Small Towns: UK

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maybe, less than 10 or 20 thousand people,

tell me your favourites. perhaps even a picture

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.highpeak.co.uk/hp/p_hath.jpg

Hathersage is lovely

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Ormskirk.

The greatest town in the UK.

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/slicecity.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nhi.clara.net/out012.jpg

Tideswell = also nice

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

and lastly Eyam (great great place, that stopped the plague)

http://www.cuttingedgecards.fsnet.co.uk/images/eyam%20the%20square.JPG

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hedge End, my hometown. there don't seem to be any good pictures of it on the web. it's the kind of place a UK version of a david lynch movie should be filmed.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Oundle - very pretty

http://www.theshipinn-oundle.co.uk/images/pic01.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Mooro that's not a town, that's a pub! Of course it looks appealing!

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Its in the town!

OK, so a picture of the church would have been more picturesque, but I spent way more time in the Ship.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks worryingly Northern, mind. Where is Oundle?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The county has North in it but its not really North.

Northamptonshire.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://northamptonshiresearch.com/gallery/oundle/images/oundle06.jpg

http://northamptonshiresearch.com/gallery/oundle/images/oundle03.jpg

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Northamptonshire, and it is only very slightly Northern. It look salmost Cotswoldsishg from those pictures.

I like S!dmouth, of course, but this mustn't be a thread for yokels like me to bang on about their hometowns. But S!dmouth's grebt.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

When you live in a small town (this is beginning to sound like a Lou Reed lyric) everyone knows your business. And if your business ain't exciting enough, then it becomes so.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim - Oundle is where that twathead Mart1n 3dward5 was frfom...

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oundle is a quality town, definitely. I'm pretty sure I've been in the Ship Inn, actually.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://img63.photobucket.com/albums/v192/doglatin/autoshoot5_copy.jpg

Hitchin.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.batleybuggyclub.co.uk/photos/photo01.jpg

this is the only photo of batley, my home town, i can find. that building in the back has been derelict for at least my lifetime. from this humble place came robert palmer and 'agadoo' stars black lace.

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This is just an excuse for more pictures of Goole, isn't it?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know that Carsmile was born in Batley!

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.north-york-moors.com/kirkbymoorside-01.jpg
Kirkbymoorside

http://www.elmsheuser.de/pic/scotland/bilder/portree.jpg
Portree

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Come to Stoneybridge! It's got a stoney bridge!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Peebles

http://www.peebles.info/guide/images/photo/p16.jpg

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Jarlr'mai OTM

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/images/products/1253/images/ormskirk.jpg

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah Matthew, do you ever go to watch Batley Bulldogs!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't say as I do Ste, the g/f lives in Leigh though.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hopkins are you gonna be in Exeter this weekend?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt, i think it was the other matthew is was referring to, he said he lived in Batley

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Also...
http://www.tractortown.fsnet.co.uk/47s/47817%20Dawlish.jpg
Innum, buoy.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! Down on Satdy and back Mondy, bhey. Looking forward to seeing the sea, especially of Sidmoouth where it's proper.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I shall try and figure out the logistics of me getting to Exeter or somewhere for a mini FAP, if you're up for it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus a friend of mine is samba-drumming at the match!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i soon as i saw the picture of batley, i knew it was west yorkshire, it couldnt be anywhere else. i thought it might be mirfield though

tideswell looks nice, tell me more about it chris

i like leysdown, on the isle of sheppey, it has an upbeat and tacky feel, and is surprisingly peopled in summer. it has a 1959 optimism...

milburn in cumbria might be the kind of place i would go and never leave again

slaidburn is also pretty.

i think filey might be too big to count, but i like it, caravans and all

as time goes on i become more interested in the villages surrounding todmorden than todmorden itself. its possible that i will go to mankinholes and lumbutts this weekend. im not sure which one is up on the moor itself. todmorden is a unique delight, it feels like the very edge of west yorkshire, but it is lancastrian too, the colour of the buildings have changed, the hills have flattened out a little since hebden bridge has been left behind. the basin right along the a6033 to walsden feel like this, and then it is all left behind, into the hard orbit of rochdale and the mancunian shadow

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 28 May 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Tideswell is a lovely little town in the peak district, kind of near Hathersage and Castleton. It features the Cathedral of the peak which is the a big pile of a church. There's lot's of low-ceilinged, open fire warmed pubs too.

http://www.tideswellonline.com/html/about.htm

― chris (chris), Friday, 28 May 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Dalry - Transient sinkhole of North Ayrshire, taken from the net but pretty much the view from the pavement right outside my folks house.

That pub on the left was referred-to as Vietnam.

― mzui, Friday, 28 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ayrshire/km27.jpg

― mzui, Friday, 28 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, my youngest cat comes from Mankinholes.

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

... but only when he's been a very good boy.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it could have been Lumbutts. I'm digging my own grave here.

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i would like to rescind my comments about slaidburn. its stultifying clotted cream land

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

My home town = Maidstone.

http://www.tour-maidstone.com/images/hp/main_pic5.jpg

http://www.tour-maidstone.com/images/longphotos/family_fun.jpg

http://www.tour-maidstone.com/images/discover/pics/itineraries.jpg

It's kinda grim really (default youth demographic of middle-class chavvy boys, high number of 40yr old divorcees grabbing yer arse in crappy theme bars), but it looks OK.

― don (don), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i would like matthew james to tell me more about batley.

i was near batley a couple of days ago. i was over gomersall way

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

for matthew james: but can he guess where?

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/wy2.jpg

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i may have given the game away somewhat with my previous posting, but, still, i have only narrowed it down, not pinpointed

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/Ormskirk,%20St%20Peter%20&%20St%20Paul%201%20big.jpg

So this is my last post from Ormskirk. We're nearly done packing and it's time to do the computers.

I will see you all again in a few days from the hearty serenity of Stalybridge.

C-ya!

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Do you miss Ormskirk, little gribowitz?

Let's look forward, to the future, to the suffolk coast!

― Frozen Field and Fox (688), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gayne.co.uk/iob/eng/gtrman/jpg/ne00014.jpg

Two and a bit years in and I see enough of old Orm to not miss it, we've been going back every now and again for Christmases and whatnot. I miss the people more than the place.

The Bridge is lovely and quiet, we've got a front window view of a big friendly (and currently snow spattered) hill. The town centre is a bit naff, completely devoid of the usual chain shops for some underdeveloped reason - and all the better for it. The town is being facelifted all over the place, it seems people have only recently twigged its a nice commute distance from Manchester, so the flats and the housing prices are spiralling upwards everywhere.

I've not been to the Suffolk coast but it always seems lovely in pictures. The kind of place to go and read poetry anthologies and bake your own bread.

― Copy (2) {AWOL} v ECC 28/05/06 (Lynskey), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

and what of the small towns of east anglia?

― 688, Thursday, 1 March 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I like getting the train through East Anglia, especially if you have to change. There's something about standing on a lit platform at night with nothing but flat blakness around you that feels like an Edward Hopper Painting.

― Anna, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Broughton in Furness

http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/brtn3.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/brtn3.jpg

The pub in the second pic features in a song I once famously wrote.

― braveclub, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

UH that's the same pic twice here's the other one

http://www.broughton-in-furness.co.uk/images/img_homephoto.gif

― braveclub, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Thaxted

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/jprice/samm/pics/2003/thaxted8.jpg

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thaxted! I love that place

― braveclub, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Cumbernauld, when I was young:

http://teams.kipr.org/2006/06-0001/research/Images/moon-colony.jpg

― Keith, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have absolutely zero recollection of that Advertiser front cover.

This week's cover story is about how a local councillor has flown to Australia on a "fact-finding mission". Mystifyingly, they're taking this entirely at face value.

― Matt, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.stryder.tv/Photo/Ross%20on%20Wye%20Floods.jpg

Ross On Wye

― DavidM, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sm5sxl.net/~mats/graphics/images/clipart/cartoon/elec_shock.png

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

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