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Identical to Croydon and the Whitgift Centre. Wonder how many other towns have died like this 😢

Chester is the same.influx of migrants.hotels booked up.

They don't want these on the market when they can charge £800- £1500 pcm in rents.

I lived in Leeds for 8 years and go up every so often for work. The way it’s changed over the years is pretty bleak. Obviously lockdown did a number on the nightlife but so many independents have been closed, rent put up. It’s fabled cheap night out is gone, all the little shops you’d visit for have been replaced by generic shops which then close down. It’s like a snake eating its own tail.

What not even Robin Hood,

This is what internet shopping is doing to the country.

I’ve been to Nottingham tons of times as I have family there. City Centre has always been very busy everytime I’ve been. Two decent universities make for lots of people coming and going all the time etc, as well as two football clubs (one in PL), massive cricket ground etc etc. All I can say he’s actually gone on a weekday in the morning or something 😅 Try Swindon, absolute dump of a centre!

From Leeds, grew up there and still visit regularly. Leeds in 2024 is very much like the Leeds I remember as a kid (which was the mid 90s): a ghost town run down by Tories for over a decade. Used to work at the White Rose too; it was like purgatory with a Costa Coffee!

Your avery positive guy. Your videos have tremendous positive energy. Thanks

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Love your content - keep at it man, you’re doing solid important documenting. Come up to Aberdeen for a real scare! 😂

Great idea to revisit with a local. Nottingham is a great city and I always enjoy visiting it.

I noticed Angel Row was getting boarded up when I was on the bus the other day!

Closed Down ... Nottingham Lace ,, Raleigh Bicycles,, John Player Cigarettes ,,Boots the Drug Company,,Ericson Telephones.. Shipstones Brewery ,, Ashwells Dyers n Bleaches,, Gerard Soap Works,, Weldons (Weldons Chimney,, Manlove and Alliot (Steel castings),, Bestwood and Cinderhill Coal Mines ,,,The Railways,,and the good ol'e Fish n Chip Shop (Quinns) on the corner of Shipstone Street .. My brother was a Miner at Bestwood .. My last job before Australia 1968 was Gerard Soap Works on Wilkinson Street New Basford ,, Thank you for reading ..

London is not disappearing, just shops and commercial places are closing, simple. This ia different!

I bet the Nottingham lad doesn't know about Drury Hill (Lane) all knocked down to build the Broad Marsh. .. ?

Possible to turn it into low cost flats

Very interesting video, especially as I am originally from notts and it's such a shame to see what's become of it. What I would say is it's interesting that you state the causes for the decline in high street shopping, but what makes other shopping centres especially in other countries successful as they, give or take, have the same issues, especially online shopping. I currently reside in Doha, Qatar, and the shopping centres here are thriving. But then again, Qatar has wealth and disposable income....

all Sellers are on Amazon and eBay now ... we are technically the Slaves of giant corporates owned by Rich Global Elites.

Yeah.. the last one.. maybe looked the best.. one problem thought.. it’s in LEYTON ..

Get rid of business rates in the town centre thats a start

Some history on Guild Hall briefly... Your guide mentioned the Council House is no longer where the Council are based, they still are, but of course the Council is huge and that building is actually small inside in terms of office space. So only the Coroners, Registrars & Full Council meetings are held there now. The rest of the staff moved into offices behind, in what is called the Exchange Buildings (behind Council House near the shopping arcade) and The Guild Hall. Then the Council purchased Loxley House from Capital One on Station Street and staff moved into there, from Guild Hall, Exchange Buildings and various other much smaller sites. :) Source: I work at NCC I am mega appreciative that you came back for another visit and accepted Rob's gracious offer to guide you around our City. A lot of people talk down regarding it, but I personally love our City.

Big retail parks with big sports clothing retailer stores are where people go nowadays.. easier access and parking.. shame but hey, it’s where we’re at.. Central london high end stores still see to be thriving.. and surrounding areas.. regeneration can possibly help.. but odds n sods shops just ain’t got the same demand anymore.. high streets only survivors are coffee shops, nail bars and Turkish barbers

Freisa aka Freisland and Norfolk used to join up. Long time ago. Nothing to do with global burning.

I'm not convinced this is a result of online shopping... I suggest it's a lot more than that! Perhaps the rent cost is a good place to start..?

This is the result of people going to out of town shopping outlets and buying online. Most people played their own part in this.

Great video and what a lovely guy, it’s great to see people with such passion and knowledge about the history of their area

Thank you for coming for a second look. Love your content.

Implement a goddamn land tax whether empty or occupied. It's just being hoarded. That should force them to either develop it or sell it and allow proper price discovery...

I lived in Nottingham for 5 years. The city is generally a dump apart from maybe West Bridgford and The Park but those are small boring residential areas.

Great video, love what you’re doing for the high street, if I can correct one thing about what your friend said, primark is a uk based company, their patent company is called “pennies” established in Dublin many years ago. They open a few stores in Northern Ireland during the troubles under the uk name primark. They competed with the M & S, British Home Stores, C &A in Belfast and lots of Northern Ireland towns, their profits may end up in Dublin, but they do pay tax in the Uk. I do agree with the cheep labour comments however. The throwaway mentality of our younger generation, my kids included, is why they still survive in the high street. That said we should be educating people on what companies do pay there fair share of tax in the uk. There a certain coffee shops I don’t use. Keep up the good work

this is what happens when your energy real estate and resorces are CONTROLLED by other nations TAXation doesn't help and they only tax inidviduals high because corperations have monopolies so they can just raise prices to cover the tax deficits.

Your so accurate what you are highlighting has been going on for decades but the decline has now reached a crescendo that I feel there is no coming back from unfortunately

Dude I lived in notts in 2006-2011, moved to london and now run startup in notts. Notts changed for better. So many new good restaurants, it feels much less suburban than before. Finally there are proper good quality restaurants (everyday people for ramen, Iberico bar, pozzamisu, mesa, kushiya), bars (Pogo, 400 rabbits, coco tang), good quality coffee (200o) etc. No one needs any more high street shops, instead we need places to hang out, meet people, good restaurants, coffee places, bars. These spaces can be used for new startups, if price is right, council gave us one year for free for our r&d space. So, strongly disagree, notts is better now than 10 years ago, and I hope more new people and more funding comes into notts, it has a lot of potential and it just nice to be there.

Great video David. That has given a much more balanced view of the ciry

Liverpool is an epic place, lived there for four years and loved every minute of it, the people are one of a kind. Life took me to South Wales, but Liverpool was where I thrived x

So pleased that you’ve come back to Nottingham 😊

Lived in Nottingham for 27 years and learn more off this bloke than my whole time there shout out to him true Notts legend

You walked away from the shopping centre.

That night club is where the guy from East 17 got stabbed back in day.

The boarded up building behind the Theatre Royal back in the 1970's was the old central library!

Nottingham is where you go to get stabbed by immigrants right?

You're experiencing the first wave of the disaster as the Mall kills the High Street. The second wave of the disaster is when Amazon or some other on-lin merchandiser kills the Mall. In San Francisco, an extraordinarily wealthy city, bad municipal government in combination with COVID has created a vast retai wasteland. I wonder if a contemporary Charles Dickens will write "The Old Curiosity Website."

All is gooorgeouzz.

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Fair play to Rob for speaking out. I unsubscribe from this channel because I knew it was picking out the very worst parts for views.

This whole series is bullshit

I lived near both places 25 yes ago and its a shock , particularly Grantham. Council milks these small business. Guy i knew ran a large Chinese buffet opposite the Victoria centre 15 yrs ago. He was paying £90,000 business rates oer annum back then.

because you visit so many cities, maybe you could look in the subject of mud floor buildings. i.e. windows on old buildings which go below street level, why. just a thought. love the blogs.

"Just poppin' down the shop" Will soon become an antequated phrase.