"Crap Towns" of the UK

[Cue_Ball]

The best things about Bradford city centre, and the majority of the closely adjoining suburbs, are the roads out of them.

As long as those roads don't lead to Dewsbury. That place is like something from a fever dream.

 

[Grey Man]

Oldham, or even worse, Ashton-under-Lyne. I could level that place with a clear conscience.

 

[Grey Man]

Britain is getting a bit bit tenuous now. It's three regions, sub-divided into fiefdoms of Mayors, Commissioners. local government councillor grubs, etc and saturated with layers of bureaucrats and administrators. There has been a steady de-centralisation and erosion of the State entity that was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The EU intends the complete dissolution of all the consitutuent nation states. It's no secret - the first plans were published quite openly in the late 1970's. Britain is to be broken up into a series of euro-fiefdoms.

Despite 'Brexit' the Blob continues to push the agenda unabated. Hence the push for 'decentralisation', local mayors, new 'regions' and all the guff about 'local democracy'.

 

[Keith 66]

The Isle of Sheppey was mentioned, It is a strange place only recently connected to the mainland full time by a high level road bridge, prior to that a lifting rail road bridge that broke down regularly. Queenboro is better than it was & has the Admirals arm micropub which is one of the best pubs anywhere. But as you go round the island it gets worse, Sheerness very run down then Minster & out on the end Leysdown, its a holiday village where people from many of the turd towns mentioned go on holiday, which explains a lot!
I once read that in ancient times a tribe of Sheppey people only had one left eye, Across the water on Canvey island lived a similar tribe who only had one right eye. Sheep stealing voyages led to some interbreeding & Essex man was the result. But the Sheppey tribe still mostly bred amongst themselves.....

Just down the road Southend is getting worse & worse.
Trouble is everywhere has its crap part & inhabitants no matter where you go.

 

[Dudd I]

I know Lutonians, born n bred, who no longer go near the town centre. When I moved here it was on the edge n could've gone up or down, so wasn't too bad.
Vauxhall closed n nothing replaced it. Since then it's become a dormitory town.
The part where I live used to be good, but that stone's rolling down hill.
The town's frequently in the top ten.

 

[snipperuk]

When I spotted this thread I was hoping Blackpool was mentioned so I could counter with nothing but positive experiences.

I have in laws in Lytham St. Annes and have been over there many times for various occasions going back decades . It's like Disneyland for retired people with a bit of life left in them.

Lovely quite, respectable little spot. We had dinner and drinks on a front patio in the nucleous of the town on a busy Saturday night and even though it's a busy spot and people were constantly walking past it was like a private party, There seems to be a preference for old school manners about the place amongst the business owners and residents.

That steak and ale pie in the family run restaurant there's always a queue outside is a behemoth and they have no bother with a doggy bag. World class music festivals on the seafront, every year, great pubs and restaurants and only 10-15 minutes from the centre of Blackpool with all the shows and entertainment.

My niece dragged us along to a Bingo night last year and I was shocked, the toilets were genuinely like a 5 star hotel, full restaurants, table service for everything, VIP lounge where you could play in silence and a laptop fills in your numbers as they are called.

Blackpool is brilliant, there is always something going on for entertainment. I love the place.

Lytham was an eye opener .... It was a beautiful sunny day so stopped off after been at Blackpool (I like the new front with all the jokes on the paving) .
It was like stepping back in time with the lovely old pier and all the old dears sunning themselves while another old lad entertained/busking playing an organ . Fish and chips near the lifeboat station living the dream

 

[zogg364]

Blackpool is truly dreadful but in its defence I only mean the town centre/golden mile/centre nucleus..

I worked in central for 9 years and the amount of abuse/attempted assaults and near misses was quite terrifying to be honest… Alcohol and drugs as per many seaside town of course being they cause but the lack of any serious form of policing is astonishing

Daytime is bad enough but night time visits in the areas just off the prom can seriously put you in harms way…

The locals however if not off their heads on white lightning or crack (i.e the majority) are the most friendly welcoming and funny bunch about and Lytham only 15 mins along the coast by car, frequently gets voted one of the best places to live in the UK and is a beautiful town (I am biased cos I live there)

I used to live in Bradford and Huddersfield which much be up on the list of crap places and Bradford especially is a real shit hole but I never felt unsafe there.. just depressed

 

[zogg364]

Lytham was an eye opener .... It was a beautiful sunny day so stopped off after been at Blackpool (I like the new front with all the jokes on the paving) .
It was like stepping back in time with the lovely old pier and all the old dears sunning themselves while another old lad entertained/busking playing an organ . Fish and chips near the lifeboat station living the dream

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Beautiful but that’s St Anne’s, lovely seafront but Lytham is 4 miles further along the coast and well worth a visit

 

[Crazylegs]

Waterlooville. No shops left. Town centre could benefit from some of Vlad the Pootins special operation. The councils have allowed corporations to open up in job creating retail parks that have wiped out the centre with more loosing there jobs than gained. Unrestricted affordable exec homes.....go figure, have overloaded the doctors etc. For sure the builders build empty community centres and a health clinic but they can't staff them. If our kids ever leave the area we will be gone ASAP.

 

[Squintykid]

When did you last visit?
The best things about Bradford city centre, and the majority of the closely adjoining suburbs, are the roads out of them.

When I moved up to WY (2003-05 ) my first impression of entering Bradford was that all the speed cameras faced inbound traffic in hope of catching a snap of the ram raiders faces coming home.
The sheer number on some roads also meant you could lose your licence going in but keep it if you left as fast as possible

 

[Jimbobjones]

Poor old Millom going back to at least 1086. , once a great industrial village , quickly expanded into a township on the back of the county’s best and most prolific haematite mine ( Severn pit heads)
A iron works with 6 blast furnaces, a large tannery.
In 1968 the mine and iron works closed down and the rapid decline ( typical of industrial towns ) set in.

Millom town center 1900.
For all that it gave this country , a lack of foresight and reinvestment slapped it in the face.

 

[Brooksy]

And this is just the biggest piss take in the history of piss taking

Bradford Culture Company

This is Bradford. Unfiltered. Unstoppable. Unmissable.

bradford2025.co.uk

Imagine a mugger and his victim who's saying "Is this a dagger I see before me"?

 

[ratter10]

Imagine a mugger and his victim who's saying "Is this a dagger I see before me"?

Exactly, what a joke. Bradford used to be a very rich town in the era of the thriving Mills, with many beautiful buildings (e.g. Little Germany area) but now ---------

 

[edbear3]

Grimsby. I work in a medical centre in Riby Square. The prostitutes are as far from “Pretty Woman” as it’s possible to be. Freeman Street used to be a thriving shopping hub but is now full of ‘barber’ shops and ‘convenience’ stores. After dark it’s a dangerous place to be and English is a dirty language. Only 30 years ago Grimsby was a thriving fishing town with plenty of money coming in from the trawlers and associated trade. Now it’s a shithole. Such a shame.
Luckily for me I live a good way out of town in the sticks but it breaks my heart to see what the town has become.

One of my best mates is from Immingham and he relates the above too, even in his time (he is 50 now), he trained as a trawler maker / plater in Grimsby / Immingham now works overseas.

ATB, Ed

 

[Troy.T.]

Lets be absolutely honest here. The worst towns are because of immigrants. They don't want to interagrate, just want to continue with their vile uncivilised habits. Sorry, but true.

 

[number10]

 

[Wizzygoth]

So...to sum it up;
The whole of the UK is turning/turned in to a dump.
Very few places to run to, to escape the squalor, depravity and decline.
Yet our governments are happy to see migrants flooding in (infestation) and any money left over is given to support an un-winnable war, a war that we have no business being involved in.
Time to consider selling up and find another country.

 

[magnet]

Ashington in Northumberland, aka Ashganistan. Once known as the largest pit village in the world. Now its just the pits.
When the industry goes its a sad race to the bottom.

 

[Berber]

Oh go on tell us!
Could you ban yourself?

I used to belong to a forum where the administrator blew his top, slagged off every single forum member (it took some time in the small hours of the morning) then banned himself, never to return.

 

[Lightning22]

When did you last visit?
The best things about Bradford city centre, and the majority of the closely adjoining suburbs, are the roads out of them.

Last year, though when I last lived there Forster Square still resembled a post-war bomb site.