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scummiest town in england you have visited??
scummiest town in england you have visited??
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Your coach driver going the scenic route if hitting Harlesden whilst following Portsmouth FC
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Travel and experiences not limited to watching PFC. In case you needed that explaining frog. Used to live in Pimlico.
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I didn't all the best. Pimlico and Portsmouth, gl
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Jogged my memory Frogger
Was on cricket tour in the Portsmouth area in the mid 1990s and had the misfortune of getting a taxi to "somewhere there's a bit of life" - that was the request to the driver. Told not to go into the first pub - which had a queue at the door. Same at the next, and the night club had a line of young "adults". Not a female in sight. Not sure Southsea is a town or a city but it whatever it is/was, please don't go there |
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Ashton under Lyne. Copilot seems to disagree. "Ashton-under-Lyne is a historic market town in Greater Manchester, known for its rich industrial heritage, vibrant markets, and scenic surroundings."
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Blackpool often gets a kicking on discussion threads such as this one but still gets over 20m visitors a year which is quite something.
Tourism is worth £2 billion to the local economy  More pedantry - Southampton is also a city.... A couple of mates of mine a few years back would often go to Southsea for the weekend, they loved it. Might say more about them i suppose  |
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survey the 20m blackpool visitors and find put where they are from. because if they are picking blackpool for a break what the fck is home like?
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Yes, in the year of the storm in 1986 (I think). I played pool in a joint close to Strangeways Prison.
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Middlesbrough - so bad the brasses offer a meal deal
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Tipton is depressing
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Croydon ...the pitz
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Burnham on sea needs bulldozing, poverty on sea.
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howard the historic market town is fair enough vibrant markets and scenic surroundings indicates whoever copilot is they have not been to ashton.
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long way to go for a game of pool impossible ,anyway plenty of wealth in cheetham hill.
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guisbrough quaint market town where hoi Poli of teesside live like most towns the high st is looking a bit rough but that's because they've built a Aldi,MnS,Saintsbury,BnM,lidle in a shopping area 50yds behind it ,no need to visit high st,but it ain't rough in comparison to redcar down the Rd for example
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Paulybad.Sorry to hear about Burnham On Sea. Used to do family holidays in that area in the early seventies. Pontins Brean Sands. I hope no similar reports on Weston Super Mare.
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Tommy you will delighted to hear after a period of decline weston was voted a top destination again this year.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15287033/UKs-town-dubbed-worst-seaside-destination-named-visit-2026.html |
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You would struggle to find a worse town centre than Newhaven on the south coast, it makes Merthyr look classy !
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Off Piste I visited a suburb of Belfast while at the Punchestown festival now that was a throwback to the Past and not in a good way
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Paulybad. Thanks for that. Weston was a really nice back in the day. Glad it's reviving.
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Not England but may be of interest. Took a drive into and through Kirriemuir, birthplace of JM Barrie of Peter Pan fame. Double yellow lines everywhere and the most dirty, hostile looking, almost zombie like males I’ve ever seen ganging up and giving the glare and stare, many with cans, drink in hand. Was actually scared to stop the car at lights let alone stop and get out. Must be a nightmare for locals too in a tourist attraction village.
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Peterborough...full of those 'yob' types that say banter to everything.
Too many bl00dy louts in this country and time the gloves were off |
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Why so many depressing places?
I was once told it would be good to be cosmopolitan. |
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St.Helier Not scruffy but plenty of empty shops people not prepared to pay massive rents,when many people shopping on line. Now though many firms will not ship to Jersey. Like elsewhere town is a mess of road works traffic delays people complaining sound familiar ??
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Uk is a sh!thole from lands end to John O’ Groats tbh…..
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St Helier in Jersey? I'm shocked. I knew someone there some time ago, surname was Langlois.
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Ban Filthy takeaway food shops ,, you are financing the Takeover of the UK... Idiots
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I'll row in with our man FOYLESWAR.
Croydon is absolutely hideous. |
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Ex Scouse Boxer Billy Moore has a YouTube channel where he goes to the roughest Towns and Cities in the Country and walks round filming the places and people.
Talks to all sorts, Junkies, Homeless, Prostitutes. Well worth a watch. Coming to a place near you or has been. |
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Your right stringvest
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Sad to see Croydon voted on, I lived and worked there in the 70s and thought it was the best of South London suburbs. Some great music pubs, the occasional good show at Fairfield Halls , generally vibrant. Did go back for a day a few years back and was shocked. I paticularly wanted to visit a couple of pubs I frequented previously but one was only open Thursday to Sundays and the other one (used to be my lunch time pub) didn't open until 2 pm which didn't fit. The office block I worked in had been turned into flats. I definitely thought it had gone downhill though in fairness I've seen worse.
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Some places up north have gone missing. Redcar,Withernsea,Rotherham.
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The question was places you’ve visited salmon and I’ve never visited Rotherham however from what I’ve seen and heard I should think it would be towards the top of anyone’s list.
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Impossible 123 Iknow a few Langlois Eddie was a carpenter brother Rod was a sparks, A A Langlois large haulage contractor.,,
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Rhyl is a total shutehole awful place
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Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow Swarm over, Death! Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens Those air-conditioned, bright canteens, Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans Tinned minds, tinned breath. Mess up the mess they call a town — A house for ninety-seven down And once a week for half-a-crown For twenty years, And get that man with double chin Who'll always cheat and always win, Who washes his repulsive skin In women's tears, And smash his desk of polished oak And smash his hands so used to stroke And stop his boring dirty joke And make him yell. But spare the bald young clerks who add The profits of the stinking cad; It's not their fault that they are mad, They've tasted Hell. It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead And talk of sports and makes of cars In various bogus Tudor bars And daren't look up and see the stars But belch instead. In labour-saving homes, with care Their wives frizz out peroxide hair And dry it in synthetic air And paint their nails. Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. |
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People don’t take pride and care of their town or village tbh…..
Japanese could teach a few…..they even take bags to events and take away their own rubbish…. UK they drop or throw it from a car window….urinate in the street and spit everywhere…. |
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Stoke is actually 6 towns. So has the potential to be 6 times worse than anywhere else.
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seaside towns are completely different towns depending on wether you visit in or out of season
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Bolton, ffs what fighting and shocking, knockout auditor on you tube, dangerous place it’s just unbelivabe a quite a shock
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