The Boot Estate "The worst estate in Europe"
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2012
- A short film I shot in 2 days in 2005. During the run up to Liverpool being European Capital of Culture 2008 I found a housing estate whose residents had been pushed & pulled in all directions in order to create a new 'space age' estate. It did not quite go to plan.
They let these places get run down, so they are worth less. Then developers buy cheap and sell at hyper-inflated prices. It's a crime.
I thought it was to group poor people into areas and let them become poorer.
+hameythehamster Sure there's no profit in that.
Sunspear45 There's tonnes of ways the government/companies could profit from this: decreased land value being bought, increased tourism in high wealth areas, companies could "save" the area and increase it's revenue through media coverage, ect.
agreed.
***** Who are you?
I actually live on where this estate was, and seeing how it used to be shocks me. All the old houses have been knocked down, the crime rate has decreased dramatically, and nice newly built houses have been built around the whole place. Completely different atmosphere to this video and even looks like a different planet to this. Mad
Is it still free social housing?
@@markoredano9141 no it's a privet estate
R Conlon....Nasty very nasty.
They will have all been moved elsewhere so that fancier houses were able to be built. That way the illusion of ‘sorting the place’ can be portrayed
Stuart Montgomery it’s the people that need sorting not the area
Feel sorry for the woman in red cardigan she seems really nice & genuine in an area that’s been abandoned by the council 😢
There are decent people in the world but nobody listens to them.
She looks old enough to have gotten her shit together and moved if she really wanted it that bad
@@pottr147 she said she’d been there 30 years , maybe some people don’t want to move
@@pottr147 paddy conroy.?
@@unknownmale6343 No Sir
10:40 It’s so sad to see this pure talent locked away within the realms of the one place you should feel safe - from a fellow poet and author
why is that kid trying to hide himself, if its not like he can be identified thanks to advanced scouse cloning techniques
Stew Fisher amazing
He isn't even a bad kid
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Makes me think of the scene in 'four lions' where they are shaking their heads so the CCTV came out 'blurry'😂😂😂😂
@@loulou1356 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🤦🏻♂️
What an amazing poem by the lady just before the end. So prescient and true. I wish her the best.
Ik must of had alot of time on her hands..
Slums aren't built, they're created
That's the same thing genius
What
@@Tisapery it's flew over ur head, so you build a brand new housing estate, and you fill it with ppl, the local employers make redundancy, and you only need 2 of them unemployed ppl to start selling drugs on that estate, but there's many other ways that an estate can go from good to bad, give the kids nothing to do, boom, they're smashing up empty houses, penny dropped??
Yep, social and economic engineering.
You’ve obviously never been to India or Brazil, where the slums are built from scratch by people who have nothing
"shes a poet" :') - then her poem was pretty tight :)
Oh wow i read your comment the exact moment she recited her little diddy!
Wintry Cal Her poem was so good in my opinion!
@@Luke_05 lol I made that comment a year ago :)
@@Ubiets paddy conroy.?
That's the posh part of Liverpool😂😂
Im Lynx bullshit seem Liverpool 1
Im Lynx 1 mil burnt house 5mil new one 😂
This is all be done up now dickhead brand new houses and more houses are still in the making this is in Norris Green
Nah Liverpool is a shithole like I live here but I live in childwall which is apparently posh haha 😂
Im Lynx it really isn't I've been there its calm
why is this in my recommended?
Same
+Jump man lol why
Where you watching devvo
ikr
+Ciaran Branniff hahaaha good 1 you just made my day lol 😂😂😂😂
This is where Jeremy Kyle did most of his casting.
Where Tommy Robinson finds his EDL members lol
@@ongen9070 EDL famously haven't had much luck in Liverpool
@@chiip90 now that I think of it, I don’t think I saw many scoucers on the Jeremy Kyle show either... they were mostly from Yorkshire and that
@@ongen9070 I was about to say this I ain't never seen a scouser on Jeremy Kyle haha
With a name like ‘ Mute Stingray’, I can’t imagine you look any better 😂😂😂
Excellent film. Rounded off beautifully by the poet. Wishing there was more justice.
This is a really sad story and yet everyone thinks it's okay to make fun of them. As a society, we shouldn't allow anywhere to get this bad. Great film btw. Kudos.
When the government gives incentives for people to not work and have kids they can't afford for the wrong reasons, then it's only going to head one way.
@@johnmitchell2269 rubbish
@@jenny2tone242 paddy conroy.?
@@unknownmale6343 who??
10:40 Spontaneous, free-form poetry... If that is not culture, man; Then I don't know what culture
is, man.
Ngl i laughed when i originally heard "she's a poet" then she rattled of the poem at the end and I'm like, shit she's actually quite good 😆
Open your eyes
When they said that lady was a poet I thought yeah right, but her poem was actually really good, and I don't usually like poems. You can tell she is writing from the heart.
What a beautifully talented women at the end! That poem was close to a bar. Exceptional! 👌🏻
That woman is obviously a very good poet. I thought her little poem about Liverpool City of Culture was very perceptive. Does anyone know if she has any work published? I think she's great.
Same.
Yeah she’s decent .
Yeah, I'd love to know a bit more about her life. Very interesting lady
@@AkaimpconeI used to get babysat by her, in that house, when I was a kid. Very fucking strange to see her here.
Very nice work Stuart. The Poet is very good. I'd love to hear more of her work.
How depressing. I feel sorry for decent folk who had no choice but to live there. A similar estate in Hull is in the process of being demolished. Passed it once. You would feel like a sitting duck living there, afraid to leave your house.
When built, this was a beautiful and much sought after estate. I remember it. Slums are NOT built... ya know?
@@lindadaulby it's not the age, otherwise the historical centres of cities should be the worst parts. It's maintenance. Besides, slums can be gentrified.
The people make it a slum no pride in were you live
linda daulby my house is 400 years old and in perfect condition
I saw photos of this estate when new in the early 30s and it looked beautiful,neat and tidy, tended gardens attractive cottage type look to the houses.I bet the first residents coming from real slums thought they were in heaven.
You obviously didnt catch the part where it says the council moves in junkies and ignores it when gangs burn down houses.
Put me right off my swan sandwich.
Haha, good job as we'll..the queen will have ya head for that 😉
#FuckTheQueen #SexPistols #English
I know right, I was just tucking into my badger cob.
That comment made me drop my corgi skull tankard.
lmao
these kids started the fashion trends of today. Respect
All scrounging inbreds there a disgrace
ANGEL snow shut up mate
@@angelsnow2695 you wouldn't be fucking saying that if you were in their position, be thankful that your living area isn't like this
@@CEO.Of.Money.Machine. paddy conroy.?
@@angelsnow2695 you had it nice in life ahlie any trainers and console your mum would supply .... you shit your pants over these estates thats why u watch it you fraggle...
I love the lines of poetry right at the end.
He should go back now (2016) and see if there's any improvement.
Lemme answer that for you - there isn't lol.
they acutely have done the work
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpools-boot-estate-homes-4m-5268452
Great link. Looks nice hopefully it stays that way.
I hope them works aren't like estates in London, they just do the area up and move the same people or people very similar back in.
Axeman K9 probably is. It happens a lot doesn't it?
Meanwhile the Community Services Director of Liverpool City Council is paid 450K a year. The Council is not shy about spending money on it's own wages.
450 a year really now? Well at least he/she is working unlike these scumbags
No work in those areas probably at least no work worth more to them than what they get on dole.
look up where the council tax goes,,,, council pensions
Is he fuck getting paid that much.
“Teenage Gangs”
MATE THEY LOOK ABOUT 9
@@Danny3601000 ok
Right, because the only teenagers that exist there are 9.
They r bout 11
Maybe they’re like 13-14, early teens
@@lovemanga1407 nah defo not
I feel sorry for the woman at then end...
She's actually only 27 years old but living on that estate has clearly taken it's toll!
She's not fucking 27 dude... 47 maybe but even that seems a little unbelievable. Unless she has some kinda disease
Did drugs come into it ?
10:05 !! Jane is an awesome poet- i hope shes doing good.
Amazing. Thought the same myself 👍
You could turn her poem into a rap lol
Worst in Europe? Try going through the eastern block. Makes this place seem like a holiday
You Wish even eastern block looks better. Britain has rubbish places.
Trust me parts of Romania/Slovakia/Hungary etc that are run by gypsies make this place look like heaven on earth.
Don King he's right I live in Wales and I've been to some sites and seen some shit but those Slav towns look like Chernobyl. It's nothing like this watch some pieces on VICE some of those place over there are almost as bad as Middle Eastern and South American countries....theres probably towns in Africa all the way to the Philippines all the way to South America worse than anything you've ever seen before, look at Juarez Mexico or medilin in Columbia, some kid ticks 3.5grams of flake to sell for food for his family of 8, can't make the money back because junkies never pay up....ends up getting his whole family beheaded with their heads on their chests in the street for everyone to see, all over 15bucks....now that is rough, people don't realise how easy we got it and I'm in a predicament myself ATM 😂
When they say that wha they mean is western Europe.
Sobering. I hope never to discover for myself. Thank you. You speak very well to camera, and fluently.
I love Liverpool and the North of England, I love all the Northern regions and their folks. Writing from Abergavenny, South Wales :-)
That’s a bold statement.😂
@@MrtheChief1 Loll ! I don't love the Chavs obviously :)
So you hate the south then ? Lol 😝
Yes, Loll. Not really. I live close to English border and enjoy visiting regular and often :)
UK houses are like the wardrobe of a US house.
i agree lol and yet those americans still moan and say shit like, i need to move out of this tiny mansion i need somwhere bigger for my limo 😂 typical...
That's so Americans can fit their fat arses in them.
What you call. The gun store,
King isn’t that cause they’re made out of plastic lol fall apart when it’s a hurricane
Yeah but at least uk houses don’t crumble when the big bad wolf has a go off them
How did i know this was gonna be in scouseland. Fuck sake.
I know, its a bit up market compared to Manchester.
I live in Surrey and there are still places like this. No matter where you go, you'll always find scummy brittan :P
meandthis mac WOAAAAAAAHHHH dayum you fuckin wrekt him
CakeyTheLegend meandthis mac Stitched me up there you mate. I'll get me coat #not
MancNotEngliish #not ooh edgey
I feel so sad for the families living there.
love your film its hard to come from that back ground to change your life , its hard to believe that people can make a difference but we can
Poem at the end is wonderful.
this is NOT poverty, this ethic, moral and family. i am Afghan, and i can tell, in Afghanistan the most poorest part of it can not see like this. the reasons is people in that country are family orientated, and value, even though they are much much poorer than these people in EU. so please STOP moaning about MONEY MONEY and MONEY, you have plenty money what you don't have is ethic, moral, and family...! most of these kids are from one night stand.. those decent English people who were brought up in close family.. would never allow themselves to do wrong things because of poverty.
Very true
***** What do you mean no poverty in Britain? Look at the fucking statistics of Scotland.
There are people who can only afford to eat either a pack of sausages or have central heating for a day.
Gangs up here would stab you for your wallet just to get a quick meal.
the basic and pivotal aspect of poverty is affordability. not what you have in your pocket! you might be a millionaire, and you lose all your money in one night by gambling, but that dosnt make you classed as in poverty. when i say affordability, i mean people IF they want to work and find legal money, there are so many ways. in UK. i life in shared house, Chinese, European and Afghan. the English Guy keep complaining of not having money. while he can work his english is good and so on.. the Chinese guys is in full-time education also part-time job. what you call this? i call it the english guy is just lazy. he is the one welcomed poverty not this country. this country gave him plethora of opportunities but you just cant comprehend.
***** i didnt not wanted to stir tension between my country and UK. that was not my intention at all. i Love UK, and just said what i believed was true, if i offended you i am sorry but that was not my intention at all. with regards to cunts.. we have no statistic shows number of cunts in UK is less or more than Afghanistan, i am not going to that sphere. when i talk, i do my utmost to make sense. not trash talking !
***** thanks man, i do like this country a lot and i just opined what i believed, and i even brought Afghanistan issue as an example so people can think, differently.
Keep up the poetry girl ! Good luck to ya x
Living in Liverpool..ive never been to this area..but im told its not like this now in 2018...all big cities have places like this though.. in Liverpool you have the countries best architecture..best waterfront etc..and i can show you houses worth millions of pounds..lovely areas.. There are places falling to bits in London..manchester birmingham..glasgow..bristol..etc..
You live in liverpool you've never been to or through Norris green?
They're waiting for everyone to move out, so they can knock it down and build a gated paradise.
Gated paradise on Merseyside is an open prison elsewhere.
You could make this in every city in the UK
+Perennial Cookie Why?What did I say?But anyway,fuck you,too,if that makes you happy behind your keyboard
+suffern63 Only "could"? It is every city is it not?
+suffern63 was guna say, seen plenty of places perhaps even worse than this street , its like its becoming a phenomenon across parts of the country
Apart from Ely...and maybe norwich if you don't include mile cross or larkman
+suffern63 it isn't where you live, it's the people you are around and no you couldn't lol, you probably don't live in the UK.
The lady with the poem... wow what an incredible poem!
I love the way these people talk! I would like to visit someday!
Well there's room here 🙂
@@lillanky why go to Smithdown lad shithole
@Samuel Dominic ye you’ve got me there mate only decent thing on smithdown
@Dominic paddy conroy.?
You must be a real glutton for punishment.
Jane Canning is a brilliant poet & nails it when she speaks of the ruination of 'The Boot Estate'
This areas actually been sorted out since this documentary aired, it's up for some award now
Thieves and junkies will never change no matter what the house (free) is like
As a student studying cinematography and filmmaking this was a really great watch. Very interesting topic as well, nice one mate!
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The Last of Us III
50 shades of chav
lol
***** what
***** I know what chav stands for... Don't call me un educated if you can't use capital letters or words properly. I have never heard of ARECLEARLY before. Using capital letters while talking to someone is very rude. I was making a joke out of 50 shades of grey. You need to calm your ham, mate.
***** I didn't read all of that because it seemed like you copied it straight from Wikipedia or something but I read the main bits and still really don't see how that has anything to do with my joke about 50 shades of grey mixing with chavs.. I do not support anyone just by saying chav.. Black people sometimes say the N word when talking to their friends, they aren't supporting the slavery of blacks, are they? No. They're just using the word like they would any other.
Ok
It's a lost cause really, they should change it into like a massive paintball site or something like that
Ahh!! That would be amazing!! Imagine playing paintball there!
How tf is paintballing for pussys ive done both and paintballing hurts so much fucking worse
Splat splat Girl depends on how many kids they have.
Productions4You nah airsoft
Why change it ?. just turn up with your guns and masks and fire away.
3 years after everyone else saw it and I finally get it in my recommended.. Thanks CZcams.
The only place in the uk where the window cleaner has a ‘sander’. 👍
😂😂
Classic I’ll remember that one 👍
I’ve been laughing for two mins!
Bernard manning classic
And Kate Adie is the Avon Lady! 🤣
The city planners should be sacked for allowing a whole estate to get like this. Boarded up houses spread like wildfire in any part of the country. And though the police might feel like they're being asked to parent these kids, ignoring the problem is not acceptable.
And then rich developers come in, buy it all dirt cheap, move all the inhabitants out, demolish it all, put up rich houses and sell for astronomical profits.
I liked the poem at the end, turns out she wrote it too. Hope she got one of the fancy new houses they finally built.
Yes, just what I needed this afternoon! , A video of the worst estate in Europe!
Great poem there me lovely!
My nan and grandad live near here and the area has been done up with new houses etc. It's weird watching this film and seeing how different it was just 12 years ago
Well that's good
It is sad. A lot of these low income places have some very nice people living in them and the areas are nice, well kept. Then you get one rotten apple move in and that's it. All the way down from there. They should monitor families in these places. I don't mean spy on them but if they don't keep their area clean, constant complaints about them, give them 2 warnings, if they don't adhere give them the boot. Why should they make the other tenant's lives miserable?
Insane ending wow she has talent
Shame she’s not more well known.
The poem at the end really hits home
I just love the woman at the end.
Her poem was exceptional
lying little fuckers they are the gangs
We're not in Europe anymore 😭😭
+Mohammed Abdirashid we are just not In the European Union
yeah good i am glad we are not
now they call it Iraq lol what an insult to iraq
haha iraq
what s the post code Mate?
A rack*
L11 1A* - * is from A - P if I recall correctly. The lads with the lock knife are sat in L11 1AJ area IIRC. The post codes (mentioned) aren't used anymore (for that area; as far as I know anyway) so it's not easy to properly pin point the location.
+sirplantain cheers Mate. thanks God I live in Waterloo L21 - it's a safe place to live Lpool
This is where half the England football team are from....
This happened to the Billy Banks estate in Penarth. Community was left to rot because it was on prime real estate.
SHAME ON PAUL MCCARNTYEY AND RNINGO STARR FOR NOT BUYING LIVERPOOL
+Rahul Kemp WAIT FOR IT COMRADE
GRAB YOUR PITCHFORK WE MARCH TONIGHT
NUMBER 9
Why would they ?
These places have nothing on similar areas in Glasgow.
Liverpool is worse than Glasgow
Its not a competition mate
+ZukaTheShitGamer aye right a live 30 mins away fae glasgow and if you came near mauchline,auchinleck,cumnock or glasgow u would get stabbed lol
Look at the crime statistics, Glasgow is much worse.
+Kyle Shankland glasgow crime rates are at an all time low
took a while, but a year or so after this was uploaded (not filmed) they actually did regenerate the area
That poem that the wee woman tells you it hits home so much.
Liverpool Council should be disgusted with there self.
Proud people so stop treating them all like they are all bad because it's not the truth.
Well done for Standing your Ground. 👌
To think the kids in this video are either dead or in prison.
or living on benefits with their 8 kids!
@jujitsuman68 wdym
Good!
@ell arr ess triggered
L for them
There are many far worse places. Some of the sink housing in Paris is terrifying.
" .. will the new wells ever filter through to the likes of me and you ?"
That is quite good.
Wealth not wells
@@andrewbirch893 Thanks !
Wealth not wells!
Why’s this in my recommended
Awesome poem!
1:40
"I can't let mummy see me or I'll be grounded!"
Love the poem !!
Love the poem ❤
Dey do do dat der don't dey
Go ed
Eh eh eh, calm down, calm down.
+1701spacecadet away you larrrr
Erm.................
arr ay lad your off ya barno chattin pyaa shit like dat
Thumbs up! I mean for highlighting the issue. 😉
Did the lady towards the end of the video, write that poem she recited? There is worth in everyone's life, no matter what place you come from, intelligence knows no boundary, it is nowhere, it is everywhere. I hope those good people's lives improve and get better.
Old video of an area that was waiting for regeneration. Lots of work has been done and this area has changed for the better.
the swing of that brom 7:05
How can people in this county live this way yet and old woman wears a million pound hat how is this fair? Changes need to be made!
Never heard of a million pound hat but do you think people should have their money taken to give to Scousers etc....taxes are high enough for high earners
@@pj5517 ur an evil capitalist
@@saltney17 nope it’s called personal responsibility you aren’t entitled to anyone else’s money deal with it
@@bdhfhbhrebfg466 Well said! 👏👏👏
400m* and that is just 1 gem on her crown
Great documentary Stuart
Excellent poem love. I hope you’re doing well.
So I guess this is the Detroit of England?
Pretty much, But there is areas Like this in every city in England.
Got family who live in Detroit
+Dolly Belladonna why
NRGoon
They decided to emmigrate years ago .. we don't speak to them
No...this IS England
The way she started spitting bare bars at the end tho 👌😂
not this americanism
What does that mean?
@@dnr2089 It means like rapping mate, however I posted this comment when I was about 14 I'm now 18 and looking back and cringing 😂😭
I saw Boot and immediately thought this was gonna be a video about the USMC, this was not expected, but it is welcome.
That woman describing her living hell at 4.50 sadly goes into one ear and out the other for so many people who wouldn’t understand it so don’t care and more than likely don’t believe her and think she’s on the blag for extra dole or a new house, she isn’t. It’s a shocking state of affairs all over the UK my cousin was a shaking shitting mess for months and the council didn’t care a jot then moved her a massive 0.3 miles across the estate in a different bungalow surrounded by the same people - and she’s a little game popular fucker so the ones who are basically vulnerable adults have no chance it’s time more was done; the piss taking ones are beyond visible to spot and deny help the councils know who needs help they just don’t give it
jesus, worst estate! It would be glorious for some people.
Aye smack heads
+Connor M yeah cos drug addicts just love living in shitty places,,,,,,,not!
Caroline Smith They create them
You have to see it now.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpools-boot-estate-homes-4m-5268452
Ryan Fuller pretty good that. Hopefully it can stay that way
The woman at the end may not look the part but a street poet she definitely is:-)
***** She has the gift alright. I live just around the corner from where she used to live. Most of this estate has gone and been replaced now. Does she still live in the area?
***** Where did you move to?
***** I like Newcastle. I've been there a few times:-)
Daniel Welsh"Probably!" I meant no offence with my comment. I was just pleasantly surprised at her talent:-)
ianrkav no harm done, we have to much passion as people, scousers that is
My nan lived in anfield up street from the stadium. I remember it used to be so friendly. Was quite sad by time she passed she was one of the only people left down the street. Was sad seing all the metal grates on the windows and doors of all the house. They been doing the area up. It's sad that some places are turned into shit holes so other places are made to look good to the public!
same happened where i live in the 1980's my area where i lived was a nice place to live, but the council decided they wanted to regenerate the area so the dragged all the crap from everywhere into my area crime went up the nice people moved out and now its turned into a rough area. I think people should start to sue the council.
Dear GOD SO sad I feel so sorry for them.
"worst estate in europe" ......Go to naples in italy then you will see what a bad estate is.
Mr PIGGY Go on....
Ryan Webb ?...
Mr PIGGY Tell me more.
Ryan Webb look it up the mafia runs those streets the place if full of garbage no joke the streets are much worse than this place above type in naples ghetto
Mr PIGGY I'll take a look. I know the south of Italy as had various things said about it. My mate has moved out to Italy, quite a few years ago, and now is looking at living in Naples.
Despite what they went through those interviewed seem like lovely and friendly people - amazing.
Excellent poem at the end
These people always seem to have a certain 'look'. You can spot them a mile off. It's a shame good people have to live amongst them.
you are right.
Yeah, they're inbred
Yeah, northerners are the easiest to spot but anyone not from london has "that look" that you're talking about, filthy hicks.
+M4ri4n4sG4t3k33p3r^*^333 silly soft southerners. Scared of your own shadow.
StringaBell17 there's that predictable and common envy that often escapes the hungry mouths of the northern peasants. I know your jealousy and therefore hatred is strong for your generous custodians but you really should be more polite to the people who feed your families and keep your tractors running.
Just been looking at houses on the boot estate. Looks like a good place to bring up our kids.
Lovely advertisements for Liverpools famous 5 star villas⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
WoW 👏 was skeptical as to how good of a poet she would be but that poem was fooken amazin 😶👍