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rogerzilla

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #1 on: 08 October, 2013, 07:11:26 pm »
I'm baffled by the inclusion of York.  I can kinda understand Bradford, though I do have an affection for it.

Can't argue with No.1.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #2 on: 08 October, 2013, 07:27:52 pm »
RZ: you have my sympathy. It must have hurt, not being able to post this in the Didcot thread.

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #3 on: 08 October, 2013, 07:29:21 pm »
I'm baffled by the inclusion of York.  I can kinda understand Bradford, though I do have an affection for it.

Can't argue with No.1.

Erm, yeah. 
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WTF?  It is full of visitors, year round.

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #4 on: 08 October, 2013, 08:00:36 pm »
Bit random isn't it?

Is it crap towns UK, or crap towns England?
I'm sure Llanelli deserves a mention.

And WHERE'S LEICESTER?

Appols to anyone from either of those two locations.

And, although I've never been a great lover of That London, I find it's inclusion just ridiculous.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #5 on: 08 October, 2013, 08:13:57 pm »
I presume locations North of the border were excluded on the basis of unfair competition.

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #6 on: 08 October, 2013, 08:17:26 pm »
The inclusion of High Wycombe seems a bit random.  They can't all have cycled through it at 3am, surely?

Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #7 on: 08 October, 2013, 08:20:37 pm »
Anyone who thinks York and London, even Bradford, belong on that list, has clearly never been to Coundon.

clarion

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #8 on: 08 October, 2013, 09:58:21 pm »
Slough, Swindon, Didcot, Croydon, Eastbourne, Stevenage, Luton, Milton Keynes, Romford and a whole load of other places surprise by their absence.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #9 on: 08 October, 2013, 10:07:05 pm »
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #10 on: 08 October, 2013, 10:09:20 pm »
West Bromwich
Stockport
Folkestone
Wigan
Basingstoke
Reading
Skegness
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #11 on: 08 October, 2013, 10:35:07 pm »
Any list that doesn't include Leicester can't honestly claim to be a list of crap towns. It's an absolute heap. A lot of towns are crap but you don't become actively depressed on going through them like you do in Leicester.
Some say ah, it's ok, just needs freshening up a bit. It doesn't need freshening up, it needs flattening.

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #12 on: 08 October, 2013, 11:01:19 pm »
I'm baffled by the inclusion of York.  I can kinda understand Bradford, though I do have an infection from it.

Can't argue with No.1.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #13 on: 08 October, 2013, 11:18:11 pm »
Basildon.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #14 on: 08 October, 2013, 11:49:57 pm »
Is there a number that is more crappiererer than number one?  I Nominate Blackburn for a Special Prize if there is :hand:
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clarion

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #15 on: 09 October, 2013, 05:23:54 am »
Not Darwen?
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clarion

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #16 on: 09 October, 2013, 05:24:45 am »
Those nominating Leicester have obviously never been to Derby.
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rogerzilla

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Re: &quot;Crap Towns&quot; returns
« Reply #17 on: 09 October, 2013, 07:39:50 am »
Basildon should certainly feature.  The worst place I've ever been, though, is Stanley in Co Durham.  Main feature is a bowling alley on top of an Asda and it seems to be completely lawless.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #18 on: 09 October, 2013, 07:47:45 am »
Get out a road atlas and follow the A6 starting at London.   There's a list as long as your atm of crap towns...      ;D

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #19 on: 09 October, 2013, 08:39:56 am »
I would nominate Brighouse, the only town I know that felt robbed when the Woolworths shut, as it was the only shop that opened on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

It can't even claim to be the home of B&R brass band, that is over the river in Rastrick...
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #20 on: 09 October, 2013, 09:12:26 am »
Those nominating Leicester have obviously never been to Derby.

 ???

I quite like Derby. Then again, I also like Bradford. And Newport.

I suppose Leicester et al could be excluded as they're cities, but then York would have to be excluded too.  :-\
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clarion

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #21 on: 09 October, 2013, 10:00:42 am »
I grew up in Derby.  The best thing to do of an evening in Derby is go to Nottingham.

Mention of Stanley reminds me that Hartlepool, Billingham and Sunderland all have claims on the list.

London's still safely top, mind.
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« Reply #22 on: 09 October, 2013, 10:05:35 am »
Cant see why they put York in. If I were to nominate one for Yorkshire it would be Hull, Doncaster or Castleford. I quite like Bradford.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

clarion

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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #23 on: 09 October, 2013, 10:42:34 am »
Worst town in Yorkshire for me would be between Dewsbury and Pontefract.
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Re: "Crap Towns" returns
« Reply #24 on: 09 October, 2013, 10:54:52 am »
'Technically, not a town' as in London - well I think 'technically' neither is York.  Can't say I've lived there but it's lovely  :-\


I'd nominate my hometown of Bedford, a crap town centred in a region of crapness.  I left there running when I was 18 and have not seen anything but decline since, especially since the rather crappy city of Milton Keynes closed down half its amenities.
When WHSmith is the best shop in town you're in trouble.
(My data may be out of date there but it was by far the biggest shop in the Harpur centre when I was a lad and when I tried to go shopping there a couple of years back we gave up and went to MK on the way back to Wales)


To be fair though - Stevenage, Letchworth, Biggleswade etc nearby.... oof.


I'm impressed someone likes Newport - I suppose someone's got to.


And Birmingham... where is Birmingham?  I enjoyed living there but it's not exactly seen as the apple of the UK's eyes.


Now Scotland, as Feanor rightly says  -  I used to live in St Andrews, pretty crappy unless you like golf but in the local neighbourhood - Dundee, Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy - but my favourite crap town north of the border would be the hole my cousins once lived in - East Kilbride.  Rarely can you beat the newtowns for crappiness.
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