Buy a house in Burnley for under £10,000

[theboybilly]

Some of the sales on that street are strange in that buyers have sold for a very significant loss only a few years after purchase. I'm glad that trend doesn't reflect the true housing market

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Yes I do work for the BURNLEY tourist board. I still say you don't HAVE to live there if you buy a property. You can of course let it out. However I'd recommend you live there because it is great.

Bravo. I'm sure there are plenty of people in Burnley who enjoy living there. I also wouldn't be surprised if plenty of the posters on here who ridicule the town, have never even set foot there.

 

[dazzer6666]

Have a look at the street view before committing to buy.

Couple of doors down......

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7...4!1szhsQQNd_s2oL7arrlpCTRQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[beorhthelm]

Probably right but I'm sick of hearing "the north's economic problems are down to poor transport links" on the news. They clearly haven't tried commuting in the south-east if they think it's bad up there. (Yes, I realise there are exceptions).

having looked it up i have some sympathy: Burnley-Manchester takes 1h40 with 2 or 3 changes. considering thats 21 miles, thats pretty shocking.

 

[theboybilly]

having looked it up i have some sympathy: Burnley-Manchester takes 1h40 with 2 or 3 changes. considering thats 21 miles, thats pretty shocking.

I was going to go up by train on Saturday (on which the trains are running normally) and back on Sunday. The Rail Replacement buses will be packed with footie folk and Christmas shoppers so looked at the alternatives. There is an Express bus every 30 minutes or so to Manchester but that still takes an hour. I've decided to drive up. I really wish they hadn't moved this match.

 

[8ace]

having looked it up i have some sympathy: Burnley-Manchester takes 1h40 with 2 or 3 changes. considering thats 21 miles, thats pretty shocking.

It takes 50 minutes with no changes.

 

[Notters]

having looked it up i have some sympathy: Burnley-Manchester takes 1h40 with 2 or 3 changes. considering thats 21 miles, thats pretty shocking.

It's 50 minutes with 0 changes from Burnley Manchester Road.

 

[mikeyjh]

Bravo. I'm sure there are plenty of people in Burnley who enjoy living there. I also wouldn't be surprised if plenty of the posters on here who ridicule the town, have never even set foot there.

Precisely - Slightly surprised at some of the sneering (actually not surprised), from many of who will be mortgaged to he hilt and in constant danger of losing some of their perceived 'wealth'. Small/no mortgage and plenty of disposable income? Yeah, I'd take that.

 

[Driver8]

Bravo. I'm sure there are plenty of people in Burnley who enjoy living there. I also wouldn't be surprised if plenty of the posters on here who ridicule the town, have never even set foot there.

I've been to Burnley lots of times and it's a shithole. Also the most unpleasant fans I have ever come across in my travels (and I have been to most grounds).

 

[grummitts gloves]

Here you go, in case you're going up the day before or making a weekend of it. Have fun, looks riveting!!

http://www.visitlancashire.com/explore/burnley/welcome-to-burnley

 

[8th battalion East Lancs]

Britain's bread hangs by Lancashire thread.

At its peak, over 750,000 people were employed in the cotton industry. Workers moved from the land to the industrial towns and cities to seek better paid employment in the mills.
Hard times - housing was often substandard but better pay didn't always result in better living conditions. In the silent film Slum Clearance (1938), the legacy of the poorly built, unplanned terraced housing is on show as inspectors measure and record conditions in preparation for improvement.

To escape the harsh working and living conditions, mill workers knew how to enjoy themselves and any occasion was an excuse for a fair.
Whilst wakes weeks were often spent at Blackpool as captured in the 1935 film Happy Memories, Great Harwood celebrated the Queen's Coronation with a weight lifting demonstration in a clip from 1953.
If the rise of Lancashire's cotton industry had been swift, then by comparison, the fall was painfully slow. The First World War saw the onset of a decline which would span the 20th century.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

3 bedroom terraced house in Burnley, offers in excess of £9,950.00

In case anyone feels like getting a bargain on Sunday

town centre, Asians for neighbour's ?the town centre so i'm told is nothing like it used to be, a lot of white British have moved out, the amount of Mosques in the town tells you all you need to know if that attracts you........... whoops i'm talking about BLACKBURN
regards
DR

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

It takes 50 minutes with no changes.

It's 50 minutes with 0 changes from Burnley Manchester Road.

Not this Sunday; at least 1hr 35min with a bus replacement service, nearer 2 hours if you want to get to Manchester Piccadilly.

 

[theboybilly]

town centre, Asians for neighbour's ?the town centre so i'm told is nothing like it used to be, a lot of white British have moved out, the amount of Mosques in the town tells you all you need to know if that attracts you
regards
DR

According to the 2011 Census 87% White British, 10% Asian (both figures above the national average. It'll most likely be the lack of work (7% unemployed with 4% permanently unable to work) that will be the cause of the town looking a little worse for wear. Saturday/Sunday will be my first visit to Burnley and I'm rather looking forward to it. New people to meet, new pubs...It'll be good.

 

[Bold Seagull]

town centre, Asians for neighbour's ?the town centre so i'm told is nothing like it used to be, a lot of white British have moved out, the amount of Mosques in the town tells you all you need to know if that attracts you........... whoops i'm talking about BLACKBURN
regards
DR

Have you set up special post alerts for:
a) match day ticket prices
b) race and religion
c) any kind of nostalgic revisiting of football's darker days

You never miss a trick...

stop press
How weird, some guy in Blackburn Rovers training top has just walked into the cafe....he must have moved out of the town...because of the.....I'll ask him and report back...

 

[Bold Seagull]

According to the 2011 Census 87% White British, 10% Asian (both figures above the national average. It'll most likely be the lack of work (7% unemployed with 4% permanently unable to work) that will be the cause of the town looking a little worse for wear. Saturday/Sunday will be my first visit to Burnley and I'm rather looking forward to it. New people to meet, new pubs...It'll be good.

You'll get a one sentence answer, two if you're lucky. It won't say much, enough to provoke you into another factually correct, sensibly constructed response. You'll get another single sentence reply, with a smilie, probably a whistler, or a dunce, maybe a cow...

 

[8ace]

Not this Sunday; at least 1hr 35min with a bus replacement service, nearer 2 hours if you want to get to Manchester Piccadilly.

I'm only too aware of that, bus from Preston then bus to Halifax

 

[beorhthelm]

It's 50 minutes with 0 changes from Burnley Manchester Road.

oh. i put in Burnley central, who know. 50 min, what are they complaining about?

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

have you set up special post alerts for:
A) match day ticket prices
b) race and religion
c) any kind of nostalgic revisiting of football's darker days

you never miss a trick...

Stop press
how weird, some guy in blackburn rovers training top has just walked into the cafe....he must have moved out of the town...because of the.....i'll ask him and report back...

well my mates form Blackburn, i guess he's just making it up then
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

You'll get a one sentence answer, two if you're lucky. It won't say much, enough to provoke you into another factually correct, sensibly constructed response. You'll get another single sentence reply, with a smilie, probably a whistler, or a dunce, maybe a cow...

regards
DR