Trevor S 2,003 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Next time you are in Oz, take an armed, escorted tour in an armoured vehicle through Redfern................. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Luton is about the best place to avoid as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I hated Cleethorpes when I went.. horrid place Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 When I took Mrs Catfan for a day trip to Cleethorpes we couldn't get away quick enough. After that she didn't speak to me for a week. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Cleethorpes is that bad it should have been called Grimsby. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Been into Loughborough & the usual bric-a-brac market was there plus there was one of those "French" markets & it was placed allong what would have been the mainroad(A6) through town. And it was really nice to see even if I bought nothing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Only been to Cleethorpes once and never again......the people !!!!!!?????????no comment in case I offend anyone 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Like Dorothy says, 'There's no place like home'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 I was born and raised in Nottingham and loved every second of living there. However, I couldn't live in a big city again, I've lived in a small town environment in East Anglia for the past 40 odd years and I'm happy to keep it that way. Yes, Braintree has it's faults and it's scummy areas, but I can walk into the town centre within 10 minutes via lovely parks, and at the bottom of my garden is a nature reserve and my skies at night are to die for. I've just been for a walk around town and met so many people I barely know yet are so friendly, I love it here. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisB 150 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Derby - murdered by Westfield! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Three cheers for Westfield. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 The "new" Loughborough was featured on East Midlands News yesterday evening just after 18.30. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Wasn't Derby always rubbish even before Westfield!? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Only been to Derby a couple of times & don't think much of it. I don't like Leicester much either. And Birmingham................if the world had piles that's where they would be. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,534 Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Derby is a filthy hoppit. I avoid it as much as possible 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 You've mentioned a few places that I know particularly well. I went to college in Loughborough and always liked the place. The Carrilon is in the park. There is a museum nearby now in what used to be the swimming baths. The market place is one of those traditional types and it takes over the centre just in front of the town hall every Saturday. It's a nice place to go. Do you know that Loughborough had 3 railway stations at one time. Cleethorpes. Yes I agree, it is dull. My dad worked there for 3 years in the 70's. Though I must say that Grimsby (nearby) is much better and actually not a bad town centre. In the time that I was there, that part of Lincolnshire still felt very cut-off to me. I used to go Louth quite a lot to buy records. Someone mentioned Derby - which I have always disliked. A very strange hotch potch town. Odd buildings, bizarre traffic schemes. Bad overall planning in trying to integrate old buildings with new. The Eagle centre was horrible and the new Westfield one is as impersonal as all the other Westfields you'll find throughout the country. The bus station got replaced by an office block with some bus stands at the bottom where they now have to back out into in-coming traffic. It was chaos while the new thing was being built and it's still a pain trying to find the right bus to get you out of the damned place. It gets a bit nicer towards Friargate but I wouldn't go there if I didn't have to. Leicester ? Totally agree. I can't travel through it quick enough. Of all the major cities in the East Midlands, I always thought that Notts was the best. It does fill me with trepidation though to see what they've been doing to it in the last few years. The re-development of Slab Square - replacing something nice with a rather strange collection of, what look like, storm drains. The way they've let both shopping centres decay - particularly Broadmarsh. Knocking down streets. Driving manufacturing out of the centre. Enormous rents forcing shops to close. Over-priced parking. A very expensive and intrusive Tram scheme which they seem to be putting all their faith in to revive the centre (!). 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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