Middlesbrough
Need I say more?
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:36, 21 replies)

Yes
Tell us how bad it smells.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:44, closed)

You can't smell,
as the air is a solid.
(TheColonel, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:48, closed)

Take a sack of peat
Stick it in a barrel and pour on a gallon of carefully carefully collected pee from shop doorways.
Give it a stir, add some maccy d's, a couple of kebabs, some engine oil, the back seat from a bus and a bit of Tees water.
Put on the lid, leave for a few weeks.
Open lid, take a sniff and there you have it.

At least thats how it smelt a few weeks ago, and that was passing through on a train.








Disclaimer
Was born there , is allowed to slag it off ;)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:54, closed)

You missed out Parmos.
Where abouts in Boro do you hail from?
(TheColonel, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 12:59, closed)

Its long gone now
The road that used to run from Town Hall to St Johns church by Victoria Park.

Parmos didnt exist when i last lived there, i had to ask someone what it was.











born in the old police station ( thats gone too)
which could have something to do with my answers on last weeks QOTW
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:03, closed)

Used to live there too
Managed the Games Workshop on Dundas Street ages n ages ago...

Albert Park - is that what it's called??? - remember seeing an old boy sitting on a park bench having a wank. It was about 2-30 in the afternoon. On a Sunday. Fucking odd place...
( SpankyHanky, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:07, closed)

Was fine before you lived here...

(TheColonel, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:11, closed)

sniggers
:)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:18, closed)

Victoria Park
Is the little square one beside the town hall

As a wee kid I once saw an old lady sitting on a bench with her legs open and no underwear :(

Albert Park is the bigger one with the boating lake

Dundas Arcade eh?
shudders
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:17, closed)

Yeah
It was the big park! Used to live on Condon Road??? Think that's what it was called. In a fuck off big hotel (was only seconded there for six months). Big white building.

I've lived all over the place, but the Borough was - without doubt - the strangest of them all.
( SpankyHanky, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:34, closed)

They say that in London you're never more than 3 feet from a rat.
In 'boro, you're never more than 3 feet from a Greggs.
( admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:18, closed)

LMAO
I do have to say the place does have one good thing going for it.
the Transformer Bridge.

marvellous thing


its the Transporter Bridge really
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:32, closed)

That's Newcastle - the Greggs centre of the universe
Mike Cashley is flogging the name of the football ground and it's strongly rumoured that St James Park will be renamed in honour of the Geordies staple diet - something along the lines of Pasty Park I'd imagine.
(apollo36uk, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:34, closed)

Yes
Otherwise it'll be a pretty crappy QOTW
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:33, closed)

Ha
Good point well made
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:05, closed)

huffs
got you talking though :p
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:23, closed)

Yes
you could say more - you could say 'Stockton-on-Tees'. Middlesbrough's pox-ridden neighbour to the west, where I had the misfortune to live for four years. Middlesbrough is a veritable paradise by comparison.
(berk, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 19:28, closed)

The market?
Havnt been there for over 20 years, but Stockton Market used to be spectacular
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 21:22, closed)

20 years ago
it may well have been. Sadly it's brutally ugly, poorly maintained and houses mostly poundshops, cheap fashion, a Wilkinsons and a Woolies (Stocktons largest shop, which is of course now shut). There is ONE nice butchers and one fairly nice greengrocers. The remainder of the food stalls are butty-and-pie shops. The high street is full of boarded up windows, charity shops and terrifyingly rough pubs. Stockton high street could be gorgeous, and the Georgian parts are lovely, if run-down, but the town itself is a dive of far, far greater proportions than Boro.
(berk, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 0:14, closed)

Ah well
I guess it had to happen :(
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 0:47, closed)

I lived there for 3 years.
I thought it was alright.
( NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 12:38, closed)