Good points about Nuneaton. Why it is a pleasant place to live.

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Right I’ve done um a video quite popular one about the flood defense system because it’s been raining a lot and it’s been working well so that’s good um and I’ve done a video about the market which is on Saturday which is today and so I thought I’d just try and

Do a video about how wonderful and the neat is why I like it I just had to think about it yeah it’s a nice town it’s a nice size it’s a nice place and people knock uh the the town that they live in they always do you look on social media for

Local places and they’re always knocking it and I think well now it’s quite nice let’s think on the positive side let’s see what we can See I’m going to keep going until me Camera Falls over oh there it goes well the first thing is to get a paper from SSB one of the good things about n it’s got some very good supermarkets when I first came here about 30 years ago or more and near

About one or two but this one is excellent all well and good and uh apparently she said she’ll see me later I didn’t know I was going to see her later I saw her once very nice I mean have a good day fair enough but see you later okay maybe maybe

Not um somebody was saying that these uh walking videos no drone no music just me walking around talking to the camera um they sort of quite light so I thought I’d try the same I said before people always seem to knock the town that they’re in um and if I take some nice

Shots like this it’s all rather Pleasant this is a pond next to the river anchor which goes through the middle of town and uh very nice quite nice things to be seen this is the um Museum and art gallery what’s that have you exhibited there yes paintings and

Photographs and the park is over here of course which is very pleasant um which way shall I go let me go this way whoa morning morning well unusually it is a nice bright morning it’s cold it’s about 2.5 de uh but it’s Pleasant it’s not actually freezing the minute it has been freezing

Overnight and uh yeah this is the tail end of the park in the middle of town and the river running through the river seems to be behaving itself at the moment um because the flood defense system of which my latest popular video actually it’s got 2,000 views

Um yeah it’s done its job and it doesn’t flood in town because we had one or two really desperate storms come through right I’m now going under the road to head into the middle of town just walking across uh the George Elliot Gardens George as you may or may not

Know was not her real name it’s Maryanne Evans famous 19th century orthus and this you can see is the uh Monument to her you go around you can see maryan Evans born South Farm Arbury 1819 and those who may or may not know also so they’re not sure whether this

Building is going to be pulled down but there’s a lot of development going on here um let’s hope they leave that tree alone cuz that’s the one that the bigh community planted about 40 years ago this is the back of the council house Town Hall checked history our Council really

Various things um because in fact on this side there’s another building which mirrored the town hall itself this one over here and then with the cuts they suddenly didn’t need it anymore there we go welcome to uh George Elliot Gardens so I’m now walking uh around the back of the Town

Hall to get into the middle of town and I’ve got a bit of time to go and have a chat with a few people I’m not going to put point out the scruffy areas in town but I’m just going to go around the corner the front of the Town Hall

Here and show you this seat we got one or two really nice buildings here look at this that’s the United Reformed Church and then is the old police station which is now for sale and toet used to be a bank as well I want to show you this it’s presented by the Rotary

Club supported by George Elliot fellowship and you can see in it there’s the face of George Elliot and it’s like a book opening and there’s a pen going across so that’s a seat specially made to commemorate George Elliott well I won’t be able to show you everything there is

To see in the neon but um just wondering uh of course this is the old famous toolbx because the High Street is evolving into something new and um we’ve got a lot of Barbers uh but look there’s one we’ got about four or five of these in

Town but the toolbx selling all those bits and pieces is quite interesting um because there’s not many shops like that still surviving anyway let’s wander into the middle of town Mickey morning happy New Year you okay yes good good good how you doing where’s qu where’s your big queue oh

We’ve done it this morning we’ done a bit this morning well I’m not going to make this everything about the market because I’ve done that before so let me just take a Wonder down here around the corner I’m determined to keep this video positive but this vape shop has got

Reflected in its window look the coral betting shop opposite and it’s next door to a casino slot machine but I’ll say something about these on another occasion here I’m looking Northwest where the old Co-op building has been demolished and there’s a new hotel New College Center and the Grayson Leisure

Center whatever that’s going to be sounds good this is rosemy Rickard and her son Walter the only two of them here today they run a market store and also a Holier and Growers business out at conron and delightful people they are too in fact I’ve known this family for

Nearly 40 years and that sign which says homegrown I must have painted it for them maybe 15 years ago I’ve done anything about the market before now so many people seem to knock the neat they do they do everybody likes to knock their own Hometown I found out but

Um no so what’s good about the eating then well you’ve got a lot of shops yeah now you got you got poundland for the cheaper people you’ve got Jewelers Sam Jewelers you’ve got um caff’s Galore you can stand here no kid John and you can I

Can stand and eat in 22 places 22 from from here time to there to Sushi from boots you got boots of chemist yeah and barbers barbers how many Barbers are there Turkish Barbers men like to Smart themselves they must survive they must do business cuz they’re still there and

Nails Nails in actual he got a lot to offer yeah so what’s good about n i going be positive about Nan you’re asking me the question yeah what’s positive about n yeah have you got an answer yes go on I think it’s a very Community fo town

People all look out for each other and I think the Market’s fantastic where you got a market in the town combining with the shops and you got a few Independents I know we got people moan about the barber shops but they’re all busy they are so you can’t knock them they’re all

In business aren’t they and the other thing is like this Barber Shop opening here the O2 yeah2 I mean he’s put a serious investment in there sure so he ain’t doing it for no reason they’re not going to do they’re not D no I think it’s a

Lovely t yeah good morning good morning anyway I’ll leave you to it have a good day fantastic Town let’s be positive too much Doom and Gloom around it thank you very much I’ll use that as a quote ta I’ll just take a little sniff of this well it’s a final snapshot around

Of time oh when you doing films like this and video stuff turn around the time’s gone time come on and wake up 10:00 um I am sir carrying on mate thank you I’m the YouTube man keep carrying on mate that’s me another fine aspect of Nan is it’s multiculturalism and we have uh

Here the gerka memorial which I pointed out before and there is a local army camp Barracks where the geras are stationed and there’s a a fair number of nepes people who live in Theon anyway some of whom were not connected with the giras but and of course in the N we’ve

Also got a mosque uh two goodwi waras and that’s the siks and number of churches and uh and of course the bigh community so it’s quite a mixture of types of people Fair number of Eastern Europeans as well I think that one of the things things I

Really like I’ve just spoken to Alan somebody I know I’ve lived in this uh town on on the outskirts for the last 40 years and it’s just people that I know and I can say hello to which is a really nice thing to do it’s a sense of

Community you know we live we live here we like it we dislike it we do things for it that’s what it’s all about right I’m going to take you over to our shopping mall that’s what it is and I’m going to have to go past the front of the United Reformed Church

Which is here right this is the Rope walk and I don’t think I’ll be able to go inside and film because they don’t let you do that sort of thing but I’m next to the uh old jail house and this was the actual jail house to the police police station here it

Is it’s changed hands a few times and it um is now a cafe again restaurant whatever think yeah yeah yeah you think five neing now and I have to say this uh bottom end of town everything’s empty look because this is all getting knocked down and wheel Coes and this building

Here this is coming down I think this um quite Old Pub building here is going to stay but I still not decided whether the library is coming down which is over there of course but this power house is coming down or to be demolished as I pointed out in another video

Improvements are being made even as we speak or plans for improvements anyway here we are so as I make my way through the George Elliot Gardens again at the the back of the close which is a sort of a semi-residential place nice people but another great facility in town

Actually uh so yeah then’s got a lot to say for itself as well as now let me finish off here because we’ve got a hospital we’ve got a college we’ve got a number of good schools around a new new one being built as well secondary school

That is um up P Lane where I live and it’s easy to get there’s good connections so what’s good about n eaten and its roads or it’s good to get out of you can get away from it quite easily by which I mean actually it’s uh it’s easy to travel around the

Country because we’re right in the Midlands here so if we need to go to the late District it’s only uh two hours and to get to the South Coast two or three hours so we’re in a good position to go in other parts of the country which is

Good so it’s a good um Motorway Network we’re in the thick of which is why there a lot of logistics firms you know warehouses and travel companies I hope I’m painting a positive picture of what we got here thank you very much for watching and uh you’ll see me next time bye-bye