Copied and pasted but just about sums the place up
The Worst Things in Skipton, North Yorkshire*
The entirely missable and worth mentioning because of it
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the locals are rude…
Tourist coach loads of old folk
The closed down petrol stations .There are three of them I think. The dog poo is on the pavements-watch out for it on the High Street.The lads who sit in cars in droves in the car park near Busy lizzies at night.
The closed down petrol stations .There are three of them I think. The dog poo is on the pavements-watch out for it on the High Street.The lads who sit in cars in droves in the car park near Busy lizzies at night.
Jim Caygill
The endless stream of smackheads, a hard rain is coming.
The small town simpletons and the big city mentals. (01/05/2003)
lots of redknecks
The After Dark and the fleece pub
The worst thing about Skipton has to be the high street on a saturday.You get tons of old duffers that cant walk at all (they kind of do a wobbly thing pretending that they’re going fall over). This really pisses me off because it takes about half an hour to get up the street, when at night you can walk it in about 2 minutes. Please don’t go on saturday if you dont like smokers, because, of the afore mentioned duffers all the smokers get in a stress and start blowing second hand smoke in yer face. Also lots of kappa slappers and goths start shouting at you for no reason at all. Once all i had to do was look at this guy and we got in a fight.
I forgot to mention how sick i am of mobile phone shops only about 8,000 people live in Skipton and we have at least 8 shops that sell only mobile phones and about 20 others that sell them + other stuff. We all have one, I have three all together because of the stupid deals where they give you another one for free. I have to complain about the lack of clothes shops for boys, girls have about 20 different shops to choose from. And if we dont want to look like idiots, we have to go as far as Leeds to get some decent clothes that look good. About three years ago the last decent clothes shop for boys closed to make way for a female clothes shop. It’s not that i have i problem with girls its just they dress better than us and then insult us if we aren’t wearing the latest fashion.
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TOWNIES!!!
lots and lots of cops watch out
During the summer and especially on bank holiday weekends, Skipton is besieged by tourists, the majority of them coming across from Lancashire and down from the North east. In adition to these casual day trippers are coach loads of pensioners,drawn in by the tea-shops and market stalls. You can normally tell who the local people are among the crowd because they’re the ones trying to walk quicker than everyone else, often having to resort to walking along the road with the traffic.
Shopping…. Skipton is a nightmare for shopping, especially for clothes unless you like to buy at one of the many charity shops available. However if your want either a mobile phone or a pair of glasses you will be in heaven, ‘cos there are oodles of retailers to choose from!. Otherwise go to Keeflah!.
Bloody mobile phone shops. Skipton is a fairly small Dales town, so why… WHY, does Skipton have at least 9 mobile phone shops. I’m not talking about shops that sell mobiles as well as other things (althought there are plenty of those as well), but what the hell does Skipton need 9 shops that sell NOTHING but mobile phones for??? We don’t even have a mainstream electrical retail place now – Dixons closed down and reopened as… yes, you’ve guessed it A MOBILE PHONE SHOP!!!!! I think I’ll just go and have a quiet lie down in a darkened room!
its all crap
The devonshire hotel for gods sake let wetherspoons duy it and renovate it as at the moment it is a dump
BLOODY MOBILE PHONE SHOPS – Skipton is not that big a place and yet we have at least 6 (six!) shops in the middle of town that sell NOTHING but mobile phones and at least another dozen places that sell mobiles as well as other stuff (WHSmith, Wollies etc.) Skipton is rapidly turning into a town of 2 shops – mobile phones and charity shops. If you don’t want the latest mobile, a kaftan or a nylon jumper then the only thing to do is go to Keighley (shudder!) – on second thoughts, I’d rather have the kaftan!
Old crinklies on coach trips That woman who runs you down in her purple motorised buggy on Shortbank road!!! Its proximity to the cess-pit aka Keighley
Small Town White Trash as my brother puts it. Greatwood Estate, thugs roaming the streets just “looking for a fight” cos they are such losers they cant do anything else. The Aireville “v” Grammar school thing when Aireville tossers start having a go at u cos u passed a test at 11 and they didnt. I think this breeds the whole small town violence thing. Skiptonians are really paranoid so they go around looking for other people to put down to make them look better. And the Blue Rinse Brigade “eee Elsie shall we go in here” zimmering down the high street while you are trying to get something to eat on your dinner break.
The millennium walk brings you back to the High st
tourists looking for the next tea & scone shop……(dilly-dally-ers)
BABYLON – Escort Cosworth and Fireblades. Mondeo V6 also red BMW unmarked.
Not enough decent nightclubs. Nothing to do for teenagers.
The Skipton Building Society buildings, as condemned as an eyesore by Prince Charles himself.
After Death; you were right about it being crap. It’s bloody awful! But where else is there to go now that the other crap place, The Waterfront, closed down?
Measures in the Woolly Sheep; whilst last at home I read in the Craven Herald about the landlord giving short measures and being caught. Well, he is a bit miserable anyway!
Tourists on Market Day; can’t really moan as long as they spend their brass! But it is impossible to move uptown!
The worst thing about Skipton is that it is a complete old persons’ tourist town, so a trip to the shop usually involves wading through a mass of grey hair and false teeth, all commenting on how beautiful the church and castle is.
Small town violence, being on the wrong end of it.
The After Dark
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