Middlesbrough: is there any reason for it to exist?

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I challenge you to name a town or city that has less going for it.

― jonathan livingston pigeon, Monday, 26 April 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Mortimer is from there. reason enough.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

There are a couple of decent small live music venues in middlesborough.

Washington New Town is 1000000000 x worse than Middlesborough.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Driving through it on the A19, I am struck by how big it is and how much the landscape resembles Dr Who in the seventies (lots of steel structures and industrial plants). So, they must be doing something with all that kit.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and didn't Melody Nelson come from there?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Skyline was the inspiration for Bladerunner.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was the nearby ICI plant that inspired Bladerunner. It is a grim place--I lived there for three years-- but if you like beer and football it's great.

― rw, Monday, 26 April 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

southampton is grimmer.

― emsk, Monday, 26 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but Southampton has a lovely ferry to take you away to the Isle of Wight which is magical and wonderful!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that weird bridge (where does it take you?) and the football team.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

and it's brown and comes out of Cowes

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― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What's brown and sticky in Cowes?

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Middlesborough isn't so bad. Coventry is worse, though I have a fondness for it (it's quite a common Midlands joke that Cov City Council finished off what the Germans started.)

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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