I think most town centre’s are like that these days. I went to Torquay not so long ago and it’s a nice sea side town, they call it the english riviera down there, but even their town centre was naff, shops boarded up, graffiti, every other shop a pound shop, felt like I was back home in s***tingbourne.

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Made in Bromley

We moved to the Midlands from Torquay some twenty years ago and it was a dump then. I'm sure that it was a vibrant town in it's heyday in the fifties and sixties but cheap air travel meant that the only people that continued to go were those afraid of flying and the old

I have only visited the town one,about 4 years ago and I wasn't impressed at all.One of a string of places on the south coast which are far from salubrious and certainly not aesthetic.

Anywhere in the south east is bad.

Kent in particular is deteriorating rapidly. Overcrowded, poor infrastructure and noticeable absence of investment, poor planning ... if indeed they ever had a plan ... they just throw up tatty housing estates anywhere these days.

It's merely regarded as the access point for constant heavy traffic to ferries at Dover and the Channel Tunnel terminal at Folkestone.

Pity any poor bugger that lives here.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Many a 'pony' has been lost at the bookie's.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Ha I can always smell a fellow ex erithian.

Dartford was proper posh but even we erith scum looked down our noses at slade green.

Special mention the islands - Canvey and Sheppy.