Borehamwood, a grey, menacing world of 60’s tower blocks & sink estates

Living in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire

I, like quite a few people am fortunate enough not to have to live in Borehamwood. However, I do have to work there, and just a few hundred yards away from the relatively pleasant business quarter near the station, the nightmare of urban chavdom begins. Borehamwood’s main street, Shenley Road is an ugly, run down […]

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Hatfield, take the average new town. Kick it about a bit & remove all the leisure amenities

Living in Hatfield

Take the average new town. Kick it about a bit, remove all the leisure amenities, close the schools, shut down the local industry…..here’s one we made earlier! Modern Hatfield came into creation during the slum clearances at the end of the war. Large numbers of London’s east end **** were shipped ‘out to the sticks’ […]

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