Middlesbrough

Where to start… Go to any estate, any area of Middlesbrough and you will find 70% of the residents are complete *****.. Some of the more popular **** areas are: Hemlington Linthorpe The avenue Whinney (Bronx) Banks Lets take Hemlington to start with, Was once a nice place, with lovly resident, it even had a […]

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Rotherham than me…

Having lived and worked in many places around England including Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Preston (Depreston!), Leigh, Bootle & Great Yarmouth, all of which have their problems, I have to say that you have no idea just how piss poor a town can be. I was born and bred in Rotherham. I spent the first 25 years […]

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Harlow – Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter…

I like to think I’m a fairly hardened sort of person towards ugliness but I was not prepared for Harlow. I spent the early parts of my life in such, shall we say less than aesthetically pleasing, places as Middlesbrough, Bradford, Stoke-on-Trent and pre-gentrification Hackney. About five years, ago, I started a new job in […]

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Mixed bag for Darlington (Darlo)

Darlington is truly a mixed bag. It consists of the best and the worst, and by the worst, I mean you’ll feel like you’re in Mogadishu or Baghdad. Unlike other nearby towns, such as Middlesbrough, Hartlepool or Stockton which are all universally **** throughout, Darlington consists of several okay areas in which you’ll find old […]

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For those who criticise the North

Having read articles on Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Middlesbrough, I think that it’s about time to redress the balance. For the uninitiated, in 1979 a new Prime Minister was elected in the UK. Immediately she set about doing what her party did best. And she was best at it out of all of them. […]

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The sad decline of The North

It angers and saddens me a great deal to read the many obituries of once proud working and mining towns like Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc on this site. These were all places I was familiar with as a very young man back in the late 1970s and places I loved to visit and […]

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stockton on tees

Stockton on tees, where the match was invented, played a major part in the prioneering of railway,and nestling next to middlesbrough in the so called tees valley, the hight street is **** mecca with **** shops and **** bars, would not recommend it unless you are a redneck or wear a pink adidas tracksuit. ingleby […]

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