I left England in 81 and returned again since 2015. My homeland has been destroyed. It’s unrecognisable and in total decay structurally and in society.
I was brought up in Nelson and I haven’t been back since the last member of my family that lived there moved to a town nearby 5 years ago, can’t see myself ever visiting my hometown again.
@@amaanatkhan1336 I bet you smell like roses and peach, and you treat women with equal respect. When's the last time you brushed your teeth? Or you stil haven't figured out that Western custom yet?
Same, I was brought up in Nelson, lived on Railway Street, Causey Foot and Lancaster Gate. Now live in northern Spain. Nelson or NelSTAN Is overrun by Asians, they have killed the town. So glad I moved away 18 years ago.
I’m born and raised here. Fun fact - everyone local calls the Lord Nelson pub “The Zoo”. I thought for years it was a club I’d not heard of when people said they were off for a drink at The Zoo. When I finally realised it was that pub I asked why… apparently it’s because it’s full of creatures 😂
While older Scouts and their leaders enlisted in the Armed Forces as the conflict progressed, younger Scouts diversified their tasks, with a notable contribution being their crucial support to the Coastguard. Tasked with watching the coast, ports, and estuaries to counter the threat of a German invasion, Scouts, under the supervision of the coastguard but led by their Patrol Leaders, demonstrated independence by undertaking activities such as coast watching, signalling, and message delivery. Additionally, Scouts volunteered for farm work, filling the labour gap left by men who had joined the Armed Forces. The messenger boy role, vital in an era with limited telecommunications, saw Scouts stationed at key locations for urgent message delivery due to their health, strength, reliability, and sense of direction. The Scouts' multifaceted contributions showcased their adaptability and resourcefulness during this challenging period. Thanks Chat GPT!
Oh ffs, this is why I’ve stopped watching this channel. Populated by butt hurt bigots who constantly come out with the same old nonsense. It’s like a visual Daily Mail isn’t it. Jesus. Enrichment!!!1111 diversity!!1111 ughhhh!
Yes real freedom, you can carry on being a slave to the illuminati not knowing the difference between a male and female. The Pope changed your religion so much to match the religion of the powers that be, Paganistic People of the Book
Take note of the pure departure of people from the town centre and the knock on effect to some beautiful old buildings this will not be the last town that goes this way - thank you politicians
Nelson went down over a decade ago due to demographic change in area which has been going on for best part of 30 years pendle rise was half decent market back in day now u tend to feel more like visiting a distant land ofc some of damage has been done by supermarkets and now online ordering but community spirit has for sure shifted the more we have diversified think we are up to around 20 mosque in and around area with morning prayer calls you can hear across other side of town
It would be great if Charlie sometimes reached out to a local to get a bit of a 'how it was' narration. I grew up near here which meant that in the late 80's early 90's it was mum and dad shopping day. It was thriving. Packed out Arndale (extended Pendle Rise), Woolies across (Pound Grow), Butchers, Grocers, Great indoor market, Majorca cafe for meat pie and chips, busy train and bus station, Star club busy over 2 floors, beautiful St Mary's church and....(back in the 60's the Imperial Ballroom who had the Beatles, Stones, every single major act except Elvis Presley)............and then..........well we all know what then...
Completely agree. I grew up here and left in 2001 down Chester way. As you said, once was such a thriving town. Both floors of the Arndale was full of shops. The indoor market downstairs was great to have a look around. Buying toys from there was the highlight of my week as a young one. Used to help mum with the shopping until I was a teen and then it was a place to go and buy the latest singles either from Our Price or Woolies. The Grand cinema was great too as a Kid. Used to be a good afternoon out. I remember going to watch films on my own and making friends, sharing popcorn. I had some great times there but sadly it’s just one big dump. We all know why and I only come back to visit my parents once a year and that’s enough. All the Victorian buildings that are now just left to rot and our once great churches being overtaken. So sad..
Genuine story. In early 2000 Young woman in Nelson with two small children, just before Christmas husband dropped dead a work. He was the only wage earner. Woman went to Nelson Council for help and advice. Council would not help without confirmation of death (ie certificate) Guy was bearly cold so no certificate available for weeks - therefore no help from council. Lady in reception gave lady a leaflet for local mosque where help was waiting. Lady left with foodbank voucher, pathway to fastrack support, and £2k in her hand. If you hit hard times, head for the mosque. ps had to delete the post referring to 1514mification of the UK...
30K inhabitants in Nelson and that one street have more "restaurants" than the municipality i live in with 100K inhabitants... surely everything is legal and taxed in those "restaurants", riiiigghhtt?
Bruh they're takeaways, and everyone goes to them. There's only one I can think of that's suspicious cos no one goes to it but the rest seem pretty sound.
@@arianamiah1872 its a problem because obviously ever since they moved there nelson has gone to shit. also pubs are a part of English identity as so many people these days preach about THEIR identity. but what about England?
@@John-lp5xh I see , sorry for the wise crack, I misunderstood your comment. Kendo is my first name, I haven`t heard it in rhyming slang but will keep me ears open for it.
In such a poor town, why on earth is there a safety deposit box unit on the high street and no bank? Nelson isn’t Mayfair or Knightsbridge by the looks of it. With so many takeaways, anyone would think they’re actually drugs fronts for money laundering purposes.
Nihilism, I spoke to a very old man that was a customer of mine 30 years ago. He was from Poland and had lived through the German invasion at the beginning of WW2 One day he told me in very broken English, “One day…….everything. Next day………..nothing. Nihilism. This looks like a slow case of it.
integration hasn't worked. We have incredibly segregated communities and whole areas where people cannot even speak English. It's an abject failure and it's getting worse.
Watching the vids over the years, you started with disliking the Police then over time, decidced to like them as it helps you. All rather odd. You remind me of Dan Wootton.
Can confirm i live here(for now)at the top "nicer" end and it's truly awful,cars speeding about day and night rubbish absolutely everywhere,drugs and druggies no shops no nightlife no atmosphere no soul!as they say the best thing here at the moment is the road that leads out.was once ok maybe 20-25 years ago.just a very horrible depressing sad place now.shame!
When you give your channel trolls a free soundbite about 15 year olds... Because they make content about it, which gives your channel free advertising, and tickles the algorithms just right...
Brit in France here. After 15 years I can't say I like France, but then I can't say I particularly liked England... But that's probably more about me, as I do try and avoid people as a rule, but the special, polite creative ones of good character are of course allowed in if they pass my complicated series of psychological tests. 🙈🤣 But that said, I think I prefer being English in another country than actually being 'home'. Mainly because those I speak to who haven't been to England (especially my American clients) seem to think as a whole, England is permanently sun-soaked, beautiful and full of hope like Darling Buds of May, Hogwarts or Downton Abbey, and by association, they too think I am perhaps something that I am not? ... Which sometimes I must confess is pretty useful! Anyway, thank you for the thought-provoking video Mr V. Compliments of the season to you all back home, from a cold wet French forest. 🌞
@18.0min, the monument in the square is that of a Flying Shuttle, designed by John Kay in 1733. Bury, used in cotton weaving, he was my 5th Grandfather,
Lancashire was once great, still has plenty of reminders of past glory, but now is just a toilet filled with poor Asian families who must wonder how they ended up living in such a damp, soulless backwater. However, if these towns were on the Welsh coast or somewhere, the property prices would be booming.
They have lovely victorian buildings Charlie because of all the money that the cotton weaving industry brought in to the local towns, the missile you were joking about was a very large replica of a shuttle as used on a loom in days gone by. My association with this town is that my wife passed her test here last year first time with no faults (she shocked us all lol) still the town is generally quite a dump even more then my home town of Accrington lol
So sad. Some of the architecture is beautiful, it has so much potential to be a nice place to live. I don’t understand why some people enjoy ruining beautiful places.
Similar to many towns. A proliferation of takeaways (now barber shops), with similar frontage. That have few if any customers.but, which seem to generate a high income. D. R. U. G. S
That "MOAB" non-sculpture is a cotton shuttle. Part of the loom that shoots back and forward to make cloth. I wonder what percentage of modern Nelsonians know that. 15%? Maybe?
the technical term is a Flying Shuttle, designed by John Kay in 1733. Bury, he was my 5th Grandfather, I was born in Nelson 60yrs ago, but now live in Southport
Facts about Nelson , there was in 90 the biggest " acid house party" Rave that got raided off hundreds of police and they gave a few digs/ punches out. Hardcore uproar!!
There are a few films on YT of Nelson past. It's decline from a thriving town is shocking, almost criminal and has been repeated up and down the country.
Nelson wasn't that bad when I was growing up in the 1960s. Many Lancashire towns (especially East Lancashire) started to rapidly go downhill with the demise and ultimate end of the Lancashire cotton industry, and they have never recovered. Manchester (which used to be a part of Lancashire) had at one time the nickname of Cottonopolis and was the metropolis centre of the cotton industry. Sadly, some parts of Lancashire consist of dirty and scruffy looking ghost towns. Pendle Council have plans to demolish the shopping centre, and to revamp the town centre (which ought to have been done many years ago) but I'm not sure that any remodelling etc., of the town centre will improve things.
I grew up near Nelson, there is no Jesus Christ there and this is what happens to pockets of our country when people turn away from our Lord and saviour. Take notes Christian country if we abandon our faith. Christ is King
Isn't that the town born out of a pub, where CLR James batted and bowled for Marxism, while Engels had one foot in the mill door, until Fred toppled all the chimneys, stopping them from smoking?
Not to mention Oddies Bakery, where the Clitheroe Kid couldn't make enough dough; Clark's Ironmongers behind the library, since 1849. And for those who think it's rather common to smell of ourselves, try some Black Narcissus, a scent once sold in all the Army & Navy stores in London and still available at Boyces, where he walked right past without even a mention.
Born and raised here, it’s much nicer if you go up to the top of barkerhouse road, I live in colne now which is the neighbouring town. Should go there next
Great video Charles but damn it, your making me feel old, don't think I've seen or even thought about Nelson for nearly thirty years. It was a dump back than and absolutely nothing has improved since I left the place.
Charlie can you do a walk around in Colne Lancs, much nicer than Nelson and Burnley. I grew up there and have lived in Australia most of my life. Be awesome to watch you walk around Colne 😊
The colne is only a bit better than Nelson things have changed a lot in all those towns if you go to Foulridge Barrowford and Barnoldswick there nice towns
Nelson - the shit tip of East Lancashire. Wouldn't pass through it if the surrounding areas were on fire. Absolute squalid sick bucket of a place. I grew up there and will NEVER return for as long as I live.
Charlie , You missed the Alexaner billiard Hall which has been standing and still used now ? Its been in Nelson since the late 50s lots of History around Nelson ? It was a lovely industrial Town with an indoor and outdoor market ? With a stall called balmy Micks with an outdoor swimming baths the only one in the Country in the 60s and those were long hot summers back then ? But thanks for the tour of my hometown Nelson x
Go to Colne next town along its toatally different mate. Nelson was a busy place 8n 90s now it's dead and dieing every day. I grew up in Nelson and Colne. My family own the biggest asphalt firm called MONKS OFF COLNE LTD. FRIENDLY PEOPLE MORE LIVELY AND ALOT CLEANER AND EVERYONE NO KNOWS EACH OTHER.. keep up great work and I'm subbed now🎉🎉🎉 clarky and Lisa BURNLEY FC.
Nelson is a shit hole and I can say that as I’ve lived and worked here all my life. It seems Nelson council or many of the residents are not interested in preserving the Lovell architecture that we had that is now mainly lost or preserving what’s left , 30 years ago even the town was busy and bustling still it now seems dead , we need to get back the civic pride in Nelson. Among the shit are some very interesting historical and political aspects to Nelson. Selena Cooper an activist and suffragist hailed from Nelson , she was the working class version of Emiline Pankhurst and subsequently didn’t get the recognition she deserved. Nelson was a socialist hotbed and known as ‘little Moscow’ at the turn of the 19th century. Indeed the Independent Labour Party (the original forerunner to the Labour Party) was created here and in Bradford. Unity Hall in Nelson is the place to discover all this history along with the Clarion which was a working class building set up in the local countryside for factory workers to get out of the industrial towns and get fresh air , to meet and educate themselves. The last surviving one in the whole Country. George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement had his religious vision of God on top of our beautiful local hill Pendle. I don’t agree with what seems to be your political agenda Charlie sorry , dissing ‘lefties’ etc. proper socialism where people look after one another and want to better themselves and there communities for all is a good thing. That’s very different to communism , especially the soviet (failed) interpretation of it by the way. I am proud to be English , working class , Lancastrian , British and do wish the country could revive its civic pride. But we need to do that as a community with everyone who now lives here involved and on board with it. That’s where changes need to be encouraged and developed. And you can see snippets of that in and around Nelson. We just need more of it and less poverty.
Well the gloomy weather suits this town very well. I don't think I'll be rushing to Nelson any time soon, not unless I feel like some Halal fried Chicken, which is also very unlikely.
Charlie please venture South and enjoy the delights of Chatham Kent. Have a wander up and down the high st which was once a very prosperous thriving high st and see if you can hear an English speaking person in this now run down area.
The Pakistani Community were coming here in the 60s it got invaded , The white Enlish Nelsonians moved out unable to sell their houses ! I was brought up in Nelson and back then this was a buzzing cotton Town ? We had an open air swimming Centre ? Lots of lovely parks lots of great shops always something to do but Pakistani culture put pay to that sadly
Wendy jones get a grip !! I’m sure 1.2 million soldiers came from what are now known as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the First World War, in answer to the call 'Your Empire Needs You'- including at least 400,000 Muslim soldiers serving in the British Indian Army. So pull your sock up hun. We deserve to be here you probably wasn’t even born then so don’t no what you yapping about invaded use your words carefully.
Have you heard of something called the internet and online shopping. A lot has changed in the world and not everything is down to ‘immigration’. It’s funny though because the people that have a problem with immigration and immigrants the most support Israel which is actually immigrants taking over! 🤣🤣🤣 make it make sense!
Brilliant stuff Charlie. Your style is totally different. Honest and funny. You deserve more publicity and acclaim for your photojournalism and wit and courage. Exposing a hypocrite or two does tickle me. How do you know when a Hamas "diplomat" is lying ? because he can't spell word or honour.
Diversity seems to reduce house prices in Nelson 😮 It’s a mystery why that is , people surely are prepared to pay MORE to live in perfect harmony Where is this not the case ?
Funny story, we went to a 'proper' outdoor 'rave', (*when it was all the REAL rage!!), and, after about 3/4hr convoy of Renault GT Turbo's, Ford Escort XR3i, Ford Fiesta XR2 (with pepperpot wheels), in Burnley, but was it intercepted by the police.... A policeman actually DIED that night, and it was on the news! 😳 (Nothing to do with this coppers death, but I was shoulder barged by a copper with a riot shield, then mate and I had to hide in a field as we ran away FAST, and the coppers were throwing ravers in the back of blue police, transit vans..... And we heard Police dogs..... My mate Dave was trying to hide me as best he could.... But I'd just eaten 2 Strawberry Trips.... Hilarity ensued.... *There's more to this story, and R.I.P Dave.... Saved my bacon that night 👍🕺
@2:42 Dobo has been there over 50 years and used to provide good grub at midnight after a 12 pint session at the weekend. First went there in 1980 - Number 52 : Chips ,peas, chicken, veg , gravy, fried egg ? £1.50.
Don't judge a book by its cover- Nelson- Accrington- Burnley- Darwen are externally the most bleak towns to look at- however one has to feel the place- the people- there is heart in those people a socialist community of honesty and support within those lancashire Towns that is rare and difficult to find in other English towns.
i've been to some deprived places but often they had a great spirit and great communties despite and maby even because of the poverty but parts of the UK are beyond deprived they just seem completly defeated
Sh1t I'm due to live outside of a depressing Lancashire 'City' similar to this town where there is white flight in the satellite villages; I am dreading it but where else can you go; most UK cities are not really that great in the center to live and I just don't know.
I left England in 81 and returned again since 2015.
My homeland has been destroyed.
It’s unrecognisable and in total decay structurally and in society.
That is sad and depressing. Hope it somehow someday turns around.
People are blinded by living in it day in day out.
It was a dump in 81 and its still a dump.
Its a shithole!!
Why on earth did you return to this rat pit? The best thing I ever did was leave that shithole.
I was brought up in Nelson and I haven’t been back since the last member of my family that lived there moved to a town nearby 5 years ago, can’t see myself ever visiting my hometown again.
Thanks by doing nelson a favour
@@amaanatkhan1336 no problem, enjoy your squalor you rat.
I was born in Nelson 60yrs ago, lived in Trawden and Brierfield, but now live in Southport,
@@amaanatkhan1336 I bet you smell like roses and peach, and you treat women with equal respect. When's the last time you brushed your teeth? Or you stil haven't figured out that Western custom yet?
Same, I was brought up in Nelson, lived on Railway Street, Causey Foot and Lancaster Gate. Now live in northern Spain. Nelson or NelSTAN Is overrun by Asians, they have killed the town. So glad I moved away 18 years ago.
I’m born and raised here. Fun fact - everyone local calls the Lord Nelson pub “The Zoo”. I thought for years it was a club I’d not heard of when people said they were off for a drink at The Zoo. When I finally realised it was that pub I asked why… apparently it’s because it’s full of creatures 😂
While older Scouts and their leaders enlisted in the Armed Forces as the conflict progressed, younger Scouts diversified their tasks, with a notable contribution being their crucial support to the Coastguard. Tasked with watching the coast, ports, and estuaries to counter the threat of a German invasion, Scouts, under the supervision of the coastguard but led by their Patrol Leaders, demonstrated independence by undertaking activities such as coast watching, signalling, and message delivery. Additionally, Scouts volunteered for farm work, filling the labour gap left by men who had joined the Armed Forces. The messenger boy role, vital in an era with limited telecommunications, saw Scouts stationed at key locations for urgent message delivery due to their health, strength, reliability, and sense of direction. The Scouts' multifaceted contributions showcased their adaptability and resourcefulness during this challenging period.
Thanks Chat GPT!
The joys of cultural enrichment!
Shitholes
Oh ffs, this is why I’ve stopped watching this channel. Populated by butt hurt bigots who constantly come out with the same old nonsense. It’s like a visual Daily Mail isn’t it. Jesus.
Enrichment!!!1111 diversity!!1111 ughhhh!
Yes real freedom, you can carry on being a slave to the illuminati not knowing the difference between a male and female. The Pope changed your religion so much to match the religion of the powers that be, Paganistic People of the Book
Not a fair comment because 99% of the alcoholics and crackheads in Charlie's videos are white British
that town has fallen, an example of the future
The ghettos will only get bigger. Nelson/Brierfield is the center of one of them.
Nice one we are watching the security industry getting taken over by people who are not trained properly best one in a while still like most 🇨🇮
Take note of the pure departure of people from the town centre and the knock on effect to some beautiful old buildings this will not be the last town that goes this way - thank you politicians
Thank you Charlie. My God this country is so depressing
Agreed. And the main 2 causes. High-paid benefits and 'diversity.
The most dirty people in my building are the british ones... @@lee4171
Not at all it's been hollowed out by the banks......
Same as the entire west
And you did nothing.....@@lee4171
Perhaps that is the job he is paid to do!?
Why? He was left alone to film, nobody gave him any grief?
My hometown and can confirm it’s even more grim and depressing than it looks.. used to be a lovely town 30 plus years ago.
One of the most hard line communities in the North, Halal says it all.
The moment people stopped going to church in this country was the beginning of the end.
You're joking right?
But that's the good thing about religion in Britain. If you're not interested you can choose not to.
that looks like another nice Northern place overtaken by the immigration policy..,
That was one in the Eye for Nelson..
Nelson went down over a decade ago due to demographic change in area which has been going on for best part of 30 years
pendle rise was half decent market back in day now u tend to feel more like visiting a distant land
ofc some of damage has been done by supermarkets and now online ordering but community spirit has for sure shifted the more we have diversified
think we are up to around 20 mosque in and around area with morning prayer calls you can hear across other side of town
Used to hear that all the time when I lived in Bradford twenty years ago (another shithole)
20 mosques? It's more like 60, including the ones in people's homes.
It would be great if Charlie sometimes reached out to a local to get a bit of a 'how it was' narration. I grew up near here which meant that in the late 80's early 90's it was mum and dad shopping day. It was thriving. Packed out Arndale (extended Pendle Rise), Woolies across (Pound Grow), Butchers, Grocers, Great indoor market, Majorca cafe for meat pie and chips, busy train and bus station, Star club busy over 2 floors, beautiful St Mary's church and....(back in the 60's the Imperial Ballroom who had the Beatles, Stones, every single major act except Elvis Presley)............and then..........well we all know what then...
Like every other single town in the country, only big cities are doing well now
Completely agree. I grew up here and left in 2001 down Chester way. As you said, once was such a thriving town. Both floors of the Arndale was full of shops. The indoor market downstairs was great to have a look around. Buying toys from there was the highlight of my week as a young one.
Used to help mum with the shopping until I was a teen and then it was a place to go and buy the latest singles either from Our Price or Woolies.
The Grand cinema was great too as a
Kid. Used to be a good afternoon out. I remember going to watch films on my own and making friends, sharing popcorn.
I had some great times there but sadly it’s just one big dump. We all know why and I only come back to visit my parents once a year and that’s enough.
All the Victorian buildings that are now just left to rot and our once great churches being overtaken.
So sad..
Genuine story. In early 2000 Young woman in Nelson with two small children, just before Christmas husband dropped dead a work. He was the only wage earner. Woman went to Nelson Council for help and advice. Council would not help without confirmation of death (ie certificate) Guy was bearly cold so no certificate available for weeks - therefore no help from council. Lady in reception gave lady a leaflet for local mosque where help was waiting. Lady left with foodbank voucher, pathway to fastrack support, and £2k in her hand.
If you hit hard times, head for the mosque. ps had to delete the post referring to 1514mification of the UK...
30K inhabitants in Nelson and that one street have more "restaurants" than the municipality i live in with 100K inhabitants... surely everything is legal and taxed in those "restaurants", riiiigghhtt?
Bruh they're takeaways, and everyone goes to them. There's only one I can think of that's suspicious cos no one goes to it but the rest seem pretty sound.
No chance and why do some people get grants to open takeaways ,
Nelson has lots of Muslims and nearly all the pubs have closed down. I wouldn't want to live there
And that’s a problem how? Racist spaz
@@arianamiah1872England for the English NFSE
Steven pubs have closed down because you fellas couldn’t afford to drink in a pub !! And landlord couldn’t keep up with the bills you scruffs
@@arianamiah1872 its a problem because obviously ever since they moved there nelson has gone to shit. also pubs are a part of English identity as so many people these days preach about THEIR identity. but what about England?
i havent paid council tax for 9 years. they cant enforce it because i have no house to take away.
Haven't they tried to take it from your benefits? If on them.
Sounds lovely. So you'll have the authorities chasing you for 10s of thousands of pounds the rest of your life? Nice.
meh. not interested.@@harmonykrieg
If your homeless then you won’t need to pay it anyway 😂
Finally he goes to my home town. I can confirm any dreams that once lived have already passed away in Nelson.
How optimistic of you, bet you light up a room when you enter and begin speaking.
lol says the guy named after a toilet@@John-lp5xh
@@John-lp5xh I see , sorry for the wise crack, I misunderstood your comment. Kendo is my first name, I haven`t heard it in rhyming slang but will keep me ears open for it.
Anyone who has dreams in Nelson are people who are dreaming of getting out of Nelson
@@AllRoundDefence610100%
In such a poor town, why on earth is there a safety deposit box unit on the high street and no bank? Nelson isn’t Mayfair or Knightsbridge by the looks of it. With so many takeaways, anyone would think they’re actually drugs fronts for money laundering purposes.
Nihilism, I spoke to a very old man that was a customer of mine 30 years ago. He was from Poland and had lived through the German invasion at the beginning of WW2 One day he told me in very broken English, “One day…….everything. Next day………..nothing. Nihilism. This looks like a slow case of it.
All these beautiful churches, depressing.
Charlies Jewish relatives wanted this, never forget
That is definitely the shittiest Christmas tree in the whole of the UK. And made worse with the high security fencing.
The tree's only there to stop them stealing the fencing lol.
How to pinpoint a bad town / city:
The amount of take away shops with the halal mark on.
Combine that with local council adverts about how to get rid of pest infestation....
integration hasn't worked. We have incredibly segregated communities and whole areas where people cannot even speak English. It's an abject failure and it's getting worse.
Watching the vids over the years, you started with disliking the Police then over time, decidced to like them as it helps you. All rather odd. You remind me of Dan Wootton.
Can confirm i live here(for now)at the top "nicer" end and it's truly awful,cars speeding about day and night rubbish absolutely everywhere,drugs and druggies no shops no nightlife no atmosphere no soul!as they say the best thing here at the moment is the road that leads out.was once ok maybe 20-25 years ago.just a very horrible depressing sad place now.shame!
The councils fault and government no. one cares anymore.
Palestinian flags immigration centre and a Christmas tree in a cage, just about sums it up.
Like most Northern Towns, Nelson is in the grip of a slow, lingering Death ☠️💀
When you give your channel trolls a free soundbite about 15 year olds...
Because they make content about it, which gives your channel free advertising, and tickles the algorithms just right...
Brit in France here. After 15 years I can't say I like France, but then I can't say I particularly liked England... But that's probably more about me, as I do try and avoid people as a rule, but the special, polite creative ones of good character are of course allowed in if they pass my complicated series of psychological tests. 🙈🤣
But that said, I think I prefer being English in another country than actually being 'home'. Mainly because those I speak to who haven't been to England (especially my American clients) seem to think as a whole, England is permanently sun-soaked, beautiful and full of hope like Darling Buds of May, Hogwarts or Downton Abbey, and by association, they too think I am perhaps something that I am not? ... Which sometimes I must confess is pretty useful!
Anyway, thank you for the thought-provoking video Mr V.
Compliments of the season to you all back home, from a cold wet French forest. 🌞
@18.0min, the monument in the square is that of a Flying Shuttle, designed by John Kay in 1733. Bury, used in cotton weaving, he was my 5th Grandfather,
And now you live in Southport.
How depressing 😢
Merry Christmas Charlie from Sydney, Australia.
Love your videos mate.😊
Same to you! And thank you
@@CharlesVeitch merry Christmas 🥳and happy 2024🎉 Charlie here's a nice crackie christmas song .channel united spot . crackhead song .🥴
Lancashire was once great, still has plenty of reminders of past glory, but now is just a toilet filled with poor Asian families who must wonder how they ended up living in such a damp, soulless backwater.
However, if these towns were on the Welsh coast or somewhere, the property prices would be booming.
They have lovely victorian buildings Charlie because of all the money that the cotton weaving industry brought in to the local towns, the missile you were joking about was a very large replica of a shuttle as used on a loom in days gone by. My association with this town is that my wife passed her test here last year first time with no faults (she shocked us all lol) still the town is generally quite a dump even more then my home town of Accrington lol
So sad. Some of the architecture is beautiful, it has so much potential to be a nice place to live. I don’t understand why some people enjoy ruining beautiful places.
Similar to many towns. A proliferation of takeaways (now barber shops), with similar frontage. That have few if any customers.but, which seem to generate a high income. D. R. U. G. S
That "MOAB" non-sculpture is a cotton shuttle. Part of the loom that shoots back and forward to make cloth.
I wonder what percentage of modern Nelsonians know that.
15%?
Maybe?
the technical term is a Flying Shuttle, designed by John Kay in 1733. Bury, he was my 5th Grandfather, I was born in Nelson 60yrs ago, but now live in Southport
@@tonybuttie3038Mason at all?
Nelson makes Burnley look like Monaco.
Is Nelson is territory of Pakistan????
You're going hard shilling for Israel. Thats a spinning shuttle btw
Facts about Nelson , there was in 90 the biggest " acid house party" Rave that got raided off hundreds of police and they gave a few digs/ punches out. Hardcore uproar!!
Full of drugs that town
Do they do delivery?
@@unelectedbureaucrat2003only halal drugs
Burnley way worse, and that's mainly white
you tell the truth no mainstream media crap people wake up to this man tells stuff you are scared of saying thanks
The truth? He has a problem with immigration but supports Israel? 🤣
but its "Cultral enrichment"
There are a few films on YT of Nelson past. It's decline from a thriving town is shocking, almost criminal and has been repeated up and down the country.
Has any town had quite a decline like nelson though?from no churches pubs shops or life..I'm not sure.think nelson could be number one on the list.
Nelson wasn't that bad when I was growing up in the 1960s. Many Lancashire towns (especially East Lancashire) started to rapidly go downhill with the demise and ultimate end of the Lancashire cotton industry, and they have never recovered. Manchester (which used to be a part of Lancashire) had at one time the nickname of Cottonopolis and was the metropolis centre of the cotton industry. Sadly, some parts of Lancashire consist of dirty and scruffy looking ghost towns. Pendle Council have plans to demolish the shopping centre, and to revamp the town centre (which ought to have been done many years ago) but I'm not sure that any remodelling etc., of the town centre will improve things.
Stop calling them "abandoned churches"
They're churches whom abandoned their local communities, not the other way round.
used to be a lovely place
I grew up near Nelson, there is no Jesus Christ there and this is what happens to pockets of our country when people turn away from our Lord and saviour. Take notes Christian country if we abandon our faith.
Christ is King
Most Lancashire towns have gone to shite,
Probably the worst county in the uk l- I should know I live there 😂
Isn't that the town born out of a pub, where CLR James batted and bowled for Marxism, while Engels had one foot in the mill door, until Fred toppled all the chimneys, stopping them from smoking?
Not to mention Oddies Bakery, where the Clitheroe Kid couldn't make enough dough; Clark's Ironmongers behind the library, since 1849. And for those who think it's rather common to smell of ourselves, try some Black Narcissus, a scent once sold in all the Army & Navy stores in London and still available at Boyces, where he walked right past without even a mention.
Born and raised here, it’s much nicer if you go up to the top of barkerhouse road, I live in colne now which is the neighbouring town. Should go there next
If you go down all the terraced streets in Nelson anytime during the day, they are all chocka with parked cars. They all have cars but nobody works.
Drugs😉
Asians make their living off the drugs
Great video Charles but damn it, your making me feel old, don't think I've seen or even thought about Nelson for nearly thirty years.
It was a dump back than and absolutely nothing has improved since I left the place.
Charlie can you do a walk around in Colne Lancs, much nicer than Nelson and Burnley.
I grew up there and have lived in Australia most of my life. Be awesome to watch you walk around Colne 😊
The colne is only a bit better than Nelson things have changed a lot in all those towns if you go to Foulridge Barrowford and Barnoldswick there nice towns
@robertspence402 bit of a stretch to say it's a "bit" better..but i agree about the others 👍
I thought Stockport was bad. Nelson's been colonised.
Nelson - the shit tip of East Lancashire. Wouldn't pass through it if the surrounding areas were on fire. Absolute squalid sick bucket of a place. I grew up there and will NEVER return for as long as I live.
don't blame you.
Charlie , You missed the Alexaner billiard Hall which has been standing and still used now ? Its been in Nelson since the late 50s lots of History around Nelson ? It was a lovely industrial Town with an indoor and outdoor market ? With a stall called balmy Micks with an outdoor swimming baths the only one in the Country in the 60s and those were long hot summers back then ? But thanks for the tour of my hometown Nelson x
Go to Colne next town along its toatally different mate. Nelson was a busy place 8n 90s now it's dead and dieing every day. I grew up in Nelson and Colne. My family own the biggest asphalt firm called MONKS OFF COLNE LTD. FRIENDLY PEOPLE MORE LIVELY AND ALOT CLEANER AND EVERYONE NO KNOWS EACH OTHER.. keep up great work and I'm subbed now🎉🎉🎉 clarky and Lisa BURNLEY FC.
I bet Nelson was lovely around 100 years ago, before things happened.
Ten years ago my feelings about this place are now confirmed, it seems these organisations have become legitimate....😢
@@wesleyashworth5061pretty sure you understand...
Nelson is a shit hole and I can say that as I’ve lived and worked here all my life. It seems Nelson council or many of the residents are not interested in preserving the Lovell architecture that we had that is now mainly lost or preserving what’s left , 30 years ago even the town was busy and bustling still it now seems dead , we need to get back the civic pride in Nelson. Among the shit are some very interesting historical and political aspects to Nelson. Selena Cooper an activist and suffragist hailed from Nelson , she was the working class version of Emiline Pankhurst and subsequently didn’t get the recognition she deserved. Nelson was a socialist hotbed and known as ‘little Moscow’ at the turn of the 19th century. Indeed the Independent Labour Party (the original forerunner to the Labour Party) was created here and in Bradford. Unity Hall in Nelson is the place to discover all this history along with the Clarion which was a working class building set up in the local countryside for factory workers to get out of the industrial towns and get fresh air , to meet and educate themselves. The last surviving one in the whole Country. George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement had his religious vision of God on top of our beautiful local hill Pendle. I don’t agree with what seems to be your political agenda Charlie sorry , dissing ‘lefties’ etc. proper socialism where people look after one another and want to better themselves and there communities for all is a good thing. That’s very different to communism , especially the soviet (failed) interpretation of it by the way. I am proud to be English , working class , Lancastrian , British and do wish the country could revive its civic pride. But we need to do that as a community with everyone who now lives here involved and on board with it. That’s where changes need to be encouraged and developed. And you can see snippets of that in and around Nelson. We just need more of it and less poverty.
Charlie, Enjoyed the video and good afternoon from the U.S.A.
Cheers Jerry. Where abouts in USA?
Lots of flags in Nelson. None are British though.
Well the gloomy weather suits this town very well. I don't think I'll be rushing to Nelson any time soon, not unless I feel like some Halal fried Chicken, which is also very unlikely.
Nelson like Accrington
Charlie please venture South and enjoy the delights of Chatham Kent. Have a wander up and down the high st which was once a very prosperous thriving high st and see if you can hear an English speaking person in this now run down area.
I've been to Nelson quite a few times. It is depressing but i liked walking along the canal and feeding the ducks and Victoria Park is lovely.
We all need more halal fired chicken shops and Turkish barbers because.......
oh yeah cause there's 5 of them in a row@@akidontheweb
@@akidonthewebporkistarnis are biggest benefit claimants and breed too much
Think it’s the only pub in Nelson now
After watching that I feel sad for Britain's cultural heritage, history and traditional values they've been changed and destroyed in one generation.
Who could look at Pakistan or any Muslim nation and say to themselves "These are the sort of people I want in my country"?
Get rid of yourself fool
This was interesting 😊 I like when you lean into documentary style videos more, I think that’s when you’re most engaging
The Pakistani Community were coming here in the 60s it got invaded , The white Enlish Nelsonians moved out unable to sell their houses ! I was brought up in Nelson and back then this was a buzzing cotton Town ? We had an open air swimming Centre ? Lots of lovely parks lots of great shops always something to do but Pakistani culture put pay to that sadly
Wendy jones get a grip !! I’m sure 1.2 million soldiers came from what are now known as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the First World War, in answer to the call 'Your Empire Needs You'- including at least 400,000 Muslim soldiers serving in the British Indian Army. So pull your sock up hun. We deserve to be here you probably wasn’t even born then so don’t no what you yapping about invaded use your words carefully.
@@Spy-vh8ug YOU DESERVE AFGHANISTAN AS WELL.
Have you heard of something called the internet and online shopping. A lot has changed in the world and not everything is down to ‘immigration’. It’s funny though because the people that have a problem with immigration and immigrants the most support Israel which is actually immigrants taking over! 🤣🤣🤣 make it make sense!
Very nice
Brilliant stuff Charlie. Your style is totally different. Honest and funny. You deserve more publicity and acclaim for your photojournalism and wit and courage. Exposing a hypocrite or two does tickle me. How do you know when a Hamas "diplomat" is lying ? because he can't spell word or honour.
I work in the same dept with someone from Nelson. They’re an absolute specimen.
Not in a good way I assume 😁
@@shivaunt71Absolutely not in a good way. Surprised they can function tbh.
When the towers went down and the world cried, palastine were dancin in the streets. I cannot support that ever.
Me too. I will never forget or forgive that, because now we have a moronic group living here who actually support these atrocities happening in Israel
Those infamous dancers on 9/11 were actually Israelis. But hey , don't let the facts etc etc.
@@jamesoneill2933 These ones? Israeli's pretending to be Palestinians, I presume?
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The irony
Diversity seems to reduce house prices in Nelson 😮
It’s a mystery why that is , people surely are prepared to pay MORE to live in perfect harmony
Where is this not the case ?
Culture clashes ? Multiculturalism never works ? Poles apart
mark Lamaar said something similar about Colne!! 🤭
Dunno if he'd seen Nelson though!! 🤭 Kx
Nelson stan
Lack of council tax payers, sadly many skip this but they have plenty of money for 2/3 cars and scratch cards.
Funny story, we went to a 'proper' outdoor 'rave', (*when it was all the REAL rage!!), and, after about 3/4hr convoy of Renault GT Turbo's, Ford Escort XR3i, Ford Fiesta XR2 (with pepperpot wheels), in Burnley, but was it intercepted by the police....
A policeman actually DIED that night, and it was on the news! 😳
(Nothing to do with this coppers death, but I was shoulder barged by a copper with a riot shield, then mate and I had to hide in a field as we ran away FAST, and the coppers were throwing ravers in the back of blue police, transit vans..... And we heard Police dogs.....
My mate Dave was trying to hide me as best he could....
But I'd just eaten 2 Strawberry Trips....
Hilarity ensued....
*There's more to this story, and R.I.P Dave....
Saved my bacon that night 👍🕺
@2:42 Dobo has been there over 50 years and used to provide good grub at midnight after a 12 pint session at the weekend. First went there in 1980 - Number 52 : Chips ,peas, chicken, veg , gravy, fried egg ? £1.50.
That's me 1.41 min into the video. Check put JF Fantastic Reviews
Hard to find a tea towel most of them are on their heads😂
Been through nelson many times. I never get off the bus
Nelson looks so depressing 😞Thanks Charlie 🤗🎅🎄
I did laugh at the christmas tree joke
Me too
Watching this from sunny Nelson, New Zealand
Don't judge a book by its cover-
Nelson- Accrington- Burnley- Darwen are externally the most bleak towns to look at- however one has to feel the place- the people- there is heart in those people a socialist community of honesty and support within those lancashire Towns that is rare and difficult to find in other English towns.
Socialists 😂😅 there my friend lays the biggest problem… socialists
Socialist is Mexican for this place sucks Dick.
i've been to some deprived places but often they had a great spirit and great communties despite and maby even because of the poverty but parts of the UK are beyond deprived they just seem completly defeated
Sh1t I'm due to live outside of a depressing Lancashire 'City' similar to this town where there is white flight in the satellite villages; I am dreading it but where else can you go; most UK cities are not really that great in the center to live and I just don't know.
As soon as you mentioned Halal Chicken Shop my mind immediately jumped to Grooming Gang. Sorry Not Allowed.
Yer lookin like yer getting cottaged In that thumbnail 😢😢😮
😂😂😂😂
You can talk 😂😂😂