SHOCKING AND RUN DOWN. Eldon Lane, how did it get to be so bad?
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- A walk around Eldon Lane (near Shildon/ Bishop Auckland) including derelict, boarded up houses, a glimpse inside a smashed up house. Could these be the worst streets in County Durham?
I grew up in Eldon Lane in the 1970/80's. I left in 1992 when I got married. It was a lovely little village, everyone knew and helped everyone. I even worked in that little shop in my late teens.
I now run a Facebook group called Eldon Lane Memories. The council declared it a category D village which meant they wouldn't put any money into the village. The villagers pulled together and fought for it and won. But as years gone by, new people came, then ex-prisoners were off loaded there, then along came foreigners. People moved out and the houses were sold to landlords from hundreds of miles away, who've never actually met their tennents. So now the place is what it is. Its heart breaking to see.
That’s really interesting, I’ve just had a read of some info earlier online, it does explain the situation there and of course in other deprived areas etc. Thanks for the info
Lived there most of my life. When I was younger everybody would go over the park and walk lay football for hours. As we all got older there were younger kids who basically ran everyone out of town because of them smashing all the windows etc. eldon was built for all the mine workers. My grandpa was a miner and he says he used to love going down there. As the years went buy all the greenery you see was all old mines and you can’t build on them invade they collapse so it basically got abandoned and left for dead
explanation is closure of pits and railway industry with nothing to replace it. Blame the government.
Tory Tossas.
Went to Eldon lane primary in late 90s. Brutal area!!!
Features quite often on Police Interceptors 😂
I don't think CZcams allows the length for comments to describe the socioeconomic failings that led to Eldon becoming this bad.
An old pit village as are a majority in and around the Dean Valley,I grew up there and left in the late 80s, everyone knew everyone and we were all friends or got along with each other . The village was a great little community, that at the time of me leaving, boasted 2 family butchers, a family run corner shop, 3 more general food shops, a hardware store, where you could buy anything from nails, screws to parafin. The same family also had a furniture store in the village.And almost opposite, a tailors shop further down, a chemists. Also a paper shop , a post office 2 pubs and a club and a small family run factory where you could get repairs done to the likes of washing machines etc and also buy spare for hoovers. And 2 hairdressers. One of which used to be a traditional barbers (Jimmys) with tiled walls, huge mirrors and the constant smell of Brylcreem
The club used to get some of the big acts infrom the 50s and 60s and almost every Saturday night was dance night, and was packed out with people coming from miles to attend. It is now a pretty succesfull kick boxing club. The lad running it has done a fantastic job and gives the locals somewhere to go.
As mentioned, it was then eventually designated as a Catogry D village ( already explained ) and that signalled the demise.
I was told that they began to ship in known trouble makers, ex cons in the hope that , if they knew where they were, they could keep an eye on them. One of the houses was converted into a home for ex cons who had been released and in transit for somewhere to live.
Some of the people I grew up with still live there, albeit on the fringes of the village, but those that actually live in the areas where you filmed, and I quote, Its a shit hole now.
Its sad to see such a lovely village go that way.
I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s a Red Wall town turned blue.
Now that would be so ironic especially after seeing a Johnson street there.
The kids around here love the sound of breaking glass.
The government is to blame i’m from East Durham and the villages here have suffered exactly the same. There is affluent villages and nice areas all over County Durham but there is allot of places that have been totally forgot about. If you’re looking to explore some more areas that have been affected similar to this I would suggest maybe going to Easington Colliery, Blackhall Colliery and Horden. I wouldn’t say there was any area in the County that is really that bad not to live in or that rough nowadays. The Sherburn Road estate just outside Durham City was really bad 25/30 years ago but it has changed drastically since then for the better.
Planning to visit this week!
@@NorthernExposure1 Looking forward to it. Great content mate.👏
I got housed up Sherburn Road over 30 yrs ago, my house kept getting smashed up when I went to work, I was attacked several times, gang's of grown up's hanging about outside, police would never come to help because they got attacked, I lost the plot one night and fought back and police came for me. I know a lot of people that have moved there now but sadly messed up off drink and drugs.
@@kj-dq7of In Durham, the principles behind the Communities Plan have been bringing a run-down area back to life. But work started six years before the plan was launched.
The Sherburn Road area of Durham used to be littered with burned-out cars and dilapidated buildings, roofs looted of their slates. But today there is no evidence of Sherburn Road's desperate history. New, private tenure houses line the approach and the other buildings are all in a state of good repair. There is no graffiti or litter.
On an estate with 131 void houses in 1996, there is now, for the first time ever, a waiting list.
The turnaround has been the result of a partnership between Durham council, Three Rivers Housing Group and local people, which began in 1997. They decided to rebuild a community, rather than a housing estate. "The physical problems were just part of the issue," explains Martin Jefferson, regeneration manager at Three Rivers.
"We needed to create pride in the area."
As well as investing £5m in buildings, the group set up the Sherburn Road Regeneration Initiative, an organisation comprising council departments and residents, to tackle crime, social issues and unemployment. Before finishing - on schedule - last month, it secured £4.18m in single regeneration budget funding from regeneration agency One North East.
By working with supermarket Tesco, the council, the employment service and retail union USDAW, it also provided 340 jobs.
In many ways, it was a textbook approach to regeneration taken from the Communities Plan - except it happened six years before the plan was even published.
Sherburn Road's troubles were huge. Originally built in the 1930s to house the city's "problem families", the area has always had a stigma attached to it. In 1992, Durham council tried to tackle the dereliction and crime levels on the estate by doing major improvement works, leaving only two voids. Just four years later there were more than 100 voids on the estate. Male unemployment was 31.4% and almost half of all burglaries in Durham were committed in Sherburn Road. Something had to be done. "The council was desperate when it approached us," says Jefferson. "Sherburn Road had a negative valuation of £3.4m."
Three Rivers took on one of the two Sherburn Road estates - 223 properties - in a stock transfer in 1997. It demolished 67 houses and installed new kitchens and bathrooms in the rest. To reduce burglaries, new doors and windows were fitted and each house got its own alarm system. This is off an article on the internet it makes for an interesting read. I remember going into Durham in the 90s and the busses wouldn’t go through the area.
@@coolhandluke2926 Interesting read, that area desperately needed help, I was there in the very bad day's, they didn't accept new people moving in although I originally lived only a couple of miles away. The police had no control it was a living nightmare, it is safer now to walk around but when I look back it was pathetic the way it was aloud to get run down like that.
Believe it or not the first set of houses you showed were built no more than 30 year ago.
Lovely houses when they opened up
Poverty and drugs.
We in the EU respect sovereign wishes for things to end. Godspeed.
I mean, our government lied to us with promises of more money for our health service that never materialised.
Use to live up the road in coronation got chased out as use to rent of a copper
Life there is even worse..
It didn’t look too clever
You should come to newton aycliffe. Go round the dandy and that. It’s great 😅
Will have a tour round in the coming weeks!
Used to be an amazing community always something to do as kids now nothing for the young ones to do now
Then they move in drug addicts drunks the councils from down south pay to move people up here it’s shocking
The councils and police walk round once a year take photos and have clip boards and do not a thing about it
The school is amazing my children go to the school
I still live near the area most people who originally are from Eldon lane are salt of the earth people it’s the other people they put here and know from pact meeting they get paid to move up north 🤯 full expenses paid that’s when the trouble started it’s so sad how it’s ended up
Soo many unused homes and soo many homeless people. Councils need to get organised together, to house the homeless in such places. Even if the people have to move town, they would still have a home.
Wow, this is rundown by British standards. You should really visit russia. Just pick any place at random.