Dullest?crappiest towns you've spent time in?...

[peejay1958]

Gloucester is pretty grim in parts and not helped by being where Fred and Rose West lived.

 

[pipkin112]

That's news to me - I didn't know about Leicester being bombed. Do you have links to any articles about it?

BBC - WW2 People's War - Bombing in Leicester

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Any one of (take your pick)

Redhill
Woking
Guildford
Dorking
Reigate

Do you hate Surrey?

 

[Fungus]

BBC - WW2 People's War - Bombing in Leicester

Yes, I'd already found that:

"Leicester was lucky in many ways as we did not suffer bombing in the same way as many other cities. However, we were in the direct flight path for the german bombers targeting Coventry and the Black Country."

"The night of 19/20 November 1940 was to prove different.... 16 houses reduced to rubble and a huge crater in the road filled with water from a broken main."

That hardly equates to the original post:

"Leicester. Nazi bombs didn't leave much, so a naff city centre was rebuilt with Readymix."

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Has to be Fraserburgh for me, utter shithole full of pissed up trawlermen & druggies

 

[LAMBRETTA MAN]

You're talking out of your arse mate. We've got two KFC's and a discotheque.

Exactly...

 

[The Mole]

I nominate Sleaford in Lincolnshire - fits all the criteria for grimness adn in some of the dullest countryside

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Croydon
Bracknell
Manchester
Hull
Aberdeen
Croydon again


TNBA

TTF

 

[jasetheace]

Curveball from me. Aviemore. Full of wierdo's. David Lynch's Twin Peaks made real!

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

I live in some lovely Northants countryside surrounded by some pretty average towns, but nothing comes close to the depressing shithole that is Luton.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

No 1 Hartlepool - awful
No 2 Bradford
Those two are the stand-out's

 

[Giant Seagull]

Lived in Portsmouth for three years at Uni. A miserable miserable place with a horrible concrete centre ringed by council estates which then turn into skanky terraced streets full of rubbish,graffiti and badly parked Luton vans. Shithole. Saved slighty by Gunwharf, the historic dockyard and Southsea Common.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Port Talbot - not only the worst place on earth but in Wales to boot !

 

[kevo]

Worked all over the u.k. for the last 14 years worked in all major cities and towns, for me the absolute worst is BARROW.The end of the f***ing world, armageddon on furness. Trust me it is truely the stuff of nightmares. GRIM.

I once had a night out in Barrow (don't ask). It's a seriously strange place.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Sutton- Where I was born. The shopping centre once housed a C Palace shop- I once dared my son to go in wearing his Brighton top but he bottled it. He was only six so I guess it was child abuse of some form on my part. Even during the riots it managed to avoid a beating- its that boring. Awful pubs and crap high street.

 

[Nibble]

Sutton- Where I was born. The shopping centre once housed a C Palace shop- I once dared my son to go in wearing his Brighton top but he bottled it. He was only six so I guess it was child abuse of some form on my part. Even during the riots it managed to avoid a beating- its that boring. Awful pubs and crap high street.

I'll second that emotion. Spent a few years living there and it really has nothing of interest.

The area of King Lynn I am staying in is called Gaytown. Which is ironic as it doesn't look as if the residents would tolerate homosexuals. I can only imagine a male was once spotted in the one local pub without a pint in his hand and ever since the town has been renamed.

 

[tweenster]

Another vote for Portsmouth.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

I'll second that emotion. Spent a few years living there and it really has nothing of interest.

The area of King Lynn I am staying in is called Gaytown. Which is ironic as it doesn't look as if the residents would tolerate homosexuals. I can only imagine a male was once spotted in the one local pub without a pint in his hand and ever since the town has been renamed.

my ex girlfriend was from that neck of the woods....can't agree more, kings lynn is f***ing grim

 

[Dover]

Although being born and bread in one of the worst towns in civilisation, Dover. I had to live in Ashford for a six month spell and as some one else has said it is a hell hole, and worse than Dover by a long way.

Edna had it spot on south east Kent has some of the worst places to live in the country, and if I had to return there I would only live in Dover or Deal.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

a lot of the tyneside towns are absolutely awful....tynemouth and (most of) newcastle apart

places like wallsend, walker and areas of newcastle like benwell and byker....gateshead isn't great either, despite their turd polishing efforts on the quayside