It used to be a great place to visit for the day..not anymore. What a shame....were too busy funding other countries rather than looking after our own.😮😮😮😮
In my view Rhyl always looked shabby & rundown & needed doing up, about the close downs lockdown didn't help & I remember Wales having a harder lockdown than England did.
@@muhammadalieesaa3379 Most towns, including my own look hollowed out. Big shopping centre & large supermarkets with free parking on the ring road, and no one able to make the connection.
It's not just Rhyl that has become a ghost town,it's happening the length and breadth of the UK,people's shopping habits have changed,on line shopping is massive now.Also gready landlords and high business rates and shoplifting have forced once viable businesses to close because lack of profits.
Much of this was/is self inflicted. 1. Rhyl charge in all of their car parks. 2. Rhyl built out of town/ edge of town shopping areas with free parking and neglected the town centre. 3. 2 miles along the road Prestatyn has free parking just about everywhere and has put its new shopping district at the end of the High street. It’s very well thought out with excellent bus, train and car access to the shopping areas. Result- it is going great guns. The “destination shops” e.g M&S have left Rhyl and moved to Prestatyn, exasperating Rhyls decline.
Tell you what is bad councils decided to double yellow line everywhere pedestrianisd shopping zones pay and display parking No wonder it looks bad and people are shopping online 🙄
@@ellismeah8110 I'd fire the lot of their office staff, not sure we'd see much difference, then hire people into the positions that are really needed. Why not pay bin removal companies direct and then you could chose how much. You should look into just how much of you council tax is used to pay pensions and for loans/investments they've made, it's eye opening.
It's not though it mainly the UK..... Go to Spain/France/Portugal you won't see all the small businesses boarded up..... We're paying a load of Council Tax and were getting F all for what we paying...
Used to holiday there as child. Seafront is now a characterless concrete slab.m& s , next moved out ages ago. The drains on high street smell. Rhyl has become the pits. Even the police station is locked. Watched drug dealing by the town hall opposite the police station. Highlight of the day watching the police come out en masse to chase a shoplifter. Dont go there anymore.
Make them into 5* accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who will be heading for the UK and needing homes once labour comes into power
When i was a kid growing up in the late 1980's and early 90's Rhyl was the place to be on holiday. It had a bit of everything and even up until the late 90's early 2000's it was still doing really well. Its a shambles now, overrun with crack heads and no marks hanging about. I personally blame landlords buying up all the flats and guest houses being let out to all the slobs that have no pride in the environment they live. Once they started arriving there the downfall started and with all the businesses going now too its added to it. As a kid i remember Woolies being on the corner, the big Fairground which was kids paradise. Who else remembers that weird but wonderful Knights Caverns on the front? Loved that place.
I'm from Liverpool L7 and like lots of parents couldn't afford a proper holiday so it was day trips to Conway,penaemawr🤔🤗 and rhylsville 🤗 me mum preferred the one I can't spell 🤗❤️......
Your right but back in the day there were plenty of people who considered themselfs Welsh I should know I was one of the hated scousers around at the time talk about racial discrimination.
Were all paying the highest rates of Council Tax ever, but what the hell are they spending it on? They have have let Rhyl become a complete and utter crap hole......
It’s Heartbreaking did notice not many people about l no people bye on Line. Covid didn’t help the Cost off Living and Landlords want high Rates Shops need more Surport from us more people going into Towns.
And we still believe we are a world class country - - lwe never had it so good someone said in the 60s - - what a deluded lot we were and still are - - I worked in Switzerland / germany /France at that time : UK was a backword sad place then as it is now--bad disgusting food, mostly tin food in supermarket, hardly any fruit other than apples, cheap rundown café premises ( paper cups and fish&chips weapped in newspaper) - infrastructures were behind anything Europe had to offer ( blackboard & chalk at platform stations) when Europe had digital INFOS - - we believed places like Blackpool were the UK answer to Las Vegas.... we lived in a small island blissfully ignorants on how depressing it was
This is a Revelation be-cause it demonstrates emphatically what happens when you stop using a service. Everyone has gone online! The only Reason anything external is maintained is through the medium of USE.
I went for a weeks holiday in Rhyl in the 50s….it was magical.. i wanted some chips and my dad pointed at some fat women and said youll be like them if i buy you chips….i wanted some orange juice on the prom and he said you dont want that..we also wanted to go on the pleasure beach you can imagine the answer to that…but he always had money for cigarettes which eventually killed him..
I ve smoked since 18, now 73 no problems whatsoever - - I'm sick and tire of this anti smoke drive : we pay heavy tax duty, we bother noone, we don't cause dead on the road nor antisocial behaviour on w/ends, - that some people do at some point die is not here or there, we all die for for different causes even the seemingly healthy and fit @@Theoriginalbigbrillo
I've not set foot in Rhyl in over 20 years and tbf I expected the town centre to be alot worse than this, other places have suffered more. In the 90's it had the fun fair, the observation tower, the Sun Centre, a brand new Sea Life Centre. many reasons to actually go. Most, if not all of that is gone and the place never recovered.
My husband worked in Glan Clywd for 18 months. I used to go to a beautician in Rhyl, I’m sure she worked within a chemist shop but with a little unit off it that she used for treatments. I think her name was Sue(?) lovely young woman must’ve been about 30 years ago.
I used to come here in the late 70's/early 80's when I first got my driving licence and I recognise much of this. I kept coming back because it was cheap, but even then I knew it was a dung-hole. Looking at this video, it seems even worse now and appears to have no redeeming features at all. Some of the architecture does indicate a kind of long forgotten 'opulence' (perhaps mid-19th century) from when many seaside resorts sprung up like Blackpool, Morecambe, Brighton etc. which are, sadly, not much better these days. One exception is, perhaps, Llandudno which caters mostly to an older generation and remains largely very pleasant with clean streets, minimal graffiti, an excellent assortment of book shops, cafes, restaurants, most of which are 'disabled friendly'.
There is no support for new businesses. When I started up business here 27 years ago there was the £40 Enterprize Allowance which was very welcome during those first days getting my business going. The current state of this country and economic climate would not encourage me to start up another business now. We need a complete change of attitude from our councils and government.
@@levelcrossing150 I do remember twenty seven years ago there was still a bit of life left in the place its just people who try to make life hard for everyone who hang around the place now.
@@davelar3868 I think theyl ruined it when they pedestrianised the place. I used to nip in to Rhyl, park outside WH Smiths and get a few things from the nearby shops. There was always a place to park. Great shops and plenty of people doing their shopping. Building the new Retail Park opposite the Marine Lake never made any sense either, just made it worse for the town centre.
These scenes are repeated in towns across Britain. Is the main reason the fact that most people now have a smartphone and/or home computer and shop online to minimise their expenditure on clothes, gifts, etc?
Rhyl in my view has always been run down & looked shabby & lockdown made things worse & caused place's to close down & as far as I know Wales had a more harder lockdown than England did, I live in Birmingham.
He's either showing national chains that closed down or shops that hadn't opened and the red+white door is the old market the new was near completion just 40 foot to the left should of opened now but the operator went bankrupt and every large building project needs an logistics company to operate the site . .the post office has moved,but nearly every high street is like this because of the internet i wouldn't pay a £10 more because its local i haven't the money but high street rot set in a long time ago like 15/20 years ago,rhyl had a millets, marks &sparks,burtons,peacocks,wilcos,co/op,lots of big chain retailers for a little high street theres probably a few ive forgotten closed years ago...rhyl is trapped between chsnge does it still go with candy floss all that jazz or social engineer it's self (gentrification)...things have changed this is death of the high street as we know it and rhyls always had problems and councils all over the uk are in debt some have gone bankrupt this is a reality we just have to face it🏴🏴🏴💪❤️❤️❤️.......
C'mon its not that bad really. Many affluent towns don't have one bank, Rhyl has at least 3. There must be at least 3 Turkish barbers, and they are always busy. No shortage of haute cuisine either Subway, KFC, MacDonalds and Greggs
One of my exes lived there for a few years until about 12 years ago, she moved there because her husband was the CEO of a nearby meat processing factory. She reckoned it was a total shithole then.
@@michaelwatts7822 Labour do not have overall control of the council Michael Tory austerity over the last 14 years has created havoc and resulted in a massive decline in people’s living standards nationwide
Just like most Seaside places now it's cheaper to go go abroad now and Tourism dries up. Greedy Landlords and Council Tax money being spent on the Front has left the main Shopping area desolate. Good friendly People in Rhyl though with none of the English hating you get in other Welsh Towns. A lot on this Video could do with going on the Slimfast Plan, never seen so many Fatties, it's like the Americans have invaded.
Like my generation, love Rhyl 50s 60s but it just went in decline, like a lot more. Crewe is bad. I think it is a reflection on Councils what allowed all the Dossers sleeping in doorways years ago. Gave em a bad name.
Rhyl was a fabulous place for a holiday or night out , untill the landlady's wanted to fill their accommodation all year round and advertised in prisons for inmates to go there on their release , ......it killed the tourist trade dead , ....no a nice place to take your kids anymore, they brought it on themselves
