesion, but also a deliberate deconstruction of a society built and maintained with false equity and borrowed time. Those of us growing up in the 90s and before, knew of a society where hope and a promise of a better future meant that we could tolerate the obvious corporate greed, government over-reach and bureaucratic insanity that has rapidly eroded our 'decent' standard of living. I haven't lived in the UK properly for many years now and have experienced living in a 3rd world country as one of the few 'haves', even though I earned a very average income by European standards. To know that this is literally on the horizon for much of Europe is very sobering and I'm at a loss to suggest a way to stop it happening. I think people have simply become too apathetic and complacent, believing the lie of statism and democracy, instead of demanding better for themselves and their posterity. The wheels are already off the cart and the reset will be brutal and swift. Covid was only the test signal, so brace yourselves accordingly.

[@david.majchrzak7069]

Truth

[@greenbunnyinabongo7299]

Think I’ll just draw the curtains and slip into bed after reading that Ps it’s 2pm

[@mackfin8869]

😂

[@gomey70]

absolute twaddle, the 70s and 80s were way worse than now.

[@James-gf9jl]

Well put. Working as expats in the third world, twenty years ago, we used to look forward to our leave in the UK for a fix of sanity. Now, based here permanently, i'd be heading overseas for a break.

[@heyimvee]

Don't even know whether to laugh or cry at this point. This country is finished. It's beyond sad.

[@chaosflower4892]

Cheer up! We will never run out of deliveroo riders or taxi drivers!

[@heyimvee]

'You're from Wolverhampton?' 'No, I'm from Afghanistan' 😂😂😂😂😂

[@WendallExplores]

🤣

[@jpracing6913]

[@heyimvee]

​@@jpracing6913Indeed

[@heyimvee]

This interaction alone sums it all up doesn't it

[@Theboxingobserver]

🤣🤣

[@86frieza]

I lived in Slough between 2009-2014 and I can confirm it's a shithole

[@MilesV8]

Slough has been bad even 20 years ago, but nothing compared to what it is now. I live about 30 minutes from Slough and used to have weekly work meeting in the centre of Slough. The office building the meeting was held in was like Fort Knox and even the car park was super secure with spikes and electric gate etc. Even then, it still got broken into twice. The crime rate is horrendous. Slough, like some other cities and towns has turned into a 3rd world country, largely due to the people who moved there, primarily from Muslim countries to be very specific. There is zero pride anywhere, anything that isn't secured will get stolen or damaged. I wouldn't dream of going there at night, and whenever I have the misfortune of driving through Slough, I lock myself in my car and get out as fast as possible. Sadly Slough won't ever improve unless many of its "residents" are kicked out.

[@Mayaman67]

There is zero pride anywhere? So where does that pride come from? I am assuming you say zero pride from the non-ethnic Brits. Whose fault is that? You can't fault people from 3rd world countries for our lack of pride. It's an intrinsic emotion. I agree immigration is an issue but blaming them everything will not resolve the social issues. The demise of our town centres is due, partly , to the fact that we were all happy to buy cheaper stuff online so that shops could no longer compete. I am guilty also. There are many other factors but that's for another day.

[@Fidelisjoff]

​@@Mayaman67third world immigrants do not live like others and you know that. Britain is rotting from the inside because of mass immigration. The sense of entitlement that immigrants and the children of immigrants have towards British people and culture never cease to amaze me when the root of our problems whether it is housing, public services, low wages is immigration that the British people never consented to and always voted against.

[@paulm5443]

Most town centres are becoming third world.

[@thathurt]

Northampton is already there. 😢

[@dogstar5572]

I lived there in the 90s. It’s awful. That first guy I remember, he’s a nutter. You will get robbed at night if your around too long. I got hit with a pint glass there, nearly died.

[@newsbender]

Incredible he is still alive...

[@Theboxingobserver]

Two ways of looking at that, glass half full and all that...

[@gomey70]

Do you remember a pub called the George on Farnham Road? I worked there in the early 90s. Fucken mad gaff. 😂

[@dogstar5572]

@@gomey70 Yeah. It was at the Britwell end. My dad used to drink there. Sticky carpet, fights at the weekend.

[@franky8.5]

@@gomey70Did it have a red carpet?

[@djresource717]

Britain 🇬🇧 is depressing ....

[@Edward-vo5pr]

It’s a sad state of affairs

[@jonnydoeson5562]

I think it depends on where you go…

[@Richy91]

@@jonnydoeson5562 It certainly does, there are some beautiful towns and villages around the country.

[@palmssss]

Yet he’s not showing the culprits that have rotted this country 😢

[@jonnydoeson5562]

@@palmssss how is he supposed to show the government on here?

[@cmacdhon]

Even the town's name is depressing.

[@lisapinfold506]

The name also means the grotty stuff you find in a ditch, or horrible dead skin🤢

[@JamesSmith-ny2gb]

Most of these shitholes have rough names, slough, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, stoke.

[@chasey2327]

the 'slough of despond' of the pilgrim progress by bunyan - means despair, hopelessness, misery etc. just look up the other meanings for slough -they're all desperate! thank god theres Stoke Park hotel nearby to lift your mood if u have the readies

[@Duck1985]

I agree, it always reminds me of Vomit for some reason.

[@dutchdykefinger]

@@Duck1985 it sounds like runny shit to me i can't help but have a mental image of a pug dog doing a viscous runny jobbie on the carpet and then going circles around it dragging it's anus across the floor that, or something like period blood perhaps because it sounds close enough to slosh :')

[@stevengriffin7873]

20 minutes to Londonistan that clinches it for me.

[@romeisfallingagain]

i was born in the late 80s and we left in the mid 90s. my early life experienced a child murdered on my street, the wolf boy at salt hill park, and a beheaded body in my school playground. i moved back there for a bit when i was in my late teens/early 20s and saw a father and son stabbing a samurai sword into someones front door by cippenshops and throwing a brick through the upstairs window. my friend got stabbed up by asians by the ice rink for just walking home past them. i think its probably as bad as it ever been and i would say its from immigration to there

[@darrylmorris5348]

Importing third world people has killed off any sense of unity that might have existed in the British people. Everyone is isolated in themselves now as our society has changed so quickly it is bewildering and hard to figure out what Britain even is now.

[@untissify]

Precisely! 👍🏻

[@jonibz1456]

Bollocks! Slough always had a big Pakistani and Polish communities, and was great until about 15-20 years ago, and if their were any dodgy goings on, it was not from them.

[@chaosflower4892]

Diversity, divide, division.. di.. to seperate. Division is a strength folks. Just like ignorance.

[@razk1974]

Always easy to blame it on multiculturalism. London is thriving and it’s full of diversity. This ain’t it mate. Look at the stores that are being run right now in Slough? They are mostly what?… brown. There’s nothing wrong with you making conversation with other people.

[@sexybabatunde5271]

no such thing as 3rd world made up words

[@johnratcliffe4344]

that 46 year old guy with the tattoos was very interesting and so right how things have turned out now. great video by the way wendall

[@WendallExplores]

He spoke a lot of sense

[@Yodaspirit45]

@@WendallExploresBut you both don’t have any solutions so it all just becomes a load of Wendall Twaddle 🤷‍♂️

[@azzzza1045]

I was born and raised in Slough, started travelling at 18 and let’s just say I got all the motivation i needed to leave. I saw a lot of crazy things in Slough and learnt a lot of life lessons so can’t be too bitter, at least it wasn’t boring 😂

[@jerrymonaco7409]

100%, mate. Many people are dead inside because they've lived boring and safe lives

[@MbisonBalrog]

What you see? Did Slough have lots of gangs?

[@srsly5570]

Wendell, my heart just sinks and sinks each time I view the reality of the UK today, and this is another example. I was born in NW London and emigrated as a young girl to Australia. I have extended family in the UK, and my son now lives in Croydon, having left Sydney to go on a working (teaching) holiday and then ended up marrying an English girl and eventually buying a flat in Croydon, they now expect their first child. I've visited several times over the years, my own personal travel, my immediate and extended family, and to visit my son. I've stayed in a few Croydon hotels, but when you did the episode on Croydon I was so devastated. OK, it's not the most dangerous place in London, but it's far from a good place either. I saw the reality for myself as I wandered around Croydon and the shopping areas and centres. I really wish my son and his new wife would try it here in Melbourne (where I now live), but her family are there and so that is that. I do appreciate your work.

[@MbisonBalrog]

At least they ain’t in America 🇺🇸

[@exlibrisross]

Great to hear the 46yr old bloke. Shared my truth, blessings ever from Belfast.

[@WendallExplores]

Great guy

[@kidinthecloud]

Spoke the truth 💪🏻💪🏻

[@OUTBOUND184]

Unfortunately he'd suffered but had no wisdom because of it. Still lost.

[@beccymalloy]

Yes. He has more than a shred of humanity and perspective which is refreshing to see. Bless him.

[@minimaxi802]

Slough only 20 miles from the centre of London and only a few miles from the Royal family at Windsor Castle.

[@tomwilliams7391]

I know the area well, Eton college is about a mile from Slough, you can see Slough from the playing fields. It really shows the inequality well, ultra rich, then a couple of miles away a really run down town.

[@abduluddin9928]

And to think Windsor is around the corner and it's completely different.

[@Aerojet01]

Back in the mid 90's, I used to work for an employment agency that supplied stock-takers across the country. We would pick people up from Slough and joke about them living in a grim town. I guess, a lot of them saw the stock taking job as a reason to escape. It was a day out for them. Even then, it was very depressing place to live, with miles of concrete, unemployment and lack of opportunities.

[@RadzBudz]

As a retired stock taker from Slough I confirm it's a good night out stocking taking is

[@MbisonBalrog]

What is stock taking?

[@williammore558]

Slough is one of the most brutal and depressing place in the country. One of the main car park block is where drugs are traded and no-go for the police. I once worked there and, during a particular morning, a dead person was found sprawled across a hedge round the corner of the building of my offices. Crumbs. A dead body 😮. Police claimed the dead was a drug addict. This was nearly a decade ago but I hear it's worse today 😢

[@mogznwaz]

There shouldn’t be any no-go areas for police - should send in the Army and clear it out of we have to !!

[@timpearce3314]

I,m from the south west, and can,t beleive how things are still "normal " here! I,ts incredible how things have gone wrong in most of our once"proud cities" retired and "glad to be the age I am," on reflection , I,m sad for the future generations, now at 68y/o I know Iv,e seen the best of it all, God bless you all.....

[@patrickj8984]

shhh, don't tell them how beautifull it is here 🌴

[@EggBuehl]

you’re 68 and don’t know the difference between a comma and an inverted comma?

[@timpearce3314]

@@EggBuehl If that is your only concern , you are indeed a very sad individual and I will treat your comment with the contempt it deserves....

[@EggBuehl]

@@timpearce3314 😂 👍🏻

[@npr1300A8]

I'm in the Southwest too and agree with you. I'm originally from Lancashire and spent 59 years in my town of birth but it's not our town now. Down here you just don't feel the tensions that exist up there.....yet.

[@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse]

2:50 Dude’s off his head, Slough’s been a shite’ole for at least 5 decades certainly since the 60/70s when all the brutalist architecture went up and the flood of mass immigration of the peaceful ones….

[@robmthe1st]

Corporate/landlord/ local council greed and corruption are what’s happening here. Add to that the rise of the internet, with online shopping and social media, we are literally a sinking ship on all fronts. Sorry to be negative!

[@GLASGOWBOY123.]

and immigration, look at the demographics of Slough

[@TanaThaku]

@@GLASGOWBOY123. they're the only ones operating local businesses. if you want one as a white person, go do it.

[@zoebx1314]

Slough is horrendous. I live on the outskirts. When my daughter was 16 and started college (3 yrs ago), for the 1st time, she wanted to be independent. She had to leave Slough train station and make a 2 minute walk to the bus home. Within 3 weeks she got mugged and had her phone stolen. She's now getting therapy for PTSD and won't go anywhere if i can't pick her up. The shops are all gone. Absolute dump. My mum now lives in Dorset and every time I go and visit her, as soon as i see the signs for Slough on the way home, I depressed for about a week.

[@zoebx1314]

I really feel for the guy at Antonio's cafe. A good solid old fashioned cafe. Where shops used to be has all been taken over by uber eats/just eat/etc delivery places. The world is a very different place. There used to only be a few places to eat in Slough, now it's all delivery food, vape shops and the odd discount clothing/cheap shit shops.

[@danielmoran9902]

My father came to the UK from rural southern Ireland in 1965. From the moment he was outside the womb, until the day I cremated the nasty old bugger, he was about the toughest man you could ever meet. The first place he lived when he came here, was Slough. Over the years, he also lived in Southampton, Brixton, Wandsworth, Swaleside, and Parkhurst, and he always maintained, that Slough was the roughest place he ever encountered. 'It was like the Wild West, boyo!'.

[@RedHiker22]

There’s no such place as “Southern Ireland” ffs..

[@seanlevison6361]

Lived in Brixton and got stabbed six times by a brother from another mother, plus had some bloke tried to chop us up with a machete - go Slough, happy to be living in Australia now.

[@urmum3773]

@@RedHiker22Idiot

[@danielmoran9902]

@@RedHiker22 Errrrr.....what????

[@zivkovicable]

@@seanlevison6361 Sounds like pre gentrification Brixton. Lived in both places. Brixton is safer & generally a much nicer place to live.

[@zhongguojiayou2675]

I live in London, even in my local area, the famous Camden Market has changed so much, it has affected local businesses, all the unique shops have disappeared or have been squeezed out of the area to other counties, in the 1980's, even before that, Camden Market was one of the most iconic places where you could find really unique shops in the Camden Market, now, it's just a touristy market with no substance, no unique shops anymore, it's like the high street type of shops, with no real character anymore. I've lived in this area all my life, I've seen the changes, might not be as bleak as Slough, but my area has changed, not for the better either. Gentrification has taken over my area with big property developers & the local council in bed together.

[@bearcubd3900]

The 90s was the last great decade everything’s been shit since then !!

[@zhongguojiayou2675]

@@bearcubd3900 A completely agree with you 👍🤝

[@TimK2646]

Fond memories of "Sluff" . My Aunt and Uncle lived there 40 years until they passed away in the 1980s. They both worked at MARS factory, chocolates. It felt poor then but they were very happy.

[@soulspace9088]

Parents had some friends who lived near the factory. You could smell it when getting out of the car. As a kid I thought that was amazing. lol

[@chaosflower4892]

Back then Mars would give a final salary pension. Unheard of now.

[@adam-bailey]

The councils take all the taxes from the people, but don't clean up the towns . The money goes somewhere !

[@JesterEric]

Pensions for Council staff

[@untissify]

@@JesterEricexactly.

[@jamesgraham446]

Council tax pays for accrued pension benefits of the council "workers". Another example of the future generation funded welfare state.

[@TrevsTravelTales]

Council rates go to the government, they then send it to Ukraine, also the money goes to immigrants before they come and after, what is left is given back to the council. Last 10 to 20 years there was nothing left to give back to the council. I Know because My Bro was Mayor of third biggest council in Oz. He had to beg the premier for funds. Sick government set up, all government parasites paid off by cia to destroy the west. Follow the money.

[@mogznwaz]

Gold plated pensions and expense accounts…..

[@richardcoleman1427]

I live in Thailand now, but my house I rent out is still in my home town of Marlow (best town in the UK), but I come back once a year and stop off in slough to fill up my suitcase with tea, gravy, sauces etc. Slough has always been a rough teen in my opinion. and I notice the decline even more in my once yearly 2 hour visits. It used to be ok, not great but ok. Was ok when they had an indoor market with its comic stall and it was even ok when it had the Games workshop. Now its just a concrete and empty wasteland. I have never felt threatened there, just sad !

[@Sirpipbona]

I went to Slough 30 years ago to watch a movie with the Mrs and when I came out my car had been stolen and set on fire 🙄

[@Billyboy571]

I also never watch mainstream media, who needs too when Wendall brings such amazing content🙏

[@172louis]

Was slough ever really a good place. I thought it was rough even then. I was there 30 years ago when i was a kid and me and my friend at that time got started on by a gypsy kid and a foreign kid hanging out together in the park within half an hour of being there. It had a certain reputation even back then.

[@greenbunnyinabongo7299]

What a combination

[@insanitywolf-vh1hn]

Me and my mate went to see robocop when it first came out I was only sixteen. We got beaten stupid by a bunch of travellers old enough to be my dad cos I spilt MY pint. I haven't liked Slough very much since.

[@ls.c.5682]

@@insanitywolf-vh1hn I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you, but going to see Robocop for the first time at that cinema in Slough back then must've been fucking banging! My all time #1 film.

[@insanitywolf-vh1hn]

​@ls.c.5682 thanks! Mixed emotions about that time but its still a brilliant film that has stood the test of time. Can't say that Bout the sequels tho....yuk

[@ls.c.5682]

@@insanitywolf-vh1hn I kinda hate Robocop 2, uhm, too, but there are bits of it I like and a lot of people who like it - check out the RedLetterMedia review of it on youtube if/when you have time. Of course, 3 was utter pants and don't get me started on the TV show. I played the PlayStation 5 game recently (Rogue City) - story is set between 2 and 3, it's not too bad and feels authentic but def a low budget game! Anyway thanks for the chat!

[@N_Newman]

Slough located in England but it is not English town. According the 2021 census 46.7% of Slough's population are from Asian ethnic groups and 36.0% are from White ethnic groups. 7.6% identified their ethnic group within the "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African.

[@5u1c1dal24]

And even most of the white skinned are not even english but are polish.

[@PathManUK]

Hello Wendal! Ive been a Slough resident for most of my 64 years (had 4 years in Oman). It used to be a fantastic town for shopping, but as you have discovered, the local council has allowed the town centre and the shopping dwindle to virtually nothing. Slough residents don’t shop in slough, because there are no shops! I see it “edgy”? No! Don’t be silly! I’m not uncomfortable walking around Slough town centre at any time. Yes, there are a few undesirables here and there, but that sounds the same in every town/city. The only place I have ever felt truly uncomfortable was a night in then centre of Birmingham when I was being followed by a geyser who wanted to roll me, but found I was not playing along it’s his plan. It is absolutely a terrible town centre, devoid of any attraction whatsoever, but the town still has many job opportunities, is surrounded by green belt land and beautiful countryside, and has great transport links, so there are attractions to the town. Anyway, that’s my tuppen ‘orth.

[@Forthought44]

If a town is depressing on a sunny day you know its among the worst.

[@williampage3724]

Think this is one of your best town documentaries, yet. Keep up the good work.

[@WendallExplores]

Appreciate that

[@williampage3724]

But you've got a rival in 'Backpacker Ben'!.. ha.

[@digitaldips]

@@williampage3724 He appears to be following Wendal around!

[@beccymalloy]

@@williampage3724 I'm not sure about him. I think he's to whingey, haha!

[@sabinacook5584]

Wendall come to reading it's nearby/ on every corner of this town there is someone sleeping on the floor and these are very young people - it's getting worse and worse- Town centre is dying😢

[@simonh6371]

Someone else from London wrote that he found it kind of refreshing when he had to work in or near Slough. Less oppressive than London...plus look at how easy it was to talk to people on the street, a lot of London isn't like that. I live in W. London for the time being. During the lockdowns I started riding on the canals on my bike and going to quiet places to chill out or even camp out overnight. The Slough arm of the Grand Union Canal is about 1 hour's bike ride from here, and it's a very quiet stretch, quite nice too despite there being industrial buildings there. There are a couple of fishing lakes, one is not fenced off and I've camped next to it. The first time I went on a track off the canal a bloke walking his dog was quite friendly and chatty, I asked him what was down the track. Another time cycling back along that bit of canal one morning, after a stealthy overnight camp, I passed some people sat fishing and they actually said ''Good morning'' to me! Being from London I was pleasantly surprised, this wouldn't happen on the canals in London proper. This was inside the M25 too, just. Haven't been to Slough though and I agree that the centre looks a bit depressing, what the hell were they thinking of making architecture which they even knowingly called ''brutalist''??? However a lot out of the centre looks okay, not spectacular but not bad at all. Like that street at 13:31 to 13:46 actually reminds me of suburbs in the Netherlands, where I used to live. Even that bit from 16:18 with the modern building in the background and field on the right puts me in mind of Osdorp, a little bit. Same with the new development flats where you chat with the bloke on his balcony. So life there may well be more bearable than much of London.

[@tomwilliams7391]

Slough does have a slightly different atmosphere being just outside the M25 and London!

[@LickorishAllsorts]

Coming from the West Country where it would be considered rude not to say at least hello or good morning to someone that you passed in the street I find your comments sad. Move away, life is just too short.

[@JesterEric]

Slough was the UK headquarters of Atari UK. They used to put pictures of the HQ in the newsletters they sent out. To my then young self with my Atari console in the early 80s, Slough and Sunnyvale California were the high tech capitals of the world

[@Kam-King213]

Damn that sounds awesome. UK has really fallen behind in tech

[@stevetimms4996]

I am from the UK but live abroad for a number of years now as I would rather wake up in the morning knowing I am a foreigner in a foreign land rather than feeling like a foreigner in my own land!!!!!

[@unusedsub3003]

Same, I left the UK in 2014. I don’t remember it being that bad when I left. Now it’s just insufferable.

[@lorrainebennett7528]

I left the UK 16 years ago and wouldn't go back. Seeing vlogs like this only reinforces that decision. The UK is finished.

[@srsly5570]

I really would like to love my home country - I used to and would always refer to myself as "English", but more and more, each and every time I visit London and surrounds, I find next to nothing to redeem it. I wish it wasn't the case.

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

@@lorrainebennett7528 Because you can judge a country from its worst shitholes, and not the other 95% of it?

[@mjones4083]

@@jamesmaybrick2001 There are more than 5% of s/hole towns and cities now & they are growing by the year . This is what is concerning people - people who have the foresight to see what is happening (and the reasons why ) .

[@sharonmc6833]

The bloke in the wolves shirt has no idea what he is wearing

[@trunderwood]

I used to hang out there around 2006 and I can tell you, hand-on-heart, it wasn't covid that ruined Slough.

[@a6703]

Ten years ago it was better - big stores like Debenhams, Marks & Spencers, British Home Stores, nice cinema, Robert Dyas. Nothing but tat shops now!

[@kscterry]

Bedford is worse. Desolate town centre, completely shut down and nothing to do there

[@markjohnston3790]

Good point you welcome people from third world countries to a western country it will turn into a third world one

[@remotematt]

Ironically only 10 mins down the road from Windsor. You can imagine the difference in affluence. Slough does have some redeeming qualities however, such as ice rink and is an Ice Hockey town on the map. Was saddened to see the bus station had been vandalised as that was considered somewhat new. Such a shame.

[@randomname3109]

or even Bray, one of the wealthiest places in he uk

[@stevengriffin7873]

And to think the electric bus made it even worse,who'd have thought it.

[@terminator1977]

I was diverted off the M4 a couple of years ago, and I ended up driving through the shittest place I've ever seen. I later discovered that place to be Slough. I didn't even get out of the vehicle.

[@MJ-kg2hm]

Used to live there 20 odd years ago the town was thriving always busy. I went there a couple of months ago to visit family and visited the town centre whilst I was there. It was sad to see it the way it is now it was once a bustling town centre now it's just depressing full of tacky shops.

[@matthew6596]

Thank you for you perspective my man. It's a sad fact that the working class on our Isle are being left to rot - services constantly cut - zero investment into PEOPLE. .... . Respect 👌

[@martintaylor8137]

A lot of the blame for lack of shops is the internet shopping on line the high street is dying

[@chrissimmonds-zf7bl]

Forgot to add that Thunderbirds was made inside a small unit on Slough Trading Estate

[@JustAlex848]

Third world culture involves things like leaving rubbish on the street instead of taking it to a tip, having no regard for local planning laws, not being able or willing to speak English, not respecting the law etc etc - this is because things are done very differently in their original countries, and so they bring those practices / way of life to Britain. The face of the UK is changing due to mass immigration. It is not about race - it is about culture. We do not want third world practices / habits / ways of life here.

[@mattfm101]

Surely race is part of it, fundementally that is who you are and the reason the English exist. The day English people were brainwashed into saying they don't care about race was the day they told themselves, the English don't matter. A society built on lies 'good' or bad will eventually crumble, so the English will pay for their 'good' lie with the end of their people and the destruction of their society. They might be the first people in all of human history to convince themselves out of their own existence.

[@lexxlars5762]

Diversity divides , common values unite

[@missmerrily4830]

@@lexxlars5762 No it doesn't have to. My own city is multcultural and thriving. What happened in Slough is less to do with multiculturalism and all to do with the haves and the have nots. Of any culture or colour. And until we stop blaming multiculturalism we can't cure it.

[@dosboss7589]

@@missmerrily4830 finally a reasonable comment.

[@truefact844]

@@dosboss7589half the problem is he turns up on a Wednesday in the day. The people he meets are as a rule not working and see the world in a very negative way. Let’s face it if you don’t have a job you’re not shopping, so why you in the town centre. Saying that I blame the gypsies for the country being like this! “So wrong decade” it’s the working class, must be getting old what’s the latest reason. I remember now it’s the migrants from the 3rd world. 😂

[@neilrichardson3986]

Love your vids mate, very interesting but depressing at the same time, seeing rapid decline of the UK as a whole

[@WendallExplores]

Thanks for watching, the reality is on the streets before us all

[@backrowbrighton]

I worked in Slough for a while in the mid-1980s and it was awful. I used to dread working late as catching a bus from the central bus station was always a tense experience as all the miscreants seemed to gather there. Never been happier to quit a job in my life.

[@Cleron]

I really look up to Wendall's equal treatment and respect of everyone he meets, always listening and open to learning about the worst parts of the UK

[@JustAlex848]

His videos also highlight how many decent people are out and about. The majority of people are decent. Shame about the anti-social minority ruining it for everyone else.

[@TheGamesEmporium]

Most people in this country are decent. As always its a small minority who ruin things and makes it hard who to know who to trust. I find people with very little in life are often the most decent and humble human beings around. ❤

[@JustAlex848]

Yim Yam's do this to gain your trust before robbing you blind. It is all an act. Never trust them!

[@twan5555]

The chap you speak to at the 7:15 mark is the type of person who gives me faith in humanity. I love him- and I love the interviewer. Two real, actual HUMAN spirits. Trust me, their type is getting rarer. Thanks bro; great content, duly subbed.

[@WendallExplores]

Cheers mate 🙏

[@njpringle]

Almost all of these videos from the youtubers that go to places like Luton, Birmingham, Nottingham etc all ignore the elephant in the room which is the biggest change to these places in centuries and that is the recent rapid demographic change. This one in Slough is just another example. First mentioned in the year 1195, Slough for nearly 800 years was a completely English/British town. Then by 1971, after post WWII mass migration started, it was 90% white. In the 2001 census it was down to 63.7% white. Just 20 years later in the 2021 census Slough was 35.9% white (24% white British).

[@1Eleven_]

Spot on but it gets overlooked every time

[@jjdubois6101]

You get called racist if you mention it

[@ChrisAlexT]

There's a bigger animal in the room. It's called a badly managed economy!

[@lexxlars5762]

Replacement theory

[@ChrisAlexT]

@@lexxlars5762 .. is exactly that: a theory. A theory being something not always supported by reality. But don't let that stop you.

[@missmerrily4830]

I used to visit Slough regularly some years ago and while it was never attractive, it's now definitely only worth bombing. I revisited around a year ago and couldn't believe how far down it had slithered. It's true that Slough was a paradise compared to now when John Betjeman first wrote his poem and most commercial businesses are gone or dying, and feral gangs of boys in school uniforms were running through shops stealing big scale and no-one attempting to prevent this. The atmosphere was hostile and frightening. I couldn't possibly contemplate visiting again. It's apocalyptically awful. Dystopia in action. And let's not forget Slough's local government bankruptcy which has only hastened its end through having no money to spend on it and the resulting neglect. It's hard to see when neighbouring Windsor with all its money and privilege looks so thriving. It sort of sums up the depths to which ordinary people have been forced by a government which just doesn't give a rat's behind about its ordinary citizens.

[@ianplatt1375]

No youtubers ever go deep southeast like Chatham 😮😮

[@Edward-vo5pr]

Go Chatham it’s as greasy as gravesend

[@rickstarr031]

WOW! I lived in Slough for 2 years around 2012/13 and I was confronted the first day there by some yobs on the street. To see it get worse is crazy. I have been all over the UK and never been confronted by youths saying "what are you looking at?"

[@narannavan]

Try Newport.

[@creekroad]

Bexleyheath is good for that.

[@glennoc8585]

Happened to me in Swindon in 98.

[@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse]

Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. That’s the story of Slough….

[@wakeywarrior]

Slough is a grim place. Up there with places like Grimsby, Blackpool, Bradford and Dewsbury. I think Wendall has visited most!

[@matty506]

Have a google of employment rates of different migrant communities, tells you everything you need to know about the decline of Britain. Look at employment rates of migrants in major sectors like NHS farming and construction and compare it to the percentage of migrants in the country and ask yourself if we've really benefited from mass migration. Windrush was the only time migrants helped and that was 500k people over the span of 15 years so 33k a year. We now have migration of over 1million a year.

[@funkyprepper]

You might need to put the paid promotion option on the screen when you upload. The tracker thing. Keep up the good work mate

[@WendallExplores]

Already done mate

[@heeeeeresrossy]

Love this channel. Subbed. Keep up the good content mate.

[@veganlukeygeeza7447]

Wendall mate we definitely need more people like you genuinely highlighting what is happening here in the UK, the way you make such educating videos so effortlessly, absolute legend mate

[@WendallExplores]

Appreciate that mate 🙏

[@hmzmh2020]

Lived here my whole life, very intent on evacuating. Highstreet is dead. Sense of community is dead. Council accountability is dead. Drug addictions throughout. Homeless drunks thoughout. Hopelessness throughout.

[@CraigTom-so2vt]

Lived there 2005-07 building Heathrow T5. Nights out in Slough was rough. Which I liked as I was a fighter. But rather going out to Windsor as clubs and pubs were much safer even Uxbridge was a safer night out

[@kidinthecloud]

Terminal 5 massive… Great memories ✊🏻✊🏻😂😂

[@sammyhawkins5590]

I worked on T5 for 6 years, great build

[@CraigTom-so2vt]

@sammyhawkins5590 the video on it put together frame by frame is a amazing from nothing to an terminal especially when the roof was put on. You don't see it while your working

[@kidinthecloud]

@@sammyhawkins5590 loved it. It was great fun 🤙🏻

[@lewis9132]

Internet killed the highstreet

[@JesterEric]

Out of town supermarkets, lack of car access and high rates are just as culpable

[@aspie2901]

No, tyrannical gangsters using the internet did. But they were the authorities that built them in the first place

[@caiteyullah5143]

Very true, I live in Slough and it's very rough, it's scary walking down the high street alone. It has a bad reputation with the neighboring towns. People are scared to come here.

[@scaryfakevirus]

I cannot believe that is Slough. I went to college there in the 60s. I knew a lot of it and used to frequent the Slough Rugby Club and worked there too, not far from the Three Tuns. It wasn't a bad town with the covered market and decent shops. I returned in the 2000s because I had to and was amazed that all the old buildings had been swept away. It was horrible then and by the looks of it, far far worse now. The old garage I worked in and all the old Victorian building opposite have all gone. Local authorities have so much to answer for. It was never great but now it looks like Hell.

[@JettTyler17]

I was born in and grew up around Slough (I'm from the village of Burnham which is next to Slough Trading Estate) and I'm glad I moved away in mid-2018 to the South Coast. Rarely visited Slough high-street when I lived there, often went to Windsor & Maidenhead- even though one was full of tourists and the other bordering a ghost town... Only one thing I miss about the area is that I don't live a 15 minute drive from London Heathrow!

[@CFCDanielS20]

I grew up in Slough and was a nice enough town now its all run down and horrible and not at all friendly at all. Whenever I go to my mums I visit Uxbridge instead for shopping there is nothing in Slough anymore.

[@sallirobinson2907]

It’s rough because it has been taken over.

[@britishmick]

Dudley town centre began its decline well before most of these towns that are currently in decline, Dudley is actually a good benchmark to rate other towns against and eventually I think we’ll see these towns equal out in terms of their desolation. Online sales have made these once commercially/economically vital areas places that now serve as fast food hubs in the day, and an undesirables playground at night… sadly the interactions and community spirit (that were created as a direct result of these areas being frequented) has gone with the shops. Also these deprived areas are less desirable and subsequently become the only viable areas for the poor, vulnerable and criminals to gather, which further takes away from the aesthetics of the areas.

[@moonbeammoonbeam5739]

I live a stone throw from Dudley and seeing the decline is gut wrenching. I was told by a local it all started when they built Merry Hill and the big stores moved out. Even though they are regenerate the area, I don't think it is going to make a big enough positive impact for the people in the area.

[@britishmick]

@@moonbeammoonbeam5739 totally agree buddy, merry hill is comparable to the Trafford Centre, it is “the place” to shop outside of Birmingham and as you said, it’s taken most trade from Dudley and even as far as Bilston.

[@honestdelivery]

Nothing like a bit of a quote from the Office from David Brent. Brilliant (I know he didn't originally write it). Another great video.

[@WendallExplores]

Thank you

[@M88ULV]

Let's all go to Slough just to scran in Antonios.

[@M88ULV]

Scrantonios

[@WendallExplores]

Legend OG cafe boss

[@malbecmikegrey996]

I used to visit a branch of my work in Slough, back in the 1980s - it was rough then, but (from this video) looks now looks a whole different level of dodgy.

[@leeannw484]

I got offered a great job in the center of Slough and turned it down simply on the basis that the drive there and people I encountered on the way to the interview were diabolical. The company was shocked I turned the job down but it wasn't a safe place to commit to everyday. Awful lawless place.

[@kevinmott6205]

You've got courage and balls Wendall. I so admire you and your work. As a Christian what ticks me off about the street Preachers they often are doom and gloom merchants. Gospel means good news. It would be hard to convict them of that in a court of law. I know Churches serve people, feed them, care for them. However when on the streets can we not hear about the Love of God. That he values people, wants to give them a hope and a future❤❤. I'm preaching myself now aren't i😢

[@moniquetheobald889]

Very wise words my friend, thank you. 💌

[@pinchyh]

He says 'As a christian..' then proceeds to criticise other Christians actually doing the work..

[@kevinmott6205]

No read what I said please.

[@MinotaurvsCyclops]

You wrote it well, mate. Some people are just trying to wind you up. ​@@kevinmott6205

[@katewolfspirit6722]

During Covid, churches closed their doors when people wanted comfort during the huge turbulence of those times. That should never be forgotten, it was shocking.

[@ChsM-jk4oy]

I stopped off in Slough before on the way back from london and really liked it lol went to a desi pub it was nice

[@noceranunzio]

7.40 what happened to that man with a hole in his forehead? omg!

[@reececollison5101]

The level of neglect seen in Slough, and also in Watford, Croydon and Luton makes me think the ‘North/South divide’ the MSM love to bang on about, isn’t anywhere near as prevalent as they make it out to be. Also don’t forgot it was a London council (Croydon) that went bankrupt first …

[@mrbruce47]

I only see improvement happening to Croydon.

[@tiedforsilver]

When I saw the title I was expecting either Milton Keynes or Slough and was not disappointed

[@WendallExplores]

Grim vibes mate

[@birdsbodger]

Was a bit of irony at the end there as you walked past a sign directing you to Eton and Windsor! I've been to Hull and Nottingham town centres recently and Slough makes these look heavenly. I wonder if there is a nice side of Slough centre you missed.

[@KateC51]

I've lived in Hull and Nottingham in the first 15 years after leaving home ...it was mad

[@sammiehall4415]

Leicester is baddd, I havent been into the town centre for 20 years, Nottingham centre is nice

[@adamgoodrham4660]

Na he has it spot on i am from slough and it is grotty and the outskirts get worse. good job he didnt show you the farnham road or trading estate

[@saippuakivikuappias]

​@sammiehall4415 took the kids to an all ages comedy show in Leicester recently, I was quite taken aback as to how pleasant Leicester was. This was a Sunday afternoon but first impressions were surprisingly good.

[@colin5021]

It's grim and depressing, you say And then you ask why people say 'if you let the third world in...' - join the dots my friend.

[@owenhughes2653]

Your guy at 9 minutes was onto something. Death of third places. I guess that probably used to be the pub for a lot of people?

[@User58747]

I moved back to Ukraine after living in Slough because I felt so unsafe.

[@SuperMikado282]

Hahaha 😂

[@jamesdean1143]

Turkish guy purchasing a buy-to-let property. That shouldn’t be allowed.

[@aspie2901]

But it would be ok for white english people to exploit people being landlords? Dumbie

[@RandomMemes2009174561322]

Could say the same thjng,when your Brit empire invades land a d stole stuff,from them.

[@mogznwaz]

Agree…

[@mogznwaz]

He’ll be putting illegals into it no doubt

[@jimjack3447]

great video, really enjoyed it

[@yunapark308]

An interesting area to have a walk about would be Woolwich. Turn right out of the Elizabeth Line, you'll see lots of grand riverside developments, but if you turn left it's err...well how can I put it.

[@junglistmassive9883]

love your vids mate, appreciate what you're doing! you should check out doncaster or huddersfield, as a resident of both, i can safely say they're quite depressed places lol

[@WendallExplores]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@jackwatsonepic626]

No , checkout Middlesbrough.😂🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@notforwantoftrying1]

loads of vibrancy here wendall

[@WendallExplores]

Vibrant street drinking culture

[@AK.2425]

21:54 wasn’t a electric bus that was set on fire, it was a diesel. If it’s was electric then probably the whole of the bus station wouldn’t exist.

[@alan-the-maths-tutor]

My great-grandmother lived in Slough from about 1901 to her death in 1916. She lived at 1 Victoria Street (now demolished). Her daughter, my great-aunt lived in Slough too for many years because her husband worked as a freelance photographer for many of the businesses on the trading estate. They lived on Tunns Lane. My mother says that it was really quite a decent area in the 1950s which is as far back as she can recall. She is now 82.

[@capnsparkle]

Excellent Video as always Wendall - Have you thought of filming us van lifers who are only one step up from being homeless? I am one of the lucky ones who lives in a motorhome but has no chance of getting on the social housing ladder in my late 50's - Keep up the good work fella, I'm lucky in comparison