Pretty much any working class town in Britain...
Let me start by pointing out I'm from Bury in Lancashire, so I'm not some upper class snob having a poke. My problem is Bury, like almost every working class town in this country, has turned into a dead end grey cluster of hopelessness where the locals, having fuck all better to do, get into a rut of work, drink, work, drink, work, drink.

Nobody has any pride in the place anymore. Bury has a fairly rich history, and could arguably be considered one of the most important towns in British history, inventing not only the police force, but the flying shuttle which helped kick start the industrial revolution. But hardly anyone in the town knows any of these things, because we don't celebrate them. If you go to a place like York for example, the streets are literally filled with historic buildings and plaques telling you why these things matter.

In Bury, about 10 years ago, maybe less, they discovered some Roman ruins when they tried to build a car park on top of them. even after this discovery, they still tried to build the fucking car park. Fortunately the site was listed as being of historical importance, and you can now go and visit it if you're remotely interested, which nobody seems to be. It's behind the Peel pub.

The biggest problem though seems to be that the council are doing everything in their power to obliterate any historical trace of the town. A quick list of indiscretions:

They tore down the oldest shop in Bury (which was 200 years old I believe) to make the entrance to a fucking car park 6 feet wider.

They just recently pulled down a block of shops which had been standing for nearly 100 years to build this fucking monstrosity:



Incidentally, what is now standing looks fuck all like that. Imagine the same picture, but with grey concrete instead of glass. On top of which, it now towers over every other building in Bury, and doesn't fit in with the surrounding area one fucking bit. There was a petition to dispute the building of it, but the council ignored it and built it anyway. Oh yes, and I discovered that building on the 300 brand new flats seen in the picture (the wood fronted bits) has been frozen, because no fucker wants to buy them. They're currently standing there empty, without running water or electricity. £100 says they end up going to the DHSS.

They fill literally every available space with big fucking grey warehouses, and make them into retail parks. I live 15 minutes away from the town centre, and I have to walk through 3 of the fuckers before I get there.


Now I'm sure it's not just Bury that has this attitude to "modernisation" and "economic expansion", but Jesus christ I've been to few places where it's more apparent. It's no wonder everyone is so fucking depressed and spends every weekend getting shitfaced and kicking the fuck out of each other.

I'll end this with an interesting factoid, that you'd never fucking know if you were visiting Bury because typically no mention of it is made anywhere:

The Peel statue (of Sir Robert Peel, prime minister and inventor of the police force) in the town centre has the buttons the wrong way round on his waistcoat, implying that he was a transvestite. The scupltor, upon realising his mistake, was so mortified that he had sleighted Bury's most famous son in this way that he hung himself.
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 13:36, 13 replies)

The creeping onset of "identi-clone" high streets is a real problem.
in 20 years time everywhere will look like Swindon Highstreet.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 13:56, closed)

You forgot the fact it's an utter arse to get in and out of
Bury is king of the 'spoke and hub' travel model, where you have to go into Manchester to get anywhere else by public transport.

Even by road it's a bit of a pain in the arse.
(syllopsium, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:01, closed)

Very true.
We have the East Lancs Railway, which will get you as far as Ramsbottom. Joy.
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:16, closed)

Actually
It'll get you to Rawtenstall.

But then what's the point of that?
(General_Manchego, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 10:50, closed)

Is that why coppers are called "peelers"?
As in, "All peelers are bastards"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:24, closed)

Yup. :)
Also amusing is that The Robert Peel pub in Kingston Upon Thames is one of the grottiest strip bars you could ever imagine.

Not that I've been there*

*more than twenty times.
( sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:32, closed)

:D

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:35, closed)

correct.
also why theyre called "Bobbies".
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 14:51, closed)

*Adds to general knowledge for future pub quiz"

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 15:39, closed)

Ah, but
what about the "World Famous Market", which appears to be world famous only in Bury?

Didn't the council want to move the market elsewhere to make way for all the developing that's going on in The Rock or something?
(General_Manchego, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 11:14, closed)

it wouldnt surprise me one bit.

( PMGT -Bacon., Sat 31 Oct 2009, 17:02, closed)

..
just to get out of goin to college in bury even though it would've been easier I went to one in salford (not that that was much better)... I always just found it so depressing, I would rather die aswell than go out in Bury on a night out
EDIT/ would probably die if I went out in Bury... or at least get hurt in some way :P
(nikkibic is like a candle in the wind... unreliable, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 23:47, closed)

College
I go to college in Bury, it's not that bad.
No. 8 in the country, yee boi.
Actually, that doesn't include private schools and yes, we have security guards purely to keep us in line, not to keep us "secure".

Lived in Bury when I was younger on Manc road. Lovely house but each time the fair came into town, gypsies would break into our garage :(
I try to avoid Bury as much as possible. Purely because I know I'm going to see the retards I went to high school with pissing about in the millgate. Also, they've set up a sweetcorn stall which stinks of sick.

Now I live in Bolton which is even worse.
(I've got the clap has some cool sentence here, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 17:08, closed)