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Thread #73775   Message #1284769
Posted By: GUEST,Mingulay
30-Sep-04 - 06:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: Crouch End 13th Crappiest Town in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Crouch End 13th Crappiest Town in the UK
How on earth did Corby only manage 9th, shame on you letting the side down like that. I know the skies are a little brighter now the steelworks are long gone but surely you haven't let the levels of mindless, drunken violence slip to such pathetically low standards. Enduring memories of Corby in the 60's are of shops shuttered even when they're open, no go estates, even more no go pubs and this in the quiet areas. I once knew a guy who drove a taxi in the area and carried a pickaxe handle next to his seat. It was a case of pay before you ride and be prepared to decamp from a moving car on arrival. Also the inhabitants spoke in a strange old-fashioned 1920's/1930's Glasgow dialect that modern Scots had a job to understand.

It fair makes me shudder to think of it.