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This is a companion to every other companion thread on here.
It's where I was brought up and is a total dump. Avoid like the plague. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my old school. Groovy, ah? |
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Wow! It sure does put the 'cold' into cold architecture.
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The Time Out guide to London tried to say something nice about it, but really struggled and just ended up calling it a 'nugget of ugliness'.
Even Morrissey had trouble upping its profile, despite wearing this T shirt. ![]() I mean seriously. Could they make it any shitter if they tried? ![]() ![]() |
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Ah, the Beckton Arms. Now that's what I call a good old traditional pub (as imagined by J.G. Ballard!)
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the city does look like it came out of a j.g. ballard novel.
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I agree. Although Newham isn't a city, it's a Borough within London. Actually, not all of Newham is quite that bad, but the bit I grew up in was completely destroyed in WWII so was pretty much built up from scratch in the 1960s, hence the really drab modernist look to it. ![]() ^Twilight Niteclub. Possibly the most depressing place you could spend a night out, ever. ![]() ^ A well happy local. And just in case you didn't think it could possibly get any drabber ... the picturesque Balfron Tower. I mean seriously, what in the name of fuck were they thinking of? ![]() |
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![]() Before the war it was a busy dockyard area which was the reason why the German's bombed the fuck out of the place. ![]() Now large parts of it still look like this. |
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The Newham General hospital is notoriously shit, despite looking like a spaceship.
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And gave it's name to Grime crew the Newham Generals
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![]() The Bobby Moore statue, outside West Ham's football ground. |
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i've got a friend who grew up in forest gate and who has terrible health, she's always going on about newham general.
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Is Newham considered to be the worst part of London?
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Well, if you want to take a glimpse, what a BAD neighbourhood looks like, take a look at this. A ghetto called "Lunik IX" in my home town Kosice, a socialist experiment gone wrong - back in 1970s the city mayors were intending to isolate problematic citizens (95% of them Gypsies) into this then-modern neighbourhood. But, the people there just ruined the fucking thing and now it looks like a warzone.
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I thought that Dagenham was worse. The only time I have been there I couldn't wait to go away.
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it's hard to say, i think a lot of people in london don't even know it exists |
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well it does look cool. it looks like it's located on a hill with no roads leading to it. |
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i can't even think of anything to say when i see this. |
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fucking gypos!
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It's a huge social issue in our country, especially in the eastern, less industrialized part of it. The social system and unemployment benefits is literally enforcing this part of society to remain unemployment and parasite on it (and now I'm not talking about the gypsies, I'm talking about lazy-ass bastards in general). This group of people will never adopt to society and this ghetto is a sad example of this. Luckily enough, it's pretty distant to the city and I, personally, have never been there. They say there's 100% chance of getting mugged there.
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