Stanley, County Durham: Bleak, Depressing, Godawful.

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

Desolate. Windswept. Like a vision from Mad Max but with Greggs and discount shops as the pantomime baddies. Stanley suffers from an ideal location in the North East, which means its commercial doom. Once upon a time, Stanley had a commercial heart, albeit recovering from the Thatcherite industrial genocide that dispensed with the coalmines, shipbuilding […]

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