Letting my mind and feet wander, and filming the process. Big fan of mill chimneys, cheap houses and dry stone walls. Not very good at a 9-5 career
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You can still get better flats than these at this price if you look in the outskirts. My boyfriend bought his flat last year for 260k in good condition and you say prices have come down since then.
I have an aunt who rented a home for over 20 years. She allowed a lot of water damage to go unaddressed. After she moved out, the owners decided it would be cheaper to raze the building than try to fix it.
Yes from around 1850 till 1900 over 200 factories were on the go in bradford, the city was one of the richest in europe, now its just an immigration shithole. Whatever you mention in this video sadly cannot get away with the fact that bradford has gone under, we all know the reason why! Its so bizzare though to still see evidence of its amazing past sadly sat in awful parts of the city
Oh and as far as home ownership here in the States ...even if you're fortunate enough to have your home finally paid off ...stop paying your property taxes and see what happens.
Another fantastic video…. If you get chance, get yerself over to Bury…plenty of chimneys AND a bustling town centre!!! Ill even shout you a bog breakfast at the market😀
Nah sod off, here I am watching in China, ready to bring by girlfriend home, and then I see you filming the beginning outside the dog & gun pub 200m away from where I grew up and will be staying next month! Thanks for sharing!
@@wanderingturnip crikey you were quick on that. Well done on making this your career after not knowing what to do for so long. So many others I grew up with left the country not just Bradford. Here I am teaching kids escaping the reality of life back home
Congratulations David on 100k subscribers! Loved your chimney video (and the Nottingham revisited video too.) Your passion for chimneys really shines through. Also your unfiltered comments about bottoms, bars, and how you've never wanted to get behind something more in your life appealed to my very British sense of humour and made me chuckle! Keep up the great work.
I find it very sad and hard to swallow, seeing Slough like this. I lived in this area from 79-2017 and spent so many great times in a thriving high street. Could literally spend all day there with so many decent shops and local sightseeing. I remember when big supermarkets opened and the high street started to die off. Lots of trouble and crime. My childhood was great, this is simply heartbreaking.
Leinster Gardens is the address of the fake houses shown here. I spent Christmas in the hotel to their left before moving abroad as a kid, (used to be called the Henry VIII hotel not just Henry) tiny mind blown when my parents showed them to me 😊 also used in Sherlock as a hideout
It really simple 40 years ago London shops had a monopoly on a footfall of reasonably wealthy people. Local councils cashed in by pushing business rates higher and higher in the belief they had a monopoly on taxing the shops. The politicians took another bite by introducing minimum wages then trebling them in 20 years. Then they added to it with compulsory pension schemes. The market was then undermined by suppliers on the internet based in out of town locations that could supply goods from a lower cost base. Even if someone gave you a shop for free the cost of the rates and wages means what ever business you have has to generate thousand of pounds of sale a week (less 20% VAT another tax) just to stand still. There are a limited number of such businesses and of them most of them can be organised online. to top it all Gordon Brown changed the law so now the shops pay rates whether occupied or not
These days everything in considered in numbers only. Back in the day people appear to have had pride in theor creations. Its not just architecture dominating by brutalism, a bean counters idea of beauty. Look at the ford Ghia interior in the 70s and 80s, compared to later Ghia badges ford cars which are merely badge engineering.
The house with the subsidence. You see this in Southport too, not far down the coast. Houses for sale 'cash only'. Those houses are no longer fit for purpose. The only thing to be done is demolition and reconstruction using a subsidence-proof design, eg ferroconcrete raft.
You look alot like a guy who once joined a group of us on a night out to the boiler house , after meeting up in the frontier some 20 odd yrs ago ... You even sound like him lol It was good to see bradford again , thankyou ! .
Quite an adventure to discover all these chimneys and spots. What a shame there are so many deserted areas even if they do keep a certain charm. Thank you David... You are a born rambler spreading so much enthusiasm! We ❤ your channel.
To me, even a well kept (and lived in) typical Yorkshire stone house, looks a bit barren, because they do not have the typical decoration of stone houses, were you frame the stone areas with e.g. corner chain, socket, window framing, roof moulding (i do not know if that is the correct terms). But i guess it is a very good way to build in the rainy climate, with long maintence-free life, no problems with rot, molds, you do not even need to paint it.. So it looks like quality houses but i guess you did not do anything fancy with a house on the uplands...
