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Town Centres - Ones to Avoid!

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  • CharltonDave85
    CharltonDave85 Posts: 502
    ads said:

    Scarborough
    Gillingham
    Dartford

    Dartford might be I dump but I'm proud to come from Dartford

  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,243
    Chatham is bad but nothing compared to Gillingham or Strood

    Peckham, Deptford are a class apart

    Croydon is my ultimate hell, poxy place horrible to get to.

    Honourable mentions to Grimsby, Luton, Corby, Middlesbrough, Skelmersdale and Rochdale
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Glouster.

  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Henry Irving said:

    Glouster.

    I see you've demolished 20% of it's name - much as should happen to its squalid buildings. Some fine properties were lost in the '60s rebuild.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Mansfield
    Rochdale
    Oldham
    Scunthorpe
    Blackpool
    Montrose wins an award for being so dull, narrowly beating Derby and Perth
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,582
    Curb_It said:

    bazjonster said:

    I have recently started a new job that involves a fair bit of travelling around the country. I have visited town centres that, in the past, I would have only ever 'by-passed'.

    Here I am tonight in my hotel room in Crawley after just popping into town to get some cash. Only ever been in the area before when flying out of Gatwick. I have to say, it is the most soulless, ugly, unappealling hole of a place, really dire! It's up there with the Brentwood's and Great Yarmouth's of the country as places to avoid unless you really have to visit.

    So, it begs the question, where have you been (town centre only) that you would never go back to unless you had no choice?

    PS: Apologies to any Crawley folk who have since moved on. All I can say is no wonder you did!!

    Do you really mean Brentwood? I'm not a TOWIE fan but always think Brentwood looks well kept and up to date in say comparison to some other high streets. Wouldn't call it a hole anyway.

    Agreed Curb It, if he thinks Brentwood is one of the worst places in the country, he really needs to get out more!
  • scabbyhorse
    scabbyhorse Posts: 2,542
    Just about every town centre across the country
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    dickplumb said:

    Ilford, Thamesmead, Peckham, Croydon, Gravesend.

    100% Especially at night, I try not to leave mine after 7PM lol
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    edited June 2014
    bazjonster said:

    I have recently started a new job that involves a fair bit of travelling around the country. I have visited town centres that, in the past, I would have only ever 'by-passed'.

    Here I am tonight in my hotel room in Crawley after just popping into town to get some cash. Only ever been in the area before when flying out of Gatwick. I have to say, it is the most soulless, ugly, unappealling hole of a place, really dire! It's up there with the Brentwood's and Great Yarmouth's of the country as places to avoid unless you really have to visit.

    So, it begs the question, where have you been (town centre only) that you would never go back to unless you had no choice?

    PS: Apologies to any Crawley folk who have since moved on. All I can say is no wonder you did!!

    Brentwood??? You're comparing Brentwod with the likes of Crawley and Great Yarmouth......Righto.......I can only think you've either never been to Brentwood or you're confusing yourself with somehwer else? Basildon maybe?
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Swansea is a bit rough. Like a downmarket Newcastle at the weekends. guess it's fun though, in a weird sort of way.
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Interesting read. What on earth did we do wrong in this country in order to make pretty much all our town centres so appalling. Compare that to France where town centres have largely remained historic and vibrant.

    Green and pleasant land indeed.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Not quite a town centre but I had to go to the elephant and castle the other day for the first time in years. It was always a bit rough and ready but it's now a cess pit.
  • Daggs
    Daggs Posts: 1,344
    Fanny Fanackapan said:

    So, what does all this say about our "green & pleasant land" ?

    What it says is: If you have an upturn of fortune and can escape from your own 'town centre' to a village in central Kent. England remains (in places) the most beautiful country in the world.
    I count my blessings, daily.

  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Hayes, Middlesex.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,737
    edited June 2014
    Daggs said:

    Fanny Fanackapan said:

    So, what does all this say about our "green & pleasant land" ?

    What it says is: If you have an upturn of fortune and can escape from your own 'town centre' to a village in central Kent. England remains (in places) the most beautiful country in the world.
    I count my blessings, daily.

    Trying VERY hard to get Mr F interested in relocating to Wadhurst area but to no avail .....

  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    Gravesend is the king of filthy town centre.

    In my opinion though, as long as its got a WH smith, a 99p store and a greggs, I wont be complaining too much.
    If its got a "game" thats a bonus.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
    Harlow around the bus station.

    I saw a bearded lady there once.
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    wwaddickson said:

    Harlow around the bus station.

    I saw a bearded lady there once.

    Darren Ambrose is from Harlow - It was probably him.

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    All the town centres and high streets are almost identical, and nearly all dreary.
    When we played East Fife, Methil was something so horrible I thought it was a post apocalyptic film set.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,220
    @chester_conrad and @essex_Al Id say he definitely meant Basildon!
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  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Sheerness
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    St John's Wood - boring
    Cambourne - advised to stay in the hotel.
  • Saulc23
    Saulc23 Posts: 685
    Stockport.

    Full of mutants and swamp dwellers.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Interesting read. What on earth did we do wrong in this country in order to make pretty much all our town centres so appalling. Compare that to France where town centres have largely remained historic and vibrant.

    Green and pleasant land indeed.

    'We' didn't do anything. Supermarkets did.
  • Jarman
    Jarman Posts: 1,851
    anywhere In Kent I'd of thought.
  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    wwaddickson said:

    Harlow around the bus station.

    I saw a bearded lady there once.

    Russell Brand?
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Stevenage. Felt like a waiting room for Jeremy Kyle.
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    Stone said:

    wwaddickson said:

    Harlow around the bus station.

    I saw a bearded lady there once.

    Russell Brand?
    Ain't he the one who won Eurovision?
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Slough, Reading, Langley, Datchet, Basildon, Harlow, Luton, Peterbrough, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Bolton, Stockport, Bury, Rochdale, Aldershot, Basingstoke, Croydon, Newbury, Swindon, Enfield, Harlow, and a hell of a lot more that I can`t be bothered to mention!
  • paulc
    paulc Posts: 24
    Witham known locally as shitham

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