Working Class Towns

[Settle59]

Inspired by another thread - and being a Sociologist (after a fashion..) -
thought I'd start this thread.

OK here goes:
Luton
Slough
Blackburn
Corby

Quite a few millionaires in my craphole WC town.

ClassicCola - no - not at all. I did live in a deprived block of flats and this was a scene I did witness. In reality it's my opinion that some working class families can be more stable and provide a better foundation than some middle class families ..etc etc. in other words I like to be openminded.

Why's everyone being so arsey? It's reality, calm down.

FWIW: Aldershot

Being East Midlands born & bred, I know everything there is to know about working class towns. I grew up in one....

Mansfield
Ilkeston
Coalville
Heanor
Long Eaton
Chesterfield
Dronfield
Worksop
Ripley
Hinckley
Alfreton
Swadlincote
Burton on Trent
Hucknall
Corby

Castleford
Watford
Bicester

AvalancheKit - I meant to counterbalance the middle class towns thread and it was honestly intended semi lightheartedly.

Basildon
Margate
Dagenham
Blackpool
Bits of everywhere

Jarrow - epitomises history of the working classes - and proud!

Grew up in Hartlepool which is very working class.

@Buddywoo

Bicester? Really? I have been there a few times, and it didn’t seem much like a southern version of Mansfield to me.

Feltham

Most of the North then?

Can anyone link to the middle class towns thread please?

Kidderminster, without a doubt, working class through and through.
Also:

Dudley
Stourport
Stourbridge

But not Bewdley, Bridgnorth, or Hartlebury, they're all middle class. Don't ask me to explain why, I have no idea, but that's how it is!

I think I found it. A zombie thread from 2018 resurrected with only 6 posts from today

What a strange thread to counterbalance when probably hardly anyone has actually read it

Most of the North then?

Yes. The vast majority towns north of Leicester are predominantly, or almost exclusively working class.

There are exceptions, eg Chester, Wilmslow, Newark, Harrogate but they are very much the minority.

London
Sunderland
Newport
Glasgow

Oldham
Rochdale
Ashton-under-Lyne
Denton
Hyde
Bury
Burnley
Blackburn
Darwen
Accrington
Nelson

Camborne.

Jaywick
Halifax
Bradford
Chelmsford
Colchester

This is enlightening. Lots of towns on here are London commuter towns, lived in predominantly by professionals 🤷‍♀️

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being working class and I don't think the op suggested that at all. If describing a person or place as working class offends you then you're overthinking it.

Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall.
Plymouth

Professionals...nah

Put on a suit to travel from Northampton to a computer workstation in an office block in London is today’s version of a worker donning overalls to sit at a boot-making machine in the town centre.

This thread reads like an inland shipping forecast.😊