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    Have Towns Like Loughborough Fallen?



    A walk around my local town and I’m asking the question, Have our towns fallen?

    Empty shops and those that are used are mainly Vape, Turkish Barbers,Nail Bars and Charity shops.

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    7. @ryanmckean on

      Portsmouth is the same

      Full of rubbish, shops no one wants, expensive parking, list goes on.

      Always looking around, never feel relaxed. Real shame but all towns & cities are dying.

    11. @haunteddeandollsuk on

      the sad fact is the internet took over 😢 you can buy most stuff online these days and have it arrive on your doorstep ! it’s a combination of that and the rates for the shops to rent that bit of land is way too high set by greedy councils

    12. @haunteddeandollsuk on

      the country is finished, it’s been crap since the 90s, everywhere you go now is awful with knife attacks and hordes of people covered faces and hoodies over their heads, and their underwear sticking out their tracksuit bottoms lol, it does make you laugh though 😅

    14. @Phil_McAvity on

      Dave there’s fxXkin loads of places like this, absolutely loads. I went to watch the football late last year Kidderminster Harriers. Hadn’t been to kiddy for 20 years, what an absolute shXt-hole that place has become. The two hotels we used to stay at are now migrant hotels, half the towns shops are closed down….. it’s terrible.

    17. @jonhunter8737 on

      My local town, Ormskirk, is rammed with student accommodation. That's fine, they do bring money in and I would rather they were here than their buildings be empty. However, with students, comes the real cheap shit shops. Vapes, takeaways, Polski Skleps etc. Ormskirk does have mega cheap parking though. But I travel around the country, seeing the same shit in every town. I was in Derby today and that looked crap too. Massive shopping centre, but the big anchor stores, like M&S, House of Fraser and Debenhams are basically all gone. And Amazon has a lot to do with it. Mike Ashley has cheapened House of Fraser, and M&S are a shadow of their former selves. Amd of course, Debenhams went tits up, as did BHS. On top of that, the independent shops have been replaced by charity shops, vape shops and alleged Turkish barbers. It is also down to immigration. The immigrants don't have the same values and sense of quality that the natives do. They will always buy cheap shit. It's awful this country now. Thank fook I'm at the start of the slope downwards for me, drinking till the lights go out!!!

    20. @dav147 on

      It's every town centre now Dave, all going to rot, American style retail parks with drive thru's have taken over with free parking, it's all gone Pete Tong

    22. @liamh3710 on

      To be fair, Dave. It’s most towns with a high street. Charity shops, Vape Shops, the odd Greggs and other bakeries. That’s it. We can thank Amazon and EBay for that. The high street has been left to rot because every local council knows there’s no saving it. It’s honestly depressing

    23. @oliverbarker1527 on

      The reason that towns across the country are seemingly dying is because the places within them that provide community are also dying. Im talking about bars, cafes, restaurants, independent book stores and other shops, churches, community centres etc. Places where people from across the town can come together. And the reason that these places are dying is because the cost of living has become so great, people don't have the money to go to these places, and therefore these places don't have the money coming in to stay afloat and so they close. And they also don't get sufficient subsidy from the government that would help them survive. I'm from Shrewsbury which recently was voted as having the best high street in the Uk, by the Telegraph i think it was. When i walk down the street its full of life because its full of the places that create community, small coffee shops, bars, restaurants, a market hall and so on. From watching your video, it seems that In Loughborough the big chains are the businesses that have been able to survive, as well as a few small businesses, but unfortunately Gregs and Cex and Boots don't really provide the incentive for people to flock to the town centre. I don't know what it is necessarily that the local council in Shrewsbury has done in order to attract investment and protect small businesses, presumably they have certain regulations to protect small businesses. But to be honest i don't think this is really a matter that local councils can solve themselves. I think this a is a broader issue facing the country which has been going on for decades now, fuelled by stagnating wages and an ever greater concentration of wealth. And the government isn't really interested in Loughborough because it cares more about 'economic growth' which just beens protecting large corporations and investors.

    24. @pumbar on

      Fifteen minute cities. Fragmentation, no pubs, no high street, no chatting on the street. Atomised people, none of whom have anything in common with those they meet.No more nation, no more history, faith or culture. You wanted it, you now have it.

    26. @jamieholmes4675 on

      I live in Belper and luckily we have a thriving high street ( for now at least)with many independent retailers who seem to be looking after each other and the best thing of all…. we have a large free car park.

    27. @ratemybeer1 on

      Dave it's gone mate now. Most places the same I'll try and do Chatham where I live sometime will shock the life out of you but there probably nick my phone or camera LOL

    29. @jamieboyd448 on

      I lived in Loughborough for years as a student and after. I definitely watched it deteriorate, as before it had some good, local independent shops doing niche things

    30. @I.D-This on

      Great vid Dave, all towns are the same now, one thing I did notice that there isn't to much litter laying about like other places.
      The Left Legged Pineapple, that's a blast from the past, I used to go there to buy vinyl imports.
      I also remember the little kiosk by the bus station, you could buy single ciggies from there.
      Also Remember Sammy's night club, right next to the Cinema, up those steep stairs also used to go up to The Bitter End for a few beers.
      Anyone remember the name of the pub on the way out of Loughborough just after the Brush factory think it was just after the bend

    35. @janecox4173 on

      I moved to pembrokeshire a couple of years ago from leicester and shocked about the state of loughborough and sering the sad faces. Everyone looked sad. I live near haverforwest and the town very similar but the council announced they are going to do something about it. Things now the way you look by the looks of things and fast food. So sad

    37. @pbarnfield on

      Same in my hometown of Swadlincote. Coalville isn't much better and even Ashby has seen the downfall – hence why I packed up my shop there and now work from home. Let's not even start on Burton on Trent….. roadwork haven! Absolute shithole to drive around and it's just chaos. Then they wonder why there's no people in the town when they kill it off like they do.

    39. @darkvader7231 on

      Worked in Loughborough 1990 to 1994, remember one lunch time meeting Red Rum the race horse at the bookies that opened up in Baxtergate. I worked near Beacon Bingo near the post office and then moved to town centre opposite where home bargains is now. It was good then and to be honest, still better than Leicester city centre which is a haven for drunks, druggies, halal chicken shops, tramps and middle eastern begging gangs, all thanks to our W⚓️ mayor peter arseholesby!!!!

    40. @NOSKIPPIN on

      I think a lot of it has to do with the Covid restrictions. It changed a lot of people’s lifestyles. People don’t want to socialise and leave their house anymore. People just want to stay indoors and have everything delivered to them. It’s similar in most towns and cities throughout the UK. Very sad.

    42. @rickreid8572 on

      britain has never been a particularly social society. If you remember the 70s and 80s there were no cafes or places to eat etc- in many ways, towns are better than they were back then. If you can't provide services that people want, then you can hardly expect them to come to a town centre to buy things there. The UK has never really had any decent shops or anything you ever really wanted to buy. It's kind of destroyed itself really.

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