WAKEFIELD: Concrete PooLand with No Redeeming Qualities

[@noelward8047]

Town and City councils have killed off their centres. Madness.

[@puppets.and.muppets]

still. they get paid really well and all live in very large out of town properties.

[@tomderby7759]

But yay islam

[@Fanakapan222]

Corporate business and its desire for over 500% mark up, and the landlords wanting some of the cake have killed town and city centres. A cloneish hellscape with betting and charity shops filling the voids that once housed esoteric business's

[@puppets.and.muppets]

@@tomderby7759 yay transvestites.

[@callmemilk3352]

No

[@bionicnichola9251]

Get yourself down London on 1st of June for our rally against two tier policing and totalitarian.

[@user-rc6qm7dt4w]

Protests do fuck all

[@puppets.and.muppets]

but i have to stress, this protest is only for parents.

[@thedon5759]

And don't forget to #TWERKFORTOMMY

[@AdissapointedSonic]

1st of june is the gay month lets see how this turns out with queers for palastine 😂

[@dude9038]

Yes go there to partake in making zero difference to anything anywhere ever. Sounds like a wonderful waste of time

[@deebo5474]

you could look at any town centre in england and you couldnt tell them apart

[@goodyeoman4534]

I think that's the idea.

[@hugoagogo4324]

Islamic shitholes basically

[@paullawrence8572]

English flag should be flying in every Town and City in OUR Country!!!!!!

[@bikemancambs]

used to go to Wakefield when i stayed in Leeds , 99p for beer , £3.50 for a hair cut , £3.99 a sit down fish and chips with bread and butter and this was only 4 years ago ,i really like the place only good times there

[@waynesilverman3048]

Bike ,I went to thorns park Wakefield collage (music intermediates course and learning history a theory ect) I can only remember the end of this part of the town I did go to a couple of pubs at dinner with 1 of my friends and his pretty gothish middle class bird (out of his league)

[@gedrooney9305]

My home city..once thriving, now mostly empty, Leeds killed it off. Not all bad, we have the Hepworth Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park…lots of money around there still but it’s now spent in Leeds. Wakefield Council wasted millions on the Trinity shopping centre, now mostly empty..lots of heritage buildings which are listed thankfully…

[@paulmcallister8948]

Not really a city though is it? Like most Yorkshire supposed cities, it is a collection of many, many towns all mascarading under the supposed city of Wakefield! See Bradford, Leeds, Doncaster, Sheffield, etc for similar overinflated council boundaries! 🫣🥴

[@gedrooney9305]

@@paulmcallister8948 Great comment Paul, you really must write more.

[@paulmcallister8948]

@@gedrooney9305 🫡

[@noka79]

Islam is a big problem

[@philipjones9458]

Brilliant observation

[@thedetectorist2419]

2 TIER PIGS EXPOSSED TOMMY ROBINSON DEMO JUNE 1ST VICTORIA STATION MIDDAY

[@puppets.and.muppets]

aborting your own generation, then having to import labour was the problem.

[@ArtfulCalendar]

You are the big problem

[@MrRight-hn5pq]

Go Israel 🇮🇱

[@markcollinson5665]

There are far worse places than Wakefield, Charlie. You should know, you live near many of them.

[@NothingToDismay]

Yes, but the residents don't have webbed feet like in Wakefield.

[@markcollinson5665]

@@NothingToDismay Do enlighten us as to which amazing place you're from.

[@NothingToDismay]

@markcollinson5665 Only about 15 miles away, but the difference between us civilised people in Leeds and you Wakey/ Pontefract/ Castleford/ Normanton/ Ferry Fryston ####s is HUGE. It's almost like we're two different species.

[@markcollinson5665]

@@NothingToDismay I live in Liverpool you melt.

[@NothingToDismay]

@markcollinson5665 Because I was to know that wasn't I! Go back to bin dipping rather than commenting on KZbin.

[@JulezX.X]

When it is raining in Wakefield it's like a ghost town, but try trinity during the day when the weather is ok'ish, you can't move 😂

[@kaikito7662]

What happened to Wakefield?!! I lived just outside Wakefield in the mid-eighties. Wakefield was crowded and vibrant. And no crackheads!!!!. So how did we get here?

[@MrStefzor]

There's no need to go into the city centre anymore. That's the truth. The market was closed and ecommerce has become too powerful for the city to flourish. People just go to Leeds now.

[@andrewdenton989]

​@@redeyedninja9617 in my opinion Morrisons, Boosts, Marks & Spencer, Card Factory, Poundland & Grind Coffee Lounge are the best in Ridings now.

[@andrewdenton989]

@@redeyedninja9617 haha, I mean there is Primark but personally its not for me way too overcrowded for me

[@PowerYourMind100]

Charlie calls anyone not in a 3 piece suit and having a cigarette a crackhead

[@summerysle]

Wakefield 'the best little city on Earth' as the son of Wakefield himself 'Paul Sykes' once said.

[@david8_0]

Think it looks pretty decent Wakefield tbf

[@PowerYourMind100]

thank you, it is a nice place, I'm not sure what upset him so much.

[@stacybaby111]

I thought the place looks pretty good..lots of historic buildings.. thinks look clean and simple to me..Charlie don't reflect your grumpy feel on life on everything..look again..

[@DirtySanchez943]

Chuck is pretty grim lately😢😢😢

[@gibsonlees8246]

There's no life there , it's miserable looking

[@WarrenF]

Average town centre but I think the main problem is it looks empty because there’s probably no good shops or activities

[@DirtySanchez943]

Nah very nice British "historical" city...

[@johnboyginger]

We all order online, Amazon whatever. We wonder why town centres are dead. Errrr, durrrrrr.

[@tufflikeiron-vq9ux]

Shame you didn't visit Wakey Wines 🤣

[@andyvolvo2614]

When anyone from Dewsbury is on holiday and someone asks them where they come from, they reply either from near Leeds or Wakefield. It's better that way

[@BlueHToys]

Hope you're going to Dewsbury too 😂

[@welshie1979]

Diverse

[@OoohAaah6603]

Pakistan

[@PowerYourMind100]

WAKEFIELD IS PRETTY DECENT TO BE HONEST, I THINK YOU WERE A BIT CRUEL.

[@Skully317]

The way the slots lady lifted her arm and dropped it (12:51), made her "Bingo Wing" flutter from the vibrations......👏

[@Scano41]

20 yrs + ago I was in Wakefield and it was nice place

[@tommykarate9397]

20 years ago every town and city in the UK was a better place, and even more so 30 years ago

[@craigrushworth1744]

Agreed

[@DirtySanchez943]

That winged statue 🗿 is the Wakefield cryptid ...😊😊😊

[@SkinwalkerFarm]

At night at weekends the Place You are standing is packed out with people, they even close the roads in the city centre , I spent 6 Years in Wakey, great fun good memories, best people in the Country.

[@PowerYourMind100]

thank you

[@megadonis1]

Have to say Charlie, your oratory delivery was a masterclass in KZbin vloggery.

[@CharlesVeitch]

Wow, thanks!

[@LeftTownMedia]

I met crutchie in Manchester yesterday, very briefly. I went up to him and addressed by his first name. He didn't say anything, he gave me a fistbump and just walked off

[@notforwantoftrying1]

next time you see him, see if you can open up the same sinus artery and charlie did, it's his weak spot

[@davidm5321]

👍 Nice to hear about the legendary cross-eyed crack head

[@wakeywarrior]

The Labour council ruined Wakefield, but just get voted in year after year, decade after decade. Used to be a really nice place in the 1980’s- Leeds was the poorer dirtier cousin, how times change. Battle of Wakefield, near Sandal Castle was where the nursery rhyme Grand Old Duke of York came from. He left the castle and was killed. Decapitated, head on a spike with a paper crown on a spike at York. As you correctly state this changed the future of the monarchy.

[@britishbicolano3252]

Brought up in Wakefield and the city was awesome back in the days...watching ur video made me realise why I left Wakefield and came to live in the Philippines

[@performancejunky3258]

Let me take a guess 😂

[@deepthought8770]

I couldn't live in Asia

[@paulk3150]

​@@performancejunky3258I'm getting the word 😂😂😂

[@tommykarate9397]

Let me guess why you moved to Philippines, you wanted free s e x am I wright you fkn geezer?!

[@OoohAaah6603]

@@britishbicolano3252 I've just been deported back to the UK after 20 years living in Borneo I spent a few years up in Sabah near the Philippines completely different way of life

[@billgriffiths1685]

12:52 the weird statue also has a member like Queen Victoria.

[@utrapzab]

were only in a trough because of the peacefuls, its the same reason that places like this are empty, no one wants to visit a place populated with these people, no one wants to see minarets and listen to some peado wailing from a loudspeaker 5 times a day we want the opposite of that, we are the majority and we better start getting what WE want otherwise we really will see unrest 01.06.24

[@solitudeguard5688]

Wakefield and the moors below Durham are some of the nastiest places I’ve visited in England

[@PowerYourMind100]

you are joking right, nothing nasty about wakey

[@gibsonlees8246]

Where'd ye get those shorts Charlie , M and S ? 😂

[@craigorford9932]

Wakefield my home town,And what a shit hole it has become,in the 80,90’s it was a good market city but now it’s a hovel

[@lilimarleen4952]

Whenever I watch a video from you about a town that you dislike, I always think "but it's a lot better that Aldershot"

[@monsieurbarriche1802]

WE WANT CRUTCHIE ( Charlie different in this vid, sure he's had a couple of pints )

[@davidthornton9214]

Like most city centres, Wakefield has been neglected and now full of all the same types of shops and people. The new owners of The Ridings Shopping Centre are working hard to make it a decnt place to visit and shop. Mr Besos has ruined our towns.

[@doubtingthomas736]

Looks like Charlie visited it on a wet Sunday morning! 😵‍💫

[@dpauditss]

Empty ghost towns all over the place and that’s coming from a coventarian lol

[@AGTC009]

Gay MP so we all know where his loyalties are going to lie!

[@georgedonnellan36]

Come to london £8 per pint. Not a problem coz people pay it...😢

[@Shouldwebeworried]

Charlie, when you did a close-up of the weird statue thing and you were really close up on its eyes,,,what would you have done if it had blinked at you? Lol, 😱 😂😂

[@dude9038]

Run into a shop and call the police... JK

[@tlilmiztli]

Man... That Victorian buildings... Absolutely stunning! Hahah "No manches!" is in Spanish, popular saying here in Mexico for example. Meaning sort of like surprised "no way!". I wonder what is it - restaurant maybe, possibly.

[@briwire138]

Wakefield seems a great place to seek sanctuary, as I'm sure citizens from towns like Bradford and Dewsbury would agree.

[@THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of]

ALL THAT MONEY SPENT ON THE BLOCK PAVING WILL NEED TO BE REPLACE IN A FEW YEARS TIME ITS PATHETIC

[@adminsasdefault2366]

Once a month you just go too far…

[@Crimetvuk]

That first interaction 😂

[@andrewfelcey5593]

No people no litter.

[@davidknowles1219]

The blue bricks are scoria bricks. They were made in Teesside by the Tees Scoriae Brick Company as waste product (slag) of iron production.

[@charliejackman2953]

10:00 Why not walk on gravestones? Over graves? Through graveyards? Should we stay away from the buried? If so, why?

[@tomderby7759]

A basic thing called respect you twat

[@watheetje]

Hi Charles Veitch, ,will you also pay attention to the elections, and to the boys and girls who are required to serve. In any way whatsoever.

[@philipjones9458]

It won’t happen. What a wasted comment.

[@philipjones9458]

No

[@watheetje]

@@philipjones9458 If my comment is out of place, it makes your comment redundant. But of course you already knew that,

[@guts123ful]

just another Dead Northern Town

[@Vikingcat01]

Strafford Arms , Thought Wakefield had a weapons shop there for a minute .

[@redeyedninja9617]

Theres a world famous pool player whos in there every night hes a legend will play anyone as well hes sound.

[@atlasshrugged583]

You have a new fan from Tucson Arizona...:)

[@ludovisian5063]

God it looks depressing

[@PowerYourMind100]

I'm from here, it isn't that bad, lovely cathedral, the rain didn't help much, its a pretty nice place

[@MartiBlagborough]

Mr vetch next time you cross the border in the underworld that is West Yorkshire give me a shout pal. I could have shown some locations.

[@CharlesVeitch]

Cheers dude

[@TheSadButMadLad]

You need to watch more of Marti Blagborough's videos to recognise the West Yorkshire Police HQ. Marti's been there so many times. From witnessing a fellow auditor getting arrested for shouting "sausage" at an inspector, to attending misconduct hearings of corrupt and criminal constables.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

the upmarket cafes are like the turk barbers, pre-placed in advance for the custom of just finance and new neighbours, the finance may have to wait.

[@paulpietschinski3282]

I can see myself happy there..not a south asian in site

[@OoohAaah6603]

Lots of pakis there I use to live in the area

[@PowerYourMind100]

I'm from here, its known locally as "white boy town", not a bad thing these days.

[@Premier-Media-Group]

How many men suffer silently at the hands of a woman? Physical, financial, emotional abuse all occur against men, as well. But, since there are few (if any) resources - and society has such a stigma against it - these men rarely speak out.

[@Premier-Media-Group]

@@Archiesquaddy obviously.

[@AdissapointedSonic]

@@Archiesquaddyum excuse me when we do they never get mainstreamed

[@Odysseuss.]

@@Archiesquaddy dickheed!

[@AdissapointedSonic]

@@Archiesquaddy i know but still

[@dude9038]

Men are seen as expendable. By nature's conditions, Women are important incubators for the propagation of the species. ...yet some of us know this is complete BS, becuase its men who build the structures to protect women, so that women even have the opportunity to create new life safely, in more ways than one. It's just that the former is laced into the fabric of society, media, culture, because it's laced into our DNA and very few break out of that evolutionary conditioning.

[@Gggg-sb7fg]

I can never understand these places...pubs/cafes like foreign countries like the Italian Riveria and so on...over here the tables and chairs outside look over a set of traffic lights and a main road with HGVs driving past, lovely. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidbail944]

Deserted town centre so quiet but most small city’s and towns are like this now

[@chrismcphie]

Looking at what shops were closed, it was Sunday, so it's going to look worse than if he'd gone on a Saturday, when it's usually heaving.

[@stevo728822]

11:00 It's a statue of an Aztec god. The heart is symbolic of their human sacrifices. The two elderly people with wings are probably the artists' parents now long gone.

[@deepthought8770]

Perfect place for an Aztec god to be

[@beateecee5563]

Charles, you neglected to include comment regarding the strange protrusion from the angel like creature at approximately 1137 mins. Take notice of the thumb position when you first film the object as you should find it rather interesting young chap.

[@MrAnthonyfrench]

Please elaborate, the Thumbs looked as normal as can be for such a piece. What are we looking for exactly ? is it exactly at 11:37 or when the statue first appears on camera ?

[@salaciousone]

It's called an Amazon love god statue

[@masicka146]

Who looking like a postie. Charlie with them shorts 😂

[@pablolowenstein1371]

Don't worry, labour will make Wakefield a 15 minute city in no time...in 15 minutes you'd wish you'd never set foot in the fucking place.

[@wjkitching]

Get that Labour fool out, better get Galloway in there, soon sort Starmer's sycophant out.

[@DJRyanJamesUK]

In my town, lots of people moan about the fact we have pubs,Cafes,clubs and restaurants. Not being funny but what else would you want on the High Street? More shit chicken shops or charity crap? Nothing wrong with that, Charlie and it's nice to see nice buildings being used for good purposes.

[@CharlesVeitch]

OK good to have an alternate view. Gut I didn't like Wakefield. Weather didn't help also it was a Sunday afternoon and very abandoned

[@noelward8047]

While it is good that old buildings are being protected their usage is not optimized.

[@LAMF24]

Independent shops, like grocers, bakers and butchers.

[@MrFishandChipsOBE]

@@CharlesVeitch you forgot to mention ...a greengrocers ...butchers ...hardware store ...gentlemans drapers ...ladies clothes shop ...jewellers...tailors...shoe shop...Bakers...confectioners ...fishmongers...chippies and many more ...oh and people interacted while on their daily shop....compare that to today ...its dystopia ...keep crackhead free CV

[@dude9038]

The place looked like a weird Masonic experiment with seedy undercurrents just left out to pasture

[@roycebarron1]

Superb Charlie. I love your shots but got to point out your outro was in a tree lined street.

[@garethhardstaff5635]

Charlie, please don't big up Marti Blagborough . He's pure dirt.

[@CharlesVeitch]

He's always been decent and cool towards me. Always very respectful.

[@philipjones9458]

He doesn't take shit from police.

[@garethhardstaff5635]

Perhaps, but he's a pure amateur.

[@noelward8047]

How so ?

[@noelward8047]

@@garethhardstaff5635 Not everyone can be an 'expert' like you ! Haha

[@JeffJeffers0n]

Yo Charlie, if you aint already done so check out your ol' pal DJE Media's latest escapade at Fort Car Dealership, gets pretty wild in the later half. You should use your large platform to inform peeps of Fort's dispicable behaviour. That place should have every auditor in the land pay a visit, though I do realise you're not an auditor. Thanks for the great content you bring 👍

[@charlesmartel6103]

It's a sunday, right? ...and rainy... Humans are at home. Obviously..

[@chrismcphie]

Shhh, facts don't fit his narrative about the city...

[@garethhardstaff5635]

The only decent auditor is AB..Marti tries and fails, he just upsets people.

[@garethhardstaff5635]

He needs more hallucinogens. Then he'll be alreet

[@FLASHAHOLIC_TV]

*** Labourville ***

[@totalbasedcan1676]

Looks lovely tbh

[@illegalalien6199]

Id love you to do a trip up north, come to Tayside see the sights it's glamorous and super fun time, oh yeah!

[@DjNikGnashers]

2:10 I saw something he/she/them/they today with orange hair. I wondered if it was a trans-ginger ?

[@bionicnichola9251]

Your wrong Chris. Andy's Club is for men in crisis 👍 a very good support group.

[@AutismTwinsUs]

Some nice buildings and the new look clean and tidy at least , I’m in Plymouth which I love but we lost all our grand buildings in the blitz and much of our city centre is now decimated by Abercrombie and Plymouth city councils poor decisions

[@DirtySanchez943]

Some Wakefield gurls were niiice. IYKWIM 😊😊😊

[@GluepfirSICH]

You don't want to see Crutchie perform a dirty sanchez on her do you? Cor M8 that would be fuckin dizguztin

[@senianns9522]

That's some of the ugliest 'pedestrian development' I think I have seen! Horrible 'cell block' type of city center!

[@lIIllIlIII]

Charlie, do you have any advice on how to deal with and overcome social anxiety?

[@Jimmybarth]

Avoid society. Become a recluse.

[@lIIllIlIII]

@@Jimmybarth that'll work for sure

[@cloggso]

Wakefield looks lovely without being overrun by immigrants!!!

[@andrewdenton989]

trust me its not the best places in Wakefield now are Middletown/Overton, Horbury, Horbury Bridge & Ossett In my opinion now.

[@JayHenry-b8p]

One day he'll call the wrong person a crack head.....

[@chloedevereaux1801]

its a city because a king or queen granted it city status, nothing to do with a cathederal or university....

[@RockinDave1]

Those headstone paving stones remind me of the paths at Plaszow labour and latterly concentration camp. That is to say it's not a great look!

[@garth8979]

That safe space looked a bit small, it's basically a small box on the high street. Or is it like one of those sensory deprivation chambers?

[@plasticinetears]

You kept *almost* getting to the bottom of Kirkgate any not quite reaching it, you missed the best bits. Spice addicts, heroin, drunks, begging rings, follow the line of empty shops and rubble fields to the archives where we have the worst sculpture you have ever seen, a real dodgy abandoned train station and then the brutalist concrete Hepworth.

[@DaStig]

The north have gone without for years. You turn up expecting a fight. Move on

[@martinofleeds]

Charlie - mid/late 80s Wakefield had more Bars-pubs-clubs than anywhere else in Europe in one 1/4 square……dull fact….😊

[@amarsha4]

What happened to you to make you this negative? I'm not really sure what the point of the video is.

[@PowerYourMind100]

Its honestly not a bad place, I'm not sure what he didn't like.

[@philipjones9458]

Jane Mcdonald hails from Wakefield.

[@BlueHToys]

Met her in the Chinese 😆

[@thebatman4279]

Another reason to hate the place.

[@hitthenorth9667]

My home town Wakefield Charlie , shit isn’t it ! The outer lying towns are better - Ossett, Horbury… next time you’re in the area hit me up - we’ll have a beer

[@blackboxers666]

what time was this, im from wakey and this is dead

[@heretical2botanical]

The bleu line of bricks, are Scoria bricks. They ful of randon. Exculy made of waste slaks.

[@cattymccatface7834]

COME to Wakefield to experience Big Black Cubes 😂

[@philipjones9458]

You did this location before didn't you Charlie? Or I'm having deja vu.

[@FindThisArtist]

June 1st 12pm London Victoria Station

[@noahark3810]

have you been to Brighton

[@wouterkok8483]

There's more, the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, quite nice actually

[@rodneycullen1648]

I have seen Wakefield be an amazing place to live but now I hate the city. It’s a dump a third world country. I now shop in Barnsley now that’s really clean and quiet busy everyone I’ve met are so friendly and friendly love it.

[@angielewis4158]

Wakefield council are good at wasting money

[@jayrobthorn6847]

Couldn’t have put better myself, wokefield that it is precisely, and I should know been under labour controlled wokefield council, these surrounding areas have become ghettos.