Malden Manor, Surrey

Old Malden and Worcester Park are both perfectly pleasant places to live, yet nearby Malden Manor is a cold sore on the genitals of civilisation. Despite providing a useful railway staion, “the Manor” is best known for the hideous flats and equally hideous inmates (sorry, residents) of the housing project on Sheephouse Way. Surly and […]

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Slough: The Toilet of Berkshire

Is Slough a nice place to live or is Slough rough?

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 […]

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Woking!…all the charm of Basingstoke, minus…

Woking! It has all the charm of Basingstoke, but minus the roundabouts. There seem to be McDonalds round every corner and flabby women with ill-judged, partly-blonded, bird’s nest hairdos everywhere, their KFC-fed charms bursting out of tight pink tops and faded denim mini-skirts. On my 11am visit, a man wearing a back-to-front baseball cap pushed […]

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