Walking around Birmingham | #36 Handsworth - Villa Road to Lozells Road (Lozells) | England UK 2021

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  • @petrichor649
    @petrichor649 Před 3 lety +114

    I lived there in the 70's, amazingly it is just the same, don't think the litter has been picked up since then.

    • @iankirkpatrick3280
      @iankirkpatrick3280 Před 3 lety +9

      I agree with you on that one. The place is a dump.

    • @saraclayton2215
      @saraclayton2215 Před 3 lety +2

      HAHAHAH BCC was crap then too?...

    • @toppershots5528
      @toppershots5528 Před 3 lety +2

      Lol hahaha

    • @archiebrock6519
      @archiebrock6519 Před 3 lety +1

      sorry to be so off topic but does anybody know of a way to log back into an Instagram account??
      I was dumb forgot my login password. I would love any assistance you can give me

    • @omariweston5316
      @omariweston5316 Před 3 lety

      @Archie Brock Instablaster :)

  • @ronholfly
    @ronholfly Před 3 lety +40

    Thanks Joseline for showing us Birmingham today, the world I knew in the 1950's has vanished. Take care.

    • @richardrogan8741
      @richardrogan8741 Před 3 lety +9

      Long gone my freind a great shame

    • @ronholfly
      @ronholfly Před 3 lety +2

      Ghouraba Stranger Yes, worst luck.

    • @Talos2kX
      @Talos2kX Před 3 lety +1

      On the plus side if this video survives the test of time people will be viewing this 50-100 years from now when we're all long gone.

    • @ronholfly
      @ronholfly Před 3 lety +3

      Talos 2kX Very true, except who knows.It may be a ghost town .

    • @jblake1
      @jblake1 Před 2 lety

      I'm sure we're all gonna say that one day, all the best

  • @minimouse5914
    @minimouse5914 Před 3 lety +59

    Best thing to come out of Birmingham is the train out.

  • @citiesthroughmyeyes
    @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +93

    Just to let you know -if you happen to live in that area - that I emailed Handsworth councillor Hendrina Quinnen about the poor state of the streets (this video as a receipt). I asked why the place look like that and why no one has done a good Spring clean in that area? She replied to me that she doesn't cover that area anymore and that I need to direct my concerns to the new councillor. So I emailed her again asking for the contact details of that "new councillor" but she never replied...
    The City Council doesn't care! "Peasants pay your Council tax and sh•t the F up!" basically that's the message. Someone in the comment section said that if she lived there she wouldn't be pay her council tax. My response to that is: If you live there, stop paying your Council Tax because you are clearly not getting any return on investment. The councillors there are paying to do jacksh•t! Are they even living there?

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety

      iPhone 11 Pro

    • @sarribel
      @sarribel Před 3 lety +6

      Could try waasim zaffar, lozells area councillor. Labour member of the council for more than 10 yrs. Henrina Quinnen is another serial labour política, since 2009 actually. Given the state the area she was in charge of is, why is she still there? IT is not good for democracy but Labour are unfit for government these days. They are so out of touch with the needs and demands of ordinary people, like living in a clean, neat, tidy neighbourhood.

    • @bevgreen4800
      @bevgreen4800 Před 3 lety +3

      I thought you filmed a brilliant video and yes there are parts that could be cleaned up in a day , the council don’t really care though , why not have the community service people do it ?

    • @abuismail9983
      @abuismail9983 Před 3 lety +12

      The problem is that Birmingham City Council does not care. They will send you warnings if you don't pay council tax and threat you with legal actions if you don't pay. Most of people then get scared and will pay it nevertheless. As long as not a whole area with ten thousands of people refuses to pay it, nothing will change. The council can just provide rubbish service and does not need to fear consequences. This is how it is unfortunately. And people nowadays do not have the courage anymore to stand up for what is good and to go against what is bad. Especially in UK, US and France you can see that clearly. People do not care anymore... So it becomes socially acceptable.
      The state of this area is a mixture of a lot of different problems. Neglect from council, lack of investment, government cuts, the people living there, too much uncontrolled immigration, careless society in general, lack of integration, poverty and much more... The result you can see in the video.

    • @nkaur9008
      @nkaur9008 Před 3 lety +3

      Is there some kind of a petition we can do? Like, that's injustice right there. I wonder why the council is neglecting this area.

  • @carolineflanagan6855
    @carolineflanagan6855 Před 3 lety +91

    It looks like a third world developing country

    • @minimouse5914
      @minimouse5914 Před 3 lety +1

      LoL

    • @dr.plankton1954
      @dr.plankton1954 Před 3 lety +11

      You have clearly never been to one then

    • @gol.drodger5261
      @gol.drodger5261 Před 3 lety +8

      It looks like England . And it is England . Let’s not pretend is was some wealthy posh area that the people forced to live their ran down.

    • @3-Kashmir
      @3-Kashmir Před 2 lety

      @@gol.drodger5261I agree & by the clouds looks like depressing day lol!!!

    • @marshallspiers172
      @marshallspiers172 Před 2 lety +1

      @@stevieb9490 Hi Brian! Hope you're well ar kid! Don't be bitter lad. I know it probably doesn't look like much but life's about community (the people around you). Just out of interest... where are you and how's your community? Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree I suppose....

  • @sarribel
    @sarribel Před 3 lety +88

    Disgusting, yet all that litter can easily be cleaned up in a matter of days. Council and environmental services provider must be taken into account on the other hand local people, the mosques, businesses, schools, madrasas, everyone must work together to keep the place neat and tidy. Covid has shown us how important taking care of the environment is. THX for your great video

    • @andrewjohnston7386
      @andrewjohnston7386 Před 3 lety +15

      Its there shite let them lie in it if there to f..king lazy to clean it dirty ba...ds nothing to do with local councils

    • @martinmcmullen5161
      @martinmcmullen5161 Před 3 lety +9

      If the people put the rubbish in the proper place and not dump it on the
      Streets there wouldn't be the need to clear it up it's not the councils fault
      That this is becoming a land fill site

    • @gullygazastrip172
      @gullygazastrip172 Před 3 lety +9

      What has the mosques got todo with what about churches gudwaras????

    • @montygemma
      @montygemma Před 3 lety +5

      @@andrewjohnston7386 I agree leave it there for them to clean up. Let them get rats if they want to live like it.

    • @weshouldsaveourselves6780
      @weshouldsaveourselves6780 Před 3 lety +4

      Same goes for the council estates in white neighborhoods.
      Where everyone's on benefits.

  • @samsunnehar3223
    @samsunnehar3223 Před 3 lety +32

    It breaks my heart when i go to these areas in Birmingham ( i have moved to a new city for work) - people pay council tax but council are not doing their bit. The residents need to pursue their councils to sort the mess.

    • @user-fk9mo2ld6w
      @user-fk9mo2ld6w Před 3 lety +1

      What could the council do to help?

    • @samoday2992
      @samoday2992 Před 3 lety +12

      Get all the people to have some pride in their area and come together and clean it up themselves .

    • @slinkycowboy
      @slinkycowboy Před 3 lety

      people pay council tax ?Last year (2018/19) Birmingham City Council issued around 444,000 bills to resident households totalling more than £382m in council tax - with a collection rate of 94.4 per cent, which meant more than £21m was unpaid. The national average collection rate is 97 per cent.

    • @ellismeah8110
      @ellismeah8110 Před rokem +4

      Good idea might be ,if the people who live in the area didn't throw their rubbish on the streets in the first place

    • @ellismeah8110
      @ellismeah8110 Před rokem

      Always people hanging around the streets on corners in hoodies looking menacing up to no good ,no wonder all the white people left

  • @GreatBarrWolf
    @GreatBarrWolf Před 3 lety +19

    The mosque looked spotless, the rest should take note and clean up.

  • @nonstop9907
    @nonstop9907 Před 3 lety +42

    This video, especially the start makes me depressed, not from that side of the city but I have been through these areas People, even If we live in Poverty at least have some fking pride and not make our own environment a bad place to live, Keep it clean! watching this and thinking how I am ever going to have a decent life if ''This is it''.

  • @codyjarrett9685
    @codyjarrett9685 Před 3 lety +40

    Speaks volumes about the residents

    • @ny5176
      @ny5176 Před 3 lety +3

      Thats savage doesnt make everyone who lives here wrong horrible pple ...

    • @westcountryoddities8107
      @westcountryoddities8107 Před 3 lety

      @Tabula Rasa what kind of fuck? You mean like damage and destroy or do you mean the old "in out in out"? Either answer makes the mind boggle, I have crazy images in my mind right now.
      Birmingham always seems an OK plac when I have visited, lozels back in the 90s was a bit hectic but I've always found brummies good decent people, they always think I'm some kind of gentleman, or posh guy from my accent as I'm from the south west (Devon)

    • @recall2880
      @recall2880 Před 3 lety

      @@westcountryoddities8107 what’s Devon like to live? Out of curiosity

    • @westcountryoddities8107
      @westcountryoddities8107 Před 3 lety

      @@recall2880 alright pal, yeh it's pretty relaxed down here, you have the 16 year old acting like they are from a drill video but they are not really dangerous, the older generation can come across very hillbilly and diversity is not in their vocabulary but there is alot of good people here too, there's a good club scene around the Plymouth area (South Devon) , jobs seem to be pretty plentiful up here in my area (North Devon) I'm more of a del boy myself, I hustle my way through life whilst avoiding the 9-5 stress and I do OK, get by like that and so do alot of others. Where I live is coastal, I look out my window and can see the beach and the sea but I take it for granted, my mate in cannock thinks I'm crazy for not being down the beach everyday, I've lived back here in westward Ho! For over a year and not been once! I like fishing but carp fishing, all fishing is good here tho if that's your thing. Lots of decent food places but again not very diverse, I can't get West Indian food here, no African foods at all, plenty of fish and chips, they are decent, the Chinese, Thai,Turkish Indian and Pakistani food places are no match for Birmingham, everytime I eat in Brum I think that it's much better. Overall, the thing I would say is life is slow, nothing is rushed, I dunno if that's the fresh air or the high grade of our weed but life is deffo on the go slow!! Hope that helps answer your question!

    • @samdobie6748
      @samdobie6748 Před rokem +1

      @@westcountryoddities8107 I loved Devon, would like to go back there sometime

  • @hudson7354
    @hudson7354 Před 3 lety +149

    No area is shit.
    People make it shit

    • @neilorangepeel1681
      @neilorangepeel1681 Před 3 lety +8

      Totally agree, it's not little Britain anymore

    • @paulcousins5427
      @paulcousins5427 Před 3 lety +4

      You said it for me👍

    • @ukuk2399
      @ukuk2399 Před 3 lety +3

      Well said

    • @westcountryoddities8107
      @westcountryoddities8107 Před 3 lety +1

      Must be the guy giving the friendly wave when he sees a camera.

    • @paulcousins5427
      @paulcousins5427 Před 3 lety

      I live on a run down housing estate dont get the bit outdated less they demolish it and rebuild it. Council spent a lot of money planting trees new turf walkways cladding must have cost millions 6 months later shit hole again not the people a.

  • @namispondjamispond9282
    @namispondjamispond9282 Před 3 lety +71

    I would refuse to pay my council tax if I lived here.

    • @benlotus2703
      @benlotus2703 Před 3 lety +9

      An analysis of police street level crime data shows that there were 298 crimes reported on or around Lozells Road between September 2017 and August 2018.
      Diversity is our strength

    • @phezzfromthelane30
      @phezzfromthelane30 Před 3 lety +7

      Nobody asked ur broke ass nothing

    • @namispondjamispond9282
      @namispondjamispond9282 Před 3 lety +7

      @@phezzfromthelane30 Sorry to inform you but you but you don't need anyone's permission to leave a comment in a comment section. And ps unlike you, I'm not broke!

    • @sebastianwelcome2080
      @sebastianwelcome2080 Před 3 lety +1

      @@phezzfromthelane30 lol

    • @iandrake2119
      @iandrake2119 Před 3 lety +2

      They would have to pay me .

  • @coyoluo
    @coyoluo Před 3 lety +88

    I see evil lurking in those streets, close calls and runnings

    • @coyoluo
      @coyoluo Před 3 lety +7

      @Laura JaneAshley You are the only one racist here, I wonder why? Your comment has no basis, it's like someone saying imagine raising a child in a white neighbourhood with all the pedos, rapists and serial killers.

    • @blademanx
      @blademanx Před 3 lety +11

      @Laura JaneAshley yes cuz white people in Middlesbrough and Liverpool arent living in squalor. Mrs benefits street....Foodbanks and children running around in underpants in bordered up houses in Stoke.....Hey guys look im a rashist who blames immigrants when we ourselves have our own poor and homeless. Blame the non whites...

    • @stephenjoyce5822
      @stephenjoyce5822 Před 3 lety

      @@blademanx that's stoke-on-foil for you shouldn't be surprised

    • @thematrix6830
      @thematrix6830 Před 3 lety +2

      @Laura JaneAshley you been ran through!!

    • @blademanx
      @blademanx Před 3 lety

      @I am the Best how do you act a colour? Nonse

  • @angelapalmer3542
    @angelapalmer3542 Před 3 lety +20

    Interesting. I left Birmingham England a few years ago. So it was nice to see familiar roads and shop etc, that I recognised. Shame about the garbage/ rubbish..huhhh

  • @courtneywilliams4143
    @courtneywilliams4143 Před 3 lety +20

    I was born there but I'm glad my mother had the sense of pride to work hard to be able to move us out. When your in the shit you eitger wallow in it or you be proactive and bring pride to your kids and make a change.

  • @clarea1801
    @clarea1801 Před 3 lety +29

    I used to be on the housing list for Birmingham and I was always getting offers of flats in this area, hmmm I wonder why now.

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +3

      Did you get to visit those flats? If you ever get flats offers in that area, please do a “house tour” . I am really curious to see how these houses look inside. You might find some gems, you never know. Lol

    • @clarea1801
      @clarea1801 Před 3 lety +2

      Hi no never visited any of the places and luckily I no longer need to move.

    • @Imagineim
      @Imagineim Před 3 lety +4

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes i was skeptical once as I've heard not so favourable things about Lozells, but the council home I moved into with my family is lovely. Never had an atrocious experience in the 4 years I've lived here compared to other parts of Birmingham.

    • @chanelgez2146
      @chanelgez2146 Před 3 lety +1

      Now you know why

    • @TrueCrime.withNiish
      @TrueCrime.withNiish Před 3 lety +3

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes tbf the houses are and flats are quite massive the problem with this area specifically villas road there are TONS of supported living and care homes for drug users n mentally I’ll around and they kind of get to do what they want... so results

  • @DanSullivan129
    @DanSullivan129 Před 2 lety +6

    I lived in Hamstead Road in a block of flats for two years, everyone was friendly and respectful 😊

  • @lt7908
    @lt7908 Před 3 lety +62

    Looks a nice area. Locals look super friendly and welcoming.

    • @lordc3256
      @lordc3256 Před 3 lety +33

      Tell me ur joking bro🤣🤣

    • @anisdesai4692
      @anisdesai4692 Před 2 lety +7

      😂😂😂. If he is joking, good one. If not then you need to get 2 specsavers to get yer eyes tested lad

    • @keithcole9904
      @keithcole9904 Před 2 lety +4

      🤣🤣

    • @skullhead3846
      @skullhead3846 Před 2 lety +4

      It's not I live there

    • @skullhead3846
      @skullhead3846 Před 2 lety

      @@anisdesai4692 b

  • @clivehoseason1462
    @clivehoseason1462 Před 3 lety +40

    I left birmingham about 25 years ago and after seeing this video i am glad i did it now looks like a dump.

    • @sametoyoutoo8509
      @sametoyoutoo8509 Před 2 lety +1

      Where do you live now?

    • @keithcole9904
      @keithcole9904 Před 2 lety +3

      Me too Clive,used to live in bordesley green.....what a shithole brum is now eh

    • @clivehoseason1462
      @clivehoseason1462 Před 2 lety +2

      @@sametoyoutoo8509 i now live in asia so no one can accuse me of being racist.

    • @asmrfoodieuk7965
      @asmrfoodieuk7965 Před 2 lety +1

      @@clivehoseason1462 I will guess more hong Kong asia than iraq....am I right?

    • @clivehoseason1462
      @clivehoseason1462 Před 2 lety

      @@asmrfoodieuk7965 good guess but completely wrong.

  • @leighcoxcox97
    @leighcoxcox97 Před 2 lety +4

    A Somalian gang runs Villa Road, you pointed the camera straight at them when you got to the alley next to the barbershop on the left. They sit there all day every day selling class A's. In the summer they get the deck chairs out to relax while they"work".
    You should watch who you point the camera at.

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 Před 2 lety

      Yet no one does anything about these lawless mobs. Why should decent law abiding people allow these criminals to control the streets?

  • @Rock-Steady
    @Rock-Steady Před 3 lety +9

    I was born on Heathfield Road and grew up on those streets. As a kid, I felt safe as I knew everyone but 40 odd years later, I wouldn't touch that part of Handsworth & Lozells at all. If I'm honest, it looks like a dump.

    • @section5760
      @section5760 Před rokem +1

      I was born there and lived on mayfield road in 1965. Moved to West Bromwich in 1978. When things started getting bad. Still nice memories though me and my brother playing around lozzels growing up. Good days indeed. Sadly long gone now. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏼

  • @bikerbisht110
    @bikerbisht110 Před 3 lety +12

    When I was a kid in the 40's and 50's it was a lovely place

  • @MrTimarattila
    @MrTimarattila Před 4 měsíci +1

    Lived 50 metres away from Lozells Rd, on Frances Rd for 3 months in spring 1997. Felt like a different universe

  • @grahamshaw4964
    @grahamshaw4964 Před 3 lety +12

    Not just in this place it's everywhere around our towns if you want to live somewhere nice then clean it up its not all the councils responsibility but the people who live there ,pick your rubbish up and dispose of it properly then it's an easy job to keep it clean but then humans can't do that.

  • @simplyluke1584
    @simplyluke1584 Před 3 lety +9

    Can't get over how smooth that camera quailty is

  • @tracyhoward8228
    @tracyhoward8228 Před 3 lety +8

    dang it makes los angeles look like the ritz carlton

  • @perry1154
    @perry1154 Před 3 lety +10

    Trust me when I say that was that road on a good day lol

  • @biddlelove2135
    @biddlelove2135 Před 3 lety +16

    I hope the council never clean up the litter! It would be a waste of time, thanks to all the thick scum. Where is Barry Scott when you need him?

  • @leeburtr9421
    @leeburtr9421 Před 2 lety +12

    One thing I love about these areas, like Newtown, Perry Barr etc is the community spirit people have!

  • @MikeBrown-ox6kf
    @MikeBrown-ox6kf Před 4 měsíci +1

    Been like this since the 80s glad i moved out

  • @lomx
    @lomx Před 3 lety +51

    Sad to see the once great Birmingham City reduced to this!

    • @__.___
      @__.___ Před 3 lety +10

      It's high diversity until the population, environment fully changes to 3rd world. Let's celebrate it! :)

    • @StuchFlex
      @StuchFlex Před 3 lety +1

      Coming to a town near you soon.

    • @Rock-Steady
      @Rock-Steady Před 3 lety

      @Ibangyourmum what about Led Zeplin & Balck Sabbath?

    • @Rock-Steady
      @Rock-Steady Před 3 lety

      @Ibangyourmum Shit, that only leaves Duran Duran

    • @Talos2kX
      @Talos2kX Před 3 lety +1

      Reduced to what? You're only basing your invalid opinion on one problematic road.

  • @shakeel1866
    @shakeel1866 Před 3 lety +9

    Lol funny welcome to handsworth. Use to live around there moved up to Mosley. Love the beginning of your video lol

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +6

      Lol. It was very unpleasant and difficult to film the litter, the fly tipping, etc. But I am not going to photoshop reality. I show it as it is... Btw, thanks for watching!

    • @shakeel1866
      @shakeel1866 Před 3 lety +1

      Hiya. I know not a very nice opening to Ur video lol but best show how it it's hopefully we can look back and say wat a shit hole lol

    • @shakeel1866
      @shakeel1866 Před 3 lety

      Hope we be around in the next 30 years to look back at it. Great vids 👍

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +2

      Hopefully, the area will look better in 30 years otherwise I'll be back there again for another video Lol. Btw, I rewatched the beginning of this video and I couldn't stop laughing 😆 I can't believe I did this! Ha ha

    • @shakeel1866
      @shakeel1866 Před 3 lety

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes Hiya lol I know the opening of Ur video was brilliant lol loved it lets u know wat kind of area we dealing with lol

  • @richardjones3112
    @richardjones3112 Před 3 lety +20

    Probably a nice place to live-back in the sixties.

  • @thehun207
    @thehun207 Před 3 lety +54

    a fantastic post,thank you.yea this is what our england has become,its a damn disgrace.

    • @wajidhussain1161
      @wajidhussain1161 Před 3 lety +8

      Not every part of England is like this, have a look at Moseley, kingsheath, Warstock, Billseley and Hollywood in the South of Birmingham and Solihull clean streets these are the posh parts of Birmingham Sutton Coldfield too.

    • @ronholfly
      @ronholfly Před 3 lety +7

      Wajid Hussain Yes but most of Birmingham is now a rubbish tip, I remember it in the 1950's, these area's were clean and respectable.

    • @goldgiverbeatz7433
      @goldgiverbeatz7433 Před 3 lety +4

      @Laura JaneAshley shut your racist mouth , u properly live in Spain n refuse to learn Spanish

    • @EinkOLED
      @EinkOLED Před 3 lety +2

      Parts around greater Manchester is like this.

    • @wajidhussain1161
      @wajidhussain1161 Před 2 lety +2

      @martha sheilds Birmingham is getting worse if you go to Bordesley green in Birmingham its full of rats.

  • @Imagineim
    @Imagineim Před 3 lety +20

    You know, I actually like the people in the area. I had a breakdown around that area a few months ago and a stranger came up and asked if I was alright. Offered to stay with me and help if I wanted them to.
    The environment is run down, sure, but the people here don't always reflect that.

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +9

      I agree with what you said and that’s what make the whole situation so unfair. Making these types of videos you quickly see the contrast between areas. Some places are pampered, polished. Others don’t even have pedestrian traffic lights. The Council gladly take our taxes and laughs all the way to the bank. I know Bham City Council is watching my videos. Anytime I film a dirty area and throw it onto CZcams, it gets cleaned up within a week (Moseley Rd, Bradford St)...so I just need to show more areas in Birmingham.

    • @saiguddati2303
      @saiguddati2303 Před 2 lety

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes what about Ashton make a video on that

    • @saiguddati2303
      @saiguddati2303 Před 2 lety

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes actually make a video on Smethwick

    • @kaylee458
      @kaylee458 Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@citiesthroughmyeyeswhy don't the people there clean it up yes the council could help more by taking some rubbish but even if council cleans it up it will end up same next day it's people make an area a shithouse it's not the council's fault although council could have street cleaners but they have no money for anything now so things will just get worse

  • @roderickjones7479
    @roderickjones7479 Před 3 lety +7

    I live by Onestop shopping center but grew up in Lozells. Things will only change if the people want things to change...evidently they don't...

  • @techscrew2
    @techscrew2 Před rokem +7

    I live about 3 or 4 miles away from this place, I tell you hand on heart just prior to this video the council must of done a clean up. It’s usually 10 times worse.
    It’s standard practice that people from these areas don’t use dust bins they just toss there stuff out in the street, same goes for old fridges, settee,s , beds any old junk.
    It’s ashame they were probably nice places once.

  • @boerashid
    @boerashid Před rokem +2

    I was born here. It’s a shithole. But my heart, friends, family and memories live here. Although I’m in Great Barr now, I still love Lozells.

  • @JasonZero0
    @JasonZero0 Před 3 lety +9

    Do people drop out of school at the age of 9 in Birmingham wearing nothing but a tracksuit?
    Edit: Those streets are absolute grim

    • @jadasmith1977
      @jadasmith1977 Před 3 lety +5

      Birmingham for you lots of poverty ,crime and chavs . Birmingham city council are very racist and bias and it reflects all over the city with the segregation.

    • @JasonZero0
      @JasonZero0 Před 3 lety +3

      @@jadasmith1977 Seems about right.
      Not mocking the poor as I was brought up with nothing - just educated yourself and do something with your life is all I’m saying

    • @funmanjokes
      @funmanjokes Před rokem

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @leeburtr9421
    @leeburtr9421 Před 2 lety +3

    Yes I love this video ! I didn’t realise you did this video until I scrolled through your videos and came across this. 😊❤️ I grew up in this area so it is very close to home, it is good to see Lozells Road and some of the shops on there still open and functioning, some places are a little run down but to be honest they have been like that for years. But good job keep the videos coming. 😌👍🏾

  • @aimenbarigoudz
    @aimenbarigoudz Před 2 lety +2

    icl i've been liiving in birmingham most of my life and Ive never seen this bad

  • @patrickgascoyne8151
    @patrickgascoyne8151 Před 3 lety +11

    And this England, that green and pleasant land

    • @kojoelvis1124
      @kojoelvis1124 Před 3 lety +6

      Absolutely dump! Corner shops, junkies, gangs, filth, dilapidated buildings with box houses

    • @sharonjojo
      @sharonjojo Před 3 lety +5

      It was once sadly, not anymore.

    • @Jay-vk8fq
      @Jay-vk8fq Před 3 lety +3

      Englands not all like this !! ... there are some beautiful places and countryside.. I'm sure every country has it's not so nice areas along with its nice areas .. dont tar the whole of England with the same brush because of 1 or a few bad areas 🙂

  • @slopsallover
    @slopsallover Před 3 lety +21

    Sad reflection on society which ever way you look at it 💔 😥

  • @dopeyb218
    @dopeyb218 Před 3 lety +18

    The one thing that makes me mad about that area is the amount of rubbish on the side of the street

  • @keithbrueton
    @keithbrueton Před 3 lety +9

    Bro you nee to take the HANDSWORTH OUT OF THE TITLE thats LOZELLS

  • @seanmoray881
    @seanmoray881 Před 3 lety +7

    omg is this even birmingham ,can't recongnize it anymore

    • @baz9653
      @baz9653 Před 3 lety +8

      You can thank immigration for that

    • @saiedahussain2873
      @saiedahussain2873 Před 3 lety +2

      @@baz9653 looks like the council has let this area down its because of immigration there's still shops.

    • @taokuoh6805
      @taokuoh6805 Před měsícem

      @@saiedahussain2873I wouldn’t call them shops. They run money laundering inside them. That’s the only reason the “shops” survive.

  • @moegormley586
    @moegormley586 Před 3 lety +12

    Wow, makes me grateful to live were I live.🇮🇪🍀

    • @bob_0146
      @bob_0146 Před 3 lety +4

      I would love in Ireland over Englistan any day

    • @JasonZero0
      @JasonZero0 Před 3 lety +1

      Top of the morning to ‘ya! (FFS, it had to be done)

  • @paksallion
    @paksallion Před 3 lety +5

    lool this is hilarious but I love it haha. didn't enjoy distributing around these ends though 😂😅
    the music was a great touch btw loool

  • @traydar5
    @traydar5 Před 3 lety +23

    Brave to be walking around in lozells. Used to be Wild West at one point.

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +10

      People didn't seem that bothered about my camera on their faces. Some seemed completely cool about it.

    • @matinhewing1
      @matinhewing1 Před 3 lety +1

      @Kahsin What would happen? People ask you what you were doing there?

    • @andymax1697
      @andymax1697 Před 3 lety +3

      @Kahsin lies

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 Před 2 lety

      @Kahsin Lozells Road was a very different place in the 80s, before the riots.

    • @saiguddati2303
      @saiguddati2303 Před 2 lety

      @Kahsin did anyone (gang) approach u during that time also the burger boys are black gangs init

  • @jerrybootneck1736
    @jerrybootneck1736 Před 3 lety +4

    Wow! I never recognised the place, I used to visit my girlfriend who lived in Lozells street getting off my bus at the block off flats that was were that supermarket is at the end of your video and the crown and cusion pub. I'm going back to the early 1970's and there was non of that rubbish laying around back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane even though I never recognised it lol

  • @blackishtruth
    @blackishtruth Před 3 lety +19

    Ashamed to say it, but I was born in Handsworth, however it never looked like this back in the day!! Now it's a dump full of rats, which I sawin the video. They're clearly not productive 😲😞👎🏾!!. So, happy my parents moved to a nice town for a quality of life and prospects💯❤👍🏾🙏🏾.

  • @iheggis86
    @iheggis86 Před 3 lety +6

    I can’t believe they’re allowed to cook rotisserie chickens on the sidewalk

  • @mrsmith4355
    @mrsmith4355 Před 3 lety +4

    Thanks alot for this video cause I still don't understand why my girl was around this area when she should be at work lol bait up ting!

  • @brendan2858
    @brendan2858 Před 3 lety +9

    Clean up our streets. Littering should be slapped with massive fines.

  • @Skyflyers
    @Skyflyers Před 3 lety +6

    This what you get where multi cultural community lives

  • @jaycostewart8
    @jaycostewart8 Před 3 lety +4

    Nice instrumentals used. 💯👊🏾💥💥

  • @tigerstripey4885
    @tigerstripey4885 Před 2 lety +3

    This place wouldn't look out of place if you copied and pasted it into Detroit or Philadelphia somewhere, on skid row.

  • @graemechew5394
    @graemechew5394 Před 3 lety +6

    Holding the 2022 commonwealth games 2 mile from here
    Bet they don't bring the athletes through here

  • @kevinoreilly205
    @kevinoreilly205 Před 3 lety +14

    I know where I'm going on holiday this year 😂

    • @chanelgez2146
      @chanelgez2146 Před 3 lety +1

      Pmsl 🤣 😂😂😂

    • @kevinoreilly205
      @kevinoreilly205 Před 3 lety

      @@chanelgez2146 a fortnight wouldn't be enough.

    • @tigerstripey4885
      @tigerstripey4885 Před 2 lety

      @@kevinoreilly205 Is 1 star a thing in these dumps? Self catering all the way, probably preferable to sleep in an armoured vehicle.

  • @sandpit72
    @sandpit72 Před 6 měsíci +1

    And now council tax in these areas rising by around 21% over the next few years with services being slashed like never seen before, what will it look like 3 years from now?

  • @urbanrider403
    @urbanrider403 Před 3 lety +7

    That’s a really run down area,I’ve never seen so much rubbish dumped on the streets.Buildings in a bad state of repair,just general neglect.

  • @ziggazagga9844
    @ziggazagga9844 Před 3 lety +5

    Nice parking.....

  • @tiltonroadbirmingham1153

    My dad's family came from Lozells and he worked at Archers garage in Rookery Road, Handsworth. Glad we're Blues fans, nicer up there.

  • @jahaartist
    @jahaartist Před 3 lety +2

    Safe neighbourhood. Peaceful.

  • @wheelerqgm
    @wheelerqgm Před 3 lety +3

    Keep making these videos around birmingham

  • @musiclover5023
    @musiclover5023 Před 3 lety +2

    The grey sky......people with so many clothes on to keep warm. Lozells changed by still the same. I didn't see the supermarket corner of hearhfield road Lozells road, where is it ?

  • @thequietone2998
    @thequietone2998 Před 3 lety +9

    This is just a very small part of Handsworth. My grandmother used to send me to the shops on lozells road in the 70’s

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +2

      Do you still live in Handsworth or do you now live somewhere else?

    • @thequietone2998
      @thequietone2998 Před 3 lety +3

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes yes I still in in Handsworth. I still walk and cycle in Handsworth park. I used to drink from the fountain in the 70s that is situated at the bottom of the hill in the park. I feel safe in Handsworth.

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +5

      I like Handsworth Park. You reminded me that I need to record the park.. One month from now I will have more time in my hands to film parks, make docs, etc.

    • @thequietone2998
      @thequietone2998 Před 3 lety +2

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes Handsworth Park has so much history. Now there is an annual 10k in September but not since Covid-19. People walk regularly there but they never did in the 70s. They moved the swings which used to be by the Bandstead and, the Park Rangers office used to be just behind the old location of the swings too. Looking forward to your video.

    • @tellitlikeitis-rg4ny
      @tellitlikeitis-rg4ny Před 3 lety

      Lozzels is not handsworth

  • @ZsaraRealTalk
    @ZsaraRealTalk Před 7 měsíci

    There’s no shortage of cool people living in Handsworth. It’s always been a creative hotspot and I wish the council would prioritise this community in the same way it does others. It’s always been a Cinderella postcode. I love Handsworth i was born and bred here I still go back to visit regularly. ❤

  • @TajimaMunenori
    @TajimaMunenori Před 2 lety +1

    I've seen people order food from the chippy, go to their car to eat it, throw the rubbish out the window drive off.

  • @benlotus2703
    @benlotus2703 Před 3 lety +6

    Walking around Paradise...
    # Lozell's Road = Toothless Tina "F@ck Off" at 7:45 minutes in.
    Beautiful area, it is a version of the afterlife similar to heaven minus the clouds, harps and angels.
    Typically seen as an ideal place of beauty, a massive lush enclosed concrete jungle with with every known exotic plant, animal, and bird.
    thought when she'd died, she'd gone to Paradise in Lozell's Road

    • @baz9653
      @baz9653 Před 3 lety +1

      Lmao your sarcasm kills me mate 👌🤣🤣🤣

  • @ak43darkhell
    @ak43darkhell Před 7 měsíci

    You pick the two years I was away from Lozells lol a lot changed since this video lol

  • @navid4911
    @navid4911 Před 3 lety +18

    The start lmao 0:07

    • @emokiller907
      @emokiller907 Před 3 lety +5

      classic handsworth

    • @bored742
      @bored742 Před 3 lety +5

      Always vile shit around villa park

    • @veronicalee1650
      @veronicalee1650 Před 3 lety +5

      Yrs ago that was lovely road, I used to go lozells girls school now look at it, the people living there are to blame for all that rubbish, wouldn't want to be walking round there now

    • @benmunday5755
      @benmunday5755 Před 3 lety +1

      Up the villa

    • @ahmedjabbar7467
      @ahmedjabbar7467 Před 3 lety +1

      I hope that lady sees this video

  • @terrylarkin7380
    @terrylarkin7380 Před 2 měsíci

    Man what a dump! My family escaped Lozells in '67 and came to Perth, Western Australia........thank God!

    • @philip9981
      @philip9981 Před měsícem

      Lived in Thornhill rd (off Soho rd ) in the 60's.. left in 1970 .. ended up farther out , in Stourbridge . Emigrated to Oz ( Victoria ) in 1990..now retired in Queensland ..watching this, i don't live in a different country, i live on a diffferent planet !

  • @Wsadef
    @Wsadef Před 2 lety +3

    WOW WOW WOW!!! I love it!
    Birmingham looks so diverse!

  • @sajidkhanmahmood
    @sajidkhanmahmood Před 3 lety +7

    The areas neglected by successive governements

    • @user-or6kr8uh8q
      @user-or6kr8uh8q Před 3 lety +5

      Its neglected by its residents. I dont think the government go around throwing rubbish everywhere.

    • @TrueCrime.withNiish
      @TrueCrime.withNiish Před 3 lety +1

      @@user-or6kr8uh8q yeh but they don’t pick it up .. n not fly tip the actually wheely bin they’ll leave it for weeks until it piles up

    • @martinmcmullen5161
      @martinmcmullen5161 Před 3 lety +1

      Take your rubbish to a aminty site
      If know the bins are not emptied regularly clean up your place we're you
      Live with volunteers and don't get called
      Scum by other community's if you want change it starts with you

    • @georgewba6245
      @georgewba6245 Před 3 lety +1

      @@user-or6kr8uh8q don’t forget the poverty in these areas and lack of funding. Look at other surrounding areas. West bromwich, dudley, Wolverhampton ect. These parts of the west mids are so underfunded

  • @jhvoojh
    @jhvoojh Před 2 lety +1

    Lozells can be tasty loike!!
    But, many a great pint drank in the Heron!
    People just need to get on with it.

  • @jennyscarlett1962
    @jennyscarlett1962 Před 3 lety +2

    Walked this route just to learn more about maths(scary) and computers. Thought about voluntary litter picking!

  • @ishabrown
    @ishabrown Před 3 lety +4

    Love the music! Great video as much as some of these inner city area's of Birmingham are messy the food is awesome, varied and cheap

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you for watching the video, I really appreciate 🙂

    • @jamesjameson4566
      @jamesjameson4566 Před rokem

      The food 🙄 is that all you can say

    • @samdobie6748
      @samdobie6748 Před rokem

      @@jamesjameson4566 What's wrong with that? There are some shitholes in Manchester that I only go to for the food...

    • @jamesjameson4566
      @jamesjameson4566 Před rokem

      @@samdobie6748 aren't you the edgy one 🙄, am I supposed to be impressed?

    • @samdobie6748
      @samdobie6748 Před rokem

      @@jamesjameson4566 Don't see why you're whinging that he just mentioned food being the only good thing about a run down area

  • @nedkelly4999
    @nedkelly4999 Před 3 lety +6

    It looks very similar to the UK.

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 3 lety +1

      It is the UK: Handsworth in Birmingham, England.

    • @baz9653
      @baz9653 Před 3 lety +6

      Looks more like Afghanistan

    • @deanamends1278
      @deanamends1278 Před 3 lety +1

      Just looks the same as every were else just shit every were

  • @shaunduffy9791
    @shaunduffy9791 Před 3 lety +3

    I bet its a bit dodgy round here come night time. What's the shadiest part of Brum would you say?

    • @shaunduffy9791
      @shaunduffy9791 Před 3 lety

      @K Maan Thanks for the reply 👍

    • @Rock-Steady
      @Rock-Steady Před 3 lety +1

      Newtown can be on top if you don't know people

    • @carlinaibiza4833
      @carlinaibiza4833 Před 3 lety +2

      @K Maan not at all. I would rather walk Soho Rd top to bottom at night than walk around Yardley in the daytime

    • @zaharaeshet2478
      @zaharaeshet2478 Před 3 lety +2

      Newtown

  • @Skyflyers
    @Skyflyers Před 3 lety +3

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong is this England ?

  • @MrAky4
    @MrAky4 Před 3 lety +8

    Beautiful church and mosque across the road from each other ❤️❤️

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 Před 3 lety +14

    How they laughing at Enoch Powell

    • @goldgiverbeatz7433
      @goldgiverbeatz7433 Před 3 lety +1

      Bet you don’t say that to other lads in boxing gym

    • @alexblue6991
      @alexblue6991 Před 3 lety +1

      @@goldgiverbeatz7433 why would you think that

  • @InYourHeadChangedMan
    @InYourHeadChangedMan Před 2 lety +1

    Can you go to Aston, Birmingham some day maybe around Villa Park on a match day might be good, thanks for the videos

    • @citiesthroughmyeyes
      @citiesthroughmyeyes  Před 2 lety +1

      I did a walk along Witton Rd, Aston czcams.com/video/NtIaE-mjJ7E/video.html
      I also did a tour of Aston Hall czcams.com/video/qEVcwbNPMlY/video.html

    • @InYourHeadChangedMan
      @InYourHeadChangedMan Před 2 lety

      @@citiesthroughmyeyes cheers thank you just saw it there now

  • @helenotoole4366
    @helenotoole4366 Před rokem

    my nan had a house on villa rd in the 30s she lived there till late 70s and the houses were knock down in the middle 80s my mum and her sisters grow up there

  • @ajaayaaz1
    @ajaayaaz1 Před 3 lety +2

    Where is handsworth this is The dump called lozzells

  • @deborahalden5312
    @deborahalden5312 Před 3 lety +3

    Ratingham.

  • @LADmob
    @LADmob Před 3 lety +4

    Somehow you popup on my newsfeed 🤔

  • @benlotus2703
    @benlotus2703 Před 3 lety +6

    On Lozells Road you can enjoy a halal 'Bracc Saajann', as you visit the Lozells Enterprise, 15:00 minutes into the video.
    If you do not want to walk the luscious Lozells Road, you can buy a ticket on the Sir karen Brady Tour Bus.
    The 'Open-Top' Tour bus is now enclosed in bullet-proof glass.
    A local politician said in a statement, said: "In addition we have regular patrols by our 'Tourism Awake Team' on Lozells Road & Wheeler Street, who often conduct plain clothes patrols, and last month we launched a new operation targeting
    violence and gun crime in parts of Birmingham, including popular paradise Lozells Road."

    • @baz9653
      @baz9653 Před 3 lety +2

      The whole place is a stinking shit hole !

    • @declanbutler5876
      @declanbutler5876 Před 3 lety

      🤣🤣🤣🤣 class spot on.

  • @manescreen4738
    @manescreen4738 Před 3 lety +1

    People are like wtf, do your thing, it’s good to see a uk version just like the USA

  • @uberwayz
    @uberwayz Před 3 lety +4

    It's like how squatters treat someone else's house

  • @anisdesai4692
    @anisdesai4692 Před 3 lety +4

    Although the council's responsibility to clean crap up, it is in equal measure the residents responsibility also. Perry Barr is having a make over etc.. let's see how clean it stays once done. But honestly I do feel the calibre of people or residents reflect society. Go to areas like Sutton coldfield , Solihull etc. Won't see anything like this. Just the other day I had to blast some youth for dumping his McDonald's bag under the car he was in when the trash skip was literally a few meters away.

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 Před 2 lety +1

      This is a big problem in my workplace car park, where some people show up in their cars, eat food bought from the local drive in KFC and then dump the packaging on the grass when there are bins nearby. They also use illiegal drugs openly on the premises along the levels of reckless and outright dangerous driving. These same persons regularly steal fuel from the on site petrol station by driving off without paying. I never used to see these antisocial behaviours in the past.

  • @MrFergusferret
    @MrFergusferret Před 3 lety +7

    Multiculturalism really adds to an areas prosperity!!!!

    • @sarahfemi9862
      @sarahfemi9862 Před 3 lety +2

      Multicultural is the causes racism and segregation in Birmingham as locals are very backwards and racist and no one integrates at all go to areas and see how segregated areas are by race no social cohesion or integration at all.

    • @vavavroom4001
      @vavavroom4001 Před 3 lety +1

      Thats bs look at places like sutton Coldfield. Multicultural and clean!

    • @sarahfemi9862
      @sarahfemi9862 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vavavroom4001 Sutton Coldfield is not multicultural it's very affluent racist and segregated and then you have other area which are poor and not integrated at all people live seperate lives in their racist backwards behaviour .

    • @vavavroom4001
      @vavavroom4001 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sarahfemi9862 where do you live, under a rock? Its not the 1970s. Theres loads of asians in solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Streetly etc who are doing well for themselves, some of which have lived there for 25 years. The last census in 2011 showed the asian population at around 8 % in sutton Coldfield and I guarantee its gone up since then. I got loads of Asian mates in these areas and they mix with white people just fine?

    • @sarahfemi9862
      @sarahfemi9862 Před 3 lety +1

      @@vavavroom4001 Rubbish lots of racism in Sutton Coldfield and many areas of Birmingham whites are still the minority in areas of Birmingham look around you and see lots of segregation and segregated areas with little integration at all people are not progressive or integrated at all in Birmingham and West Midlands many don't like change .

  • @l3lackStarLiner_GameBoy
    @l3lackStarLiner_GameBoy Před 3 lety +2

    haha, I was raised in Handsworth Birmingham in the 80's.. Moved to the US in the 90's.. They say its crime riddled and a 💩 hole..

  • @santosrodriguez9350
    @santosrodriguez9350 Před 3 lety +10

    And this is a first word country lol 😆 😂

    • @biddlelove2135
      @biddlelove2135 Před 3 lety +4

      Was!

    • @mrbarney4176
      @mrbarney4176 Před 3 lety +1

      Until the government allowed these so called "refugees" move in lol

    • @mrbarney4176
      @mrbarney4176 Před 3 lety

      @@ammar6937 we have inhabited this island for centuries you clown never made it look like this shithole

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 Před 2 lety

      Marty McFly, "What is this, Hell or something?"
      Doc Brown, "I can't imagine Hell being much worse!"

  • @MaxWinner
    @MaxWinner Před 3 lety +7

    I really want to move here, miss the "ghetto"...brought up in areas like this, it never leaves your heart...shottas on the corner, trash dumped, and awesome culture everywhere, it's a rollercoaster for the senses...and after living in these kinds of areas all over the UK, I've found there is a LOT less racism in these parts, everyone gotta get along so it's usually pretty welcoming...spoke to so many people, met a guy who was an immigrant who nearly died being smuggled in, I have 4 Korans all gifted to me by various cultures, some lady in a shop made me fried plantains, I've cooked and had partys with people of different cultures all being happy together....it's beautiful and insightful.... community, it's all about community

  • @dianabalvinova
    @dianabalvinova Před 3 lety +2

    It is the worst area in Birmingham.I paied Council tax ,but all the time I needed to worry about rubbish;they will take or not.Milions mice and rats around.To live there is like nightmare.Now I live in West Bromwich, no any problems.

  • @johnmckenzie7881
    @johnmckenzie7881 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I thought council tax was to pay for the rubbish collection??

  • @michellestone6471
    @michellestone6471 Před 3 lety +1

    These videos are everything 😀

  • @ProRylan
    @ProRylan Před 3 lety +18

    your very brave to walk down there with a cam out on show,
    do the Maypole next druids heath

    • @michellestone6471
      @michellestone6471 Před 3 lety +1

      Where I am from lol

    • @ProRylan
      @ProRylan Před 3 lety +2

      @@michellestone6471 Same here from Maypole lo,

    • @michellestone6471
      @michellestone6471 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ProRylan she's put one up of maypole. She didn't get any of the betfred and Mario crackheads though

    • @ProRylan
      @ProRylan Před 3 lety +2

      @@michellestone6471 lol gotta look at the maypole one,
      betfred and mario crackheads looooool ,

    • @michellestone6471
      @michellestone6471 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ProRylan nah what I'm saying is that she didn't get them in 😕