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

Cinderford

Nearly forgot that one.

Salford which is actually a city. Heywood, Rochdale, Oldham, Wrexham, Blackpool. Strangely I could find some beautiful properties on the outskirts of any of these places.

Most of central Scotland/Fife, but not the East Neuk.

Ashington, Northumberland (worst place I've ever been
Port Glasgow
Motherwell

Blackpool
Morecambe
Halifax
Keighley

Gillingham, Dorset...really...?

"I see the terminally offended are out in force this evening."

Yes. That's exactly it. [Hmm]

Salford which is actually a city. Heywood, Rochdale, Oldham, Wrexham, Blackpool. Strangely I could find some beautiful properties on the outskirts of any of these places.

Well, of course. The industrial cities of the north supported industrialists and the burgeoning middle classes.

Surfnterf - been there plenty of times - just wondered what you found so bad about Ashington?

Are the cities which aren't 'working class' the older ones which perhaps were supported by the rural peasantry rather than the urban poor? (I'm not sure if that idea holds water, just a random thought)

Are you called Settle because that's where you live and is it WC?
Keighley
Colne
Lancaster
Earby
Padiham
Burnley

Whitehaven
Workington

EdwynCollins - no I've actually never been to Settle!! And I've no idea if it's working class! Closest I've been to settle is a place called Kettlewell!

Ah this is a bit sneery isn't it. That's never nice.

Kettlewell is a beautiful village. It might have been WC once

It can't possibly be WC and a beautiful village.

@CoachBombay you missed "Pembrokeshire except for Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock".

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Peterborough.

Lancaster

Point is op it isn't really about offending people. I live in a deprived area and don't care what people think of it. What you have done is given people the opportunity to trash areas they think are poor, deprived or chavy. As there are lots of posts with comments about the nature of the place. Further adding to the assumption working class areas are worse than middle class areas. Tbh if you have any experience in sociology I'd expect you to have an understanding of this. Rather than repeating that you have naively based this thread on another re middle class towns. You should know how obsessed mumsnet and the British are with calss and they love a pile on opportunity.

The thing is, most historical industrial areas/coalfields: South Wales, West &East Midlands, of course they are working class because a generation ago the majority were blue collar workers and culture doesnt change that quickly. Except for a few cathedral cities and spa towns. It doesnt mean they are unliveable dumps but they often suffer the loss of industry and continues underinvestment.

I meant to add much of the north.

Swanley

I consider Kiddie a bit posh.

Indon't get why people say thread is goady. What's wrong with a WC town? Most of us are from them.

Paisley I don't think has been mentioned.

Most of West Coast of Scotland is proudly working class except maybe Bearsden / Milngavie, Newton Mearns, West End of Glasgow. A few places I have missed too but most of us proud to be WC.

Bacup
Barnoldswick
Bury
Blackburn
Burnley

NotMeNoNo

^

Quite, darling.

Just forget all those Yorkshire piles