Shittest town in the UK?

Aggieboy

steveplymouth wrote:

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

Primark hardly makes it a sh1thole does it? And M&S is bigger anyway.

clarkey cat

Blackwood in South Wales is pretty minging.

cornerblock

msmancunia wrote:

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

Au contraire msmancunia, au contraire ( sorry I've come over all Del Boy there!), surely it means a place has been improved when that rubbish leaves town.

msmancunia

Cornerblock wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

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

Au contraire msmancunia, au contraire ( sorry I've come over all Del Boy there!), surely it means a place has been improved when that rubbish leaves town.

That impression was so good I almost thought I was having a conversation with The Real Del Boy.

Anyway, those places do have their uses. Such as when intelligent career women get all Bridget Jones after a couple of two many Pinot Gs, miss their train home and are starving hungry. I'd just like to point out that the girl spotted last night eating a large McChicken Sandwich meal, fanta and a Creme Egg McFlurry in the Manchester St Annes Square establishment was not me. At all.

d87heaven

Clacton and the shanty town that is Jaywick. Not to forget the holiday resort called Seawick. A nice touch of the Seawick caravan park is the onsite tattoo and betting shops.

First.Aspect

Abingdon.

Controversial I know. On the Thames, affluent. But ruined by an utterly demented amount of traffic and so absolutely chocked full of indignant yoghurt knitters that its a challenge not to commit, over confident yahoo induced murder on any given visit.

ugo.santalucia

Wouldn't it be easier to have a " the ten British towns worth living in?" I don't think there are many more...

Simmotino

Yossie wrote:

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 .......

Aldershot doesn't exist any more. It's now called Little Nepal.

Make sure you visit your doctor for jabs prior to departure, you'll need them! :shock:

jim453

Why? Do Nepalese people harbour disease?

migrantwing

I saw Walsall on the list. Yes, it's a sh*thole. Wolverhampton is a sh*thole, too. Unfortunately, for me, I live in a little town situated between the two. Complete sh*thole!

Simmotino

jim453 wrote:

Why? Do Nepalese people harbour disease?

Nope, but Aldershot does!

p9uma

I would like to offer Daventry for consideration. Without a single shadow of a doubt the biggest carbuncle on the backside of humanity, the vilest dive of a dump you will ever visit, a sink of bohemian depravity. If a bomb went off in Daventry destroying most of the town it would cause about a ten million pounds worth of improvements. I have never been to Basra, but I think it would be preferable to visiting Davnetry again. If you ever get chance to go to Daventry, don't. Just Don't.

shouldbeinbed

Vesterberg wrote:

UPDATE

Ok, I think a shitlist of 20 is large enough, the festering scabs in your regions are:

North West Shitholes
Skelmsersdale
Blackpool
Bradford
Runcorn


Despite Yossies brilliant and impassioned plea for Alsager, I'm lumping it in with Stoke.

These will go into a Poll and the for the winner I will start an online petition to have it prefixed with '$hit' for example 'shoot Walsall' or for all civic and road signs to have 'Voted Britain's Shittest Town' underneath. More than 100k and it has to be debated at least.

just a couple of points, You've missed Rochdale off the North West - its got another vote now msmanc has joined the Oldham posse and it's worthily horrible. I think both Bradford and the North West would object to them being lumped together. should be that there yarkshur for Bratfa to go in.

woodnut

Anyone mentioned Keighley yet?...

Bradford 's obvious, but fekkin Leeds is a pig's toilet aswell, but for some reason people like it?

"it's got Harvey Nicks"

So what, that's like finding a flawed pearl in a dog turd.

DF33

^^^ I can't argue with it.

Leeds is superb in some respects, is fantastically placed for outdoors stuff, 30 mins bike ride and your on the edge of the Dales etc, hour and a half drive to the Lakes, Peaks, hour to North Yorks, 2 to Wales, 3 to Scotland, 2 hours on the train to londinium.

But Leeds is dirty. Filthy, littr everywhere, chavs the same. No significant concert venues, sports centre, large swimming pools, no velodrome, no trams, metro or underground, minor arts galleries. It's really crap in a lot of ways. Full stop.

Yossie

I've only been to Leeds once to play the University at lacrosse. I was shocked at how shyyyyte it was when we drove in and only too glad to see the back of it as we drove out. Horrible place.

Not as bad as the toilet of England that is Alsager though ……..

shockedsoshocked

Leeds is great if you're a student. I imagine it's not so good if you're a real person though.

StillGoing

Anywhere in urban Leicester. Beautiful county scenery fucked up by the dross in the middle.

contadorbeef

Seacombe (Not so much a town, but a sh8t hole)
Liscard (Friendly town, everyone's related duelling banjo style)
Birkenhead (They moved the scum from here to Seacombe)

Yossie

philthy3 wrote:

Anywhere in urban Leicester. Beautiful county scenery farked up by the dross in the middle.

I've spent quite a bit of time in the Leicestershire countryside - stunning vistas spoiled by the absolute amount of trash in the hedgerows: its like people drive out there to chuick their rubbish in each and every hedge they find.

ademort

Having visited the heliport many times in the last year i can only say that Great Yarmouth gets my vote, a real shi@hole of a place. Sheerness in Kent is almost as bad. To think that people actually live in these places.
Ademort

finchy

ademort wrote:

To think that people actually exist in these places.

FTFY

ademort

Read the posting again. I wrote to think that people live in these places and not to think that people exist in these places.Obviously you come from one of the Shi@holes mentioned.
Ademort

finchy

I think you've sort of missed my point here ademort...

joshr96

I wouldn't be a geordie if I didn't say sunderland..

Rigged

You can add Telford to that list of Midland's shitholes. Surely the discussion ends with Stoke, can't imagine a single less pleasant place in the England!

Pross

Rigged wrote:

You can add Telford to that list of Midland's shitholes. Surely the discussion ends with Stoke, can't imagine a single less pleasant place in the England!

I can, Corby - unfortunately I don't need to imagine it though (and this is having spent quite a bit of time in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent)!!

proto

Foolishly went to Leicester yesterday. What a horrible place.

McBain_v1

Frodscum in Cheshire - bunch of octogenerian nimbies who all need a good dose of 20th Century.

Escadrille Ecosse

Cumbernauld, fortunately only ever passing through
Livingston, just sucks the life out of you
Denny wasn't that bad when I lived there, the town centre does the place no favours.

The worst place though, surprised no-one seems to have mentioned it

Holyhead. I remembered it as a dump when I was younger, went back once realised it was worse, much worse