Worst Town in Britain Competition

[fairkatrina]

Go on then, what's wrong with your town??

To start the ball rolling, I live in WIDNES, Cheshire, which is between Manchester and Liverpool. It boasts its own abbatoir and power plant (actually there are 2, Fiddler's Ferry and the ICI), there is no direct bus or train link between the two ends of town, there used to be 4 cinemas but now there are none, the swimming pool (a '70s monstrosity of brown and yellow) is frequently shut down for outbreaks of Legionnaires, unemployment is exceptionally high and it has one of the lowest life expectancies in the country.

CAN YOUR TOWN BETTER IT????

[spudqueen]

I live in Preston, which isn't much better than Widnes. But I would suggest Ellesmere Port as an even worse place. Not only do they have Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery but numerous other horrible industries down Oil Sites Road (including Octel which makes chlorine amongst other things), which is just off the town centre. It has the most disgusting shopping centre and a swimming pool that sounds just like the one in Widnes. It always smells bad round there, there can be fallout from the industries onto cars etc. Horrible place.

[delboy3]

Aah, Smells Queer Port...

Didn't Hull "win" a recent survey of Britain's Worst Places To Live?

[aristotle]

If you don't like the place where you live why don't you either get up off your backside and try and do something to improve it or move to another town? Stop whingeing!

[fairkatrina]

Thanks Aristotle for that philosophic viewpoint - we're only having a laugh!

[Bmw-Rider]

CUMBERNAULD, between glasgow and stirling. it won the carrbunkle award for the worst town centre !!

[wizard69]

Stoke on Trent...
No industry left,
No jobs,
Full of asylum seekers
Gotta be the smack capital of the world,
And I live here....
5 reasons NOT to live in Stoke,
(ok...4 reasons then. And one reason to want to live in Stoke...)

*waits for the sarcastic replies*

[naomi24]

I went to Walton on the Naze ........ once. :o)

[johnlambert]

Corby, Northants
nuff said

[Scylax]

' Farewell to Shields, the filthiest place
On all Northumberland's dirty face.
The coalhole of the British nation,
The fag-end of the whole creation,
The jags of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
A banquet-house for dogs and swine.
A paradise for bugs and fleas,
And human vermin, worse than these'

There are 4 more verses of Hookey Walkers'
poem that I could recite, but maybe you've got
the picture ?