City Of Bath UK – Walcot Street & It’s Market – Walk Through
Okay, welcome back. Um, in the time I spoke to you last, I’ve just spoken to the lady who owns the uh retro shop with all the clothes on the outside. Um, she was a great person. Uh, we got along like a house on fire cuz I said like, you know, this is great. Yeah. She said nobody hangs outside anymore and she was well up for me videoing her shop. Um, which, you know, is a little bit of PR, isn’t it? Yeah. A great person. Go in there and see her. say hello and if you want buy her stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I found a uh US Navy sailor’s jersey. You know the black with the strip, you know, the thing on the back and all that. Yeah. It was cool. Yeah. Yeah. Many years ago. Yeah. Another retro store coming up. I see this gentleman’s got an army great. Good morning, sir. Is this your store? This is me. Yeah. I’m I’m making I make YouTube videos about places I visit. Yeah. So, you’re selling uh what language am I allowed to use? A variety. I’m a little wester. You can use any language you like, my friend. Um Yeah. So, you’re selling garden furniture and bits of furniture. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, if you’re here on a Saturday morning, come along and see Absolutely. What’s your name? Uh Gerard. Come along and see Gerard. Bath chap on Instagram. Yeah. He’ll he bath chap on Instagram. Now, at the end of the day, he’ll set you up with a whole load of household and gardener furniture. Nice to meet you, my friend. I saw you coming along. You cut a dash. Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Yeah. And here we have another retro clothes store. Now, this is a good one. It’s got army great coats, denim jackets. Um, a lovely lady there who’s smiling, who’s on the store. How are you? All right. Yeah. Do you mind being on camera? Okay. So, how long have you had your stall here? About 30 years. 30 years. That’s quite something, isn’t it? So, you’ve made a successful living from trading on Walcott Street for 30 years. It’s wonderful here. Yeah, it is wonderful here. And that’s why I’ve chosen to film it because I would This is the independent part of Bath, isn’t it? It isn’t the corporate soullessness. We’re all independent. We all work ourselves. Yeah. And and and as I’m looking around on your store, I mean, a lot of this is quality gear, isn’t it? I mean, you could you could buy this. I mean, it’s all quality gear. You could buy this and cut a dash anywhere, couldn’t you? You know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What’s your name? Suzanne. Suzanne. Now, this is Suzanne. Hello. Okay. Yeah. And she owns this store on Walcott Street. So, if you’re visiting the city, come and see her. And you’ve got Gerard over there who’s going to set you up with House and Home Furniture. And you’ve got Suzanne here who’s going to sell you an evening dress and literally a dinner suit cuz she’s got one over there. Country clothing. Country clothing. Um, horsey stuff. Horsey stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That’s so cool. Lovely to meet you. And you? What’s your name? Mike. Oh, Mike. Yeah. Mike. I’m professionally from N West and I I like to visit Okay. places and make YouTube videos of down there and sending his car. Yeah. Okay. Well, I’ll I’ll seek you out. All right. Lovely to meet you. And I’ll I’ll um I’ll edit this uh video and and put it up on YouTube soon. All right. Can I be on that? Yeah, of course you will. Yeah, you’ll be on the internet. Yeah. Being jolly and happy and selling quality clothes. Nice to meet you. Thank you. More furniture coming along here. And these market traders, they’re really up for it, you know. I mean, I I give them their due. Um they’re they’re not backwards and coming forwards and and it’s good, isn’t it? Now we’re going to go down into the main part of the market. Yeah. Um which is situated in a car park. Yeah. There are toilets there, but whether they’re open again during the current crisis, um I don’t know. Yeah. Now, this may be dick because I can see a carpet. A giant carpet. Yeah. Let me approach them. Excuse me. Who is Dick? Dick? Yeah. Me? Hello? Susan told me to come to see you. Oh, okay. Would you like to be on on film? I talk about your carpets. Oh, well, yeah. What’s it for? I do YouTube. I don’t like the CIA getting old of me. I’m not part of the CIA. I I was I was um I shop in a co-op sometimes. Yeah. The CRS. Okay. Yeah. I make YouTube videos of place I visit now. She said that you have some wonderful carpets for sale. I used to. I still do have some nice Can we see them? Can we see your carpets? Oh, there’s one. There’s one there. There you go. Now, this is one of Dick’s carpets. Wow. Look at that. Yeah. I tell you what, you can feel the horrible with that. The way you you um I’ve just sold it actually. Have you? I’ve just sold it. Oh, look at this one. Yeah. Wow. Let’s have a look. Let’s look at that. Yeah. Lovely, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So, where’s this going then? On YouTube. Oh, okay. Yeah. What I’m going to do is I’ll put up Walcott Street and it’ll be on YouTube. Oh, okay. Yeah. Advertising the market. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, it’s all I’m doing all of Walcott. I’ve just done all of Walcott Street and the market. This uh this piece here. Somebody wanted to take it to the dump. Can you believe really? It’s over a hundred years old. Yeah. It got wet and I’ve just saved it and it’s going to end up probably in a New York apartment. This it’s sacriage, isn’t it? Taking it to the dump. Oh, no. It’s going. Yes, it is. Yeah. Sacriage. People don’t know what they’ve got. No, I know. I know. Well, people think that some piece of junk is worth excellent. The whole antique market’s changed. People the the whole vintage thing that’s gone on, people want the look and they were prepared to pay a lot of money for junk to get the look. You know, all these recycling programs, people going to the dump. I’ve seen people on some of those programs completely ruin some pieces that are just left intact. I’ve seen them do some marvelous. I’m not knocking. And I’ve seen some marvelous things on things that looked as if they were uh they’ve had it. Yeah. But there’s a there’s a line in the middle somewhere. Yeah. Where you shouldn’t touch it. And yeah, they’ve done a good job on that. And that’s quite a big gray area sometimes. Well, thanks a lot, Dick. Great to meet you. And like I said, if you’re uh I try to deal in old ethnic clubs. Brilliant. If I can get them at affordable prices for people afford There you go. Now, Dick here. What a guy. He’s trading every Saturday here selling affordable vintage rugs. Yeah. Um and he’s saving them from from being extinct. Do you know what I mean? I’m and I’m selling them generally cheaper than you can buy them in Turkey or Tunisia when you go on holiday. They are available in this. Well, there you are. You see, now at the moment, you’re not allowed to, you know, it’s difficult to travel to these places and you can get a little bit of turkey in Bath. There you go. for a reasonable price. Thanks a lot, mate. Lovely to meet you. Yeah, brilliant. Okay, we’re going to walk around now. They got arrows out here telling me which way to Thank you, Dick. Cheers. Thanks a lot. Uh they got arrows here telling me uh which way to walk around the market. Now, there’s all sorts of various stores here. Uh general antique stuff like candle orders, jugs, uh pictures, picture frames, bit of music going on in uh in what was the gent over there. Yeah, it looks sort of like Eastern European that place, doesn’t it? You know, I mean, I I I watched one man’s videos on uh on YouTube and uh it’s full of that, ain’t it? And you sort of got that ear, but playing one of us. Anyway, the music will pick up in a minute. Yeah, but the music is not a backdrop to the the nice stuff that’s going on here now. Ah, now here we go. Oh, sorry. Sorry, I’m going the wrong way. I just nearly moved down a man in a bobble out there. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. As you can see, lots of cool stuff. Yeah. So, you can spend you could spend a couple of hours in here fing around. There’s probably coffee available as well. Probably somewhere somewhere there will be a takeaway coffee. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. How about that then? I mean, I spent a lot of my life around some of this stuff and uh you get that you roll up. All right, mate. Uh, what’s your best? And they get all upset, don’t they? Yeah. You push it and go, “Come on, what’s your best?” And they knock it off, don’t they? Yeah. But you got to do it right. Yeah. Trouble is with these antique programs now is everybody’s an expert, but they’re not. And 99% of buying this stuff is psychology, right? Selling that. The bottom line is if people really want it, they’ll buy it, you know, for whatever price because they’re that type who’s got to have it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good morning, madam. How are you? All right. I’m making a YouTube video of Bath. Yeah. Yeah. Is this your stall? Is this your stall? Okay. Thanks very much. Not very talkative there, but that’s fair. Okay. So, this one we got a lot of uh antique cutlery. Okay. Yeah. Not bad, is it? Yeah. Anyway, just going on tools. This your store? Yes. Lovely. And lovely. I’m making a YouTube video. You all right with that? Yeah. All right. Brilliant. Now, this man, who is your name? Nick. Yeah. Nick here. Okay. as you can see, has got a absolutely wonderful selection of tools. Um, I used to go to Shepton Flea and a lot of tools in my house are from one of these places and it’s good stuff. I mean, he’s got he’s got uh new and vintage, and sometimes the vintage is better than the new in my opinion. It does a better job. Would you agree with that, Nick? Absolutely. The old tools. Do you mind if I go up here? I mean, let me show you these planes. these Stanley planes. I mean, you know, that’s quite solid. I mean, if you’re fitting doors in your house, that’s what you need. I mean, he’s even got a few surgical instruments here thrown in. Yeah. Which is which is good stuff. Um, adjustable spanners, retro ones, even a pair of aircraft wire locking pliers. I used to be an aircraft fitter and I used to use those quite my dad was an engine fitter and he use them used to use them every day. Yeah. Yeah. So, he Nick here. Okay. If you’re aircraft fitting, gardening, um, household jobs, woodworking, Nick is your man. All right. So, big up to Nick and thanks very much, Nick. Great to meet you, mate. All right. See you again. Thank you. Cheers, Nick. There you go. So, one lady you wouldn’t have talked to, but that’s fair enough. And then we have Nick. Yeah, Nick there, who I mean, literally I mean, he had um a few surgical instruments there. So, if you’re considering being a surgeon, go down and see Nick. I mean, yeah, you couldn’t say fair and that, could you? Yeah. So, like I said, I mean, the uh pitfalls there of of street video, not everybody wants to talk, but you just move on and find somebody who does like going out on an even trying to get somebody up for a dance. I mean, there are those who will not uh take to my magnetic charms. Yeah, they’re lost. So, you just find somebody else. Anyway, um until next time. Okay, I’m going back home now to Bristol. Um which is the land of the free, home of the brave. Yeah. And it’s been a great 24 hours in Bath and and the last uh the YMCA is cool. Yeah, I got a lot of friends in there and I love the people there and I love staying there. And I also love Walcott Street in its market. Yeah, absolutely top-notch place. Worth a visit. Okay, and until next time.
Bath is the largest city in the county of Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. In 2011, the population was 88,859. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage site in 1987, and was later added to the transnational World Heritage site known as the “Great Spa Towns of Europe” in 2021. Walcot is a suburb of the city of Bath, England. It lies to the north-north-east of the city centre, and is an electoral ward of the city.
City Of Bath UK – Walcot Street & It’s Market – Walk Through