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The Last Place In England You Would Visit.


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Lived at Kelbrook Court in Offerton, Just off Alfreton Road,

 

Cheadle Hulme was okay,, but has more than its fair share of knobs out and about.

 

Have friends in Marple, nice place.

Near Half moon lane?

 

Marple is a BWFC hotbed :)

 

In fact a bungalow on Marple Road in Offerton used to have Bolton pics in the front room.....never knew who it was though

 

Cheadle Hulme is nice towards Bramhall Park....I think the new Waitrose made folk think they were living in Bel Air though!

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Near Half moon lane?

 

Marple is a BWFC hotbed :)

 

In fact a bungalow on Marple Road in Offerton used to have Bolton pics in the front room.....never knew who it was though

 

Cheadle Hulme is nice towards Bramhall Park....I think the new Waitrose made folk think they were living in Bel Air though!

 

 

Aye just off half moon lane. Used to cut through there to get to the Sainsurys on the a6.

 

I used to shop at that Waitrose, only place I could find Estrella round there

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Great Lever really is fucking grim, up there with anywhere.

It's a contender. As Spaz says, there's a few parts of Bolton I wouldn't venture into unless I had to.

 

I'll rise to this parochial bait :)

 

I suspect you've only ventured around the bits bordering town, Morris Green and Burnden - I'm struggling to think why you'd be venturing there in the first place tho'? ;)

 

Worst places in England?

 

Bolton can't really be pigeonholed - there are absolute shit-tips within a stone's throw of nice gaffs all over the town...

 

I'm looking at my patch of heaven on the map - it's all golf course, farmer's fields, reservoirs, cricket grounds, playing fields, woods and parks. That's probably why I'm so fiercely proud and defensive - it's the ideal prowling ground for a burgeoning serial flasher and brown-eyer, like me. I can strike then scurry back to the safety of my lair(s).

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Great Lever really is fucking grim, up there with anywhere.

 

To be fair I don't think Great Lever is as bad as I used to be in the 90's. Around that time Mancroft, Concrete City and Morrison/Leonard St etc were mostly boarded up fucking hovels. A lot of smack heads as well. Loads of money spent and CCTV on the estates have made an improvement IMO.

 

Think Bolton as a whole has improved since that period (thinking about the estates rather than town centre)

 

Back then Top oth Brow, De Lacy, Hiberna St area, Bromwich St, bottom of Halliwell Road and Mancroft etc were basically slums.

 

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So was born in farnworth, lived in offerton, marple and hazel grove and currently Woodford prior to moving Back to the grove!

So that covers many areas folk don't like!

And according to the book crap towns, hull smells of death

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My sister lives at Buckshaw.

 

( small and she's a murderers season ticket holder)

 

When I'm at the lights at the Sea View of a morning where they've put that big stone wall saying BUCKSHAW, I get scared I'm going to get sucked into that place.

 

I really do feel so uncomfortable in purpose built towns. Maybe there's a medical condition.

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When I'm at the lights at the Sea View of a morning where they've put that big stone wall saying BUCKSHAW, I get scared I'm going to get sucked into that place.

 

I really do feel so uncomfortable in purpose built towns. Maybe there's a medical condition.

That huge area what is Buckshaw Village, was never on a map when it was an ordnance factory, so just pretend it doesn't exist.
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