― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
!!!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Is Hebden Bridge really Britain's lesbian capital?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
its not grim, at all, again it shouldnt be on this list (especially as grimethorpe is not)
it was lesbian boho stretching way back before the 60s
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Surely Heckmondwike, no?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
brings back many memories
all of them shit
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
SaleManchesterLeedsYorkChesterScarborough
Lived in:0
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
CleethorpesGrimsbyScunthorpeScarboroughYorkSheffield
The place I live seems to be about 10 miles too far south to be on the list, but it's pretty grim here too. In the whole of Lincolnshire in fact, not just Grimsby, Scunny and Cleethorpes.
― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I always thought it a pity that no one ever did a "It's Grimmer Down South" answer record.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I live there. It is. That news article was the big front-page headline in yesterday's Grimsby Telegraph.
Places in the song that I've lived in: just Grimsby and Cleethorpes. Places I've visited:
BarnsleyBradfordWiganLeedsHullSalfordDerbyKeighleyGlossopClitheroeThe M62YorkScunthorpeScarboroughSheffieldManchesterCastlefordDoncaster
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Keighley is pretty grim but the retro railway station is nice and it's only five miles away from Haworth and Bronte country and all that.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Beverley, Barnsley, Bradford, Bingley, Bolton, Bury, Blackburn,
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― AdrianB (AdrianB), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Bradford,Crewe,Warrington,Leeds,Derby,Harrogate,Macclesfield,The M62,York,Scarborough-on-Sea,Ikley Moor (bah't'at),Sheffield,Manchester,Doncaster,Hali-fax,Bingley,
Me muther's frum Sheffild.
Harrogate, York and Leeds are by no means grim. It's posh up North Yorks.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Bolton,Bradford,Buxton,Crewe,Warrington,Leeds,Knutsford,Salford,Harrogate,Huddersfield,Grimsby,Brighouse,Macclesfield,Cleethorpes,The M62,Preston,York,Skipton,Scunthorpe,Scarborough-on-Sea,Chester,Cheadle Hulme,Sheffield,Manchester,Castleford,Doncaster,Hali-fax,
And of those, the grimmest was Castleford.
Lived in: York.
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I've lived in Chorley, and my sister's lived in Chester and Runcorn too.
I wouldn't like to say which was the grimmest - some I haven't been to for over 15 years, and I guess it depends on the season and the weather.
― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
also:Pickering (quite nice)Whitehaven (bit grim)Whitby (nice)
are any of the towns or mentioned in 'It's Grim Up North' in Teeside, Durham or Tyneside? Couldn't The JAMMS have gone further North? Did they just bottle it?
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
No.
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Milton Keynes
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Lived - Rochdale, well, Heywood, (near junction 19 of the M62) and Lancaster.
Just going through the list makes me realise how much I really don't like West and South Yorkshire and East Lancs. Those milltown yellow stone terraced streets hewn into places that really aren't the best places to live, geographically and geologically speaking.
xpost - There's an argument that the North begins at the Manchester Ship Canal. There's another one that counts Nottingham and Derby nand such like as Northern. I'd don't count Staffordshire as the North, and Cheshire, whilst Northern, is just Surrey-manque, so Merseyside, Manchester, Lancs, West and South Yorks are my dividing line. That would make Sheffield the most southerly northern Town, and Chesterfield the most northern southern town.
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
WarringtonBoltonChorleyManchesterThe M62
And I've never lived further north than Coventry.
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, no I think I'll eat it myself, num num...
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link
oh yeah thats what i was thinking of
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
"cheers," as they say in your country
"mate"
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
It's Grim Oop North
― earth of (snoball), Thursday, 3 January 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's Grim, Oppa Northern Style
xp to hungry4ass - that would be "ta"
― ogmor, Friday, 4 January 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Get down't Dewsbury market and get yer'sen a box of broken biscuits lad.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 4 January 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Nice_Up_North
― the definite listicle (seandalai), Friday, 4 January 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
How can you say it's grim up north with pictures like this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256796/Rows-boarded-terraced-houses-Accrington-brought-life-10m-revamp.html
― not_goodwin, Friday, 4 January 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
What about pictures like this?
[img]http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/images/ah-image1_kinder_stones.jpg[img]
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 4 January 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Love it up Kinder Scout, was in Edale the other week, plan to walk along the tops if it ever stops raining. Starting at sunrise and finish with watching sunset. Nothing grim up north about that.
― not_goodwin, Friday, 4 January 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.citylife.co.uk/img/12019/17014_490250_firedamaged_panacea.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__ecYQ0ZydAA/TSxRJQT4mRI/AAAAAAAAAx4/RdGYuHZ4MJU/s400/DJQ.jpg
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.21.403.403/p403x403/318560_10152377029720006_1613004091_n.png
http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20070308&t=2&i=450263&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=450263
― ogmor, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Yorkshire_NF.jpg
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/12/article-2340116-1A460F99000005DC-711_634x403.jpg
http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article4305605.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/cave-pic-4305605.jpg
― ogmor, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Which building is that in the background to the BNP march? It is a post '75 photo because that is the year Huddersfield/Bradford Building Societies merged, but there are still lots of flares. I love the way these concrete buildings looked just as prematurely aged and degrading to the human spirit in the 70's, relatively not that long after they were built.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Looks like Bradford, but I am not sure.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah i am drawn to that corrugated concrete
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Description English: National Front march in Yorkshire, Great Britain. 1970s.Date 1970sSource Own workAuthor White Flight
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
white flight doesnt seem to have the greatest memory
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
Was the St George cross as big a thing back then?
― Lectures of Pelé (Michael White), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
the North in many respects is a state of mind
― Roobarb and Custos (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:47 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=bradford+uk&hl=en&ll=53.795353,-1.741633&spn=0.011863,0.032058&sll=40.697488,-73.979681&sspn=0.489355,0.977783&hnear=Bradford,+West+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.795603,-1.758098&panoid=0rkqtxlAq64odOdrXt6hVw&cbp=12,268.27,,0,-9.22
I think this is the streetview of the National Front photograph
― roy, Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
roy you are a prince
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MqQEii2yFFY/UWBXt1oAbpI/AAAAAAAADWs/jr_KUZgfBFs/s640/expose_API_17.JPG
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 13 July 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
lol that's amazing.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 13 July 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
i don't know why i'm a magnet for lost drunky boys but i wish them bon voyage and i'm sorry for running away on the sly from the last one
― Dacca to Environ (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfE9T5HCUAAH6EJ.jpg
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
did this guy appear on the freemen thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeu-xX3-hdw
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
i don't think so, but he should of
― Squidward Ka-Spel (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYMXyeg2Ot8
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
quite enjoyed scholeshenge
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
a lament for England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyUWsr-ltps
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
I know these are opinions people will have heard enough times already, but they take on this odd poignancy when being delivered by a maudlin looking guy alone in his back garden, taking into a camera phone, imo
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
and the segue from 'we used to rule the world' to complaining that he got barred from a comedy club for telling racist jokes is kind of spectacular
― soref, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it's more poignant for being so familiar, that huge well of collective sadness & disenfrachisement that ppl teeter on the edge of
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
I only found this because I googled 'rodney'
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Rodney-Kray-Gang-poured-boiling-water-threatened/story-20827401-detail/story.html
A MAN says he was attacked and had boiling water poured over him by a gang threatening to gouge out his eyes. Rodney Kray – who changed his name in honour of the Only Fools and Horses character Rodney Trotter and the notorious Kray Twins – was attacked by three men in a neighbour's flat in Woodbine Close, west Hull, on October 20 last year.
― soref, Saturday, 22 March 2014 08:49 (ten years ago) link
Mr Kray, who has the Kray twins' faces tattooed on his back, was earlier asked why he had taken their name."They used to look after people, pay people's rent," he said."What, by killing them?" asked Paul Genney, Mr Macnamara's barrister."Well I don't admire that so much," said Mr Kray.
"They used to look after people, pay people's rent," he said.
"What, by killing them?" asked Paul Genney, Mr Macnamara's barrister.
"Well I don't admire that so much," said Mr Kray.
― soref, Saturday, 22 March 2014 08:50 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rpt8RUH.jpg
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/photographing-strangeways-prison-1980-228
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
the strangeways documentary is good
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Saturday, 2 May 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
i went to Brighouse the other week, i shd've taken my camera. it was v. much the North.
― contendo conformo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 May 2015 08:38 (eight years ago) link
hell of a lot of mid-range sports cars/Beemers being driven quickly and thoughtlessly. saw 3 near-misses in the space of half an hour.
― contendo conformo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 May 2015 08:39 (eight years ago) link
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/line-18-staggering-figures-lay-bare-deadly-divide-between-north-and-south-11388970
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 09:44 (five years ago) link
it could be worse, we could live in the south
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
I'm going to Leeds in August. O God, why have you forsaken me?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
I'd take dying from self abuse over slowly choking on carcinogenic fumes in a £600 a week bedsit for an extra 8 years anyday!
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
they seem to have as many homeless on the city centre streets as in London these days, so you'll feel at home, Tom.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
tbf Leeds is shit
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
the pubs are shit these days as well, it's a soulless, loveless shithole.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
and that's a quote from the tourist board
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
Same all over :(
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link