Northampton
Once famous for making shoes, all that stuff has moved to the Far East and now it's just another boring provincial town. The road network is wonderfully free-flowing if you happen to be going from the south M1 junction up the A45, atrocious in pretty much every other direction. It has industrial estates and business parks galore where you can lose your soul in a selection of pointless jobs. There is a large population of goths who hang out in St Giles churchyard and sometimes fight with the local chavs. I once saw a running battle at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon, outside the main shopping centre, between rival gangs of Kosovans.

The Wellingborough Road is the place to cruise up and down in your modified Saxo of a Friday night, and all the men under 30 wear Ben Sherman shortsleeved shirts regardless of the weather. Some of the estates have incredibly unpleasant names like Bellinge and Lumbertubs just to warn off outsiders. There was a big street racing scene which is why Lumbertubs Way was the first place in Britain to get SPECS average speed cameras.

Northampton's main claim to fame nowadays is the unintentionally funny sign from the general hospital.

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(rogerzilla, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 21:57, 4 replies)

Heheh
That is indeed a funny sign :D
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 23:01, closed)

Northampton's not too bad
A bit average, and slightly chavvy, but compared to the nearby delights of Corby, Kettering and Coventry it's Shangri-fucking-la.
(Axeman Jim, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 23:42, closed)

Northampton
Truly a tip.

Wellingborough, I believe, is known as "The Black Hole Of The East Midlands", it's like Accrington, but with all the charisma of a burning orphanage.
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 9:49, closed)

Lived there for a while when I was a nipper
Went to Northampton School for Boys... it was shit... The town was ok, though - they had trees and the grass was green. Growing up in Coventry up until this point I always thought grass was a sort of dirty black, sooty colour.
( SpankyHanky, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 10:09, closed)