Stoke & it’s ghost town shopping centre 😱🎥😔

[@tonyshingler104]

I had to go to Hanley yesterday, only because I needed something out of B&M, how depressing is it now, my god, no one speaks English, druggies everywhere, tried get into the museum, that’s shut on a Monday for some reason 🤷🏻, i to know about the false promises regarding the now overgrown wasteland and closed down premises and the council wonder why people don’t trust a word they say, another good video DJM. 👏👏

[@DJMtv1938]

Cheers tony ❤️👍

[@mikemcguinness1304]

Let the migrants come .... just to piss you sad racists off 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂

[@stevietrucker4631]

It's very sad to see Hanley turning into the horrible place it has become. Years ago i was up there every Saturday night and it was packed and a brilliant night out. I don't know how the shops survive in the potteries centre.

[@DJMtv1938]

It’s surly got be only a matter of time before the shopping centre sinks it can’t survive in its current state

[@ednahawkesworth7551]

What a mess Stoke-On-Trent is in! It used to be a beautiful city, but no longer.

[@DJMtv1938]

It’s going to take a generation for this city centre to even get back a fraction of what it was 😔

[@ednahawkesworth7551]

@@DJMtv1938 At least!

[@terrysutton8452]

I left Hanley in the early eighties, and could so where it was heading then. Don’t get me wrong, I had some great nights out in Hanley, The Place, The Roman Candle, Leadbellies, Chico’s and obviously all those great bands who played the Vicci Hall. Have just returned to Stoke-on- Trent after nearly 40 years away. Can’t say I’m that surprised at what I have found here. It was already declining then, and despite the odd council effort to improve the the place, they were all either badly thought out and often made things worse, or they were never followed through on, leaving large areas of wasteland. I would love to think Stoke-on-Trent could be a great city again, but it’s too far gone, and why would anyone want to invest here?

[@DJMtv1938]

I’m afraid it’s had it now especially has we now have a council who is practically declaring itself bankrupt more or less next year.

[@terrysutton8452]

@@DJMtv1938 It’ s ironic that a city that is supposed to be levelling up is actually being flushed down the toilet. Maybe that was their (and by their I mean people who have right wing agendas, but are really good at bullshitting on the tv), aim all along was to alienate the poorer cities and let them destroy them selves so they are no longer a blot on England’s Green and Pleasant land!

[@CraigHorton]

I lived in Etruria for over 20 years. Great location for socialising in Hanley but over the years as it quickly went downhill, friends and work colleagues would rather spend money on train fare to Chester, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, or Derby. I now live in Derby, a city of similar size to Stoke-on-Trent but vastly different shopping/leisure/socialising experience. The shopping centre ( called Derbion) is not just full of shops, it has many restaurants and fast food outlets plus bowling, cinema and adventure golf. You could spend most of a day just in there. Sure Derby does have empty shops dotted about but not entire streets with nothing open. Do the council leaders of S-o-T ever visit other successful thriving cities to see what can be done?

[@DJMtv1938]

Yep I’m a regular visitor to derby and the shopping centre certainly has everything you need I used to like visiting the trendz bike shop but sadly it was gone on my last visit.

[@clangerbasher]

I used to like the food court at the top of the Potteries SC. Once a month at the end of the month I would find an excuse to go to the company HQ and I would have an extra long dinner hour in Hanley and perhaps buy a little treat or something. That was back in the 90s though. The last time I was regularly travelling that way was in the early 2010's for a few months.

[@DJMtv1938]

I used to love going the French horn pub on a Saturday afternoon and sitting outside on a nice day and watching the people shopping at the outdoor market across the road.

[@clangerbasher]

@@DJMtv1938 You are going to laugh but I know the pub but I never ever went in. I will confess that as a teen I stopped going to Hanley for clothes. I preferred to go Manchester on the train. I am lead to believe that Stoke station is now busy Saturday morning with Stokees going to Manchester. It is a shame. But it is happening to shopping centres across the West; it isn't just Hanley / Stoke. Newcastle is just as bad. The latter tried to compete with Hanley instead of perhaps trying to be a North Staffordshire Nantwich. We live in interesting times.

[@MauriceKiernicki]

Stoke on Trent people are the best in the country and they deserve a better city centre than that.Hanley is very poor. They can start by making the car parking alot cheaper. I always park in the Potteries Centre and for what Hanley has to offer it is way too expensive. Festival Park is just a mile from Hanley and the parking is free

[@4thinternational283]

Trentham gardens seems to be the go to shopping place at the moment

[@DJMtv1938]

Yep always seems to be busy but I think you have to have a dog before you are allowed to visit there 🤣woof,woof

[@fattyburgeryank]

That’s because it’s kept clean, a couple of decent shops, a monkey forest and no smackheads in sight asking for spare change for the bus.

[@T420TOMEXPLORES]

It's crazy what stoke on trent has become I can remember Hanley being packed everytime I went there specially Saturday an bank holiday. Must add that they knocked down the m an s carpark down that was cheaper parking 👍

[@DJMtv1938]

You can certainly find plenty of footage in stoke mate 🤣😩👍

[@alanlong1971]

Amazing , you know the drug dealer but the cops don't give they give a fu*k

[@lynseyleese7475]

Ur not wrong there stoke town like ghost town

[@Chris.spurs2023]

What on earth has happened to Hanley when I lived their in the 80s n early 90s was never like that

[@DJMtv1938]

Its like the wildest now

[@jamesbarker6966]

Another fantastic video filmed in joke on Trent 👍

[@DJMtv1938]

The city that keeps on giving 🤣👍

[@jamesbarker6966]

giving up more like 🤣🤣

[@DJMtv1938]

🤣🤣👍

[@matthewlawrenson3628]

5:32 - "Even a captain recognises a sinking ship." They certainly do - as everyone from Stoke knows, the captain of the Titanic was from Etruria. I wonder what Edward Smith would have done had he known the future of his home town? I reckon he'd've steered head on into that iceberg.

[@DJMtv1938]

Absolutely 💯 👍

[@alanlong1971]

Should have spent 15,000,000 on this than that stupid car park that no one uses

[@Day_SoT]

I live in Hanley and believe me it's like that most of the time 😔 they do have an international market now and again which does bring a few people into the centre.....but there's no night life anymore and most of your comments are correct nobody speaks English and full of druggies such a shame what's happened to Stoke on Trent 😔... Thanks for the video DJM

[@DJMtv1938]

I don’t even know where we could even begin to try and bring people back I think it’s to ingrained in people now their mind is made up they choose to spend money elsewhere it’s going to take a generation to turn this around 😔

[@Day_SoT]

I totally agree I find myself going to Cheshire Oaks Trafford centre or the Bull Ring and making a day out of it...

[@parzival1958]

What a fantastic shopping centre Hanley was back in the 70s and 80s. Now its a rubbish strewn, graffiti covered dump full of migrants and empty shops. We went there a few weeks ago and for the 1st time ever, my wife didn't feel safe. I heard from a couple of friends who had teenage children attacked there during the daytime. 1 had a son beaten and robbed of his money and phone and another had her daughter chased in to a shop for refuge. Both times the groups of attackers were possibly from the local migrant hotel from the descriptions given by the teenagers.

[@DJMtv1938]

💯 👍

[@stokeyone]

What camera do u use its steady when filming good stability

[@DJMtv1938]

It’s the GoPro 10 👍

[@stokeyone]

@@DJMtv1938 thank you

[@neilrwilliams-yu2cy]

What a shame Hanley tunstall and burslem are in that state

[@DJMtv1938]

Certainly is 😔

[@neilrwilliams-yu2cy]

I put part of it down to online shopping

[@jimgriffiths9194]

I think a lot of people from stoke stopped going to hanley because of the amount of immigrants and druggies and the fact the council turned the place into one big bus lane, used to be the place to go on a saturday, not anymore

[@davidclews9012]

I can't see any reason to go to hanley anymore.

[@DJMtv1938]

Only to film its decline other than that I would not go near the place 😔

[@user-lc7jk5es8s]

The bus stop.stinks of wee I never used the bus stop as I didn't feel safe I used the one at top of Portland Street Hanley has gone worse since I was there the tree's need cutting back too it's not the same as it used to be Stoke I'm thinking about coming back there but I watch alot of the KZbin you do and it's put me off at the moment

[@DJMtv1938]

I will be honest and there is not a lot to come back to it’s no longer confined to one area the whole of stoke is looking a dump 😔

[@chrisstokie2361]

Shocking mate.

[@DJMtv1938]

I keep thinking i can’t get anymore shocked mate but then I find I can still keep getting shocked 👍

[@chrisstokie2361]

@@DJMtv1938 How much is it costing to heat and clean and light the Potteries Centre? It's got to be making a huge loss. They can't be charging high rents as there's not enough customers to keep those businesses going.

[@DJMtv1938]

@chrisstokie2361 many years ago in the late 90s they were charging anything up to £300 a week for a market stall in Hanley market they can’t possibly be charging that now

[@chrisstokie2361]

@@DJMtv1938. You'd be lucky to make £300 a week on a market stall in Hanley now.

[@DJMtv1938]

@chrisstokie2361 you not kidding 👍

[@mrandrew1243]

Rather have it quiet than busy

[@DJMtv1938]

I’m not sure the shops would agree with you though.

[@hitmanbarnes6335]

were u from dude???? u always rip into s-o-t. yes its gone downhill but the ppl are good.

[@DJMtv1938]

I’m from stoke I love my city but I hate what has happened to it my channel is to show the decline of the last 30+ years to 1 record history and hopefully be able to show these videos to future generations when we hopefully live in better times. And 2 to shame the people who have made the mess of this city. You will never hear me knocking the true people of stoke. I want better for them and if this channel embarrasses the right people at the top and forces change and a better environment for the people of this city then I will be happy and then will no longer need to do these videos. 👍has for the title slum tours you have to understand how KZbin works if I just put longton,Hanley,burlslem then KZbin does not push the video out for some reason so it’s all about the stats with the titles👍