THE SIDE OF BATH, UK, MOST TOURISTS DON'T SEE! WELCOME TO TWERTON 

Awwww poor Bryn. Hope he doesn't get bumped off by mussolinis relatives because he knows too much. Take care Bryn.

Poor Bryn. I can believe his predicament, as I have an anecdote I will share. 20 years ago I briefly lived in a midlands town, in an area that was full of post war, terraced housing. (Despite their age, there were in good condition). The council had the idea that they could sell off the land and make a mint, but the majority of the housing was owned, (there were people who had been there for 60+ years). First, they sent surveyors to the houses, but the houses were in good nick, so they couldn't make people move. Then, they just offered large cash sums to the residents to move, some took the money and ran. But, some (mostly pensioners) didn't, they wanted to stay in their family homes, places they'd lived their entire lives and had strong memories. So the council, annoyed, moved in problem tenants to live either side, (e.g. drug addicts, vandals, noisy bastards, aka anything that would scare the old). The place went downhill rapidly. Beforehand, it was a nice, safe, working class area, but now it was a shit-hole, (I'd moved down south by then, but when I visited, I was shocked). Then 2008 happened and the big banking crash. Whomever was doing the land redevelopment must've gone bust, as the area was left undeveloped, a waste-ground. Thanks for the videos, makes my town look like a paradise in comparison.

Finally get to see the man behind the Turdtowns voice.😄

The way you had to dodge answering his “Do I seem mentally unstable to you?” 🤣🤣

Lived in Twerton for many years as well as my wife. It was never posh but it was a nice area with a vibrant high street and a decent non league football team. Have seen the shocking decline of this area over the years and I am glad to see you highlighting it. I am just glad we escaped many years ago.

I used to live near Twerton about 20 years ago. I am sure this was the guy I had a conversation with about a van he bought in an auction that had been owned by a guy who was struck by lightening and killed when fishing. He told me inside he found a safe full of money. Such a great story.

So happy Turdtowns is back 🙂. Great video as always

Finding a local nutter should be a permanent new feature. End of year, should then have a "nutter of the year video"

No video for ages, I hope you are ok.

After the old fella claimed 'an IQ north of 180', I found it hard to take him too seriously 🤣

IQ north of 180. Right.

"...they cemented that on me shag pile carpet". Legend. Love Turdtowns. The interview with a local 'character' would be a welcome addition to the future chronicaling of Turdtowns

Grew up there before it was studentville - couldn't wait to leave and never wanted to go back - its one giant bowl of pollution and snobbery, it's geared up for consumerism and tourists, drinking, drugs and late night expensive dining and one night stands - it has a certain pretentiousness all of it's own - yes there is some wonderful architecture there but as a place to grow up, it was for me terrible and I left as soon as I was able, much of it is dreary and neglected, even the once beautiful botanical gardens are more or less grown over because they council don't want to pay for maintenance of anything The homeless are many and petty criminals are attracted because of the perceived wealth of the place - one man moved from Bournemouth where he was homeless, to Bath and worked stealing designer glasses which were sold to a dodgy pub owner - I used to work in a 24 hour shop and saw all the dreggs of society, crims, dealers, grotty freaks, smack heads a plenty - getting robbed and attacked for booze after the clubs came out was a regular occurence - one regular used to come in with her little girl, very normal, within 2 months of living around all the grimness she'd got into smack , lost the kid and was asking me for money There's a really dreadful side and consequence of putting people in extreme poverty right next to such extreme wealth - Twerton was always grim though, even the market was just low quality tat we'd laugh about and just as grim was Whiteway, Snow Hill, Norfolk Crescent and Julian Road - which is directly behind the pomp of the Royal Crescent - funny thing people living in those areas were often much easier to be around than the other side of Bath which is just grandiose rich kids getting wasted, making music and generally just living off Mummy and Daddy whist doing almost nothing beneficial to anyone, don't get me started on the students!

There is another side to Bath...The scummy ring of grime that clings to the inside of the tub!

The "uuuuhhhh" sound made as the chap starts talking was the sound we all made.

Twerton is just Turdtown spelled wrong.

"Subscriptions of mephadrone" Who would want an annual commitment to buy plant food?

Who’s surprised that our illustrious Lord Cameron is in the middle of this vile company?

I lived in Bath for the best part of a decade and I only ever set foot in Twerton ONCE, and that was an accident. Going there is like that scene in the Hurt Locker, where Jeremy Renner wanders off the base and goes into the darkest reaches of the town. People normally only go to Twerton for two reasons: 1. They live there 2. They are in the back of a Police car being driven around trying to identity who mugged them. What you have to remember is that Bath is literally the most beautiful City in the UK, and there is some national beauty competition that they literally won every year for about twenty years in a row. They spend millions of pounds every year on FLOWERS which they plant in the spring on nearly every roundabout and border, and yearly transient population of students and tourists outnumbers the residents by a factor. Bath council is entirely aligned with the principle of making the city pretty and posh, and they will cut funding for essential projects in order to do that. They are also notorious for cutting shady quasi-corrupt deals with businesses to bring even more funds to the beautification budget. Its not an accident that the council cut a deal with a bus provider which made the bus route up Norwood Hill to the University the most expensive bus route per mile in the UK. If Bath Council had their way, they would round up the "Poors" and dump them all on the outskirts of Bristol. If they could get away with, they convert one of the old disused mines into social housing and throw them down the hole. I have only heard of immigrants being housed in a Bath hotel ONCE. Pretty sure the council put an end to that.

Sounds a bit like Oxford. Get away from the dreaming spires and into places like Cowley or Blackbird Leys or Rose Hill and it's pretty gruesome.

God bless this man from Twerton. He's got true grit. You've got to admire his spirit.❤❤❤

I live in Bristol and people seem to be really into shitting in the street here too.

Wow. Poor guy. I hope something changes. This is a great video. Thanks.

Curo is the largest owner of those posh Georgian buildings and even own one on the Royal Crescent and are hated just as much by those living in those posh homes

I really liked your compassionate ending commentary. Poor Bryn, regardless of any opinion of him I felt very sorry for his plight. What a sad secret Royal Bath keeps.

Bryn needs his own podcast. I’d happily subscribe 😆😆

I was waiting for that guy to say Lord Lucan was having a beer in his garden and his neighbour plays call of duty with the real Elvis.

Bath is an absolute shit hole even in the centre if you keep your eyes open

That blokes fantastic, got to love him! 5000 gallons of industrial bleach, crikey! I cant even imagine that much bleach!!!

I was born in Bath and lived in Weston village till I was 12 and loved it there. Was a great place to grow up. In 1992/3 I lived in snow hill when I was 14/15yrs old and it was ok but could get quite rough. Just tried not to fall out with anyone. The park in snow hill in the early 90s was brand new and was good for small kids, sad to see it like that now. At 15/16yrs old we lived on the paragon ( social housing ) and they were fancy. Like whole houses within a building. Two story flats. I never lived in tweton but we used to take the piss outta it as kids. I moved away at 16yrs. I miss it. Visit occasionally because most of my family are there. I've also heard how bad curo is, so glad I don't live there now.

Thanks! I was asking for this video after you did Poshtowns last year. Tbh I've been expecting worse, but anything that reeks of that level of corruption is just plain disgusting. I bet you'll find hunderds of such cases in and around London though as well. More videos with interviews from locals would be really interesting.

Brin for mayor

It's sad that you missed the huge double fronted Creative Twerton, run by Little Lost Robot, on the high street. They run free arts and educational courses, events and activities. They are giving so much to the community in this area. I know Twerton looks bad, but, having lived very near there, it really isn't awful. The train stop is Oldfield Park, and is a short walk from Twerton high street. Things have gotten worse since Tory rein, but there is a community movement going on to try to improve it. Obviously, council input is necessary, but I just wanted to add that there are efforts being made to make life more bearable 😅

Please do Turdtowns in Hampshire and Oxfordshire.

Love the featured historian.

I live in Bath and in a village a mile away for years. Bath is nice, you need to leave it to appreciate its full beauty and how comfortable it is. It was getting claustrophobic and once you start seeing the Masonic architecture everywhere, you cannot unsee it. Surprisingly, a large chunk, something like a sixth of all Georgian properties in the city belongs to the locally based housing association. Even in the Royal Crescent or other parts that are the most expensive parts of the city centre, you could ind social housing tenants. There is a large estate, Foxhill that was always notorious, but things are changing as more and more people are priced out as generations grow up, unable to find social housing matching what they had growing up. I personally hated Oldfield Park and the fact that people were willing to pay that much for properties with restricted privacy, often no usable gardens and pedestrians seeing through.

You fuking tell 'em, Bryn!

I do pest control in Bath, so its pretty safe to say I've seen the city's arsehole, and Twerton definitely takes the cake in depravation. Everythings falling apart, even the Morrisons there is a mess that their head office would rather forget about. Its just one of those places the council would rather sweep under the rug and its to the detriment of the rest of the city. You wouldn't think bath would have gangs and the like, but it does and they all hail from Twerton. Even get them going to places like Frome and Westbury to cause trouble. Cant blame them, the kids have been left with nothing better to do and no money

I'm currently applying to be rehoused within BANES, chap helping me with the paperwork said 'Don't bid on properties in Twerton' I was a bit miffed. Thank you Turd Towns for answering this for me.

I worked door to door in Twerton, before we got there I assumed it would be like the rest of Bath that I had seen up until that point. Was shocked to find it was really grim and pretty much like any other council estate I had worked on before! Though, I had always wondered where the reprobates you see milling around Bath city centre came from.......

You should do a doc on Curo to expose the truth!

You say B'aa'th correctly well done you ❤

Welcome back...ALWAYS looking forward to another video! Cheers from a wet n raining California

I thought you'd misspelt Tiverton in the title. Plenty of human shit there!

Even just the name Twerton matches its appearance. Poor Brian I felt sorry for his continuous situation. Was not sure about the sums of money he had spent on his interior £350 thousand, and being put in a pvc door frame, If he owns his property why are the council going in there to destroy things like his gold fireplace. He should put a CTV camera on the corner of the building to catch the people who toilet his drain. I do hope he gets some peace soon. I wanted him to invite you inside to see his interior designs. Thankyou for sharing about this part of Bath that I did not know existed.

that was hard hitting and a great rant by Bryn!

🇬🇧There's a croft with 3 acres for sale at the very end of the United Kingdom, isolated single track, 10mins from nearest other occupied property. I wonder if that is the answer in 2024's broken Britain?🇬🇧

Great video. As a resident of County Durham I’d love to see you make a top 10 because I know my town would be near the top. We’ve been ranked as the number 1 cheapest place to buy a house in many newspapers.

Always look forward to your uploads!

We’re waiting patiently for you to visit East Anglia 😊

Jesus this brings back memories. Curo were rubbish when I worked for the council. Anyway, now go the other end of Bath and see how bad that is... Also my mate found a pair of Rayban up the top of Twerton and lost them on a rave boat on the Danube.

The way this guy showed how someone used his wall as a toilet cracked me up 😂😂I know it's awful but it's just the way he showed it 😂😂😂

Nice to see TurdTowns back !!

Thank you for sharing your pain, so funny. Great episode.

Much love from the states!! Found you thru ring of the hawk!

Just a little history. Twerton did have a train station, the smallest. That tall building on the corner, at 1:52 where you turn from the main road and go under the bridge. That was the entrance but it closed years ago. Also driving along the Lower Bristol rd, you see lots of little doors in the wall under the trainline. That was an attempt at making some housing. I'm talking victorian era here. I was born and lived in bath for 20+ years and never knew that was the purpose for all those little doors. Also as an ex local, I used to go to Twerton market, that was nice but don't know if they still do that anymore.

Welcome back to TurdTowns!

Subscribed. Cant live without Turdtown! 😢🎉🎉

Snow Hill worth checking too..another big estate..used to live there yrs ago..!

Visit Nottingham’s Aspley, Rise Park, Bulwell, St. Ann’s and Meadows (where I used to live) if you dare! Take your pick.

Pleased to see you're back mate.

You'd never find Jeff Jarrett walking around that estate!

You could stop in Chester, very similar to Bath, very posh and expensive houses and then just outside if a little hidden is Blacon. Cheshire police even moved the police station from the centre of the city to a new building in Blacon. Often the people who live there are the real people of Chester, the ones who do the real work and need a voice but those who visit only see the gentrified nice Chester not the place that is forgotten about!

‘Snow hill is an interesting Estate.’ I’d go along with that description 😃 Especially with that tavern that used to be around nearby and is now a pizza place. Interesting for sure. Top video, as ever. My home city, I was raised in the BA2 area, Southdown way. Be good to see you cover that area and maybe the interesting area of Whiteway? Or would that just be too risky? 😉

So sad to see Twerton park looking so dejected, very fond memories of Rovers time there. Was ten when Rovers went there and twenty when they left. Many an illegal pint in the pubs around the area.

I reckon Bryn is doin the poops! 😂🤣💀

I love going to Twerton Park for the football, I hope you stopped at The Crown for a pint! Loads of good memories growing up in Twerton and Oldfield Park - lots of money is being pumped into the High Street soon!

Can we have Oxfordshire next please? Love your videos mate!

Dirty Twertz it's a council/Curo dumping ground like you say 60 odd percent all together in one area that hasn't been touched since it was built. No regular maintainence on the buildings or outside. Lots of homeless addicts get housed there after coming to Bath to beg from the tourists ..so it's pretty mingin :D

Funny how his bespoke front door can be also purchased in B&Q...😂 As a format going forward, you might have stayed with Bryn a bit to much, I confess that I fast forwarded a bit to skip most of his bit, just watched snippets of him. Maybe if you can find more than one person to interview next time and have a section in the film called LooneyTurds or something... Still, good potential for expansion of Turdtowns, although I still prefer the Countywide visits, picking off the floaters from the flushers, to coin a metaphor...😂

We need a better index for turdtown rankings - index of multiple deprivation is too scientific, I recommend 'abandoned dog turds per 100m', and think Bexleyheath, SE London would rank pretty high, the local mouth breathers love sharing the output of their mongrels with the wider community!

Great video, excellent idea interviewing the local mentalist!

Appreciate the more empathetic take on this one, the guy seemed a bit nutty but you listened. I'll subscribe on the basis of you showing empathy for communities like this, thumbs up to you.

The man in the maroon cardigan was annoying me initially. I thought he was rambling and tbh I found him boring and a know it all. Hang in there because this man does know his stuff and talks complete sense. I really feel sorry for his plight and others in similar situations also. Both leading two parties , government, have let this male and other communities massively down

Another great video as you flush the streets while taking a bath. Im sure people would love your descriptions of Cas Vagas and Ponte Carlo :D

Great video as always. Video on Berkshire west Berkshire ? It’s not far from you 😊

I grew up in Oldfield Park, round the corner… I can no longer afford to live in Bath. Twerton has always had a bad rep and you’re right, it’s the area of a UNESCO world heritage site they don’t want you to see. It’s got worse. It’s good to see you on film, keep this up and you’ll eclipse Backpacker Ben, Wendel and Turnip!

There were some older houses with character there, but a lot of the housing looked like it was UK Army family accommodation. Bryn: Justice or not, if you can, get out of there - living there is obviously very, very stressful.

I used to deliver parcels to one of the local schools in twerton and often the headmaster would be outside the school gate with a litter picker picking up used junkie needles, why local councils give priority to these degenerates when it comes to council properties rather than struggling working class families baffles me, I know plenty of good families that work just to live and would give their right arm for a council place to get on in life. Priorities are all wrong and something needs to be done about it maybe a monthly drugs test would put and end to it, 3 strikes and your out 🤔

Just stumbled on this video - love it. I lived in Twerton for 15 years! However, I do have to say, that the chemist gives out Methadone NOT mephadrone :)

Twerton and the Roundhill area (Whiteway etc) can be absolutely horrific. Wild to see an area I'm so familiar with

Great episode!

If you do County Durham for your next video you should look at Ferryhill, Peterlee and Bishop Auckland. The north-east of England is beautiful but the way that some of the towns there have been neglected and left to rot is very sad.

knew this would be about Twerton, its down the road from where all the students typically live. I was told to avoid going there when I was at Uni in bath.

Around May/June visit Scotland and do Cumbernauld, Motherwell, East Kilbride and Dundee. There's piles of turdtastic material there.

I have family living in Twerton . It is rough as hell ! Snow Hill is better but probably the best council estate in Bath is Weston.

This is what is missing from previous videos. Interviews with quirky locals. More of that please.

My first ever experiences of watching Rovers 30 years ago were at Twerton Park, making the fortnightly pilgrimage from Bristol over to Bafffff. I take in the occasional Bath City match every so often (mainly for nostalgic reasons) and it’ll come as no surprise that not a single piece of the ground is any different to my last visit in 1996. No word of a lie in this version of TT’s, the entire area in general is a proper dump.

"i've got an IQ north of 180" lmao

This was interesting, I've never heard of Twerkton. Thanks

In most cities the crappy area is always near the football stadium, I see bath is no exception. You need to do one on St Mary's here in Southampton as it is a complete shithole! If it did have a train station it would just get trashed.

You should do more videos that include interviews like this. Sure the guy was a bit of a nutter, but it was kind of interesting from a journalistic stand point. I'm sure there a thousands of people like him with stories to tell who don't normally get to tell them

fantastic video, always enjoy your content. i will say if your going to interview someone again, don't do it at the side of the road it was a little hard to hear. I wouldn't do Wales again in your next video, somewhere different would be good. Keep the videos coming mate they are very informative and entertaining.

You should visit some of the estates in and around Belfast Northern Ireland

Love this channel

Awesome, another video.

If you offered me a swap deal between Runcorn and here its a swap deffo lots of estates here. Try Windmill Hill small but full of activity again another place i lived but the buses refused to service. Made Twerton look hospitable. Why? Im eager to come home but priced out of the market within Bath City Centre..great insightful video..

Please do a videos on Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The band Tears for Fears came from Twerton in Bath.

Go to Great Yarmouth especially at this time of year it's uhh interesting