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Alexio
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Worst Borough
replied on: 5/22/2003 10:18:10 AM alum rock **Judders** i think we have a winner! |
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chaz
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Worst Borough
replied on: 5/28/2003 2:27:38 PM Has anyone been up Erdington High Street lately? Its a degeneration situation. |
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Nap1st
Rank: Toyah |
Worst Borough
replied on: 5/29/2003 1:59:23 AM I was up Erdington the other week, visting the parents as I come from there. To be honest Erdington has looked a bit rough but the fountain looks nice and there are a lot more shops opening up which aren't charity ones which make a change. The old ones have also spruced up their signs. Give Erdington a few years it may have a renaissance like Kings Heath. |
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pixie_mason
foul mouth Rank: Toyah |
Worst Borough
replied on: 5/29/2003 3:29:24 PM RE: Erdington I've just moved to Erdington. I chose to live there cos I could afford to buy a house there, the houses are generally decent old things, tis close to town and is good on the rail/ bus / road links front. Don't regret my decision - have certainly got more for my money than I would elsewhere. However, I wish the gentrification of the place would fookin hurry up a bit. Yes, pound shops are pretty handy for dish cloths and tea towels or whatever - but its cack that they are the definitive outlets on Erdington High Street. And yeah - a big chunk of the pikey inhabitants do make me feel like Patrick Bateman. Ooh I could go on... |
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brummiefitz
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Worst Borough
replied on: 6/16/2003 3:56:15 PM agreed. alum rock is like a war zone. Why can't they drive properly down there. I've had at least 5 near death experiences on alum rock road, nearly all of which involving the 14 bus and an asian man driving an allegro. |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 6/16/2003 10:57:43 PM by NH350Ariel |
Worst Borough
replied on: 6/16/2003 10:54:35 PM Alum Rock is hell on earth, i work there. we should gift it to London as a honorary borough, it would fit in well. My beloved Small Heath is less than three miles from the Rock but where as we are a harmonious and loving community life on the arse end of Saltley is wànk city but with more guns. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Worst Borough
replied on: 6/17/2003 9:34:31 PM Stirchley is rock and wins hands down. I defy anyone to go into the British Oak without a crash helmet on and stay conscious for longer than two minutes. If you go on that upmy/yourstreetdotcom site and look Stirchley up it says that our street violence is second only to the city centre on Saturday night. (It also says that the level of microwave ownership is particularly low.) We had a drive-by stabbing the other day, on the other side of my street. There's a police helicopter buzzing overhead virtually non-stop. Pedestrians are picked off on the zebra crossing daily. The street lamps are all bost. A one-family crime-wave live at number 50. Drunks drink, piss and fight in my gulley. Shops keep opening up and then closing down within a week. Two supermarket chains are squabbling about which end of the Pershore Road they can colonise. There's a well decent outdoor, though. You can drink yourself round the world in the comfort of your own home. |
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Barcrest
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Worst Borough
replied on: 7/10/2003 8:12:15 PM alum rock.. I used to live in stechford and a couple of times i've walked back from edwards through there to stetchford pissed up. How i survived i don't know... Stirtchley isn't great but Alum Rock is the worst, i hear the U.N. are going in. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Worst Borough
replied on: 7/13/2003 12:33:06 AM Actually, I cycled down Erdington High Street early last week and think I might have to change my opinion. It's taken this long for me to change it because I've only just had my bandages taken off and I was previously incapable of typing (or breathing without some difficulty and considerable discomfort). During my journey from the six ways end, I was spat on twice, had a constant stream of foul verbal abuse hurled at me along with numerous sharp objects by schoolchildren, OAPs and every age of scum in-between, and was eventually knocked off my bike purposefully before I reached the Orphanage Road end by some tattooed gorilla in a Mini Cooper. As I tried to get up and retrieve my mangled bicycle from the roadside, I was then hit again by a white Transit van coming in the other direction. Neither vehicle stopped, and I lay in the road bleeding for what must have been over half an hour before anyone bothered to call an ambulance. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was the one who called it, but I was semi-conscious at the time so can't say that with any certainty. And I was only going up the Witton Market for a replacement zip! Needless to say, I don't think I shall be running that particular gauntlet again in a hurry. |
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sidibear
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Worst Borough
replied on: 7/17/2003 7:28:39 PM Oh woe is me then. I was born in Handsworth, Brought up on Castle Vale, Moved to Moseley, Kings Heath, got married and moved to Erdington (Anderson Road off Court Lane). I moved to Ward End 10 years ago. Its actually Alum Rock but posher ! And no, they can't drive here either. But what is it about Erdington residents and there territorial parking ? When I lived there it was a major crime to park outside someone elses house. I did it once and the neighbors either side moved their cars closer to mine to block me in. At the time I owned the Brummies favorite cheap knacker. A MK2 2.8 Granada so I just rammed them out of the way. I eventually parked my car at the end of the road in order to avoid any hassle but I still got notes under my wipers asking me not to park there.I was parked outside wasteground ! |
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Olly
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Worst Borough
replied on: 7/19/2003 4:35:56 PM i've not been round north birmingham much, it's a f***ing hole (apart from sutton which is worse because they're all complete w***ers). bartley green isn't THAT bad but there's just nothing there. they all pretend they live in halesowen. i'm glad i live in selly oak by the colleges, that's for sure. moving over to edgbaston near the reservoir soon so i'll have to wait and see on that. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Worst Borough
replied on: 7/19/2003 7:37:10 PM I have an impeccable sense of direction. I never get lost. I have lived and partied all over this fine city and never had any incidents to suggest my sense of direction is anything if not exemplary. I can find my way through, fog, snow, hail, christmas shopping frenzies, all without breaking into a sweat. HOWEVER I had an interview earlier this year, that took me for my first foray into the murky underworld they call Kingstanding. The interview was devastatingly bad, as though my reason and wits had abandoned me in protest at my entering such a borough. This was bad. Then I tried to find my way out of the foul place (we're getting to the importance of my outstanding sense of direction.) And I couldn't find my way out! Is there some kind of magnetic confusion going on up there? I tried logic, ended up further away; I tried questioning the inhabitants, ended up more confused. It was so strange. And I haven't even mentioned the number of off licences I spotted. Perhaps that was, and continues to be the problem. They're all so drunk, they get the visiting outsider pissed up and disorientated just by sharing their air. Not wishing to sound snobby, but I'm sure the gangs of girls were drinking hairspray. It's taken me a long time to even face up to the nightmare that befell me on that fateful winter's morn. And if you rearrange the letters of Kingstanding, you get "cacky ass dung". |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Worst Borough
replied on: 7/19/2003 10:28:37 PM I believe that there is some sort of ancient Briton burial mound in the area, and this may have been the cause of your disorientation. Very mystical. |
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sheldonphil
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Worst Borough
replied on: 10/10/2003 3:10:05 PM sparkhill/sparkbrook quarantine zone. birmingham is multi cultural etc but fair play to the council and dumping all the somalians right at the top by vale onslow. u get past there u know u will possibly be safe |
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LAW
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Worst Borough
replied on: 10/11/2003 12:36:21 PM I have lived in Kingstanding, with it's tracksuits, smack and cubes of bus stop glass everywhere. I've also lived in Witton, with every other house having broken windows and it's grotty eateries with misspelt offers in the window. I now live in Erdington, and regularly fall asleep to the sounds of screeching cars and police sirens. However, despite my experience of Castle Vale, I nominate Wyrley Birch as the undisputed den of feckless lunatics and slack jawed social clubbers. It's an ugly, filthy place entrenched in criminality and vomit. I have lived there and witnessed many of the awful situations and people that have made it necessary to install cameras on practically every lamppost. Anyone else unfortunate enough to have lived there will vouch for that. |
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