[Closed] top 10 uk dumps...

Wishaw
Glenrothes
Blyth
The majority of London

Cumbernauld, wins every time.

Aaaaah... Rhyl... Toxteth-on-Sea.

Anywhere in East Manchester... but Gorton in particular. They filmed Shameless there. They managed to make it look a lot nicer than it actually is

Most of the 'dumps' I know near to me are in lovely countryside, but have fallen into a downward spiral of epic proportions due to the loss of industry, mainly mining. But at least they still have the countryside around them.

Some of the inner city places though, I'm thinking Springburn, possil park, lambhill, ruchill etc in Glasgow, god it must be horrific to be growing up there.

I'm sure all major cities have areas that are equally as bad.

Once we complete the list we can sell it on to Kim Jong Un for target practice.

Second for Gorten
Mixenden in Halifax
Walpole in Huddersfield

How I miss living in West Yorkshire.

The majority of London

That's pretty unfair....the majority of London is alright, if you like that sort of thing! Fortunately for me, I live in Surrey and very rarely venture anywhere remotely chavtastic, so my contribution to this thread is at an end! 🙂

Do you feel better?

Dumps? 🙄 aren't you a class act

Blackpool
Keighley
Bishop Auckland
Basildon/Pitsea
Clacton

Personal prejudice FTW...

Bristol
Malvern
Manchester
Edinburgh
Glasgow

Cumbernauld, wins every time.

... but Gorton in particular.

My dad's from Gorton. My mum and dad decided that they wanted to be together forever whilst walking down Hyde Road, and they've been married, happily, for 52 years.

So, whilst some places are indeed aesthetically challenged, let's not forget that people live there and personal histories are made there.

My mum and dad moved out of Gorton as soon as they could though, cos it's a dump.

No mention of Slough yet.

Fort William. Everyone responsible for that waterfront should be buried at a crossroads so their soul wanders the earth lost, forever. "Oh you want to look at the beatiful sea view? NO! CAR PARKS! BYPASS! CONCRETE SHOPS!"

There is an "offical" list.

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crap_Towns ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crap_Towns[/url]

Rank 2003 2004 2013
1 Hull Luton London
2 Cumbernauld Windsor Bradford
3 Morecambe Sunderland Chipping Norton
4 Hythe Edinburgh and Glasgow (tied) Southampton
5 Winchester N/A York
6 Liverpool Clapham Gibraltar
7 St Andrews Bath Coventry
8 Bexhill-on-Sea Nottingham Nuneaton
9 Basingstoke Corby High Wycombe
10 Hackney Middlesbrough Stoke-on-Trent

Keighley
Pretty much any of the old mining towns in Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire (I work in Eastwood. Good lord.)
London
Swindon
I used to work in Kirkcaldy. That was quite something.
Bridlington
Bradford
Rotherham
S****horpe
Redcar

Wishaw

I live here. Just like anywhere, there are bits of it which aren't very nice. THere are bits of it which are really rather lovely.

I have also worked in the Social Housing sector for the last 20 odd years..... I have visited and worked in some grim shitholes which you wouldn't believe still exist in a modern first world country.

The list of places which are indescribably worse than Wishaw is long indeed.

I'm glad I live where I do.

Clacton

Luton.
Much of Hemel Hempstead.
Hatfield.

It must be pretty hard living in some of the south Wales former mining towns. Dump is not a nice word though.

I take it no contributors to the thread thus far have ever visited Millom

I take it no contributors to the thread thus far have ever visited Millom

funkmasterp - Member

Walpole in Huddersfield

How I miss living in West Yorkshire.

I'm fairly new to WYork, you mean Walpole Rd area in Hudds?

I have also worked in the Social Housing sector for the last 20 odd years.

Perchy - If you work in social housing in and around Lanarkshire I guess you know more about this subject than anyone else on here. I can only imagine the things you have seen and dealt with.

The sad thing is that it seems to be a spiral, put people in ugly, grim, shitholes and they tend to act in according to their surroundings.

To be fair if you stick fridges and old sofas in your garden it is kind of a dump.

Barrow in furness would be at the top of my list. Would be nice if the furness penisula ended at Dalton and Barrow and Walney were done away with.

jekkyl - Member
Barrow in furness would be at the top of my list. Would be nice if the furness penisula ended at Dalton and Barrow and Walney were done away with.

Seconded.

No need to nuke it from orbit, though. Given the quality of workmanship i witnessed at times, they'll do it themselves before too long.

Shoreham.

Merthyr Tydfil.

Glenrothes.

Fort William. Everyone responsible for that waterfront should be buried at a crossroads so their soul wanders the earth lost, forever. "Oh you want to look at the beatiful sea view? NO! CAR PARKS! BYPASS! CONCRETE SHOPS!"

Good call. Whilst there are many many more horrible places, Fort Bill deserves special mention for managing to get it so wrong when nature made it an almost impossible task to nause up.

Having grown up in the South Lakes, Barrow was usually known as the "ar**hole of the universe" and Millom as the boil up the ...

These days I don't think Barrow is too bad but it's still not a place I'd like to live.

Sadly I think there's a lot of places that once had significant industry of some sort that have "gone to seed" as it were when things moved on/the industry closed down. It can't be easy when there's little prospect of improving your general environment.

Edit: as for messing things up - Caernarfon quite spectacularly managed this by removing many of the quality buildings just out from the centre of town and replacing them with a flyover/bypass.

@whitestone. you could move away from Barrow (as I did) which would considerably improve your general environment. 😀
I do miss the sea though, I liked living by the coast.

I also nominate Morecambe.
What's wrong with Glenrothes?
Markinch!

The place where I have seen the most amount of aggro in the shortest amount of time is Southend-on-Sea, by quite a hefty margin.

On the back of this thread I googled 'The Sun Centre' in Rhyl. Memories of my childhood living in Denbigh and a 'special treat' in the holidays to go there when it opened in 1980. [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-36833354 ]Sadly now shut.[/url]

@jekkyl - I never lived there, grew up near Grange-over-Sands (very genteel), spent nine years living near Caernarfon, now live near Skipton so know all about Keighley 😥

To be fair if you stick fridges and old sofas in your garden it is kind of a dump.

No.....dodging dirty needles, used condoms and human excrement, only to be confronted by a bloke with more feet than teeth who offers you a "go on the wife for a tenner" as a distraction so that his mate can whack you on the back of the head and steal your Stihl saw* , that's a bit of a dump.

*this actually happened to a guy on one of my jobs.

High Wycombe

Seriously?

Last time I was down there I was teasing my colleagues about how posh it was, they were denying it. On the drive out again, I passed a pet shop which had a sign in the window promoting a special offer on swan food.

*this actually happened to a guy on one of my jobs.

Wait... he agreed to the offer?!

*this actually happened to a guy on one of my jobs.

So he paid the £10 and lost his Stihl saw??????

Or was the bargain offer false and that was the distraction?

We need clarity here!

I'm fairly new to WYork, you mean Walpole Rd area in Hudds?

It was an estate in Huddersfield, not sure of the street names as it was 15 years ago. I used to work for the council and there was a lot of trouble at the time in the area. It was always sad to see the odd house with a well tended garden in the middle of a sea of wrecked houses. Nine times out of ten it would be an old couple who'd seen the area slowly deteriorate around them.

Edit - quick Google and yep Walpole road is part of the estate. Google result was also an Examiner article about arrests by armed police

Little Hulton, Lancashire.

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Or was the bargain offer false and that was the distraction?

I assume it was this. It was never adequately explained at the time on account of the miscreants getting on their toes with the Stihl saw and the potential "customer" getting into an ambulance.

If you want to find out for yourself, go for a wander round the Gorbals with a Stihl saw.

Wear a helmet.

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Unless it can occupy all ten spots, I am not sure that's going to work.

Unless it can occupy all ten spots, I am not sure that's going to work.

Good point. Except that if you'd seen Little Hulton, you'd understand that it should easily occupy all 10 spots.

Hull.

After cycling through it twice last year (thankfully the second time ended a the station) I have no desire to go back again.

I've been to some pretty tired locations in my time and worked in/near to some pretty run down inner city estates but Hull was something else. I've never seen so many people walking round completely expressionless. It was like the zombie apocalypse had struck and no-one noticed.

Until you got to the outskirts, where you get offered out for cycling on the cycleway, or hairless gorillas stand across the path with their generic hardman dog trying to scare you (rather unsuccessfully I hasten to add).

Except that if you'd seen Little Hulton, you'd understand that it should easily occupy all 10 spots.

If that picture is anything to go by , I doubt it.

There're still tiles on the roof and boards on the window. No fire damage. No visible sign of occupation. No tramps shagging on a dirty mattress on the pavement.

That's one of the neatest derelict buildings I've ever seen.

In Govanhill that would have 12 families living in it.

Swadlincote - I remember someone referring to it as the armpit of the universe. At least these days it's not completely covered with a layer of coal dust, and it's in the "National Forest". Some of the trees even seem to have survived the attentions of the local yoofs...
So pleased I left there, but I have no idea why my son thinks it's a good idea to move back...

Interesting that there are so many 'new towns' being mentioned. Cumbernauld, Milton Keynes, Glenrothes, probably others. The number of roundabouts must be proportionate to the level of dump-ness.

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For what it's worth, the worst conditions i've ever seen people living in , in the UK, was in these ,thankfully now demolished, monstrosities............. Whitevale Street and Bluevale Street, just off the Gallowgate in Glasgow.
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I couldn't believe that human beings would live in such squalor in this country.

Yeah I hate poor people too.

Blackpool as it has the distinction of making it a 'destination' for many who live in cr@p towns.

We used to go to Kirkcaldy for a day out.....
Craigmillar scheme in Edinburgh was pretty grim mid-eighties.

Newport, did a job there last year and it was grim, and I live in Luton so am used to dumps.

Maryport, Workington gets a look in too. Going south I'd have to say Rochdale but Huyton was a real shit hole, famous for where joey Barton's brother/cousin/whatever went about somebody with an ice axe and the pdsa car park was full of blacked out range rovers.

On the wtf are the for scale Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea just freaky places.

no mention of the capial of the fens?

Wisbech would get my vote

10. Aylesbury
9. Aylesbury
...
2. Accrington
1. Aylesbury

Mr Woppit - Member
Shoreham.

Merthyr Tydfil.

Glenrothes.

I presume you've included Shoreham for personal reasons, it's hardly in the same league as Merthyr?

I always feel terribly sad for people trapped in awful places, it must grind you down something rotten

How do we divide up bits of London into crap areas to live? I guess it is all London but, some of the towns or boroughs in there are just the worst, soulless, unfriendly places to live. Some of the places listed may be rough, but in terms of spiritual death, London is where you end up.

2. Accrington

I did wonder how long that would take.

Sorry, perchy. I tried to find this picture, which I had posted some years ago in a different thread. I think you'll agree it meets most of your criteria.

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It's a post-pillage nightmare.

I used to live in Reddish, well I say Reddish it was really Gorton, but the nice bit. It was okay. A dump yes but alright place to live in for a bit while I was studying. I have family from Little Hulton and yes it is truly awful. I am from Farnworth which is just as bad. But I would have to vote for the whole of Bolton. Nukes from space is the only way forward.

I'll see your

I work in Eastwood. Good lord.

and raise you one 'I used to be a policeman in Eastwood'.

I always feel terribly sad for people trapped in awful places, it must grind you down something rotten

That's definitely the worst part. Used to get to me when working in some areas.

Another special mention for Fort William. It should be lovely despite the rain, and arguably worth the investment of leveling the worst bits and rebuilding.

Bromley
Finsbury Park
Croydon

Satellite towns that were over-dependent on one, now defunct, industry are probably the worst in my experience.

Near to me are two (one was dependent on coal mining, the other hosiery). Both are like visiting a different planet if you go out there on a Friday or Saturday night. There are no 'tipsy hi-jinks' or 'witty repartee' to be had. Mainly joyless and hyper-aggressive knuckleheads who are looking to fight anyone, but most usually the 'other family' that also 'drink in here'. That will be the 'other family' who they've had weekly punch-ups with for the last 20 years.

Some of the more champagne socialist posters on here really should visit some of these places - it might challenge their paternalistic views of 'the salt of the earth'.

Got to agree with Little Hulton.

We were doing some social housing there back in the 80's and looked outside the cabin to see a few police and a bit of a commotion. Some bloke had been walking down the road, climbed over a small picket fence into someone's front garden and started shagging the pet dog. In the front garden, on the main road, in broad daylight.

Googling Little Hulton (I'd never heard of it, despite it seemingly being in Salford) brought me to this...

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/little-hulton.html

... which has a "top ten worst places to live" poll.

no mention of the capial of the fens?

Wisbech would get my vote

I live in West Norfolk, but have had to go to Wisbech recently to pick up some motorbike parts for a mate away at sea, place is like the Wild West, turned up to get them at door and 6 lads walked out of the house with the tracksuits and little man bags stinking of vodka at 9.30am and crowded round me, had a little brown trouser moment, i didn't ask how they'd come across the parts in the first place!!

Boston and Peterborough aren't much better, went to Great Yarmouth recently and that is one of those sad old seaside towns that have fallen onto real hard times.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

One assumes chipping norton got on the list above due to its residents, as opposed to its aesthetics?

Slough has no redeeming features at all.

Can't believe that we are on page 3 and no one has mentioned St. Helens!It makes some of the places on here positively aspirational.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunday-times-best-places-to-live-2017-3qkwjnvrm

I was suitably re-assured in my judgement about Dunblane being on the toff list. 😉

Oxford is a complete dump.

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

edit: oh and Leysdown on Sea and probably Sheerness too (the inbred chav cousins of Chatham)

And Boringstoke/Basinghole but that's already been suggested.

No-one's mentioned Leeds yet either. Particularly Belle Isle, Harehills, Gipton (sounds as bad as it is) & Cross Flats/Dewsbury Road area.
Went through that last bit with Ton a few weeks ago & was astonished. I would've taken photos but I didn't dare stop.

no mention of the capial of the fens?
Wisbech would get my vote

I live in West Norfolk, but have had to go to Wisbech recently to pick up some motorbike parts for a mate away at sea, place is like the Wild West, turned up to get them at door and 6 lads walked out of the house with the tracksuits and little man bags stinking of vodka at 9.30am and crowded round me, had a little brown trouser moment, i didn't ask how they'd come across the parts in the first place!!

Boston and Peterborough aren't much better, went to Great Yarmouth recently and that is one of those sad old seaside towns that have fallen onto real hard times.

Wouldn't it be easier to list the places that aren't? shit holes?

I came in to offer Chatham, Strood and Gillingham but they have nothing on some of these.

wowzers - I'm doing well here . . .

In these two posts I've

1) been born in one
2) lived in one from age 4 - 22
3) spent most of my weekends going out in one from 16 - 21
4) had every summer holiday there for years when a kid (possibly doesn't count as Gt Yarmouth used to be very busy in in the early 80s and didn't seem a dump)
5) moved to live with just up the road from the 3 Kent dumps listed. Albeit in a nicer village but close enough to know (and loathe) these 3 places

Pretty impressive eh

Blaenau ffestiniog

Genuinely shitter than some of the greater Manila shanty towns.