Shittest town in the UK?

Bozman

Heysham is a lovely place too, there's no mystery to why it's a ferry port, i don't think that the roads can cope with the people trying to get out of the place.

Rigga

mallinov wrote:

Why Dover? I work there. The people that live there tend to be a bit on the racist side though...!

Yeah, they hate the English!

Bobbinogs

Rigga wrote:

mallinov wrote:

Why Dover? I work there. The people that live there tend to be a bit on the racist side though...!

Yeah, they hate the English!

Brilliant.

Warwickshire Whizzer

Walsall.

Ben6899

Rigga wrote:

DF33 wrote:

Good curries though.

Wonder why that is :roll: You would have to pay me to go back there, Hateful town.

Anyone else reading between the lines and possibly making 5 from 2+2, here?

My nomination is Stockton-on-Tees. Fuck1ng shitehole!

shockedsoshocked

Ben6899 wrote:

Rigga wrote:

DF33 wrote:

Good curries though.

Wonder why that is :roll: You would have to pay me to go back there, Hateful town.

Anyone else reading between the lines and possibly making 5 from 2+2, here?

My nomination is Stockton-on-Tees. Fuck1ng shitehole!

Yes, good call. Stockton is bloody awful. They put something in the water over there certainly. My auntie is high up in the Police there, and has to deal with the same smack rats every two weeks when they are mysteriously "mugged" of all their dole money in a part of the town center that has no CCTV anywhere near it immediately after withdrawing it from the post office.

If you're ever there again go sit in the cafe in The Arc and people watch.

rolf_f

The thing about Swindon is this. Most of the crap towns mentioned have every reason to be crap - eg loss of industry leading to them having no real point left anymore. If you've been kicked in the teeth often enough, no amount of sticking plaster is going to make much difference.

Swindon is in the Thames corridor, a relatively short distance from London. There is money there, there is pleasant scenery around it. It should, by rights, be pretty good. But it barely even has a town centre - walk through it and you wonder if you missed a bit; only you didn't. There is nothing there to please the eye and there isn't even enough there to make you regret how it could have been (eg there are some pretty splendid buildings in Bradford even if the town planners of the 60s decided it would be a good idea to get rid of a lot of them and replace them with grim grey concrete. They are still doing this sort of thing - eg the desire to get rid of the 1930s Odeon and replace it with another shopping centre no doubt). The final straw was probably the destruction of the Great Western Railway works which is now a ghastly outlet centre - a very sad fate indeed.

Doncaster is worse than Bradford.....

Ben6899

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Rigga wrote:

DF33 wrote:

Good curries though.

Wonder why that is :roll: You would have to pay me to go back there, Hateful town.

Anyone else reading between the lines and possibly making 5 from 2+2, here?

My nomination is Stockton-on-Tees. Fuck1ng shitehole!

Yes, good call. Stockton is bloody awful. They put something in the water over there certainly. My auntie is high up in the Police there, and has to deal with the same smack rats every two weeks when they are mysteriously "mugged" of all their dole money in a part of the town center that has no CCTV anywhere near it immediately after withdrawing it from the post office.

If you're ever there again go sit in the cafe in The Arc and people watch.

I lived there for 15 months - offered a job and I wanted to get my feet in the door, so took it!

What I particularly hate, I wouldn't know where to start. The "smack rats", Zanzibar, the pubs full to the brims with p1ssed revellers as I walked home from work, the accents, the lack of anything to do, that depressing "shopping centre". I could go on and on and on and on...

anj132

Rick Chasey wrote:

Truro.

Worst place I've ever been to.

Seriously? Although technically it is a city. Lucky you didn't go near St. Austell or Redruth.

+1 on Newport

Bridgend has the highest suicide rate for a reason?

shockedsoshocked

Ben6899 wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Rigga wrote:

DF33 wrote:

Good curries though.

Wonder why that is :roll: You would have to pay me to go back there, Hateful town.

Anyone else reading between the lines and possibly making 5 from 2+2, here?

My nomination is Stockton-on-Tees. Fuck1ng shitehole!

Yes, good call. Stockton is bloody awful. They put something in the water over there certainly. My auntie is high up in the Police there, and has to deal with the same smack rats every two weeks when they are mysteriously "mugged" of all their dole money in a part of the town center that has no CCTV anywhere near it immediately after withdrawing it from the post office.

If you're ever there again go sit in the cafe in The Arc and people watch.

I lived there for 15 months - offered a job and I wanted to get my feet in the door, so took it!

What I particularly hate, I wouldn't know where to start. The "smack rats", Zanzibar, the pubs full to the brims with p1ssed revellers as I walked home from work, the accents, the lack of anything to do, that depressing "shopping centre". I could go on and on and on and on...

Ah Zanzibar. Must be the only club that has resident Police vans on a weekend!

Mad_Malx

Morecambe? - A truly shite town, but fantastic views over the bay and great cycling nearby.
Swindon - dull, not spectacularly shitty. Lots of much worse towns in Wiltshire - Melksham, Westbury, Warminster, Trowbridge.
Surprised to see Nottingham suggested, although many suburbs are Champion's League shitty - including the town I grew up in, Arnold.

rick_chasey

I feel the East of England is under-represented in this thread.

Pross

Rolf F wrote:

The thing about Swindon is this. Most of the crap towns mentioned have every reason to be crap - eg loss of industry leading to them having no real point left anymore. If you've been kicked in the teeth often enough, no amount of sticking plaster is going to make much difference.

Swindon is in the Thames corridor, a relatively short distance from London. There is money there, there is pleasant scenery around it. It should, by rights, be pretty good. But it barely even has a town centre - walk through it and you wonder if you missed a bit; only you didn't. There is nothing there to please the eye and there isn't even enough there to make you regret how it could have been (eg there are some pretty splendid buildings in Bradford even if the town planners of the 60s decided it would be a good idea to get rid of a lot of them and replace them with grim grey concrete. They are still doing this sort of thing - eg the desire to get rid of the 1930s Odeon and replace it with another shopping centre no doubt). The final straw was probably the destruction of the Great Western Railway works which is now a ghastly outlet centre - a very sad fate indeed.

Doncaster is worse than Bradford.....

My colleagues are doing their best to improve swindon at this moment (shouldn't be too taxing!). I still think Corby is in a league of its own in this competition though.

jordan_217

Pross wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

The thing about Swindon is this. Most of the crap towns mentioned have every reason to be crap - eg loss of industry leading to them having no real point left anymore. If you've been kicked in the teeth often enough, no amount of sticking plaster is going to make much difference.

Swindon is in the Thames corridor, a relatively short distance from London. There is money there, there is pleasant scenery around it. It should, by rights, be pretty good. But it barely even has a town centre - walk through it and you wonder if you missed a bit; only you didn't. There is nothing there to please the eye and there isn't even enough there to make you regret how it could have been (eg there are some pretty splendid buildings in Bradford even if the town planners of the 60s decided it would be a good idea to get rid of a lot of them and replace them with grim grey concrete. They are still doing this sort of thing - eg the desire to get rid of the 1930s Odeon and replace it with another shopping centre no doubt). The final straw was probably the destruction of the Great Western Railway works which is now a ghastly outlet centre - a very sad fate indeed.

Doncaster is worse than Bradford.....

My colleagues are doing their best to improve swindon at this moment (shouldn't be too taxing!). I still think Corby is in a league of its own in this competition though.

Don't know, Corby is just the Scottish equivalent of Huntingdon. Both are equally 5hi7!

Boy Lard

I live in Bradford

It is a shit hole.

Apart from the fact that most of Bradford is actually ok. I live in an area called Thackley, between Saltaire and Apperley Bridge. All nice places. There are 23 pubs/drinking establishments within a 20-30 minute walk of my house, including the best named working mens club in the country, Idle Working Mens, which has a picture outside of a man leaning on a shovel.

We do have some cracking curry houses. My favourite is the Three Singhs, on Sticker Lane.

On your road bike you can be in the middle of some fantastic countryside within 15 minutes.

30 minute car ride to the Dales.

Some really good local mountain biking as well. Thackley, Calverley, Esholt, Riddlesden, Shipley Glen....and the canal connecting all of them.

The problem with Bradford is the City Centre, which is the only bit that most people see.

Oh, and please send us some money for our rugby team, (real rugby, not pretty boy, public school, too friendly in the shower rugby), who have gone bust.

Thank you.

Jez mon

Mad_Malx wrote:

Morecambe? - A truly shite town, but fantastic views over the bay and great cycling nearby.
Swindon - dull, not spectacularly shitty. Lots of much worse towns in Wiltshire - Melksham, Westbury, Warminster, Trowbridge.
Surprised to see Nottingham suggested, although many suburbs are Champion's League shitty - including the town I grew up in, Arnold.

I think Nottingham's reputation is terrible, but actually as a town, it seems fairly average. I don't have that much experience of the town's mentioned in this thread though if you want my comment on Slough, I used to visit it at least two times a week for a year as a teenager, when I played ice hockey for the Slough team, not once did I feel any desire to linger or visit anywhere but the ice rink! Admittedly it was the same when I played in Bracknell, although at lest there, the rink is further out of town.

Swindon, again I've visited the Ice Rink a few times, it was OK for a UK ice rink, but as someone who has visited most of the rinks in the south, it really isn't saying much!!

Since I've been at uni (four years now) the town I've noticed which has gone down the most in the Thames Valley, IMO is Maidenhead all the shopping has gone to Reading, and it has just slid down hill considerably.

Cleat Eastwood

oh and coventry

Aggieboy

anj132 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Truro.

Worst place I've ever been to.

Seriously? Although technically it is a city. Lucky you didn't go near St. Austell or Redruth.

+1 on Newport

Bridgend has the highest suicide rate for a reason?

Just read this thread and had exactly the same thought. Of all the hundreds of shite places, Truro?? Perhaps 'Mods' are very selective with where they visit or don't have time to travel much.

slowondefy2

Swindon is awful. I always feel as though I'm going to be robbed when I have to go there.

RichN95.

alanp23 wrote:

Are there any towns that are actually worth visiting or is that too far off-topic?

Last year, National Geographic did a top 10 list of the world's best unorthadox summer trips. One British place made it at number 6.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/tr ... 11-photos/

rick_chasey

Aggieboy wrote:

anj132 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Truro.

Worst place I've ever been to.

Seriously? Although technically it is a city. Lucky you didn't go near St. Austell or Redruth.

+1 on Newport

Bridgend has the highest suicide rate for a reason?

Just read this thread and had exactly the same thought. Of all the hundreds of shite places, Truro?? Perhaps 'Mods' are very selective with where they visit or don't have time to travel much.

If it's not turbo nice, why would I go? :P

Only ended up in Truro because I was cycling across Cornwall and I was doing my best Jens Voigt impression - to the point we had to stop while I threw up - right in Truro.

Having recovered, we all concluded we'd never go back. It was truro awful. (see what I did there?)

Yossie

Has anyone metioned that Alsager is truly shyyyyt?

Coach H

Rigga wrote:

Also Grimsby is fecking horrible

Apart from a couple of estates and the ususal industrial wastelands, Grimsby is OK. It is suffering from losing much of its traditional livelihoods, but it is not alone there.

Terrible name, in a modern context, but Grim was a viking hero back in his day.

For positives you have the seaside of Cleethorpes on one side and the Lincolnshire Wolds on the other.

Anonymous

Rick Chasey wrote:

Aggieboy wrote:

anj132 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Truro.

Worst place I've ever been to.

Seriously? Although technically it is a city. Lucky you didn't go near St. Austell or Redruth.

+1 on Newport

Bridgend has the highest suicide rate for a reason?

Just read this thread and had exactly the same thought. Of all the hundreds of shite places, Truro?? Perhaps 'Mods' are very selective with where they visit or don't have time to travel much.

If it's not turbo nice, why would I go? :P

Only ended up in Truro because I was cycling across Cornwall and I was doing my best Jens Voigt impression - to the point we had to stop while I threw up - right in Truro.

Having recovered, we all concluded we'd never go back. It was truro awful. (see what I did there?)

No Waitrose then ?

rick_chasey

dmclite-2.0 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Aggieboy wrote:

anj132 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Truro.

Worst place I've ever been to.

Seriously? Although technically it is a city. Lucky you didn't go near St. Austell or Redruth.

+1 on Newport

Bridgend has the highest suicide rate for a reason?

Just read this thread and had exactly the same thought. Of all the hundreds of shite places, Truro?? Perhaps 'Mods' are very selective with where they visit or don't have time to travel much.

If it's not turbo nice, why would I go? :P

Only ended up in Truro because I was cycling across Cornwall and I was doing my best Jens Voigt impression - to the point we had to stop while I threw up - right in Truro.

Having recovered, we all concluded we'd never go back. It was truro awful. (see what I did there?)

No Waitrose then ?

Pfft, Waitrose.

Whole Foods, Mr.

graeme_s-2

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

oh and coventry

Meh. Coventry's just average rather than being as offensively terrible as the worst offenders that have been mentioned so far.

proto

Accidently visited Denny (it's in Scotland) last year and I must say it's a pretty miserable place.

postman

I was once at a charity function,and one of the ladies told me in all honesty.That her town was the back of beyond and crap.That place was Barrow in Furness.

Gazzetta67

proto wrote:

Accidently visited Denny (it's in Scotland) last year and I must say it's a pretty miserable place.

I can only apologise mate - Every cyclist i know try`s to avoid it.....shame you didnt go along the carron valley it`s much nicer.

Can i put forward Dundee as another Shytehole.

fast as fupp

Bikenhead- full of dirty stinking meffs :?