What's the crappiest place in the UK?

[Class68driver]

Birkenhead is pretty grim, especially the North End.

 

[Griff097]

From the other side of the world I'm intrigued. What makes a place ******. Is it crime rates, employment opportunities, climate, a feeling of menace, other?
Asking cos I've been to some of the places mentioned and quite enjoyed it...

Interesting point as some of the roughest and poorest places I have been I have received the best welcomes and had the most fun.

 

[moto748]

The two things abut Peterborough that were always good were the Cathedral Precincts and the Embankment. Both nice for a summer stroll. I imagine they can't have messed those up?

I've never been to Skem, although I only live up the road!

 

[Patrick_Newing]

Wythenshawe or Moss Side.

 

[RichardM]

The two things abut Peterborough that were always good were the Cathedral Precincts and the Embankment. Both nice for a summer stroll. I imagine they can't have messed those up?

I've never been to Skem, although I only live up the road!

I went to see Cardiff City play Peterborough a few years ago. The Palmerston Arms was a good pub, so that's three good things

 

[moto748]

I know it! My first local was the New Inn, just along the road from the Palmerston (although I have an idea it's gone now).

 

[RichardM]

I know it! My first local was the New Inn, just along the road from the Palmerston (although I have an idea it's gone now).

According to whatpub.com the New Inn is now the Yard of Ale

 

[RichardM]

Birkenhead is pretty grim, especially the North End.

My brother lives in Broad Green but for some reason supports Tranmere Rovers. I went to a match with him once. Birkenhead didn't strike me as a place to go back to.

 

[Eskimo John]

The list must be England only.
I once went to Rhyl in North Wales and came away feeling that part of my soul had been sucked out. It not on the list but perhaps no one has survived long enough to make a full appraisal.

 

[DocAnna]

Interesting point as some of the roughest and poorest places I have been I have received the best welcomes and had the most fun.

When I started as a GP in Stirling I was part time at a city centre practice and we covered the then infamous Raploch part of town. I was a bit of an innocent to such places and didn't really know how rough it was, I turned up to visit an elderly woman and in the street outside there were a group of young children (during the school day) playing around a burning car tyre in the middle of the road. On going into the house, two rather imposing large men peered at me, with one shouting upstairs, 'Ma I'm just goin' outside to keep a look over the doc's car'. I was told later that bringing a nice looking car (it was only small one) in there was asking for trouble and it was better to park a few streets away and walk.
Less than a mile away and I'd be visiting smart stone houses with huge bay windows and leafy streets.

Most of Raploch was knocked down, a really good school built and the whole place turned around, but yes there were some pretty unpleasant places I stepped into in those days. As for 'no go places' I think it's who you are, how you approach them and what part of a town or city you are in... there's rough parts in most towns and cities.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I am still waiting for someone to tell us where What's is!

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

If the measure is crime rates, then the crappiest place is definitely 10 Downing Street

Only difference there is no one does anything to stop it happening

 

[Class68driver]

My brother lives in Broad Green but for some reason supports Tranmere Rovers. I went to a match with him once. Birkenhead didn't strike me as a place to go back to.

Tranmere is not too bad as its in Prenton, but Birkenhead is one of the most awful places ever. I believe in the late 90's early 00's The North End Estate was branded the worst in the country by a few red tops for all the shenanigans that went on.

 

[sifty]

Which of the places mentioned have you been to, BTW?

Blackpool, stayed in a B&B where the owner was quite mad. Several of her husbands had died mysteriously. Morecambe, had a paddle with my trousers rolled up eating an ice cream. It was hailing. Huddersfield, watched the All Blacks thrash Italy, good pubs, scenic countryside and amazing fry up breakfasts. Holyhead, did a little work there when the Anglesey smelter was operating.
So most places I was just passing through/touristing, which is not the same as living there, but didn't find them particularly grim...

 

[VW911]

My son's bedroom...

 

[moto748]

If the measure is crime rates, then the crappiest place is definitely 10 Downing Street

Only difference there is no one does anything to stop it happening

It's uncanny! And the place is always swarming with coppers too!

 

[Clint]

Wrexham has gone to the dogs. It was once a very busy market town until the genius council moved the shops to a retail site away from the town centre. Now they're upping sticks as the rent on some of the big shops..MS,Debenham (shut) is around half a million a year
It's a ghost town...phone shops,pound shops and spice heads...

 

[RichardM]

Wrexham has gone to the dogs. It was once a very busy market town until the genius council moved the shops to a retail site away from the town centre. Now they're upping sticks as the rent on some of the big shops..MS,Debenham (shut) is around half a million a year
It's a ghost town...phone shops,pound shops and spice heads...

Charity shops, bookies, coffee shops and hair dressers, like very many town centres, not just Wrexham

 

[Theoriginalrich]

I spent the first 27yrs of my life in Bicester, it was a crappy commuter town with squaddies. New houses kept being built with no thought to how the occupants were going to entertain themselves.

 

[Rodcx500z]

When i visit a new town i will go upmarket to shop aldi lidl b&m and home bargains, i steer clear of m&s and waitrose they are full of unsavoury types, cads and bounder and spiffs all up to their ears in debt and driving chelsea tractors i steer clear of those dens of eniquity