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20 best and worst places to live

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Gobbledigook · 09/08/2005 21:04

Did anyone see this - I only saw the last few places and I want to know what the others were! Can't even see anything listing them on the C4 website.

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Raspberry · 10/08/2005 13:31

So you don't have your 'torrst' in a morning St.G?

bundle · 10/08/2005 13:32

saintgeorge ah but it does have an "h" in some parts of northern ireland..

handlemecarefully · 10/08/2005 13:36

That explains it Gingerbear - I was starting to think that I had some sort of twilight existence in Doncaster. I was only there for just under a blissful year

Janh · 10/08/2005 13:37

turst, surely?

and ring people up from a fern box?

handlemecarefully · 10/08/2005 13:37

Oh and answering your question it was - ahem - 14 years ago!!!

Was working at the Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Lizzylou · 10/08/2005 13:38

JanH, could it be Waddington??? I think it begins with a "W"...???

I love the way people near here say "Curperk" for Carpark!

SaintGeorge · 10/08/2005 13:39

No Raspberry - I have weetabix thanks

It would be closer to 'toest' in west hull, or Janh seems to do a good east of the river accent. I have never heard anyone in Hull pronounce it with an 'or' in the middle.

bundle - why, do they have a different dictionary?

Surprise, surprise - our local BBC News program are fuming and slagging off Kirsty and Phil. The BBC like Hull though, they have invested a lot of cash here over the last few years.

Raspberry · 10/08/2005 13:44

St.G, you also came top of the 'Crap Towns' survey didn't you?

Janh · 10/08/2005 13:44

Yes, Waddington is beautiful and has a stream in the middle but is nowhere near Read and Simonstone! Also can't think of a manor house hotel there although there is a big hotel-restaurant called the Moorcock on the road up Waddington Fell.

There is a manor-house type at Mitton, near Whalley (Mitton Hall) but no stream.

But they are all near Clitheroe, not Read!

Lizzylou · 10/08/2005 13:46

JanH, we had to drive quite a way so I think it was Waddington, looking at the map...sorry for taking you on a wild goose chase, no idea where we went for the reception tho! Altho I know we drve thru Waddington to get there and it was v close by!

Janh · 10/08/2005 13:50

Or there is Eaves Hall which is in the next village along and is up a sort of lane.

Glad we have found Waddington - I was beginning to think there was a village there I'd never heard of

So where do you live, lizzylou (roughly?)

Lizzylou · 10/08/2005 13:54

Yes, it was Eaves Hall....gosh, sorry for being so dense! I was still breastfeeding a 5mth old and in a daze obviously at the time!

I live south of Burnley, Loveclough, in between Burnley and Rawtenstall and I love it!

Janh · 10/08/2005 13:56

Oh yes, it's in one of those long narrow Rossendale valleys, isn't it? Have been there (or thereabouts) - the countryside and houses are very different from over here.

Didn't they used to film Juliet Bravo over that way? And possibly Josie Smith as well?

Lizzylou · 10/08/2005 13:59

I don't know, we moved here in March from Ramsbottom and we never really ventured this way much before....the other side of Burnley has been a revelation to me tho, I expected it to be soo bleak and grimy (sorry! Just my preconceptions of the North! I'm from the Midlands orginally) and it is just so lovely! All we need is some sunshine really!

Raspberry · 10/08/2005 14:01

Lizzylou, you'll find if you keep going into Yorkshire (god's country) it gets even nicer

bundle · 10/08/2005 14:03

saintgeorge, not a dictionary as such, but the catholic/protestant communities are said to use different proununciations of "h" (ie one, aitch, the other haitch, can't remember which way round) so it's like a shibboleth

Janh · 10/08/2005 14:09

I think it used to be a lot grimier than it is now - the valleys used to be full of mills didn't they?

But the countryside is gorgeous all round here.

Juliet Bravo was actually filmed in Bacup I just discovered (with excursions over this way, they used Browsholme Hall) (pronounced Brewsum) - you're probably too young to have watched it though

Raspberry · 10/08/2005 14:12

Janh!!!! IT STILL IS GRIM...
They'll catch on I tell ya!
Sshhhhhh!

Lizzylou · 10/08/2005 14:13

We do, Raspberry, we stay at MIL's caravan in Ingleton which is also nice (not nicer!!) and love exploring round there too......all been a revelation to me, have to say.
Good to keep it a secret, so glad that Kirsty and Phil didn't rate this area as then we'd be inundated!

Janh · 10/08/2005 14:13

Oops, yes, of course it is, Raspberry

SaintGeorge · 10/08/2005 14:27

Ah, I see what you mean now bundle. I was referring to the fact that if you look the word up in a dictionary it is spelt without the 'h' which has just always struck me as rather odd.

Raspberry - yep, crap towns list as well hence my annoyance. Compounded by the fact that Hull is not in that fictional place called Humberside despite what the Post Office says - we are part of the wonderful county of Yorkshire.

northerner · 10/08/2005 14:32

YORKSHIRE?! Pah. Don't tar me with your brush.

handlemecarefully · 10/08/2005 14:35

God are you bunch of Northerners still going on!

runs off smirking

handlemecarefully · 10/08/2005 14:39

Why do I make jokey remarks like that, and then moments later think - oh heck, have I offended everyone. Will never learn!

Raspberry · 10/08/2005 14:51

hmc - We not all as fortunate as you to live in the south of England, so I suggest you keep your pathetic comments to yourself!