I remember longton as a kid and it use to be a fantastic little town with loads of shops but now it's upsetting to see that it's got so bad now đ everything is falling apart by the looks of it.
Everything and everywhere if you notice in the video the traffic lights by Woolworths are ready to fall over and the council donât give a toss been like that for a while.
Cheers mate! God, it looks awful. So sad to see what has become of the market, I remember going there in the 80s with my parents; proper old school market with great fruit 'n' veg stalls, cheese stalls, butchers and all that. But I think it was on its last legs in the 90s. No way they're gonna be able to bring new business into a town like that. Longton has always been a bit rough, with a fair few dodgy people about, but the town just looks like it's filled with pensioners now.
@@DJMtv1938 People used to come from all over to go to Entropy and Kinetic...Think that was late 80s-early 90s though. I was googling around after I read your comment, and Kinetic was once voted as the best night in the UK.
Thanks for this video. I don't know about a town that's dying; it looks as though it's died. I don't live in Stoke now but I come back for the football and it heart-breaking to see what's happened to Longton. In the 1950's my dad was manager of the Co-op butchers shop and the place was really buzzing. The facade to the market in the Strand has some really interesting details but like everything else it looks as though it's dropping to bits.Is there a way back-I don't think so. Incidentally, I don't agree with BlueDemon who says Longton has always been rough.
Fair enough. I have no idea what Longton was like before the 80s (earliest memories of the place for me). Yeah, It's too far gone to invest in the place now. Maybe just demolish the place and turn it over to nature. Make a lovely, national park!
When you build a community or group of communities around one industry like mining, steel making, ship building or, as in the case of The Potteries, ceramics and then allow that industry to die this is what happens. I live in a former mining area and remember the days when coal was king. It was a completely different place. Now the only growth industry in my area is drug dealing. Donât blame the people of Stoke and Longton. When you take away a communityâs heart you destroy it.
Certainly not blaming the people howeverâŠ..pride in lots of people and there area has gone a area does not become bad itâs the people that move In it that make it so. And Iâm afraid we now have not just in stoke but all over the country a society of people who take no pride in there area why should they clean the windows or polish the step or paint the house or maintain the garden itâs a house they are never going own just rent and so it goes on and on
Iâm originally from longton and I went through a couple of months ago first time in about 12 years the people all looked depressed busiest shop was the cash converters Iâm so glad I got out of that environment
@@DJMtv1938 I was born there in 1951. I hated the dirt and the litter and waste-land. But once I left in 1968--I realised what lovely people I'd left behind. No rose tinted glasses here--they were the salt of the earth. Everyone would talk to you ,and the prevailing mood was kindness. I am turned to stone watching your video. It's such abuse and dereliction of duty. I remember losing my mum in that Woolworths when I was about 4. I thought the world had ended. Watching thi, looks like I was right!! Thanks for exposing this duck.
@joanginsberg9604 itâs heartbreaking to see the city the way it is now. I get accused of been negative my channel has always been about showing the decline of the city especially post covid. The people who say itâs the same everywhere have been conditioned into accepting that because I know from personal experience not everywhere is the same stoke has been taken down a cesspit in less than 30 years.
@@DJMtv1938 Entirely agree. It's probably one of many testbeds.I see us as going the same way as S Africa. where it's so dog eat dog But how ugly does ugly have to get before people say enough!Nobody should have to be subjected to such depressing surroundings. People put up with shite before because they were getting material benefits, however small. And there was a tight community. Neither of those things exist by now. This is a lose-lose situation
Yep did the video for Newcastle under lyme the other week I was accused on here by someone of having an hidden agenda đIâm merely documenting the decline of our towns and cityâs in real time. Itâs heartbreaking to see but itâs important that itâs documented so I believe.
@@DJMtv1938 I was born at the city general hospital I live in slaney Street down by London road tavern pub and Newcastle was such a wonderful place to live what with the cattle market and all the market holders were very friendly on stones it's very sad to see it's decline.
@@DJMtv1938 I was born in The Lymes maternity hospital in Newcastle but brought up in Longton. Any time I went to Newcastle, it felt SO upmarket. That would have been the 50/60's.
This is really tragic but Stoke-on-Trent has been in a downward spiral for 40 years at least. The last 13 years of tory ideological austerity has banged the last nails into this coffin. I grew up in the city but never come back as it's too sad and I want to hang onto my good memories. I like the backing track đ
The main problem with Stoke on Trent is its very spread out, if you concentrate the investment in one area/ town then whilst it improves that , the rest is still a dump. Virtually all the local industries that made SOT a grimy but thriving area have gone. The pots, the pits, the Michelin factory, Shelton bar iron and steelworks, all dolid local employers, now its warehousing,call centres and Bet 365 HQ, the rot set in about 1980, been downhill ever since. Hanley and Newcastle under Lyme are building new multi story car parks, why, its a new dynamic now, wfh, work from Costa, shop online, cant uninvent things.
Yep, that about sums it up. Can't see anyway the city can recover. The sheer size of the decline is too great. No use chucking money at little 'initiatives' here and there. Only mass job availability can reverse the situation and how would that happen?
Left stoke a few years ago Saw the writing on the wall Live in greater manchester now The difference couldnt be starker When I was a boy iâd spend hours in Longton on a Saturday. Depressing
@@MickyG1152 shame I have lived here now for about 8 years. The Stoke people are brilliant really friendly and decent people. Just a god damn shame about the city. Wish I had a time machine to go back and see how it was flourishing.
It was a great place not so long ago we have always been the poor manâs neighbour but we had a good night time economy and decent town centre. The go to get out of jail card is (itâs like that all over the country now )which is true but for stoke itâs been like this a a lot longer than anywhere else but one thing that canât be broken is the People of this city
i worked in longton 74-82..it was buzzing from all the folk on lunch breaks from the lost pots ..woolies sign still there..get them bums, druggies asbos to get this place back on its feet..and stop the effing coucil wasting money..makes my blood boil
does it "matter",......the bricks,....the windows,.......the tarmac,... is already lifeless,........its made from dead matter,......the only life in the city comes from humans walking around...and a few birds,.......before we built a city out of dead matter,.......there were forests,.......with much life within it, that does matter ,......"not did matter".........a self regenerating , self feeding forest of matter,.........we swapped paradise and freedom of life for an iphone....a big tv ,.....a car,......and a kettle................so now they got you wanting plenty of money so you can buy your own paradise back from them again...................also this,.......those who cling to the past will suffer mostly with things changing so fast,...........you have to learn to let go,.............as the saying goes,........." if you have one foot in the past",......"and one foot in the future",........."your pissing all over the"NOW".........does "MATTER"......."MATTER"..?.
I fail to see the point of this video. Your concentrating on a small area of Longton,essentially 3 streets and focusing on all the negative aspects. Whilst parts of longton are in need of regeneration,Longton is steeped in history and is not in fact buildings at all. Its the people. You describe it as a shithole,which maybe it is but wouldnt it be a more positive thing to promote the town instead of running it down. You fail to show Longton park or Gladstone pottery museum or a single positive aspect of the town or surrounding area. Maybe your next video can do domething to help the regeneration of the area instead of running it down. Just a thought.
And why should i not show the run down area ? Do we just gloss over that and pretend itâs not there? Does longton park bring paying footfall in? Gladstone pottery museum so I believe is hardly open these days. My videos are showing the decline of the high street and the surrounding areas me showing longton park is not going to help longton with its regeneration the town centre and its surrounding areas have been a shit hole for a long time and thatâs the fact.
Why would I show a retail park? They are the same bland shopping experiences all over the country the high street is totally different with each high street having its own vibe. Has for murals nobody is going to make a point of coming to longton just to look at murals are they now? Itâs a shit hole like lots of towns around the country but longton and the rest of stoke as been a massive shit hole far longer than get out of jail cards of covid,cost of living,war in Ukraine that get dished out when the decline of the high street is mentioned
@@DJMtv1938 None of the decline of towns such as Longton has been by chance. According to the WEF etc.., by 2030 we are supposed to "own nothing and be happy" There is no such thing as "new normal" after covid, according to Schwab. But , what kind of a normal is this.?
I remember longton as a kid and it use to be a fantastic little town with loads of shops but now it's upsetting to see that it's got so bad now đ everything is falling apart by the looks of it.
Everything and everywhere if you notice in the video the traffic lights by Woolworths are ready to fall over and the council donât give a toss been like that for a while.
How old are you? 300? I'm 51 and it's always been a shit tip.
Looks deserted no rate payers, wot can council do????
Used to be Vibrant.
The systematic dismantling of a nation. And all the while a promise of prosperity.... eventually.
We can live in hope the chances are i will probably never see that hope in my lifetime
You are absolutely correct it started in London and it's spreading cancer . But there are plenty of mosques being built .
Cheers mate! God, it looks awful. So sad to see what has become of the market, I remember going there in the 80s with my parents; proper old school market with great fruit 'n' veg stalls, cheese stalls, butchers and all that. But I think it was on its last legs in the 90s. No way they're gonna be able to bring new business into a town like that.
Longton has always been a bit rough, with a fair few dodgy people about, but the town just looks like it's filled with pensioners now.
Your welcome đyep longton has always been the poor manâs relation but it did have a good little night life many,many years ago early 80s
@@DJMtv1938 People used to come from all over to go to Entropy and Kinetic...Think that was late 80s-early 90s though. I was googling around after I read your comment, and Kinetic was once voted as the best night in the UK.
I know itâs unbelievable to think isnât it đ
I live in longton itâs neglected by a very poor council that all they think about is WASTING MONEY on car parks that nobody uses ONLY them
We certainly have an a abundance of car parks for sure
Very sad to see. Love your vids. The worrying thing is that a lot of town centers could easily go the same way. I can see it happening.
Thanks very much đ much appreciated.
Thanks for this video. I don't know about a town that's dying; it looks as though it's died. I don't live in Stoke now but I come back for the football and it heart-breaking to see what's happened to Longton. In the 1950's my dad was manager of the Co-op butchers shop and the place was really buzzing. The facade to the market in the Strand has some really interesting details but like everything else it looks as though it's dropping to bits.Is there a way back-I don't think so. Incidentally, I don't agree with BlueDemon who says Longton has always been rough.
I think itâs now on a life support machine and begging to be put out of its misery is probably best way to describe it đđ
Fair enough. I have no idea what Longton was like before the 80s (earliest memories of the place for me). Yeah, It's too far gone to invest in the place now. Maybe just demolish the place and turn it over to nature. Make a lovely, national park!
@trevorthorley5038 longton has always been a dump in my mind so please donât tell me what I do and donât realise itâs just now a even bigger đ©hole
Build back better donât forget your jabs
When you build a community or group of communities around one industry like mining, steel making, ship building or, as in the case of The Potteries, ceramics and then allow that industry to die this is what happens. I live in a former mining area and remember the days when coal was king. It was a completely different place. Now the only growth industry in my area is drug dealing. Donât blame the people of Stoke and Longton. When you take away a communityâs heart you destroy it.
Certainly not blaming the people howeverâŠ..pride in lots of people and there area has gone a area does not become bad itâs the people that move In it that make it so. And Iâm afraid we now have not just in stoke but all over the country a society of people who take no pride in there area why should they clean the windows or polish the step or paint the house or maintain the garden itâs a house they are never going own just rent and so it goes on and on
Stoke had 3 major industries, potteries, steel, mining.
I worked in Longton in the early 1970âs. It was a thriving town then. Unbelievable!
Sad isnât it of what itâs become đ
Iâm originally from longton and I went through a couple of months ago first time in about 12 years the people all looked depressed busiest shop was the cash converters Iâm so glad I got out of that environment
So sad isnât it?
@@DJMtv1938 I was born there in 1951. I hated the dirt and the litter and waste-land. But once I left in 1968--I realised what lovely people I'd left behind. No rose tinted glasses here--they were the salt of the earth. Everyone would talk to you ,and the prevailing mood was kindness. I am turned to stone watching your video. It's such abuse and dereliction of duty. I remember losing my mum in that Woolworths when I was about 4. I thought the world had ended. Watching thi, looks like I was right!! Thanks for exposing this duck.
@joanginsberg9604 itâs heartbreaking to see the city the way it is now. I get accused of been negative my channel has always been about showing the decline of the city especially post covid. The people who say itâs the same everywhere have been conditioned into accepting that because I know from personal experience not everywhere is the same stoke has been taken down a cesspit in less than 30 years.
@@DJMtv1938 Entirely agree. It's probably one of many testbeds.I see us as going the same way as S Africa. where it's so dog eat dog But how ugly does ugly have to get before people say enough!Nobody should have to be subjected to such depressing surroundings. People put up with shite before because they were getting material benefits, however small. And there was a tight community. Neither of those things exist by now. This is a lose-lose situation
All this is happening in Newcastle under Lyme it's absolutely disgusting and Newcastle was a farming town we had a beastmarket in the town
Yep did the video for Newcastle under lyme the other week I was accused on here by someone of having an hidden agenda đIâm merely documenting the decline of our towns and cityâs in real time. Itâs heartbreaking to see but itâs important that itâs documented so I believe.
@@DJMtv1938 I was born at the city general hospital I live in slaney Street down by London road tavern pub and Newcastle was such a wonderful place to live what with the cattle market and all the market holders were very friendly on stones it's very sad to see it's decline.
It really is đ
@@DJMtv1938 I was born in The Lymes maternity hospital in Newcastle but brought up in Longton. Any time I went to Newcastle, it felt SO upmarket. That would have been the 50/60's.
Yep Newcastle always felt special and in some ways it still is compared to stoke but sadly you could put a fag paper between the 2 in some places
Wow that really is bad đ
Shocking mate
A lot of town centres are dying sadly. We used to drive up to Shelleyâs in Longton but looks very different to what I remember.
Itâs a shadow of its now sadly đ
@@DJMtv1938 Yeah someone said Shelleyâs was now a discounter store like Aldi or Lidl
Nice work again mate. Allways happy to keep providing the music. đ
Cheers pal always happy to use it has well đ
@@DJMtv1938. No problem mate. đ
I dont care how much of a poop hole Longton is, i still like the old dump :'(
Well said
This is really tragic but Stoke-on-Trent has been in a downward spiral for 40 years at least. The last 13 years of tory ideological austerity has banged the last nails into this coffin. I grew up in the city but never come back as it's too sad and I want to hang onto my good memories.
I like the backing track đ
Thanks for that đthe backing track is by a great local band and I think it fits really well with the video.
Tory ideology is really globalist ideology and nothing will change when we get a Labour government.
The main problem with Stoke on Trent is its very spread out, if you concentrate the investment in one area/ town then whilst it improves that , the rest is still a dump.
Virtually all the local industries that made SOT a grimy but thriving area have gone.
The pots, the pits, the Michelin factory, Shelton bar iron and steelworks, all dolid local employers, now its warehousing,call centres and Bet 365 HQ, the rot set in about 1980, been downhill ever since.
Hanley and Newcastle under Lyme are building new multi story car parks, why, its a new dynamic now, wfh, work from Costa, shop online, cant uninvent things.
Absolutely đŻ â€ïž
Yep, that about sums it up. Can't see anyway the city can recover. The sheer size of the decline is too great. No use chucking money at little 'initiatives' here and there. Only mass job availability can reverse the situation and how would that happen?
Longton is forgotten for hanley
If It Ain't Hanley They Ain't Bothered
I used love longton myself wen I was little now itâs gone so bad
Same here đ
Left stoke a few years ago
Saw the writing on the wall
Live in greater manchester now
The difference couldnt be starker
When I was a boy iâd spend hours in Longton on a Saturday.
Depressing
Whatâs happening to the U.K.? Itâs got a growing population but a lot of towns and cities are struggling?
Love the music
Yep itâs real dark think it works well with the video đ
Thanks Tesco..
Levelling up! đ
Yep đ
Yeah, with a bulldozer.
@@MickyG1152 shame I have lived here now for about 8 years. The Stoke people are brilliant really friendly and decent people. Just a god damn shame about the city. Wish I had a time machine to go back and see how it was flourishing.
Is the indoor market still going ?
The cafe, the sweetie stall ?
Haven't been to Longton for ages.
It was a great place not so long ago we have always been the poor manâs neighbour but we had a good night time economy and decent town centre. The go to get out of jail card is (itâs like that all over the country now )which is true but for stoke itâs been like this a a lot longer than anywhere else but one thing that canât be broken is the
People of this city
Longton was a thriving town so what happened to it lts the lack of investment from the government and the council.
Sad times đ
Invest in wot????
And to think that this is one of the better "Five Towns" of Stoke-On-Trent makes you realise what shit hole S-O-T really is.
đŻ đ
i worked in longton 74-82..it was buzzing from all the folk on lunch breaks from the lost pots ..woolies sign still there..get them bums, druggies asbos to get this place back on its feet..and stop the effing coucil wasting money..makes my blood boil
But take a look at the rich Diversity... Who needs pubs and shops
And it still looks better than New York and much safer too.
I could not possibly comment on that đ€Łđ
Is what was Entropy still there?
No that went a long time ago mate đ
does it "matter",......the bricks,....the windows,.......the tarmac,... is already lifeless,........its made from dead matter,......the only life in the city comes from humans walking around...and a few birds,.......before we built a city out of dead matter,.......there were forests,.......with much life within it, that does matter ,......"not did matter".........a self regenerating , self feeding forest of matter,.........we swapped paradise and freedom of life for an iphone....a big tv ,.....a car,......and a kettle................so now they got you wanting plenty of money so you can buy your own paradise back from them again...................also this,.......those who cling to the past will suffer mostly with things changing so fast,...........you have to learn to let go,.............as the saying goes,........." if you have one foot in the past",......"and one foot in the future",........."your pissing all over the"NOW".........does "MATTER"......."MATTER"..?.
Donât worry brexthickland - thereâs that Levelling Up and 350m a week. đđđ
Poor London and Scotland - shackled to a brexthick corpse
I fail to see the point of this video. Your concentrating on a small area of Longton,essentially 3 streets and focusing on all the negative aspects. Whilst parts of longton are in need of regeneration,Longton is steeped in history and is not in fact buildings at all. Its the people.
You describe it as a shithole,which maybe it is but wouldnt it be a more positive thing to promote the town instead of running it down. You fail to show Longton park or Gladstone pottery museum or a single positive aspect of the town or surrounding area.
Maybe your next video can do domething to help the regeneration of the area instead of running it down.
Just a thought.
And why should i not show the run down area ? Do we just gloss over that and pretend itâs not there? Does longton park bring paying footfall in? Gladstone pottery museum so I believe is hardly open these days. My videos are showing the decline of the high street and the surrounding areas me showing longton park is not going to help longton with its regeneration the town centre and its surrounding areas have been a shit hole for a long time and thatâs the fact.
Thank you đ
@@DJMtv1938 i see both points here yes Longton used to be a thriving hotbed of the Potteries but its not the only town in the UK that's fallen victim to hard times....i noticed you stopped at the entrance to Tesco and Next to highlight the closure of Hallmark etc yet, as you know, if you had taken a 5 min walk along that pathway past Tesco it would have shown us the retail park which is always busy thus bringing "paying footfall" as you say, why did you not do that?...like myself when i go to the retail park i will still go to Longton market and then onto the fantastic Britannia Café... i also notice that you have not shown the facelift Longton Market opposite Baths Road has had recently and the lovely Murals the kids of Longton and surrounding areas showing what they feel is important to Longton, its things like these you should be trying to promote, bringing business and people back to Longton....i understand you need to show the bad side but please promote the good things also otherwise...in your words Longton will always be a sh*t hole
Why would I show a retail park? They are the same bland shopping experiences all over the country the high street is totally different with each high street having its own vibe. Has for murals nobody is going to make a point of coming to longton just to look at murals are they now? Itâs a shit hole like lots of towns around the country but longton and the rest of stoke as been a massive shit hole far longer than get out of jail cards of covid,cost of living,war in Ukraine that get dished out when the decline of the high street is mentioned
@@DJMtv1938 None of the decline of towns such as Longton has been by chance. According to the WEF etc.., by 2030 we are supposed to "own nothing and be happy" There is no such thing as "new normal" after covid, according to Schwab. But , what kind of a normal is this.?
It's always been a crap hole worse still now it all needs to be demolished.
Agreed whilst I can remember longton in better days in my personal opinion itâs always been a bit of a dump but thatâs just my opinion đ
How is the Woolworths sign still there??