MORTY
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Hull. Very depressing.
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Grimest town/city you've ever visited.
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SirDouglasLoft
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- Jul 4, 2008
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Gloucester on a night out.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Its surroundings are beautiful, but for the sheer depression of the place my vote goes for Dolgellau in mid-Wales.
I drove through Dolgellau on my way to north Wales, it was a typically drizzly winters day, the light was just beginning to fade and I'd been driving on this twisty difficult road through the mountains for hours. I rounded yet another hair pin and was welcomed by a sign welcoming me to Dolgellau. At that moment, the sky became darker and more threatening, the landscape like the sky became dark grey. The houses were all stained black, probably from a combination of dust from the local gold mine and the smoke belching out from the chimneys of the terraced houses. The place seemed deserted, except for the Lowry like, stick figure old man, dressed in black bent double against the wind. A more depressing scene I have yet to see.
I didn't stop.
(I've not been to Luton)
I drove through Dolgellau on my way to north Wales, it was a typically drizzly winters day, the light was just beginning to fade and I'd been driving on this twisty difficult road through the mountains for hours. I rounded yet another hair pin and was welcomed by a sign welcoming me to Dolgellau. At that moment, the sky became darker and more threatening, the landscape like the sky became dark grey. The houses were all stained black, probably from a combination of dust from the local gold mine and the smoke belching out from the chimneys of the terraced houses. The place seemed deserted, except for the Lowry like, stick figure old man, dressed in black bent double against the wind. A more depressing scene I have yet to see.
I didn't stop.
(I've not been to Luton)
severnside gull
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Merthyr Tydfil takes some beating, especially the Gurnos Estate which I believe has both the highest concentration of unemployed and of heroin users in the UK. That said I can think of dozens of towns/cities in Poland that make anything we have to offer seem fantastic
ryeseagull
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Detroit.
bhaexpress
New member
Grimest Place in this country would be Bradford but that's paradise compared to Newark, New Jersey which is just vile.
Eggman
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Chatham
Rotherham
Rotherham
Geriatric Seagull
New member
Worst town?
Agree about Rotherham but I reckon Burslem beats it! We were there a few years ago for the last game of the season against Port Vale when we won promotion. We were wandering around looking for somewhere to get some lunch and asked a couple of policemen. "Round here? You must be joking - this place is the A..hole of the Universe!" Trouble is, they were right!" We did eventually find quite a good curry house.
Agree about Rotherham but I reckon Burslem beats it! We were there a few years ago for the last game of the season against Port Vale when we won promotion. We were wandering around looking for somewhere to get some lunch and asked a couple of policemen. "Round here? You must be joking - this place is the A..hole of the Universe!" Trouble is, they were right!" We did eventually find quite a good curry house.
Djmiles
Barndoor Holroyd
Rotherham.
sod1
New member
Worksop in Notts gets my vote
Elvis
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Smethick, Hull, Middlesboro and Grays. Hard to choose between them.....so I'll put them all forward.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
I bloody love Merthyr. OK its not a great place but Merthyr people are (generally) fantastic....and very good at fighting
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Corby. By FAR. How can a town that shit not have a station as an escape route? When I was there, once, for a wedding, the only way out was a council half-hourly minibus to the bright lights of Kettering. WTF! Full of displaced Scottish former steel workers who have succumbed to the lure of the purple tin. Terrible terrible place.
Southstandfaithful
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Hinckley
Nuneaton is a shit hole.
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
- 961
Wigan was easily the most depressing place I have had the misfortune of setting foot in.