Grim towns you've visited lately...

[schmalex]

okgo said:

schmalex said:

I remember now. Herriard & Upton Grey are absolutely lovely. We used to often cycle over to the Hannington Arms in UG for lunch when we lived in Up Nately. Unfortunately, it has a witch of a hill to cycle back up after a few pints of wifebeater on a sunny afternooN!!

Hoddington you mean?

Yeh its a nice place to be. Decent road links too.

Sorry, yes. Hoddington

[burton_ii]

Thetford, highest case's of incest.fact.

[Pesty]

TVR Moneypit said:

eightseventhree said:

Rotherham

In particular the Eastwood estate. A cat 5 estate I think, (bearing in mind that the Gaza Strip is only a cat 3)

Every town and city around that area in S yorks is a st hole

Goldthorpe
Thurnscoe
Hemsworth (remeber the top gear alfa 166 review?)
dinnington (jesus)
Laughton common (on two occaisions I have driven through there and had to turn arround because of cars set on fire as barricades)
areas of sheffield like Wincobank and Firth Park!
all of Barnsley
Langold

The list is endless and unless you have actualy spent time there getting to know the locals you cannot imagine the deapth of depravity they get up to. Sure you can see the mess and old washing machines in the front 'garden' but until you know them you know nothing.

I have a particular favourite worst place in my heart of Maltby. I worked with the locals for around 4 years I could write you pages and pages but there is no point it would just sound like I had made it all up.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 31st May 10:47

[whirligig]

Pesty said:

I have a particular favourite worst place in my heart of Maltby. I worked with the locals for around 4 years I could write you pages and pages but there is no point it would just sound like I had made it all up.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 31st May 10:47

Maltby. Could not agree more. I'm from the West Highlands - and when my husband first took me to S Yorks to meets his folks this awful place turns out to be about 2 miles from where they live (in a lovely wee village that seems like a different planet from Maltby/Dinno etc). I was horrified beyond belief - up until then I had thought Fort William (as mentioned by Penny-lope) was indeed dire but honestly it is SOOOOOO picturesque compared with the dump that is Maltby.

[bazking69]

Harlow.

[mawdesleytractor]

Mawdesley. An empty, lifeless, isolated inbred grief hole in the arse end of Lancashire for aging, anti-social inbred snobs who have given up on life. If you enjoy being scowled at by morbidly obese late middle-aged Tories in Range Rovers on some potholed backroad, in one of the UK's most socially isolated, geographically and culturally featureless places then you'll love it. If, on the other hand you are a sentient human-being that doesn't actively crave misery, sensory deprivation and being amongst the most inbred snobby pricks known to humanity - you'll want to give it a wide berth.

[T5XARV]

Then why don't you move ? And change your username ?

[Rouleur]

MT appears to have a huge chip on his/her shoulder. All of their posts are rants about the place and the people who live there. I've been through Mawdesley a few times on my bike and it seems very pleasant, and a friend of mine who lives there loves it.

[Richardinuk]

How about Langley Mill, it is that bad that neither Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire want it!

Notts post code with a Derbyshire dialling code :-( Even the Co-Op legged it up to the "up market" portion Langley

[cptsideways]

It's easy to spot a grim town if your not local, the warning signs say "Pay to Park"


Having traveled the country extensively this works every time, almost without exception.

[Thankyou4calling]

Didn't know about this thread but just skimmed through.

Are there ANY TOWNS not mentioned?

And as the thread is pretty old, have any been regenerated so they are actually now OK?

[hoegaardenruls]

Thankyou4calling said:

Didn't know about this thread but just skimmed through.

Are there ANY TOWNS not mentioned?

And as the thread is pretty old, have any been regenerated so they are actually now OK?

I did see Dundee mentioned - fortunately the local council has seen the light and pulled down the 50s and 60s buildings the made the city centre a grim sh*thole. That's assuming the comment was about the buildings..

Even Newport looks OK these days, but would definitely agree with the comments on Merthyr.

[Martyn76]

Thankyou4calling said:

Didn't know about this thread but just skimmed through.

Are there ANY TOWNS not mentioned?

And as the thread is pretty old, have any been regenerated so they are actually now OK?

I'll say Corby, granted it was a pretty run down place to live but in the last 5 years it's received a bit of TLC and the locals have been diluted by new blood!

[pidsy]

in Dunstable on a course at the moment.


It's like the worlds ahole.

[Puggit]

Bradford - currently in LBA departures and it's utterly horrible.

[fido]

Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria - it was the next holiday town to where we were staying. It's like they dropped a bit of Croydon onto the island.

[AndrewEH1]

Was in Preston a couple weeks ago for work, pretty grim. Although what looks like the main shopping centre/street in town looks fairly modern.

[Dan_1981]

Thankyou4calling said:

Didn't know about this thread but just skimmed through.

Are there ANY TOWNS not mentioned?

And as the thread is pretty old, have any been regenerated so they are actually now OK?

Rotherham & Maltby have got worse if anything.

Rotherham in-particular.

[Fastchas]

I'm really surprised and a little relieved Wolverhampton got away so lightly in this thread.

[T5XARV]

fido said:

Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria - it was the next holiday town to where we were staying. It's like they dropped a bit of Croydon onto the island.

Quite. What a dump.
Yet a few miles up the coast is the delight that is Puerto de Mogan. Or at least it used to be.