I am surprised nobody from the UK has provided this link yet .
http://www.craptowns.com/html/frontsection/craptowns/craptown16.htm
Click on the country map , choose the town and enjoy.
http://www.craptowns.com/html/frontsection/craptowns/30_5/england.htm
I would nominate Castleford from that list, a dreadfully shite place, however, other places are much worse such as Grimethorpe, which now has very little employemnt, lots of slag heaps and lots of drug addicts.
At least with Tipp you’re reasonably central and can escape to Dublin, Cork or even Limerick quickly. My vote is for Letterkenny: ugly, desolate, shite weather and miles from civilisation. I’m sure somebody from Letterkenny will be along to castigate me shortly.
I’ve heard that the old city of Liverpool is coming back-is it becoming a good place to live? Obviously, Liverpool willnever be the great port that it was 100 years ago, but 30 years ago the place was falling apart. has it been revived?
A couple of years ago a friend of mine was having her birthday on Friday. I had spotted in the gig guide that a guy I had seen before was playing at a pub about 15 minutes from my place. He is a really great solo act he does covers and sings like whoever did the original Presley, Lennon, Orbison, Diamond etc. I told her to dress up and meet me at my place on Friday night and I would take her out for her birthday.
She dropped around Friday afternoon. We had a couple of drinks and I cooked some dinner and then we went out…to…Bidwill.
It was about 7PM when we arrived and everyone in the place except the musician was falling down drunk. Half the people were wearing tracksuits. Drunken fools would sit with us and regale us with pointless stories about God-knows-what. I went and talked to Lance between songs and was so pleased to find someone coherent that he sat with us between sets. When he first sat down he looked under the table and said,“Where are you hiding the baseball bat?”
I told people at work what I had done for my friend’s birthday and the response was basically, “You took someone to Bidwill for their birthday?”
So I guess I’ll nominate Bidwill. Apologies to any Bidwill Dopers.
Among the academic community, it’s kind of known as a “starter university”. You get a job there when you can’t find one anywhere else. Then you get the hell out of there as soon as something else opens up.
Letterkenny’s near Derry, which is always good craic.
And at least people in Letterkenny have nice accents. Another point against Longford.
I was reading an article on the movie Brazil that said Terry Gilliam based the look of the movie on the small town of Port Talbot in Wales.
I’ve never been there, but if it’s true…Yikes. Can anyone back this up?
Hey, Burnley’s there.
Ah yes…Bidwill…scene of lots of lovely beat up stories in the Daily Telegraph. I recall back in the late 80s or early 90s that there were supposedly nightly riots among the teenagers in Bidwill. And wasn’t Bidwill also the place where practically all of the final year students failed their HSC one year? How much of any of this is true, of course, is another matter.