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Why are British seaside downs in decline?🇬🇧
Gosport is the most dangerous major town in Hampshire, and is the 22nd most dangerous overall out of Hampshire's 268 towns, villages, and cities.
Despite Gosport having an abysmal reputation, I decided to visit the town myself on my own. In order to show case the good, the bad and the ugly of the town.
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Despite Gosport having an abysmal reputation, I decided to visit the town myself on my own. In order to show case the good, the bad and the ugly of the town.
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I went to Dartford, so you don't have to! 🇬🇧
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Dartford! The least visited town in the UK. Despite in the 1600s being a popular trading town between Canterbury and London, now it holds the name of being the least visited town. Join me as I show you around and explore the Kent town of Dartford. The overall crime rate in Dartford in 2023 was 129 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Kent's overall crime rate, coming in 43% higher t...
I went to Gravesend, so you don't have to. I was shocked! 🇬🇧
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Gravesend, a town with a beautiful Gurdwara and an epic fort. Unfortunately Gravesend is not seen as positive at all by the general public. On my first visit here, I was overall shocked by how friendly everyone was and how cool the sights were. Yet it is known for homelessness, crime and deprivation. Is Gravesend a "hidden gem"? A "tourist heaven"? or a deprived and crime ridden Kent town? A mo...
Holidaying in Britain's craziest city 🇬🇧
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Welcome to Brighton, the most flamboyant and crazy city in the UK. Known as a popular tourist hub for British people but also forgieners visiting the south of England. I was in the area so met a local guide to form a very very honest review of Brighton. I would definitely say it has run down areas but compared to many other British seaside towns in decline Brighton is certainly looking not too ...
Exploring a bizarre ghost town | Waterlooville
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Why is the British highstreet dying? Why are small independents to big chains closing down. Watch till the end to find out why as we explore one of England's notorious ghost towns; Waterlooville. From political factors or simply the inevitable rise of the internet, it is a sad reality for the UK that our high streets across the country may start to look like Waterlooville. 💪 Want to support the...
Inside Britain's abandoned buildings 🇬🇧
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Inside Britain's abandoned buildings 🇬🇧
I spent 24 hours in Britain's most DISLIKED town. Dover! 🇬🇧
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I spent 24 hours in Britain's most DISLIKED town. Dover! 🇬🇧
Inside London's EPIC Korean Enclave! 🇬🇧
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Inside London's EPIC Korean Enclave! 🇬🇧
The sad decline of British seaside towns 🇬🇧
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The sad decline of British seaside towns 🇬🇧
Welcome to the WORST town in England (Luton)
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Welcome to the WORST town in England (Luton)
HASTINGS! Tourist heaven or tourist hell? 🇬🇧
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HASTINGS! Tourist heaven or tourist hell? 🇬🇧
Slough! Is it the worst place to live in the UK? 🇬🇧
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Slough! Is it the worst place to live in the UK? 🇬🇧
Visting Estonia’s most dangerous town 🇪🇪
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Visting Estonia’s most dangerous town 🇪🇪
Nice. Both parts I need to do, Czech Republic and Slovakia. 🤔👍💯🇬🇧
Looks amazing. I've nver heard of thae place. 🤔👍💯🇬🇧
Cool. Its on my list to visit. They had many older vehicle's, buses, trucks ect, still in service I heard. 🤔👍💯🇬🇧
Its makes me wonder, with so many crap towns in the UK today, whats the attraction for so many foreigners wanting to live here? Our streets are definitely not paved with gold thats for sure! 👍💯🇬🇧🤔
Maddddd 😮😮😮😂
I like Canterbury. 👍
Me too
The seaside towns are just a graphic mirror of the whole country. And, it's no one else's fault except the British themselves. Until, they stop blaming everyone else (e.g the EU, immigrants etc) the decline will continue.
The answer to this question is very simple, having worked for 30 years in supermarket retailing and living in a socially deprived area myself - even in the years before Covid, people were shopping online, because they were encouraged to do so, while business rates and other overheads for “bricks and mortar” shops were massively increased and online shopping massively increased during Covid lockdowns - so-called “regeneration” (vanity) projects by Labour-controlled councils in socially deprived areas in the years before Covid turned out to be of no real benefit to people in those areas and in some cases, even made their situation worse - either way, this situation is clearly by design
Well said brother, I cannot agree more
I've lived here my entire life, it's a decent place to live. And better than most seaside towns
@@Fangtasticall agreed! Didn't feel like the most dangerous town in Sussex for sure. I enjoyed it there
Ive been there
@@Thebritguy it's nice mate
I live in crowbough
I love it there
Seen better days! 😂. Lovely country side though. The capital was a mixed bag on my 2017 trip. I'd say it was, then, the best value country in Europe. Maybe Bulgaria is close too. 👍💯🇬🇧😎
I have a soft spot for Romania. Bulgaria is nice too actually, I prefered Romania though overall one of my favourite countries
This, like many other towns, shows the far left commie tendencies that local authority planners were upholding back in the 60's.🇨🇳👍💯
Blackpool is flying with £££££ of mostly prive and some gove spends
@@josephthompson1318 exactly bro
Full video on the channel! ☝️
McDonald's used to be a pub and bnb
@@phillipamead I bet it was thriving back in the day
The building behind you was Gravesend hospital where both my children were born
@@phillipamead oh wow I never knew, thanks for the insight!
Slough is a dump, it always has been and always will be. It sucks the life out of everyone who lives here.
@@RobinMartin-nj2cx yeah mate it was pretty depressing being there
It's because British resorts are crap. Ok if you've got no alternative, which was their heyday, but nobody wants overpriced (British prices) and substandard, when cheaper and better is availible, with the weather guranteed. I mean, of you think it's bad south coast (Hastings has always been a grubby dump BTW. Used to live in Brighton, I know all the tiwns along there, right through to Doeset, Devon and Cornwall, but at least there, you've got proper sand beaches, not crippling to bare feet, pebbles. You want to see rundown seasode resort dump? Blackpool in the west. Cleethorpes in the east. All the north west coast tesorts are shit, because of the stinking, filthy polluted, Irish Sea (the only place I've rver seen grey sea foam). Also, pollution is a major problem to most British seaside resorts now. Worse than ever. Dead fish and crabs washing up in their thousands and dog walkers reporting their dogs getting sick after walkking them on the beach (Teesside dredging caused an (news supressed) ecological disaster in 2022. Beaches wrre effected as far north as Sunderland and as far south as Whitby. That said. I got sick after swimming in the sea at Weymouth. So it's everywhere, except maybe the remoter parts of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. Wild, windy and remote.
@@timholder6825 it's true mate well said
Canterbury is vibrant town i loved living there
@@naumanaltaf1548 it's very nice indeed
Great video. Definitely not a town most tourists would visit.
@@user-vx4zx1tf3r thank you and yeah definitely one of the rougher ones on the channel id say
I wouldn't go there thanks for sharing. You are our eyes
A lot worse places in Kent than Canterbury, whoever put that list together needs ignored and has to see more of kent. Dover, Chatham, Dartford, Rainham, Folkestone all much worse to name a few
@@dbergkampafc agreed for sure just finished the Chatham video can say it's far far worse by a country mile
Any plans to do any towns in the north of England? Good content as always mate.
Ed do Milton Keynes or Leicester! Or Baltic states
Lived here for a couple years, all I can say is that there’s fuck all to do and the university is terrible, they somehow ruined studying history in a 2000 year old city.
@@HusbandofLois sad to hear mate, thanks for your comment tho bro
uk is a best country
@@HugoDebenham real
Gosport looks horrific, I need pills to live there. Great video.
@@andrewjones4006 thank you brother I appreciate you and yeah it was pretty rough.
I used to live there it was so bad
Thanks for recognising the sikhs and others who fought for great britain. Most love this country.
@@3000FAst the Sikhs are awesome. So kind and caring. Hopefully can go to Punjab state soon
@@EdBrinton I use to go every year as a kid up until my 20s. It's an awesome place. Changed a lot from what I hear with money drugs affluence coming quickly. The langar is one of the most awesome things that Sikhs have got in the to the world. Free food 3 times a day for anyone.
@@3000FAsthonestly can't wait to visit
Don’t keep slagging Essex of
@@stuartpeek2347 🤣🤣
To*
A staggering display of chemtrails in the sky.
@@ameriloe a few people have said that, crazy mate
Well done. You'll probably find most of the locals in the Wetherspoons there, the Star! I've visited once, in 2004, via the Portsmouth-Gosport passenger ferry, to visit said Wetherspoons and a local beer festival. It's historic connection is with Portsmouth, as a major Naval town. Both places seem to have suffered dramatic declines, mainly down to the defence cuts. Post-millennium and post-covid have probably intensified the deprivation. I bet until 30 years ago, every pub in Gosport and Portsmouth would've been packed when the sailors were on leave. I should think now they've lost 50% of those pubs. You can see the regeneration in Portsmouth, mainly down to the large student population, with modern residential blocks all around. Sadly, it looks like Gosport has been left behind. That's a rare thing @ 12:52 Been forgotten maybe? 👍💯🇬🇧😎
@@InvictaView well said brother and thank you. Always look forward to your comments mate! I shouldve checked out the wetherspoons though haha
@@EdBrinton Yes. I think you're missing out on seeing the locals in there natural habitat lol! Every one I visit shows a different view of local life. And the vegetarian breakfast options and afternoon Fish & Chip deals cannot be beaten! 🍽🫖👍💯🇬🇧😉
@@InvictaView ahaha very true, have you tried the new chicken, mash peas with gravy? Incredible
@@EdBrinton Not yet. But with your love of Asia, have you tried the Ramen noodles? You get a pretty big bowl. Also, there's a new Sticky Korean Fried Chicken bowl on the menu. 🍽❤
@@EdBrinton Also, the further up North you travel, they do a China Club, like Curry Club, but I've never seen it in the South though. 🍽🇬🇧💯👍
Go to Chatham I beg
Or better, Sheerness
@@BlackHaloMan869 just finished recording the Medway towns ;)
Gravesend Fort also has tunnels with what used to house the explosives in Napoleonic times, also during recent WW's. shame he was not there when they were open.
@@JButler-e5d I will definitely go back, would be cool to show you
Big man Brinton, on it again.
@@avacyn2000 no where else I'd rather spend my day off 🤣
I like Canterbury, much better than many other places.
@@zaethebarber9250 agreed it's beautiful
Yeah youre right it looks like jaywick in parts. Im glad you overall enjoyed it and met nice people 😊
@@Lechonberryph yeah the locals were lovely minus that one person lol
Such an abandoned town, UK isn't in good shape. In my hometown on Albania the streets would be thriving with people and vendors despite being "poorer"
Same with India, much more life here
@@James-m9k4w I love Albania
@@EdBrintonme too
Hampshire is worse than kent
Another banger as usual bud
@@mandymclan cheers fella
Timestamps: Fort 0:25 Backstreets: 2:00 Nicer areas: 6:33 Town centre: 7:58 Abbaonded areas: 10:46 Friendly locals 12:22 14:04 Exploring the brutalist neighbourhoods
No one goes to these old coastal towns because we all fly abroad where the sun is guaranteed.
This is a uniquely British problem ! Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium do not have a better, sunnier climate than England. And yet the beach towns are thriving. The Dutch coast is at risk of completely being built by developers. Of course the German hinterland is bigger, but the density of town next to each other is also bigger than in England (with the cliffs etc, sea towns are more far apart). But still I think more than half of the NL coast tourists are Dutch .. Dutch people go abroad a lot, but still like to visit the coast and the Islands.. One thing is the quality of hotels or camping parks. On google maps I see camping trailer parks that look similar to a UNCHR refugee camp. Complete barren, without brush partitions to create some privacy/initmacy with 5 campers on a small field ... There is a lot more historic, victorian buildings in the English seaside towns, I think. That should be attractive for British people ? So strange ...
Just started following. I live in Dartford but was born and grew up in Gravesend. At least your videos look for the positives! 😂
Thank you so much I appreciate you. Which town do you prefer? :)
Gravesend 😉
@@lisabernard1797 me too hahah I weirdly loved it
Your just looking at the town centre, just off there is St. James shopping complex which most of the town shops relocated, also too to Whitfield. Dover has some excellent parks..Wetherspoons is not what you discribed, I was there this afternoon, I don't do pubs, but it was very friendly... Sadly the weather was not good in July, August was good, the seafront was bustling with tourist, watersports, walkers and cyclist...The white cliffs what missed off is teeming with tourist taking in the famous cliffs and countryside... As to littler, I personally think our local council do a good job in keeping the town clean. Also its a town, not a city...
@@ashdrive Dover is the best place in the world let's be honest
This is why crime statistics alone cannot give a full picture of how nice or safe an area is. I think there are a bunch of circumstantial reasons why more arrests take place in Westgate that don't relate to the area being worrisome. - Night time economy - next to a park - It's where police often park to patrol the highstreet on busy nights... so maybe some crimes happened further down the highstreet, but get recorded as Westgate which warps the statistics?
Exactly this well said!
brilliant, shown us some phone boxes
@@Oneinpinky thanks mate
13:46 There was not a separate country for the Sikhs, some were seeking to make a separate country from part of the Punjab and matters came to a head in 1984 when the Indian Army stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar. This resulted in a lot of violence and the assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguard. Matters are now peaceful.
You should come back for Vaisaki, then you will really see the community come together.
@@louisepettis9274 is that a particular time of year? Id love to go
Ranked by who
@@Bitsandpiecesflotsamoflife Kent live asked the people of kent
Thank you for showing my old home town as a child I spent all my time at the Prom as it is known and had so much fun in the Milton fort. It is not the same place as it used to be with the industry mainly all gone now but it is still a place that I have so many fond memories of
@@camacaja1 I'm glad you enjoyed it 😌
Guns at the fort it’s the Thames defence fromwwii
Ahhhhh I see!