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Rusty #107 - that before and after photo made me want to weep.
Place I expected to be crap and wasn't really - Billericay, nice fish and chip shop.
Guildford is sad not because it's all that crap as such but because of its missed opportunities - the soulless cathedral that should be surrounded by little winding streets but instead sits by itself on a windblown hill (went to Lincoln recently - that's how to do a cathedral on a hill!), what should be a great public square by the old town bridge that's now a car park, the wanky one-way system in the town centre - there's just no imagination in general: the suburban mindset.
Bognor, wouldn't live there, but when you just sit on the beach on the summer and it's full of kids innocently enjoying the sand and sea - that's quite a precious thing IMHO and the town's saving grace.
I hate Oxford Street and that whole massively overcrowded pavement area - it makes me feel that we are just a collection of writhing maggots.