Lived in Bolton all my life and Charlie is spot on, It's gone terrible. Everything is being planned for flats just lately, The Bus Station was closed and now planning *Student flats* (Side of courts you probably passed) It's either flats or car parks so people can park coming to the town centre to see all the closed shops LOL!
Hi Charlie. I think you answered the question about why we don't have many trees in Bolton when you showed the low level cctv camera. Trees give shade from the sun and cctv. How can the council monitor everyone if foliage gets in the way? Better to be constantly watched and roast than have a pleasant environment. The irony that there's very little left to steal hasn't reached the council. The Crown court was covered with stone that was cut the wrong way and looked crap within months. In the wettest town in England most stone goes green but that started crumbling. There was a nice Barbara Hepworth piece outside it but it was moved in case anyone weighed it in as scrap. Welcome to Bolton...
Liams free mate Liam works as an engineer a hydraulic engineer i was going through a bad time worked al my life my WHOLE life!!! Don’t judge what you don’t know!!! Love Liam!
At a certain point you’re responsible for your life no matter what happened in childhood. People survive wars or escape from North Korea or all kinds of things and don’t end up high on crack and harassing people on the streets.
I was born in Bolton in 1965 I left in 1993 & apart from going back for my parents funeral haven’t been back & BOY!! am I glad What was once a thriving vibrant busy Town has now become an absolute dump What an embarrassment So many beautiful buildings gone to make way for crap Thanks for this video it’s convinced me not to return home
yeah so much as changed since then. The water place going was a big one then they removed all the trees and modernized the marketplace to make it look like a generic shopping centre (although the vaults and cinema is a decent upgrade), the Crompton place is pretty much empty due for demolition soon. I know a lot of towns have suffered due to online shopping etc but Bolton as gone downhill much quicker than other places. Bury still seems to do well and doesn't face the problems to the same extent as us. Bolton was a nice town, even in the early 2000s it was thriving but these last 10-15 years has seen the town massively spiral out of control. you can't walk through it now without a druggy asking you for money. I now live in wales and everytime I do come to Bolton to see family and friends it's just so depressing
Bolton Council was run by Labour for decades until fairly recently and accepted one of the highest intakes of asylum seekers in the UK as it was a source of money from central government and a pool of future voters. Labour has finally been kicked out and the town now has a Conservative MP and a coalition Conservative lead Council. It's slowly improving. Charlie mentioned the lack of trees - a large project is about to start to add trees to the streets. It will take decades to reverse the damage inflicted, but it's possible and the town has potential. Bury Council about 5 miles away offers a blueprint and has transformed itself into far better place than Bolton.
You have had me in stitches for days I've got cramps with laughing at some of your sarcastic ways you mention things funny funny guy thanks vids are the best not laughed in ages
I'm right with you Charlie, I worked in casinos for 2 years in Blackpool before going to the ships for 11 years in the casino department. In the 2 years on land I saw all kinds of gamblers. The taxi driver trying to double his fare he'd just earned, the chavs with expensive clothes trying to recoup the spending, the chinese trying to double their profits for the evening, the wealthier middle class who try their hand at a high roller table, and then the mature ones who have very little but decided that its a good night out. All mostly walk away with empty pockets, but will return the next day, and the next, etc. Do you remember a time in the early 2000's when advertising gambling became illegal? Well it's all changed now and it's the celebrities who are now endorsing this vile addiction on the people, it turns my stomach when I hear a new advert with a popular celeb, who's sold his/her soul for a tasty payout for themselves to endorse such a wicked addiction on the public. But alas we are all lambs to the slaughter and we're just going to keep feeding the oligarchs their riches until we are left to rot. Yeah a beautiful world we live in ☠️🌍 the world is broken 💔
My Mrs seen you today Charlie in Bolton you was recording so she didn’t want to interrupt. I said she should of and also should of done a intro. Gutted I wasn’t there. Good content I love it!!!!
UK in the summer is a no go zone for me. It turns into a hellhole of sirens, angry hooded youths, raving smack heads, and just generally angry NPC's in cars and also walking. It plays havoc with my anxiety lol. I dread the summers which is unfortunate.
Why did it make me laugh when Charlie said "couple of black guys,putting a couple of black sofas into a white van" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think it was the tone that he said it in as well
Glad of this channel to remind me of why I came to Japan in the first place. Im a Lancashire lad. Hit me right in the nostalgia when you said Greggs though. Also heart of gold that Liam. Great shit Charlie!
@@lynnedavies5884 A guy who was resentful because his mother sold off their home and went bankrupt just so she could make a large donation to a South Korean church/cult shot him. In reality Abe Shinzo only sent a letter of support to the group but wasn't officially a member or advisor. He just wanted to shoot him for doing that. These cults can be predatory like that here
I spent a few weeks in Ireland in 2019, and was amazed by how lovely and clean most of the country was. I went all over. Then there was Cork. This looks like Cork.
I once went to cellar in Germany (it was like Disneyland) there wasn't a cigarette end or a weed insight (grass growing in the cracks of the pavement , sidewalks), it was so clean . And they have a population of 83 million I am sure the reason Britain is not as clean is because the government are spending the money on the wrong sort of things .
@@jackwatsonepic626 Celle? Nice little market town. I used to go there with my in-laws. The large cities like Frankfurt and Dusseldorf are like this (and worse) near the railway stations, but most Germans seem to want to be Buergerlich.
Fred Dibnah . When he passed away the council has the chance to purchase his house and open it as a museum they never did . Bolton was built on steam it's what made Bolton . Most of his collection workshop and steam engines were sold off . The best the council could do was a statue and some random iron pump and to spend 1/2 million on surfacing the road to the heritage Center . Bolton has a steam museum full of working engines in haliwell near Morrison's supermarket
Charles, Bolton is not in isolation in this is it. I was in a place called Bridgend in South Wales recently and it was shocking too see the decay in once thriving town. All the towns and villages in the valleys around where I live are the same, but if you vape, want a bet or a mobile phone you will be sorted. What a mess we are in.
There's many of us that have had a troubled past, a nightmare of a childhood, and been abused and incarcerated! It doesn't excuse being a monster, terrifiying the public, and robbing old ladys. We don't use the word 'crackhead' loosely to describe anyone with a drug dependency, but more to describe a shite weasel.
I live in Bolton. I’ve lived here for 20 years it’s shocking how downhill it has gone in the last 20 years. Awful. Let down by the council. The people that live here are great though. Friendly happy funny people.
dude, this town looks so pristine and clean - come to the shittier or poor neighbourhoods here in Canada or the US if you want a TRULY depressing experience. Homeless everywhere. Needles on the ground. Drunks/mentally ill people staggering around. It's like something out of a 3rd world dystopia - but it's happening right now in supposedly 1st world Canada and US.
Try Sunderland its full of charity shops and depression. The worst city centre I've seen and I've been to some shitholes. Labour council corruption blatantly not bothered.
@@nobodyanderson4353 I'm sure it's bad, but this is the kind of hell I'm talking about in the US - here's a sketchy side of Chicago. There are literally hundreds of videos like this - /watch?v=A-pego4845M
Charlie I do believe that at 26mins 15/16 seconds you missed the prison officer or security guard whatever they were the one with the shades 😎 on slyly gave you the V sign please go and have a look ps love your channel and content
Charles, I think that is the Himalayn Balsam. Whilst out walking myself today I met a vegetation control guy who showed me some. He then gave it a good spraying!
If you look you will find,he doesn’t make anything up - he just videos the homeless & the down & outs in MMC,I think Debenhams old building should house them & MMC should be ashamed that they let them sleep on streets,it’s disgusting tbh,I would house & wash them all,they’re only human beings.
There is some impressive architecture in the town centre but it is a grim place for shopping and is full of poor people and immigrants.The town centre shopping has been killed by a big retail park in Horwich where wealthier Boltonians go.
@@thomasstanley5401 The town centre been killed by aggressive parking enforcement and high parking charges as well as large numbers of beggars (who are now banned from the town centre and so stand at every major road junction instead). The Trafford Centre is a quick to drive to as the retail park in Horwich. Bury was in the same boat as Bolton and yet has transformed it's town by bulldozing the crap and replacing it with high quality shopping developments and flats. Bolton has started on the same journey but it will take a couple of decades.
@@spacemanclips I think the main differnence between the towns is that Bury council has discouraged out of town retail while Bolton council hasn't.Even in the last few months Decathlon moved from the edge of town to Horwich.Also Bury town centre is smaller so less wok required.
The world is full of ifs and buts, we make our own choices good and bad. As a retired police officer and former prison officer the cynical but true term we used for smack heads was " dead man walking " because having got them clean they go straight back on the gear within days of being released. Choices !
But overall it's still better because physically, his body stopped being on drugs, even if only for a couple of days, and that's half the battle. It may not be cost effective but it is still good they were forced to stop. They only have to make the right choice to swear off them once, so it's at least possible. That's why I think every beggar, "homeless", and smackhead should be picked up every time for vagrancy, kept 24 hours, over and over again until the cummulative effect of enforced abstinence and maybe even just the sheer boredom of it makes them realise it's not worth the candle. Or at least makes them think about how not to get caught easily i.e, don't wander around begging in broad daylight because you will definitely always be arrested and always stay smack-free for 24 hours.
Bolton is very nice. Spacious, Indian population, University students, amazing architecture, sculpture etc.... . It is used in TV and film. . Why not visit Wigan and find out why Beijing has stopped demolition work. Is it because the Council realised it was predatory lending to actually take ownership of Wigan town center? First it was £130 million, then £190 million, then....it stopped. Visit Platt Bridge, Ince, Marsh Green, Leigh.......maybe talk to the natives? Outside Orwell's "favourite pub" .....The Moon Under Water.....there is a CCTV tree. Wigan is under the most mass surveillance of any UK town.
The plant is Himalayan Balsam. Indeed it is an invasive species, brought here as an ornamental plant but becoming wide spread around 1855. Some plants can produce up 2,500 seeds and have the ability to shoot them up to a distance of 5 meters. This is why they’re so successful at taking over and area. They drown out our native plants although very good for our Bees.
Try walking through a load, above head hight and try not to jump as all the seed heads explode around you.... I have loads growing but they smother the water hemlock so I like them.
No mate I don’t I had Brocken up with my mrs I had been a key worker throughout the covid pandemic and I’d been living in a tent in Farnworth cemetery now I’m back as a hydraulic engineer working in Liverpool thanks for your smart ass comment though mate 👍
As someone who lives in Bolton for about 8 years it is exactly how it was showed usually worse the night life is horrible there’s murders and stabbing genuine like messed up crime dealers walking around with machetes town centre used to be really busy allways now it’s all closed down I hate going into town so unsafe
I work as a chef not far from the town centre in a busy pub anyone that mentions they are going to town after there meal or drinks we tell them not to and to go to Darwen or blackburn
An aquarium. It's a fish prison. It's proof that humanity is still heartless, and still utterly backwards. The creatures imprisoned in that aquarium are used to entire oceans, seas, and rivers. Now, selfish man has stuck them in tiny tanks to be gawped at by disgusting, soulless, cretinous humans. They are animals with sentience, needs, and feelings. They are not mere objects of amusement. Aquaria are beyond cruel.
@@SpeccyMan, Wow. What an uncaring, selfish, supremacist attitude. There was a group of people in the 1930s that saw some inferior to others. Clearly, that mentality continues.
I think it looks okay TBF, I would have moved the fallen tree for the next person who comes along, Sir Ian Mckellen , Peter Kay, Danny Boyle, famous Boltonians, suffice to say they dont live there anymore🤣
There was bloody loads of trees in town that had been there since before I was born, town centre was full of 'em!! They took the lot away and destroyed all the lovely greenery!! Welcome the the New World Order!!
The pink flower is Himalayan balsam which is a invastive species and also known as policeman's helmet as when the seed pods burst their have over 10,000 seeds the land owner which it is grownig on must controlled as it normally grows near rivers and ditches.
That machine behind Fred is a triple expansion engine. They have one in the Bolton steam museum that was used in the film Titanic to represent the ships engines. I learnt that from Fred.
I passed through here on my way to the then Reebok stadium for a St Helens v Brisbane Broncos world club challenge match, it's a very intimidating place, you could just feel underlining violence, but I bet the regular folk of this place are sick of their town being this way.
the Pink flowered plant you pulled up, My high school for community outreach crap made 5 of us go to the local park and rip them up all day for a whole week, from top to bottom of the park. Apparently it was so we could put something about helping the community on our college applications etc. not the worst week I have spent out doors though :)
29:00 he collects a pay check, doesn't clean the dirty, decaying sign and takes false self importance from oppression of innocuous activity in a surveillance state? EVERYTHING wrong with the region.
It was fantastic 30 odd years ago, if you'd known it then, and were able to compare it to the Bolton of now, you'd know and see just how dreadful it has become!!
Love the videos Charles. I've just stumbled across you and currently working through all your video. From you latest ones and also from the beginning. If your doing a vlog today can you please wish our Madison a happy 18th birthday please
I used to do a facebook page called 'Bolton Clowncil', the videos had tens of thousands of views, it got taken down but the youtube is still up. Anyway, Council Leader Clifford Morris in 2014-2018 used emergency powers to circumvent the council chambers and Councillors, thereby making himself a dictator with the help of the Director of Place Stephen Young. He, by his own choice was known for hating trees, he removed the rain cover along Bradshaw Gate and had every tree in the town centre of Bolton destroyed. It was his and his alone choice, thankfully he's dead now.
Calling Russians Orcs is not a good sign! Don't dehumanise the Russian soldier or they will have no choice but to remain the enemy. They have been betrayed as much as the Ukrainians if not more having been ordered to die fruitlessly by their own Government. If we want a happy ending here we need to come together not build more separation!
I was in York in April with the kids and I was taking a picture of them stood on the steps of the law courts with the Clifford tower in the background and the security guard came out of the law courts building and said there's no photography allowed so I stood at the bottom of of the steps and took a photograph of the children with the Clifford tower in the background from the public pavement (sidewalk) I said to the security guard you have got nothing else better to do " your bored and that security guard coming out of the law courts building in Bolton reminded me of that incident
The multiple betting shop thing is agreed by the betting firms so that they can mop up people barred from one of the others, or who have set up a threshold of amounts limit in one shop so that they can move onto another one yet the industry pretends it is doing something for problem gambling.
Charlie your not allowed segment is comedy gold 👍. The high Viz good Samaritan calling for help, Can you hear me now? Phoenix Nights anyone? Greetings from Plymouth plenty of smackhead,crackhead,pisshead,junkie activity in our shite hole city centre. X
We’ve had 14 years of Tory austerity. They’re neglecting Bolton because it’s a Labour town. But I think it’s about to change with the next election coming up in 6 months. If Labour actually win, Bolton will turn things around in no time. It’s got massive potential. You can see that in this video. I think you’ve made it out to be much worse than it actually is. There’s some proper shit rundown places in this country and Bolton isn’t one of them.
Lived in Bolton all my life and Charlie is spot on, It's gone terrible.
Everything is being planned for flats just lately, The Bus Station was closed and now planning *Student flats* (Side of courts you probably passed)
It's either flats or car parks so people can park coming to the town centre to see all the closed shops LOL!
Same in the North east (Sunderland)
Bolton- Beacause Manchester was not depressing enough
🤣🤣🤣 England is Fu@ked
😂😂😂😂😂
Up next.. Oldham
@@loairn ouch, yeah forgot about that gem, you win.
London is even worse 😢😢
Hi Charlie. I think you answered the question about why we don't have many trees in Bolton when you showed the low level cctv camera. Trees give shade from the sun and cctv. How can the council monitor everyone if foliage gets in the way? Better to be constantly watched and roast than have a pleasant environment. The irony that there's very little left to steal hasn't reached the council. The Crown court was covered with stone that was cut the wrong way and looked crap within months. In the wettest town in England most stone goes green but that started crumbling. There was a nice Barbara Hepworth piece outside it but it was moved in case anyone weighed it in as scrap.
Welcome to Bolton...
I live here and could not agree with you and the Veitch more 😒
@@scorchio70 I never left but wish I had. One day...
I agree with Liam 100% but there’s nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade, we have all had trauma existing in this hell realm..
Liam desperate for handouts from daddy government
Liams free mate Liam works as an engineer a hydraulic engineer i was going through a bad time worked al my life my WHOLE life!!! Don’t judge what you don’t know!!!
Love Liam!
At a certain point you’re responsible for your life no matter what happened in childhood. People survive wars or escape from North Korea or all kinds of things and don’t end up high on crack and harassing people on the streets.
It’s a shame Bolton has declined so much, slowly everything has pulled out
Cos they prefer Middlebrook Retails.
Fred Dibnah is probably crying in his grave😢
Especially cos of his statue. Looks like something off Wallace and Grommet but we're not allowed to say that.
I was born in Bolton in 1965
I left in 1993 & apart from going back for my parents funeral haven’t been back & BOY!! am I glad
What was once a thriving vibrant busy Town has now become an absolute dump
What an embarrassment
So many beautiful buildings gone to make way for crap
Thanks for this video it’s convinced me not to return home
So very sad innit :(
yeah so much as changed since then.
The water place going was a big one then they removed all the trees and modernized the marketplace to make it look like a generic shopping centre (although the vaults and cinema is a decent upgrade), the Crompton place is pretty much empty due for demolition soon. I know a lot of towns have suffered due to online shopping etc but Bolton as gone downhill much quicker than other places.
Bury still seems to do well and doesn't face the problems to the same extent as us.
Bolton was a nice town, even in the early 2000s it was thriving but these last 10-15 years has seen the town massively spiral out of control. you can't walk through it now without a druggy asking you for money.
I now live in wales and everytime I do come to Bolton to see family and friends it's just so depressing
The lack of any sizeable trees makes these streets a concrete jungle nightmare.
Glad to see the Fred Dibnar memorial he was a absolute legend
Dibnah
" Did yer like that ?" God bless him.
I hope someone from Bolton Council sees this and thinks about it to see beyond claiming a wage and at least tries to go above and beyond.
Bolton Council was run by Labour for decades until fairly recently and accepted one of the highest intakes of asylum seekers in the UK as it was a source of money from central government and a pool of future voters. Labour has finally been kicked out and the town now has a Conservative MP and a coalition Conservative lead Council. It's slowly improving. Charlie mentioned the lack of trees - a large project is about to start to add trees to the streets. It will take decades to reverse the damage inflicted, but it's possible and the town has potential. Bury Council about 5 miles away offers a blueprint and has transformed itself into far better place than Bolton.
@@spacemanclips I hope so
Bolton Labour council absolutely ruined Bolton.!
You have had me in stitches for days I've got cramps with laughing at some of your sarcastic ways you mention things funny funny guy thanks vids are the best not laughed in ages
I'm right with you Charlie, I worked in casinos for 2 years in Blackpool before going to the ships for 11 years in the casino department. In the 2 years on land I saw all kinds of gamblers. The taxi driver trying to double his fare he'd just earned, the chavs with expensive clothes trying to recoup the spending, the chinese trying to double their profits for the evening, the wealthier middle class who try their hand at a high roller table, and then the mature ones who have very little but decided that its a good night out. All mostly walk away with empty pockets, but will return the next day, and the next, etc. Do you remember a time in the early 2000's when advertising gambling became illegal? Well it's all changed now and it's the celebrities who are now endorsing this vile addiction on the people, it turns my stomach when I hear a new advert with a popular celeb, who's sold his/her soul for a tasty payout for themselves to endorse such a wicked addiction on the public. But alas we are all lambs to the slaughter and we're just going to keep feeding the oligarchs their riches until we are left to rot. Yeah a beautiful world we live in ☠️🌍 the world is broken 💔
The no trees thing is to make the natives feel at home
My Mrs seen you today Charlie in Bolton you was recording so she didn’t want to interrupt. I said she should of and also should of done a intro. Gutted I wasn’t there. Good content I love it!!!!
was she wearing a hijab?
@@Jafmanz No, but mine was wearing 2...
2 of em, incase the first one blew off 😱
Labour Council strikes again
UK in the summer is a no go zone for me. It turns into a hellhole of sirens, angry hooded youths, raving smack heads, and just generally angry NPC's in cars and also walking. It plays havoc with my anxiety lol.
I dread the summers which is unfortunate.
I went to Bolton few weeks ago to see Fred Dibners house. Yes driving around Bolton is very depressing.
Why did it make me laugh when Charlie said "couple of black guys,putting a couple of black sofas into a white van" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think it was the tone that he said it in as well
They seemed to be approaching very angry with being filmed but it cut ?
Cash Generator = Crack Generator
I’m from Bolton and yes it’s embarrassing . The drag queen reading hour is at the Bolton library soon.🤮
Glad of this channel to remind me of why I came to Japan in the first place. Im a Lancashire lad. Hit me right in the nostalgia when you said Greggs though. Also heart of gold that Liam.
Great shit Charlie!
What happened to your president in Japan last week.
@@lynnedavies5884 A guy who was resentful because his mother sold off their home and went bankrupt just so she could make a large donation to a South Korean church/cult shot him. In reality Abe Shinzo only sent a letter of support to the group but wasn't officially a member or advisor. He just wanted to shoot him for doing that. These cults can be predatory like that here
I think you've blown your chances of becoming an Ambassador for Bolton!!!!😆😆😆
I spent a few weeks in Ireland in 2019, and was amazed by how lovely and clean most of the country was. I went all over. Then there was Cork. This looks like Cork.
I once went to cellar in Germany (it was like Disneyland) there wasn't a cigarette end or a weed insight (grass growing in the cracks of the pavement , sidewalks), it was so clean . And they have a population of 83 million
I am sure the reason Britain is not as clean is because the government are spending the money on the wrong sort of things .
@@jackwatsonepic626 Celle? Nice little market town. I used to go there with my in-laws.
The large cities like Frankfurt and Dusseldorf are like this (and worse) near the railway stations, but most Germans seem to want to be Buergerlich.
When you coming to the land time just never bothered with, the legendry (for all the wrong reasons ) Rochdale??
I'd love to see that 😁 I'm in Heywood. Not much here to look at, except Queen's Park
Well said, Liam. 👍
Fred Dibnah . When he passed away the council has the chance to purchase his house and open it as a museum they never did . Bolton was built on steam it's what made Bolton . Most of his collection workshop and steam engines were sold off . The best the council could do was a statue and some random iron pump and to spend 1/2 million on surfacing the road to the heritage Center .
Bolton has a steam museum full of working engines in haliwell near Morrison's supermarket
Liam seems like he is a good guy!
Charles, Bolton is not in isolation in this is it. I was in a place called Bridgend in South Wales recently and it was shocking too see the decay in once thriving town. All the towns and villages in the valleys around where I live are the same, but if you vape, want a bet or a mobile phone you will be sorted. What a mess we are in.
Would rather live in Bridgend than Bolton at least they got a nice beach not too far away
@@KDanes yeh, you're right. Its just such a shame that things are going this way.
Was last in Brigend 25 years ago and it was a good place then
Hard to believe the sun once never set on its empire! In fact totally unfracking believable.
There's many of us that have had a troubled past, a nightmare of a childhood, and been abused and incarcerated! It doesn't excuse being a monster, terrifiying the public, and robbing old ladys. We don't use the word 'crackhead' loosely to describe anyone with a drug dependency, but more to describe a shite weasel.
The plural for lady is ladies!
@@SpeccyMan dyslexia interesting, normal spelling boring
Love the happy goths with the kitten called Sombre. Great content as per.
I live in Bolton. I’ve lived here for 20 years it’s shocking how downhill it has gone in the last 20 years. Awful. Let down by the council. The people that live here are great though. Friendly happy funny people.
Best council money can buy...
I was in Bolton a few days ago, I won’t be returning anytime soon, it really is such a depressing sad place!!!
dude, this town looks so pristine and clean - come to the shittier or poor neighbourhoods here in Canada or the US if you want a TRULY depressing experience. Homeless everywhere. Needles on the ground. Drunks/mentally ill people staggering around. It's like something out of a 3rd world dystopia - but it's happening right now in supposedly 1st world Canada and US.
Clean? This is a shithole, one of our poor cities
I agree, I visited a few years ago and thought it was reasonably pleasant. Much nice looking than Manchester anyway.
Lot's of money being/been spent recently in Greater Manchester trust me mate 10 year's ago places looked like 70's New York 😂 proper dog shit
Try Sunderland its full of charity shops and depression. The worst city centre I've seen and I've been to some shitholes.
Labour council corruption blatantly not bothered.
@@nobodyanderson4353 I'm sure it's bad, but this is the kind of hell I'm talking about in the US - here's a sketchy side of Chicago. There are literally hundreds of videos like this - /watch?v=A-pego4845M
Dibnah was a total legend btw......totally. Enjoyed this one as usual Charles. Greetings from the Peoples Republic of Motherwell.
I was just sitting down watching an old recording about the Lidl.
And what did I spot about 5 minutes in? A Veitch in the wild taking to the camera!
can u post link pls i also adore lidl lol
When Liam mentioned McDonald's I could just imagine Fred Dibnah asking if he was talking about the farmer.
Why do you all love him so much go suck his 🍼
Charlie I do believe that at 26mins 15/16 seconds you missed the prison officer or security guard whatever they were the one with the shades 😎 on slyly gave you the V sign please go and have a look ps love your channel and content
Charles, I think that is the Himalayn Balsam. Whilst out walking myself today I met a vegetation control guy who showed me some. He then gave it a good spraying!
Japanese knotweed.
Correct Himalayan balsam not knot weed
I love the smell of it
Balsam has flowers knotweed doesn't. Knotweed boy is wrong...
awww, bless the little cat, that was truly adorable.... bless
Bless Liam at the end, he remembers Old MacDonald back when he had a farm! 😉👍🇬🇧
I can't be the only one thinking Bolton looks a lot nicer from his little walks around Manchester
If you look you will find,he doesn’t make anything up - he just videos the homeless & the down & outs in MMC,I think Debenhams old building should house them & MMC should be ashamed that they let them sleep on streets,it’s disgusting tbh,I would house & wash them all,they’re only human beings.
Yes Bolton does look a bit nicer.
There is some impressive architecture in the town centre but it is a grim place for shopping and is full of poor people and immigrants.The town centre shopping has been killed by a big retail park in Horwich where wealthier Boltonians go.
@@thomasstanley5401 The town centre been killed by aggressive parking enforcement and high parking charges as well as large numbers of beggars (who are now banned from the town centre and so stand at every major road junction instead). The Trafford Centre is a quick to drive to as the retail park in Horwich. Bury was in the same boat as Bolton and yet has transformed it's town by bulldozing the crap and replacing it with high quality shopping developments and flats. Bolton has started on the same journey but it will take a couple of decades.
@@spacemanclips I think the main differnence between the towns is that Bury council has discouraged out of town retail while Bolton council hasn't.Even in the last few months Decathlon moved from the edge of town to Horwich.Also Bury town centre is smaller so less wok required.
The world is full of ifs and buts, we make our own choices good and bad. As a retired police officer and former prison officer the cynical but true term we used for smack heads was " dead man walking " because having got them clean they go straight back on the gear within days of being released. Choices !
But overall it's still better because physically, his body stopped being on drugs, even if only for a couple of days, and that's half the battle. It may not be cost effective but it is still good they were forced to stop. They only have to make the right choice to swear off them once, so it's at least possible. That's why I think every beggar, "homeless", and smackhead should be picked up every time for vagrancy, kept 24 hours, over and over again until the cummulative effect of enforced abstinence and maybe even just the sheer boredom of it makes them realise it's not worth the candle. Or at least makes them think about how not to get caught easily i.e, don't wander around begging in broad daylight because you will definitely always be arrested and always stay smack-free for 24 hours.
It looks like the same invasive plant we have here in Co Durham imported in the 70's I think its called Himalayan Balsam
Bolton is very nice.
Spacious, Indian population, University students, amazing architecture, sculpture etc....
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It is used in TV and film.
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Why not visit Wigan and find out why Beijing has stopped demolition work.
Is it because the Council realised it was predatory lending to actually take ownership of Wigan town center?
First it was £130 million, then £190 million, then....it stopped.
Visit Platt Bridge, Ince, Marsh Green, Leigh.......maybe talk to the natives?
Outside Orwell's "favourite pub" .....The Moon Under Water.....there is a CCTV tree.
Wigan is under the most mass surveillance of any UK town.
My eyes don't lie!
Ridiculous amount of adverts on this post couldn’t watch it all
The plant is Himalayan Balsam. Indeed it is an invasive species, brought here as an ornamental plant but becoming wide spread around 1855. Some plants can produce up 2,500 seeds and have the ability to shoot them up to a distance of 5 meters. This is why they’re so successful at taking over and area. They drown out our native plants although very good for our Bees.
In Devon we have giant hogwead it’s everywhere
They are not the only invasive species taking over are they...
@@Jafmanz i hope your daughter brings home someone very brown
Try walking through a load, above head hight and try not to jump as all the seed heads explode around you.... I have loads growing but they smother the water hemlock so I like them.
Guy at the end when you said “there’s a lot of crack head in Bolton” 😂 deffo loves a good owd toot of the pipe.
No mate I don’t I had Brocken up with my mrs I had been a key worker throughout the covid pandemic and I’d been living in a tent in Farnworth cemetery now I’m back as a hydraulic engineer working in Liverpool thanks for your smart ass comment though mate 👍
Fek off, you well love the stoon 😂 could see ya little grin when he mentioned crack Ed’s.
The Sky looks as bad as it does here in Tasmania fully Sprayed.
As someone who lives in Bolton for about 8 years it is exactly how it was showed usually worse the night life is horrible there’s murders and stabbing genuine like messed up crime dealers walking around with machetes town centre used to be really busy allways now it’s all closed down I hate going into town so unsafe
I work as a chef not far from the town centre in a busy pub anyone that mentions they are going to town after there meal or drinks we tell them not to and to go to Darwen or blackburn
Okay Charlie, you have convinced me, I will never go to Bolton.👀
The turkish baths is a beautiful building inside,truly stunning
Gambling , Tony Blairs legacy
An aquarium. It's a fish prison. It's proof that humanity is still heartless, and still utterly backwards. The creatures imprisoned in that aquarium are used to entire oceans, seas, and rivers. Now, selfish man has stuck them in tiny tanks to be gawped at by disgusting, soulless, cretinous humans. They are animals with sentience, needs, and feelings. They are not mere objects of amusement. Aquaria are beyond cruel.
We do far worse things to our own kind! Let's fix that first.
@@SpeccyMan, Wow. What an uncaring, selfish, supremacist attitude. There was a group of people in the 1930s that saw some inferior to others. Clearly, that mentality continues.
Maybe they came from a pond.
35:26 - did he just say, "Old McDonald"
ha ha ha , e-eye-e-eye-Oh
Love yr work Charlie the best tourism guide going around grass roots the world needs more trees
haha Charlie Veitch, quite an intelligent fella. Good command of English with a comedic tint. Keep it up
What was the situation with the black guy on a mission walking towards you? Video cut quick did you bolt?
You should come back and do a Bolton patrol after dusk, when the nightlife comes out
Thanks Mr V 👍 please come to Newcastle
I think it looks okay TBF, I would have moved the fallen tree for the next person who comes along, Sir Ian Mckellen , Peter Kay, Danny Boyle, famous Boltonians, suffice to say they dont live there anymore🤣
Unless he has moved in the last couple of years Peter Kay lives near Markland Hill tennis club in a wealthy area of Bolton.
@@thomasstanley5401 Thats nice to know, thanks for that .
Don't forget our paddy
how long do you think a sapling would last if they tried planting trees?
There was bloody loads of trees in town that had been there since before I was born, town centre was full of 'em!! They took the lot away and destroyed all the lovely greenery!!
Welcome the the New World Order!!
24:00 I used to regularly go to Ye Old Man and Scythe when visiting friends in Bolton - 30 years ago. Surprised that it's still there.
I wouldn’t be that surprised it’s literally the 4th oldest pub in the country 😂
@@BWFCLVAREY It looked it when I was in. Very old style.
@@TheSadButMadLad it’s a pretty cool pub, one of the very few good establishments left in Bolton
@@BWFCLVAREY I'll have to go and visit it again.
The pink flower is Himalayan balsam which is a invastive species and also known as policeman's helmet as when the seed pods burst their have over 10,000 seeds the land owner which it is grownig on must controlled as it normally grows near rivers and ditches.
Legend bro
That machine behind Fred is a triple expansion engine. They have one in the Bolton steam museum that was used in the film Titanic to represent the ships engines. I learnt that from Fred.
30:45 What Is the Difference Between a Pot and a Pan? A pot has tall sides and two loop handles, while a pan is shallow with one long handle.
I passed through here on my way to the then Reebok stadium for a St Helens v Brisbane Broncos world club challenge match, it's a very intimidating place, you could just feel underlining violence, but I bet the regular folk of this place are sick of their town being this way.
the Pink flowered plant you pulled up, My high school for community outreach crap made 5 of us go to the local park and rip them up all day for a whole week, from top to bottom of the park. Apparently it was so we could put something about helping the community on our college applications etc.
not the worst week I have spent out doors though :)
The reason there's no trees is because trees block the cameras so big brother has insisted they all be removed
29:00
he collects a pay check, doesn't clean the dirty, decaying sign and takes false self importance from oppression of innocuous activity in a surveillance state?
EVERYTHING wrong with the region.
Hey, Bolton looks alright... There are a lot lot worse places and I didn't see much rubbish around... Let's be grateful for small mercies.
It was fantastic 30 odd years ago, if you'd known it then, and were able to compare it to the Bolton of now, you'd know and see just how dreadful it has become!!
Great Point about the Trees, at least in some big pots to help with the scenary.
Love the videos Charles. I've just stumbled across you and currently working through all your video. From you latest ones and also from the beginning. If your doing a vlog today can you please wish our Madison a happy 18th birthday please
Leave us alone & give us a loan, times have been hard for Bolton
Ahh come on Charlie you didn’t show your interactions with the menacing looking black guys. Did you bottle it and run away ?
Never menacing looking guys is it! Always seems to be addicts that he has a go at!
Eid Mubarak charlie 😊
Liam is spot on. Everyone has a story. Head screwed on the right way that lad
Manchester = 44.78 square miles
Bolton = 54.05 square miles
Bolton looked tame compared to Derby... My partner was shocked that places like this exist in England.
I used to do a facebook page called 'Bolton Clowncil', the videos had tens of thousands of views, it got taken down but the youtube is still up. Anyway, Council Leader Clifford Morris in 2014-2018 used emergency powers to circumvent the council chambers and Councillors, thereby making himself a dictator with the help of the Director of Place Stephen Young. He, by his own choice was known for hating trees, he removed the rain cover along Bradshaw Gate and had every tree in the town centre of Bolton destroyed. It was his and his alone choice, thankfully he's dead now.
Great video as usual. You should do a tour of other GB cities. If you do make sure to include Wolverhampton
Nothing wrong with Wolverhampton. Dudley is crap
That ended abruptly. This will be fantastic to watch in 50 years time.
Calling Russians Orcs is not a good sign! Don't dehumanise the Russian soldier or they will have no choice but to remain the enemy. They have been betrayed as much as the Ukrainians if not more having been ordered to die fruitlessly by their own Government. If we want a happy ending here we need to come together not build more separation!
Such a shame about the art deco building
nice bit of 'CV goes AB'..... Liking the Crossover
Love police meets hate police 😅😅
Good stuff Charlie 🤗
You missed CEX
I was in York in April with the kids and I was taking a picture of them stood on the steps of the law courts with the Clifford tower in the background and the security guard came out of the law courts building and said there's no photography allowed
so I stood at the bottom of of the steps and took a photograph of the children with the Clifford tower in the background from the public pavement (sidewalk)
I said to the security guard you have got nothing else better to do " your bored and that security guard coming out of the law courts building in Bolton reminded me of that incident
The multiple betting shop thing is agreed by the betting firms so that they can mop up people barred from one of the others, or who have set up a threshold of amounts limit in one shop so that they can move onto another one yet the industry pretends it is doing something for problem gambling.
Charlie your not allowed segment is comedy gold 👍. The high Viz good Samaritan calling for help, Can you hear me now? Phoenix Nights anyone?
Greetings from Plymouth plenty of smackhead,crackhead,pisshead,junkie activity in our shite hole city centre. X
That's what me and Mrs said 🤣🤣
So many funny moments to mention...
"The Alphabet Army" aka LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ... very good, I'll use this one...😅
Crack, gambling and zombies ahhhh such a beautiful ambience .
Sometimes an educated opinion is shared.
This is not one of those times!!
The chap at 26:15 flipping you the v's - what a hero :D
Gutted my hometown now! Would of loved to do the walk with you
So much beautiful architecture though.
It seems in America they can’t wait to tear down instead of renovate.
Everything getting uglier.
I just got a cottage advert in between your video..I think you spend to much time in cottaging cove 😂😂😂😂😂
We’ve had 14 years of Tory austerity. They’re neglecting Bolton because it’s a Labour town. But I think it’s about to change with the next election coming up in 6 months. If Labour actually win, Bolton will turn things around in no time. It’s got massive potential. You can see that in this video. I think you’ve made it out to be much worse than it actually is. There’s some proper shit rundown places in this country and Bolton isn’t one of them.
Charles should do a video on Oldham town centre - It is equally abysmal as Bolton!
Oldham is rank now