What's the crappiest place in the UK?

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

Has anyone ever been to Skelmersdale? In the words of Colin Crompton "They don't bury the dead there, they prop them up in bus shelters"

 

[Rodcx500z]

Morcombe, they dropped a bomb on it in 1940 it did £3-00 worth of damage, worst place for me Bogner Regis

 

[RichardM]

Screw the Sun, I like Aylesbury !
Good mix of people, some nice pubs,decent music scene (ok maybe more in the past) and not up itself like some other more desirable' towns.

Isn't John Otway from Aylesbury?

 

[Tanglefoot]

Isn't John Otway from Aylesbury?

Ha ha, yes - I nearly mentioned him !
A local legend.

Aylesbury also home to the Friars club (of which I am a member ) that has hosted all sorts of famous bands over the years since the 60's and still going strong.
https://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/

 

[Desi_Rable]

Was that just for England?
They missed Newport Gwent.

Since they don't have anywhere in Scotland or NI either, you'd have to assume so.

 

[rybinss]

+1 for Scotland central belt. I was originally from Denny, who's council requested the 'plook on the plinth' or carbuncle award. The list in the link are mostly in Central Scotland. Urban planning without a Scooby...
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/offbeat/carbuncle-awards-scotlands-most-dismal-towns-83447

 

[Clint]

Silloth....

 

[Griff097]

Here is a SUN newspaper poll and lets face it their readership probably knows best -

Not one town in Wales on there, which makes me wonder a couple of things, how genuine is it and whether the ***** in the worst towns in Wales can afford or are even able to read ***** like the sun!

 

[Griff097]

I would say St Awful (Austell) but it's fairly small and i'm sure not many have had the pleasure so i'm going for Luton, an awful place.

Good brewery though, Proper Job and Tribute are on my list of beers I like

 

[dcbrookes]

Here is a SUN newspaper poll and lets face it their readership probably knows best -

Canterbury worse than Hull and Chichester worse than Doncaster? Utter ****.

 

[DocAnna]

+1 for Scotland central belt. I was originally from Denny, who's council requested the 'plook on the plinth' or carbuncle award. The list in the link are mostly in Central Scotland. Urban planning without a Scooby...
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/offbeat/carbuncle-awards-scotlands-most-dismal-towns-83447

They've knocked down and rebuilt that central awful part of Denny, and there's a huuuge new smart housing development, the high school was also knocked down and a shiny new one built about 10 years-ish ago too.

 

[rybinss]

It's been a good few years since I've been back tbf, and as you say it has much improved. On reflection, given the position of the poor brave souls in Ukraine right now, I don't think we can be too sniffy about where we live.

 

[moto748]

Yarmouth was dog-rough when I was last there a long time ago; maybe it's improved, but few seaside towns in the UK have. Peterborough is my home town, but I haven't lived there since the 70s. Everyone I know says, it was better back then, but then again, people always say that. In this case, I kinda think they have a point, though. No 'proper' pubs in the city centre, for a start. See also, Nottingham. Was that on the list, can't remember. You could make a case, though.

 

[moto748]

OK, how about this; places on that list I might consider living in (assuming a move was feasible):

Leeds
Southampton
Sunderland

 

[moto748]

England only, but I take from that that the Welsh and Scots have the good sense not to read the Sun.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I've spent a good few hours at various stages in my life, waiting for a ferry in Holyhead . Bleak is about the best thing I can say about it

 

[Paul7189]

Obviously the Scum will say Liverpool is a terrible place to live. They don't sell the paper there!

 

[Eskimo John]

It's all a matter of perspective. I live not far from Aldershot, no 37 on the list, and yes it's not great but it's full of army bases so it wouldn't be.
One place not on the list that I would nominate is St George's Hill Woking. Its full of multi-million pound houses and completely gated off from the rest of the world with security guards ect.. Over a quarter of the houses here are owned by super rich Russians. I would rather live in Aldershot any day.

 

[sifty]

From the other side of the world I'm intrigued. What makes a place shitty. 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...

 

[Bjorn Toulouse]

Blantyre is pretty grim, got even worse when the miners club burned down, it was it's one shining light. At Christmas the main streets lights are 50 years old and a lot of the bulbs have blown, just looks sad. It's so bad missionary's from Malawi go their. No wonder David Livingstone got out.