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Oh, whatever turn on my post notification bells Oh Cuz I actually like broke content man He go around giving the voice to the people that normally don't have a voice And you know and while giving us a tour and educating us This is solutable content salute to window and remember if you don't want beyond if you don't want me react into your content Just shoot me a message just go to my video and Type of message like a comment and I'll take it down simple as that You didn't got to be extra Welcome to Grimsby Grim town where the locals are referred to as Cod heads. Oh now. This is a once bus Wait, what type of head? Fish import on the northeast coast that has suffered from terrible post industrial decline It's all the industrial cities are going down here in the UK and around the world period We're gonna walk around the town today, we're gonna walk harder buildings that are not dilapidated The word today around all sorts of areas the town center the outer areas and the port and we're gonna see What life is like for the locals in this incredibly impoverished part of the UK? Grimsby is a shocker and why is it shocking? Because no one even no one's bothering with it and no one wants to improve it has that been since the decline of the fishing industries Yes, yeah, it's it. Well, since the docks are gone. It's They called it an ignorant backwards shit hole. Okay. It might be an ignorant backwards shit hole But it's our ignorant backwards shit. Yes, you're born and bred. Yeah, born and bred. Good. I'm proud move the way and come back What about like employment opportunities? Records as well. Yeah, so it's really hard for us to Go for an interview Say 300 times and then say no at the end of it I would say 60 to 70 percent of the shops are boarded up all the businesses the buildings So I'm saying man we're seeing like a lot of these people like this town depending on tourism and Like the sense the decline of the docks like the docks closed up Like nothing was left like once that money froze up tourism froze up people turned to crime got records can't get a job. It's like it's like a It's a trap basically you can't get out. I never ended in trap And he's talking about I moved back bro. You was on the right path when you moved away. It sounds like You go for even street when I was a kid every single one of them shops was open I've never seen such a proliferation of closed shops anywhere. I've been I was told that like East Marsh is A pretty deprived neighborhood as well It was on the telly a while ago some MP in the wrecking East Marsh is one of the top 10 most deprived places for investment I read it was the second most Western well like if you could like somebody like me if I come over there and invest in a town like this I'm taking a grave chance Like I'm taking even though it's like probably you can get property for cheap, but like What are you gonna do with that property like? Nobody got no money. It ain't the town just don't got no money. Nobody in the town got money is seen We're supposed to be up there We look after everyone and all that what I say really charity starts over there. Yeah You help myself so I can and I'm not saying I got money to invest I'm just saying Hypothetically The refugees or other people coming in first, you know, hey, this lad is on us, you know, I mean Oh through the frigging government sanctioned him 200 quid you've a day 205 quick as I missed an appointment. How long have you been on the streets? Why'd you miss the appointment? Couple of months now It's like matters for the You're not you know credit you get through and 20 quid a month. I went to the bank one day They paid me five pound eighty two for the month. Yeah, but they didn't give me five pound eighty two In one payment. They give me two payments to two pound ninety two. Yes. Yeah Six quid for the month No, they ain't do bro like that Not giving you at all at once they gave you two payments of two ninety two They were taking a PISS and they they were pulling your shares They were trying to push your buttons at that point I could only get fucking three quid of it Two pound ninety two and then a fortnight two pound ninety two later, but I had to borrow eight pence out me makes fucking copper jabs Because of the post office to get the three quid coins That's what I got sitting there for Christmas. That was that was me payment before Christmas Well, the reason why we've gone through crime done crime and stuff like we haven't got money and stuff like that It's circumstantial like any way you go in the world like the the main reason people commit petty crimes Is because they're pushed into a situation where I have to do it Yeah, like you're not you're not gonna become a millionaire By doing little petty things. You don't see nobody with money or making ends meet going on here committing crime like for what? I'm decent. I got enough to get by Yeah, these people have not enough to get by I Immediately when I sit down with people like you like I hate that people are judged by their situation Like the moment you sit down with someone like it's just it's just a roll of the dice really Yeah, no one can choose where they're born. No one can choose where the family ties are Yeah, so I've been to prison, but I did some wrong in my life And if we can't reform our societies then then there's no help is a you know, I mean is like people can reform people can get better Yeah, I'm trying to reform myself now. Yeah, he's pretty slow going right, but you know I'm on GPS but it's had by being I mean, this is GPS Possibly a year. Yeah, I mean this it's not a tax system where you come out of prison and you get a few months off of your sentence Yeah, but I Was in for big with buddy. It was a stupid big. I come out of prison last night I'm afraid and then I went to prison for eight months come out and I left me home Afraid and then I went to prison for eight what they passing over there That might be a little problem a piece of the problem as well Whatever, I don't know what's up. I haven't exactly but it looked like something paraphernalia like he like it's Mom's come out and I left me homeless. Yeah, I was running the streets for about 11 days Wait, what is he talking about? I was in for big with buddy. It was a stupid big I come out of prison last night Street And then I went to prison for eight months come out and I left me homeless Yeah, I was running the streets for about 11 days. They're just as I what was the point of that story though No, no, somebody help me out What what like what point was he trying to get at I went to jail for eight months and then I came out And that was homeless But I went in because of a burglary. I did I shouldn't have did it. It was kind of stupid What do we what are we saying right now? What was the point of the story? Because the point of it sounds like you did something stupid went to jail And because of your actions you came out and you were homeless Now you did go for burglary like you said like a petty crime because you But you had a home. I don't know. Hey, where the fuck is that's on the front line protecting all streets for about 11 days They drags a society where the fuckers that's on the front line protecting all these fucking do where the forms of life Yeah, we're the pawn where the fodder I mean and just because I'm you might be homeless or you might but someone's got an addiction or anything Doesn't make the person are wrong. I know just because he's got an addiction. What screams be like in 2023 Why do you say that? No opportunity no job I mean even the food bank where we're going to now There's the gear I think about the Crispin Apart from six months of last year that spent in jail Two years You may wonder how did Grimsby end up this way from its height of success When it once was home to the largest fishing fleet in the world in the 1950s to the present day Well, we have to look Right here behind him ain't the water supposed to be a little bit higher Wait, okay, maybe it's time a year to sea level is lower whatever you call it squarely at the cod wars Incredibly vitriolic industrial disputes between the you oh this man got knowledge. He not just doing no video He got see this is why I like him. Okay, and Iceland and they were between the 50s and 70s I think they ended the last one in 1978 and the UK had to recede fishing waters Consequently fishing companies pulled out of Grimsby, which was the main employer in the town That led to the social decline that we can now see all around us in this town today and that decline I'm not even gonna lie Grimsley does not look like a place where I would want to go visit Like the way like it's set up like I might as well stay on the west side of Chicago If I wanted to see this type of behavior, you know was dramatic a highly skilled workforce in a one industry town Reliant upon that industry to feed its society, but that industry had set sail This mistake is costing him. Yo, bro I'm telling y'all He's actually put some thought and purpose behind these videos It's not just let me go out record when I can and hopefully I get lucky with views Looking real deserving So so much is said about post industrial decline in the US and cities like Detroit, but you've got huge buildings in the former once the biggest fishing fleet in the world here in Grimsby just Decaying crumbling in front of our very eyes What a sad sight you can see why there's so much Deprivation in this town. So how much of the fishing industries left here now? Not a lot. How many companies are still operating fishing from the port here Yeah, so young's are one of the companies but still process fish here And has this all been on decline since the mid 70s since the Cod wars So what's your name mate Anthony Nelson Anthony? Yeah, and are you on the streets living on the streets? Yeah When jail on me man for something I didn't do for two months and then because corn is no case about and just released me into nothingness Yeah, no no release grant didn't give my clothes much the money adding me and the thing is still there I got and I gotta get down. Let's get it. So And you just get out into this into no support. Yeah, but how long have you been on the streets like this now? It's been on and off for years But this time it's been about You got four months down. This is no joke folks. Look at the state for some of these bills I'm not trying to take like poke or anybody But like I feel like some people like not all of course like there's a some group of Homeless people that just take and latch on to whatever's going on in current events And that's the reason why they're on this for the time being Like right now it's X and when Zee happens It'll be because Zee why you're homeless instead, you know, just I mean, I know circumstances like play a big role in this But I think some people just don't They don't care. They enjoy it. They love living skint The state of the old pub valve is elegant lighting For who in this town for who who got an elegant house I've never seen such decline Everywhere I've been This is shocking Grimsby a shock me. Is this what you think of when you think of Britain a developed Western nation The post-industrial decline is shocking It's not what I think of What I think of when I think of Britain is tea Or very cultured environment Think of an up-and-coming new great hip-hop music industry I think of some good food some mid-level food some disgusting food And I think of accents There's a lot more I'll be thinking of too, but you know Welcome to east marsh Which is one of the most deprived wards in the entire country in the entire uk and definitely From the people I've spoken to One of the roughest parts of Grimsby, which is already just my you know, if you happen to watch this video my one little All your titles make them take capital letters That's all Incredibly impoverished So i'm just having a little wonder Around the streets here to see what life is like in the poorest part of this already incredibly poor seaside town Hey, so you don't you don't be You don't be thinking you're gonna get robbed at all walking around like this or you you You are a black belt at something I'm just curious, you know a lot of people wouldn't Expose themselves to the possibility of what could happen in a deprived town walking around with a nice camera or whatever I'm just curious Is this what you think of when you think of the uk folks, especially if you're from overseas These ramshackle streets where most people are living on benefits These isn't this expensive this thing right here just ramshackle streets where most people are living on benefits struggling to get by One step maybe one week away Or even less from homelessness. I'm sure that there are Not everybody in east marsh is struggling I'm sure that the sense of community is really good because I've met some really open warm people since I've been in Grimsby But you can definitely tell that this is an impoverished area. So what's east marsh like? Um, well, I've read that it's the second most Destitute poverty stricken ward in the uk. Yeah, and what's life like? What's life like in east marsh? I mean it's like you say quite a rough area But the people are so down to earth on here. Yeah, I will say but everyone I bumped into In a town like this all you've got is really people and camaraderie And like a sense of community because imagine like a town being poor and desolate whatever That's the tuition and then having terrible people too. Like no nobody would want to do nothing for nobody Grimsby incredibly open incredibly warm and it's telling you hard times be building characters So sad to me that like They're kind of used to Being the destitution. Yeah, like I've never seen in the uk and I do this in all sorts of different seaside towns I've never seen so many boarded-up shops. Yeah, but I've spoke to the locals about it and they're almost used to it Yeah, here's just a norm around here. Yeah, like well like see graffiti everywhere But everyone just gets some of it and it's normal. So and is it dangerous in this area or is it just poor? I mean, obviously you get your odd incident what's knives and everything else, but Really, it's the same as everywhere else Even you get it in cleathops 10 minutes down the road and that's meant to be nicer, but it's just the same everywhere It's born guilt everywhere, but it's It's just normal as you can see folks like everyone I've bumped into has been incredibly open and friendly It is such a shame. It's just so it's almost criminal that these really warm northern, you know, big-hearted towns are suffering this fate and the people are used to it. They're used to Everything being broken massive estates. It's crazy because the people that are supposed to help that you will reach out for For help are like kind of giving like the cold shoulder to them Like oh man, we're tired of it. We don't know who from who or who's trying to help Who's trying to get over or who's trying to actually get help So we're just going to give the cold shoulder and turn a blind eye to everybody's problems. We don't care It's full of empty boarded up shops I wonder how much it is for like a rent there curious Do you know what's the saddest thing about it to me is I got to a lot of towns around the country seaside towns And the ones that are struggling. They're not very welcoming. The people here are the most open Warm people I've met in any of these towns No, you can't get some really bad So I've been lucky I bumped into all the good people. Yeah, there's a lot of drugs around as well. Well, that's everywhere there But the old buildings they just don't seem to want to Keep them look after them like on the docks. They could do so. I mean if you look at whole docks They've changed everything It's a buzzing place now, but here It's such a shame. Yeah So this is Cleethorps, which is next door to Grimsby, but kind of all has grown into the same place now No, no, no, no, this this looks completely different This looks a little bit nicer And Cleethorps is seen as the poshest part of the area You know what I'm saying? Yeah, this looks a little bit nicer Can Grimsby tell me that Cleethorps is the posher part of Grimsby, but it's not No It's past the same area You just get more people in summertime But in the meantime, it's just like Grimsby So what's life like in Cleethorps in 2023? Tough Tough For a lot of people I just like Shit, people have told me that Cleethorps is the like the posher part of the area Yeah, um, yeah less boarded up shops. There's still quite a lot So I'm telling you like for homeless people like people who are down and out like it's all the same But he's like Got a job so it's a little bit posh But is Cleethorps a slightly, um, better place to live than Grimsby do you think? Uh, yes Yeah, they're just There's better people more friendly I'd say like this way So what's your name my friend? Yeah, Anthony Anthony, and are you on the streets here in Cleethorps? Yeah, man Yeah, and how long have you been on the streets? Yeah, about two years, you know Two years? Yeah, man Yeah, and um, what's life like on the streets in Cleethorps? Do you know, it's not too bad in Cleethorps But it's not great, man We're only in the 10th so We're only getting a B&B about every three four days from now So 10th so We're only getting a B&B about every three four days from now So a B&B, bread and breakfast? Oh, yeah, to have a wash and get a good night's sleep Yeah, it's the only time we can feel normal, do you know what I mean? But it's a lot safer than Grimsby It's a lot quieter It is, man Do you know, I don't really go to Grimsby much because Yeah, because of that reason Yeah, I can understand why If somebody thinks about it properly, if they are on the streets They would come over this side Because it's definitely a lot quieter environment Yeah, yeah, cheers, man So I bumped into this lady in the local pub in Cleethorps Everyone I spoke to in Grimsby yesterday I said that Cleethorps is the posher part of the area Like a bit more going for it, less boarded up shops Certainly less boarded up shops in Grimsby, but that's not hard Yeah, yeah What's the general vibe in the area? I don't know, I've lived in both areas I think they're both pretty much the same I think it is So far it's like 50-50 You've had four people and it's like a even split Probably getting a bit less up here than it used to be Really, yeah If I'm honest In what way? Just a lot more crime going on A lot more crap It is still a nice place to live, if that makes sense Yeah, I think the people make the place more than anything Especially in a place like this If you'd have come in an hour or so It'd have been filled with locals, wouldn't it? It's pretty early Everyone knows everyone You can come in here, yeah Yeah, cheap but put a good bump up, I can tell You can come in on your own and you end up with friends What's a pub called? Teddy's Bar There you go Teddy's Bar in the heart of Cleethorps Karaoke Oh my god To see British-born people do karaoke Will probably be hilarious If we could get like a Just like a compilation of UK Of UK, um What's a pub called? Teddy's Bar There you go Of UK Karaoke, that would be great Someday in a Friday Another example folks of how warm and welcoming the locals of Grimsby and Cleethorps are How much is their point? Two pound fifty Two pound fifty a pint Till twelve o'clock In Teddy's Bar That's crazy because here it's like twelve dollars Till twelve o'clock Till twelve In conclusion, I've never seen What's fantasy world? What's going on in there? A seaside town with as many borders It kind of looked like a like a Like an arcade But maybe a slight stripper pole in the back of something It's up shops and in such a sad state of decline as Grimsby I've travelled to many seaside towns in this country And I've never seen it this bad But in contrast I've never met such warm open and friendly people As the people of Grimsby That's why it's so sad So the people are holding the town together Because these people are just so warm, open and welcoming And yet they're living in a town Is that the same fantasy world? She's suffering from so much decline Fantasy's world People in their forties and below They also seem to be institutionalised by the state of things here Since the fishing industry collapsed in the seventies They don't really know any difference There's not been much prosperity in the town since So they're kind of, they're not even Shocked by how things are anymore To see high streets with seventy, eighty percent Boarded up shops and shuttered up shops That's a normal thing to them So folks, Grimsby, definitely the most In decline seaside town that I've visited yet A town full of warm, welcoming, friendly locals Which is in a chronic state of decline Not gonna lie, I've seen somewhere in Liverpool That was fairly close But God, this takes the cake for sure W outro, man Shout out to this guy, man Window Salute, man T.L.O.L.E. like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post, man Go follow his channel as well