not like when I was a kid , all the mothers would be out brushing the street , scubbing the step, polishing the door knocker with the brasso and walking up to the wash house on lodgy, it was always rough because it was old but our mothers looked after our homes
I used to live in Thornycroft road Bill, my nan would scrub step and brasso door knocker. That Aldi used to be Mable Fletcher finishing school, my nan would say, ' that's where you go to learn how to pain your nails and speak properly 😅
Those victorian houses looked after will last another 100 years. Sad so many people in b+b waiting for a home. Councils need to buy up the houses thay could get grants to make them liveable again.
1995 worked for British gas..sent from Lancashire to Liverpool to a customer.. Didn't have sat navs back then. Stopped at a bus stop and asked a guy where such a place was,,,, he jumped in the passenger seat and proceeded to direct me for the next 5 miles.to the customers doorstep..the customer then made me bacon egg on toast and a brew. Happier times for everyone
Right on the doorstep of the city centre that tourists rave about but what’s the point of a brilliant town centre if 75% of the rest of the city is an absolute shit hole? bootle, Kenny, anfield, Walton, wavo, crocky, tocky, noggzy, tuebrook, kirkdale, page moss, dovey, canny farm, Fairfield etc etc etc all poverty stricken, run down and underfunded yet the council keeps throwing money at town
Well said fella! Look at anfield ground, tourists on way there must think it's rough as toast. We seen on news how money is used by council etc. Not correctly for sure.
@@user-cj9wm1lh7w ye anfield used to be nothing but abandoned houses for years until they were all knocked down to make the area look nicer for the stadium expansion & tourists
I'm trying to work out yer abbreviations on these places.Been to Liverpool loads of times but struggling with a few of them.Kenny? Noggzy?Canny Farm? i know the rest.
@@Eleventhearlofmars It's against the law. Imagine the BBQ fell into a passing pram. Before you know it he'll be roasting a full goat on a spit outside number 16.
For anyone who wonders how quickly this area went downhill .... Google street view provides the answer. The street featured here is around "Holmes Street", Liverpool. The history option using street view reveals how the place looked as recently as September 2008. At that point in time it was an everyday traditional terraced area. It's galling to fast-forward to latest (August 2022) and see the degree of degeneration that happened in just a few years.
Just looking on Street View now and August 2022 there's a guy sat outside his house on a camping chair with so much litter on the street in front of him. The people who live there need to take responsibility for their area, get some gloves and get a bag and start picking it up. The mentality of "hey why don't we all get together and clean up where we live" just doesn't exist with some people.
Agreed, sadly it doesn't take many people intent on trashing the area to make those who care give up (and leave). It starts to look like we're witnessing the formation of new "sink estates" caused by (possibly council) dumping of unwanted people into specific neighbourhoods. @@Met182
The work you're doing, the compassion and intelligence you show is an inspiration, Billy. You're moving into working class hero territory, my friend. What we're seeing is the symptoms of a very sick and unequal society. This is a class war, mate, it's being waged by the establishment against the people of our class, our neighbourhoods. It's been like this since we were growing up in the 70s, mate. It's not the migrants, the disabled, the poor, the homeless that's the problem behind these symptoms of social decay, degradation and despair; no, it's the establishment and their research foundations along with the corporate lobbyists and the mainstream media that backs them up. The media do lie but mostly they just spin things in favour of these fuckers who've been exploiting and oppressing the people of our class for decades, if not centuries, Billy. But the main job of media is to hide the truth of our experiences whilst telling us some story about, 'if you work hard you'll do well and live the dream; but try getting out of the nightmare first. Well done mate, you're making a very important, very valuable documentary about the reality of daily life for the people of our class. Keep up this very important work, buddy. I salute you!
Well said mr soc. It's the vile turds at the top who started the Class War. Thatcher and her ilk only turbocharged it and hey presto we have the wreckage we live through today😢
Back in the 80's worked in Granby Estate Action, and what a strange set up that was, and rough, around Granby Street and Northumberland Close, beyond belief. The housing was fine, though when i recently visited the area it looked like someone was higher than Venus with how houses have been laid out, making even the area look rough as hell
My old man took me to Liverpool when i was a kid he took me on the ferry and i spewed up over the side, that was my contribution. Love most scousers I’ve met over the years, there sense of humour always made a bad situation better ❤
I lived in Holmes Street from 1957 to 1960 from birth to 3 years old. I've done videos on the area myself. It was never like this back then, as others have said although it was a poor area, people had pride in their homes. I have a photo of Holmes Street from around 1999-2000 and there was some graffiti but nothing like it is now. So it's turned into a shit tip in the last 20 years. Great video Billy!
My nan had a shop on north hill street long before I was born it was very well known at the time. My Grandad had clubs in town. Most of my family grew up in L8 and they have good memories of the old neighbourhood and neighbours. They wouldn't recognise the place or the people now. What a shame
I lived off Devonshire road L8 back in the late 50s my parents ashes are in Smithdown Cemetery. Sad way things have changed but not for the better ...Thanks Billy good vid
Thank you billy great videos in my Liverpool home 😊don’t hear people singing that anymore billy and no matter what life threw at us we stuck together please keep doing these videos people need to remember how we was they’ve always wanted to break us down and I think it’s devastating 😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤
Life’s shit but I love watching everything you do I didn’t know Liverpool was in such a freaking joke I always wanted to move to Liverpool because the people are amazing I love you I just hope things get better soon xxx
I'm originally from Garston but my dad had a garage on Northumberland Street in the 80s so this is a trip down memory lane for me. When I was a kid maybe about 10 or 11 years old I used to get the bus on my own from Garston to the ice rink on Prescot Road in Kensington I think it was the number 26 or 27 bus which used to go down Sheil Road and this was sometimes late at night too. Looking back I can't believe that I did that because you wouldn't do it nowadays that's for sure! You don't think of these things though when you're young and reckless! Thanks Billy I hope that you make more of these films. Best wishes to you ❤👍🙂
They are moving everyone out from runcorn to places like Kenny these days as there is no housing left to go around. That's why runcorn and widnes joined the LIVERPOOL REGION,so they can get rid of everyone on the housing lists that's single looking for a flat, they will offer you a flat in Kenny it's take it or leave it and get nothing 😂 they tried putting me up to go Kenny in a flat with a housing deposit bond from the council to put on a flat .
Not just Liverpool the whole country is sliding down the pan quicker than diarrhoea I'm 61 now and I'm telling you I've never seen anything like it even places like Plymouth and Bournemouth are are heading for the pan government couldn't care less
The council want to stop charging for bulkie bob service this is why people are dumping all over the place. It cost me 40 pound to get bulkie bob. And the homes that are boarded up it a waste coz they could be council homes for people that need them keep up the good work Billy love watching the pod cast.
Look closely at the vid again. As Billy walks off all the shite is in the gutter. I grew up in Lodgie and we aspired to live in those streets off the top of Smithdown. Any poverty there is a result of the Roma who turned a nice area into a shithole. They think nothing of dumping their shite in the streets an none of the tur work unless it involves scamming or robbing. The Liverpool Labour party has turned the city into ghettoes populated by the worlds worst. Vote REFORM, Before it's too late.
Seein the looks on yer face, yeh brother....world moves on , n not always for the better. Reminds when i went back to my back tracks n highways , couple of years ago....had the same look on me face ...thx for sharing 🙏
Been like that since and before the big dig of 2000 !! A lot of this is the consequences of big brown envelopes being given out, back in the Mid 1980,s to certain Liverpudlian individuals in power !! A simple example is the number of Mancunian scaffold company's winning contracts for a lot of the new student high rises since the late 1990’s 🤔🤔🤔
Just stumbled on this podcast.. Brilliant... Brings back great memories.. I'm from pwllheli in Wales..my mams a scouser. We used to go to my mams sisters for holidays. To visit our cousins.. And our aunty pat and uncle Eddie... In Lawrence Road... In the late 70s early 80s I used to love it... There was a big laundry there and a railway bridge at the end of the street.. Exciting for us kids from a small town... There was a Chinese chippy there.. I went in asked how much for chips...... Lady behind the counter shouts 1 chip 1p...😂.. It was rough there but we loved it... Lots of love to our cousins Eddie Julie tony Sharon and Yvonne... Sconhead ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Reminds me of villages around the towns in west yorkshire in seventies, on it was rougher then packs of up to 20 dogs roaming around , abandoned cars, derelict buildings for years.
I moved out 25 years ago, I feel sad at the way it has gone. All that sense of community has gone by the looks of it. Crewe is the same its full of Eastern Europeans, and it is now in complete terminal decline. What's left of the town centre is boarded up now.
That's a step up if you're arriving from Romania, Somalia, Afghanistan or any other similar shithole that we've imported the millions of immigrants from across the UK. So really, what else can we expect. L8, both the Dingle side and the Parliament Street side, used to be a community of Liverpool people, some black some white, and it wasnt that long ago. Now it's just somewhere to avoid while you to get to where you're going. An indictment of the so-called governments, local and national, across the past 40 years.
Great insight. Liverpool my 3rd best city. Belfast Dublin Liverpool. I remember watching bread on tv. Same sort streets. No joke people it seems we are the visitors in are own cities now. Look around you. Liverpool great city.
Another great watch Billy. Like I keep telling you mate, some of the best content on CZcams. How is your judder getting on and the main man himself your Joe ?? Haven’t seen either of them in a while. Hope there both well 👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I had a pal who lived on Solway St, they built new houses in the late 70's. My nan lived on Falkner Estate in the 70's, round the corner from the red duster pub. Lots of good memories about that estate
Wow I live in Liverpool born and bred and it breaks my heart to see this they’ve took the heart and soul from what used to be a great place to live now I wouldn’t go out anywhere on my own so sad 😢😢😢
So sad how its gone rnd there,i had a few mates who lived in wendel street back in the day,me dad used to bevvy in the mulliner pub opposite,is it still there billy? Do you remember the kwiky at the top of smithdiwn rd in the 80s?i remember it getting trashed in the riots .
id not long left school and my first job was renovating these houses I worked my arse out it saddens me to see this . There’s many deprived areas of Liverpool now and this annoys me
There not bothered about the areas there staying in. Because thay have buildings back home claiming benefits over here for children that are not here. Sending the money back home building luxury new houses. They'll look after the 1s back home. There to move back to.
As population replacement continues apace previously mono - cohesive communities will proceed to fall apart. The replacements have no ancestral ties or investment of self in these places whatsoever so the outcome is inevitable. But atleast we have exotic food to eat.... .
Honestly parts of Liverpool now resemble rough and run down parts of Baltimore and Philadelphia in the U.S, luckily even the roughest parts of Liverpool doesnt have the same level of gun crime as both those cities though.
@@stephensmith799 Detroit is very run down in parts but it doesnt have the same style of houses as in Philly and Baltimore. Philadelphia and Baltimore as they are on the East Coast, have the terraced houses in a very similar style to in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. Alot of the houses in inner city Philadelphia especially are boarded up like they are in more deprived parts of Liverpool.
@@rjflores438 it’s tragic. Liverpool has lost half its population since the mid 1960s, mostly I think to reduction in port activity and containerisation. Although I wax a Remainer, I admit that joining the EU wasn’t good for Liverpool whose trade was mostly to and from non-EU countries and especially former British colonies such as New Zealand and Australia. Perhaps a genuine Liverpudlian can confirm this🤔
Brother I moved to blakelaw Newcastle from down south wow 😮 I can't find any joy in the whole council estate drugs drink mental health issues homelessness it's very sad humanity has lost all hope hear.Thank you for your video
I'm a believer, in all run down area's being maintained.If a window gets broken fix it. If this doesn't happen one broken window lead's to ten ,then it's vandalised then burnt down. Mayor Giuliano as bent as he was adopted this policy in New York and it took of and businesses invested in it. It's triving now. A bit of that Bill and GB can turn things round. It's dying on its feet.👊☘️
I am going to have to visit, again, Everton part of Liverpool as when I lived just the other side of Stanley Park, there were literally hundreds of houses boarded up, council had tenants relocate. The area was to be bulldozed, but for the two years I was there nothing happened. Liverpool is a lovely place, just the council lets it down, as do all councils, you should see Birkenhead shopping area and market as to what Wirral Council has done. I have seen worse, around the country, far worse, and some areas you just do not go into as there is no possibility of you walking out
The Asda on smithdown rd is on the site of the old Sefton general hospital and the old Victorian workhouse and mental asylum where the inmates were officially known as “idiots”. Nice one Billy lad. 👍
Some of those houses on Rightmove for 80K. No chance they will get 5k. Communities need to protest the council to get these empty one renovated. Shocking to see.
In birkenhead,they put a skip at the end of some streets,once a fortnight, stops all this dumping and tipping,very simple solution.maybe someone should tell liverpool city council.
Our local MP does the same for our local roads. Also they will collect things for those who need items taken the tip. I am Liverpool. Not a chance would our Liverpool Council do that.
Not many want to face those facts mate. Everyone fears the race card. It's not racist though to want our towns and cities to look and feel English. Nobody would visit Pakistan for example and expect to see an ever increasing white population change to the demographic would they but it seems to be that it has to be acceptable the other way round for us. It's not the fault of the people looking for new lives and a place to prosper, it's successive governments that are the problem. Both left and right have made a big mistake and the worst part is, it looks deliberate on their part.
@@stukyu The problem is that our political system is short term. Every 4 years the MP's all want to be seen to be good for society and spend on stuff that makes them look good shirt term. No-one wants to tackle tough issues that take time and money to fix such as helping immigrants bed into our society and understand our way of life. Immigrants get shoved into the same area with little or no education regarding our way of life and help in terms of education generally and training to get a job. This leaves them skint and bored so what are they going to do? Exactly the same thing happened to Irish Catholics in the 19th century and happened again with Caribbean folks in the 1950's. Similar has also happened with Asians in Leicester, Brum, Bradford and London. The MP's haven't been useless deliberately, it's our system which hasn't helped things!
@@KryptonitetoallBS So at what point do you decide there are enough immigrants? Keep going until there no indigenous English left ? Educating immigrants will not alter the current trajectory which is at an ever increasing rate diluting our own race and culture. If voting actually worked and was democratic we would not have it. That is why the political system always achieves VERY long term goals because the entire voting and political charade is just a veneer of democracy to keep us placid and on the hamster wheel of believing in the process and the eternal conflict of left v right.
There was a murder in that area in 1905, think it was quite well known at the time. A girl named Elizabeth Peers was murdered and her body was dumped in Cullen Street. Her family lived at 64 Wendell Street but the parents were alcoholics. They sent her to the shop late at night so it was no wonder. The killer was never caught either.
Worked around there for a local contractor. Some good Scousers around there but this new crowd they are moving in will cause major problems for the area in the future. Wait and see.
Class content ... no what would be good if a lad from newcastle and a lad from liverpool went to eachothers roughest places in liverpool and Newcastle and compare them. Been from newcastle myself theres some naughty naughty places in newcastle that would be good content 👍
Your relaxed, simple style hides the fact that you're actually a very good vlogger. What a thoroughly interesting insight into that area then .. and now.
Hi billy what is the cause for the empty derelict houses not being lived in,is it because of bad tenants and unsociable behaviour in the area,thanks for your video ☘️
Hi Billy, it's really sad to see how rundown and deprived those areas are. The amount of rubbish on the streets and in front gardens is a real eyesore. On a more positive note, the young lad who gave you a piece of Chicken 🍗, what a kind lad he was!. It did make me smile when you showed him having a barbecue in this weather. 😃💯 Anyway Billy, thanks for another great vid!. John. 👍
I don't think lodge lane is 1 of the worst places I can think of alot more places that don't hold the same love and affection lodgy looks 2 me like most intermingle and give zz me a relaxed feel i think that there is more anger and aggression from certain corcazion folk❤😊😊
I've been forced to live in Shitty Shared Accommodation For the past 3 years in Liverpool coz of the country wide Housing Crisis, but when you see the amount of empty properties there are All Over the City it just makes you think WTF's Going On?? Luv Your Channel, Keep Elevating Lad, You give Hope to Us All out here Fighting the Fight 💯❤️
used to live opposite the Asda, where i stayed there was fireworks being thrown down the street on a nightly basis. Im happy my best mate's moved to the Georgian quarter.
I worked in that area, the hospitality shown to me from people who are not native is unreal. Learned so much about other cultures etc. Its a shame as it used to have a boss vibe like London markets along lodge,y buzzing vibe with no Alcohol.
All the people giving negative comments are all wrong I personally owned 5 house in this area and yes I don't rent to Romanias because they took the piss in the past. However most of these house were owed by Riverside and as the flood of Romanias settle and Riverside side existing tenants left the houses were sold off 1 by 1 I have tenants that are hard working and put yp living there the Romanias have been purposely house here by the council as majority of houses boarded up are perfect inside
I was brought up around there Billy it was a great place, used to drink in the Sefton , the Woodcroft, the Willow bank, the Waldeck And if we were going for a posh night out it would be the Brookhouse which was a beautiful place with a really good restaurant , I wonder what happened 🤔 After being away for a long time I am back living in Toxteth it isn't so bad, some people like to dump their rubbish around here though, which is a shame. 😒
Sweden is a great example of what's coming. Once was the cleanest, safest country... Now one of the most dangerous, with no go zones 😅 they call them mini Mogadishu
Billy you need to start doing the local pubs shops takeaways restaurants and histories again. You get loads of stories from the locals. Remember drinking in the Boundary full of characters
Used to go to school with a lad who lived in Wendell Street. First time I ever got pissed was in his house when I was 15. It was run down then but in the last 10 years or so it's been totally destroyed. Gotta blame the Council for it I guess.
When I was a kid I found a diamond engagement ring in the street took it to the police station and they gave it back to the girl who lost it who was Chinese from the local chippy. That is how normal people behave and you contributed to making your city shit. That was in Dingle mate not some posh area
I grew up on the welsh streets, just off high park street. Left toxteth in 1985 as a 12 year old. Im coming back to Liverpool next week with my kids. Want to show them where i was born and lived. Have a walk around prince's park, and sefton park. See if i can get a bag of chips from Chris and Nancy's chippy on high park street if its still there.
Mate the bizzies did that to us, not far from there, around the same time but it was a phone shop. Probably same two lads, popping up everywhere, giving ridiculously good deals on these phones. I was the youngest in our group and I was the only one that was saying that they weren't right. They asked me to get them an ounce of sniff but I told them I wasn't a drug dealer, they know I wasn't and they know the people I know so why were they asking me. I told my mates but they didn't listen and about 15 of them went jail. I was young and naive and didn't know that they were bizzies but from the beginning I hated them because they were too friendly, popping up in our gym and our boozer - always trying to get me in that shop. I thought they was queer or something like that but they probably saw me as the weak link. People from good families who you probably know got caught up in that one.
not like when I was a kid , all the mothers would be out brushing the street , scubbing the step, polishing the door knocker with the brasso and walking up to the wash house on lodgy, it was always rough because it was old but our mothers looked after our homes
Brasso 👌🏻
@@jayl0151 i used to shine up me raleigh chopper bicycle wheel rims using brasso lol.
💯 people used to take pride on their houses, they were their little palaces!
I used to live in Thornycroft road Bill, my nan would scrub step and brasso door knocker.
That Aldi used to be Mable Fletcher finishing school, my nan would say, ' that's where you go to learn how to pain your nails and speak properly 😅
Paint ye nails
You can tell how rough it is by how fast billys walking
Its safe there
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We know why its gone to shits ville Billy. Wendell St and the streets around it are now known as Little Romania.
Yer i was reluctant to say it
@@mikeyf103should never be worried to speak the truth mate..we all know its mass immigration
Govanhill in Glasgow is also like Mini Romania. It's a total state too.
You said it
little pakistan or afrika woul sound better?
All these empty houses and there's people sleeping on the streets, shameful.its not right.
Those victorian houses looked after will last another 100 years. Sad so many people in b+b waiting for a home. Councils need to buy up the houses thay could get grants to make them liveable again.
1995 worked for British gas..sent from Lancashire to Liverpool to a customer.. Didn't have sat navs back then. Stopped at a bus stop and asked a guy where such a place was,,,, he jumped in the passenger seat and proceeded to direct me for the next 5 miles.to the customers doorstep..the customer then made me bacon egg on toast and a brew. Happier times for everyone
Right on the doorstep of the city centre that tourists rave about but what’s the point of a brilliant town centre if 75% of the rest of the city is an absolute shit hole? bootle, Kenny, anfield, Walton, wavo, crocky, tocky, noggzy, tuebrook, kirkdale, page moss, dovey, canny farm, Fairfield etc etc etc all poverty stricken, run down and underfunded yet the council keeps throwing money at town
Well said fella! Look at anfield ground, tourists on way there must think it's rough as toast. We seen on news how money is used by council etc. Not correctly for sure.
@@user-cj9wm1lh7wcouncil in Liverpool has been corrupt since degsy was running it in the 80s.
@@user-cj9wm1lh7w ye anfield used to be nothing but abandoned houses for years until they were all knocked down to make the area look nicer for the stadium expansion & tourists
I'm trying to work out yer abbreviations on these places.Been to Liverpool loads of times but struggling with a few of them.Kenny? Noggzy?Canny Farm? i know the rest.
@@hamski Kensington, Norris Green , and cantril farm is now called Stockbridge village to make it sound posh lol. 👍🏼
And when he's finished with the barbecue, he'll tip it out onto the floor.
at least the rats will have a good scran.
No he wownt
Waist it haha
Import othere countries problems to add to our own .hard to understand and to comprehend
All by design
It's known as Agenda 2030 look it up budd 🤫🤫🤫🤫
Bang on truth
Nice touch from the lad with the BBQ. Even in rough circumstances there's always good people in the city.
He was a foreigner. You can't BBQ in the street like that. I got the house number and I've reported it to the council.
@@truckerfromrenoquality bet you never 😆
@@truckerfromrenoyou alarse the kid was only trying to start a little Mardi Gras 😂
@@Eleventhearlofmars It's against the law. Imagine the BBQ fell into a passing pram. Before you know it he'll be roasting a full goat on a spit outside number 16.
@@truckerfromreno I was joking but a barbecue is a tad unlikely to fall into a pram though. 😂🇬🇧
Looking more and more like Lodgestan!! 😢
For anyone who wonders how quickly this area went downhill .... Google street view provides the answer. The street featured here is around "Holmes Street", Liverpool. The history option using street view reveals how the place looked as recently as September 2008. At that point in time it was an everyday traditional terraced area. It's galling to fast-forward to latest (August 2022) and see the degree of degeneration that happened in just a few years.
Just looking on Street View now and August 2022 there's a guy sat outside his house on a camping chair with so much litter on the street in front of him. The people who live there need to take responsibility for their area, get some gloves and get a bag and start picking it up. The mentality of "hey why don't we all get together and clean up where we live" just doesn't exist with some people.
Agreed, sadly it doesn't take many people intent on trashing the area to make those who care give up (and leave). It starts to look like we're witnessing the formation of new "sink estates" caused by (possibly council) dumping of unwanted people into specific neighbourhoods. @@Met182
Good stuff Billy, I like your out and about content and seeing the rougher parts of town from a local who isn't just looking down their nose
The work you're doing, the compassion and intelligence you show is an inspiration, Billy. You're moving into working class hero territory, my friend. What we're seeing is the symptoms of a very sick and unequal society. This is a class war, mate, it's being waged by the establishment against the people of our class, our neighbourhoods. It's been like this since we were growing up in the 70s, mate. It's not the migrants, the disabled, the poor, the homeless that's the problem behind these symptoms of social decay, degradation and despair; no, it's the establishment and their research foundations along with the corporate lobbyists and the mainstream media that backs them up. The media do lie but mostly they just spin things in favour of these fuckers who've been exploiting and oppressing the people of our class for decades, if not centuries, Billy. But the main job of media is to hide the truth of our experiences whilst telling us some story about, 'if you work hard you'll do well and live the dream; but try getting out of the nightmare first. Well done mate, you're making a very important, very valuable documentary about the reality of daily life for the people of our class. Keep up this very important work, buddy. I salute you!
Well said mr soc. It's the vile turds at the top who started the Class War. Thatcher and her ilk only turbocharged it and hey presto we have the wreckage we live through today😢
It's that rough around L8..... the Dogs walk around in twos
Hahahaha
Hehehe
Do you remember those days?
When council estates used to have gangs of dogs roaming the streets.😁
@@MrBollocks10 Yes, and white dog shi* everywhere, you don't see that now 🤣
Back in the 80's worked in Granby Estate Action, and what a strange set up that was, and rough, around Granby Street and Northumberland Close, beyond belief. The housing was fine, though when i recently visited the area it looked like someone was higher than Venus with how houses have been laid out, making even the area look rough as hell
The rats wear forensic suits as well.
My old man took me to Liverpool when i was a kid he took me on the ferry and i spewed up over the side, that was my contribution. Love most scousers I’ve met over the years, there sense of humour always made a bad situation better ❤
I lived in Holmes Street from 1957 to 1960 from birth to 3 years old. I've done videos on the area myself. It was never like this back then, as others have said although it was a poor area, people had pride in their homes. I have a photo of Holmes Street from around 1999-2000 and there was some graffiti but nothing like it is now. So it's turned into a shit tip in the last 20 years. Great video Billy!
My nan had a shop on north hill street long before I was born it was very well known at the time. My Grandad had clubs in town. Most of my family grew up in L8 and they have good memories of the old neighbourhood and neighbours. They wouldn't recognise the place or the people now. What a shame
Very sad to see areas get neglected. Its unfortunately sign of the times. Keep smiling guys. Best wishes Billy. Interesting content as always 👍😎
I lived off Devonshire road L8 back in the late 50s my parents ashes are in Smithdown Cemetery. Sad way things have changed but not for the better ...Thanks Billy good vid
Thank you billy great videos in my Liverpool home 😊don’t hear people singing that anymore billy and no matter what life threw at us we stuck together please keep doing these videos people need to remember how we was they’ve always wanted to break us down and I think it’s devastating 😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤
Life’s shit but I love watching everything you do I didn’t know Liverpool was in such a freaking joke I always wanted to move to Liverpool because the people are amazing I love you I just hope things get better soon xxx
When someone says its become diverse they actually mean its been turned into the place gimmigrants fled ftom
go fly your rainbow out of here
I'm originally from Garston but my dad had a garage on Northumberland Street in the 80s so this is a trip down memory lane for me. When I was a kid maybe about 10 or 11 years old I used to get the bus on my own from Garston to the ice rink on Prescot Road in Kensington I think it was the number 26 or 27 bus which used to go down Sheil Road and this was sometimes late at night too. Looking back I can't believe that I did that because you wouldn't do it nowadays that's for sure! You don't think of these things though when you're young and reckless! Thanks Billy I hope that you make more of these films. Best wishes to you ❤👍🙂
Different part of l8
If the council sell theses houses for £1.00 like they did a few years ago , all the empty houses will sell and be renovated as a requirement.
They sold them to personal friends of council employees ...these will be ear marked for more immigrants
Was just thinking the same
The whole of liverpools rough nowadays! Everywhere will be like kenny and lodgy soon enough!
They are moving everyone out from runcorn to places like Kenny these days as there is no housing left to go around. That's why runcorn and widnes joined the LIVERPOOL REGION,so they can get rid of everyone on the housing lists that's single looking for a flat, they will offer you a flat in Kenny it's take it or leave it and get nothing 😂 they tried putting me up to go Kenny in a flat with a housing deposit bond from the council to put on a flat .
I already know a few ppl from runcorn that moved to Kenny 😂
@@FaceFcukprobably with flats also is who moves inn them ? People seem to not have respect 😞
Not just Liverpool the whole country is sliding down the pan quicker than diarrhoea I'm 61 now and I'm telling you I've never seen anything like it even places like Plymouth and Bournemouth are are heading for the pan government couldn't care less
The council want to stop charging for bulkie bob service this is why people are dumping all over the place. It cost me 40 pound to get bulkie bob. And the homes that are boarded up it a waste coz they could be council homes for people that need them keep up the good work Billy love watching the pod cast.
I agree with a lot of what you have said. Didn't the Council,a few years ago,sell houses in Liverpool for a pound?
@@markcf83 yes they did
Cooking in the street. Can’t believe this
Bit of an upgrade from the shopping trollies being used over in Kensington😂
Look closely at the vid again.
As Billy walks off all the shite is in the gutter.
I grew up in Lodgie and we aspired to live in those streets off the top of Smithdown.
Any poverty there is a result of the Roma who turned a nice area into a shithole.
They think nothing of dumping their shite in the streets an none of the tur work unless it involves scamming or robbing.
The Liverpool Labour party has turned the city into ghettoes populated by the worlds worst.
Vote REFORM, Before it's too late.
@@craigruddock3824 unbelievable mate
@@craigruddock3824 probably wheeled that out of the Asda side entrance. 😂
Seein the looks on yer face, yeh brother....world moves on , n not always for the better.
Reminds when i went back to my back tracks n highways , couple of years ago....had the same look on me face ...thx for sharing 🙏
Town is buzzing with lots of dough floating about but 1 mile out the people are suffering and it's only going to get worse.
Sad to see!
Been like that since and before the big dig of 2000 !!
A lot of this is the consequences of big brown envelopes being given out, back in the Mid 1980,s to certain Liverpudlian individuals in power !!
A simple example is the number of Mancunian scaffold company's winning contracts for a lot of the new student high rises since the late 1990’s 🤔🤔🤔
Just stumbled on this podcast.. Brilliant... Brings back great memories.. I'm from pwllheli in Wales..my mams a scouser. We used to go to my mams sisters for holidays. To visit our cousins.. And our aunty pat and uncle Eddie... In Lawrence Road... In the late 70s early 80s I used to love it... There was a big laundry there and a railway bridge at the end of the street.. Exciting for us kids from a small town... There was a Chinese chippy there.. I went in asked how much for chips...... Lady behind the counter shouts 1 chip 1p...😂.. It was rough there but we loved it... Lots of love to our cousins Eddie Julie tony Sharon and Yvonne... Sconhead ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Aldi on Smithdown was the site of Sefton Park Community Comprehensive School. Beautiful building, sadly demolished in the late 8Os.
Absolutely. My cousin went there, remember seeing the lads playing footy in the yard which faced onto Smithdown.
Id say the area of Kensington around sheil and rocky lane is a worse place to live than where you are filming here.
Yeah Kenny is full of crackheads and foreigners. You can smell the horribleness on sheil road
Rocky lane fucking he'll bought 1 der aswell didn't I omg
@@pastprime6758 Huh?
Reminds me of villages around the towns in west yorkshire in seventies, on it was rougher then packs of up to 20 dogs roaming around , abandoned cars, derelict buildings for years.
Thanks mate, I enjoy these walk and talks. 👍
I moved out 25 years ago, I feel sad at the way it has gone. All that sense of community has gone by the looks of it. Crewe is the same its full of Eastern Europeans, and it is now in complete terminal decline. What's left of the town centre is boarded up now.
For a moment I thought it was by mine! Some parts of anfield and walton would give that a run for its money.
I agree ☝️
That's a step up if you're arriving from Romania, Somalia, Afghanistan or any other similar shithole that we've imported the millions of immigrants from across the UK. So really, what else can we expect. L8, both the Dingle side and the Parliament Street side, used to be a community of Liverpool people, some black some white, and it wasnt that long ago. Now it's just somewhere to avoid while you to get to where you're going. An indictment of the so-called governments, local and national, across the past 40 years.
Great insight. Liverpool my 3rd best city. Belfast Dublin Liverpool. I remember watching bread on tv. Same sort streets. No joke people it seems we are the visitors in are own cities now. Look around you. Liverpool great city.
'BREAD' central casting for non-funny cardboard cut-out scousers. Harry Enfield was watching. AR EY LAD give me a fucking break!
Another great watch Billy. Like I keep telling you mate, some of the best content on CZcams. How is your judder getting on and the main man himself your Joe ?? Haven’t seen either of them in a while. Hope there both well 👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Nice1 Billy,wow la...born n bread in that area n don't recognise much ther.
Great video billy I use to live in wordsworth street off lodge lane in 70s wasnt like that though its changed big time
I had a pal who lived on Solway St, they built new houses in the late 70's.
My nan lived on Falkner Estate in the 70's, round the corner from the red duster pub. Lots of good memories about that estate
Bill im originally from green leaf st , used to hang around on dodge as a kid , 45 years ago now. Makes me sad every time I pass
Wow I live in Liverpool born and bred and it breaks my heart to see this they’ve took the heart and soul from what used to be a great place to live now I wouldn’t go out anywhere on my own so sad 😢😢😢
It was a shit hole in the 80's and early 90's, so when exactly was this golden period you speak of?
@@housinauthority5258 also they always play victim
So sad how its gone rnd there,i had a few mates who lived in wendel street back in the day,me dad used to bevvy in the mulliner pub opposite,is it still there billy? Do you remember the kwiky at the top of smithdiwn rd in the 80s?i remember it getting trashed in the riots .
id not long left school and my first job was renovating these houses I worked my arse out it saddens me to see this . There’s many deprived areas of Liverpool now and this annoys me
The Romanians has destroyed it unfortunately its the same with parts of Kensington as well but not as bad
There not bothered about the areas there staying in. Because thay have buildings back home claiming benefits over here for children that are not here. Sending the money back home building luxury new houses. They'll look after the 1s back home. There to move back to.
As population replacement continues apace previously mono - cohesive communities will proceed to fall apart. The replacements have no ancestral ties or investment of self in these places whatsoever so the outcome is inevitable.
But atleast we have exotic food to eat.... .
Cheers Billy. Alot of these areas you record that you used to frequent, you often say they've changed, but don't say for the better or worse 👍.
Thought provoking. ... cheers Billy
Area that time forgot. Great content Billy.
Honestly parts of Liverpool now resemble rough and run down parts of Baltimore and Philadelphia in the U.S, luckily even the roughest parts of Liverpool doesnt have the same level of gun crime as both those cities though.
And Detroit.
@@stephensmith799 Detroit is very run down in parts but it doesnt have the same style of houses as in Philly and Baltimore. Philadelphia and Baltimore as they are on the East Coast, have the terraced houses in a very similar style to in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. Alot of the houses in inner city Philadelphia especially are boarded up like they are in more deprived parts of Liverpool.
@@rjflores438 it’s tragic. Liverpool has lost half its population since the mid 1960s, mostly I think to reduction in port activity and containerisation. Although I wax a Remainer, I admit that joining the EU wasn’t good for Liverpool whose trade was mostly to and from non-EU countries and especially former British colonies such as New Zealand and Australia. Perhaps a genuine Liverpudlian can confirm this🤔
I lived in Philly for a year. Yes, some bits are miles worse than here....and they're allowed guns to boot.
Brother I moved to blakelaw Newcastle from down south wow 😮 I can't find any joy in the whole council estate drugs drink mental health issues homelessness it's very sad humanity has lost all hope hear.Thank you for your video
Heartbreaking to see that Bill,
It stops ya in ya tracks when reminiscing defo.
Hope the Juds good, he knacked Elvis in that dance off 🕺🏻
Trip down memory lane... Thanks
Fxxking bbq lol its snowing here in Bradford. 😂😂
Raining on Merseyside, and btterly cold
Great presentation Billy, facts and no bull.
Spot the white man
So glad I'm up L9 fazak ways, I couldn't live up there me
What a cesspit.
@@Chris-_-Liverpool right Liverpool best Bed n brekky
@@Chris-_-Liverpool Rare a few years back now I can't walk 5 mins without feeling like I'm in Africa
I'm a believer, in all run down area's being maintained.If a window gets broken fix it. If this doesn't happen one broken window lead's to ten ,then it's vandalised then burnt down. Mayor Giuliano as bent as he was adopted this policy in New York and it took of and businesses invested in it. It's triving now. A bit of that Bill and GB can turn things round. It's dying on its feet.👊☘️
I am going to have to visit, again, Everton part of Liverpool as when I lived just the other side of Stanley Park, there were literally hundreds of houses boarded up, council had tenants relocate. The area was to be bulldozed, but for the two years I was there nothing happened.
Liverpool is a lovely place, just the council lets it down, as do all councils, you should see Birkenhead shopping area and market as to what Wirral Council has done.
I have seen worse, around the country, far worse, and some areas you just do not go into as there is no possibility of you walking out
It's the people that turn places like that into shitholes, not the council.
I voted for open borders and multiculturalism. Lol, only joking, nobody did, but it was hoisted upon us anyway.
Yep thats why that areas a sh.ite hole thete loads of little hell holes like that all over the country and they all have one thing in common
Same in Mancstan were i grew up
The Asda on smithdown rd is on the site of the old Sefton general hospital and the old Victorian workhouse and mental asylum where the inmates were officially known as “idiots”. Nice one Billy lad. 👍
Barbecue on the front strret in the middle of winter say no more 😢
Some of those houses on Rightmove for 80K. No chance they will get 5k. Communities need to protest the council to get these empty one renovated. Shocking to see.
In birkenhead,they put a skip at the end of some streets,once a fortnight, stops all this dumping and tipping,very simple solution.maybe someone should tell liverpool city council.
They was a few years ago in Fairfield,they were full to the brim in half an hour,.
Our local MP does the same for our local roads. Also they will collect things for those who need items taken the tip. I am Liverpool. Not a chance would our Liverpool Council do that.
No point , the Liverpool homeless would set up shop in the skip 🤔🤔🤔
Billy i would love to see you walk down Scotland road china st that is where my family lived great show ❤
So many empty houses and soo many homless 😮
I lived around those ways a few times. It's when I realised that multiculturalism dosnt work and stopped being a lefty after living among it
Not many want to face those facts mate. Everyone fears the race card. It's not racist though to want our towns and cities to look and feel English. Nobody would visit Pakistan for example and expect to see an ever increasing white population change to the demographic would they but it seems to be that it has to be acceptable the other way round for us. It's not the fault of the people looking for new lives and a place to prosper, it's successive governments that are the problem. Both left and right have made a big mistake and the worst part is, it looks deliberate on their part.
@@stukyu The problem is that our political system is short term. Every 4 years the MP's all want to be seen to be good for society and spend on stuff that makes them look good shirt term. No-one wants to tackle tough issues that take time and money to fix such as helping immigrants bed into our society and understand our way of life. Immigrants get shoved into the same area with little or no education regarding our way of life and help in terms of education generally and training to get a job. This leaves them skint and bored so what are they going to do? Exactly the same thing happened to Irish Catholics in the 19th century and happened again with Caribbean folks in the 1950's. Similar has also happened with Asians in Leicester, Brum, Bradford and London.
The MP's haven't been useless deliberately, it's our system which hasn't helped things!
@@KryptonitetoallBS So at what point do you decide there are enough immigrants? Keep going until there no indigenous English left ? Educating immigrants will not alter the current trajectory which is at an ever increasing rate diluting our own race and culture. If voting actually worked and was democratic we would not have it. That is why the political system always achieves VERY long term goals because the entire voting and political charade is just a veneer of democracy to keep us placid and on the hamster wheel of believing in the process and the eternal conflict of left v right.
There was a murder in that area in 1905, think it was quite well known at the time. A girl named Elizabeth Peers was murdered and her body was dumped in Cullen Street. Her family lived at 64 Wendell Street but the parents were alcoholics. They sent her to the shop late at night so it was no wonder. The killer was never caught either.
Great Content Bill 💯
Worked around there for a local contractor. Some good Scousers around there but this new crowd they are moving in will cause major problems for the area in the future. Wait and see.
Class content ... no what would be good if a lad from newcastle and a lad from liverpool went to eachothers roughest places in liverpool and Newcastle and compare them. Been from newcastle myself theres some naughty naughty places in newcastle that would be good content 👍
Get Joe Owens on the podcast.
Looks just like Longsight in Manchester.
Your relaxed, simple style hides the fact that you're actually a very good vlogger. What a thoroughly interesting insight into that area then .. and now.
*Good to see you doing what you do best lad*
Hi billy what is the cause for the empty derelict houses not being lived in,is it because of bad tenants and unsociable behaviour in the area,thanks for your video ☘️
I was from Birkenhead,they have destroyed it totally,fckng so sad what they have done to our communities
Socially socially the worst..but you were offered a piece of chicken the 1st five mins...❤
Hi Billy, it's really sad to see how rundown and deprived those areas are. The amount of rubbish on the streets and in front gardens is a real eyesore. On a more positive note, the young lad who gave you a piece of Chicken 🍗, what a kind lad he was!. It did make me smile when you showed him having a barbecue in this weather. 😃💯 Anyway Billy, thanks for another great vid!. John. 👍
I don't think lodge lane is 1 of the worst places I can think of alot more places that don't hold the same love and affection lodgy looks 2 me like most intermingle and give zz me a relaxed feel i think that there is more anger and aggression from certain corcazion folk❤😊😊
I've been forced to live in Shitty Shared Accommodation For the past 3 years in Liverpool coz of the country wide Housing Crisis, but when you see the amount of empty properties there are All Over the City it just makes you think WTF's Going On?? Luv Your Channel, Keep Elevating Lad, You give Hope to Us All out here Fighting the Fight 💯❤️
used to live opposite the Asda, where i stayed there was fireworks being thrown down the street on a nightly basis. Im happy my best mate's moved to the Georgian quarter.
I worked in that area, the hospitality shown to me from people who are not native is unreal. Learned so much about other cultures etc. Its a shame as it used to have a boss vibe like London markets along lodge,y buzzing vibe with no Alcohol.
All the people giving negative comments are all wrong
I personally owned 5 house in this area and yes I don't rent to Romanias because they took the piss in the past. However most of these house were owed by Riverside and as the flood of Romanias settle and Riverside side existing tenants left the houses were sold off 1 by 1 I have tenants that are hard working and put yp living there the Romanias have been purposely house here by the council as majority of houses boarded up are perfect inside
Coucill to blame
I was brought up around there Billy it was a great place, used to drink in the Sefton , the Woodcroft, the Willow bank, the Waldeck And if we were going for a posh night out it would be the Brookhouse which was a beautiful place with a really good restaurant , I wonder what happened 🤔 After being away for a long time I am back living in Toxteth it isn't so bad, some people like to dump their rubbish around here though, which is a shame. 😒
Hi mate what camera ya use
Sweden is a great example of what's coming. Once was the cleanest, safest country... Now one of the most dangerous, with no go zones 😅 they call them mini Mogadishu
Billy you need to start doing the local pubs shops takeaways restaurants and histories again. You get loads of stories from the locals. Remember drinking in the Boundary full of characters
Is he allowed drink?😱
worked there a lot quite recently, its really grim but some nice people live there
Henry Lloyd eh??
Ain’t heard of that make for over 2 decades, had a few bits of the “Arl-Henry Grip” over the years.
Same in Coventry Done on purpose Dented city's they are called And all by design ☘️🇮🇪🍀
Used to go to school with a lad who lived in Wendell Street. First time I ever got pissed was in his house when I was 15. It was run down then but in the last 10 years or so it's been totally destroyed. Gotta blame the Council for it I guess.
When I was a kid I found a diamond engagement ring in the street took it to the police station and they gave it back to the girl who lost it who was Chinese from the local chippy. That is how normal people behave and you contributed to making your city shit. That was in Dingle mate not some posh area
i thought there was a housing shortage all them houses empty
Is this near Shiel street, also the city Stadiums are near this location
I grew up on the welsh streets, just off high park street. Left toxteth in 1985 as a 12 year old.
Im coming back to Liverpool next week with my kids. Want to show them where i was born and lived. Have a walk around prince's park, and sefton park. See if i can get a bag of chips from Chris and Nancy's chippy on high park street if its still there.
rough as toast..remember rate my takeaway doing a review of that caribbean cafe he said it was really good
I might check it out
Yer someone knicked his table lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great story Billy keep them coming
Mate the bizzies did that to us, not far from there, around the same time but it was a phone shop. Probably same two lads, popping up everywhere, giving ridiculously good deals on these phones. I was the youngest in our group and I was the only one that was saying that they weren't right. They asked me to get them an ounce of sniff but I told them I wasn't a drug dealer, they know I wasn't and they know the people I know so why were they asking me. I told my mates but they didn't listen and about 15 of them went jail. I was young and naive and didn't know that they were bizzies but from the beginning I hated them because they were too friendly, popping up in our gym and our boozer - always trying to get me in that shop. I thought they was queer or something like that but they probably saw me as the weak link. People from good families who you probably know got caught up in that one.
Thatcher & the Sun was scared of a Marxist element in Liverpool 💫🤨
More of this stuff please Bill👍