So very sad beautifull buildings!! Can't believe how good that art work is these kids are ruining their life instead of concentrating what their good at they would rather destroy things and get in trouble it's sad. Great podcast Billy enjoy them all your such a lovely down to earth genuine guy .
@jbird4627
Жыл бұрын
Grew up on the lane, our youth club as kids is there The Brunny Boys Club. The boozer opposite is The Solly, it’s like the twilight zone you go in of a Friday night and leave Monday morning. The boozer that you’ve shown vandalised is The Chaucer, learnt more there than I did in school, you grew up fast!! I’ve nothing but boss memories of Marsh Lane. 👌🏼👍🏼
@jayonfnxx
11 ай бұрын
Same
@ratatat9790
2 ай бұрын
The street in the background of The Chaucer, Coleridge St..my dear 'arl uncle and auntie lived there and i was always down there. Loved the bones of him. He probably saved me from a life on the wrong side of the tracks. R.I.P. Uncle Lol
@pleasantville4529
Жыл бұрын
Bootle, being part of Sefton, has the same local council as the likes of, Crosby, Hillside, Formby, Ainsdale, Birkdale, and Southport. The people of Bootle pay the same rate of council tax, as all the other aforementioned Boroughs. There is something fundamentally wrong with todays society, when certain areas are left to decline, while others receive the handouts. Its bordering on criminal neglect.
@davidjonas7243
Жыл бұрын
True mate. It can be seen in Liverpool as a whole, with the difference between it’s north and south ends.
@LIVERPOOLandFARBEYONDNEWS
Жыл бұрын
People who don't know about marsh lane or haven't experienced it would probably find it hard to believe me and think I'm exaggerating when I say in 2023 Marsh Lane is looking at its best and at its least deprived in over 40 years.
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
Жыл бұрын
Something which Lawrence Kenwright has been trying to highlight for years!!
@lloyds053
Жыл бұрын
@@davidjonas7243 Blundellsands Formby birkdale are more affluent areas than any in the south end mate
@davidjonas7243
Жыл бұрын
@@lloyds053just a fact mate. The north end is the most deprived place in Liverpool. The stats are up for everyone to see. One of the most deprived in the country.
@stevecunningham5598
10 ай бұрын
I used to work in The Chaucer in the mid 80s it was a fantastic pub , the locals were good people who looked out for each other, the pub was chocker every Friday Saturday and Sunday and no hint of trouble, its a crying shame what happened to it.
@SinbadioMoore77
8 ай бұрын
Did you know Matty and Gloria Moore?
@stevecunningham5598
8 ай бұрын
@markkennedy9535 I'd probably know them by sight but the name isn't familiar sorry.
@David-nm4yc
Жыл бұрын
Tennant's Super on Tap. That's when you know it's a rough yard.
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@micahbodha6129
10 ай бұрын
We had it in our local up in Scotland. Buckfast & thunderbirds on the optics😂
@liam208
2 ай бұрын
Haha 😂
@tonymanley1130
Жыл бұрын
I was born in Scott street off marsh lane in 73. The best thing by parents ever did for me was to move us out of the area in 78 otherwise I’d have involved in the stupidity that was happening in the 80s. I’m always proud to say I’m from Bootle it’s just a shame the place hasn’t changed for the better in 40 odd years
@SinbadioMoore77
8 ай бұрын
I was born in Blair walk off marsh lane in 77, me and my sister set fire to our maisonette by accident aged 5 😕
@joycetownsend7585
Жыл бұрын
Another great video Billy.👍👍
@audreysimon696
12 күн бұрын
Born and bread off Marsh lane it was brilliant in the 1960 road was called Blair Street off Chaucer street I loved it there xx
@mummyd1990
Жыл бұрын
Lived on Southey street in 2007 loved Bootle,thank you so much for this and keep safe and well always.
@danny2me70
Жыл бұрын
I'm 54 and I remember hearing the word smack and smackhead in the early 80s on brookside and didn't understand it till a few years later .
@saraprva4172
Жыл бұрын
In 80s V young & new to UK I went with a freind to Bootle got of train & kids asking if you wanted to score, then went to a tower block, up to a door & scored £5 of brown through the letter box. Back in Croatia yesterday after 2 week in UK including few days in Liverpool - wonderful people Billy(my daughter follows you) love from Split utft
@davidjonas7243
Жыл бұрын
Sefton council has never cared about Bootle. It’s too close to the city centre, only two and half miles from millers bridge to the pier head. Sefton only cares about the posh areas, such as Crosby, Formby, and the likes of Maghull. There needs to be a new reworking of the council districts. The whole north end of Liverpool, including Bootle, is severely neglected. Just look at the Everton area, parts of Croxteth, and the surrounding places.
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
Жыл бұрын
Something which Lawrence Kenwright has been trying to highlight for years!! A change to the whole ward system on Merseyside!!
@TheBoysInYourHouse
Жыл бұрын
it would be really interesting doing a video about "dodge"/ netherton. would be interesting to hear your perspective
@Gang-zy7lq
Жыл бұрын
Have woody sorting you lad start chatting dodge lol
@marto395
Жыл бұрын
Used to drink in the Sali after work in the late 80s with me dad and a few workmates who lived in Marsh Lane. Me dad grew up around there so everyone knew him. I remember when Neil the manager started getting the Tennants Super on draught after we’d all been working in Glasgow. Neil was Scottish so he knew what the Tennants results would be. 😂 I was a fresh faced 20 year old and watching everyone in the pub shitfaced, don’t know how we got home to Netherton sometimes 😂
@robwood8331
Жыл бұрын
Tetleys super eeeegh lol
@criartoros
8 ай бұрын
Good video mate. Brings back memories. I moved to Fernhill Rd Bootle in 87 From Kirkby. Crocky was very bad to in the 80s. Nick named it smack city. Remember a 15 year old lad Jimmy Fitsimonds sadly passed away cause of heroin. Was very sad&all over national news. There use to be a regular article in the Echo in the 80s called heroin a generation in peril like 4 page pullout. Some great history & nostalga. Godblessx
@richardburton2726
9 ай бұрын
top video Billy,I worked on some houses back in 1995 on thornton ave-bootle,we went to near by boozer at night,but I cant remember the same,lovely people though,best regards to juddah...
@PeterSothern
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoy your travels around liverpool billy. Can you do one around the bullring. I was born and raised there
@harryturnbull1884
10 ай бұрын
Used to hang out at Marsh Lane Community Centre in late 80s/90s, was a good crack - not literally like. Also had a sitdown with Wacker Lawson and Brian the Arse Slicer in the Muncaster but still here to tell the tale.
@mikeomahony5508
Жыл бұрын
Do Everton Bill, around Goodison.....
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
Nah 😂
@TheRealMike1976
Жыл бұрын
Goodison is in Walton though
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMike1976 I’d prefer it if it was in the jail. 😆
@mrjasondylan
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMike1976Walton in 5 minutes from Bootle.
@bigbelly5098
Жыл бұрын
Used to go to a gym there called the Brunny, opposite the Salisbury pub. Run by a legend called Vic Burdett.
@roykendrick1509
Жыл бұрын
There should be a statue, he did so much for the lads , RIP Vic
@robwood8331
Жыл бұрын
Just wish you coukd make your vids longer always so interesting and needed
@liverpudlian6205
Жыл бұрын
Use to go marsh lane in late 80s for this and that havent been there for at least 30 years as moved over the water but watching your vid bill its changed alot mate never use to be like that good video bill
@tomjones4756
18 күн бұрын
Billy marsh lane is we’re my dad started his addiction when he was 16 when it landed in the 80s the gear. Died 47 in 2012. No wonder the area is in the state it’s in and still nothing has been done. Sort it out 😮
@tuxster123
Жыл бұрын
Great watch bill 👍 i think them two houses are privately owned and also the jawbone may be the oldest pub....😊
@johnmiller1300
Жыл бұрын
And that muncaster has been empty since the 80s Sefton council is a disgrace.
@jonhunter8737
5 ай бұрын
Used to do electrical repairs for Merseyside Improved Houses(MIH). Loads of jobs on the poets streets, Dryden, Cowper, Grey St, Little Grey street etc. Some of the older people had their houses like palaces!! And yeah, Friday afternoon early darts, couple of pints. Good times.
@johnmiller1300
Жыл бұрын
Flames night club just by there closed years ago but had many a good night in there door men to the dance floor the DJ would say when a punch up would start 😂😂😂
@lloyds053
Жыл бұрын
Remember it opened up about 96/97 was 10p a bottle 🤯 was rammed, they put it up to 50p an it died a death 😂😂
@johnmiller1300
Жыл бұрын
@@lloyds053 87-88 I went
@chinook1093
Жыл бұрын
I haven't been on this channel for a while due to youtube being a bell end to me but so glad i found it again , hope you been well my man 💙
@tommyhassan3545
Жыл бұрын
Thatcher done that to a lot of areas in the 80s
@scousemick7509
Жыл бұрын
My auntie Joyce's local was the solly in the back ground as u was talking I could here my mates mum Mary I had to move away to get clean Billy now 9 years clean all I want is to be back there where my kids live
@pauldonnelly3179
12 күн бұрын
Interesting fact - heroin came into Bootle after the police in Wirral clamped down on the supply on the Ford/woodchurch estates, a few of the pushers then went to Bootle and set up shop (and Wirral drug addicts flooded into Bootle to score)
@lesscotford1419
11 ай бұрын
Ha yeah fella, used to love playing in those old houses just up the flyover in L22 back in the 70s. Sad decline.
@timspooner59
3 ай бұрын
My first wife came from bootle in 1960^s
@jamesdean1148
11 ай бұрын
brought up there in the 60s tough place but some good people there.all changed now
@davidhayes4650
Жыл бұрын
😂😂 He's not lying bout the Tenants Super, after you had a swallow you could sort of taste the fumes goin up your hooter. 😂
@davidlloyd2225
Жыл бұрын
4:05 take the power bak in all areas..peace and blessings hopifully 2 all billy❤️🇬🇧💯 5:32
@kenjewell5619
11 ай бұрын
It saddens me to say the whole lot needs demolishing and rebuilding and something needs to be in place to keep the kids occupied. I have fond memories of the Bootle and Sefton areas growing up as a kid.
@nomadscouser4063
Жыл бұрын
The munky ha my local for many years When george had it think he was the last great pub
@barrieturner6316
Жыл бұрын
Use to live in sailsbury house and my nan and grandad lived on the Irlam estate
@iancameron6124
Жыл бұрын
crazy to think years ago I would come across some hellhole AND be glad I got roof holes or not , but incredible, because I think even addicts who been clean for years should get a lot from this billy, going back must bring strange emotions,
@TubesWatch
9 ай бұрын
Fairplay billy if them walls could speak
@thescallytrader
Жыл бұрын
You should show the nice part of Liverpool Billy otherwise people will think its a total shithole. Not entirely sure where to tell you to go though. Old New Heys School in Woolton. Allerton Golf Club.
@davidstanyer7289
11 ай бұрын
Boss areas at the time marsh Lane and the Irlam Estate ruff areas the Heroine came out loads of lads and girls died of them streets bill sad to say
@joeexotic5831
Жыл бұрын
Dunno if Robbie still runs the solly, rough as toast it may be round there, used to be alright back in the day. Whos who and wheres where of my life last few days
@barrieturner6316
Жыл бұрын
Yes robbie still runs the solly he's my aunties ex husband
@danielmcleanfisher
11 ай бұрын
Liberpool is definitely improved since the 90s
@tonyelvisuk1
Жыл бұрын
Wow that's so sad mate😢
@jonertiger
Жыл бұрын
Early 80s i thought croxteth was
@peachmelba1637
Жыл бұрын
I would agree... I'm 55 and I remember heroin being openly smoked on tinfoil on the 14 bus ... they actually demolished flats as it was the only way to get rid of some of the problem... Norris green wasn't far behind, you couldn't leave your house without it being burgled by heroin addicts.
@ratatat9790
2 ай бұрын
Sparra was bad. I lived over the shops then.I had to smash the windows in the stairwell of the flats to let the air in 'cos the smackheads would line up the stairs chasin' and the fkin fumes would come under the door. Not to mention them knocking on the door all the time for foil and matches.
@pauldonnelly3179
12 күн бұрын
Neither were the first place, Ford estate Birkenhead was the first estate in the UK where smack flooded in around mid 81
@craigson
11 ай бұрын
Hey billy my friends went in there 2 days ago and they found a gun we are going back this Friday to see if its still there it was found under the floorboards
@robwood8331
Жыл бұрын
Country been destroyed and continues to be. Its the future of our kids and grandkids we have to save.
@Jako-fh8zg
Жыл бұрын
It’s a bloody shame. I did a placement under the flats near there in 1998, some v decent ppl live there. Seems as though Britain thinks it’s ok to let this happen, there’s one of these in every city. They don’t engage the youth when they can and should
@spookygeek9459
Жыл бұрын
Yes totally agree 😊👍
@chasey2327
Жыл бұрын
allegedly the John fella at 7:13 looks uncannily like liverpool serial killer John Sweeney (google it) - he's defo still in jail tho right?? hope i'm way off with that one lad but seeing someone who's same age, same name, from same city with same face u think hang on...
@Mkbshg8
Жыл бұрын
Bloody ell you might be right there, whats going on???
@donnybrasco9330
Жыл бұрын
That’s definitely ain’t John sweeney 😂😂😂🤦♂️
@Mkbshg8
Жыл бұрын
@@donnybrasco9330 I mean it can't be because he's still inside but hes a ringer for him.
@siray6835
Жыл бұрын
Is the jawbone still open Bill ?
@user-hi4vm6kk4u
6 ай бұрын
Yep
@lesthomas769
9 ай бұрын
Is the Langton Castle still going
@knottybogeye6387
Жыл бұрын
Dont pay council tax,
@davegonnaway6007
Жыл бұрын
I'll take it mate be alright that lick of paint lol.
@Ste63Grace
Жыл бұрын
I always thought heroine addiction began with Curtis Warren doling out testers to the kids goin home from xchool in the south end.🤔
@stinkyfinn6977
Жыл бұрын
Nope started withe the old school armed robbers from Liverpool investing their money in smack but only selling it in Birkenhead as they didn't want to shiz on their own doorstep, but 2 lads brought it back over the water
@LIVERPOOLandFARBEYONDNEWS
Жыл бұрын
@@stinkyfinn6977ye your right i think it was some gangster families from kirkby sent a load of it over to the Ford and woody estates on the Wirral as they supposedly had some morals about shitting on your own doorstep. Anyway after 6 months of seeing how much was to be made just off them 2 estates tgeir morals got lost so they shipped it back over to Liverpool. I think the 1st places they flooded it with was crocky an bootle and totally destroyed them 2 places. I think all that happened in just under a year and in just over that year when they sent it over the water that Liverpool became notorious as the UK,s 1st smack city and the rest is an embarrassing history
@ratatat9790
2 ай бұрын
Why was he addicted to female heroes was he?
@davidmckay2386
Жыл бұрын
Woodchurch ford nocky prenton North end .smack distroyed them ests in 80s ......
@martinvegas1327
Жыл бұрын
Isn't Kev's Cab from Bootle?
@peterlpool1387
Жыл бұрын
Probably the all backward.
@martinvegas1327
Жыл бұрын
They're👀@@peterlpool1387
@jamiepatton7460
Жыл бұрын
Love ya Billie Lad haha X
@Allegedly2right
Жыл бұрын
Electric Soup the Scousers canny take the proper bevy haha that’s a man’s drink Tennants Souper
@ds.3577
Жыл бұрын
Seen that ‘keos’ graffiti everywhere round liverpool
@kevgorry1850
4 ай бұрын
I even new a bird clare heaton she even sold crack an smk ther
@annehoughton8850
Жыл бұрын
Yes I know my got he’s parole in 3 March after serving 11 And Now They Have Delayed it Why He Never Killed Anyone??
@annehoughton8850
Жыл бұрын
Meant my Son I need too be Going down the CourtS It not Right in the morning Here We Come
@veronical.lianmaseras4543
Жыл бұрын
Billys visits are good but inevitably much the same. Might be better to research and comment from a historical perspective of the flooding of Heroin to these communities across Britain in the 1980’s and then the MDMA in the 1990’s. It wasn’t organic Billy. Who exactly was doing it Billy and WHY, that’s a video worth watching!
@bencooper8050
Жыл бұрын
Boot hill!!
@grahamsullivan5719
10 ай бұрын
Billy John passed away sadlly
@theallornothingpodcastwith4442
10 ай бұрын
❤️
@drpeterthompson5894
Жыл бұрын
1k too go r William. I predict30 september 50k!
@annehoughton8850
Жыл бұрын
justice For All
@Gang-zy7lq
Жыл бұрын
No it well bill
@lottierose8668
9 ай бұрын
remember smack eds climbing up the outside of chestnut house in the 80s to score
@user-hi4vm6kk4u
6 ай бұрын
Why didn't they just walk in , no concierge back then
@jonathanhart8570
Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was the kids...but who paid them
@garyrigby21
Жыл бұрын
Not an area of Liverpool i know well i stick to the South end
@TheRealMike1976
Жыл бұрын
Never venture north of the Rocket lol. Liverpool's like 2 separate cities.
@garyrigby21
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMike1976 exactly I've always seen it as 2 separate cities North and South but I always say north of Kensington the east and north east are different again I mean Huyton and Kirkby
@TheRealMike1976
Жыл бұрын
@@garyrigby21 they have those funny green road signs in Huyton and Kirkby😁
@lloyds053
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMike1976ahh mate don't get ahead of yourself, don't forget speke an garston are south end, absolute dumps. I own houses in the north an south end but it doesn't make me any better than some1 from bootle or seaforth
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealMike1976 That’ll be you now entering Knowsley Mike🤔🤔
@wayneholland4703
Жыл бұрын
👍
@pjg_77
Жыл бұрын
People make ghettos. And leaving your door open back in the day is also nonsense as there wasn’t Fck all to Nick lad that’s why the doors were left open lad 😂
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
I think people may of been talking about the 50s and 60s when trust wasn’t an issue and doors of houses were left open.
@pjg_77
Жыл бұрын
@@Eleventhearlofmars our grandparents back then still had Fck all to Nick though really mate !! But get what you’re saying still
@pjg_77
Жыл бұрын
When the Union stuff was happening in the 80s & the miners lost, the painters & decorators lost, ship yards lost, then these little pit villages were flooded in Turkish heroin at the time. Makes you think eh ?! Just suddenly tons of cheap decent smack.
@deanpike8376
Жыл бұрын
Agree, Thatcher flooded the poorest areas with smack. Her and het lackeys should be dug up and fed to pigs
@jazztheglass6139
Жыл бұрын
The Iranian revolution was in 1979. wealthy Iranians couldn't emigrate with gold. A lot of them bought heroin, strapped it to themselves and emigrated to Europe. 1979 is the same year Pakistan a previous producer, outlawed poppy fields due to the United Nations. It was a major source of foreign currency for the country. They moved the fields to Afghanistan, ISI showed them how to make it in base form - #3. ISI then smuggled it back to Pakistan. It was then sold in Europe. The billions it made financed their nuclear bomb project
@Eleventhearlofmars
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it’s not decent heroin any more, it’s the worst danced on 💩ever. I got hooked in the 80s when £5 would buy you an experience. I stopped using 15 years ago because it was becoming that crap . Now being a drug rehab worker I’m constantly being told that the gear going around now doesn’t even give you any kind of buzz and many addicts are stopping using saying it’s not worth spending the money on. There are exceptions of course but some are beyond help and just can’t get out of the lifestyle.
@pjg_77
Жыл бұрын
@@Eleventhearlofmars I know a lad who smokes here & there & goes for pîss tests at his drs, he admitted to smoking gear over the weekend. His test come back negative for heroin but positive for benzodiazepines!! Just says it all. He told me the gear is now white, not brown anymore
@pjg_77
Жыл бұрын
@@Eleventhearlofmars good on you for turning it around brother 🙏🏻🙏🏻 my pal said that his drug worker done 5 experiments with street gear about 2 years ago & the highest one they done was 4%. Lowest was 2% gear !!
@kimkennedy4154
Жыл бұрын
No 200 quid has been put anywhere near that place smells of a insurance claim that and blame the scouse kids 😡
@uhmeee649
5 ай бұрын
Peal rd 😂
@briancorrigan4858
Жыл бұрын
You’re talking rubbish! You showed 3 abandoned properties empty for at least 10 years,all which suffered from arson……go to any city in England and you will find the same. They re not even in Marsh Lane!!!i One is in Chaucer Street,and 2 in Irlam Road. Do your homework before slagging off Marsh lane. By the way look at the increase in house prices in the area. I am cancelling my subscription. You have lost your credibility totally.
@Benny18-18
4 ай бұрын
The baby spits the dummy 😮
@ratatat9790
2 ай бұрын
Everyone knows when you say Marsh Lane it means the general area.
@TheRealMike1976
Жыл бұрын
Horrible place.
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
Жыл бұрын
Agreed 👍👍
@user-yh9sn1ye1j
Жыл бұрын
stroll on the purple tin on tap tennents super same league as special brew lol
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