Shittest town in the UK?

shockedsoshocked

Has anyone said Billingham yet? The only town centre than can look closed at midday on a saturday.

El Zomba

derall wrote:

Aberdeen. Could be a wonderful city, if it weren't for the Aberdonians. As Bill Bryson described them, "the only people mean enough to pick a ha'penny from a dunghill with their teeth". I've lived in Glasgow, Wishaw, Romford, Milton Keynes and High Wycombe, and I'd go back to any of those before I'd go back to Aberdeen.

I lived in Aberdeen for five years. The people I didn't have a problem with, but the city itself is so sodding grey that it's oppressively miserable all year round bar the week or two that the sun comes out. Chrisopher Brookmire launched into a rant about Aberdeen in one of his books and how Aberdonians had the cheek to name it 'The Silver City'. He said something along the lines of 'if Aberdeen is silver, then shite isn't brown, it's coppertone'.

On another note, how has this thread extended to eleven pages without a mention of Bognor Regis yet?

beverick

Scotland

Ardrossan
Most places around Glasgow - but especially Paisley.

England
Castleford
Virtually anywhere in West Yorkshire to the West of Leeds.
Slough
Cleveleys
Fleetwood
Barrow in Furness
Ilfracombe
Corby

Wales
Haverfordwest
Milford Haven (named so inappropriately!)
Pwllheli


Bob

Pross

How is Northern Ireland getting out of this so lightly?

beverick

Lets face it. Most of Northern Ireland was rebuilt between 1969 and 1995 so it is going to get away with it, isn't it!

I nominate Lurgan if it makes you feel any better.......

Bob

rick_chasey

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

Has anyone said Billingham yet? The only town centre than can look closed at midday on a saturday.

Says the man from Middlesbrough.

Pross

beverick wrote:

Lets face it. Most of Northern Ireland was rebuilt between 1969 and 1995 so it is going to get away with it, isn't it!

I nominate Lurgan if it makes you feel any better.......

Bob

Not sure about that, I think it's probably more that not many of us have ever been to a lot of the places that are really bad over there. I did end up lost in my friend's family car going to Donegal in '86 and ended up in the Bogside briefly - it didn't look too good (but still better than Corby or Merthyr).

tailwindhome

Pross wrote:

How is Northern Ireland getting out of this so lightly?

I asked that some pages back.

I can only assume no one here has been to Larne

anj132

Aggieboy wrote:

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Still on the balancing act...
A buddy of mine from St Austell always reckoned Redruth was truly beyond belief awful. I, being a naive Midlander, thought that as it was in Cornwall it might be alright. I stayed with him for a while and we went there... my God. No words of his could prepare me. Will someone come to their rescue?

Redruth has gone downhill over the years. It all started when Redruth Grammar school closed imho St Austell is hardly the jewel in Cornwall's crown though, is it?

+potato on Redruth

What's wrong with Snozzle... we've a new town centre with 2 shops gone due to bankruptcy and another on it's way out... it's definately on the way up :roll: . The only way it might stay off the list was if it became a city and it failed at that too.

No menion of Bodmin yet?

I agree with Plymouth but it's a city, can't make the list unfortunately.

upperoilcan

mididoctors wrote:

Borden hampshire

3 takeways and 2 tattoo parlour high street

It's an army town,what else would you need or expect...????


(I know this as i bought my car from a soldier there).

Kendal Black Drop

anj132 wrote:

+potato

That's MTB talk and has no place here (unless you are prepared to explain the derivation).

anj132

Kendal Black Drop wrote:

anj132 wrote:

+potato

That's MTB talk and has no place here (unless you are prepared to explain the derivation).

My bad, what should have I used?

+shaved legs?
+lycra?
+Lance?

Pross

TailWindHome wrote:

Pross wrote:

How is Northern Ireland getting out of this so lightly?

I asked that some pages back.

I can only assume no one here has been to Larne

Larne's one of the nicer places I've been there - stayed there at my friends aunt's house for a few days on the same holiday we got lost in the Bogside. Mind you, that was mid 80s and Larne was probably less affected than some other places were at the time.

Ben6899

Rick Chasey wrote:

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

Has anyone said Billingham yet? The only town centre than can look closed at midday on a saturday.

Says the man from Middlesbrough.

Which tells you just how bad Billingham is.

Kendal Black Drop

anj132 wrote:

Kendal Black Drop wrote:

anj132 wrote:

+potato

That's MTB talk and has no place here (unless you are prepared to explain the derivation).

My bad, what should have I used?

+shaved legs?
+lycra?
+Lance?

Well you could have used proper English and said something like "I agree" (if that was what you were trying to say). What is "+potato on Redruth" supposed to mean?

BelgianBeerGeek

upperoilcan wrote:

mididoctors wrote:

Borden hampshire

3 takeways and 2 tattoo parlour high street

It's an army town,what else would you need or expect...????


(I know this as i bought my car from a soldier there).

That does explain the desperately grim state of Bordon. You have summed up the building stock of the place, apart from army barracks/quarters, does it count as a town?
BTW, you bought a car from a squaddie? Are you mad?

upperoilcan

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

That does explain the desperately grim state of Bordon. You have summed up the building stock of the place, apart from army barracks/quarters, does it count as a town?
BTW, you bought a car from a squaddie? Are you mad?

He was a tank mechanic in his defence....

vitesse169

upperoilcan wrote:

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

That does explain the desperately grim state of Bordon. You have summed up the building stock of the place, apart from army barracks/quarters, does it count as a town?
BTW, you bought a car from a squaddie? Are you mad?

He was a tank mechanic in his defence....

It's one of the homes of R.E.M.E. I was there for 4 months in'78 and again in '81 for a 7 month course, grim. Was down that way last month and passed thru to show Mrs V where I was before we met.... can't print what she said, so it's not just me.... There was a pub there called the big E, what a dive that was...

mididoctors

upperoilcan wrote:

mididoctors wrote:

Borden hampshire

3 takeways and 2 tattoo parlour high street

It's an army town,what else would you need or expect...????


(I know this as i bought my car from a soldier there).

being a garrison town isn't some sort of get of jail free card... yeah it counts

wardieboy

Another vote for Chatham here.

Although I do find it surprising that after 12 pages Maidstone hasn't had a mention, it is one of the only towns in Kent that makes Tonbridge* look classy.





*Not to be confused with Tunbridge Wells, where good looking, honest, hard working people come from. The only good looking people you find in Tonbridge have mistakenly departed the train at Tonbridge thinking it is Tunbridge Wells. If you are unlucky enough to find yourself in Tonbridge, I would whole heartedly recommend an al-fresco pint at the slug & lettuce and watch the persistent conveyor belt of in-bred freaks that pass you by.

mididoctors

wardieboy wrote:

Another vote for Chatham here.

Although I do find it surprising that after 12 pages Maidstone hasn't had a mention, it is one of the only towns in Kent that makes Tonbridge* look classy.





*Not to be confused with Tunbridge Wells, where good looking, honest, hard working people come from. The only good looking people you find in Tonbridge have mistakenly departed the train at Tonbridge thinking it is Tunbridge Wells. If you are unlucky enough to find yourself in Tonbridge, I would whole heartedly recommend an al-fresco pint at the slug & lettuce and watch the persistent conveyor belt of in-bred freaks that pass you by.

prefer tonbridge to be honest! Tonbridge may be full of kent rednecks but tunbridge wells is like a sketch out of little britain

and medway towns [all of them] has been mentioned

Pross

mididoctors wrote:

upperoilcan wrote:

mididoctors wrote:

Borden hampshire

3 takeways and 2 tattoo parlour high street

It's an army town,what else would you need or expect...????


(I know this as i bought my car from a soldier there).

being a garrison town isn't some sort of get of jail free card... yeah it counts

In that case can I have Tidworth please? Me and a cooleague did our best for the main street but it just looks out of character with the rest of the place!

dave8178

Has anybody been to Hyde in greater manchester. its famous for shipman, brady and hindley. its a lovely town........

Yossie

I'm being sent to Aldershot for a while at the end of next month - I'll keep you updated in a typical Yossie way when I can, but put it this way, I don't think it'll be Tuscany .......

By the way, has anyone said that Alsager should be napalmed? If not, then here it is: Alsager should be napalmed.

finchy

wardieboy wrote:

Another vote for Chatham here.

Although I do find it surprising that after 12 pages Maidstone hasn't had a mention, it is one of the only towns in Kent that makes Tonbridge* look classy.

When I lived in Maidstone I had a colleague from Chatham. She told me that for Chathamites a shopping trip down to Maidstone is viewed as a big, posh day out. The mind boggles.

Loretta Damage

Without a shred of doubt, Walsall is the festering, angry boil on the arse of the fly that is standing ankle deep in the recently deposited pile of crap left behind by a pack of rabid, flea-bitten, mangy mongrels that inhabit the worst hovel in the shittiest village in Shitsville. An artillery barrage would only serve to enhance the overall impression of the pound shop, gang ridden vision of urban misery that serves as a shopping centre.

smidsy

Loretta Damage wrote:

Without a shred of doubt, Walsall is the festering, angry boil on the ars* of the fly that is standing ankle deep in the recently deposited pile of crap left behind by a pack of rabid, flea-bitten, mangy mongrels that inhabit the worst hovel in the shittiest village in Shitsville. An artillery barrage would only serve to enhance the overall impression of the pound shop, gang ridden vision of urban misery that serves as a shopping centre.

So how is the job at the Walsall Tourist Information going??

Yossie

Loretta Damage wrote:

Without a shred of doubt, Walsall is the festering, angry boil on the ars* of the fly that is standing ankle deep in the recently deposited pile of crap left behind by a pack of rabid, flea-bitten, mangy mongrels that inhabit the worst hovel in the shittiest village in Shitsville. An artillery barrage would only serve to enhance the overall impression of the pound shop, gang ridden vision of urban misery that serves as a shopping centre.

I'm not really feeling the love for Walsall here ........

Bet its not full of rapists like Alsager is though.

steveplymouth

I'd second Plymouth, good location, near the moors and the sea, lots of history so why is it such a $hithole? they've recently built a new mall, and the main shop in it is Primark, just about sums up the place.

Although i did have to spend the day in Newport once, while getting my passport sorted. now that IS a $hithole

msmancunia

I'm voting for Rochdale. Nothing but charity shops, and slowly dying a death. Someone decided to build a new shopping centre even though the old one was crap. Now it has two half empty shopping centres.

You know a place is shit when even McDonalds has closed down.