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... and Dolphins, and Fort George, and Culloden. I liked Inverness better than I liked Hull. Which brings us back to Goole - if no one cares much for Hull what does everyone reckon to Goole (people from Goole go to Hull for a great time).

Red

May I put in a big fat mention for ...Wigan? The mere name makes most Brits snigger. A dull drab town in a dull drab valley bottom. A place with such a sense of its own amenities that it pulled down a genuine Victorian market hall to replace it with... a fake Victorian Market Hall!

Would you really concider taking a picnic on the shores of the river Humber!!! Although i'm sure the residents were proud for a time. Not only does Hull have the highest levels of acid rain in the u.k there is also abaslutlly nothing to do other than get a load of verbal abuse from five year olds because you wear boots. I can feel the anger rising!!!!! <{{><

Hi Baggyfish, I didn't tell you that I spent 3 years living in Thorngumbald so any mention of Hull does have to stand up in comparison to Withernsea.

*Massive Ace served by Red Dog .... crowd goes wild*

Red

Newbury. See my homepage.

Withernsea, a Mecca for the residents of Hull. I did here that you could find jet on the beach, its only saving grace.

I think Withersea is the angelica on top of the icing of the cake for the most boring town in the u.k.

Incidentally, i found it quite hard to explore the wider area of Yorkshire and believe that because Hull is flat and you can never actually see the horizon that you forget there are other domains to discover. I forget how i escaped.

My only reference to Goole is hitching and being stuck for 1/2 a day, something about fish and a bus stop not pleasent.

Well I was taught the following - heartfelt - prayer:

From Hull, Hell and Halifax, good Lord, deliver us.

agcB

I think the Withernsea jet was solidified oil discharge.

When I moved there (I swear to god this is true) and signed up with the local GP he told me it was a good thing I was moving in because it would improve the local gene pool !

Red

Yes Hull,the only town where one is expected to drink Whitelightning and slap the missus..scared?

It is quite obviously Basingstoke.

Hayle - it's even worse than St Austell (being further from the Eden Project for a start), and for Cornwall that's bad.
Just demolish the town and turn it into extra beach

Telford. Another new town. Most of it is a sort of sea of carpark.

Excellent!!!!
I've never been to Telford but it sounds great! I might just have to visit next time there is a bank holiday.

Are there diffrent breeds of car in the sea of carpark?
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Didcot. Net exporter of acid rain.
From where you can catch a train to Swindon.
And this is from someone who 'lived' in Bracknell for ten years.

And to find your way around Milton Keynes the Planners originally decided to hide the roads behind different types of trees so you would know that if you were, say, surrounded by oaks you were in the north west of the town. It was fine until autumn...they abandoned the idea.

Perhaps the post should read 'Carp Ark'? In which case the number is presumably two (by two).

Slough...

Its obvious really. There is no reason for this boil on the face of the planet to exist. No reason what so ever. Don't just take my word for it, our finest poet laureate, John Betjeman, said as much.

"Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough.
It isn't fit for humans now..."

GreyDesk

I've just read back through the thread and the first post slates Stevenage.
I lived there for a couple of years and quite liked it. True, I lived in an architecturally/social planning interesting bit of the town, it was a long time ago, and I moved in from a town which was so dull that it didn't even have its own bus shelter for us kids to vandalise.
GreyDesk

Grantham, Lincolnshire, actually won an award as The Most Boring Town In Britain, a few years back; but a few miles away is a town called Gainsborough. I was trapped there for two days in 1997. Now I know what eternity feels like.

Yes... I've been to Gainsborough...
Bad, isn't it

Well, I can tell the difference between trees even without their leaves: the shape of the branches, the texture of the bark, stuff like that.

But I am a hick from the sticks,

a hick called Ben

PS- my memories of Stevenage consist of roundabouts and brown and orange 70s carpet