Rough Day In Britain’s Most Brutal Town 🇬🇧 

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When I was a kid in the early 70,'s I moved to Slough and got a job in Unitube on the industrial estate. The people there took me under their wings as I was only a young fella. I will never forget the kindness and support they gave me. I returned to Ireland later on but the memories I have are only good ones. I would like to return there for a visit. God bless Slough and it's people.

What you're documenting is not just a decline in British living standards and social cohesion, but also a deliberate deconstruction of a society built and maintained with false equity and borrowed time. Those of us growing up in the 90s and before, knew of a society where hope and a promise of a better future meant that we could tolerate the obvious corporate greed, government over-reach and bureaucratic insanity that has rapidly eroded our 'decent' standard of living. I haven't lived in the UK properly for many years now and have experienced living in a 3rd world country as one of the few 'haves', even though I earned a very average income by European standards. To know that this is literally on the horizon for much of Europe is very sobering and I'm at a loss to suggest a way to stop it happening. I think people have simply become too apathetic and complacent, believing the lie of statism and democracy, instead of demanding better for themselves and their posterity. The wheels are already off the cart and the reset will be brutal and swift. Covid was only the test signal, so brace yourselves accordingly.

I was born and raised in Windsor and 50+ years ago a shopping trip Slough was a treat, how on earth has Slough fallen so far.

'You're from Wolverhampton?' 'No, I'm from Afghanistan' 😂😂😂😂😂

Without Slough we would never have had The Office.

Importing third world people has killed off any sense of unity that might have existed in the British people. Everyone is isolated in themselves now as our society has changed so quickly it is bewildering and hard to figure out what Britain even is now.

20 minutes to Londonistan that clinches it for me.

Britain 🇬🇧 is depressing ....

Don't even know whether to laugh or cry at this point. This country is finished. It's beyond sad.

I live in London, even in my local area, the famous Camden Market has changed so much, it has affected local businesses, all the unique shops have disappeared or have been squeezed out of the area to other counties, in the 1980's, even before that, Camden Market was one of the most iconic places where you could find really unique shops in the Camden Market, now, it's just a touristy market with no substance, no unique shops anymore, it's like the high street type of shops, with no real character anymore. I've lived in this area all my life, I've seen the changes, might not be as bleak as Slough, but my area has changed, not for the better either. Gentrification has taken over my area with big property developers & the local council in bed together.

Slough located in England but it is not English town. According the 2021 census 46.7% of Slough's population are from Asian ethnic groups and 36.0% are from White ethnic groups. 7.6% identified their ethnic group within the "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African.

Even the town's name is depressing.

i was born in the late 80s and we left in the mid 90s. my early life experienced a child murdered on my street, the wolf boy at salt hill park, and a beheaded body in my school playground. i moved back there for a bit when i was in my late teens/early 20s and saw a father and son stabbing a samurai sword into someones front door by cippenshops and throwing a brick through the upstairs window. my friend got stabbed up by asians by the ice rink for just walking home past them. i think its probably as bad as it ever been and i would say its from immigration to there

Slough has been bad even 20 years ago, but nothing compared to what it is now. I live about 30 minutes from Slough and used to have weekly work meeting in the centre of Slough. The office building the meeting was held in was like Fort Knox and even the car park was super secure with spikes and electric gate etc. Even then, it still got broken into twice. The crime rate is horrendous. Slough, like some other cities and towns has turned into a 3rd world country, largely due to the people who moved there, primarily from Muslim countries to be very specific. There is zero pride anywhere, anything that isn't secured will get stolen or damaged. I wouldn't dream of going there at night, and whenever I have the misfortune of driving through Slough, I lock myself in my car and get out as fast as possible. Sadly Slough won't ever improve unless many of its "residents" are kicked out.

I lived there in the 90s. It’s awful. That first guy I remember, he’s a nutter. You will get robbed at night if your around too long. I got hit with a pint glass there, nearly died.

that 46 year old guy with the tattoos was very interesting and so right how things have turned out now. great video by the way wendall

I was born and raised in Slough, started travelling at 18 and let’s just say I got all the motivation i needed to leave. I saw a lot of crazy things in Slough and learnt a lot of life lessons so can’t be too bitter, at least it wasn’t boring 😂

I live in Thailand now, but my house I rent out is still in my home town of Marlow (best town in the UK), but I come back once a year and stop off in slough to fill up my suitcase with tea, gravy, sauces etc. Slough has always been a rough teen in my opinion. and I notice the decline even more in my once yearly 2 hour visits. It used to be ok, not great but ok. Was ok when they had an indoor market with its comic stall and it was even ok when it had the Games workshop. Now its just a concrete and empty wasteland. I have never felt threatened there, just sad !

Corporate/landlord/ local council greed and corruption are what’s happening here. Add to that the rise of the internet, with online shopping and social media, we are literally a sinking ship on all fronts. Sorry to be negative!

Most town centres are becoming third world.

I lived in Slough between 2009-2014 and I can confirm it's a shithole

Wendell, my heart just sinks and sinks each time I view the reality of the UK today, and this is another example. I was born in NW London and emigrated as a young girl to Australia. I have extended family in the UK, and my son now lives in Croydon, having left Sydney to go on a working (teaching) holiday and then ended up marrying an English girl and eventually buying a flat in Croydon, they now expect their first child. I've visited several times over the years, my own personal travel, my immediate and extended family, and to visit my son. I've stayed in a few Croydon hotels, but when you did the episode on Croydon I was so devastated. OK, it's not the most dangerous place in London, but it's far from a good place either. I saw the reality for myself as I wandered around Croydon and the shopping areas and centres. I really wish my son and his new wife would try it here in Melbourne (where I now live), but her family are there and so that is that. I do appreciate your work.

Slough is one of the most brutal and depressing place in the country. One of the main car park block is where drugs are traded and no-go for the police. I once worked there and, during a particular morning, a dead person was found sprawled across a hedge round the corner of the building of my offices. Crumbs. A dead body 😮. Police claimed the dead was a drug addict. This was nearly a decade ago but I hear it's worse today 😢

I,m from the south west, and can,t beleive how things are still "normal " here! I,ts incredible how things have gone wrong in most of our once"proud cities" retired and "glad to be the age I am," on reflection , I,m sad for the future generations, now at 68y/o I know Iv,e seen the best of it all, God bless you all.....

Slough is horrendous. I live on the outskirts. When my daughter was 16 and started college (3 yrs ago), for the 1st time, she wanted to be independent. She had to leave Slough train station and make a 2 minute walk to the bus home. Within 3 weeks she got mugged and had her phone stolen. She's now getting therapy for PTSD and won't go anywhere if i can't pick her up. The shops are all gone. Absolute dump. My mum now lives in Dorset and every time I go and visit her, as soon as i see the signs for Slough on the way home, I depressed for about a week.

Great to hear the 46yr old bloke. Shared my truth, blessings ever from Belfast.

My father came to the UK from rural southern Ireland in 1965. From the moment he was outside the womb, until the day I cremated the nasty old bugger, he was about the toughest man you could ever meet. The first place he lived when he came here, was Slough. Over the years, he also lived in Southampton, Brixton, Wandsworth, Swaleside, and Parkhurst, and he always maintained, that Slough was the roughest place he ever encountered. 'It was like the Wild West, boyo!'.

Back in the mid 90's, I used to work for an employment agency that supplied stock-takers across the country. We would pick people up from Slough and joke about them living in a grim town. I guess, a lot of them saw the stock taking job as a reason to escape. It was a day out for them. Even then, it was very depressing place to live, with miles of concrete, unemployment and lack of opportunities.

Slough only 20 miles from the centre of London and only a few miles from the Royal family at Windsor Castle.

The councils take all the taxes from the people, but don't clean up the towns . The money goes somewhere !

The bloke in the wolves shirt has no idea what he is wearing

I also never watch mainstream media, who needs too when Wendall brings such amazing content🙏

Someone else from London wrote that he found it kind of refreshing when he had to work in or near Slough. Less oppressive than London...plus look at how easy it was to talk to people on the street, a lot of London isn't like that. I live in W. London for the time being. During the lockdowns I started riding on the canals on my bike and going to quiet places to chill out or even camp out overnight. The Slough arm of the Grand Union Canal is about 1 hour's bike ride from here, and it's a very quiet stretch, quite nice too despite there being industrial buildings there. There are a couple of fishing lakes, one is not fenced off and I've camped next to it. The first time I went on a track off the canal a bloke walking his dog was quite friendly and chatty, I asked him what was down the track. Another time cycling back along that bit of canal one morning, after a stealthy overnight camp, I passed some people sat fishing and they actually said ''Good morning'' to me! Being from London I was pleasantly surprised, this wouldn't happen on the canals in London proper. This was inside the M25 too, just. Haven't been to Slough though and I agree that the centre looks a bit depressing, what the hell were they thinking of making architecture which they even knowingly called ''brutalist''??? However a lot out of the centre looks okay, not spectacular but not bad at all. Like that street at 13:31 to 13:46 actually reminds me of suburbs in the Netherlands, where I used to live. Even that bit from 16:18 with the modern building in the background and field on the right puts me in mind of Osdorp, a little bit. Same with the new development flats where you chat with the bloke on his balcony. So life there may well be more bearable than much of London.

Fond memories of "Sluff" . My Aunt and Uncle lived there 40 years until they passed away in the 1980s. They both worked at MARS factory, chocolates. It felt poor then but they were very happy.

2:50 Dude’s off his head, Slough’s been a shite’ole for at least 5 decades certainly since the 60/70s when all the brutalist architecture went up and the flood of mass immigration of the peaceful ones….

And to think Windsor is around the corner and it's completely different.

Wendall come to reading it's nearby/ on every corner of this town there is someone sleeping on the floor and these are very young people - it's getting worse and worse- Town centre is dying😢

Was slough ever really a good place. I thought it was rough even then. I was there 30 years ago when i was a kid and me and my friend at that time got started on by a gypsy kid and a foreign kid hanging out together in the park within half an hour of being there. It had a certain reputation even back then.

Ironically only 10 mins down the road from Windsor. You can imagine the difference in affluence. Slough does have some redeeming qualities however, such as ice rink and is an Ice Hockey town on the map. Was saddened to see the bus station had been vandalised as that was considered somewhat new. Such a shame.

Hello Wendal! Ive been a Slough resident for most of my 64 years (had 4 years in Oman). It used to be a fantastic town for shopping, but as you have discovered, the local council has allowed the town centre and the shopping dwindle to virtually nothing. Slough residents don’t shop in slough, because there are no shops! I see it “edgy”? No! Don’t be silly! I’m not uncomfortable walking around Slough town centre at any time. Yes, there are a few undesirables here and there, but that sounds the same in every town/city. The only place I have ever felt truly uncomfortable was a night in then centre of Birmingham when I was being followed by a geyser who wanted to roll me, but found I was not playing along it’s his plan. It is absolutely a terrible town centre, devoid of any attraction whatsoever, but the town still has many job opportunities, is surrounded by green belt land and beautiful countryside, and has great transport links, so there are attractions to the town. Anyway, that’s my tuppen ‘orth.

Slough was the UK headquarters of Atari UK. They used to put pictures of the HQ in the newsletters they sent out. To my then young self with my Atari console in the early 80s, Slough and Sunnyvale California were the high tech capitals of the world

Bedford is worse. Desolate town centre, completely shut down and nothing to do there

The chap you speak to at the 7:15 mark is the type of person who gives me faith in humanity. I love him- and I love the interviewer. Two real, actual HUMAN spirits. Trust me, their type is getting rarer. Thanks bro; great content, duly subbed.

Used to live there 20 odd years ago the town was thriving always busy. I went there a couple of months ago to visit family and visited the town centre whilst I was there. It was sad to see it the way it is now it was once a bustling town centre now it's just depressing full of tacky shops.

Think this is one of your best town documentaries, yet. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for you perspective my man. It's a sad fact that the working class on our Isle are being left to rot - services constantly cut - zero investment into PEOPLE. .... . Respect 👌

Town centres are usually always horrible sad looking places they are disappearing here in U.K. and shopping centres are replacing them I would say Slough looks ok in parts

Ten years ago it was better - big stores like Debenhams, Marks & Spencers, British Home Stores, nice cinema, Robert Dyas. Nothing but tat shops now!

Lived there 2005-07 building Heathrow T5. Nights out in Slough was rough. Which I liked as I was a fighter. But rather going out to Windsor as clubs and pubs were much safer even Uxbridge was a safer night out

Love your vids mate, very interesting but depressing at the same time, seeing rapid decline of the UK as a whole

22 years ago four 18 year old black guys jumped my mother and auntie right next to where you were stood talking to those two fellas. They are both scrappy so they got nothing but a could of black eyes. But as my mother and auntie were attacked in broad daylight around midday, not a single person stepped in to help. I know their age because my cousin actually knew one of them from her school. The name was passed on to the police, even though there was footage, witnesses etc, the cops did nothing. So justice was delivered by other means. The place is a dump, and has been for 30 years plus.

I am from the UK but live abroad for a number of years now as I would rather wake up in the morning knowing I am a foreigner in a foreign land rather than feeling like a foreigner in my own land!!!!!

I went to Slough 30 years ago to watch a movie with the Mrs and when I came out my car had been stolen and set on fire 🙄

Third world culture involves things like leaving rubbish on the street instead of taking it to a tip, having no regard for local planning laws, not being able or willing to speak English, not respecting the law etc etc - this is because things are done very differently in their original countries, and so they bring those practices / way of life to Britain. The face of the UK is changing due to mass immigration. It is not about race - it is about culture. We do not want third world practices / habits / ways of life here.

I cannot believe that is Slough. I went to college there in the 60s. I knew a lot of it and used to frequent the Slough Rugby Club and worked there too, not far from the Three Tuns. It wasn't a bad town with the covered market and decent shops. I returned in the 2000s because I had to and was amazed that all the old buildings had been swept away. It was horrible then and by the looks of it, far far worse now. The old garage I worked in and all the old Victorian building opposite have all gone. Local authorities have so much to answer for. It was never great but now it looks like Hell.

Almost all of these videos from the youtubers that go to places like Luton, Birmingham, Nottingham etc all ignore the elephant in the room which is the biggest change to these places in centuries and that is the recent rapid demographic change. This one in Slough is just another example. First mentioned in the year 1195, Slough for nearly 800 years was a completely English/British town. Then by 1971, after post WWII mass migration started, it was 90% white. In the 2001 census it was down to 63.7% white. Just 20 years later in the 2021 census Slough was 35.9% white (24% white British).

I grew up in Slough and was a nice enough town now its all run down and horrible and not at all friendly at all. Whenever I go to my mums I visit Uxbridge instead for shopping there is nothing in Slough anymore.

Love this channel. Subbed. Keep up the good content mate.

I used to hang out there around 2006 and I can tell you, hand-on-heart, it wasn't covid that ruined Slough.

Nothing like a bit of a quote from the Office from David Brent. Brilliant (I know he didn't originally write it). Another great video.

I really look up to Wendall's equal treatment and respect of everyone he meets, always listening and open to learning about the worst parts of the UK

WOW! I lived in Slough for 2 years around 2012/13 and I was confronted the first day there by some yobs on the street. To see it get worse is crazy. I have been all over the UK and never been confronted by youths saying "what are you looking at?"

My great-grandmother lived in Slough from about 1901 to her death in 1916. She lived at 1 Victoria Street (now demolished). Her daughter, my great-aunt lived in Slough too for many years because her husband worked as a freelance photographer for many of the businesses on the trading estate. They lived on Tunns Lane. My mother says that it was really quite a decent area in the 1950s which is as far back as she can recall. She is now 82.

I moved back to Ukraine after living in Slough because I felt so unsafe.

I used to visit Slough regularly some years ago and while it was never attractive, it's now definitely only worth bombing. I revisited around a year ago and couldn't believe how far down it had slithered. It's true that Slough was a paradise compared to now when John Betjeman first wrote his poem and most commercial businesses are gone or dying, and feral gangs of boys in school uniforms were running through shops stealing big scale and no-one attempting to prevent this. The atmosphere was hostile and frightening. I couldn't possibly contemplate visiting again. It's apocalyptically awful. Dystopia in action. And let's not forget Slough's local government bankruptcy which has only hastened its end through having no money to spend on it and the resulting neglect. It's hard to see when neighbouring Windsor with all its money and privilege looks so thriving. It sort of sums up the depths to which ordinary people have been forced by a government which just doesn't give a rat's behind about its ordinary citizens.

love your vids mate, appreciate what you're doing! you should check out doncaster or huddersfield, as a resident of both, i can safely say they're quite depressed places lol

Have a google of employment rates of different migrant communities, tells you everything you need to know about the decline of Britain. Look at employment rates of migrants in major sectors like NHS farming and construction and compare it to the percentage of migrants in the country and ask yourself if we've really benefited from mass migration. Windrush was the only time migrants helped and that was 500k people over the span of 15 years so 33k a year. We now have migration of over 1million a year.

If a town is depressing on a sunny day you know its among the worst.

A lot of the blame for lack of shops is the internet shopping on line the high street is dying

I was born in and grew up around Slough (I'm from the village of Burnham which is next to Slough Trading Estate) and I'm glad I moved away in mid-2018 to the South Coast. Rarely visited Slough high-street when I lived there, often went to Windsor & Maidenhead- even though one was full of tourists and the other bordering a ghost town... Only one thing I miss about the area is that I don't live a 15 minute drive from London Heathrow!

An interesting area to have a walk about would be Woolwich. Turn right out of the Elizabeth Line, you'll see lots of grand riverside developments, but if you turn left it's err...well how can I put it.

Great video as always 👍🏻 I used to live about half hour from Slough and I can confirm that even 10 - 15 years ago it was a rough place. Watching your video I would say it’s got worse!

I was diverted off the M4 a couple of years ago, and I ended up driving through the shittest place I've ever seen. I later discovered that place to be Slough. I didn't even get out of the vehicle.

Was a bit of irony at the end there as you walked past a sign directing you to Eton and Windsor! I've been to Hull and Nottingham town centres recently and Slough makes these look heavenly. I wonder if there is a nice side of Slough centre you missed.

I worked in Slough for a while in the mid-1980s and it was awful. I used to dread working late as catching a bus from the central bus station was always a tense experience as all the miscreants seemed to gather there. Never been happier to quit a job in my life.

And whats crazy is within a stones throw are some extremely affluent villages and towns

No youtubers ever go deep southeast like Chatham 😮😮

Dudley town centre began its decline well before most of these towns that are currently in decline, Dudley is actually a good benchmark to rate other towns against and eventually I think we’ll see these towns equal out in terms of their desolation. Online sales have made these once commercially/economically vital areas places that now serve as fast food hubs in the day, and an undesirables playground at night… sadly the interactions and community spirit (that were created as a direct result of these areas being frequented) has gone with the shops. Also these deprived areas are less desirable and subsequently become the only viable areas for the poor, vulnerable and criminals to gather, which further takes away from the aesthetics of the areas.

great video, really enjoyed it

I'm disabled and used to belong to a disabled Sports club in Maidenhead. Every year we used to do a collection starting from Maidenhead onto Windsor then Slough and back to Maidenhead. All went well until we got to Slough where a fight broke out between 2 gang's. Machetes where and knives were taken from a butcher's and they were used as weapons. Blood everywhere. Needless to say we called to get picked up and taken back to the club. Ever since that day when I drive through Slough I have the card doors and windows locked. Hate the place

Internet killed the highstreet

You've got courage and balls Wendall. I so admire you and your work. As a Christian what ticks me off about the street Preachers they often are doom and gloom merchants. Gospel means good news. It would be hard to convict them of that in a court of law. I know Churches serve people, feed them, care for them. However when on the streets can we not hear about the Love of God. That he values people, wants to give them a hope and a future❤❤. I'm preaching myself now aren't i😢

Very true, I live in Slough and it's very rough, it's scary walking down the high street alone. It has a bad reputation with the neighboring towns. People are scared to come here.

I lived in Old Windsor in 06 and made many trips to Slough and thought it was really vibrant with lots of energy. Kind of felt like I was part of a community,even though I wasn't from there.lots of different people from all over the world. I went to Wrexham Park hospital on the bus and everyone on there was black or Asian apart from me and one white girl who invited me to sit next to her.We talked and after our hospital visit we met up and went back to her flat in Burnham. She had a few issues but so did I at the time,she offered me some coke but I was just out of jail and trying to stay on the straight and narrow,but I had some weed so we smoked that and drunk some cans of beer.I left after a couple of hours to this day I can't even remember her name. It was a random day in a random town and now a random memory. I sometimes think what happened to her.. I liked Slough... 👍 one ❤️ Love...

The level of neglect seen in Slough, and also in Watford, Croydon and Luton makes me think the ‘North/South divide’ the MSM love to bang on about, isn’t anywhere near as prevalent as they make it out to be. Also don’t forgot it was a London council (Croydon) that went bankrupt first …

loads of vibrancy here wendall

Forgot to add that Thunderbirds was made inside a small unit on Slough Trading Estate

Wendall mate we definitely need more people like you genuinely highlighting what is happening here in the UK, the way you make such educating videos so effortlessly, absolute legend mate

I got offered a great job in the center of Slough and turned it down simply on the basis that the drive there and people I encountered on the way to the interview were diabolical. The company was shocked I turned the job down but it wasn't a safe place to commit to everyday. Awful lawless place.

Excellent Video as always Wendall - Have you thought of filming us van lifers who are only one step up from being homeless? I am one of the lucky ones who lives in a motorhome but has no chance of getting on the social housing ladder in my late 50's - Keep up the good work fella, I'm lucky in comparison

That card finder thing is ace.. great gift idea for the other half cheers Wendall

I love you Brits as one of our closest brothers, an lets not forget one of our liberators in Europe! But.....wtf are you doing to your culture!? "Are you from Wolverhampton?" "No I'm from Afghanistan! ": you can laugh about it, but this exact answer is your problem! Greetings from the Netherlands

I stopped off in Slough before on the way back from london and really liked it lol went to a desi pub it was nice

You might need to put the paid promotion option on the screen when you upload. The tracker thing. Keep up the good work mate

The problem was when Covid hit lots of people got used to ordering everything off the internet. These internet companies should be made by the government to help with the empty shopping centres. They have made products cheaper but the cost to the country is more than you save if you look at in the cost to society.

Another great video wendall keep up the good work 👍

Your guy at 9 minutes was onto something. Death of third places. I guess that probably used to be the pub for a lot of people?

When I saw the title I was expecting either Milton Keynes or Slough and was not disappointed

When that chaps said, “there’s no place for us to congregate”… right behind him was a church. As the church has fallen into unpopularity, as with pubs, society is fracturing because we don’t gather for the good anymore.