searching for a drink in Yorkshire's most depressing town!

I walk around Dewsbury in West Yorkshire known for it's rapid decline and for being one of West Yorkshire's worst towns. I try and find a decent pub as drinking seems like the only thing to do anymore. I also chat to some locals to see what their thoughts are on the town.
Join me on a search for what Dewsbury has to offer.....and to drink!
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[@honestplaces]

drinking in London's dodgiest hood! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJDCfIGGpdFkbdU

[@ChristianForrest-pm9mj]

You should go to Galway. There some very good Pubs there.

[@lewisadams8077]

Please visit Goole in East Riding mate. It’s honestly the most depressing place I’ve ever been too and I’m from Medway Kent.

[@RichardBrowne-ks5xe]

@@lewisadams8077 lol Grimsby too!!

[@CitizenErased11]

@@lewisadams8077 you’ve not been to Dewsbury then? Goole is much nicer!

[@PaulEcosse]

1. High Street Rates rise 2. Pubs Close 3.Council stops caring 4. Amazon 5. Small Businesses Close 6. Subsidised Charity Shops take over 7. Bookies & Vape shops buy up rest of medium sized premises 8. Turkish Barbers and more Vape Shops take remainder of the small shops 9. Rates continue to rise 10. Death of the high street.

[@Quincycle]

1. Immigrants and the loss of social cohesion

[@illusionisover8584]

High street rates rise,is number 1..all by design by bankers colluding with g0vernm3nt

[@illusionisover8584]

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies," Jefferson wrote. " If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around(these banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." "The issuing power of currency shall be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." We should all meditate on that amazing prediction of things to come that are not necessarily beneficial to the 99%-- but only to the 1%.

[@ciararespect4296]

Turkish barbers?? More like fronts 😂

[@G7IQJUK]

LAST 3 yrs pub prices rocketed £3.60- £5 pint in just 3 yrs 33.3% increase but WAGES, PENSTIONS , BENFITS NOT GONE UP 33.3 % . ++++ COST living crisis high inflation partyly caused by . TORY/CON CONSERVATIVIES 1920S 2 TIER VICTORTIAN STYLE POLITICS . CORPOATE CAPATAILIST GREED BY BIG PUB CHAINS . FOLK cant afford to dtinck in pubs 2, 3 , 4 + times week ESP if on peanuts min wage £11.44 hour class1 ni/tax (paye)

[@TheBlackPrince447]

A walk around Dewsbury town centre would make the happiest person in the world clinically depressed with 5 minutes 😂

[@honestplaces]

🤣

[@jamesbirch130]

Does it I think it's ok.. better than some places I've been

[@seanwood8883]

I live there, and trust me whenever I walk round there shaking my head in despair, snd remembering when it was a town with all the shops it had, and the hell 🕳 it's become now

[@jamesbirch130]

It's like a lot of towns that have suffered the same. A lot of traditional market towns have suffered greatly...

[@dazbeal5438]

🤣

[@jamesmasters7957]

Admittedly people aren't going to pubs as much nowdays due to cost but look at the demographic, the people that live there just don't drink, much like Bradford.

[@batterfingers]

for half the people who live in bradford it is against their religion to drink lol

[@craigs71]

@@batterfingers Half? I think you are underestimating the number by a huge margin.

[@HollowRick]

​​@@batterfingers need your passport to visit Bradford 😂

[@paulhumphreys-gw3po]

people arn`t going to pubs because the Pakistanis have bought all the pubs and turned them into fast food place`s so we can all become diabetics

[@paulhousden3825]

@@HollowRick certainly take your life in your hands if you drive there - dont think 80% have a license or even passed a test. Found that when I was taxi driving , the Bradford area was one to be very , very careful - no insurance and several using the same taxi badge. But the authorities always turned a blind eye . Think they still do. And the councils are very good at wasting money on stupid WOKE ideas - just another smoke-screen for some person to syphon a bit off.

[@andrewheyes564]

You chose two pubs and you drink Guiness? One pub there, West Riding Refreshment Rooms, has won multiple Camra awards and was nearly Campaign for Real Ale National Winner. It's at the Railway Station and you've missed a real gem. It really is a great pub.

[@paulgillespie3251]

Poor planning, zero research.

[@Njal55]

One of the few reasons to go to Dewsbury. Criminal to miss it out.

[@ryanwhitehurst9787]

Best pub in Yorkshire

[@gainesy_walks]

Superb pub!!!!!!!

[@dazdaz105]

2.48 enough said. It’s another Kirklees Council run area.

[@malcky630]

Thats what I thought.

[@SikkoRTW]

I got scared when a ninja suddenly appeared. They should have been fearing for their life

[@paulhousden3825]

They are the Deathblow to most towns - Cleckheaton is next on the list of council thinking .

[@barriepayne3631]

BE very aware, coming to a town near you, multi culturalism at its best, so sad,this is happening in every region of the 🇬🇧

[@owenharmon6084]

That was really sad to watch. All the market towns up & down the country seem to be in a similar state.

[@StarDemz]

Dewsbury still has a market just rarely opens but when it is it's nice to visit at times.

[@amymaei419]

To get a fair view of dewsbury he should of gone on market day... when the town has life

[@lasttango7522]

Got old photos of Drwsbury in the early 70s. My gran was a Saturday girl in Woolworths. And was in the collegians shows at the Town hall. The town was gorgeous. Really well kept. This is heart wrenching.

[@Norfolkbiker50]

Yep, my home town, wisbech in Cambridgeshire, started to fall 25 years ago when Blair opened the country to the former eastern bloc citizens, I seldom go back there now and when I do it's a flying visit, the wisbech I knew was a hard town full of hard men but there were no muggings or murders, these days it's full of Albanians and Lithuanians drinking in the streets, dealing, trafficking young girls, attacking locals out with their families, I don't recognise the place and most of the people I grew up with have moved now like I did in 2002 when my car got broken into for the umpteenth time. I still own a house there that i rent to an English couple but I don't think I'll ever live there again.

[@StopAgenda21]

That guy was spot on about why High Streets are screwed. Culmination of out of town shopping centres with free parking, everyone shops online (usually the non tax paying Amazon) plus councils nationwide are making parking charges extortionate in the towns. Our small independent shops don't stand a chance

[@honestplaces]

Yeh spot on mate. Same with alot of towns init 👍

[@Billybunts]

We can have a pop at Amazon but next day delivery and at a fraction of the price its a no trainers really

[@RustyBanner]

@@Billybunts yes Ive not bin able to buy trainers for ages mate

[@Billybunts]

@RustyBanner 🤣🤣 I've just noticed the typo! I'm leaving now can't be arsed to change it

[@troydeeney9]

That's the plan, no independent shops!

[@gainesy_walks]

It's not just Dewsbury, it's every ex Northern Mill / mining town. I see you missed the best pub in town the West Riding, winner of countless awards for it's beer and people come from Leeds and Huddersfield to drink it. You weren't far from it when you walked across the bridge at the Asda. The opposite way Leggers, fantastic pub. Town centre pubs usually are crap, everywhere

[@dianewebb3343]

Agree the train stat pub is ok. He ort to have a walk round Batley too , its the same there. Huddersfield has to some extent too. Its M and S shut down there, and its market.

[@dannymcmince]

As an Irish man watching this it's so sad to see the decline of so many towns in England...but believe me it's happening here in Eire also!

[@honestplaces]

Shame init pal 👍

[@UKDub61]

Another Irishman here. It’s awful what’s happening all round the country. Towns just turning into dumps, shuttered shops everywhere, councils broke, but why are they broke? We pay enough for services don’t we? The councils like the useless government are only good at wasting money. And in ireland with their traitorous government are busy destroying what was once a beautiful happy country where people actually liked each other. Every where we look it’s just bad news.

[@amcgowan1970]

No one here in Ireland calls it "Eire".

[@dannymcmince]

​@@amcgowan1970doubt that honky

[@spaceman87186]

The days of pubs and friendly banter and even eye contact seem to be going now ,Ive noticed when you are in a bus station for example and you strike up a coversation with someone the other people around seem to look at you as if to say why are you talking to each other as they look at theirs sceens .Back in the 90s was best time for pubs ,thats all gone now and beer was miles better ,you didnt get a hangover off 3 pints either cause its made cheaper with more chemicals in it.Great vids man.

[@honestplaces]

Yeh mate, interactions in pubs etc seem like your harrassing someone now. 100% agree with you

[@adzy166]

Still used to get a nasty hangover off of Hurlimann lager - wasn’t called hooligan for nothing. Happy days the 90s

[@Gowster86]

Think the hangover now might be an age thing 🤣 but totally agree even when i was in my 20's in early 2000's I could go to pubs not arrange anything with mates and strike up conversations with anyone

[@silversurfer640]

The 70's and 80's for pub life were pretty good too.

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

Was even better in 60s and 70s .live bands every weekend. People would be queing outside at opening time.They where jam packed.atmosphere was electric. Happy days.

[@mysticgeneie4668]

If anyone ever came to the UK once, and just came here, it would be a perfect snapshot of the state of the place.

[@TheColeman83]

A trip to Dewsbury would make Putin realise nuclear threats are wasted on the UK

[@thebatman4279]

​@@TheColeman83It would have the complete opposite effect and make the place look more attractive.

[@cujimmi]

Dewsbury.. another absolute shit hole , worked there years ago the number of people staggering around piss up in the morning was unbelievable

[@honestplaces]

Jeez. That is bad! 😬😬

[@cujimmi]

​@@honestplacesit was on a building site not far from the station we used to sit on the scaffolding having our sandwiches watching the general mayhem...class🤣

[@seanwood8883]

Sad to say it's still the same

[@markwinter8315]

Ever been to Barnsley ? 8am it's like a scene from the Star Wars bar.

[@Ravenswalk]

Heartbreaking to see my hometown in such a state loved growing up in Dewsbury we left in 1976 my dad took our family to Canada.

[@npr1300A8]

Canada under tyrant Trudeau won't be much better soon. Such a shame.

[@gumbo7215]

One of the reasons why town centres are dying is the internet. I buy 95% of my stuff online. Why wouldn't I? No queues, no parking problems, no noisy, smelly obnoxious people to endure, no carrying heavy bags, no crossing busy roads. I can shop 24 hours online, buy from other countries and the options I have are immense. I have no need to go into town.

[@honestplaces]

True mate....i do it myself

[@yellard6785]

I do it because mostly it's cheaper... But I miss my high streets... It's all very well saying cafes, pubs, restaurants, will survive but they need the "footfall" of general shoppers... What kind of society do we want to live in? We all stay at home and order everything, including, meals online? I would favour lower VAT on physical shops and a radical reduction of business rates on shops..

[@gumbo7215]

@@yellard6785 I understand your point but life changes whether we like it or not. I'm not the sort of person who likes high street shopping but I love surfing the net for cool stuff. I don't like eating out either. I like cooking and my food's better than the overpriced mass produced stuff on offer in town centres. And just look at the price of beer. Why would I pay £4 a pint when I can buy it for half the price in a supermarket and drink in the comfort of my own man cave?

[@yellard6785]

@@gumbo7215 I am not a great cook and there is something nice about meeting with friends for a meal in a nice environment that none of us have had to cook... As for drinking in pubs.. I love the traditional style pub and it's unique Britishness that one can go to one in a business suit or jeans and baseball hat.. I love one can drink alone and watch others or be with a large crowd. If we lose them all, it will be a great loss. Of course, there are rough pubs that one wouldn't enter, young people "disco" pubs and "upmarket" wine bars.. But they aren't the traditional great democratic British pub.

[@gumbo7215]

@@yellard6785 Fair enough. If you like that sort of thing it's up to people like you to keep it alive. I don't care about it so I don't feel any responsibility to fund it.

[@stevenb427]

Great chat here with that local man 👍 👌

[@honestplaces]

Was sound 👍

[@garth8979]

What are the odds? He's stood there asking the gentleman in the hat why the place is going down hill just as a fully clad letterbox walks past in the background 😂

[@anythingbootneck]

Yes, I almost choked on my cup of tea, that couldn’t have been timed better, absolutely hilarious!

[@observantgeezer3292]

It's the same with all channels like this. But I'm not surprised he doesn't answer because if he was honest he'd be immediately demonetized and likely have is channel canned.

[@JamesSmith-ny2gb]

Calm down adolf

[@JamesSmith-ny2gb]

@@observantgeezer3292 or he isn’t a racist

[@Quincycle]

No one is game enough to talk about it, that's why it's happened, English too scared of offending people

[@grantmclean7397]

Really like your videos. Your interview skills are getting better all the time. Great content.

[@ianbrown4411]

I spent a few months behind the bar at the Welly back in the late 90's. I came in for the last few hours after the topless barmaid had finished through until the landlord took over at 11:30 to let the coppers in the back door after the late shift finished. 🤣I left Dewsbury in 2010, and it was well on its way down back then. I still go up and see family every few months and it just depressing to go into the town centre nowadays. I think its the only place I know where both McDonalds and Wetherspoons have shut down. Like the guy said, most of the good pubs in Dewsbury are out of the town centre. I went to a wake at the 'Crack' up Crackenedge lane about a mile out of the town a few weeks ago and it was really nice. The staff were really friendly, it was warm and welcoming the prices were good and the spread they put on was really nice. Dewsbury town centre is a lost cause now, unless they can find a way of getting people to go back there, but there is nothing to do anymore, so no reason to go

[@spongebobsquaretits]

The Crack is a good pub, think its a Free House so they can be a bit more competitive price wise, good landlord and landlady

[@rdorman71]

There's a beautiful sincerity to your vids, man. Great job 👏

[@tim46153]

That last one was proper bad 😂😂… The “I’m not looking after you again tonight” part…. Fair play to ya pal … love the insight to all the pubs 👌🏻

[@78bollox]

Some lovely buildings in fairness... Great vid as always mate.

[@Loisgriffin111]

As usual mate another great video keep them coming some of these places are real eye openers

[@honestplaces]

Cheers mate ! 👍🍺

[@MegaKINGRICHARD]

First guy didn’t want to say why it really went down hill but we all know. A certain breed of people moved in.

[@msrighto]

Oh please give it a break. The death of the high street and government underinvestment have affected towns badly all over the country. Yet you seem to be pinning the whole blame on a certain breed of new people. There are countless examples like Dewsbury without the 'certain breed' you're talking about all suffering these same problems.

[@knkjkjn]

It's the muslim's fault. Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world and that isn't changing until we do something about it. Send them back!

[@jackn4853]

There isn't one "native British" person that isn't hard working, law abiding socially responsible is there? All the litter, fly tipping, cars on blocks and junk filled gardens, youths illegally riding motorbikes, speeding cars, drug dealing, anti social behaviour. It's all foreigners in innit.

[@sadactseven5639]

Show me a racist post without any racism in it...

[@itisjustacomment]

​@sadactseven5639 show me a person name calling to dismiss.

[@15kilkenny]

Just a reminder nothing is returning to how it was.... brutal times coming. Sadly we are at an end of a cycle

[@PAUL-ge1kl]

Fuck it. Might as well throw a 7

[@sephirothff7ps164]

didnt know that they have walking post letter box,s

[@davidwassell8505]

society as we knew it is long gone . no nore old men in flat caps . its very sad to see .

[@lordmaximus780]

LOL @ "tell you what, if you like gambling and vaping......" the tourist board of Dewsbury are already thinking of adding that to their leaflets

[@honestplaces]

🤣🤣 proper family day out at the vape shoos

[@yorkyfozzy2867]

I was born in Dewsbury in 1973, grew up in Mirfield and moved to the South East of England in 1998. I will NOT be back. What a depressing shit hole it is now. BTW Ravensthorpe between Dewsbury and Mirfield is like a demilitarised zone.

[@JD-wn3cc]

Christ mate, you're a glutton for punishment

[@lmsmtb3079]

You should have a pop back up to Mirfield for a visit, it's still nice and going strong. Plenty of pubs still open and new places opening over the years.

[@TheNotoriousGhost]

Yes bro! Love it when I get home from work and we got an honest places video! 🙏✌️. Hope your good.

[@honestplaces]

🤣 i'll take that. Cheers pal

[@Bettys_Eldest]

Back in the 70's I lived three or four miles away, there was a cinema, and my girlfriends posh mum used to shop at Marks and Sparks. There was a pub on the Batley Road which was the only place locally that sold Old Peculiar. In 1982, our kid's stag night started in Batley and crawled it's way towards Dewsbury, whilst the hen night ran the opposite way. When the two met up he and his fiancée buggered off at about 9:00 pm! We skipped a few pubs and spent the rest of the night drinking Old Peculiar. The next time I was there was in 2006, I went there to register Betty's death and it was pretty dire, I didn't go there again until 2015 after dad died to get a copy of his will certified. By then it had really hit rock bottom. Batley and Morley seem to have improved a little since the 70s, and maybe Wakefield too, but Dewsbury is dreadful.

[@davidlester7066]

Same happening all over the UK were slipping into the cess pit

[@jamestrent-nw9zb]

I agree. I'm nearly 73 and remember in the 50s & 60's when towns were bustling and shuttered up shops were hardly ever seen. No one in authority gives a sh*t these days and to be honest, I just don't go out to the town centre anymore. The plastic pubs and the plastic beer are not worth it and nobody wants to talk anyway...unless you are part of their clique, otherwise they just glance over to see if you have a few bob or might have a warrant card. Anyway's, I wish I could say something on the bright side, but it looks like were' stuck on the shite side. Look after yourself kiddo ; )

[@TheFrazzzzzz]

Great content thanks 👍 Makes you appreciate having good pubs in your town (I’m in Edinburgh)

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal. Still yet to do Edinburgh

[@Kenners.]

Sounds like they don't clean the pipes frequently, its not the Guinness at fault, just dirty pipes.

[@honestplaces]

Angin

[@ChrisGreen-qh1wp]

Just settled down with a beer after work and heres the main man on you tube 🍺🍺 love the videos mate 👍👍

[@honestplaces]

Main man! 🤣 i'll take that though. Cheers pal 👍

[@DebbieBartlett-si1zz]

Just found your site,great content, will be binge watching all 😊

[@richardburke3997]

Great video....😂 you wanted the dingiest place and boy did you get it 🤣👍

[@honestplaces]

Deffo up there of dingiest places 🤣 cheers pal

[@Stuart-er3dt]

😂😂

[@CitizenErased11]

I used to spend most Saturday nights there late 80’s and early 90’s. Used to be a great night. Sad to see it now…

[@saronasam]

Was even better in the sixties, before the invasion..

[@msrighto]

@@saronasam I think you're forgetting that every person in the mill towns, of every race, became victims when Thatcher killed the industries. Don't fight the migrants who came and worked alongside you, blame those in power who caused the decline.

[@MrsMittens269]

I really fancy a couple of luke warm pints, a cheeky vape and I’ve got the urge to drop a couple of ton at the bookies. Any recommendations of where would be a good place to go?

[@cassyburton6813]

Did you try the WestRiding pub at the train station or walk abit further away to the Leggars?

[@darrenreynolds9462]

Another great video Danny. I've developed a strange morbid fascination with shit holes since I started watching your videos!!🤣 Keep 'em coming pal.

[@Samanthaa96]

My dad lived in thornhill just 5 mins from dewsbury town centre, i remember going down to the town as a kid and how full of shops and people it used to be I haven’t been around there for about 5 years now as he’s moved from Thornhill but my god how it’s changed 😢

[@honestplaces]

Yeh mate. Booming town to nothing. Shamr init

[@Samanthaa96]

@@honestplaces yeah there even used to be a little fair there, I used to live going to the market as a kid my nan used to take me all the time

[@wakeywarrior]

Thornhill is still decent.

[@MuckMan_Movies]

If it's still open, the best pub in Dewsbury is at the train station.

[@Lunarchiq]

Only place left to drink in Dewsbury in the day is the West Riding at the train station. Proper ale, proper beer and proper people. Everywhere else is just scummy.

[@Footystickersuk]

Great vid Danny! God that looked an awful place… & if you can’t even get a decent pint then there’s not much to shout home about really🤷🏻‍♂️ look forward to Ireland proper Guinness👊

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal 👍🍺 yeh was not good. Surley can't be bad in Ireland!

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

Sound s like they didn't clean out the pipes with that Guiness. Had a mate who used to clean the pipes, he always drank bottled beer.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

I know the taste of pipe cleaning fluid too well in these establishments. No excuse for it.

[@cvbaxter]

Everyone keeps talking about the pub attached to Dewsbury station. It looks quaint from outside with the Virginia creeper covering the entire pub. Yes, it's got a good reputation for a great range of pints etc. The only thing that bowled me over when I went in there one afternoon was the overwhelming smell of body odour. The bar staff mustn't like opening the windows for fresh air! I've never been in since!

[@Mayaman67]

Enjoy watching these vids. As I live in a place where you can't get Guiness, I was salivating at the one you left.

[@cmsnape1]

He should have taken it back into the Pub and asked the bar staff to taste it. I certainly would have done. Leaving it on a table outside, some lowlife would have drunk it.

[@davidmacgregor5193]

Dewsbury isn't as rundown and depressing as Castleford, it's a complete shithole, closely followed by Batley.

[@footballfanar9717]

Castleford is in a league of its own. Utterly depressing. Pontefract is probably on par though. Another shithole in close proximity.

[@robertwhite2449]

I've had nights out in both Castleford and Pontefract back in 2000 when I was at uni in Sheffield and my housemate was from around Castleford so we went for a drink in both for a laugh. Both towns fecking rough as hell

[@footballfanar9717]

@@robertwhite2449 Got similar memories of Cas' myself. Remember going there as a kid sometimes. Couldn't wait to leave the wretched place.

[@ianburton2058]

Ponte has been done up recently. Its nowhere near as bad as cas Vegas

[@Ethros64]

@@ianburton2058Ponte Carlo 😂

[@FrostiTheRoadman]

Seen you today mate as our lass needed to go specsavers in town, didn’t want to be on cam but there is a good pub in dewsbury it’s the west riding at the train station give it a try if you pass back through with the added bonus you don’t need to go to the centre ha.

[@honestplaces]

Ah should of said hello. Yeh i hear that is the only good joint in town 👍

[@FrostiTheRoadman]

Really is mate and to be fair I avoid Dewsbury town centre at all costs and you nailed it in your video I just drive to Leeds and park at trinity as it’s just got it all going on.

[@steventaylor6934]

Another excellent video mate keep them coming class content 🎉🎉

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal. Appreciate it 👍👍🍺🍺

[@lefthandedspanner]

when I used to live a few miles up the road (Cleckheaton, 10-15 years ago) the best pub in Dewsbury was the West Riding Refreshment Rooms at the railway station, which even had an entrance on one of the platforms the other two major stations between Leeds and Manchester, Huddersfield and Stalybridge, also have pubs built into their stations

[@reeganchurch4253]

Both pubs look good got some cheap and cheerful pubs like that near me but problem is with Guinness it needs to be bang on to be good, these type of pubs everyone’s on Carling or fosters Nice video tho mate keep it up👊🏼

[@oz1472]

Fab video , shame you didn't tell them that the Guinness was i drinkable. But I know what you mean sometimes it's hard to be borthered to kick up a stink ! Can't believe how beer prices vary so much in the uk , we're lucky to get a pint under £6.50 here Bath , 😢

[@honestplaces]

Yeh i couldn't be bothered. Hate faff. Yeh it's only get pricier the more south you get! 👍🍺

[@Parny07]

You should try Grantham mate. There’s a few decent pubs and it’s a town that has had decades of decline. It’s quite historic with Margret Thatcher and Issac Newton but in terms of shops it’s almost like a ghost town now, but it’s really decent for a drink.

[@s12856]

I grew up here in the 90s, left around 2001. This is utterly heartbreaking. Town was absolutely buzzing back then. Looks a right ghost town now

[@Joel-xb3mx]

i'm still here, it's very dead, absolutely nothing to do

[@stevengray4595]

Get over to scarbados,, the west riding hotel,, the golden last were my locals . Full of character and cheep beer , 🍺

[@oz1472]

Sorry just saw my poor grammar , I was typing while walking 😂 , I meant "undrinkable" and " here in bath "

[@honestplaces]

I got ya mate 🤣

[@RyanHaymarch]

Just came across your channel. Interesting viewing these, hope you enjoyed Glasgow 👍🏻

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal. Need to do Glasgow again!

[@Scarygomez]

Love your content my man ! 🍺

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal, appreciate it 👍

[@mikescott3545]

The irony of the burka walking past while on the "why" subject. Pubs and clubs are fucked in areas like that!💥🇬🇧..stand to!

[@jamesbirch130]

Also the fact that beer is so expensive.. everything has been designed to make this so expensive so people will either buy elsewhere or do without.

[@UKDub61]

I clocked that. And I thought ‘state of that’ just shows why country’s on slippery slope innit.

[@NorthernExposure1]

Couldn’t live there, more dreadful than most. Great vid again, mate

[@honestplaces]

Isn't great pal. Cheers mate 👍🍺

[@jstonehouse]

I enjoyed this. If you were to find yourself in Durham in the Queen Victoria you would find the landlord knows everyone drinking in his pub (I toddled in the other day) - plenty of regulars to strike up a conversation with. Didn't Dewsbury used to have a little pub on the train station platform? That's about all I remember of Dewsbury.

[@Bownzinho]

It’s still there. It’s not great by any stretch of the imagination but it’s the best one there now. It could be worse, I live in Heckmondwike now😂

[@OscarLodge]

Cheers enjoyed that,.. 4:18 yeah ridiculous,.. I noticed on 'Wandering Turnips' clips,.. the large amount of lamps burning away in closed down properties.

[@JohnJohnson-vd2hp]

That looked grim mate , not many laughs in that place , West Cumbria is the place to visit next , down to earth people up there just don't forget to wear body armour 🤣👍

[@honestplaces]

Sounds inviting pal 🤣

[@klawlor3659]

Deffo west Cumbria! Proper dodgy spots around there! Add Carlisle to the list marra...can give you a list of "choice" places.

[@teamofsteve]

yay - back to my home town - glad I left If you decide to return I have 2 tips. 1. Go to the cafe opposite the market. Called Mon Ami (I think), you walked past it in the video. No Guinness but a warm welcome and a cracking cup of tea. 2. Go to the pub at the train station. West Riding. Probably have Guinness, certainly have ales, again, good welcome, nice beers. Like the guy you spoke to said, I cannot believe Batley is now better than Dewsbury. Never saw that coming.

[@honestplaces]

Aint much for ya anymore pal. Good choice

[@1gerard47]

Glad I left for South Africa.

[@deannelson1388]

@@1gerard47 Don't blame ya, good luck 👍

[@spongebobsquaretits]

Wasnt it called The Gresham at one point, Bon Bon was in the old bus station

[@Ravenswalk]

@@1gerard47 we left for Canada

[@Skillerboi8]

Awesome video as usual buddy.

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal 👍🍺

[@brownale1000]

Cheers bud would like to see a video of saltaire maybe a pint in the salt beer factory just an idea keep up the great work

[@thefloorkiller]

Think that was the grimmest one you have done, the first pub looked like it was stuck in the 80s, the next one looked nice but obviously don't take care of their ales and from what I could see no decent cider only wrongbow, hope your next Guinness is on form, keep up the good work

[@honestplaces]

Was grim pal. Yeh, aint had a bad line pint in ages....deffo not on a guinness 🤢

[@11111uewfh]

Mass immigration. Different cultures. Don't treat it as their home. Thank you Tony Blair.

[@bradbb8013]

He said he was going to rub the rights noses in diversity, evil bastard.

[@shapes2000]

14 years of Tories have killed the country.

[@MFaintReal]

Nice to see you interacting with folk a bit more pal

[@cmsnape1]

Ha! Ha! The town was desert. Maybe it was a Sunday.

[@neilshenton1834]

Cheers mate. Always good to hear comments from the locals. Here's hoping you get rid of the taste of that manky Guinness in your next jaunt. 😉👍

[@honestplaces]

Cheers pal. Mate i had to chuck a full bottle of water to get the taste away 🤣

[@samual3006]

​@@honestplacesHow much was that pint 😳

[@davidemmerson7072]

Bloody Hell… friendly locals, shit Guinness and apocalyptic town centre.. result😂

[@johnwarren9112]

Most of the country has gone to a 💩hole

[@cvbaxter]

This is a true picture of Dewsbury. I have lived here for a decade and it has gone to absolute pot in that time. Even though I live 5 minutes walk from the market, I hardly venture into the town centre anymore as THERE ARE NO SHOPS TO SPEAK OF. The well known high street names have all shut up and closed down. Boots are 'hanging on by a thread', I'd say. Greggs is still going strong. We have no Poundland, Savers, or Wilko anymore. (It says a lot when well-known discount stores close down!) There was a notable difference on Wednesday and Saturdays of 'busyness' in the town centre as these were market days. I don't see that buzz of visitors anymore. It has a couple of Victorian arcades with arched entrances that must have been lovely in their day but are now left to rack and ruin. The lack of shops make it disappointing as this makes me buy things online more often as I would need to get a train or bus into Leeds to get the choice of shops. I pay postage costs for my items that are as expensive as train tickets. It becomes a 'swings and roundabouts' situation in how you buy your items. Kirklees Council is to blame for the demise of Dewsbury. The Tories' policies have driven this town into the ground too. Kirklees Council doesn't care about Dewsbury nor does the Central Government. It's a poor, working class town that has been declining for ages, I'm told. Yet you can see it was once a healthy mill town with its grand Victorian architecture when 'cotton was king'. The elected people do not bother to persuade investors to put their money into Dewsbury town centre, so the local people suffer for their careless decisions.

[@allisonnoble-tg5os]

Love your videos x

[@honestplaces]

Thanks. Really appreciate it 👍

[@TheGamesEmporium]

I've heard all sorts about the place. Another British town that's seen far better days.

[@honestplaces]

It's grim mate. Couldn't find much positive 🤔

[@TheGamesEmporium]

@honestplaces It certainly looks it. 🤣

[@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO]

You get around

[@tdoran616]

Please put the town names in the title, you don’t have to try to clickbait. Love the videos regardless.

[@honestplaces]

KZbin tactics 🤣 cheers pal

[@pastandcurrent]

Agree man, your better than that bullshit.

[@abro3764]

Is it that deep? Let the guy eat lol​@@pastandcurrent

[@pastandcurrent]

@@abro3764 its irritating lol, Russel Brand winds me up with it more than anybody

[@pastandcurrent]

@@abro3764 and he would probably rather a Guinness

[@jp7963]

I was born in Dewsbury as were most of my family. Back in the day it was great town and many decent pubs to choose from. These days it is literally dying, if not already dead, as your vid shows and I seldom visit the place. Very rarely. As others have commented though there is still one great pub still in town namely the West Riding which is part of the railway station.

[@matthewgabrielli9485]

Have u done any pubs in Newcastle m8. Some good ones up here

[@honestplaces]

Nah. On the list pal

[@damianallen8352]

My home town and you were very kind tbh!! We actually call it Doomsbury now!! You should head to Ponte, great day out there. Love the channel, keep up the good work lad 🍻 If you ever do Ossett let me know and I'll buy you a beer

[@honestplaces]

Dunno if i could live there. But cheers pal 👍🍺

[@monkimusic4813]

oi oi!!!!!

[@ProTroll_UK]

You'll not be able to consume alcohol in Dewsbury when it's under Sharia law.

[@lightoftheworld417]

Super Malt on draft

[@georgebenson6330]

Exactly, he would do us a better service to go to these places and preach from the New Testament then maybe he will have some idea of his Elbow from another part of his Anatomy.

[@user-sf8xb8wr1y]

Dunno about that!, I was at a cider house and I said to a Muslim bloke that wasn't it against his religion to drink alcohol, his reply was that it was ok as cider is classed as fruit juice, ok when it suits them.

[@saippuakivikuappias]

User name checks out.

[@goonerboz6023]

Are you mentally ill you should stop listening to whoever gives you your info

[@steve-bk1qd]

Beware of pubs that don't sell cask ale... they don't care about beer quality... no surprise the Guinness was bad

[@pawel8365]

There are so many of these "wander about the UK" channels, all likely inspired from Bald and Bankrupt / Backpacker Ben - but they all have one thing in common, the same comments about specific demographics / races "ruining" in Britain.

[@honestplaces]

I just ignore the comments, don't bother with people like that

[@pawel8365]

@@honestplaces Glad you said it mate. I thoroughly support your Guinness reviewing. Ireland is an absolute must. I recommend Whelans on Wexford St.

[@i_wouldprefer_not_to1196]

Have you ever been to De Nile in Egypt?

[@ITPFS]

They're easy to blame. People should hold the real villains to account - the tories, the elite and politicians in general.

[@philipjones9458]

Presumably the vape shops are like Turkish barbers and candy shops i,e, money laundering premises.

[@ThePs3fanboi]

Why presumably? Everyman and his dog vapes, they're open for a reason, I don't vape, but I call in one once every fortnight to do some work and the amount of people who come in and buy them are easily 10-20 people in about a half hour span.

[@uk-martin4905]

​@@ThePs3fanboi It is well known that such businesses are often used in connection with money laundering. The police have admitted they do not investigate as it takes too much time. Hence the vape shops, Turkish barbers, African cosmetics and wig 'installers' in abundance in every main street. Observation shows many of these shops rarely have customers.......

[@wallycustard1281]

I opened up a shop in Dewsbury but I had to close in just 6 months. I was selling wigs & contraceptives for kangaroos but I didn't sell any. I had a wide selection but I never got a single customer through the door despite having the marketplace to myself. Where else can you buy wigs and contraceptives for kangaroos in Dewsbury?

[@wakeywarrior]

Dewsbury was a nice place in the 1970’s/ early 80’s. Now it’s the only place I know of where even McDonalds closed up! Shocking what’s happened to that town. There are a few nice pubs there though, particularly the one on the Railway station and there’s an Ossett Brewery one.

[@cameronashworth1754]

That lass in the second pub to her fella "I dont wanna be babysitting you today" 😁

[@honestplaces]

🤣 classic

[@davewhittles]

hate to see beer wasted but the whole place is shit like the beer

[@honestplaces]

Was hard to leave it. Would of been ill if i had it 🤣

[@juliamaitland7160]

I went to the art school in Batley in the mid 70s but lived off Halifax Rd in Dewsbury. The Victorian houses were beautiful and the little pub called the Bath was a lovely and friendly place run by a fantastic couple called Bill and Edith

[@ponybloke]

I used to deliver to the market twice a week in the early 90s always busy.

[@ToLateToTrifecta]

Atleast try and split the G bro

[@honestplaces]

Need 2 for it....more of a game

[@ToLateToTrifecta]

@@honestplaces 😅

[@rufiorules]

The pub at the train station is an absolute gem. Shame you missed it!

[@ALLORD-kf9yn]

This is because Dewsbury is under kirklees council. It's a poorer part of West Yorkshire. Lots of the shops has closed down. The outdoor market is pretty good and Cosmc Toys is an amazing shop.

[@theglassman3583]

The pubs use to be packed in the 80s and 90s but now the area is mainly muslims and they don't drink, the shops and market were the best too , the council needs to stop all the gambling and vape shops as they bring the place down, the wool merchants who's money built Dewsbury would turn in their graves if they could see it now, ps don't give up faith in God, he will give you a better Guinness next time.😎

[@honestplaces]

🤣 i hope god does serve me well. Cheers pal

[@Alji3dom]

It's the fault of the mill owners in the first place for importing cheap labour from India and Pakistan.

[@ProTroll_UK]

Last time I went to Dewsbury it was full of people with tattoos all over their bodies.

[@honestplaces]

It's full of them

[@Quincycle]

Lol good one

[@ThePs3fanboi]

Ironic that the spicehead at 5:10 was talking about bagheads...

[@thecelticdruid7707]

Bargoed town centre in Wales is much the same. Once a thriving town called " The metropolis of the valleys", Bargoed is now a ghost town. Empty shops. High level of unemployment.

[@justifiedsuspicion675]

The slow but sure Islamification of the UK and corrupt Councils make it unbearable to be a UK citizen.

[@bradbb8013]

True mate, but its not slow. Over a million immigrants came here last year !

[@scottpetty9249]

2:48, that will tell you all you need to know.