Stoke on Trent TUNSTALL - How Bad is It? Ghost Town ENGLAND UNITED KINDOM 4k

[@museonfilm8919]

The opening shot says it all!

[@nicholasrowlands706]

So much for levelling up

[@SquawkingSnail]

This is happening all over the UK. Everyone is too busy "shopping like a millionaire" to care about community, jobs outside of Amazon depots and eachother. Heartbreaking to see our towns so unloved while we all sit at home on our phones. Shameful.

[@nanywytchwriter]

Last time l was in Tunstall was in 2012 it was not like this then

[@derin111]

What time of day were those videos shot? There's scarcely a soul moving!

[@VolkerBrueggemann]

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[@eugeneshadwell6596]

You're absolutely right about the main town center being desolate these days but there's a large retail park a few minutes walk away that is thriving... clearly all the money is being spent there by the council. Tunstall's not as dead as it appears from this video!

[@JohnJohnson-tw8qk]

Use to work in Tunstall in late 80s early 90s now moved can't believe it looks so run down it now looks like a town you never want to visit

[@MizMite2002]

Stroke in Tent.

[@juliepownall1063]

Looks grim very grim

[@nanywytchwriter]

They built a new shopping precinct near asda when l was last there

[@J.Harry.T]

The world has moved on and this town centre is clearly being left behind. Far fewer people rely on ‘High Street’ shops these days and this place is not attractive enough to draw people in for any other reason. Garden centres are currently booming across the country, with most selling a variety of goods. Many have virtually become department stores. They tend to be really nice places to be and invariably have unlimited free parking. This town centre has some nice buildings, but also a lot of really hideous ones. I think a lot of it needs to be demolished and replaced with something attractive (more trees, gardens etc). Alternatively it needs to be reduced in size and the surplus land used for housing. It certainly needs to try a great deal harder.

[@markstarmer3677]

Does anybody still live there ?

[@ADTravel]

😁

[@DM-it2ch]

Looks to me like the video was shot on a Sunday. Some of those shops were plainly still in business, just closed. I'm not saying it's a thriving town, but come on, be fair- I could walk along any high street on a Sunday and show dozens of closed shops.

[@gc68jypsyladexsplora61]

Good video buddy I did a video on KZbin of hanley that's getting bad too and stoke can you imagine what Tunstall was like 5 years ago before this academic crazy everything be just waste land soon keep up the good work and videos 💯💯👌👌

[@ADTravel]

Cheers mate

[@gc68jypsyladexsplora61]

@ADTravel no worries have you done leek too can't belive how Tunstall as got 👌

[@rolandbosley1174]

This video could have been shot early Sunday morning, may explain why so many shutters are down and no people about.

[@SFC.deano.76]

I stayed in The Snede pub about 20 yrs ago,and The Ancient Britain bit rough that one,some good lads in there though 👍

[@orbytl2799]

the ancient brit got demolished a while back

[@nanywytchwriter]

The five towns started fall apart after Thatcher closed the pits down prior to this everyone thrived 6 pits p,us the pot banks work was easy to get

[@megataurus7779]

Now that really is a shit hole!

[@paulthomas3841]

A both those shops should be made in to apartments blocks

[@jeff-l2j]

last but not least.......the best thing any decent people can do if possible .....get out of this foreign town. god bless you all.

[@wobbler6372]

Seems like many towns are heading this way . High rents low profits

[@courtneywilliams4143]

Why do these videos never get filmed on a saturday afternoon?

[@johnross2924]

Does it look nicer on a Saturday? 😂

[@courtneywilliams4143]

@johnross2924 anything looks better when the few shops that exists are open and there are people on the streets.

[@johnross2924]

@@courtneywilliams4143 I'm not so shore about the buildings with the bordered up windows though.

[@courtneywilliams4143]

@johnross2924 obviously not. And yes the town is dire but filming on Sunday just makes it it look worse. Its obvious. Look at ALL videos about poor towns. They're always filmed in the quiet times. It's obviously intentional to add to the narrative.

[@raymondhill8973]

did i see the old Golden Torch soul club in that opening picture

[@orbytl2799]

the golden torch is long gone, my dad used to go there back in the day

[@raymondhill8973]

@@orbytl2799 hope your dad has patches from the torch, they fetch good money now original patches.. Stoke was busy then torch and t.o.t.s .. odd nip down to wigan... god im old 🤣😂

[@jeff-l2j]

walk up waterloo road and look at all the rubbish on the street......there is only a certain type who hang out there

[@John-ue6ok]

Ok thanks

[@Chris-pq3wp]

Thanks to globalisation, stoke now has no pottery industry

[@ganrimmonim]

It does seem to have fallen upon hard times.

[@jeff-l2j]

asians says it all people

[@dyl_on4861]

Hate living here

[@motormouthalmighty]

that is not too shabby for a modern twenty first century town built by a five hundred year old,multi billion pound empire who once owned a quarter of the entire earth's geographical surface and of whom queen victoria ruled over five hundred million people!everybody keeps calling it a flaming rathole and a disgrace but look at what's happened down our way.s few beavers have built a dam on the water,by the river and on that wasteland ,next door to our local police station,sewer rats have built a rat's nest.it's full of twigs,old discarded teabags,grass,leaves and soil.it looks absolutely blooming horrible and that's not that much better than tunstall.people keep complaining about tunstall,hanley and stoke on trent but if i had a few thousand put away,i would send my son to tunstall to live ,work and get an education.you want the best for your kids don't you?i want him to have a future.i don't want him to leave school to lifelong unemployment and poverty like i did,forty years ago!i want to walk into a macdonalds in tunstall and see my lad mopping the floor and then going back home to his own one room bedsit every night!i don't want wandsworth or strangeways for my lad.i want him to go to harvard and do his degree and qualify as a janitor,just like my great grandad did in the 1950s.he's been upto blackpool to see the lights,seven times.i'd move to tunstall tomorrow if i could afford to move out of rotherham but they've cut my benefits to mozambique rates.i'm only on the equivalent of one us dollar a day!now i'm stuck here forever!and i could have been in tunstall!playing shove 'apenny and sipping twenty million!on a beach in tahiti,with beautiful bikini clad beauties!

[@puppets.and.muppets]