****hole parts of the town you grew up in.

As per the title really, post some pics of **** parts of the town or city you grew up in. If London then use borough.

I'll start with Northam estate which anyone who has been to St Marys will probably have seen:

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Clifton Green and Pendlebury, rough as badgers arses.

Went to secondary school in Farnworth, which is where Phoenix nights is filmed and is a land that time forgot, amongst many the country over.

Can't be arsed to post pics though.

 

Ferrier Estate, Kidbrooke, Greenwich.

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Peyps estate, Deptford, Lewisham

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Thamesmead estate, Woolwich, Greenwich

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I grew up in and around all of these estates, did a paper round on the Pepys Estate when I was around 12 years old. Used to score weed and acid on the Ferrier estate in Kidbrooke and helped my mate dump his old Suzuki SJ410 in a lake on the Thamesmead estate so he could claim the insurance

 

They look like those flats from Only fools and horses.

 

Did you ever see Arsenal play in Woolwich, Piskie?....

 

Are any of those left mate? I know Ferrier was knocked down a while back.

Thamesmead looks rough as ****

 

That's in Peckham Matth

 

Yeah I know Piskie, One of the pictures reminded me of it, That’s all.

 

I thînk it was filmed in Bristol or somewhere like that?

 

Weston, Southampton:

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Those 5 blocks at the front have all had a lick of paint now but it's still a ****hole. The block at the top is on the verge of falling down too so will be demolished before too long. This is right on the shore as well so could be such a nice area so it's a shame really.

Absolutely rife with crack and heroin.

 

I'm not that fecking old But the reason I started supporting Arsenal was because a mate of mine lived on Hector Street in Plumstead, and in his back garden were the remains of some of the original terracing from the old Invicta ground that Woolwich Arsenal used to play at. Seeing that for the first time was like a ****ing magical calling for me.

 

Was it ? I don't know, I think some of those pictures on the opening credits are in Peckham though

 

Whitemead House, Bristol

 

I think it started off somewhere in London but as the program became more popular they moved the filming somewhere else?

 

Harlech tower in Acton was in the title sequence till '88.

 

Was born and spent the first seven years on my life here in Teignmouth near Torquay...

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then Dad moved us all to Weston Estate in Southampton when he needed to find boatbuilding work...

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Cheers Dad!....

 

You're quite old aren't ya SA? When you moved to Weston was that pre International Way tower blocks?


That bottom pic is that the old flats at the shops? I remember going to them to buy some hash off my Dads mate when I was about 15

There's a ****ing Dominos there now

 

Ferrier gone. Pepys has been tarted up, not sure if it's as bad as it was in the 80's. Thamesmead is still an utter ****hole, home of HMP Belmarsh prison.

I used to have to catch a bus in Woolwich to go to college back in the day and they'd transport high security prisoners along the road between Belmarsh and the courts. It was like a scene from a movie. Two Police motorbikes would come and block off side roads, then another two would follow behind, then a squad car, followed by the prison bus, another squad car behind and backed up with two more motorbikes. I used to wonder what sort of nasty ****ers were in that prison wagon as it raced by.

 

WTF happened in that pic at the bottom ? Gas explosion ?