The worst places to live in Berkshire
My birth place was Taplow but grew up here in the 70s and 80s. Famed for its picturesque river Thames views and mansions with homes to the Berkshire dwelling celebs of yesteryear and the filming at the town hall of the opening titles of ’Carry On Doctor’ after recently visiting briefly, this place has gone […]
I have lived here for 10 years and on the whole it is a pleasant place to live. I have never felt threatened when out on the streets at night and, as I am a runner I am out on the streets a lot. The shops in the high street are OK and there’s not […]
Read More… from Sandhurst, there is nothing to do… really, nothing.
Reading is full of pubs for people who want to drink till they puke, and believe me you will find plenty of people like that. So much so, that they now have a special bus just to cope with the “revellers” in the hope of stopping them from ending up in the A&E but if […]
Read More… from Reading – what was a fairly nice university town is now a hell hole
Bracknell, where do I start? In Priestwood and Bullbrook they took the worst tenants from the three surrounding counties and dumped them on these two estates. In short you don’t need to watch TV crime drama’s as anyone who isn’t a **** will tell you, just look outside your window. Fight, shoplifting, drug dealing cars […]
Read More… from Bracknell, If Berkshire needed an enema this is where they’d stick the tube
I’m not going to go into everything that makes Reading the worst town ever, but here’s my top three ladies and gentlemen. Firstly, the high street. It’s like every single person who owns a guitar in the world has decided Reading high street is the new Glastonbury. Hey, let just set up a great stonking […]
Read More… from Reading – it’s the home of some great characters
Maidenhead’s train station sign should say “Abandon all hope here”. The place has been shafted by its Tory council for years, and now is a ghost town of 99p shops, coffee outlets and sod all else. It’s meant to be part of the “Royal borough” down to it being linked to Windsor, but all this […]
My hometown. If im honest, i have fond memories of Maidenhead, although in comparisson to most other parts of the South East, crime being immaculately high, along with drug deals, arguably teenage pregnancies. Being part of the ‘Royal Borough’, the standards evidently would be of high to those visiting; however, as many have witnessed, taking […]
I have lived in Crowthorne for over 5 years and despite the hospital, 99% of Crowthorne is actually quite beautiful and serene. However, the changes i have seen are horrendous and sometimes i feel i would be safer within the hospital walls than out on Napier Road and Crowthorne high street. I have the misfortune […]
Read More… from CROWTHORNE- The advent of Lidl and the outsourced *****.
Bracknell has been awarded a prestigious prize as Englands ‘Town of the Year’. “We have all been working towards this and are all so proud of the result”. Some however have questioned the award, with even one resident of a nearby competing town claiming ‘I don’t think the person who gave the award has ever visited Bracknell because he […]
I lived in many places in the north and south of England during my three decades of existence but none prepared me for the lack of humanity I would experience in Reading. Even some of the ex northern mill towns with an air of no hope, no employment or point to existence demonstrated a more […]
I have now lived in Slough or “oh Dear, Slough” as people comment when I tell them, since 1992. I have seen it slide from a town of some limited qualities to the toilet of Berkshire within the last 5 yrs. Having had to move from Windsor because a Bike shed would set you back […]
You would think with the Council Tax we pay to protect the Queen up the road at Windsor we would be posh and **** free. Oh, heaven forbid no. I unfortunately got thrown by circumstance to a six month sentence on the downside of Maidenhead. The wrong side of the tracks literally. Maidenhead has some […]
Read More… from Maidenhead is really the poor relative of Slough
