Grimmest place in the south?

[waverunner]

Luton, Milton Keynes

What's that place beginning with a B that's near MK? I think it's the last stop before MK if you're on your way on the train from Euston? It has its own 'shopping centre' but fuck me it's dismal

e2a just found it, Bletchley

 

[felixthecat]

Swindon.

The only purpose of Swindon is to make other places look good.

 

[portman]

...add Pitsea to the list.

 

[tim]

I've never been to Milton Keynes. Is it that bad?

Stevenage is a horrible place, went there for a night out around 1984 and some woman wanted to start a fight with me in the street for no reason. That's never happened anywhere else in my lifetime thankfully.

Debden on the Central Line is pretty fucking grim, but that's just down to the BNP supporting scum who live there. The tube station has more razor-wire than a concentration camp.

There's a village in the North of Essex also called Debden, but it's lovely there.

I see a bigoted stereotyping anti-racist.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Edmonton Green shopping centre is the most depressing place I've come accross in London, but, I do go there on a regular basis - it looks like shit and theres a lot of poverty, but the indoor food market is excellent and I can cycle there and back without going on any roads. This is great, when you are wobbling home with a backpack fit to burst.

 

[Fidel]

Margate

 

[red rose]

I demand an explanation as to how the thread has been allowed this far without a single mention of Hatfield.

I remember jms once saying to me "the only good thing about Hatfield is the tunnel, because you can't see the rest of Hatfield from it."

 

[behemoth]

Northfleet, Dartford, Erith - anywhere along that stretch to be honest. The wierd thing is, as mentioned by another poster, is that the countryside to the south of these places is pretty decent but the towns are just dismal...

Swanscombe.

 

[bluestreak]

I demand an explanation as to how the thread has been allowed this far without a single mention of Hatfield.

I remember jms once saying to me "the only good thing about Hatfield is the tunnel, because you can't see the rest of Hatfield from it."

oh good god, hatfield. the horror, the horror...

 

[bluestreak]

I see a bigoted stereotyping anti-racist.

so you either support the bnp or live in debden. which is it?

 

[Karac]

Id say Newham East London is the worst area ive ever lived in-especially around the West Ham tube station -not because its violent or nasty-but its just a dump with nothing going for it whatsoever-no semi decent shops,pubs nothing

 

[phildwyer]

Aberdare, you English poofs.

 

[Errol's son]

Actually I would also add Crewe, Stoke, Wrexham, Northwich and Telford.

 

[scifisam]

Medway towns vary a fair bit though - and Rochester is quite posh these days. Strood and Gillingham are a grim as mr g.reaper though. My own list would include:-

Grays
Purfleet

They're far worse than the others on your list - the Kent towns aren't great, but they're better than those places, and Southend's actually not bad at all.

youse lot have no idea

try living in the hell of the Dagenham - barking- Rainham A13 corridor and youll see what grim really is. Rainham i tself s built over the entrance to hell.

I feel your pain, having grown up in Grays.

It's hard to explain just how bad those places really are. You go there, and you can feel your soul being leeched away into the grey, concrete ground.

 

[Karac]

Actually I would also add Crewe, Stoke, Wrexham, Northwich and Telford.

How is Wrexham in the South of England?

 

[scifisam]

How is Wrexham in the South of England?

Or Crewe or Stoke. (Don't know where Telford is, and have never heard of Northwich).

 

[Errol's son]

How is Wrexham in the South of England?

Who mentioned England?

Would you say it is a northern town then?

 

[Errol's son]

Or Crewe or Stoke. (Don't know where Telford is, and have never heard of Northwich).

Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire are not northern.

 

[spanglechick]

so you either support the bnp or live in debden. which is it?

quite - i mean, have you been to debden, tim?

we used to call it "dresden" when i was at college nearby - to sum up its lifeless, soulless demeanour.

 

[Dan U]

Mitcham and Beddington.

 

[Orang Utan]

Another vote for Woolwich, Eltham and Scabbey Wood

 

[dessiato]

leatherhead

Leatherhead is OK, compare it to Slough, or Redhill, or Aldershit, or Croydon, or Woking, (don't get me started on Knaphill!), Chertsey, Addlestone, fucking Byfleet!!!

 

[scifisam]

Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire are not northern.

They're not Southern, either. They're Midlands, I guess, although I thought Cheshire was properly Northern.

 

[Juice Terry]

Everything north of the river Thames is "The North" so most of the places mentioned in this thread are actually grim places up north.

The winner has to be Slough though surely.

 

[dessiato]

and Hounslow, and Richmond, and Twickenham, Kingston, Ashford (both of them!) Maidestone, in fact everywhere with a KT TW SL GU ME post code, or pretty well anywhere in SE

 

[Orang Utan]

Everything north of the river Thames is "The North" so most of the places mentioned in this thread are actually grim places up north.

The winner has to be Slough though surely.

No - the real North starts in Nottinghamshire and even that's debatable

 

[Juice Terry]

No - the real North starts in Nottinghamshire and even that's debatable

Rubbish are you trying to tell me that Hendon isn't up north?

 

[Orang Utan]

Rubbish are you trying to tell me that Hendon isn't up north?

Certainly

 

[Dirty Martini]

Sheerness, or anywhere on The Isle of Sheppey, Rainham, Aylesham's pretty grim, Dover, Herne Bay's grim but I have a softspot for it.

I can't see how Hythe got a mention. A boring, one-street town but not that grim.

I like Folkestone and Margate.

 

[Brainaddict]

I like Folkestone

Have you ever lived there? This strikes me as the comment of a person who has never lived there.