Exploring a ghost town in the middle of London

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The Aylesbury estate used to house 11,000 people. Now it's a ghost town. I went exploring and met a couple of people who still live there. Just 2 of the remaining 15 properties still occupied.
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@iamthecrispconnoisseur Год назад

I grew up on the Aylesbury estate. It had a terrible reputation. The overhead footpaths were demolished because police said criminals were able to get from Walworth rd to the Old kent road without touching the pavement. Yes the flats were rather spacious but the rodent and pest infestation was a BIG problem. Entire basement flats were converted into giant dustbin shoots, so the rodents were imbedded within the fabric of the blocks. I have some happy memories mainly of playing out on the blocks with friends during the summer holidays and playing at the advent playground at Burgess park. But ultimately it is a shit hole and people deserve better. Oh and the Bill used to film regularly in the area lol that was quite exciting

@joedurantguitar1447 Год назад

Is this where Nil By Mouth was set?

@iamthecrispconnoisseur Год назад

@@joedurantguitar1447 just watched the trailer and it could be. Big brutalist structures

@pooooornopigeon Год назад

Burgess park is quite nice now.

@JustDaniel6764 Год назад

Wasn't this what they called the 'Jasmin Allen' Estate, or something like that.

@equinox95 Год назад

......With the old Gloucester, North Peckham and Camden on the other side of the park....that really was the "Bronx of South London" back in the 80s and 90s.

@rachelhudson8362 Год назад

There is no housing shortage. Just greed people who price properties out of people's reach.

@Clembo Год назад

If you don't make 50k or more you do not belong in London. Go live in Newcastle instead.

@bumboywillynut8868 Год назад

If u come into this country and don’t work, jump back on the boat u came on! We don’t need more leeches

@leopold7562 Год назад

@@ClemboRight. So there’s the message, paupers: The toffs don’t care about you, so stop cleaning stuff and doing all the running around in hotels, bars and restaurants. Let ‘em live in a filthy city. Move to Newcastle, it’s much nicer anyway

@Dollybird198 Год назад

Exactly that 😢❤

@G4RY1159 Год назад

And Landlords don't negotiate, it's take it or leave it, look at today's high streets, empty shops that will never see trade ever again, take it or leave it.

@bganonimouse2754 Год назад

Yeah, this is when a youtube video grows from being just a vid to being actual journalism. Well done mate.

@xtraross Год назад

Cheers.

@lg5819 Год назад

It’s hard to believe but true, once upon a time 11,000 people living in that huge council estate and now just 15 people holding onto their homes until the bitter end. And what will they replace them with, new builds which will be unaffordable for the 15 people that are left living there and anybody else that needs a roof over the head but cannot afford the unaffordable high rents in London. It’s an absolute disgrace because traditional Londoners, Londoners who have lived in London for generations, building communities are being displaced and push further out of London altogether. London’s distinctive character from the past is now becoming a relic, what’s left of it, and in its place rich folk are moving in, or property developers who care more about making money then building communities.

@rjjcms1 Год назад

That's the way it's been allowed to go for the past four decades,unfortunately. Greed trumping need at every turn.

@vikigirl14997 Год назад

perfectly said

@esthereley6808 Год назад

The people you interviewed had made wonderful homes ❤

@kentslocum Год назад

Given the unaffordability of housing, I'm not surprised there are holdouts. I'd move in, given the chance.

@hanselmansell7555 Год назад

Too right, literally no were to go anymore.. 😢

@lukegarcia3238 Год назад

You obviously have never lived in a shitty council block before 😒

@blade_warrior_blue 7 месяцев назад

I'm from NYC but I lived in London for 10 years. Moved there when I was 11. By the time I was 16 I was homeless living in the bando and selling crack. Ayelsbury estate was one of the places I stayed. I got separated from my family at that point and I was by myself. Im not even from the UK and I had constant culture shock on these London estates. We used to ride our bikes 12 floors up it felt like we were flying you know everything was connected with bridges and ramps. Heygate was the same way. We traveled everywhere on bikes and easily got away from the cops riding through the estate. I got so many crazy stories from this estate. Kinda feel a weird sense of grief seeing it like this. Although tbh it was a horrible place. It was a massive death trap and you could always feel this sense of doom in the air, me and my crew being up in those hallways and stairwells and I'm seeing flats that have their windows smashed in with plastic bags in there and people still living there. It was dirty, smelled like piss and there were flowers and candles in the hallways for people who were killed there, the cameras where ripped out, the lights were busted, it smelled like piss and the lifts were a scary rollercoaster ride. I got stories about those too.

@xtina4621 4 месяца назад

Wow. What borough of London is Aylesbury in? Thanks for sharing that. How is your life now?

@salihudintaiwo4205 4 месяца назад

Southwark Borough... I was pissed about Heygate, especially since it sat empty since my childhood. I worked on the new developments to bill the bills, it disgusted me within.

@Tdr-jv2nc Год назад

Brand new un affordable homes

@maria8399 Год назад

This seems to be happening across London. I have friends in an estate in Acton who refuse to leave, surrounded by the rubble of other blocks. Granted, the estates weren't picturesque but they were home. They were (once) affordable. The council are demolishing entire estates and telling communities to move out, often far away. For those who brought their flats, they are offering below market value. When the new properties are built they will be too expensive for the people who lived there. It's tragic.

@hudson7354 Год назад

It’s Brexit, Farage is fine with this so is Boris

@st20332 Год назад

@hudson7354 it's much more than just that. 80% of housing in the UK was owned either directly or indirectly by Russian oligarchs 2 years ago. Unsure of that percentage now, but that has a MASSIVE effect on the housing market.

@hudson7354 Год назад

@@st20332 80 percent ? It wasn’t

@Rynewulf 11 месяцев назад

@@hudson7354this started years before Brexit, the EU was no help to ordinary people in this country. Its why they could be convinced to leave, because whether a farmer half the country away can easily whip foreign labour like slaves to pick strawberries is no concern to you when the government is forcefully tearing your home down

@Abdul.M. 7 месяцев назад

Most Acton estate getting knocked down half been build other half crumb rockes😮

@crayzmarc Год назад

The homes they will replace it with inside won't be as spacious.

@elleJay-mb4yn Год назад

My friend used to live in here. She held out and they moved her to a house converted into two flats in Dulwich.

@stevenatkinson4526 Год назад

Them flats look really good inside and very spacious l am not surprised they don't want to move there in a great location in London just a stone's throw away from the central London they are working class people who have lived there most of there life's worked hard to keep a roof over there head and payed there bill's and tuck pride in their home and themselves why should they have to move there getting old and look to be happy but because they are council tenents they have to move out for rich developer's to bully them out of there homes because there not rich enough to live in that part of London when 50 years ago when most people lived and worked around London and put there hard earned money into the community it just shows how greedy the world has become and how the rich push the poor around and make there life's difficult and create hardships and misery not good

@hayleystratus7713 Год назад

It was one of the most Toughest area's in south London most people from there had mental l health problems. The way they treated girls around there was disgusting

@stevenatkinson4526 Год назад

@@hayleystratus7713 hello there Hayley I would say it was very difficult living in a area like that everyone packed in like rats and living on top of each other l bet there was a lot of drama and crime and people with lots of ego it's not nice to hear that they treated ladies badly was you a resident of that area l would say there was some really nice folks who lived around there but a lot of bad folks and bullying circumstances and a dog eat dog world it's really difficult living around them circumstances when folks are trying there best to keep there heads above water and pay there rent and bills

@hayleystratus7713 Год назад

@@stevenatkinson4526 Hiya yes there are good and bad in every area I've met lovely people around and not so nice people often I had problems with people I didn't know or a Friend of a friend. Even until this day most of these people haven't changed their mentality of pettiness bullying. I grew up not too far from this estate but on the occasional times I was there wasn't pleasant

@stevenatkinson4526 Год назад

@@hayleystratus7713 hello again heyley what deck aid did you grow up around that area was it the 70s 80s 90s bet you have seen a lot of changes cos London is always changing with different development's and projects l was working a few streets from st Paul's cathedral this time last year and it has changed so much since I was last working in London in the 90s there's developments going up all over the place you can see where they spend the money in this country l live not far from Nottingham and work in construction and there's developments but wow there's loads of work in London every where you look l have worked around Hendon and Croydon Romford Norbury and and I always enjoy working in and around London there's plenty to see and do do you still live in and around London or have you moved out of the area cos I know it's expensive to try and keep a roof over your head in that part of London they don't want working class people there any more it's all about rich people living in them areas now adays

@nicholasr39 Год назад

Yeah these people who have been moved have gone to other council homes in the Borough and other areas of south east London and it has put pressure on availability because we have lost all of the stock on the Aylesbury which just need doing up and so many people need somewhere to live. The council won't replace this estate, it will be private homes and housing associations with so called affordable homes which aren't affordable

@jessc2064 Год назад

Imagine getting stuck in one of the lifts without a phone signal. Nobody would know you were there.

@nicholasr39 Год назад

Aren't they supposed to be fitted with a phone system to 999? All other council blocks do I'm sure it's a requirement now

@arthurknight2091 Год назад

@@nicholasr39 we did when i was little haha

@nicholasr39 Год назад

@Arthur Knight used to get stuck in the lifts all the time when we lived on Camden councils Strawberry Vale Estate in Finchley in the early 90s the lighting would fail too, it's now part of peabody trust and its still a bad place to live

@perrygriffin2371 Год назад

Always run the stairs 😅

@stuartchapman5171 Год назад

I used to live in that block, Taplow. Massive flats. I never had an issue with rats on one of the upper floors. They were nassive flats. The door between the lounge and kitchen was really wide, I had it permanently open, open plan. The wall to wall window gave a veiw from the London Eye down the Thames to almost London Bridge. There was a child who fell from one of thise windows, the ind would grab them and they would flip violently. The heating and water for the whole estate would come from one central boiler, it was old and broke down frequently. The council did have plans for a new, green on site power plant/boiler. I think the developers cane in with cash and redevelopment plans that took the effort and finances away from them. Prior to Grenfell there was a fire at a smaller low slung block in Camberwell. A needless tragedy. The new advice was to stay in doors and wait to be rescued. We were given fire doors to each flat that would stand an hour, once the flames reached you. The landings had several self closing doors kn them to help. This was a pointless joke from the get go. The old badly fitting windows were draughty, smoke could get in. The doors in the landings wouldn't close from new and there was a 6" ventilation gap between floors, which made the doors pointless. There was a fire whilst I lived there. There was a stair case at either end and one in the middle. I looked out the window, located the fire, and headed for the stairs furthest from the fire. Out safely and quickly.

@althejazzman Год назад

Thanks for the insights. This puts it into context why this place is outdated and unsuitable for modern living.

@stuartchapman5171 Год назад

@althejazzman It could have been so much better. The plans were approved from the original architects drawings. The budget was then cut. Instead of building a smaller estate, they went ahead cuttings corners along the way. It's really easy to spot if you look closely, inside and outside the flats. It wouldn't have been ideal though, even on full budget. Too many people on one small footprint. People need space, physical but also psychologically. Too many lives unfolding in the same spaces.

@althejazzman Год назад

@@stuartchapman5171 I've read so much about this estate and similar misguided post-war housing efforts.

@carolinejohnson22 4 месяца назад

@@stuartchapman5171......why are they built without balconies???? Every single flat in Sweden has a balcony, new and old. You do need outside space and that's the answer....and fire escapes😢😢😮

@stuartchapman5171 4 месяца назад

@@carolinejohnson22 because we are undeserving scum, fodder for the factories, and battlefields if required. This is just one of the many slum clearance projects that have failed over the centuries. Mainly because we're perceived as being lesser members of society.

@cd0u50c9 Год назад

2:29 - "Why do architects wear black? Because they're the funeral directors of the working class." I'm one, and I refuse to work for big companies that do this to ordinary people. I was born on one of these, albeit in a different country, I know what a community these estates are. On the other hand you have the former head of the Royal Institute of British Architects' Ben Derbyshire and his practice being under scrutiny for playing a part in removing ordinary people from their homes by being involved in the redevelopment of the Aylesbury Estate, which speaks of itself quite enough. Nevermind structural engineering, it's social engineering to remove societies in London and elsewhere and bring in soulless money and empty homes to foreign investors.

@richardburns5925 10 месяцев назад

Its social cleansing or some call it gentrification. As the right to buy, increase in population and lack of building of social housing all contributed to social housing becoming (particularly tower blocks of flats) more and more reserved for the homeless, people leaving institutions such as prisons, problem individuals or family's, it's community's deteriorated into crime and anti social behaviour over time. This and the fact that mass unemployment as we deindustrialised in the early 80s hit these estates hard. Solution? Demolition and clearance. Use a physical solution to tackle a social solution. Regeneration, gentrification, socially cleanse, design out ordinary people. If you have got the land in a key area, it's not hard to build the type of apartments and charge the appropriate rent levels to guarantee the type of clientele ie tenants.

@thecrow3380 Год назад

Good heavens! I KNEW that old Irishman, when we were young! Unmistakable. Haha :)

@sarahstrong7174 Год назад

That could be a brilliant place for older people, with someone on duty in reception & a community room for coffee & meetings.

@coolbreez773 Год назад

If only more tenants refused to leave. The area would improve and halt the destruction of social housing.

@crashingdown6924 Год назад

Most of the time they can't even afford the little rent... tbh the council most likely made it difficult for people last 20 years or so, n u just got a few people left who know their rights and can afford to stay on etc etc

@MrSpiderman1321 Год назад

this is stupid, the place needs to be demolished for modern well insulated housing for the people that have to live and work in london

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

@@MrSpiderman1321 modern housing in london is crap over priced and only designed to last 10 years before it starts falling apart, you may not like these concrete slabs but they are all designed to last 50+ years with minimal maintenance.

@dappadondadda100 Год назад

@MrSpiderman1321 ...and where do you think these people worked?... mostly in London, and they lived in London.

@Plantlady2023 Год назад

I lived nearby for 33 years and spent a lot of my teen years hanging out there. Lots of good and bad memories of the place!

@arthurknight2091 Год назад

Same here. 25 years for me. I have fond memories, it definitely had a worse reputation than it deserved.

@rjjcms1 Год назад

@@arthurknight2091 I've never lived in Greater London but as a 12-year-old I read a magazine article in 1977 decrying what had happened to the noble profession of architecture in the then three decades since the Second World War,and claiming architechts had gone on a 30-year "ego trip". This was some seven years before then Prince Charles's famous speech about monstrous carbuncles at Paternoster Square,of course. A number of housing estates and public buildings were highlighted,complete with full colour photos showing them in all their glory. Several places,included to illustrate a particular point,were from other parts of the country (I laughed at the ceiling of the main interior building at East Anglia University" becoming known as an "egg box" by its students),but most of the structures discussed were in London. One was the National Theatre,the newest structure in the feature having been completed (a GLC project) the previous year; its appearance was described by the authors of being like a concrete carrot half pulled out of the ground (we went on some school trips to London's theatreland,and I distinctly remember some of us almost getting lost in the alien concrete otherland that was the South Bank one dark December night in 1979,in the days when the area was considerably less inviting than it appears now). But the piece de resistance as a focus of the article's criticism was,you guessed it,the Aylesbury Estate,accompanied by a big double spread picture of the very edifice our respondent on this video was in,set for effect against a particularly vicious-looking stormy weather entering-twilight sky (in a pre-personal computer age I wonder how long they waited for the right weather to get that shot just perfect). So I guess the place's reputation was starting to go before it even back in the late 70s.

@CT-ue4kg Год назад

This is obviusly your most popular video, you should do a little series exploring and documenting the estate before it is gone.

@MATTY110981 Год назад

In 2010 I visited the now demolished neighbouring Heygate estate by my brother who was a Bobby at the time. It was strange turning the corner from the busy Elephant and Castle to a creepy virtually abandoned plot of land.

@borealisaustral892 9 месяцев назад

I miss Chiltern House... so much. It is part of my life and in my awareness forever. I was 13 years old when I went to see a friend there and the very first time I saw the lifts entry with multi coloured tiles I was impressed. I only have good memories from there in the 90s early 00s. I would like to have pictures (not seen) and something from that building. Thanks for your video.

@esssexboy Год назад

People knock Elephant & Castle but i love it. Once a cheap part of London to live now extremely expensive. Genifrication is great but only if you can afford it.

@TheSakura4w Год назад

This is so high quality,! You deserve way more subs. This is such a shame really, this seems to always be the case though. Instead of maintaining buildings and upgrading them through the decades, it's always that they want to start fresh and demolish everything without regard for the lives that were built in there. It's just rebuild, neglect, demolish over and over

@Hascienda27 Год назад

You’ve got the voice, mannerisms and face for presentation so don’t get discouraged from anything keep getting the videos out there and it’ll come good for you especially if you’re ever thinking that it won’t, the odd longer videos might help a touch

@xtraross Год назад

Thanks for the tips!

@Hascienda27 Год назад

@@xtraross always welcome pallie

@robtyman4281 Год назад

They built them cheaply, using substandard materials.....then, were not properly maintained by the Local Authority for years. They wondered why those that lived there, hated living there. Decent Victorian/Edwardian housing stock was demolished.....in order to build this. Unbelievable. Alot of that old housing stock hadn't suffered bomb damage from the war. But like the estate which replaced them, they weren't adequately maintained after the war, so they fell into a state of despair and were eventually demolished. Exactly the same thing is happening all over again. The story of mismanagement and failure to maintain. This story repeats itself over and over again with 1960's built housing estates all across the country.

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

modern flats they are selling for 400k+ are even worse then what was built in the 60s

@alexpinkerton7459 Год назад

Yeah, move out of a building that's stood for 70 years and go live in a "new-build" that will be facing demolition after 10 years - if you're lucky! There are people in Camden who are facing loses of £850K as their NEW properties are scheduled for demolition, while hundreds are STILL putting down their names for IDENTICAL buildings that are still in the process of being built, and will GUARANTEED be facing demolition within a decade!

@TheRocketbabydoll Год назад

Plus new builds often have shoddy workmanship, and I bet the new flats offered to the remaining tenants won’t be as spacious or come with plenty of storage.

@apc9681 Год назад

Another post war council block that’s ugly on the outside but homely and spacious on the inside that will be knocked down for a mix of social and private, tiny 2 bedroom flats. Happening up and down the country yet we wonder why there’s an ‘affordable housing’ crisis and why more people are at the mercy of private landlords…

@edwardkingthompson Год назад

Great video, especially with the little interviews you managed to gather. Informative, concise socio-political journalism. And yes I agree, pastel pink won't age well at all! I dropped a sub😉

@xtraross Год назад

Thanks - glad you liked it - and thanks for the sub!

@safiverse Год назад

This was the perfect length of time for a video with a lot of information packed in well and communicated very well!👌

@Wolaba8 Год назад

Excellent content, super professional. Surprised when I saw just 50 subs! Keep it going chap, the algorithm led me to you so your work is paying off.

@102938475646665 Год назад

Those post-war estates are incredibly depressing. I lived in one for decades and in just sucks your vitality like a vortex. The new ones arent much better mind you, they look like theyre made of lego.

@cd0u50c9 Год назад

They're depressing because no one invests in them, they could be much higher quality, but there's no money in making that happen.

@102938475646665 Год назад

@@cd0u50c9 theyre depressing because theyre aesthetically ugly and poorly built. theyre soulless and anti-human. housing for automatons. drones. not for human beings.

@gavinjohnson8951 Год назад

Looks a dump from outside but the inside look amazing and spacious, especially for London. I can understand why they don't want to move

@markstill515 Год назад

This is a transfer of assets from the working classes to the extreme rich.

@PasqualItizzz Год назад

ROFL .... like a single person in those flats actually owned one, wanna bet on the percentage of dole dossers where living there?

@G4RY1159 Год назад

@@PasqualItizzz Dole dossers, so judgemental!

@PasqualItizzz Год назад

@@G4RY1159 That's right, I'm judging people on benefits, who's lives are paid for by tax payers, not to be the victims of property theft. And don't gimme that rubbish, everyone knows we have dole dossers in this country. I know families that taught their kids to get pregnant for the free house.

@G4RY1159 Год назад

@@PasqualItizzz I know what You meant

@markstill515 Год назад

@@PasqualItizzz Sorry you are wrong, most people on benefits are actually working fulltime, but the wages do not meet the bills, as salaries have lost so much value after all these years of neoliberalism.

@ang-ela 9 месяцев назад

I always thought these flats looked lovely inside. I had friends who lived there years ago. I use to live on the Heygate estate, which has been demolished now and they've rebuilt on the land. The council are always going on about not having any properties for families, yet all these homes are left empty! How many other councils are doing the same thing....bloody disgusting

@PhilosoG Год назад

This was great to watch and I feel bad saying that considering the plight the people you interviewed were going through, it was just interesting to see these people's lovely homes and how much it means to them, enough to make a stand to their council...

@spudfreakinoz4483 Год назад

I was part of the team installing all the lifts when it was built, also did Nth Peckham estate. Great times and not bad flats in the beginning. I was living in Kennington at the time.

@womba68 Год назад

i almost feel ashamed at being surprised at how lovely those homes were. interesting people too.

@9etherking707 Год назад

I love this estate. I grew up on the other estate on the other side of Burgess park. Both estates have a lot of sentimental meaning to it's residents, regardless of what you read about it 😇

@borealisaustral892 9 месяцев назад

So true. You are right. I am one of those that have that deep sentimental meaning ...

@matthewnikbakht2033 Год назад

I live very close by! Be very careful when exploring those staircases and hidden areas though.

@dw4525 Год назад

Gangs lurking there?

@jakubgotowicki273 Год назад

@@dw4525 squatters

@dogstar5572 Год назад

Elephant & castle from the past. Where did all the people go?

@peterfleming9871 Год назад

Well done. Interesting documentary. You deserve more views.

@apollothamc Год назад

Let’s face it .. what Southwark council have done to people and communities in this and surrounding areas is treacherous. Years of under investment allowing theses areas to fall way.. then sold off the land to pirates , sorry I mean private housing companies then evicted people by pricing them out of the area…

@TheLillipuss Год назад

Notice how these people have REAL GENUINE CHARACTER!! 😢Horrible how they have to be uprooted.

@co.agmusic Год назад

Really interesting video and well put together liked and subscribed to your channel. That seems an incredible place and feel sorry for the people that still live there quite isolated but they seem happy hope they can work something out for For them

@Julio_Uno Год назад

Nice video man, appreciate the info

@RichardAucockCars Год назад

Wonderful film. Powerful stuff, beautifully captured.

@johanvanbeek7138 Год назад

Used to live down the road from here in the early 2000, place was massive and a little daunting to be fair. Crazy to think it's nearly empty now.

@civildiscourse7626 Год назад

The area has been heavily gentrified- it’s now considered pretty much central London when 30 years ago it was south london. Congestion charge zone1. Those who lived there before stand 0 chance of being able to afford to live in the new place built after it 😂

@patrickryan5570 Год назад

Interesting video - I like these stories about old brutal council estates and how the last residents cling on before the bulldozers turn up - I must admit that part of London in Walworth is a bit sketchy - I have lived in Kennington near the station in my early working years with a former partner on a council estate - We got lucky as Lambeth Council gave us a flat but hey ho that was back in the 80s and I stayed there until the mid nineties - I liked the place and had some great times there - I guess those who lived on the Aylesbury Estate have mixed emotions and memories about their time living there.

@Joe_Peroni Год назад

My aunt & uncle moved into the 18th floor of a block of flats in Glasgow back in the 1960s. We kids LOVED visiting them! The elevators (we played in these, going up & down!) & the awesome view from their front balcony & the communal one at the back! Once we had a very bouncy little ball which we'd chuck off the balcony to our pals down in the street! As my auntie said years later: "We just loved it. Our brand new, lovely home! And the VIEW!" I was always a bit nervous whenever I was on their balcony! But, of course, in its final years the apartments housed druggies & other undesirables, until they (& the 3 neighbouring blocks) were finally demolished a few years ago.

@jamiew1664 Год назад

lovely comment, enjoyed reading it.

@MagikGimp Год назад

I love it! Very nostalgic look to it. Probably appears in a few films and such. And all that space! What a lovely home your kind host has.

@thomasnygaard4514 Год назад

Amazing video! Thanks for sharing! Made me really curious to go have a look. Greetings from Denmark (have a gf in London)

@MaverickSeventySeven Год назад

An EXCELLENT presentation - Thank you - but this is beyond Deplorable!!!

@mrsmmoose6775 Год назад

The Rivers of London book Broken Homes fictionalises this place very nicely.

@al3k Год назад

good vid. awesome people you found

@Moses562 Год назад

Footballer Reiss Nelson grew up here.

@sobrietytv8754 Год назад

And QPR and Scotland footballer Nigel Quashi. I went to school with him. Pretty sure he lived on Missenden.

@TruthTortoise81 Год назад

Why doesn't this guy have more subscribers? This is better content than most youtubers with 100k subs.

@RYANSMITH-ew5eq Год назад

Haha was working on that estate couple days ago it is an eerie place

@a6703 Год назад

I would love to know where did all those eleven thousand people move to?! Probably dispersed all far out of the area? I bet those left also aren’t being offered anything comparable to the lovely flats they have now.

@akisaki4327 Год назад

We were offered local council flats, or could have chosen any council area we liked. We were all promoted to first refusal just to get us out as quick as possible. Viewed a couple but wasn't keen, didn't want to rush so waited a year and got a view on a new build just around the corner. We were third in the queue to accept or refuse (as it was a new build). Luckily the guy ahead of us didn't show up for the viewing and the next one in the queue didn't like it, we took it. I think we got very lucky.

@ssonkogarvey Год назад

@@akisaki4327Are you still paying the council rate of rent in the new build flat from being rehoused?

@akisaki4327 Год назад

@@ssonkogarvey Rent in Wendover was about £150 a week by the time we moved out, £900 a year Council tax, that was for a 3 bedroom. Where I am now is £170 a week for 1 bedroom, £1700 a year Council tax. Moved in 2016.

@-haclong2366 Год назад

02:20 Funny how one of the refusers is an old Anarchist. In Dutch we have a word for Anarchists "dwarf", can't say that I disagree though. The only reason Hanoi is filled with historical buildings is because lots of families refuse to have their houses demolished, this didn't happen in Beijing and most old houses have disappeared.

@ftroop2000 Год назад

Wonder if she's the one with all the crap on her door about "Saving about the Aylesbury".🤦‍♂️

@johneeeemarry34 Год назад

Disgusting tee shirt.

@rebeccans7729 Год назад

I went to school near here. I always wondered why it was so empty and for years they’ve done nothing with it. Considering E&C is around the corner and they’ve been gentrifying it for years, even knocking down the shopping centre, idk why they haven’t housed people in the meantime. So much space for so many people who are currently homeless, it doesn’t make sense

@bb-3653 Год назад

Holy shit , i always wondered if they were still accommodated or not. Always walking past it. I had no idea that the estate was THAT old

@Slumdog4502 Год назад

Im almost positive there were scenes from Top Boy Summerhouse filmed here

@pgpsdoug3986 Год назад

Love this video 🔥🔥🎇

@JacobeOfficial Год назад

Where is this estate? Wonderful bit of filmmaking mate. Brilliant editing! Just a really well made video!

@RomeTheDesigner Год назад

South East London. Just off Walworth Road between Elephant & Castle and Camberwell.

@DontDissTheProgram Год назад

Good work👍🏿

@anophelesnow3957 Год назад

Can you please change your description, or put a caption in to say where the Estate actually is? Title says middle of London... and then you don't address where. I have some vague idea its near the Old Kent Road, but for people who are unfamiliar with the City, we get no context

@akisaki4327 Год назад

Wendover is on Thurlow Street, both of them, one either side of junction of Kinglake street.

@anophelesnow3957 Год назад

@@akisaki4327 Yes, and thank you, but that doesn't help the video

@marionthomas5947 Год назад

Have they fixed the 'panel problem ' with the flats that are replacing the estate 🤔. I think some of the new ones will be demolished before the Aylesbury 😊

@equinox95 Год назад

The architect's of the 60s should win an award for being the worst urban planners in British history......everything they designed has slowly been torn down. Looking at that can you blame them.

@romancetips365 Год назад

Yeah, it really looks like shit. I can't imagine anything much worse to be fair.

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

the new builds are worse, you will find that out over the next 20 years

@equinox95 Год назад

@GreatSageSunWukong The quality of some of the new flats are terrible but they are definitely more pleasing to the eye than that concrete monstrosity.

@TruthTortoise81 Год назад

@@equinox95 They don't look so bad from the inside looking out do they?

@youreatoilet 8 месяцев назад

@@GreatSageSunWukong Facts! Plus the old flats generally were much more spacious, every new build I've been to has been cramped

@patriciarowe6685 Год назад

Just found your video. Subscribed. ❤

@xtraross Год назад

Thanks

@DnB-BMX Год назад

Interesting, Subscribed!! One digit closer

@realitywinner7582 Год назад

Taplow block ! thanks from Ireland !

@misfit2022 Год назад

I used to drink in Camberwell but they stopped people parking under the bridge so a friend who lived on Beaconsfield Rd who didn’t have a car as many people didn’t then showed me areas where I could park and used to walk down to the boozer. Nice area well I never had any trouble.

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

RESIST, RESIST, RESIST don't budge an inch make them drag you out, I grew up on a large estate in London there was no problems with it, the council kicked everyone out and knocked it down now its fancy apartments, its reusing the foundations so its the same footprint as the former estate but only 20% of it is social housing. my estate was built in the 1960s-1970s, my parents were forced to move into a smaller council house that was built in the 1920s in a different area, its got rising damp with a terrible mold problem, you can't turn the hot tap on in the bath because theres a leaking pipe under the bathroom floor the council refuse to fix so showers only and ants come up inside the house during summer flying around and swarming around the door frames on the ground floor so the foundations are compromised. it took the council 4 years to fix the boiler too there was no hot water for 4 years outside of the power shower, the council didn't give a crap. there was nothing wrong with the old flat nothing none of the problems this 1920s one has, the council just wanted money from private developers and resented having to look after a series of buildings where most of the flats are privately owned via right to buy or paid for by housing benefit, and they shafted all the right to buy people too giving them way less then market value, deliberately trashed the area to devalue the properties before compulsory purchase orders were sent. NEVER GIVE COUNCILS AN INCH, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.

@MuswellMunky Год назад

Which estate?

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

@@MuswellMunky I don't really want to give away information of where I grew up TBH lets just say West London.

@MuswellMunky Год назад

@@GreatSageSunWukong Thank you for replying, that makes sense. There's a story to be told there, and lessons to be learned too. Broadwater Farm, Trellick, Woodberry Downs there are lots of examples for better and worse.

@GreatSageSunWukong Год назад

@@MuswellMunky Trellick costs a fortune to live in

@shd_samurai9676 Год назад

I'm sure the houses replacing these lovely homes will be VERY affordable... not

@kellykreqeli8924 Год назад

My uncle lived their with he’s wife for years I used to hang around with my friends there when we were kids her family lived around there And they are not building more council houses they are building homes for rich people to buy like they have done in many parts of London many family’s were priced out and had to move Now all the people that are poor are being moved in to kent the crime rate is ridiculous because they now only want the rich in London We moved from London in 2000 I was born and brought up in East Dulwich I live there for 21 years I’ve now been in kent 24 years I’ve seen what now happening up here and it’s not good especially for those that wanted to get away from crime now all London wants is the rich and migrants no one else

@ABB-bw6tc Год назад

The golf links or the old havelock estate in Southall

@realnizefilms Год назад

Cool video

@DJCrisisUK 8 месяцев назад

I used to deliver to that block, i did wonder y so many were closed off, there was a lot more than 15 when i was though it was like 2 years ago

@FairlyEducational Год назад

Great mini-doc, I liked the contextualising and interviewing. You might be interested in visiting the Church Street estate sandwiched between Regents' Park and Edgware Road since the area has been earmarked for 'regeneration' by Westminster Council.

@MissLondon.born.1965 Год назад

I lived on the church St Estate,And Lisson Green. As a child..

@rjjcms1 Год назад

Didn't Westminster Council,when led by Dame Shirley Porter in the 80s,deliberately close affordable housing to push the less-wealthy out of its borough in order to gerrymander the composition of the voting constituency?

@caterinadelgalles8783 Год назад

Their homes were really nice!

@cd0u50c9 Год назад

Yes, they were actually designed for quality living, not depressive shoe boxes like now.

@luckystarship2275 Год назад

What alternatives were they offering these residents? I'd be interested to know. Maybe if they made them a better offer, they would move.

@manzanitakatznellenbogen2870 Год назад

I'm sure this stood in for the Jasmine Allen on "The Bill" at some point...

@RealEyesRealiseRealLies Год назад

Subbed do more videos on that state

@dondouglass6415 Год назад

It seem like this only happens in Britain.... What a waste...

@preciousdevere288 Год назад

I'snt that where they filmed Holby City?

@sandrafinbar Год назад

Is there a real reason why these flats couldn't provide accommodation for many homeless people ? Are they mouldy and damp or containing asbestos or something else ? They two flats you were in looked very nice and the man's flat was well used by his stash. Wouldn't want to pack up either. When I hear about the mounting problem of people keeping up with London rents I think they should keep it in use. Or do they want to gentrify and make more money building show homes and selling off plan ? Thanks from Brisbane Australia.

@darkwind2024 Год назад

I wondered why the don't use it too.

@cocoaorange1 Год назад

We have the same issues in Chicago.

@SuperRockerbilly Год назад

It's called artificial scarcity. The council are in cahoots with developers so keeping these flats empty drives up rental prices in the area.

@girlmaya6818 Год назад

yep, homelessness is manufactured

@grimvee7102 Год назад

because rich people can knock them down and build houses only a certain demographic of people can afford, pricing working class people out of their own cities.

@Loulou-gw8uv Год назад

The flats there aren't particularly livable. They were quite big but they have heating issues, mold issues and huge amounts of asbestos. The plumbing in most of them is terrible, and they can be very hot in summer. They cost a huge amount to remediate, and there is so many of them which is why its not very viable. I know these flats inside out. I worked in that estate and Heygate (and lots of other estates in southwark) for a period of about 7 years.

@Chalks38 Год назад

How haven’t you got more subs?🤯

@jayejaye4life Год назад

Wow lived on that block it was a nightmare

@Rebelconformist82 Год назад

What kind of things went on?

@lukegarcia3238 Год назад

The amount of people in the chat romanticizing living there or that the council shouldnt knock them down is hilarious, clearly havent lived in a shit hole block before, bunch of fools

@FernandsLiveShowShow Год назад

Brilliant video. I grew up half a mile from the estate and now live about mile in the other direction and have incredible vivid memories hanging around there growing up. Even now (especially around the health centre at Taplow) it feels like a relic from an era gone by, well frozen in time. Plus, impressive space within each flat given how densely packed there were: Wendover shown here having something like 40 dwellings on one level! A remarkable yet very troubled estate, and feels like stepping back in time wandering down those corridors. It'd be interesting to see how the newer builds will fare 30 years from now, if they'd suffer the same fate...

@creightonjason Год назад

I work in social housing and have been for 20 years, trust me they all suffer the same fate.

@ssonkogarvey Год назад

@@creightonjason I would love to ask for your email because I greatly need help with getting social housing, just a 1 bed. Has RU-vid got a way of direct messaging?

@creightonjason Год назад

@@ssonkogarvey They keep deleting my email address, how far have you gone with the application?

@ssonkogarvey Год назад

@@creightonjason Is this what you mean? I keep on attempting to type my email down it keeps deleting.

@creightonjason Год назад

@@ssonkogarvey Yes deleting it with in seconds ! Have you applied for housing with acouncil ?

@carljones7380 Год назад

Leigh Park Hampshire is/was the biggest council estate in Europe 55 thousand people.

@roisncarroll6078 Год назад

A face I haven't seen in a long time Wilky hope you're ok mate

@northpeckhamestateoldschoo2947 Год назад

Went to school on the that estate the Chaplin center I was the one who painted the Charlie Chaplin mural, and the teacher can not remember his name, 💯🤗 that was in 1985

@solb101 Год назад

Where did all the tenants move to?

@bpsolutionsltd209 Год назад

I have a flat on the Aylesbury and it is no where near as bad as it was. Relatively safe compared to Brixton / Myatts field or half of Kennington if you ask me