Morecambe Blackpool Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay) Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne Strabane Upperlands Dungiven New Buildings Glengormley Lurgan Portadown/Craigavon
Morecambe Blackpool Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay) Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne Strabane Upperlands Dungiven New Buildings Glengormley Lurgan Portadown/Craigavon
Why do you keep going to crap places, you must choose more carefully
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
Would rank Chatham above Strood... Bigger town yet absolute dive; Pentagon Centre Car Park is the most rank place I've ever had to leave my car
Not to mention the strong stench of piss as you walk down the stairs
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
Would rank Chatham above Strood... Bigger town yet absolute dive; Pentagon Centre Car Park is the most rank place I've ever had to leave my car
Not to mention the strong stench of piss as you walk down the stairs
I don't mark any car park, anywhere down for smelling of piss in fact there is only a car park in derby I have been to that doesn't smell of piss because it is locked and nobody, even those who park there have a job to gain entry. If you thought that one was rank you are yet to taste the Rhode street multi storey or the one above the old Tescos. The Wilkinsons one next to the pentagon is ok.
Chatham is better than Strood, but there is a gnats dick in it
Morecambe Blackpool Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay) Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne Strabane Upperlands Dungiven New Buildings Glengormley Lurgan Portadown/Craigavon
I guess most towns have their plus and minus points. I go to Preston quite a bit and hated it at first, but it's growing on me. You're right about the area around the 'award winning' bus station - I wonder if they'll ever finish the building work that's been going on for years. Other parts are ok, though. The Harris Gallery is great for a town that size and Avenham Park is an absolute joy. If you want seedy and horrid though, I suggest you try The Twelve Tellers after about 8pm - well, any time of day I suspect really.
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
Morecambe Blackpool Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay) Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne Strabane Upperlands Dungiven New Buildings Glengormley Lurgan Portadown/Craigavon
I guess most towns have their plus and minus points. I go to Preston quite a bit and hated it at first, but it's growing on me. You're right about the area around the 'award winning' bus station - I wonder if they'll ever finish the building work that's been going on for years. Other parts are ok, though. The Harris Gallery is great for a town that size and Avenham Park is an absolute joy. If you want seedy and horrid though, I suggest you try The Twelve Tellers after about 8pm - well, any time of day I suspect really.
I do actually quite like Preston, there's a kind of faded elegance there, mist obvious if you raise your eyes above street level.
Spent time there doing research, but a student in Lancaster (always did my best to be heading out of town before the "attractions" were in full flow), because bus travel suited, I got quite familiar with the bus station, emerging into Morrison's always seemed a bit odd.
Morecambe Blackpool Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay) Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne Strabane Upperlands Dungiven New Buildings Glengormley Lurgan Portadown/Craigavon
Why do you keep going to crap places, you must choose more carefully
What can I say?
I used to drive for Securicor Omega/DHL - home shopping and mobile phone delivery opens up a whole new World of oddness.
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
These Turkish barbers are popping up everywhere Only have 6 shops in the Kentish village where I live and now one is a Turkish barbers
Tonbridge. Only half decent area is around the castle, the rest of the high street is filled with poundlands by day, and m-kat gurning zombies at night.
Anywhere south of tooting in the london boroughs i look absolutely dire, someone mentioned mitcham earlier in the thread. I actually regretted driving through it once, let alone actually visiting.
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
These Turkish barbers are popping up everywhere Only have 6 shops in the Kentish village where I live and now one is a Turkish barbers
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
Piraeus was not exactly having a brilliant time after Greece's financial run in with the EU but now the refugee situation on top of that it's horrendous
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
These Turkish barbers are popping up everywhere Only have 6 shops in the Kentish village where I live and now one is a Turkish barbers
Minus the spoons (it has various other shite chain pubs instead) this literally describes Caterham in Surrey to a tee, and sadly like Carts says, almost every town centre in the country these days.
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
If you saw the guy on the bike attack the feller in the car with a machete recently then welcome to London road West Croydon which is the Pits. The Mayday hospital is in that road so victims can get help quickly after being mugged or attacked.
West Croydon: shocking Central Croydon: grim South Croydon: beautiful with some of the nicest people you could ever meet.
Sanderstead is nice, but the South End strip has some absolute creatures come Friday/Saturday night
Please correct me if I'm wrong. But Sanderstead doesn't even have a pub.
That's true blackpool72, Being a village inhabited by Quakers a few centuries back (some Plymouth brethren still live locally) a by-law stated there could be no public houses selling alcohol in Sanderstead. So you have to go to Warlingham green in one direction or South Croydon nearer the Brighton Road to find a Pub.
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women 2) Charity shops, lots of them 3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop 4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front 5) Vape shops 6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord 7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other 8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but. 9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene 10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity 11) Turkish barbers
Would rank Chatham above Strood... Bigger town yet absolute dive; Pentagon Centre Car Park is the most rank place I've ever had to leave my car
Not to mention the strong stench of piss as you walk down the stairs
Shatham all day long. Best (worst?) example of everything that is wrong with the world today.
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
Same as Lisbon. I went there to watch Sporting Lisbon / Rapid Vienna in a European fixture. We had kids in torn clothes begging in the area immediately around the ground
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
Sounds like it hasn’t changed much from when we were there in 2004!
Obviously it's not in the UK, but I was at Pireaus yesterday. It's the port near Athens. There were muck-smeared 2-3 year old children sleeping and begging on the streets. Graffiti on every square inch of the place. Smelled like Bangkok. Made our roughest town centres seem vibrant.
Same as Lisbon. I went there to watch Sporting Lisbon / Rapid Vienna in a European fixture. We had kids in torn clothes begging in the area immediately around the ground
If we're going international then I give you... Naples. The trashiest town in Europe if not the world.
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Carlisle (although round by the Cathedral is okay)
Preston - especially the bus station (it gets grim very quickly only a short distance from the brighter lights).
Northern Ireland has its share of sh*tholes as well (some not too large, but almost entirely appalling).
Larne
Strabane
Upperlands
Dungiven
New Buildings
Glengormley
Lurgan
Portadown/Craigavon
1) Sheerness
2) Sittingbourne
3) Gillingham
4) Strood
5) Chatham
6) Maidstone
The high street has been killed by poxy parking, high rates and rents, lack of investment and moronic council planning.
When I go working away I get to see my fair share of hovels and they all follow a similar pattern of town centre bingo
1) Local shitarses congregating on benches with Staffordshire bull terriers, their best tracksuit bottoms, roll ups and shit tattoos and pig ugly women
2) Charity shops, lots of them
3) Poundland, roundapound, poundstretcher, poundworld, 99p shop
4) A weatherspoons, complete with multiple mobility scooters parked out front
5) Vape shops
6) Full time mummies smoking fags, bellowing at their backwards kids or into their phones screaming at some other scumlord
7) A family congregating, completely blocking all routes through trying to put smoke and put shout each other
8) The local pain in the arse beggar. In Chathams case local celebrity and con man Billy the quid. These people are condescendingly mocked and shouted at by local divs who treat them like a local hero when in reality they are anything but.
9) The local nutter walking up and down either singing or ranting loudly itching for eye contact to cause a scene
10) The one that saddens me and angers me in equal measure. Some poor sod receiving medical attention whilst being filmed by what has become of humanity
11) Turkish barbers
Not to mention the strong stench of piss as you walk down the stairs
Chatham is better than Strood, but there is a gnats dick in it
Spent time there doing research, but a student in Lancaster (always did my best to be heading out of town before the "attractions" were in full flow), because bus travel suited, I got quite familiar with the bus station, emerging into Morrison's always seemed a bit odd.
I used to drive for Securicor Omega/DHL - home shopping and mobile phone delivery opens up a whole new World of oddness.
Only have 6 shops in the Kentish village where I live and now one is a Turkish barbers
Anywhere south of tooting in the london boroughs i look absolutely dire, someone mentioned mitcham earlier in the thread. I actually regretted driving through it once, let alone actually visiting.
*the term market should not in anyway imply the availability of fresh produce
Being a village inhabited by Quakers a few centuries back (some Plymouth brethren still live locally) a by-law stated there could be no public houses selling alcohol in Sanderstead.
So you have to go to Warlingham green in one direction or South Croydon nearer the Brighton Road to find a Pub.
Well that escalated quickly! ;-)
Can we stick to towns? Even St David's Wells, Ripon and St Asaph should be excluded from consideration!