Jaywick Essex Walkabout one of the UK`s most deprived areas

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  • čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
  • Jaywick was originally a holiday resort for Londoners but fell into decline when foreign travel took off from the 60`s onwards. The UK has always has a chronic housing shortage so many of the holiday chalets were let out to people on low incomes. Many of the chalets do not meet modern housing standards and when this occurs Social Issues arise. Government money to the area is slow in coming and poor quality standards are also blamed on chalet landlords who simply have no interest in the upkeep of their properties.

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  • @tago69mago
    @tago69mago Před rokem +114

    Such a shame how Britains seaside towns have ended up. I used to go to Jaywick many years ago when I was a child and it was lovely. I guess foreign holidays killed the income of these places and lack of money and investment has had a major effect.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +13

      Thankyou for the comment. I still feel this place has a future as an artists colony or something it`s just about knocking peoples heads together and getting the UK government to care

    • @markdonovan1540
      @markdonovan1540 Před rokem +8

      @@WorldlyInAction you won't ever get any government to care, but the idea that a kind of bohemian art community or just plain ordinary people coming together in a collective could have some legs. My only doubt would be long time survival against rising sea levels

    • @boofuu3145
      @boofuu3145 Před rokem +4

      @@WorldlyInAction who owns the land? the commercial buildings?

    • @theofarmmanager267
      @theofarmmanager267 Před rokem +3

      @@markdonovan1540 I don’t disagree. If you wait for governments to do something sensible, you will die of old age. Seaside resorts were an invention of the last 2 hundred years; from fishing town to large infrastructures which are no longer required by the population. No community has a divine right to be survive - think of everything from Cornish tin mine communities to rural villages to coal towns to naval dockyards towns. They have to be relevant to the current time. I’ve been going to Deal in Kent for 60 years and remember when it was bustling with Marines and colliery workers. Both of these “industries” went and the town is a shadow of what it was. I really hope it survives but so much has closed down. It’s evolution; nobody said it had to suit everyone.

    • @markdonovan1540
      @markdonovan1540 Před rokem

      @@theofarmmanager267 you make a good point. We'll just have to wait and see. I'll be long gone by then anyway...

  • @felixalbion
    @felixalbion Před rokem +90

    Brooklands was run down for years but it was clean and tidy. It's become like this because of the people that live there.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +15

      Unfortunately so but surely the Government and council could do more?

    • @jamessones4044
      @jamessones4044 Před rokem

      I don’t think it’s solely ‘the peoples fault for being poor’ as you state.
      Have you asked the council to ever tidy something up before?
      They’ve been neglected LIKE THE REST OF THIS not Great Britain.
      I live in a seaside town with a mayor that’s not native?!
      Plenty of immigration claims being pushed through no doubt,property deals that favour ‘her friends’ are all obviously being done. A new mosque is in the pipeline aswell. Cant have the illegal immigrants not being able to pray right? Better not offend them you know.
      ID BE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT PUTINS DONE WHAT HE SAID HED DO TO THIS CRAPPY LITTLE ISRAELI SUBSIDIARY THAT IS BRITAIN.
      SET OFF ONE UNDER WATER BOMB AND SEND A TIDAL WAVE OVER US.
      START AGAIN.
      I HATE THIS COUNTRY

    • @tonyscrap8261
      @tonyscrap8261 Před rokem +9

      And the people coming from outide jaywick dumping their rubbish

    • @cattlebruiser3978
      @cattlebruiser3978 Před rokem +10

      @@WorldlyInAction Talk to some residents about cleaning things up and if enough people volunteer, ask the council for permission/information about getting authorised to clean this stuff yourselves. If no-one volunteers, then you know the people there are a lost cause. If people do volunteer, you can be the start of a positive cycle of improvement.

    • @thealternativeview2692
      @thealternativeview2692 Před rokem +3

      100% gypsies there? Gotta be

  • @newforestobservatory9322
    @newforestobservatory9322 Před 9 měsíci +8

    This is very strange. Back in 1966 when I was 12, we lived in Clacton and I seem to remember Jaywick was a slightly up-market Clacton. How places change!!!!!

  • @doktoruzo
    @doktoruzo Před rokem +67

    It was once a very respectable holiday retreat. Back in the 1920's you could buy a plot of land for about £25 and build a little chalet. Close to the sea with lovely sandy beaches...beautiful.

    • @ltj18taylor73
      @ltj18taylor73 Před rokem +8

      I was going to buy a little house in Jaywick for 40k backin 2019 and do it up.
      Glad I didn't now it looks a scary place to live. sadly

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Interesting. Thankyou for your comment

    • @ianburit3705
      @ianburit3705 Před rokem +6

      @@ltj18taylor73 It's only scary when filmmakers show parts owned by the council due for demolition..NEVER show the better parts.. I retired here on a cold damp January in 2004 after selling my family home we owned for 25 years previous, purchased 2 1/2 plots, extended my once small bungalow, and have both a front door road entrance and a gated entrance to my rear yard and landrover sized carport.. Would I move back to the madness of what is now East London? you got to be joking I`m here till I die, loved being retired here, lots of space, good neighbours, mostly retirees, am 75 now, listen to the waves on our fantastic beaches and go - AHHH..

    • @daveberry2177
      @daveberry2177 Před rokem

      @@ltj18taylor73 well done not to move there

    • @PatrickFDolan
      @PatrickFDolan Před rokem

      @@ianburit3705 you are right about the cherry picking for shock value. I see the same shocking photos of derelict, condemned buildings in American cities that no one even goes near being photoshopped and used by media types to decry the perils of capitalism. Well said.

  • @Sarah-ft8jr
    @Sarah-ft8jr Před rokem +21

    It’s such a shame because if this place was cleaned up I would happily rent one of those chalets to live in and make it really nice. Always wanted to live by the sea.

    • @coranford7463
      @coranford7463 Před rokem +1

      I was thinking the same thing x

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Agree it would be lovely

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 Před rokem

      Yeah at some point some gov will have to invest in it. Must be nice though to live in a quiet area. Def no issues of over tourism I suppose!!

    • @JohnDuffy-bq8wg
      @JohnDuffy-bq8wg Před 10 měsíci

      Had great holidays there back in the 70s

  • @JackoJ15
    @JackoJ15 Před rokem +26

    That beach area and houses on the front could be so so nice. Its crazy how we've let an area go to rack and ruin like that.

  • @martinryder6910
    @martinryder6910 Před rokem +93

    I would rather live in Jaywick than a high rise council flat in London. If you started filming on a south london estate your camera would disappear in minutes

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +13

      Yes there are more dangerous areas for sure

    • @craigsorensen7425
      @craigsorensen7425 Před rokem

      Kip

    • @carmelrea352
      @carmelrea352 Před rokem +1

      Really

    • @tuesdayschild8994
      @tuesdayschild8994 Před rokem

      Not everywhere, some parts are being gentrified. Wouldn't want to love here.

    • @anthonymarlowe6986
      @anthonymarlowe6986 Před rokem +5

      Martin ryder London is a beautiful city yes there's parts. Violence is everywhere evern in these small town drugs gang bring violence. But when it comes to London there's no place l love to live.
      DR Johnson said if any man is tired of London he tired of life. My reply is l never get tired of London and I never get tired of life Tony marlowe.

  • @carolb9549
    @carolb9549 Před rokem +31

    Essex is where my ancestors come from. l live in Australia 4th generation. Over here the prospective councils would go around the streets and pick up junk a couple of times a year with trucks and men. The residents would heap up their unwanted items in piles on the nature strips and that was taken to the local tip. l am not sure if they still do it, but that way people got to live in clean tidy areas.The service was free. lt seems to me that the local councils and greedy government departments don't care about the well being of their people and probably are just waiting for the quaint little homes to fall down so they can make a massive land grab for the developers. These little old shacks are peoples homes, some probably have lived in all their lives, there's a real history about them.The greedy don't see poor people as having feelings or roots to an area, they just count everything in dollars now. lf something doesn't change and we don't consider our people and give them decent treatment the world will further go to hell, God Help Us.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +3

      Great comment

    • @someblokecalleddave1
      @someblokecalleddave1 Před rokem +1

      There's a book written by Jacob Rees Moggs father in the 1990's "The Sovereign Individual" and in the book it clearly lays out a plan for the Conservatives... Basically avoid paying tax at all costs, get yourself rich enough to be able to buy your way out of any situation, because paying no taxes will result in the total break down of society, but do we care... No, because everyone has the opportunity to become a multi-millionaire and a sovereign individual - if you don't that's your problem. They live by this set of values and that have no interest in the lives of the likes of normal people, they despise normal people. You only have to read the book 'Britannia Unchained' by Liz Truss, Kwarzi Karteng, Pritt Paten and Dominic Raab to see what they think of us and yet so many of us either don't vote or like the people that voted for Brexit and the 'Red Wall' voters - they vote for the Tories.

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 Před rokem +17

    Went there on holiday back in the 1970s and it was a nice place back then and it's so sad too see how much its declined.

  • @markdonovan1540
    @markdonovan1540 Před rokem +16

    When I first went there on holiday in the 80s, it was a great place to be on a warm sunny summers day.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +6

      It always amazes me how quickly any residential area can go downhill.Sometimes all it takes is one boarded up house or a bad family to move to the street and that sets up a chain of events

    • @kayb8211
      @kayb8211 Před rokem +1

      It still is 😊 the summers are a bustle full of locals and happy holiday makers.
      I'm on the part of the video where someone comes out and talks to him. I'd be telling you to get lost to be honest!!! Lol

  • @chazw1964
    @chazw1964 Před rokem +8

    In the 50's my great uncle had a small chalet here. No mains water just a stand pipe you had to carry water back from, and only a chemical toilet. My family lived in London so to travel to it, it was a motorbike, a hire car or public transport. The roads and paths look to be refurbished and in very good condition to be fair, the roads are named after old car brands.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Thanks for your comment .Yes and Brooklands after the race track

  • @thatcornishcockney
    @thatcornishcockney Před rokem +40

    The potential for redevelopment here is so overlooked. Theres no room in London with lack of housing or space for new homes, so why not redevelop here. Madness... I had my holidays in Jaywalk when I was a kid. it was never this bad then

    • @davidz3879
      @davidz3879 Před rokem +6

      Tendring is poor, has high unemployment, few facilities & an old population. It's too far from London for commuters. Few young people would want to move there.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +3

      I agree and think eventually the whole area will be redeveloped. Realistically it will be decades away barring major government initiatives.

    • @garyconstant4234
      @garyconstant4234 Před rokem +9

      Problem is that then people won’t be able to afford to move here because new builds will be very expensive as always

    • @jackking5567
      @jackking5567 Před rokem +2

      I also think the sea being fairly level with the place doesn't appeal. Many of those run down properties are on a raised pad for exactly that reason - sea water flooding in.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Před rokem

      Jaywick Essex Walkabout one of the UK`s most deprived areas 1301pm 17.12.22 a cafe and a few ice cream parlours of a summer. and hey o!! yer right - the beach looks pretty cool and very come hither. p.s for the american lady i think you would pronounce this jaywick. as opposed to keswick which you'd pronounce kezik.

  • @tubtub883
    @tubtub883 Před rokem +7

    I see a lot of hidden beauty there ! Thankyou for the walkabout 👍🏻💙

  • @LifeofBrad1
    @LifeofBrad1 Před rokem +27

    Seems to be the way most British seaside towns have gone. Sometimes they look nice on the outside, but beneath the surface, there's poverty, drugs and social issues in general. Apparently Scarborough is one of them. You'd have no idea from a tourist's point of view though. I only found out through something a resident posted on Craptowns years ago. Then you have seaside towns like Blackpool where you can tell they're not doing too good as soon as you drive into them.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Yep they lost their reason to be when car ownership took off together with foreign holidays

    • @tilerman
      @tilerman Před rokem +6

      I was on a break in Cornwall last year and visited one of the popular harbour towns (can't remember name). Bobbing boats, quaint little cottages, souvenir shops, nice bars, fish and chips and packed with tourists. I decided to go walkabout and walked inland about a mile or so. And the contrast was incredible. Streets of prefab houses in terrible state, old cars that will never drive again parked in front gardens, but it was the rubbish, it was everywhere. Really really bad and the locals that i saw looked so dejected. It was quite a sight.

    • @kayb8211
      @kayb8211 Před rokem +1

      This is not a true representation of Jaywick and Clacton. This video he has gone to the worst run down road or 2. So much regeneration has happened around here recently. It's getting better everyday.

  • @Parawingdelta2
    @Parawingdelta2 Před rokem +45

    When I was kid, I had an auntie who lived in one of a number of terraced houses in an old area of Norwich city. I think it was around 1959 when all the residents were relocated to a new council estate and the old places demolished. Our family visited and stayed at the old place on several occasions, and I can say they were far better than what I'm looking at here. Too much focus on foreign immigrants and almost none on the traditional residents it would seem.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Thankyou for that comment. Interesting

    • @anthonyfoulkes1868
      @anthonyfoulkes1868 Před rokem +5

      Just leave immigrants alone, please! They havent done anything and just want a better life!

    • @Parawingdelta2
      @Parawingdelta2 Před rokem

      @@anthonyfoulkes1868 You can't be serious! Have you seen what's coming across the channel to set up house near you. You'll notice they're nearly all young men of military service age. The absence of women, children and elderly suggest they're not fleeing from persecution otherwise they would have stopped at any one of many European countries.
      They pay thousands of pounds to come across in dinghies at some risk as opposed to a cheap air fare and claiming asylum in a legitimate manner for reasons one can only suspect are for nefarious purposes.

    • @alisonlee3314
      @alisonlee3314 Před rokem +19

      ​@@anthonyfoulkes1868 So do the indigenous people

    • @jaydub2546
      @jaydub2546 Před rokem

      ​@@anthonyfoulkes1868 so do I...prick.

  • @kayb8211
    @kayb8211 Před rokem +17

    Lots of beautiful bungalows down the flowers roads, and Broadway, and the whole Jaywick village, Crossways is very nice too. Brooklands people fall on harder times, and that's ok. This wonderful community of Jaywick and Clacton has a beating heart and wonderful people within it. The coast is beautiful. I loved growing up in the surrounding villages and coming to Clacton at the weekends. Hanging at the beach, pier nights. I love Clactons history too. The pier and arcades have had alot of investment in recent years and it looks glorious. Constantly bringing spotlight on a few bad roads, where the properties are owned by mostly cheap landlords who don't live here and rent to desperate people doing no repairs - isn't helping the people that live here really. Alot of the owned are taken care off.
    I grew up around here, and I've travelled around the world and europe, lived abroad. And let me say there is good and bad everywhere, what matters is the heart of a community and Jaywick and Clacton have heart.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Lovely comment thankyou

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 Před rokem

      Very kind. I always say that Essex people have a deserved sense of paranoia. It seems they are unfairly hated.

  • @londonparticulars2968
    @londonparticulars2968 Před rokem +4

    Thanks so much for the tour mate, real eye opener that

  • @karrararra4820
    @karrararra4820 Před rokem +8

    Thankyou for showing us around Essex seaside place

  • @murdenaj
    @murdenaj Před rokem +5

    My sister lives in Jaywick and loves it.

  • @traceyabbott6184
    @traceyabbott6184 Před rokem +6

    my friend used to come on her holidays to Jay wick many years ago, she loved it x

  • @Sandra-ok3dh
    @Sandra-ok3dh Před rokem +36

    I'm in Australia suburb called Davoren Park south Australia...one of Australia's lowest social economic areas...and I'd say wow to jaywick. It's a roof over your head with million dollar views 👍

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Před rokem +4

      I live in Australia in Melbourne in a suburb called Armadale will think myself lucky!

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      What`s it like there?

    • @Sandra-ok3dh
      @Sandra-ok3dh Před rokem +4

      @@WorldlyInAction Davoren Park has a bad reputation...I wouldn't live anywhere else 😄

    • @patking754
      @patking754 Před rokem +15

      I remember seaside holidays in Jaywick in chalets when I was a child .England is being ruined with migration which is changing the demographics of the English way of life. I live in South Australia by the sea ,a beautiful place .

    • @benconner884
      @benconner884 Před rokem +6

      @@patking754 Maybe in Southern England but the North and Scotland has always had poverty and violence. Nothing to do with immigration.

  • @pulchralutetia
    @pulchralutetia Před rokem +38

    I walked past Jaywick a few years ago and did not feel safe. It is an absolute disgrace that this level of poverty is allowed to exist in the UK in 2022.

    • @yootaobe5536
      @yootaobe5536 Před rokem +12

      Maybe the people should stop voting conservatives then

    • @davidz3879
      @davidz3879 Před rokem +8

      It was a mistake to allow people to live long-term in holiday shacks.

    • @davidz3879
      @davidz3879 Před rokem +14

      @@yootaobe5536 It was the same through Labour governments.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      It is a disgrace .It really doesn`t have to be this way

    • @haleytaylor382
      @haleytaylor382 Před rokem +1

      Its not poverty everyone is on the sick. My aunt nan and uncle live in jaywick and you NEVER see the nicer parts on the net x

  • @michaelfrancis7072
    @michaelfrancis7072 Před rokem +7

    I was in Jaywick today, 28/12/22. They are building a big community area as you first drive in, but people are still living in the rundown shacks in poverty. I know it's a start, but peoples housing conditions should be a first prority before this community area.

  • @prairrie
    @prairrie Před rokem +4

    In the 50's my mum took us for a holiday to jaywick.the beds in the bungalow were crawling with red mites I think I was villas usual with to solitude and I was sat in a deckchaire covered cover in a blanket with a umbrella and sunglasse.

  • @MikeNJillPotter
    @MikeNJillPotter Před rokem +7

    My Nan and Grandad had a bungalow down Humber Avenue in the 50’s I spent happy times there as a child.

  • @no_soy_rubio
    @no_soy_rubio Před rokem +4

    Very interesting, reminds me a little of my hometown Sheerness in Kent. Maybe a little less rubbish strewn about the place. And less chalets. Thanks for the tour

  • @mufcmusic8514
    @mufcmusic8514 Před rokem +3

    In the Summer you can take a walk down Jaywick and everyone is pleasent, the wall at which you started off at is a lovely spot.
    It looks miserable because of the time of year and with investment Jaywick will become better but the sea is a worry down there so investors tend to worry about what may happen due to floods.

  • @silverlady1118
    @silverlady1118 Před rokem +4

    Back in the 60's and early 70's we had many a happy holiday in Jaywick, clean, safe and beautiful beaches
    Such a shame, the council needs to invest

  • @suefilby1511
    @suefilby1511 Před rokem +5

    I’ve lived here for over 30 years , lovely place , nice people, wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, fed up with negative comments, no worse than any other parts of the country 🤬🤬

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      I didn`t dislike it at all. I think I could get used to living there tbh

    • @suefilby1511
      @suefilby1511 Před rokem +1

      @@WorldlyInAction sorry I wasn’t pointing the finger at you by any means. But people comment negative remarks. Just because they can.

  • @BennettsCastle1978
    @BennettsCastle1978 Před rokem +3

    Where I live SE London they build all the time which has now made it very over crowded. And still continue to build. Despite the fact our GP surgery has over 10k of patients so cant get an appointment. Trains tubes are so squashed in morning you cant get on them. Over crowdrd London. Yet places like this could be built up and look so nice. If even to take the pressure from over crowded city of London. I am sure people would like to live there if more homes were built there. And on top of the sea too.

  • @thatcornishcockney
    @thatcornishcockney Před rokem +2

    I just subscribed, interesting channel will watch these videos during the week

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Thankyou. I am trying to work out what to do with this channel . I am into travel alot and human interest stories.

  • @daisydaisy7532
    @daisydaisy7532 Před rokem +2

    I remember Jaywick market, very busy then!

  • @tricia4900
    @tricia4900 Před rokem +5

    Shame..if only the council put money into the place..

    • @museonfilm8919
      @museonfilm8919 Před rokem

      The place also needs outside investors, otherwise the Council will just be patching this place up, until it eventually become a ghost town.

  • @graceonline320
    @graceonline320 Před rokem +5

    At least it is not overrun with economic migrants.

  • @sourcecode6467
    @sourcecode6467 Před rokem +2

    Great video squire, Excellent commentary. New sub here.

  • @khadijascorner.
    @khadijascorner. Před rokem +13

    Thanks for sharing this part of the English seaside area. I just wonder what the local council spends the resident's tax payers money on, judging from everything unattended to.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      Good question!

    • @denseljosephs9500
      @denseljosephs9500 Před rokem +2

      Why do the residents bother to pay full council tax .

    • @Dav37558
      @Dav37558 Před rokem +3

      What a lovely place put the migrants here 😂

    • @albertreynolds9287
      @albertreynolds9287 Před rokem +1

      This could be a lovely place it's been abandoned by authority and people left to live in these conditions sad

  • @nickolasmallcott7095
    @nickolasmallcott7095 Před rokem +10

    Looks a great place tol live - appeals more to those beings who have seen the world! Life is what you make it.....prefer it more than Nassua , Bali or Briguton! Just needs elbow greae, work and restoration and the right people will comme back!

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      Main issue here is housing not up to modern standards. If every chalet was rebuilt in an energy efficient way like for like this could become a desirable retirement community for sure

    • @gsomethingsomething2658
      @gsomethingsomething2658 Před rokem

      I agree, it does look like a potentially great place to live. And right next to the sea!

  • @king77703
    @king77703 Před rokem +2

    Great video mate, might be a good idea to come back in the summer n record another video of the beach 👍

  • @annebellette201
    @annebellette201 Před rokem +1

    I didn't think it be like that in your country the house need fixing up bad ..in my country it bad but not as bad as there ...I thought the house be nice and clean live near the beaches there ..thank you for sharing have a great day..

  • @digitd4663
    @digitd4663 Před rokem +11

    I think the residents have got dishearted and lost their self respect. The council have an obligation to clear fly tips and collect unwanted goods if its Co ordinated. Somethings not right, is it a no go area?

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +4

      The area of dereliction is quite small and concentrated. I felt safe at all times but must admit am 6 ft 4 tall and quite intimidating to some people lol

    • @tonyscrap8261
      @tonyscrap8261 Před rokem

      Size don't mean shit lol

  • @patriciaduncan2146
    @patriciaduncan2146 Před rokem +11

    I too spent great family holidays at Jaywick Sands in the 1950s. Lovely little chalets. Free roaming kids mixing. Such a shame. What happened?

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      Foreign holidays diverted funds from the area is one thing

    • @spuddy4845
      @spuddy4845 Před rokem

      no industry, no jobs, everything imported from china

  • @wastemancentral5040
    @wastemancentral5040 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I live near jaywick in clacton and what your showing me honeslty feels like I’m watching a zombie apocalypse vlog after several years of the outbreak happening, I even used to live in jaywick about 10 years ago and I’ve never seen it like this

  • @thingamejignobodyknows4346
    @thingamejignobodyknows4346 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Hopefully this gives you a thought and brings you together! It could be nice there again and bring in visitors and people to spend money

  • @ingowolf4205
    @ingowolf4205 Před rokem +5

    Looks like every gypsi-town in serbia and bulgaria, just cleaner.

  • @thefixitlator8754
    @thefixitlator8754 Před rokem +11

    It was nice ONCE just like the rest of Great Britain was

  • @neilwatcham8932
    @neilwatcham8932 Před rokem +1

    Think that was seasick at the start. It's beautiful in the summer..the building you was in was a nice cafe...I used work on Tower holiday park in the late 90s witch again is lovely in the summer.. people do tend to invest there for the future .... but just leave the land alone until the area gets better 1 day this will be a lovely town...

  • @wilrc6
    @wilrc6 Před rokem +2

    My nan had a caravan in Seawick and me and my friends when we stayed there used to walk to clacton for the day along the seawall and pass through here. It was nothing like this - odd plot would need a bit of work but it had a holiday feel to it. Such a shame to see it like this.

  • @jackieswales8725
    @jackieswales8725 Před rokem +4

    Our childhood with our parents went to jaywick for a week holidays every year in 1960until 1968 and the place was forced closed down!!!! Very sad !

  • @charlesedwards4160
    @charlesedwards4160 Před rokem +3

    It's just like Canvey Island, without the Dip 😁

  • @edwardsnowdenofficial
    @edwardsnowdenofficial Před rokem +6

    Not too bad? The beach at Jaywick is amazing! :)

  • @danny2me70
    @danny2me70 Před rokem +8

    i really struggle how local councils and the government can let areas end up this way ,there local council seemed to have gave up and thats wrong ,we all have a right to live in houses that are up to a certain standard and these houses are not and why are the council letting private landlord abuse there tenants providing sub standard housing ,its a crime and a disgrace .

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      I struggle too since the actual expenditure here of keeping litter and clearing up flytipping here is surely not that much compared with say building a new road for example

  • @gina94539
    @gina94539 Před rokem +4

    There are also nice parts of Jaywick too. Any where you go there will always be somewhere thats run down.

  • @jeanmay-millman4124
    @jeanmay-millman4124 Před rokem +1

    I wish I could do something for them but not rich enough to make jaywick years ago when I was on holiday there 😢Ps Thanks for letting me be at Jaywick whilst being at home 1👍I love the chalets they have oddly worldly character.

  • @brianlopez8855
    @brianlopez8855 Před rokem +3

    Fascinating place. Its like a down market version of Fairbourne, Gwynedd, also by the sea with issues of flooding.

  • @1961kickboxer
    @1961kickboxer Před rokem +6

    I wouldn’t mind living in a bungalow there near the sea .

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      The beach is wonderful

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 Před rokem

      You really wouldn’t. It’s worse than Southend where I live and that’s grim

  • @Kat-hx3hh
    @Kat-hx3hh Před rokem +2

    Wherever you go in the world you find parts of the area run down. He is just focusing on the negative parts.
    Jaywick has some lovely parts as well.
    Especially in the summer.
    The sea front is nice, my mum moved to Clacton on sea year's ago, me and my kids visited a lot when they were a lot younger.
    Try living in London!
    You will see how quick you would be running back to Jaywick! 🤭

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      I intend to do another video looking at the good parts. Its a fair comment though that the bad parts shouldn`t be this way in 21st Britain so it is correct to highlight them

    • @Kat-hx3hh
      @Kat-hx3hh Před rokem +1

      @@WorldlyInAction That is good ☺️, looking forward to watching it!

  • @WalkingUK
    @WalkingUK Před rokem +2

    Nice video ....Keep up the good work

  • @dave8204
    @dave8204 Před rokem +3

    Tragic what it's turned into. I had some great holidays there as a kid.
    It could easily be like Dungeness is now quirky place where people want to live. Right now it's almost a dumping ground to keep "unwanted" people out of sight.

  • @ou81aswell
    @ou81aswell Před rokem +4

    My Nan and Grandad lived on Coppins Road in Clacton from the 30's to the early 80's. Grandad was a sign-writer. He worked on the busses and the pier. We visited a couple of times a year. I have fond memories of Jaywick. I imagined that that was where the elves (that worked at Butlin's) lived. It turns out that Butlin's never hired elves. Such is the imagination of a ten year old.

  • @robhowarth77
    @robhowarth77 Před rokem +4

    What a squalid state of affairs ! The council needs their butts kicked into high gear and government funds are urgently needed to correct this . The landlords who are letting these properties to tennants should also be forced to do a minimum amount of maintainance on these properties or forfeit them to the council .

  • @mikeneville9149
    @mikeneville9149 Před rokem +2

    Really really happy i moved to New Zealand, gorgous clean place,

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Yes I have been to New Zealand I like it there

    • @newforestobservatory9322
      @newforestobservatory9322 Před 9 měsíci

      We moved from Clacton (down the road from Jaywick) to New Zealand, Takapuna. Unfortunately we bloody well came back again :( :( :(

  • @thedubwhisperer2157
    @thedubwhisperer2157 Před rokem +4

    As the old saying goes: It's the Pig Which Makes the Sty...
    Much of the cleaning up would cost nothing but time.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      That`s what I don`t get the budget to do so small for the gain

  • @jenniferlowery6586
    @jenniferlowery6586 Před rokem +6

    The town had plenty of potential. Beautiful waterside

  • @josephbarker6608
    @josephbarker6608 Před rokem +6

    What more could someone want for a lovely beach apartment not far from London,🥴 in general the east side of England is very depressing.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      It`s near in distance but the travel time on decrepit infrastructure is awful imao

  • @christophermaddams3723
    @christophermaddams3723 Před rokem +11

    We have to remember that the state of these areas does not just happen. People make a mess, whether it is council owned or private. We cannot blame the council or government for the mess. It does need clearing but again it costs and who will pay the Bill. Not the people who make the mess. It's a shame as I used to enjoy a little holiday in Jaywick, many many years ago.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      I agree it costs but but main point is compared to the bigger picture of a council budget surely the cost of clear up is a very small percentage for such a large environmental gain?

    • @suecoo66
      @suecoo66 Před rokem

      Most of Jaywick is owned by private landlords

  • @kenneyg100
    @kenneyg100 Před rokem +2

    Lovely to cycle all the way from School street in Jaywick to Frinton.

  • @trudygoosney3708
    @trudygoosney3708 Před rokem +7

    This is Canada as well so sad that this is happening all over the world

    • @rafar4653
      @rafar4653 Před rokem

      not everywhere believe me come to more civilized countries like Poland, people live in real houses clean streets .

    • @PatrickFDolan
      @PatrickFDolan Před rokem

      @@rafar4653 hahahaha 🤣

  • @AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

    Very good walk around video. It's interesting how this place came to be like this, but as bad as things are, it does have a certain charm about it. I'd also much prefer to live here than in one of those nightmare American hellhole cities.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Thankyou so much for the comment I follow your videos with interest too

  • @MrNaKillshots
    @MrNaKillshots Před rokem +4

    I go there every year for my 2 week holiday.

  • @normanedwards7220
    @normanedwards7220 Před rokem +4

    You need to visit TOXTETH, if you want to see deprived , ......do not wear expensive watches, and make sure you protection is up to it

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Thankyou. I have been there before but not to do a video. Are there are particular streets to focus on there?

  • @justinstaines997
    @justinstaines997 Před rokem +3

    Was a nice place many years ago

  • @flashtheoriginal
    @flashtheoriginal Před 10 měsíci +5

    Ive got an idea. Rehouse the good people of Jaywick in nice hotels and put the pampered "no-one can touch us" ILLEGAL immigrants in these Jaywick homes. Seems fair to me

  • @dannyward673
    @dannyward673 Před rokem +8

    These were all holiday chalets back in the day, then people started to live in them permanently. The council are to blame really because they should of banned living in them and only allowed holidays which they were designed for. Butlins going really killed the local economy and it’s never been the same ever since. Investing in a location in Clacton or around Jaywick for artists would definitely be the way forward for sure. Maybe in the future as temperatures are now rising people will look to stay for holidays at home and this will help rejuvenate the old seaside towns. I used to go Walton on the naze as a kid and then memories I cherish as such happier times.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +3

      Council and Goverment . Government fund councils alot.

    • @version736ha2
      @version736ha2 Před rokem +3

      Artists yes. Piss artists, no

    • @dannyward673
      @dannyward673 Před rokem +2

      @@version736ha2 😂😂😂quality comment. Pmsl

    • @version736ha2
      @version736ha2 Před rokem

      @@TONE11111 hooray

    • @benitopussolini544
      @benitopussolini544 Před rokem +1

      Temperatures are now rising.! FFS stop believing all that shit that's pumped out of that TV.its a scam,wake up!

  • @scottyjoe21
    @scottyjoe21 Před rokem +6

    It is so hard to see how places that should be booming for residences on the coast can be run down.
    Governments no longer care as long as their gain from politics makes them rich.
    If this keeps up we will see riots I fear.

  • @richard4short5
    @richard4short5 Před rokem +3

    I think the location is terrific. The weather is wild and harsh on the buildings though.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Location fine, lovely beach

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 Před rokem

      It’s very windy in the winter but the fact it’s looked down on so much at least means it’s never too busy!

  • @lonewolfandcub668
    @lonewolfandcub668 Před rokem +1

    Saying that can't the council atleast make the empty properties safe?

  • @rolandsmith2141
    @rolandsmith2141 Před rokem +4

    The council are accountable, how can they let it get to that level.

    • @jackhemm98
      @jackhemm98 Před rokem

      what do you expect from the tories

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 Před rokem +8

    Bet the landlords would be _interested_ if the tenants stopped paying their rent 🤣

  • @odakyuodakyu6650
    @odakyuodakyu6650 Před rokem +3

    8:59 proper Waynetta voice there.

  • @Suffolktruckspotting
    @Suffolktruckspotting Před rokem +1

    There lovely people on brooklands I also like jaywick good video

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Thankyou. I liked walking round there and meeting some of the locals

  • @mattottie6410
    @mattottie6410 Před rokem +5

    Thats million dollar property right there, needs investment, lots of potential....

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Definitely potential. Many ideas spring to mind, an artists colony just one of them

    • @bid84
      @bid84 Před 9 měsíci

      @@WorldlyInActionleper colony

  • @martin5504
    @martin5504 Před rokem +5

    I'd rather live there than in a city high rise.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Yep unless the high rise has got an exceptional view maybe? Eg the London Skyline.

  • @barringtonsmith9147
    @barringtonsmith9147 Před rokem +3

    People need to see things like this

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      I totally agree. Many people simply have no idea the size of the underbelly in the UK. And many Asians think we all take afternoon tea whilst eating Scottish shortcake

  • @ANTHONYBOOTH
    @ANTHONYBOOTH Před rokem +1

    I nearly moved there back in 2010; - was having video conferences with a geyza called STEVE YATES ...reckoned he owned half of Jaywick and had a spare house for me ...tried the 'change of plan' bit at the last minute... - wanted me to share a place with his younger brother... I went to UNI instead.....

  • @poolio_69
    @poolio_69 Před rokem +2

    Spent many a summer holiday here as a child....seen through young eyes in the 90's it didnt seem too bad. Although was never great. Has gone downhill since it seems i drove through a year or 2 ago and couldnt wait to leave. Shame really.

  • @Froggen88
    @Froggen88 Před rokem +3

    Jaywick has really lovely soft sand beaches

  • @Bignfluffy
    @Bignfluffy Před 10 měsíci +2

    I’m thankful we still have natural beauties like Devon,Cornwall,Lake District and the highlands etc

  • @roychivers8134
    @roychivers8134 Před rokem +12

    JAYWICK has one of the closest communities..... there are major plans afoot to re develope jaywick.........so please don't run it down.....

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Yes there is alot of potential for the place. I do show some of the redevelopment in the video

  • @winningsides7347
    @winningsides7347 Před rokem +2

    It's sad that this seaside town has ended up, if only it got some investment put into it, it could be what it was years ago, or something close to it.

  • @scottyj8135
    @scottyj8135 Před rokem +1

    I am wondering the prices of them abandoned homes I bet they still worth grands especially the commercial premises.

  • @ducati916SPS
    @ducati916SPS Před rokem +4

    Shelling practice for the Royal Navy best thing for it.....👍

  • @Sluetch90
    @Sluetch90 Před rokem +3

    People are always quick to be horrible and negative but at the end of the day some people have to take what they can get / afford. As long as there is a roof over their heads in winter ect and out of the elements as well as possible I'd imagine they take it over homelessness.

  • @firstmotorhome8024
    @firstmotorhome8024 Před rokem +2

    Very informative. Good journalism and you are very talented 👍

  • @DavidHoins
    @DavidHoins Před 5 měsíci +1

    The jewel in the crown of the county of Essex

  • @AlexAlexon3897
    @AlexAlexon3897 Před rokem +3

    Gentrification hasn't taken over all of the south-eastern UK! In a strange way, that's quite comforting.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +2

      Of course. If it had where would all the minimum wage or near minimum wage workers live?

  • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
    @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Was looking for Onslow to drive by backfiring away

  • @Gabriel-qh5yv
    @Gabriel-qh5yv Před rokem +2

    I wish have a house clouse to sea ... looks forgotten in time but peaceful

  • @snerper
    @snerper Před rokem +5

    Obviously most of the roads were named after old car brands, Humber, Riley, etc.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem +1

      Yes thanks for that. Should have mentioned that on the video plus that bit of Jaywick called Brooklands

    • @snerper
      @snerper Před rokem +1

      @@WorldlyInAction Thanks Mark, nice vid there, have a nice Xmas and take care Mark!

    • @tonyscrap8261
      @tonyscrap8261 Před rokem

      Should of done a bit of research before opening your mouth on blog first

  • @tomrounds
    @tomrounds Před rokem +3

    I hear your comments regarding the proliferation of fly tipping on the properties you filmed. You should know that there is no statutory requirement for the local council to clear up such mess. It always remains the responsibility of the property owner to clear up the mess not the public purse.

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Is that good enough? Surely things can be done better?

    • @michaelgoulding6609
      @michaelgoulding6609 Před rokem

      i,d just pile everything up that will burn & set fire to it. its the easyest & best way to get rid of rubbish

  • @shellycollins8631
    @shellycollins8631 Před rokem +1

    I can't believe he showed my old place lol I cud never live there again

    • @WorldlyInAction
      @WorldlyInAction  Před rokem

      Thanks for the comment hope the memories weren`t too bad there