Chippenham – a burgeoning dystopia of morons

Living in Chippenham, Wiltshire

I grew up in “Chip-nerm”, before it exploded into its current sprawl of field-obliterating estates. It was actually quite a pleasant town, which ended at the Pheasant Pub to the west and at the cemetery/ Hardens Mead to the east. This was when Westinghouse was still going strong (I worked in the foundry), Westmead Junior […]

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Chippenham (Chip’ numb) is a dump

Living in Chippenham

Chippenham is a small market town in Wiltshire, 15 miles East of Bath. I was living happily in Bath until my landlord decided to sell the house. My friends came to the rescue – or so I thought. They had bought their 1st house 8 months previously in Chippenham (they couldn’t afford a house in […]

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