Crap Towns

These are my people, soaking in the atmosphere of Crap Town, somewhere in the UK, Friday night

Scotland's full of them - Kircaldy, Cumbernauld, Lochgellie, Girvan are all even worse than Dundee. Alloa holds a special place in my heart as the bingo hall had a sign outside; 'Tuesdays - bring a can and play for food'.

Dunno why someone mentioned Stirling tho - very pretty location, not massively scary on a night out, great bike and tri clubs.

Boys in blue tracksuits, girls in pink velour.

In Clapton girls wear pajamas outside.

Dori in Libpool go out with rollers in their hair!?

Dori in Libpool go out with rollers in their hair!?

+1 for Clapton.

holy fuck i nearly forgot about Skegness. It has absolutely no redeeming features at all. A soul destroying shit hole full of witless fuckers who deserve the place. The only good thing about it is that it keeps all the stupid fuckers from cluttering up the nice places of the country.

I had to spend 2 hours waiting for a train in Stirling, that's why. It was like a half day closing on a Wednesday in 1956.

Rotherham
My hometown of Pontefract, and every town around it, especially Wakefield
Croydon

Croydon.

Watford!! How could I have forgotten Watford?!

i think most towns are just towns there not crap really there just no that fantastic, places like my home town on chelmsford, like what was said up there, seems crap cos you didn't fit in

real crap towns are the ones where its just an estate plonked in the middle of knowwhere with just a tesco's, places like[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southminster"] Southminster[/ame] a town of 4000 with just

''The town has one primary school, a small library, a handful of pubs, a police station, a few local businesses such as 'Martins' convenience store, a holiday park, a bakery and many takeaways.''

thats a real crap town,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZ1xn2ml10

That stupid encomium for the Birmingham Inner Ring Road makes you feel physically sick.

Swindon is home to that mindfuck junction,there was a pic of it on here once!

The guy who built it invented the mini-roundabout and really went to town on them here.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4131930.ece

Bradford.

Game, set and match to Lucifer.

Why? Because they ripped the whole of the city centre out, and replaced it with...

A gigantic hole, a hole that has been there for six years. Before the hole it was just vast piles of rubble, thirty to forty feet high. Honestly, if you want to taste undiluted despair, then come to Bradford because it gives it away by the rusty bucketful.

I see a regeneration opportunity ... ;$

Self neg. I like it!

It's not entirely inappropriate, as it's often a poor civic self-image that's expressed in the state of the built environment. Post-war ravages of once-intact town centres are one thing, but getting the political will together to plan proactively and wisely is often scuppered partly by that kind of self-loathing. It's very important to give people reasons and motivations to think that they can improve the place where they live.

In Glasgow they turned this:

Into this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3682450104_4580456404_o.jpg

My heart bleeds when I see comparisons like this.

Did I mention that urban planning is one of my favourite subjects?

Don't visit Douglas. You cry and maybe even die a little.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonasket,_Washington

yep, that's it. All 900 peoples worth of it.

Yeah, but this is where we hung out. In their parking lot.

This is really interesting, Nhatt--why is Tonasket a 'city'? The Wikipedia article doesn't state the reason for incorporation. I'm surprised that such a small place could achieve city status, or is that quite a normal description for small places in the US? (Must brush up on US planning.) Is it because of the claim-to-fame connection with Chief Tonasket?

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.7 km²), all of it land.

Presumably, this slightly puzzling sentence means that none of it is river or sea?

This must be a repost as it is without a doubt the grimmest town in the country: Crewe.

Silverton NSW- now thats a fucken town.
YouTube - Silverton, NSW

Possibly the best pub in the country. Fucking love that place.

I went to Warrington last week. It made me want to gather up all the poor people in a shoebox full of cotton wool and take them with me somewhere nice.

You can't have been to Runcorn or Widnes if you think Warrington is bad.

I didn't, but am going to Leigh next week, which I am assured is another fine choice for the connoisseur of urban drear. Runcorn just makes me think of that Lager and Crisps eyerape programme.

Luton, Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City, Plymouth

That's what I hate about Guildford and load of mid sized town like that, it's the entire town of suburbia. The most important part of it always seems to be the carparks.

yes, it all seems to be about car parks. I'm told the Borough Council earn £5m+ p.a. from their car parks so there's a giant conflict of interest as far as them wanting to create quality spaces goes. I expect that goes along way to explaining so many town look like they do.