Shit Towns

[oldham gull]

Can't believe so many of you hate Oldham! You obviously came through the rough part of town.
On a day like today with snow on the hills and bright sunshine you can't beat it - 15 mins into Manchester city centre and 5 mins in the car into the middle of nowhere in the Pennines. Wouldn't go back to Horsham even if we could afford it!

My top 3
Portsmouth
Blackpool
Crawley

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Wolverhampton
Reading
Chatham

And in Wales

Port Talbot
Newport
Swansea

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Barrow Inverness

Do you mean Barrow, or Inverness or Barrow-in-Furnace?

There are a whole raft of shit towns in the Scottish central belt and I work in one of the shittiest, Glenrothes.

Shotts, Whitburn, High Valleyfield, Methil all really dire.

Worthing really isn't that bad in comparison. Mind you when I went back there last year for the first time in 20 years the first thing I recognised about the place is the rank smell of seaweed. Nice.

 

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

Stoke-on-Trent - 3 long years spent there. They stuck 6 shit towns together in a bid to create a Frankensteins monster of a city and it worked! Equidistant between Birmingham and Manchester and you'd rather be in both of them.

Newhaven - What a welcome this place msut be for tourists. I doubt there is a more desolate, ugly, shite place in Sussex. Makes me glad I live in Uckfield.

Portsmouth - Nasty, nasty place. If you sent Iraqi asylum seekers there they'd be on the first plane back home.

 

[mona]

Luton
Swindon
Scunthorpe

I always enjoy the football trips to Lancs and Yorks.

 

[Seagull's Return]

Croydon, Grimsby (but there's a whole pack of northern shiteholes jostling for its place) and Eastbourne.

 

[Bozza]

They've knocked down The Litten Tree (nee Wine Lodge) ?!?

 

[Albion Dan]

Eastbourne bit harsh, you have obviously not travelled much as even Hastings is much worse.

Gillingham
Grimsby
Walsall

All very bizarre and scary places!

 

[Seagullmatt]

they've knocked down the litten tree?!?! what the f*** did they go and do that for!

bunch of nobbers!

It's been gone a couple of years now. All the pubs are now down one road so all the drunks can come out and fight!

 

[Bozza]

In further researching what I shall refer to as "The Litten Tree Situation", I've now been told that Chapmans is no longer called Chapmans.

You're going to tell me that Cloisters closed down next.

 

[Seagullmatt]

They've knocked down The Litten Tree (nee Wine Lodge) ?!?

Yes. RIP, it was the pub where i spent most of my teenage/early twenties years. The best pub in Worthing so naturally, it had to go!!!!

 

[Legend]

Darlington
Oldham
Gillingham

 

[Seagullmatt]

In further researching what I shall refer to as "The Litten Tree Situation", I've now been told that Chapmans is no longer called Chapmans.

You're going to tell me that Cloisters closed down next.

Cloisters closed down years ago but is now reopened. They've called it the Church. I haven't been in since it was Cloisters though.
Can't remember what Chapman's is called now.

Also, can't believe I missed Portsmouth off of of my list. The Tricorn makes the old Churchill square look like an AONB!

 

[Bozza]

Cloisters closed down years ago but is now reopened. They've called it the Church. I haven't been in since it was Cloisters though.
Can't remember what Chapman's is called now.

Also, can't believe I missed Portsmouth off of of my list. The Tricorn makes the old Churchill square look like an AONB!

I was jesting about Cloisters.

At least I'll have The Fountain should I return to Worthing and find I am in need of a beer....

 

[Seagullmatt]

I was jesting about Cloisters.

At least I'll have The Fountain should I return to Worthing and find I am in need of a beer....

Lol. I hope you are still joking coz the Fountain changed to the Font & Firkin and then to The Assembly. It's more like a night club than a pub now. No seats and loud music so you can't chat to your mates.

 

[Yorkie]

Dewsbury/Batley

Stoke/Burslem etc

Bradford

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I live in Hull and yes it did come first but although its a bit of a shit hole I cant believe it is worse then Bradford, Burnley, Rotherham etc.

Horsham was in that book at number 27.

For me, these would have to be in the top ten:

- Slough
- Grimsby, well Cleethorpes and Grimsby.
- Crawley
- Stoke
- Bradford

 

[Seagull's Return]

Eastbourne bit harsh, you have obviously not travelled much as even Hastings is much worse.


It's true, I wasn't really putting the shittiest towns in the UK, just the ones I like least - cheating really, I suppose. It'd be only fair to say I've travelled a bit, though (I've been to considerably nastier places in the world than Gillingham, Grimsby and Walsall, for a start!), and yet I'd have to agree that Hastings has a quality of shittiness all of its own that is worth a mention in anybody's list...

 

[bhaexpress]

Oh yeah, Bradford, passed through a couple of times when going to 'nice' towns like Rochdale and Oldham. Didn't look very nice and rumour control says it's horrible.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Croydon - enough said.
Stoke - brother lives there for some bizarre reason. Once had one of the scariest nights of my life in the town's "premier" nightspot Jumpin Jaks.
Basildon - just a terrible, terrible place. End of.