Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Seems that, despite all the negatives, folks are quite happy over there, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29348032 Cue the nay sayers................................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Seems that, despite all the negatives, folks are quite happy over there, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29348032 Cue the nay sayers................................ I spent a couple of years in Barrow, I can understand it making the unhappiest list. I hate to generalise but it just seemed 10 years behind everywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 So bigots are happy living in a cesspool of their own making. Colour me shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I spent a couple of years in Barrow, I can understand it making the unhappiest list. I hate to generalise but it just seemed 10 years behind everywhere else. When did the regeneration works take place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookies Love Me Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I spent a couple of years in Barrow, I can understand it making the unhappiest list. I hate to generalise but it just seemed 10 years behind everywhere else. Pretty fair assessment. Small town, which thinks it's a big town, whilst keeping small town mentality. The only thing that's up to date is the rate of closure of small indepent traders. No youngsters willing to carry on the family business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookies Love Me Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 When did the regeneration works take place? We've got a pedestrian precinct (to keep the disabled scooters off the road, where all the single mums can congregate with their push chairs and give the crutch wielding skivers a place to excercise ). Also, the Town Hall (a listed building) has just got a new roof fitted (only 4/5th got done ). And we've got as many pot holes as any other town . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 We've got a pedestrian precinct (to keep the disabled scooters off the road, where all the single mums can congregate with their push chairs and give the crutch wielding skivers a place to excercise ). Also, the Town Hall (a listed building) has just got a new roof fitted (only 4/5th got done ). And we've got as many pot holes as any other town . Some nice places in Cumbria too........Barrow and Egremont aren't them though. I worked on a project in Egremont a few years back.....by fcuk they were dark days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 When did the regeneration works take place? I quite liked the place, I'm not sure why though. I was staying on Walney island which was alright and handy enough for work and had a couple of decent enough pubs. It was a ball ache getting back up the road at the weekend right enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I quite liked the place, I'm not sure why though. I was staying on Walney island which was alright and handy enough for work and had a couple of decent enough pubs. It was a ball ache getting back up the road at the weekend right enough. Yeh.......even getting to the M6 is an ordeal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 We've got a pedestrian precinct (to keep the disabled scooters off the road, where all the single mums can congregate with their push chairs and give the crutch wielding skivers a place to excercise ). Also, the Town Hall (a listed building) has just got a new roof fitted (only 4/5th got done ). And we've got as many pot holes as any other town . I was in the town hall for a remembrance day thing, its a cracking building if you like that kind of thing. I have to say I can't remember anywhere like it for the number of 20 something, shaved head, roid enhanced unemployed men hanging around the town centre during the day. It was almost like they did 'work' out of office hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Yeh.......even getting to the M6 is an ordeal! The train times were fecked as well, you got into Lancaster 5 minutes after the Edinburgh train left so unless it was late you had to wait the best part of an hour for the next one. At least there's a couple of decent boozers close to the station I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I'm sure there was a mass shift of people in Barrow going from unemployment benefits to disability allowance benefits around about the time Labour got in back in 97. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookies Love Me Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I'm sure there was a mass shift of people in Barrow going from unemployment benefits to disability allowance benefits around about the time Labour got in back in 97. That was around the same time when the Shipyard off-loaded, 16,000ish down to 4,000 in a space of 2-3 years, and stopped taking any significant number of apprentices on. A lot of 40+ going straight on invalidity because there was no other work in the town and nothing for the youngsters. I'm sure I read Barrow is the invalidity capital of the North of England (if not in the whole of the UK). The benefit culture is rife in Barrow unfortunately, some youngsters have grown up knowing nothing else. Sad really, but it's probably mirrored all round the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookies Love Me Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Some nice places in Cumbria too........Barrow and Egremont aren't them though. I worked on a project in Egremont a few years back.....by fcuk they were dark days! You have my deepest sympathies sir. How can a place like Egremont exist beside the Lake District? It would be like putting Easterhouse into the Trossachs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 You have my deepest sympathies sir. How can a place like Egremont exist beside the Lake District? It would be like putting Easterhouse into the Trossachs. The Atlantis of the north... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 A flock of ducks were flying back to their summer breeding grounds after a winter spent in the gerrymandered failed statelet. The duck at the back of the v-formation went quack and the one at the front replied, "I'm going as fast as I can!". I am well aware that this is close to being the worst joke of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 A flock of ducks were flying back to their summer breeding grounds after a winter spent in the gerrymandered failed statelet. The duck at the back of the v-formation went quack and the one at the front replied, "I'm going as fast as I can!". I am well aware that this is close to being the worst joke of all time. Congratulations on your thread stopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 That was around the same time when the Shipyard off-loaded, 16,000ish down to 4,000 in a space of 2-3 years, and stopped taking any significant number of apprentices on. A lot of 40+ going straight on invalidity because there was no other work in the town and nothing for the youngsters. I'm sure I read Barrow is the invalidity capital of the North of England (if not in the whole of the UK). The benefit culture is rife in Barrow unfortunately, some youngsters have grown up knowing nothing else. Sad really, but it's probably mirrored all round the country. With manufacturing industries and the like you can almost understand Governments/Companies decision to move them to places with cheaper labour resources but what I find utterly unforgivable is leaving the areas where they've been moved from to rot.......with the likes of Barrow and numerous Coal mining towns being an example of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I worked in Barrow for a week once. Never again, complete hell hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Tbf Barrow is full of slags so every cloud eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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