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Been away from York for about 10 years and recently returned. So many changes to report. Something of a cycling city, my previous report bemoaned the number of teenager that would rat run the pedestrianised area, flattening anyone that got in their way. I presume that in the last 10 years these inappropriately attired (in […]
Cas-vegas, as it’s known locally and ironically. Home to the iconic Burberry factory… and so bad even the ne’er-do-wells are gagging to leave! This place started dying in the 1980’s, after the Tories shut down the mines, and anyone not on the dole left. Today, the town looks like a cross between a level from […]
Read More… from Castleford or Cas-vegas, as it’s known locally and ironically
Ahhh Doncaster, that hole surrounded by other holes such as Hull, Barnsley, Pontefract, Scunthorpe and Rotherham. You’ve probably been forced to pass here on the train at sometime in your life seeing all the attractions such as the smack rat ******** balby flats and dirty Hexthorpe. The town has gotten a little cult appeal lately, […]
The proud products of a society built on the collapse of the mining industry and the welfare state, the ***** of Castleford adorn street corners like monuments to a town that was built up by their grandparents and subsequently destroyed by the next two generations. In a town where everybody is a blood relative of […]
Read More… from Castleford, where everybody is a blood relative of the person next to them