[Closed] top 10 uk dumps...

Except that if you'd seen Little Hulton, you'd understand that it should easily occupy all 10 spots.

If that picture is anything to go by , I doubt it.

There're still tiles on the roof and boards on the window. No fire damage. No visible sign of occupation. No tramps shagging on a dirty mattress on the pavement.

That's one of the neatest derelict buildings I've ever seen.

In Govanhill that would have 12 families living in it.

Swadlincote - I remember someone referring to it as the armpit of the universe. At least these days it's not completely covered with a layer of coal dust, and it's in the "National Forest". Some of the trees even seem to have survived the attentions of the local yoofs...
So pleased I left there, but I have no idea why my son thinks it's a good idea to move back...

Interesting that there are so many 'new towns' being mentioned. Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes, Glenrothes, probably others. The number of roundabouts must be proportionate to the level of dump-ness.

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For what it's worth, the worst conditions i've ever seen people living in , in the UK, was in these ,thankfully now demolished, monstrosities............. Whitevale Street and Bluevale Street, just off the Gallowgate in Glasgow.
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I couldn't believe that human beings would live in such squalor in this country.

Yeah I hate poor people too.

Blackpool as it has the distinction of making it a 'destination' for many who live in cr@p towns.

We used to go to Kirkcaldy for a day out.....
Craigmillar scheme in Edinburgh was pretty grim mid-eighties.

Newport, did a job there last year and it was grim, and I live in Luton so am used to dumps.

Maryport, Workington gets a look in too. Going south I'd have to say Rochdale but Huyton was a real shit hole, famous for where joey Barton's brother/cousin/whatever went about somebody with an ice axe and the pdsa car park was full of blacked out range rovers.

On the wtf are the for scale Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea just freaky places.

no mention of the capial of the fens?

Wisbech would get my vote

10. Aylesbury
9. Aylesbury
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2. Accrington
1. Aylesbury

Mr Woppit - Member
Shoreham.

Merthyr Tydfil.

Glenrothes.

I presume you've included Shoreham for personal reasons, it's hardly in the same league as Merthyr?

I always feel terribly sad for people trapped in awful places, it must grind you down something rotten

How do we divide up bits of London into crap areas to live? I guess it is all London but, some of the towns or boroughs in there are just the worst, soulless, unfriendly places to live. Some of the places listed may be rough, but in terms of spiritual death, London is where you end up.

2. Accrington

I did wonder how long that would take.

Sorry, perchy. I tried to find this picture, which I had posted some years ago in a different thread. I think you'll agree it meets most of your criteria.

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It's a post-pillage nightmare.

I used to live in Reddish, well I say Reddish it was really Gorton, but the nice bit. It was okay. A dump yes but alright place to live in for a bit while I was studying. I have family from Little Hulton and yes it is truly awful. I am from Farnworth which is just as bad. But I would have to vote for the whole of Bolton. Nukes from space is the only way forward.

I'll see your

I work in Eastwood. Good lord.

and raise you one 'I used to be a policeman in Eastwood'.

I always feel terribly sad for people trapped in awful places, it must grind you down something rotten

That's definitely the worst part. Used to get to me when working in some areas.

Another special mention for Fort William. It should be lovely despite the rain, and arguably worth the investment of leveling the worst bits and rebuilding.

Bromley
Finsbury Park
Croydon

Satellite towns that were over-dependent on one, now defunct, industry are probably the worst in my experience.

Near to me are two (one was dependent on coal mining, the other hosiery). Both are like visiting a different planet if you go out there on a Friday or Saturday night. There are no 'tipsy hi-jinks' or 'witty repartee' to be had. Mainly joyless and hyper-aggressive knuckleheads who are looking to fight anyone, but most usually the 'other family' that also 'drink in here'. That will be the 'other family' who they've had weekly punch-ups with for the last 20 years.

Some of the more champagne socialist posters on here really should visit some of these places - it might challenge their paternalistic views of 'the salt of the earth'.

Got to agree with Little Hulton.

We were doing some social housing there back in the 80's and looked outside the cabin to see a few police and a bit of a commotion. Some bloke had been walking down the road, climbed over a small picket fence into someone's front garden and started shagging the pet dog. In the front garden, on the main road, in broad daylight.

Googling Little Hulton (I'd never heard of it, despite it seemingly being in Salford) brought me to this...

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/little-hulton.html

... which has a "top ten worst places to live" poll.

no mention of the capial of the fens?

Wisbech would get my vote

I live in West Norfolk, but have had to go to Wisbech recently to pick up some motorbike parts for a mate away at sea, place is like the Wild West, turned up to get them at door and 6 lads walked out of the house with the tracksuits and little man bags stinking of vodka at 9.30am and crowded round me, had a little brown trouser moment, i didn't ask how they'd come across the parts in the first place!!

Boston and Peterborough aren't much better, went to Great Yarmouth recently and that is one of those sad old seaside towns that have fallen onto real hard times.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

One assumes chipping norton got on the list above due to its residents, as opposed to its aesthetics?

Slough has no redeeming features at all.

Can't believe that we are on page 3 and no one has mentioned St. Helens!It makes some of the places on here positively aspirational.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunday-times-best-places-to-live-2017-3qkwjnvrm

I was suitably re-assured in my judgement about Dunblane being on the toff list. 😉

Oxford is a complete dump.

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

edit: oh and Leysdown on Sea and probably Sheerness too (the inbred chav cousins of Chatham)

And Boringstoke/Basinghole but that's already been suggested.

No-one's mentioned Leeds yet either. Particularly Belle Isle, Harehills, Gipton (sounds as bad as it is) & Cross Flats/Dewsbury Road area.
Went through that last bit with Ton a few weeks ago & was astonished. I would've taken photos but I didn't dare stop.

no mention of the capial of the fens?
Wisbech would get my vote

I live in West Norfolk, but have had to go to Wisbech recently to pick up some motorbike parts for a mate away at sea, place is like the Wild West, turned up to get them at door and 6 lads walked out of the house with the tracksuits and little man bags stinking of vodka at 9.30am and crowded round me, had a little brown trouser moment, i didn't ask how they'd come across the parts in the first place!!

Boston and Peterborough aren't much better, went to Great Yarmouth recently and that is one of those sad old seaside towns that have fallen onto real hard times.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

wowzers - I'm doing well here . . .

In these two posts I've

1) been born in one
2) lived in one from age 4 - 22
3) spent most of my weekends going out in one from 16 - 21
4) had every summer holiday there for years when a kid (possibly doesn't count as Gt Yarmouth used to be very busy in in the early 80s and didn't seem a dump)
5) moved to live with just up the road from the 3 Kent dumps listed. Albeit in a nicer village but close enough to know (and loathe) these 3 places

Pretty impressive eh

Blaenau ffestiniog

Genuinely shitter than some of the greater Manila shanty towns.

In these two posts I've

1) been born in one

5) moved to live with just up the road from the 3 Kent dumps listed. Albeit in a nicer village but close enough to know (and loathe) these 3 places

Then moved to Southampton (listed), Guildford (not listed?), Bristol (listed), London (listed, but needs to be a bit more precise), then bailed overseas (not listed).

I worked in Bradford for nearly 7 years. I think anywhere within a couple of miles of the centre seems to be a total hole along with a few of the main roads in - Leeds Road for example. Since I stopped working there I've never been back and don't have any intention to. That massive new shopping centre they've built just seemed to move the centre a bit so now you've got all the old shopping streets totally deserted with boarded up shops. Whilst I'm at it, Keighley is a place I try to gauge the traffic lights so you don't even have to come to a standstill. Coming back through there on a Saturday night after a day in the Dales/Lakes etc is an eye opener! Makes the last bit of the journey through central Halifax seem like driving through a quaint village in the Cotswolds in comparison.

Other places, Ffestiniog. Never seen grown men fighting in the street outside a pub at breakfast time before and suspect I never will again.

Selby - my dad grew up there and my grandpa lived there all his life. Just a soul destroying little place with a weird mix of full on chav loonies and old people with nothing inbetween meandering between charity shops and B&M Bargains/Poundland.

Last time we went to BPW we stayed in a village outside Merthyr where our choice of which pub to drink in wasn't which one looked the best, it was a case of finding one which didn't look like we'd be murdered. but Merthyr was a great night out 🙂

It's easy to say Newport or Merthyr, but the truth is it is only parts of those places that is really rough.

Both have really nice bits, one of the grimmest placed in the valleys is the Coike estate near Brynmawr,

Garnlydan used to be like Beirut but is ok now.

I went to Merthyr once. It was closed.

I will say Fleetwood didn't have much to recommend it.

This thread is producing lots of places I've visited but somehow managed to completely erase from my memory.

I mean, I worked in Slough for half a decade and inexplicably it didn't make my list.

Merthyr Tydfil.

This, "it's not all bad" well no it's not, there's a Bike Park for a start and I noticed last time there that thanks to some EU money they've jazzed up the Town Centre (and then voted Leave, well they'd been paid by then) by according to a study I read a few years ago there are areas of Merthyr with a lower life expectancy than Haiti - let that sink in for a moment.

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[b]Rotherham[/b] - spent a few months working there, I liked the office I worked in, for a Introvert Welsh Lad they as warm and friendly as you're told they are up North on the TV, but the town was a mess - it suffers from being too close to Sheffield, which is quite nice - it was only a snapshot opinion but it seemed to me because Sheffield was all regenerated a nice anyone who could moved to Sheffield and anyone who couldn't had to move to Rotherham a class and socioeconomic divide is never a good thing for the losing side.
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Newport, Gwent[/b] – recently given City Status, I say recently – I’ve just checked it was 15 years ago, Wow! Newport has a similar problem to Rotherham, it’s too close to Cardiff. Cardiff, in Wales anyway is this huge vacuum that sucks up talent and money from nearby places, it effects Merthyr too – we (because I live in Cardiff) would have joined the Dump list as recently as the mid-90s and if you’ve ever had to suffer the City Centre at 2am on a Saturday you might still think it should – but we were lucky, during the industrial revolution and the coal age Cardiff was one of the most important cities in the world, we could rival any finance hub you care to mention – the first £1m trade was done here and we had the biggest busiest port in the world – but we fell on hard times when that ended and it only got worse in the 70s when the UK moved from a manufacturing economy to a financial one. The Cardiff of my youth was pretty rough – but they built this huge barrage to create a permanent harbour and the city exploded – the only constant here is change and whilst is still geographically small it’s busy – people here tend to be forward thinking, and positive – other people with that sort of mindset gravitate to here from ‘The Valleys’ and Newport.

In my experience of working in Newport a lot over the years is that locals have little or no pride in their City, if you ask someone from Swansea about Swansea, they love it, they’re tell you it’s better than Cardiff, if you even ask someone from Merthyr they’re proud of their town, even if they think there’s not much there for people, but Newport – if you say it’s a bit worn out, they’ll tell you it’s a ****ing dump. I’ve got a client based in Newport – Financial Services, well payed people (perhaps not the nicest people) none of them live there – they live in Cardiff, or Bristol or maybe Caldicot, or Machen – no one actually wants to live in Newport. The City centre (bar perhaps the new bit they’ve just built) is like the walking dead, it’s got an epidemic of a drug problem. There have been a few green shoots of hope from some infrastructure improvements, but it needs a lot of support to really improve.
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Blackpool[/b]

It sets the gold standard for dumps, devoid of charm it died in the 70s but the rotting corpse still staggers on. It suffered from the same fate at the British Car Industry, when revenues fell in the wake of better options from the rest of the world, instead of investing to compete with the cheap package holidays in Spain and the like – it cut costs to try to stay afloat on lower and lower revenues until there was nothing left. I really feel for Blackpool, I work with a guy from there once – I asked if, maybe a mile away from the Seafront a nice little, normal town existed were people who weren’t involved in the ‘resort’ lived and worked – apparently not, it’s a dump from front to back, top to bottom, there’s not even anywhere to go for a night out away from the Stag Dos for the locals. Personally, I’d let the sea claim the whole lot and pretend it never happened.

Cougar - Moderator

I went to Merthyr once. It was closed.

Nah, the joke is "I went to Newtown once, it was closed" the only time Merthyr is closed is when it's on fire, which I believe it is at the moment.

So far I've got the Chiltern town near where I grew up, the other Chiltern town where I went to school, a town I used to work in, and the town I currently work in. Do I win a prize?

Stanley, County Durham. Used to be my patch at work. One area of it was used quite a bit for filming, things like Inspector George Gently, and some WW1-based gritty drama. The streets they used actually looked better once they'd been dressed for filming.