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Working Class Towns

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Settle59 · 16/05/2020 18:21

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

OK here goes:
Luton
Slough
Blackburn
Corby

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:10

Sorry didn't mean to offend - just a way of counterbalancing the middle class towns thread and also knowing full well that some of these post industrial towns which did have high unemployment now attract commuters and an entirely different demographic so in that sense I agree that the term 'working class town' is meaningless.

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:11

Pinner
Stanmore
Northwood

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missyB1 · 17/05/2020 11:12

Sorry if it’s bern mentioned, my home town Stafford.

Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 11:13

On fact the term 'working class' in the sense it's being used here is kind of outdated.
These days the 'working class' are people with jobs as opposed to 'the non working class'..or the rest of us.

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:13

Alperton
Uxbridge
Wembley
Harlesden

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Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 11:14

Ain't no commuters coming to our post industrial town...

CleanIsBlissful · 17/05/2020 11:14

I really don't get why anyone gives a toss about the thread being 'offensive'. You'll see I contributed to the thread. And I also come from/lived in very very poor areas such as Poplar (can you get anymore slum?), Basildon, Luton.... I don't care if people describe these places as working class or even worse.

They do me just fine. And the people living here probably couldn't give a toss what you think. The only people I know who would care that their area has been scrutinised is the likes of DH and a few friends. Because they live in 'nicer' and more expensive bits of these places. But unfortunately for them, that doesn't matter when you generally think of a place that's poor.

I wouldn't really like to live in a 'nice' village. Too much nosey behaviour going on from experience. And not enough local amenities!

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:15

Harrow Weald

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Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 11:18

Clean that is true. I went to some extra lovely little town down in Kent and found the idea of living there horrifying. ..

Settle....'HarrowWeald' and 'Stanmore'....Grin

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:18

By the way I didn't mean Pinner/Stanmore/Northwood. I once was moving to London and asked what the posh areas of Middlesex were and these were the responses I got.

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:20

Destroyedpeople - sorry x post - Harrow Weald actually doesn't seem as affluent as the areas surrounding it - Stanmore/ Pinner/Northwood etc

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Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 11:23

Haha have you not been up to 'Brooks hill and the actual Weald? The 'grimsdyke' etc..lol.

Spent a happy year there as a teen...

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:26

Destroyedpeople - no - I've not been to that particular area - I know people who live fairly near - Hatch End /Northwood etc - that part of London in general does seem nice

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YahBasic · 17/05/2020 11:30

Surprised Crewe hasn’t been mentioned. Feels like the epitome of a working class town where there are two major employers.

Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 11:31

Very upmarket...it's all detached houses and swimming pools...not that I have been up there for 30 years. ...

Student133 · 17/05/2020 11:34

As someone from Sheffield, the western half of the city is basically just Surrey-by-the-Peaks, but the east half definitely belongs on the list.

Bluesheep8 · 17/05/2020 11:35

Surely there are different areas of all towns which are different classes though?

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:37

YahBasic - is trains/railways one of them by any chance? My friend's parents used to live there before he was born and they then moved to my home town. Felt it might have had a wc demographic but didn't want to make assumptions..

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wallywonker · 17/05/2020 11:38

Actually, who cares? Not sure what you are trying to achieve from this thread, op.

wallywonker · 17/05/2020 11:39

Where do you live, op?

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Settle59 · 17/05/2020 11:42

I live in Cardiff wallywonker

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YahBasic · 17/05/2020 11:42

Yep, the railway is the main one. Pretty much everyone who lives in the town knows someone who works in the rail industry.

The other one is Bentley. A number of other factories have closed or massively reduced in size in recent years.

Most of jobs advertised for the area are low paid. But then you have a number of MC towns and villages around Crewe.

stophuggingme · 17/05/2020 11:46

@User68953378975

Durham is anything but a working class town these days. It is primarily now a university town. Well city in fact.
It’s full of rich students and any working class people moved out to the old pit villages and housing estates long long ago.

FoxBaseBeta · 17/05/2020 11:47

I knew both mine and DH's home towns would be on here, wasn't disappointed

Greggers2017 · 17/05/2020 11:48

Barnsley
Rotherham
Sheffield
Doncaster
Scunthorpe
Wakefield
Grimsby
Goole
Selby
Pontefract
Castleford

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