Barrow-in-Furness
Just down the road from me.

The people who live there love it (and keep 'Love Barrow' as a slogan) - I think they're the only ones who do!

Home of some of the roughest and most badly looked after pubs and clubs in the country (Google 'gaza strip barrow' for some fine examples on a notorious beat-em-up street), some nuclear subs, a dock museum, a couple of commercial parks with the usual Tesco, Currys etc and a dead town centre full of shut shops.

And lots and lots of roadworks and building sites. All the time.
If they'd stop trying to "improve" the place all the time by digging holes in the road, putting up big empty buildings etc it might stand a chance.

Their answer to a dead town centre high street is: new seats, new trees and a few new fancy lights. And maybe another statue or two. Funded by the businesses that they're busy starving...

Best part of Barrow is the A590 leading out of it.
(Cloudane, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:07, 11 replies)

I'm with you there
I went there years ago and said to someone "What's it like in Barrow-in-Furness?" and they said "Noo! It's Barrow-in-FUURNACE!"
(D1sc0 Yes sir, I can boogie., Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:11, closed)

Went there once...
...to shag a milf.

Didn't make up for it being a pits of a place.
( JebediahSpringfield, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 13:58, closed)

And the
bus depot isn't that chewy either.
( speedyballbangpots, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:25, closed)

I bet
I'll end up lambasted if/when a certain newspaper notices this site and thread. They tend to take great offence to anything negative said of the town.
(Cloudane, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:31, closed)

hahahahaaaa
Page 2? I didnt expect it so soon. This is my home also :) its a bit shit but meh. As long as I dont live in Millom Im fine.

EDIT: There are some reet nice pubs (about 4 but at least they've made the effort)
(i should have joined myspace, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 21:09, closed)

:)
Where else would spawn such a phrase as "I'd rather walk around Millom with a nail in my shoe than... (insert very dull task)"
(Cloudane, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 0:37, closed)

I live in Millom.
After several years in Nottingham it actually seems quite calm and peaceful.

Still a vapid hellhole though.
( Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 4:12, closed)

Inevitable really.
I left in 1987 to go to University and discovered that the world isn't, contrary to Barrovian belief, flat.

I occasionally go back to visit family and on one of my visits I saw a prominent local businessman (the bloke who owns Jeffersons and the pub next door that used to be The Hartington) allow his spavined German Shepherd to curl out a mighty turd right in front of the bandstand in the shopping centre, then walk away.

Sums the place up quite eloquently.

And yes, perhaps the Evening Mail ought to be directed to this thread. It'd give them a better headline than "Newbarns man hits thumb with hammer - reported to be quite cross."
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 21:34, closed)

Not about this thread
But certainly proves my point!

www.nwemail.co.uk/news/fury_at_slur_on_barrow_1_630951?referrerPath=news
(Cloudane, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 18:36, closed)

Absolutely
The place isn't absolutely grim.

It's got a relatively low crime rate, it is in a superb location, there are many redeeming features.

There is, however, a pervading attitude of insularity and parochialism - almost a seige mentality - which seems to be used as a cloak against advancement.

I've not read the FT article but I rather expect that it is this attitude that has alienated the author - therefore his reaction has enraged the local rag.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 23:19, closed)

I didn't read the article *properly*
But what I did read, was actually a good report. They just picked all the negative soundbites out of it and made it sound like the author was slagging the place off.

When it comes to slagging the place off I did a far better job :) To be fair, it's not "that bad", there are a few chavs but it's not the sort of crime centre you see elsewhere etc. As I've iterated a few times, leave the damn place alone for 5 minutes (well, and cull a few of the kamikaze pigeons) and it might flourish.

(I did comment there. My last name begins with L.)
(Cloudane, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 1:21, closed)