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scummiest town in england you have visited??
scummiest town in england you have visited??
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Where are those lines from?, iawn is it a song, poem?
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salmon spray 08 Dec 25 09:14
Some places up north have gone missing. Redcar,Withernsea,Rotherham. ........................... Yes, and there are parts of Sheffield worse than those three. Add Batley, Dewsbury, Bradford, Oldham, Rochdale, Blackburn and a few others. I haven't been to Picadilly Gardens in Manchester centre but that looks one of the worst areas in any city, like a dystopian zoo. |
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Parts of London. Full of Orcs from Africa and the Caribbean and South Asia.
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Leicester's a s**t hole
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your talking about these places as though they were once something else, I used to go to all boro away games on inter cities trains in 80,s ,get there early for a mossie around and a pint and likes of cov,Wolverhampton,bristol,Oldham,Barnsley ,city/Salford were all ****,s so to speak back then
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It's a poem by John Betjeman, "Slough". From Wiki: "Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years,[1] and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II.[2] The sudden appearance of this "Trading Estate", which was quickly widely reproduced throughout Britain, prompted the poem. Seeing the new appearance of the town, Betjeman was struck by the "menace of things to come". He later regretted the poem's harshness.[3] The poem is not about Slough specifically, but about the desecration caused by industrialization and modernity in general, with the transformation of Slough being the epitome of these evils.[4] Nevertheless, successive mayors of Slough have objected to the poem. The poem was published two years before the outbreak of World War II, during which Britain (including Slough itself) experienced actual air raids. Much later, in a guide to English churches, Betjeman referred to some churches as "beyond the tentacles of Slough" and "dangerously near Slough".[5] However, on the centenary of Betjeman's birth in 2006, his daughter apologised for the poem. Candida Lycett Green said her father "regretted having ever written it". During her visit, Lycett Green presented Mayor of Slough David MacIsaac with a book of her father's poems. In it was written: "We love Slough". |
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Thank you.
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went to city in 90,s and ended up in wrong area and went for a drink in Salford and it was literally like taking part in a episode of SHAMELESS,then there was the benefits street show in brum,
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Within a few minutes' walk of Slough, you pass the playing fields of Eton. A few minutes more and you'll see the school and the boys in their tailcoats.
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Saddo
Piccadilly gardens are an embarrassment to the city I have lived all my life back in the 60s 70s they were nice,there are plans to improve them but whilst that’s a plus I don’t know how they will changed the people who use them. |
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Machine guns would do, vermin everywhere.
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That would be a good solution
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Eton College boys have only in recent years been allowed to cross the river into Windsor. Once was ran into as the races by P Harry desperate to get a bet on after the race had started. As far as I know they are still not allowed to go into Slough |
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morecambe,but end of same **** gan on
as 90 percent of towns across the uk... there is one or two recessionproof areas of course, lakes ie- windy, ambleside bowness, keswick but those areas are slowly been eradicated via massive tourism, and there simliar places in yorkie dales n peak district |
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Anyone been to Hatfield,bit like a zombie movie.
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Most of North London is finished as a place to live...
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All I have ever known about Slough is that Mars Bars were made there and my granddad used to use the phrase the best thing since Mars Bars.
Has to be plus point for the place, no? |
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Another vote for Luton here, suspect a few have been to the poker at Grosvenor which is decent enough but don't get lost, you will think your in Bangladesh. The worst hotel there ever stayed in, a Thistle and a really awful Premier Inn.
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Loyal
Plus point is you don’t have far to travel to ascot |
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another for Luton, been couple of times to Kenilkworth Rd, its like the Appalachians
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Harrow
Southall Wembley Leicester Birmingham Luton Blackburn Bradford Must be a link of some kind? |
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Their Fav day is Friday
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they don't like dags neitherrre
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All of it
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Birkenhead ,,you see them trying to get across the mersey like zombies
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Not necessarily scummy, but I was horrified by how run down and grey Ashington was when I was there around 10 years ago
Wouldn't disagree about Blackburn, though there's probably worse Sunderland, never the best, appeared to be dying on its arse last time I was there a couple of years back |
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one for the oldies,when jack charlton,s boring,boring BORO team were in their promotion season ,LUTON were in 2nd place and I went to Kenilworth Rd with my uncle, and we won the championship that day in APRIL by boring LUTON to death 1 v 5
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I thought souness was around then
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ive rarely been abroad in england, but the few times i have been, ive noticed who one town just blends into the next...you all live ontop of each other, which probabaly explains the social unrest that seems everywhere in that country....
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Murdoch came around that time too jimnast. I’ve never heard Souey talk about him but my perception always was that Bobby kind of mentored him at Ayresome Park, helped him mature. I’m sure Souness would have benefitted a lot from his experience.
Murdoch would have been worth Meg in this day and age. Top, top midfielder in his day. |
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Murdoch coached jnrs like proctor,Johnson,hodgson through the system to 1st team players ,he was my dads fav player,and the rather portly poster boy for boro,s iconic blue and black stripe sky blue shorts and socks,seem to remember him scoring against Sunderland in a f a cup game on a mudbath at holgate end, think that was the yr we lost at orient in quarter finals
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I once saw Murdoch in a Celtic home game, can’t remember the opposition. He clashed with an opponent on the dugout side halfway line, head to head stuff. The opponent did the now normal thing of pushing his forehead into his as opposed to a full head-butt. Murdoch went to “act” as if he had been violently assaulted, hand to brow in agony, but as he did so he looked to his right and the Celtic dugout, where of course big Jock would have been watching. He instantly thought better of it, straightened up and got on with things. I got the distinct impression at the time that he would have had big Jock to deal with later if he’d collapsed like a wimp to the ground and that that was not a pleasant option.
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Hounslow.
Reminded me of watching Black Hawk Down at the local IMAX 15 years beforehand. |
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What is the common denominator......Who is brave enough to find the link.
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Imports from lesser lands I expect.
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All our lives we have invested our industry and good citizenship in keeping the country we were born into and bred up in and today we have to speak/text/communicate in a code.
That is our life now. |