What's the worst place you've ever been in the UK?

[In2mindsss]

Ill go first.

Morecambe. Nice views but proper creepy.

I live in Bradford, and whole heartedly agree with you. City of Culture, my arse.

Oh yes!! At the Seagull pub I think? There were quite a few nightclubs around the West London 'burbs, actually most districts thinking about it. Perhaps we should start a thread about nightclubs of our youth?

Aston (Birmingham). Was there for work. Rubbish everywhere. Mattresses and sofas in front gardens, overflowing bins.

It does. It has a few run down bits but the harbour is lovely, sea cliff walk great, keptie ponds.

It's not got the kind of town centre you'd go to as a destination but that's not really where the appeal lies. Like many small towns in Scotland good and bad are in very close proximity.

If you want that go a bit further south to broughty ferry.

But apart from the obvious beautiful areas in the South, such as Devon, Cornwall, villages in Somerset, the South has pretty shitty areas too. London, I’m looking at you. In the North, the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, and Northumberland, are absolutely beautiful places.

It does. I visited recently and was genuinely impressed. I have a soft spot for a dull museum, but these were actually really good. Lovely art gallery too.

Bath, it’s a miserable shadow of its former self, full of closed shops and street sleepers in doorways. A smell of urine pervades streets off the main thoroughfare. Parking charges are extortionate.
If it didn’t have the tourist attractions to entice foreign visitors it would be dead.

No one is laughing at poor people.

And I think you’re factually plain wrong in saying that the NW is singled out.

As soon as I saw this thread title I thought Blackpool, and I'm clearly not alone.

In it's defence my sister lives nearby in Lytham St Anne's and that's nice.

I will also add Edmonton Green. I lived there for 3 years in the early 90s and it was grim then, and i imagine it's worse now. I only stuck it for 3 years because we were in a council flat and saving to buy.

Blackpool!

Decided to stop there for 1 night with the kids on the way down from Scotland to The Cotswolds.

I hadn’t been since a kid but nothing prepared me for the hell on Earth that was Blackpool. Everything about it left me feeling cold and like something was trying to steal my soul. Even the best restaurant in town was comically bad. The place reeked of rancid oil and most people looked like they wouldn’t see their 50th birthday.

Terribly sad to see and I hope it can be regenerated but it’s some task.

Timeslips don't exist but I do acknowledge that people might feel odd/uneasy/unhappy because of the underground and the way the electric currents, sounds and vibrations run around Bond Street.

I had that experience with the Basingstoke roundabout system. Perhaps it’s a Hampshire thing?

Bolton

Swindon

Used to be a rural small town. A bit worzle ish.
The town centre is unsafe for women now and all the shops have gone (three department stores, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's).
Now full of vape shops , barbers and fried food.

We have a few of those near schools and I get Children of the Corn vibes from them. They get even creepier when the paint chips from their faces.

Larkhall
Shotts
Cumnock

This made me laugh, thanks

Any Essex seaside town. Litter and racism.

Feltham
Slough

really grim
does anyone live in slough by choice?

Bu t 'near Grimsby' there are some lovely places, in the same way near my very industrial NW hometown there are some beautiful places A friend who came to teach in the area and subsequently moved to the South Downs area used to say how he missed the ruggedness of the NW area and easy access to some of the county's finest countryside.

Both places have been mentioned a few times.

Blackpool. Drove all the way from Brighton with my friends for a girls weekend and the drive was the best part, even with being stuck in traffic. That's one very run down place.

I have been to many of UK towns and cities, some do have deprived bits - but I found not one of them completely dreadful. All have some nicer parts, even the poor grim places, and all have their unique charm.

I think a lot of the experiences on this thread are one off and a lot have some sort of personal grudges (there is always one saying "London", lol).

I do dislike Brighton, for example, but I dont think its dreadful.

Certain parts of Birmingham and Great Yarmouth.

I wouldn't say it's the worst but for reasons well known locally it has been allowed to go to rack and ruin, so sad for a once proud town.