[News] Will Creepy Crawley become a city?

[Brok]

Crewe!

 

[schmunk]

When Bournemouth don't get it:

"Large town in Dorset; you're just a large town in Dorset..."



(Also Reading/Berkshire...)

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Good grief, what a lot of shitholes on that list. No wonder Crawley's on it.

Yes, looks like Gillingham missed the cut!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Yes, looks like Gillingham missed the cut!

Comes under Medway which is on the list, I think they are trying to sneak in.

 

[Live by the sea]

What a load of dumps on the list - Doncaster !

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

Reading really need to get over it and stop embarrassing themselves. Every time a new city is to be announced they are desperate for it

I remember the last time this happened and it was 'leaked' that Reading had got city status and a woman called Radio Berkshire in tears that she was so happy... when it was subsequently found that the leak was wrong people were devastated. A lot of people and a university but a city it is not

 

[pearl]

Well someone in Crawley Council has obviously not enough to do. They’ve applied for City Status!! That was a waste of time filing out the form. One of the criteria is “ cultural heritage, traditions and identity, along with links to royalty and famous local residents.” So that them out of the running - unless The Cure and Gareth Southgate matters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Legend has it that Henry VIII stayed in the George Hotel in the old high street. Daley Thompson and Alan Minter lived there (not together).
Think David Gilmour lived in Ifield and Pink Floyd used the local pub. Oh and the acid bath murders took place in Crawley.
HM the Queen drove past my junior school (can't remember what she was doing there) and I wore my Brownie uniform that day

+ Donald Campbell lived in the woods

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Well someone in Crawley Council has obviously not enough to do. They’ve applied for City Status!! That was a waste of time filing out the form. One of the criteria is “ cultural heritage, traditions and identity, along with links to royalty and famous local residents.” So that them out of the running - unless The Cure and Gareth Southgate matters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Discount Southgate he was born in Watford.

I'll raise you John Haigh though not born in Crawley he did dissolve a few locals

 

[TheJasperCo]

On the subject of size, is it a local myth that Lancing used to be the largest village in England?

 

[nicko31]

Good grief. What a list!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Alcester, Warwickshire
Ballymena, County Antrim
Bangor, County Down
Blackburn, Lancashire
Bolsover, Derbyshire
Boston, Lincolnshire
Bournemouth, Dorset
Coleraine, County Londonderry
Colchester, Essex
Crawley, Sussex
Crewe, Cheshire
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Dorchester, Dorset
Douglas, Isle of Man
Dudley, West Midlands
Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway
Dunfermline, Fife
Elgin, Moray
George Town, Cayman Islands
Gibraltar
Goole, East Yorkshire
Greenock, Renfrewshire
Guildford, Surrey
Livingston, West Lothian
Marazion, Cornwall
Medway, Kent
Middlesbrough, Teesside
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Oban, Argyll and Bute
Reading, Berkshire
Peel, Isle of Man
St Andrews, Fife
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
South Ayrshire, Ayrshire and Arran
Warrington, Cheshire
Warwick, Warwickshire
Wrexham, Clwyd

Port Stanley, Falkland Islands? FFS..

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Elgin have some brass neck too in this regard

And Brechin


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[McTavish]

Although still in the process of designing the new City of Crawley crest, the powers that be have announced the city motto : Lignorum Stercore.

Well deserved if I might add.

Wooden shit? What have I missed?

 

[Lethargic]

Good grief, what a lot of shitholes on that list. No wonder Crawley's on it.

Believe me Georgetown is far from a shithole.

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[el punal]

Wooden shit? What have I missed?

Yours lost in translation? Try pile of

 

[goldstone]

If Crawley is successful, then B&H should give their's back.

 

[A1X]

Believe me Georgetown is far from a shithole.

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The fact it’s quicker to list the ones on there which aren’t shitholes speaks volumes

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Medway is a sodding river, not a town.

I know it's a lot of water under the bridge after all these years, but it would amuse me if Gillingham became just a small town in Medway.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Milton Keynes, demoted from Garden City to, er, city?

I'd like to have a conversation with the bell end who signed off this list.

 

[wellquickwoody]

If I lived in Brighton I really wouldn’t be dis’ing Crawley!

Yes there are “better” places than either Brighton or Crawley to live but with a lower crime rate, cheaper housing, better job opportunities, better transport links, facilities and cleanliness Crawley beats Brighton every time.

Trolling? I mean, he can’t actually believe what he has typed.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Trolling? I mean, he can’t actually believe what he has typed.

Hard to disagree with his point to be fair.
I have never lived in Crawley but let’s look at what he’s mentioned.

Better transport links - definitely.
Cleanliness - this wouldn’t be too difficult seeing the state of parts of Brighton
Lower crime rate - the figures will be out there, this wouldn’t surprise me.
Job opportunities- also wouldn’t surprise me.
Cheaper housing - everyone knows property in Brighton is overpriced.
Facilities - I wouldn’t know TBH.