walking around Dewsbury's taken over town! 

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I read a few years ago that a female hockey group using Dewsbury Sports ground started to get harrassed by muslim youths. The girls complained to the police who predictabley told them to go and play hockey elsewhere. The mens rugby team found glass being scattered on the rugby pitch, they too complained and they too were told to go play rugby elsewhere. After a while of the sportsground not being used, the 'local' muslim community made a derisory offer for the ground and bought it and built a mosque and islamic religious centre. Anyone notice this sort of thing anywhere else?

We all know why Dewsbury is in decline , same as Bradford , Rochdale etc

You know a town is a shit hole when Wetherspoons, McDonalds and the Pound Shop closes down

Must be truly heartbreaking for the elderly people who've always lived there and remember an entirely different and much happier place just 40, 50 or 60 years ago.

This country is just an utter shit hole now. Quality channel 👌🏻

Utter gloom, what a bleak country England has become!. Good video, as always.

If the men who ran up the beaches could see the country now they would not have gone an inch up the beach.

Most of our towns are in decline like this. Ridiculous local Councils forcing businesses to shut with high business rates and ridiculous parking charges. Third world immigration and its over

Our town centres have been devastated by online shopping, out of town retail parks and high business rates AND the utter stupidity of local government planners.

I’m from Dewsbury. I tell people I’m from ‘near Leeds’

I'm 75 and remember spending weekends at my grandads in Dewsbury when the town was full of life and people. Magnificent Victorian architecture built with civic pride still stands, but now an epitaph to the proud people who once walked its busy streets.

Corrupt councils giving priority to people who send their money home is a big problem

Post empire, post industrial Britain is fucked. And when you ask who runs Dewsbury, well....for years now it's been the Pakistani community, same as Bradford. The local council gave it over to them in fear of excluding but over including them.

What a contrast of those old pictures of the town and how it looks now. Problem is this is a pattern of decline around the Country and its getting worse.

Its a shame, Growing up in Birmingham places like Dewsbury were where you'd aspire to live round relaxed,clean & beautiful 😞now its just another Brum😢

ruined by one group of people, same as many old mill towns in the north.

The best thing about Dewsbury is it makes Huddersfield look better.

Some of them buildings have got beautiful stonework, proper built.

Hmmmm. Well we all know why most of the Kirklees Council areas have gone down the U-Bend don’t we. . . .

Dewsbury evolved as a town centre to serve the needs of the local and wider population, and in doing so, it grew into one of the country’s busiest little towns, right up to the 1980’s! What happened? The government changed the population over the next 30 years from a largely white Christian one to an Asian non Christian populace! Result…you can see in the video!

I was born in Dewsbury its terrible a community torn apart by crime, drugs and benefits and a MP who lets it rot why no job centre strange

My Dad used to put his three piece suit to go shopping in Dewsbury in the seventies. Now its a gathering place for the roughest dregs in the town. Never go there the council killed it by charging high rents for shops that only bookies can afford. The row of shops you showed were once WhSmiths argos boots Holland and Barrett. Utter shit hole. Used to have Cinema nice pubs even Wetherspoons have now gone old Turk is a good pub and bats on. but otherwise Dewsbury is a ghetto now.

Grew up in Dewsbury/Ravensthorpe left in 76 not the Dewsbury I knew and loved as a kid it was safe and everyone watched out for everyone else. Great shops and a market that’s was second to none don’t really need to leave everything was there. Now it’s just a shell off a town dirty with boarded up shop fronts sad because the people from Dewsbury are really lovely people well the people I know who grew up there and still live there including family.

Makes you really wonder what the future holds. So many lovely buildings left to rot. Very sad.

Take a look at photos of Dewsbury from around the seventies and eighties it was a busy market town to which people came from miles around to shop, the market was well known throughout Yorkshire, luckily for us we now have a Dewsbury shaped by imigration and diversity what a lovely place where nobody visits any more, the whole country is going this way, it must be stopped or we are done

It starts with a broken window! You do know what's happening. Such lovely stone buildings built by a better class of people than us?

80’s and 90’s Dewsbury used to be a great night out - used to be there most weekends. Many happy memories…

The frightening thing is eveywhere will look like this within two decades

And I thought Rotherham was bad! This is so sad, but unfortunately it's happening everywhere up and down the country, town centres rotting away before our very eyes. I love this sort of content though, good stuff mate. Keep 'em coming👍🏻

So, so sad to see. Used to be a thriving Yorkshire town. Bad, sad times.

I think a lot of those shops have closed down because of greedy landlords asking for silly money for the rental.... Keep up the good work 👍

I admire your bottle, mate, wandering round some pretty rumpty places with your camera. Mind what you're doing, son.

Get up the road to Batley, and look at all the takeaways. Must be 150 in a tiny area, how does that work ?

Great video. The internet has killed retail shops. Many people shop for items online. It is unfortunate, but society has changed.

Levelling up nicely i see

Oh and take a look people this will be every town and city within 10 years but remember diversity is our strength!

A few words can explain the state of Dewsbury - Labour run Kirklees Council. Same in Huddersfield, everything they control turns to shite.

Top Content. I've Subscribed. I've been living out of the UK for +20 years... France, Spain, Portugal, Holland....and none of the places I've visited are remotely like the situation in many of these UK towns...

ANYTHING and EVERYTHING British is now on borrowed time. They are coming, and nothing will stop them now. R.I.P UK

Dewsbury is the only town in england where there are more gambling shops than pubs This is what happens when? Most of the pubs close down in a town centre. Cheers cheers

I owned “Gold Pot” amusement arcade situated in pioneer house. Had to close it as wages, shop rents and rates were so high.

An interesting place despite the commercial decline . There is a lot of fine old buildings with great stonework to them .

Welcome to Dumpsville !!! 😮

Shocking. Have the English people had the pride knocked out of them. What is the government spending money on - certainly not towns like this.

Wet sad to see these major English towns North & South in severe decline. I am veiling from Scotland it’s the same in the once thriving towns here. Next they have the planned 15 minute cities & more lockdowns so I won’t expect any improvements.

I was born in dewsbury and lived there till I was 21, when I went back to visit my parents it got so you couldn’t go into dewsbury at night as you felt so out of place and unsafe as a white woman. Next and Matalan full of women in burkhas in big black SUV’s with private registrations.. very sad

Dewsbury has the 2 common denominators for guaranteed decline.

I had the misfortune of visiting Dewsbury around five years ago. During the commute into the centre, it felt like Islamabad. The bandstand-looking structure in the town square was full of street alcoholics, and the side entries smelt of urine. Or you could see the version of the Dewsbury tourist information😁! Dewsbury is also home to a diverse community, offering a variety of cultural experiences, from its thriving arts scene to its array of international cuisine. Lol!

Dual nationals should not have the vote let alone any position of political or legal authority

Import the third world become the turd world. Shame really as there looks to be some nice architecture that's now going to be left to rot to make the 'New Britons' feel more at home. Have you been to Saviletown (no relation other than the hobbies i suppose if you catch my drift) yet? Don't think the New Britons would even let you film around 'their area'.

Would have been beautiful before we were enriched 😢

If you study History, you will learn a lot about how countries become partitioned and eventually taken over... This is already happening in the UK.

I grew up here. I left as soon as I possibly could. There’s one main reason it has ended up like this. I totally despise driving through there now everything closed run down disgrace of a place now. The pubs shut down, McDonald’s shut down, dorothy Perkins shut down, all that remains are pound shops and discount stores and boy racers and drug dealers, I certainly wouldn’t let my missus walk through there alone, such a fall from grace, such a shame.

i was born in and brought up in dewsbury. Online shopping and multiculturism could be to blame.

Bookies - the common thread linking the most deprived areas on Britain. I feel like the evil of gambling addiction is something many people are more than happy to sweep under the rug. Boozer looked half decent though. Another interesting video pal (only recently found your channel) but it's worth pointing out that _descent_ & _decent_ are very different words 🤣

Excellent video, really appreciate your efforts s as it’s been about 30 years since I was last in that area.

Thanks for the walkabout, am coming over to an event at the town hall next month and said to the missus we should go earlier and visit a few pubs. I’m definitely not going to do that now, I’ve never been to Dewsbury before but from what I saw on your video, our visit will be a one-off

Ah the state of our once great nation!

This is really sad. Thanks for the video. Oh, and it looks like you are wearing a Suffolk sheep. lol

I remember when our little town high street had its own 'Trigger' road sweeper who treated the town like the Forth Bridge and went up and down all day every day and kept the streets spotless. Council appear to have better things to spend our taxes on nowadays. Not sure what that might be though as they keep what they do well hidden from those that pay the bills.

Some wonderful buildings. We've got thousands of young men sitting on their backsides in hotels. Couldn't we get these people to clean, renovate or repair these areas? Or would that violate their human rights?

apparantly the big thing on most town high streets these days is supposed to be Money Laundering, Nail Bars and mens hairdressers. Imagine that a hairdresser (mens) that is that busy, they can afford a prime spot on the high street, whats that, they pay nothing to anyone, change ownership every year or 2 , find the one that has been in your town the longest and then go check them out !

Love your video's mate👍I am from Australia and have a fascination for England. Never been but I like seeing the "real" parts of the country.

Great video mate. Thanks for showing us around. I’m glad to say that I will probably never venture there. However, I do like the look of some of those abandoned buildings 😉 Might be worth the journey to check some of those out for a mooch!

Similar thing has happened in Heckmondwike, about 2.5 miles away. It was a busy market town, with Tuesday and Saturday being market days. There were plenty of independent businesses, from florists to chemists. Then Morrisons opened in the town centre. Slowly but surely the local shops started to close down. The market has disappeared completely from Heckmondwike. Many shops are boarded up. Online shopping has had drastic effects. Very sad to see.

I remember as a kid in the late 80s and 90s that town bustling! And the market! Heck it is dead!!

It's more than one reason for the decline unfortunately. High rent and rates are part of it, often in towns and cities like this the retail units are owned by one or two large landlord companies who often refuse to reduce rents, they'd usually rather see them stay empty in the vain hope a large chain who can afford the costs move in. The business rates are the second major factor, again pricing many smaller retailers out of the city centres. Another factor is the local authority, Kirklees Council is in a financial mess and on the verge of bankruptcy so is making huge cuts to services and that, inevitably, leads to less street cleaning, less upkeep of council owned areas and buildings making the place look even worse. This in turn makes the city centre even less attractive to potential investors and business owners. Then there's the impact of online shopping, one of the biggest reasons for the decline in city centre shopping. The final reason is the demographic of the people in the area, Dewsbury has a very high immigrant population and like it or not they often don't have the same incomes and spending power as the indigenous older generations had. Not only that but as more and more immigrants move in these wealthier more middle class residents tend to move out or shift their spending to other towns and cities to avoid them. It doesn't have to be that way though, Barnsley, Wakefield and Leeds itself have also suffered massively but are trying to do something about it. Barnsley has reinvented the town centre, and are trying to attract those smaller, more eclectic independent retailers into the town, although many feel the council are neglecting other areas in favour of the centre. Wakefield is embarking on a similar strategy at last, refurbishing and rebuilding many of the old mills around the waterfront areas, trying to work with the owners of the run down Ridings Shopping Centre and have decided to go after those smaller independent retailers and try and attract them into the city centre. Wakefield still has a long way to go, it's often filthy due to a lack of daytime street cleaning and it has a high number of vacant retail units, especially due to one large, greedy commercial landlord. Wakefield also has a huge problem with druggies and alcoholics who hang around the pedestrianised areas outside the cathedral.

you wouldnt believe it , but back in the day this town was buzzing, had an odeon cinema, and all the students were filling up the pubs from nearby Dewsbury college, there was a massive indoor and outdoor market, had some good ole times here, what a shame , just like the rest of UK rundown and we all know why? the bloody governments , dont matter if its Labour or Tory both as bad.

Won 2 World Wars ,then lost our country.

Uk has fallen

Everywhere you go and it’s the same thing that’s happening.Gone are those days of the 80’s where town centres were bustling and you went to town to buy everything. Life’s what we make it wherever we live in the country. Great channel you’ve got here

I’m heartbroken watching this. I grew up in Dewsbury back in the 60s and 70s and I barely recognise it. It was a thriving, busy and friendly town centre. His walk up Daisy Hill was the worst for me. I worked at a solicitors office there, straight from school and it was lovely. Very sad.

Great architecture there.

I have to deliver here and Bradford most of the week, day in day out these places are depressing and not good for your mental well being.. No hope, no future.

Moved from Dewsbury to Ossett 25 years ago...thank f for that.

Go back thirty years ago and Dewsbury was thriving and then in 2004ish it went downhill. Thanks in no part to the big Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, supermarkets, add to that the large shopping centre in Ravensthorpe, White Rose Shoping centre just 15 minutes down the A653 in Besston, South Leeds. All aided by the wonderful councillors who voted for it on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees, Wakefield, York) that we had to get extra funding for West Yorkshire and York. Sadly Leeds seems to get the lion's share of funding a lot of the other's miss out, especially North Kirklees, which has caused real controversy. Kirklees college whose built a new campus in Dewsbury, and a new Police Kirklees HQ, taking over the old site of Dewsbury Technical College! It took Dewsbury all its time to save its hospital, when it was on its own before the merger it had no debt unlike the Mid Yorks group it finds itself in. The only none run down area is the A653 corridor, Shaw Cross, and Chidswell at the top of the hill.

I lived in Mirfield as a kid and loves going to Dewsbury, it looks like it has gone down hill so much , such a shame, the market was brilliant back in the day, I live near London now so not been back for a few years , last time I just went to matalan so not right into the town bit, the council need to sort it out

Should get you on GB news or talk to and show the true state of some parts of the UK it would open peoples eyes.

Go to Saville town.. Its pretty thriving and you can't buy a house there unless you have connections

Typical Kirklees town Laubour controled of course

Just an idea - why not interview some of the local people you encounter on your walks? What have they got to say about the rubbish state of things? It'd be interesting to hear their points of view.

Market days are Wed & Sat, the Town has died a slow painful death it's so sad. The Town next door Batley pretty much the same, just gambling shops, pound shops and charity shops. Batley famous for the Batley Variety club back in the day, famous singers and comedians used to come there. Also home to Fox's Biscuits. Heckmondwike seems to be clinging on, alot less to lets..

I'm from Dewsbury, just totally gone now. Nothing left. Use to be a top town but that was back in last century when we had all best shops, and a cinema, then the famous market they came from far and wide to see. Now look 😔

It’s all boarded up shops and bearded up faces… True story…. 💯 🤷🏿‍♂️

Litter is a nationwide problem. Look at any roadside and it's unbelievable the amount of rubbish lying there.

It's so depressing in the direction the UK is going. I can't offer any solutions, but I think these types of videos should be shown to the London-centric crowd.

Great video again bro ! Good stuff ! Thank you for sharing!!👊🏽👊🏽🔊🔊🔊🏆🏌🏾‍♂️💫

Left for Australia 40yrs ago. Was a happy Chickenley lad. Returned numerous times back for a holiday, every return it gets worse.

Heartbreaking.

I come from Kettering which I thought was a bit of a dump.After looking at this.I realise I was wrong. I’d say most of the shops in the town centre are currently occupied.I don’t know what the answer is but some towns remind me of Beirut in the 70s.The government only seem to give a Fck about themselves.

Went there as a kid in the seventies, was filled with thousands of people when the market was on. They even had a pet shop stall, he used sell live tortoises in tea chests!

The only thing I can do to help is- trying to not buy online- support local shops and businesses. What an eye opener

All the shops opposite the town hall have not had their leases renewed as it’s all going to be flats. I was born in Dewsbury, it’s an absolute disgrace how the town has been let go to rack and ruin. Huddersfield is going the same way, same as most towns sadly . 😔

Looks so delightful Sign me up for a weekend Away.

I live 18 miles from the centre of Dewsbury and I can honestly say I barely even knew it existed. I had no idea it was even a town of this size.

I have to admit I didn't watch the whole video but I felt that it was pretty revealing that he doesn't seem to actually talk to anyone? There's loads of towns all over the UK that are on the decline but there is more to a community than whether it still has a Spoons. Talk to people, find out what's actually going on! There might be community projects, arts and culture that is hidden slightly beneath the surface that you're not gonna find by just walking around pointing at buildings

👍 As a virtual tourist, from videos like this will explore using the google street views over the years and can notice the gradual decline. June 2023 many streets deserted but most streets were clean (few instances of junk and rubbish on back streets).

Sad to see mate, thanks for sharing. Not just a northern phenomena either. Same story many places down south.

wrecked by kirklees council. The same as they have done to Batley and Heckmondwike. Step outside Kirklees footprint to the likes of ossett which still has a market or Mirfield which is Kirklees but has a parish council and it is a different picture.