Basildon Town Centre in 2003

[Flamorgan]

Is this the same Basildon where the council take backhanders for granting planning permission to dodgy property developers ?

[issiteasy1]

@Flamorgan Yes got it in one. "Acacia Park" is the latest in their long list of giveaway land. "Come and live in Acacia Park" goes the ad. "Once the pride of Basildon residents, now the honeypot of councillors incomes!" It wouldn't be anywhere near so bad if the guilty had to live here in this town!

[southlondon63]

my boy has just moved here with my ex,i thought south London was bad but this looks like some depressing shithole in Poland or something

[SonnnyyyScooott]

So many memories, Basildon FTW :D

[TheBERNADETTEChannel]

Completely unrelated to Basildon, but where in Canada did you move to? I'm emigrating to Ottawa in June (from London...I'm originally from Hackney) and I'm kind of nervous!

[Kennet1000]

Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Nik Kershaw... New Wave 80er!

[TheRunescape0001]

hasnt changed

[Bikekid450]

Lol, 2003 ay, Long time ago... I'm there so often I've never though of how much it's changed lol =]

[WNxDefcon]

WOW this video is well old its actually changed so much now haha

[LiamIsFtw]

WOW!! Thats Well Old Haha

[CharlieRussell03]

Wow!!! It hasn't changed!!! =D

[basildonbadger]

yeah it has, lol

[Loopyloualways]

ahhh the town centre when woolworths was in business! god i miss their pick n' mix

[basildonbadger]

@Loopyloualways: lol, thats all they were good for.

[mollylouisex94]

old times, omgg. the escalators leading up to quasar, the big clock, the metal figure on the grass patch, the OLD logo (eastgate) i miss those days :'(

[Beagboy4Ever]

@mollylouisex94 Same I remember when those escalators used to work!

[basildonbadger]

@mollylouisex94: lol, it's all changed now, but as they say, you cant polish a turd.

[juliepresleyfan]

very good vid think my mum and dad was there when the peruvian flute band were think it was christmas time wasnt it

[Petchhyy]

Changed a bit!

[princelucifer86]

lol Peruvian flute band's remind me of that episode in south park.

[conndstevejam]

lol its bear shit bruv thers like fuck all to do all u can do i beat up the emos when they say dude ur like so boring and gay and iam like wdf???? and kick bollocks outta dem man and wtf true essex girls like btc thats soo not true lol

[danec1992]

die

[lazellbell]

lol thats along time ago

[Imawakeitsmorning]

The metal statue you see at 0:39 is gone. The Woolworths is obviously gone, and the escalators at 0:18 which lead up to bowling and quaser and gone too :P So it's somewhat different.

[Jenya1234WantsARiot]

wow fuck me this was ages ago! basildon is a great place :D

[emolyXD]

True Essex girls love Basildon Town Centre.

[juliepresleyfan]

i love basildon essex and i am a true essesx girl without the stilletos , got flat shoes lol

[noshunnumber1]

that bit with the grass is gone now. I was there last week, oddly I live in Canada too now.Would I go back? sh*t no!

[Kennet1000]

Depeche Mode - NEW WAVE - NEW ROMANTIC - THE 80'S!

[pezza1313]

basildon town centre doesn't look like that anymore.

[hanenaa]

this town should be destroyed and rebuild !!

[PhillyG91]

lol Basildon town center is a dump.

Nothing to do there.

Well at least the bowling and quazor is cheap

[simonpeck777]

The only good bit about basildon is the fact the it has a silly fair in the middle with a stupid teacups ride that is still playing xmas songs in may ! and the stinky smoking staff standing outsidde all the shops puffing away and fagbutts on floor everywhere you look.

[elixier22]

what a shit hole seriously what a fucking dump cant believe I live here

[YidArmyBabe]

Basildon is brilliant! I moved from Hackney (a complete shit hole with constant crime)

Basildon is a nice walk in the park compared to a lot places. Okay some bits of basildon are shit but most of it is great.. unfortunately some of the people ruin it... but I am use to much worse.

[sonyastargirl]

I've lived in Basildon all my life too. Theres people out there taking the piss but it can be good , i bet theres much worse places out there. It is a bit rubbish in some places, but there are some nice places, and to be honest i wouldn't have wanted to live anywhere else, i wouldn't change it for the world

[Mitc667Hell]

Basildon or Vange... Bas will win hands down. They dont call it Bas vegas for nothing you know...

[sonyastargirl]

Yea I know...

[YidArmyBabe]

I've seen much worse!

[Flare06]

I've lived in Basildon all my life, and except for the fact it's a concrete jungle, there is nothing wrong with it. Okay, maybe there are a fair few chavs, but you know...

[roystonking]

i live in bow n we call basildon basy dump wot a dog shit place 2 live

[absey101123]

I moved 2 basildon from sheffield and I love it, ok?

nd who says bow aint a shit place?

just fuck off

[YidArmyBabe]

bow? that's a complete shit hole... I have lived many places (mostly East London) and Basildon compared to bow is much better, if you call Basildon 'basy dump' what name would you call bow? coz it's much worse!

[GeorgieHMDI]

its all change now mate!

[becca180]

i been there and i live bout an hour walk from tht place and im going there 2day! YaY me!!!!! lol :):):)

[lukeoz1]

lol i used to live in basildon, moved to wickford and now live in australia never thought id say it but i miss the place.

[arky3000]

i should slap you for saying that, but you're in australia so i cant lol (about missing it, incase chavs are reading this)

[Dannielle81]

I also wanted to add everyone can take the pee out of a area but none can say that every area dosent have its bad areas...shoplifters etc. Personally I liked it and Id returrn I love england's rich history!

[Dannielle81]

Hey I've lived in Basildon for 3 months and I know what its like but everywhere has its bad bits dosent it? I miss all the stuff going on in bas vagas . Yes canada is nice but there is plenty of places that have all the bad bits your talking about Maybe it was some of the people i liked i dont know! we have what is called a dollar store and trust me everything you see here is more then just a dollar ur lucky what you see is what you get unlike ca!

[simonpeck777]

WHAT A SHIT HOLE! PRAMS&KIDS EVERYWHERE, DULL BLOCKS OF FLATS, CRAP SHOPS, RUBBISH AND THE STATUES ARE SO 60s. GOD KNOWS HOW THIS PLACE ATTRACTS SHOPPERS .

[Dannielle81]

it isnt a shit hole! what makes ur area so nice some people appericate the uk unlike U!

[simonpeck777]

I Have no problem with some parts of uk but be honest compared to canada Basildon in Essex UK is just Filthy, Grey and has more shoplifters than shoppers.

Please Dannielle81 Watch this Video and others about basildon and open your eyes or even better take a trip over here and lok for yourself but mind the rats, litter and the people runnung out of the shops with nicked stuff. p.s woolworths is gone by now and thsi video is 2 years old and lots of other shops are gone or £1 or 99p Rubbish shops

[YidArmyBabe]

I'd rather deal with shoplifters and petty crime like that rather than dealing with gun crime, gangs and drug mules.. which is what Hackney is full of, one of the reasons I moved to Basildon was to get away from the 'ghetto' known as Hackney lol

plus at least in basildon you can walk down your street and not get penalised for being white british.. unlike some places in london you get looked at as if you have done something wrong like you shouldnt be in your own country

[YidArmyBabe]

have you been to london? Hackney, Bow, London Fields etc

have you been to Manchester?

Basildon is a palace compared to these places

[MidgetsProductions]

it is really bad, but i love it!

[adamdarkboy]

I live near in pitsea , so if you want next time i'm round my dad's i'll record it? :P

[stepnek]

You should do that and post it here. I'd like to see the changes since i took that video!

[aaron15689]

i live in basildon and yes it dose look like a shit hole and it is yob city but it's home a shit one but i cant spend to long away from good old shity basildon

[darrenljball1]

hu is this ?

i live here :) best place on earth m8 ! x x

[ktranter15]

WHOT A SHIT HOLE

[megaretro99]

It might look like a dive to outsiders, but it's home.

Been a few years since it looked like that though. The metal man statue-thing is now in Wat Tyler park, the escalators to Basildon Bowl were removed after many an accident, and some shops have changed.

Still as miserable and grey as ever though :P

[stepnek]

Maybe someone needs to take another movie clip from the same position to compare the changes in the five years since I took the original.

[novabeing2]

you no that grass bit its nto tair no more :(

(i love basildon :) )

[olgi666]

I like Basildon !!! Specialy the Bonnygate 54 :) DEPECHE MODE FOREVER !!!!!

[asensbruk]

Going back in three weeks for my holiday, so i must love it!

As most places - dont miss it till you havent got it. people should appreciate their home town more : (

[fuzzmess]

what a beautiful place.....

[Kennet1000]

Where is Dave Gahan? :-D

[asensbruk]

Standing by the bench @ 19sec playing the pan pipes! Even i spotted him..

[tinylove1979]

How can you not love basildonk, especially the dangerous escalator (now cruelly torn down from its rusrty concrete coil) and the "controversial" sports sculpture which became a chav's climbing frame... I still love bazz in all its forms!

[cattyyo23]

i used to live in basildon. now australia

i miss this place!

[fraser16smith]

Fuck yea i love basildon lol!

I get most my shopping there =)

[stevecherm]

i have lived in basildon all my life. and to be honest, its gone down the dumps alot in the past ten years. it used to  be a nice place to live but not now.

[luiseduardo586]

Hello there... I wonder if there any Depeche Mode landmark or something like that there in Basildon..anyone can tell me something?

[SquirrelMurderer]

basildon council (who control both basildon and billericay areas), have been duin up both town centres

basildon actually has some decent shops now, and some dare i say, upperclass ones like sony stores etc

[ToastyGStar]

Every town has its downpoints . Basildon aint that bad ... honest .

[padreriflorsa]

i'm a spanish guy and i may live in basildon doing an internship next year, but all i read about is that is full of chavs. Well, i'm used to them as i lived in glasgow before, but...is this really a nice place to live??

thanks

[Sargii7]

Yeah Dude Basildon Is Kool, It USED To Be Chavland But Its Calmed Down Alot And Its Alot Nicer Than This Video Shows It To Be, Although The Weathers Always Shite

[billboi92]

to be honest, i'd move to wickford, hardly no chavs and just a few bus stops away. you could easily get to basildon from wickford

[tye1765]

i live in wickford

Noob, Its full of pikeys its worst than basildon.

+ You get people coming over from london and rayliegh to beat the wickford up

[xXjasminabXx]

heyy,

i lived there all my life. it has'nt got better in my opinion. my uncle got stabbed to death there last year and we had to move away. i wouldnt say its the best place to live.

[Dannielle81]

Yes it is a very nice place to live, england is the secound best country to live in Canada being first!

[padreriflorsa]

thanks guys for ur comments! but in the end i wasnt accepted for that internship..:(

but i got a nice one in prague :D

[KevHCTU]

To all the brainless idiots posting on here, not everyone from Basildon is "chav scum" as you so nicely put.

so Rexel666, what perfect town are you from? I notice you didnt state that in your grown-up comment.

[rexel666]

A shit hole full of mongrel, inbred chav scum

[gerrybasildon]

rexel666,does the "666" mean you like satanic scary things?

[DTSmfc]

it looks like coventry haha

full of shit'eds

but tha girls in essex are tha best so im not moaning LOL

[SheepAreFit]

WOOT! Im From Basildonia <3

Its A Skunk Hole Tbh!

Full Of Stuck Up Chavs! :D

KILL 'EM ALL :]

[rosanne2007]

BASILSCUM! Hate the place! Full of chavs and scumbags!

[gerrybasildon]

i would like to take you home to meet my mum you sound charming

[Dannielle81]

Can I come home with you? lol I'm from canada I adore the uk! and I think Bas Vagas is Awsome the only scum are those's who make fun of others areas!

cheers

hugs

from

canada!

[BirdyD01]

basildump whoop whoop

[craigeyboi]

man i miss this place left when i was like seven to london used to live on roodegate street next t gloster park got sum fond memories of this

[biggoblyds]

I went up basildon with my mate once we got abit lost lol. we couldnt find the shop we wanted, and yeah its full of chavs.

[gerrybasildon]

biggoblyds,you must lie in trumpton

[biggoblyds]

what do you mean must lie in trumpton. im from southend and southend is much better than basildon but basildon have a bigger and better primarks!

[dave841]

Argh basildump... what a lovely place.

[gerrybasildon]

lived in basildon in the 1970s,fun days raquels roundacre discos hanging out with friends attown centre fountain organized rucks wih oter schools just befor the summer holidays (RECIEVED SEVERAL KICKING FRON LAINDON BOYS )'coffees in littlewoods cafe which lasted until we were thrown out ever saturday ,was only a kid no money both parent working lived on an estate summer holiday was weekends at sothend and clacton geat memories usa boy now ,no imagination left only memories geey

[Biggzy17]

theres nuthing better than living here!

its got a class shopping center

its got 'bas vegas'

lots of girls up for one night stands

wat more do u need.

well a good rock/metal club wud be good, but that will never happen.

[clowtin92]

Ive grown up here

its alright

shame its full of chavs

[jamiesmithyboy]

wow, i go there all the time, it certainly dont look like that anymore, must of been taking ages ago

oh well its change for a good reason thank god

but gr8 shopping centre thou

gooo basildon

[AucklandRanger]

I left Basildon in 1989 aged 16, and seeing this, I am glad I did. Bas is full of plastic people; no reason to go back now....and wouldn't. Used to ride my BMX down the middle of that big escelator...mad.

[billstrikesback]

Ive been to some good Star Wars conventions in good old Basildon!!

[Elley1992]

the town centre doesnt look like this anymore

nice to see how it used to be tho =]

I used to climb the statue when i was little

was fun =]

Even tho i wish i could move away from basildon

I would still miss it

coz its home to me =]

[limalimauk]

basildon ftw tbh,

[rexel666]

Having grown up in Essex, there is nothing more comforting than to go shopping in Romford or Basildon. There, one can almost forget that this country is being overrun with foreign immigrants.

[YidArmyBabe]

although romford has got quite bad quite rapidly.. they seem to be slipping into basildon now... hope it doesn't go rapidly downhill like romford did

[solitaryblossom]

Lol, the town centre isn't that bad. I lived on Craylands for eighteen years, pleasant!

[TomzyGuitar07]

i grew up in basildon, live in ashingdon now but i miss the place, even if it is a dump i had loads of good memories :(

[shalloncovill]

destroy basildon

[jimance]

screw u, may be a horrible but its still got afew good people in there

[DanielRoche]

Unfortunately I still live here. Don't go near Ryedene in Vange for fuck sake, I hate living here and I hope to move in a council house in Billericay... that's if the fucking council sort out their backlog...

[Podgod1987]

hey I used to live in Basildon, Theydon Crescent actually. loved it.

[DanielRoche]

I hate it here because it's mostly full of hard-natured yob scumbags. Unfortunately my step-family are hard-natured, especially my step-brother, pure fucking yob. It's hard to find someone decent to make friends with in Basildon. Especially a girlfriend.

[theNATIVEbrit]

its a pity so many fucking european imigrants are moving to this town which was an still is(at the moment) predominately english.i wish they would stay in the countries they crossed to get here.

[WoosterFanGirl]

It looks pretty there.

:-) ~L~

[benwin40]

its pretty but a big chav problem

[WoosterFanGirl]

Haha, that's what hartnell114 says too, benwin! He calls it 'chav central'.

xD

[benwin40]

its not chav central, its shaun of the dead, but more like shaun of the chavs

[WoosterFanGirl]

Hahaha, that'll be the next Shaun movie now. lol

[YidArmyBabe]

Chavs are everywhere.. hackney has loads of chavs.. compared to hackney the chavs in basildon isn't that bad lol

[alwaysmonging]

basildon is a disgrace to humanity. ever seen the film district 13 thats what should happen with basildon.

[benwin40]

FUKU

[dontletmedown2006]

I live not far from that place called Basildon Town Centre...The video confirms the obvious!!! A total dump!!! The town centre is a reminder of what is must have been like in the Cold war days of Soviet Union or Poland!!! A very depressing place!!!Even with nights out in Bas Vegas on the industrial site..its better to sit at home and watch celebrity come dancing or X-factor....

[YidArmyBabe]

I've seen and lived in much worse.

basildon is a breeze compared to a lot of these other places that have been over-run with immigrants, gang culture, gun crime, knife crime etc

If that's your honest opinion of basildon then don't go there.. simple! I infact think basildon is brilliant and full of opportunities! My life has definately become more happier and better since moving to basildon nearly 2 years ago

[LucieLovesHim]

basildon rules !!! x :)

[TheSaintST1]

Still a grim place. Although I did like the little shops on the higher levels of the Eastgate centre. Southend weren't that much better either :-/

[michael0845]

It looks like Russia before they decided communism did not work.

And the panpipe music is like the music they used to play in mental hospitals to keep the patients calm (like in one flew over the cuckoos nest).

[koderoner]

i fucking love basildon lol!!! i miss them massive escalators:(

[hadoukenss4]

hey look dixons, they closed that down ages ago.

[Pr3d4t0R6sic6]

it's still dixons, it's just called dixons digital now :) that thing in the middle aint there no more, neither are the escalators goin up to BQ

[hadoukenss4]

currys digital man

[Pr3d4t0R6sic6]

yea that too lol :P thanks for correctin me :D

[hadoukenss4]

lol no probs

[Aarandavid]

basildon is a shithole yes,

it has a lot of arseholes aswell.

but it also has good people.

and good points.

it just sad that they get outweighed by the constant bad things.

[steve6436]

fuck u basidlon is sickkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[peteelite2006]

Basildon is a true dump, lets change the name, that'll help!

[iratecabbie]

i live near there (though thank god I dont come from there)--has anyone noticed that all basildon people seem to have really low brows and sloped foreheads?

[smarzyciel]

Basildon is a BIG piece of shit, but Depeche Mode came from Basildon. Big things might happen even in such a shithole.

[JP341915]

This place is just one big council house. Filthy people, kids pushing kids, basically a disgrace to britain.

[gyamfigkyereme]

so theres none of that wherever youre from? if wherever youre from is a disgrace to britain and a shit hole what makes your place?

[dave841]

Well said its fucking scum! Basildump is full of filthy whores.

[YidArmyBabe]

I've seen more ho's in places such as London and Manchester.. Northern Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rates lmao

[YidArmyBabe]

And where are you from.. I bet it's a million times worse lmao

[gabin59]

basildon the land of depeche mode

[xoini88]

to crookedserpernt who da fuk r you u silly crack monkey take it you live in billericay faggit!!

[lottie675]

lmao basildon sucks i go every weekend

blehhh

[thecrookedserpent]

What a fuckin' shithole. They should pull it down.

[cheeseburger71]

basildon is the arse crak of essex it makes dagenham look posh

[Itsthatguyagain]

Basoland is the bollox- Ghetto style, lol.

love my home town

[benling1]

Basildon grans make me wet.

[LaurenceFletcher]

No way!? Me too!!!

[leeh41171]

i used to live there mant years ago. it doesnt seem to have changed much. could someone put some more footage on youtube. maybe of vange. thanks

[bjddavies]

I lived in Vange for a while.

[kanatapaw]

pommylimeygirl really

kol i used to live there but i moved to southamtion

i love it there i wish i could go back sometime

[pommylimeygirl]

I moved here on thursday from Plymouth :D

[ADrunkFridge]

And they have got all of these fancy plans to do Basildon up , make it "Modern" , well they have made a start with that new building near the train station , where the old car shop used to be.

[arky3000]

at the time of this post, they are doing up where all the chairs and tables are in the food court, theres like only 15tables left on the macdonalds side, they are also reflooring some parts of the place... stupid really it was fine the way it was

[perilouis]

Memories, OH the memories come flooding back. Pissed on a friday night hanging around basildon town centre outside mcdonalds, in the late 1990`s.

damn, so young so innocent........

[danc64]

wel eastgate is been all dun up right now. so its guna b much better wen it finshed

[kanatapaw]

u sed to live round here and i loved the town

i live in southamtion now

wow i wish i could go back here , i miss it so much

was this recently taken?

[lottie675]

omg....i live 5 mins from it...im going there tomorrow.

[JP341915]

be sure to watch your back and carry some protection

[VinBoy1972]

I grew up in Baz Vegas and it was a shithole when I left in 1997, but having visited it recently it's worse than ever.

Drugs have taken over, causing the crime and violence to sky-rocket. Even so, I find myself nostalgic about the place. Don't know why.

Anybody here go to St Anselms School between 1983 and 1988?

[LaurenceFletcher]

You're such a prick, Basildon Roolz!!!! Oh no hang on, you're me bleedin' bruvva. Mams gonna kill me...

[JP341915]

this place is a dump. a disgrace to essex and britain as a whole

[xxcharly11xx]

been living in basildon all my life its great and not all essex girls are stupid so i think we should eb proud to be essex girls x

[VinBoy1972]

xxcharly11xx, If you hadn't managed to spell the word 'be' wrong, I might believe you.

[xxcharly11xx]

omg quick typo round the wrong way get over it

[drummingmadness2007]

i live there lol, tht must have been filmed years ago tht basketball thing tht people used to climb on is there

[2287sally]

I live there stop disrespecting BAZ it iz a great town

[ImOnMilk]

HAHAHAH what makes me laugh is that you see quite a few single mothers walk infront of the camera lol probably teenagers...Typical British people.

[stepnek]

Such amazing perception on your part. I can see several women pushing baby buggies and yet you're able to tell that they are single and from your tone carelessly single. Or maybe, just maybe they happen to have been on their own that day because their other half was at work, at home, just nipped into a different store on their own to look around etc. But you might be right. They might be single through choice or unfortunate circumstances. Such a short clip of video and yet so much to discuss!

[sarahmc077]

Hehe I Live In Basildon N I Aint Bitch Or Nuffink! Not All Of Us R Wah People Make Us Out To Be Lyk Lol

[EFCthePEOPLESCLUB]

i'm sure they're not all that bad, but some people that live there have a reputation of being spiteful bitches and bullys. I'm not saying they are, that's just what I heard.

[sarahmc077]

I love basildon!!! lmao da best fing bout it aint da bus evah basildon is ledge n there nothing wrong wid working there!

Love Yah x

[laydeevixen]

The familiar windpipe band in the background. Yay.

[davehuxtable]

Wow! This brings back memories.  When was it filmed? It looks like 1972. But then it alsways did, and probably always will.

[stepnek]

I filmed this early in 2004