Which Town would you erase from the UK map?

[psi310398]

RammyMP said:

It was a sausage sandwich dipped in like a gravy mixture. I might be wrong as it was about 40 odd years ago!

Every day a school day etc!

[vikingaero]

Talking of Luton, Chatham has a briney cesspit suburb called Luton. This shirley must mean it wins for having a cesspit within a cesspit. Chatham was also the birthplace of the feral Burberry Chav,

Mind you, nearby Sheerness isn't much better. A lawless drug pit. If you hear of a Police chase on the news and the scrote has crashed into a house, it's always Sheerness. Fact: The SS Montgomery off the coast of Sheerness did not drag it's anchor, break it's back and sink. It was deliberately scuppered by the UK Government as the "Isle of Sheppey Civic Improvement Scheme."

If too many of the webbed hand and feet locals try to escape the Island the Government will detonate the Montgomery to prevent them mixing with the general population on the mainland.

[1602Mark]

vikingaero said:

Talking of Luton, Chatham has a briney cesspit suburb called Luton. This shirley must mean it wins for having a cesspit within a cesspit. Chatham was also the birthplace of the feral Burberry Chav,

Mind you, nearby Sheerness isn't much better. A lawless drug pit. If you hear of a Police chase on the news and the scrote has crashed into a house, it's always Sheerness. Fact: The SS Montgomery off the coast of Sheerness did not drag it's anchor, break it's back and sink. It was deliberately scuppered by the UK Government as the "Isle of Sheppey Civic Improvement Scheme."

If too many of the webbed hand and feet locals try to escape the Island the Government will detonate the Montgomery to prevent them mixing with the general population on the mainland.

As someone who was born in Chatham I concur. It is indeed a tiny bit of turd, adhered to a tramps pubic hair of a town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0V0rhdcFU

Edited by 1602Mark on Saturday 27th June 17:10

[Mexman]

1602Mark said:

As someone who was born in Chatham I concur. It is indeed a tiny bit of turd, adhered to a tramps pubic hair of a town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0V0rhdcFU

Edited by 1602Mark on Saturday 27th June 17:10

[Morningside]

texaxile said:

Morningside said:

Lowestoft - Or mainly the London Road South part. Although there are some nice places there most of seems to be clapped out shops, druggies or pissheads wandering round normally heading for the local KFC. Doesn't matter how much they keep spending on yet another revamp it cannot change the residents.

Leiston could also do with being bulldozed into the sea. The Mrs did a Saturday nightshift at James Paget Hospital A&E a few years ago, it was like a bad day in Basra.

Does it still have security? Last time I went very early in the morning and there was mainly "girls" chatting on their phone after getting pissed up. Not forgetting the usual thug boyfriend moaning that they had been waiting 30 minutes even though you could clearly see more critical patients waiting.

[MIT20]

Bas Vegas is actually reem you butters

[Wacky Racer]

Stevenage 1968




Music by Traffic.

[anonymous-user]

ceesvdelst said:

If I tell you I have lived also in Watford, Stevenage and a few other places.

Where in Watford? I’m afraid as someone who lives near Watford it is not deserving to be considered a crap town anymore. It’s definitely undergone a LOT of change in the past 2 decades and I’d have to say it’s a nice area now, look at Cassiobury etc, the old “slums” at West Watford are being bought up and done up now, I know that because I invested in one. The green spaces, proximity to the city (for business, not crime) and the recently redeveloped town centre make it a rather nice little town. The population admittedly has gone from stabbists and degenerates to professionals, the educated type. Still much prefer Rickmansworth though.

As for London, there’s no way I would ever want to live near the centre of London unless I was living in Mayfair or something. Still, there’s some very, very “unmurderfied” nice areas left; Hampstead Garden Suburb, Mill Hill, Pinner, Queen’s Park, Northwood, Richmond, Twickenham, Kew, Muswell Hill, Fortis Green, Finchley, Golders Green, Ealing all spring to mind.


Stevenage however, it’s a stinker but it’s not the worst place I’ve ever seen. That would have to go to Plymouth. And Stourbridge... oh dear.

[slopes]

Wacky Racer said:

Stevenage 1968




Music by Traffic.

The bit at the very beginning is the town centre of the New Town. It still looks like that now but just more grubby.

[Plymo]

1602Mark said:

Mexman said:

Plymouth....Just say no.

+1

Unless you enjoy alcoholism and substance abuse, in which case you'll fit right in.

Whoa! Plymuff is a great place! Easy enough to get around, city centre parking is cheap, there's near enough everything there that would be there in a big city but it's still small enough to be friendly avoid Swilly and the "bottom of town" (the west of the centre) and union st and you'll be fine! The scrotes st on their doorsteps and you rarely see them in the decent bits of the city

Full disclosure: lived and worked there for years, and made some friends for life.

Also proof that "forrinerrs" are not the cause of crime, we have good local English scrotes there, none of that foreign muck

[whitesocks]

Godalming

Lovely place. Just nothing to do there

In fact, a lot of the Surrey Hills towns are like that.

Edited by whitesocks on Saturday 27th June 22:07

[Plymo]

I'd like to nominate Newport - I know there's some decent bits but the place has a very "edgy" feel to it, compared to, say, Cardiff or Swansea.

The south wales valleys towns have probably been mentioned here, but I'll defend them - we have amazing countryside all around, yes there are some dheads around but every individual I've actually spoken to around here has been pleasant and friendly - but it can be hard to get stuff done without ending up having a conversation with someone!

[Speed_Demon]

Came here to post Stevenage, but I see I have been well beaten. There are some nice parts, that were villages before the pulsating scumfest that is Stevenage absorbed them,

Luton comes a close second. Even if I have to scoot through it to get on the M1, it's still an utterly depressing situation.

[RichFN2]

psi310398 said:

As a soft Southerner, I was thinking Didcot and Bicester would fit in nicely in this thread, describing as they do a neat arc with, and slotting in nicely on the podium alongside, Aylesbury.

Don't mind Bicester, Didcot is not a bad shout for being so dull and in the middle of nowhere but Aylesbury well and truly belongs on this thread. It was mentioned back in 2011 on here and generally has a bad reputation but it has gone down hill massively in the past 5-10 years. One of the fastest growing towns in England has seen literally thousands and thousands of new builds thrown up but without the infrastructure to go with them. We get an extra Aldi, Lidl and a Farmfoods when other town's going through similar growth get new shopping centres and a heavily invested town centre. The traffic is now so bad that it now makes the top 10 list for the most congested towns/cities in the UK.

With a growth of roughly 30,000 people and nothing really to do the town now has a massive problem and is a big victim of this county line dealing with dealers coming from London and Birmingham. A stroll through town and you will see groups of people drinking or sometimes using drugs, get stopped for money or if its a quiet spot you might see some dealing. The pub and food scene i will admit is pretty good but get a window seat in some places and its quite depressing the amount of people you will see that are either homeless or have an addiction problem.

17,000 new homes have been given the green light under the garden town status that was Granted to Aylesbury a few years ago. They will have their work cut out to stop it becoming 1 huge commuter town made up of estates with a huge drug problem

[C70R]

Plymo said:

I'd like to nominate Newport - I know there's some decent bits but the place has a very "edgy" feel to it, compared to, say, Cardiff or Swansea.

The south wales valleys towns have probably been mentioned here, but I'll defend them - we have amazing countryside all around, yes there are some dheads around but every individual I've actually spoken to around here has been pleasant and friendly - but it can be hard to get stuff done without ending up having a conversation with someone!

As someone who was born and brought up in the Southeastern valleys, I couldn't disagree more. The valleys are full of sad towns, whose high streets are lined with takeaways, bookies and charity shops. Unemployment is huge, investment is tiny, ambition is non-existent, and prospects are limited. I moved away 20 years ago, and have only been back occasionally. Moving my parents out a few years back was the best thing I've ever done.
Newport is like the 'city' equivalent (I still can't think of it as a true city), with added grimness because of the history associated with the docks. I can't actually think of a single redeeming feature.

Valley towns' housing stock comes in three forms:
1. Old workers' cottages, which are mostly dilapidated
2. 60s-80s concrete 'estates', with no redeeming features or sense of community
3. New housing developments, thrown up on the cheapest land available, and cramming as many small houses into as little space as possible

I could make a list of valleys towns that I'd like to erase, but I'd be here all day. It's easier to just say "all of them", and take the one or two nice ones as collateral damage. Just saying "from Cwmbran to Maesteg" is probably enough, with apologies to Abergavenny.

Edited by C70R on Sunday 28th June 12:39

[Parkette]

For me Bradford remains the one city that needs to go, the lawless and aggressive attitude of many of the citizens is now spreading to nearby towns and cities.

[anonymous-user]

Wouldn’t it be much easier to list the towns that are nice?

It never ceases to amaze me how many towns in the UK are run-down, generic, scruffy, semi-dilapidated stholes, filled with undesirable people and lots of litter.

So much so, that when people find themselves in a town or city that is pleasant, attractive and bustling with cosmopolitan shops and bars, they are truly surprised.

[Robertj21a]

Lord Marylebone said:

Wouldn’t it be much easier to list the towns that are nice?

It never ceases to amaze me how many towns in the UK are run-down, generic, scruffy, semi-dilapidated stholes, filled with undesirable people and lots of litter.

So much so, that when people find themselves in a town or city that is pleasant, attractive and bustling with cosmopolitan shops and bars, they are truly surprised.

Most towns and cities along the south coast are generally ok.

[anonymous-user]

Robertj21a said:

Most towns and cities along the south coast are generally ok.

They are, but that doesn’t say much for the rest of the UK.

[rjg48]

Robertj21a said:

Most towns and cities along the south coast are generally ok.

Newhaven!

Portsmouth!