Telford and its Many Islands
Telford: the only town so bereft of entertainment, they name their roundabouts. Not once, but twice.

1) The official name (xxxx-roundabout)
2) The local name (yyyy-island)

The local sense of humour is so strong, they gave the following name to the roundabout outside Western Europe's biggest arms dump: Falklands Island.

To be fair, it does have 3 large field guns on it.

In this town, they love them so much, there are hundreds of Islands [sic]; some with one road in, and one road out.

They must have sat there in a Friday afternoon planning meeting and said (in their demi-midlands accent):

"Bored... whaddarewegonnadew?"
"Oiland?"
"Yeah"
"Weer?"
(random finger pointing at map)
"Theer"

Could be worse, I went to school in one of the satellite towns - Telford was a metropolis to us. You could get a train to Wolverhampton and *everything*.

Edit: 1st time posting (rather than just replying) woO! That's how much I hate the place.
(MartinB9999, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 16:53, 2 replies)

Yup
I worked there for a year. The mundane 'satellite' suburbs with their kwiksave and chippy are all awful. And who's idea was it to put all of the companies in a nice sounding place like Stafford Park, the only park without a tree for miles.

A nice pub in Priorslee though.
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 17:19, closed)

Telford = Terrible
I HATE the islands! I know you think it's crap because you're excited about getting the train TO Wolverhampton.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:02, closed)