Battle of the worst places in England

[cover drive man]

Originally Posted by andmark

I nominate Huyton, it's full of people who think they're bigger than the likes of Al Capone, Frank Lucas, Lucky Luciano etc... It makes you wonder what is the young working class of Britain coming to?

You really need to stop listening to me.

[Goughy]

Without wanting to beat the same drum repeatedly, I asked my wife

"Whats the worst place you have been to in England?"

"Bradford"

"Ive already said Bradford, where else?"

"Nowhere really, just Bradford"

[Langeveldt]

Originally Posted by Goughy

Without wanting to beat the same drum repeatedly, I asked my wife

"Whats the worst place you have been to in England?"

"Bradford"

"Ive already said Bradford, where else?"

"Nowhere really, just Bradford"

Have you read "notes from a small island'? Bryson going to town on Bradford is one of the highlights.. Not trying to put a downer on Britains multiculturalism, but it's highly annoying being in an English town where the majority of people don't speak English as well. Guess it makes for some fantastic take-away food though.

[Goughy]

Originally Posted by Langeveldt

Have you read "notes from a small island'? Bryson going to town on Bradford is one of the highlights..

I have but not for a while. I have it upstairs. Ill give it a re-read right now

[PhoenixFire]

Originally Posted by Goughy

Without wanting to beat the same drum repeatedly, I asked my wife

"Whats the worst place you have been to in England?"

"Bradford"

"Ive already said Bradford, where else?"

"Nowhere really, just Bradford"

Interesting. I mean, there are some terrible, terrible parts of Bradford (Thorpe Edge, Manningham ect) and it is the worst place for gun crime according to Wikipedia, but there are honestly some places that have very nice houses and generally crime free. A majority of it a ****hole though. Bradford >> Keighley for mine. Keighley is a downright ****hole and a shocking place.

[PhoenixFire]

Originally Posted by Langeveldt

Have you read "notes from a small island'? Bryson going to town on Bradford is one of the highlights.. Not trying to put a downer on Britains multiculturalism, but it's highly annoying being in an English town where the majority of people don't speak English as well. Guess it makes for some fantastic take-away food though.

Haha yea it does. Won't find a better curry than at the Kashmir or Punjab Sweet Centre (both restaurants). Reckon it's a stretch to say that a majority of people don't speak English, I'd make a call that the Pakistanis that live in Keighley are much less educated than those in Bradford.

[UncleTheOne]

kirkby, luton and aylesbury. god aylesbury is bad.

hemel hempstead and swindon for their stupid bloody roundabouts.

[Langeveldt]

Oh and nominate -

Beaconsfield
Carterton

Beaconsfield is like wealthy Oxford's Soweto.. Carterton is an interesting one, built to service the nearby American Air Force base, it's modelled on an American town with grid roads and nice wide tree-lined streets.. The problem is it's in England, so it has 60's architecture, a space ship Supermarket, and more chavs than you can shake a surface to air missile at..

- Picks for the real conniseur of crap towns, someone who takes a diversion to visit these places..

[Matteh]

Originally Posted by Langeveldt

Don't mean to monopolize this, so discount my selections if you want, but if you are stuck here are some noteworthily poor places to be... Grafted from my own experiences and the Crap Towns website..

Bradford
Immingham
Weston-Super-Mare
Preston
Blackpool
Basingstoke
Ashington
Mansfield
Burnham-on-Sea

Worse places out there than Mansfield itbt.

[PhoenixFire]

Going to have to add Ulverstone to the list, shockingly grim place.

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Langeveldt

Oh and nominate -

Beaconsfield
Carterton

Beaconsfield is like wealthy Oxford's Soweto.. Carterton is an interesting one, built to service the nearby American Air Force base, it's modelled on an American town with grid roads and nice wide tree-lined streets.. The problem is it's in England, so it has 60's architecture, a space ship Supermarket, and more chavs than you can shake a surface to air missile at..

- Picks for the real conniseur of crap towns, someone who takes a diversion to visit these places..

You actually are making me want to visit Carterton (well at least drive through it) and get a handle on it.

Beaconsfield is hardly Soweto, is it? How many places have a Prep School and a Cricket Ground on the main street? And I find it immensely difficult to believe that Aylesbury is half as bad as much of the above

Not going to take issue on your Saltash, though. Jesus that place depressed me.

Tamworth. Dry ski slope and what else?
Castleford and Pontefract (after Ian Henderson)
Honiton - well, what the **** is it supposed to be for?
Rotherham - how is it not already on the list?
Middlesbrough - well?
Runcorn - great if you like salt.
Saltburn - it's a purpose-built seaside resort - in Cleveland.

[Matteh]

Tamworth doesn't have a dry ski slope, it has a snow slope.

[PhoenixFire]

OK, we have 64. I'll start the battles sometime tomorrow.

Ashington
Aylesbury
Basingstoke
Batley
Beaconsfield
Blackpool
Bolton
Bradford
Bridgewater
Bristol
Burton upon Trent
Cambourne
Carterton
Castleford
Coventry
Darlington
Dewsbury
Evesham
Gravesend
Great Yarmouth
Grimsby
Halifax
Haworth
Honiton
Hull
Immingham
Keighley
King's Lynn
Kirky
Luton
Mansfield
Middlesborough
Milton Keynes
Mirfield
Morecambe
Moss Side
Newport
Nottingham
Plymouth
Pontefract
Portsmouth
Preston
Romford
Rotherham
Runcorn
S****horpe
Salford
Saltburn
Sheffield
Skegness
Slough
Southend
Staines
Stoke
Sunderland
Swindon
Tamworth
Toxteth
Truro
Ulverstone
Weston-Super-Mare
Wolverhampton
Wroxham
Yeovil

[GIMH]

Runcorn I've always found okay just because it's where my brother lives, but really, it's just Milton Keynes for the northwest

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFire

S****horpe

Wins by de****t rely.