Britain's most boring places

Lord Tyrion said:
I was born in Timperley but left when I was 6, a good while ago ?. My gran lived there most of her life and so I used to go back until the late 90's when she died. Timperley was a village, nice 1930's houses, infant and primary schools, open spaces on the edge of Manchester. It developed into real commuter belt territory, for Manchester and the airport. My grans house was bought by a pilot for example. The housing outgrew the amenities which is why people from there would have got on the train, now the tram, to go to Altrincham or Manchester. I don't know if bars, restaurants etc have developed there now, haven't been back for a while.

It wouldn't be fair to call it boring but I understand your logic.

The centre of altrincham has had a real regeneration incidentally so a night out might be even better now ?
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A pal of mine has just opened a posh off licence in Altrincham “ Just plonk”. Me and Missis T had a drive over for the launch. I wonder how some of the town centres survive around Manchester. It seems all roads, trams lead to the bright lights.
Without regeneration money they would be ghosts towns, dead and boring.
 
Not sure you can call Birmingham boring, plenty to do. Especially up Digbeth or the Jewellery Quarter. Then there's a fair few golf courses around as well as The Bullring. If you want boring, try Scunthorpe. Just grey concrete everywhere with the slight stench of the steelworks.
 
Tashyboy said:
A pal of mine has just opened a posh off licence in Altrincham “ Just plonk”. Me and Missis T had a drive over for the launch. I wonder how some of the town centres survive around Manchester. It seems all roads, trams lead to the bright lights.
Without regeneration money they would be ghosts towns, dead and boring.
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Altrincham is quoted as a blueprint for town centre revivals. It died as a centre once the Trafford Centre opened so they started to adapt some of the empty shops into apartments for living. They were nice ones, for people who largely worked in Manchester. The thinking was, young people with money, they will spend money on socialising in their locality, coffee shops, small bars, restaurants etc. Stop chasing clothes shops etc, accept you can not beat the Trafford Centre and Manchester for those. Change your high street from largely retail to mainly entertainment. It worked, it is thriving now. There is plenty of money in those south Manchester suburbs, Altrincham, Sale, Hale, Bowdon etc and if you give people a nice product they will spend there. They go into Manchester to work and for some nights out still but not all of the time.

I'm sure your mate will do well if he gets it right, good luck to him.
 
Foxholer said:
Stamford has been pretty buzzy whenever I've been there - though there might have been because of the choice of weekends! :rolleyes:
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Nope, Stamford is boring, not a patch on how it used to be in the 90's. Pretty to look at but as souless as any commuter town since they priced the locals out of the market. Oakham is the same.
 
Basingstoke.

No idea what's it like these days but I can't imagine it's any less bland and featureless than it was when I had to occasionally work there 25 years ago.
 
Some of the responses to this thread are a bit misleading, for example I would class Luton more of an absolute :poop:-hole over boring!! :ROFLMAO:

If you want 'boring' then pretty much everywhere in the Cotswolds for anyone under the age of 30!! Granted absolutely beautiful but nothing too exciting going on there!
 
GB72 said:
Nope, Stamford is boring, not a patch on how it used to be in the 90's. Pretty to look at but as souless as any commuter town since they priced the locals out of the market. Oakham is the same.
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Well there was a distinct buzz about it on the (Burghley) weekends I was there, though that was headed toward that decade. Can understand it happening to Oakham though - even if a 'contributor' we knew was an actual local who spent the week in Slough and half a dozen rather more glamorous European sites earning the big cheques to support the 'comfort'.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Altrincham is quoted as a blueprint for town centre revivals. It died as a centre once the Trafford Centre opened so they started to adapt some of the empty shops into apartments for living. They were nice ones, for people who largely worked in Manchester. The thinking was, young people with money, they will spend money on socialising in their locality, coffee shops, small bars, restaurants etc. Stop chasing clothes shops etc, accept you can not beat the Trafford Centre and Manchester for those. Change your high street from largely retail to mainly entertainment. It worked, it is thriving now. There is plenty of money in those south Manchester suburbs, Altrincham, Sale, Hale, Bowdon etc and if you give people a nice product they will spend there. They go into Manchester to work and for some nights out still but not all of the time.

I'm sure your mate will do well if he gets it right, good luck to him.
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He has two places, one in Alderney edge and one in Altrincham. He said exactly what you said re the Altrincham shop. ??
 
Newtonuti said:
Not sure you can call Birmingham boring, plenty to do. Especially up Digbeth or the Jewellery Quarter. Then there's a fair few golf courses around as well as The Bullring. If you want boring, try Scunthorpe. Just grey concrete everywhere with the slight stench of the steelworks.
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I thought of this thread last week when standing on Westminster Bridge in London.
Looking downstream it just struck me the place is more like a theme park than a city.
London must be the greatest place to visit in Britain.

Birmingham is constantly trying to reinvent itself but without much success.
Would you stay there for a city break?
Digbeth is roadworks, dirty, run down, and I'm way beyond the night club scene.
Broad Street is one of the few places that comes alive at night while the rest of the city centre is deserted.
Jewellery quarter: remember to take an armed guard with you.
I had a nasty experience of being mugged there.
 
Miss T once booked us on a mystery weekend coach trip, we went on a Saturday morning after I finished a 12 hr night shift. We paid 50 p each to guess where we were going. We went to Hull. Bloody Hull. There were three sisters sat on the back seat. Apparently they always did the trips and always sat on the back seats. I heard one of the old biddies. ( youngest 82) say “ did he just say Hull”. I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I was knackered and going to Hull. missis T said to me “ do you want to close your eyes”. I said “ I want to close someone’s eyes but not mine”. It was crap and boring. I sat in a Wetherspoons for 2 hrs watching Chelsea v City. That night we were in the hotel and I was talking to the three sisters. I offered them a sherry. 2 said yes please. The eldest the matriarch said “ No they have had there One sherry for the weekend“ And if they went to bed.
After they went the coach driver sat with me and Missis T. He told us where we were going on the Sunday. He said “ I think the punters will be chuffed where we are going. cleethorpes. It’s a boring dump in February. I told Missis T I am walking home.
We got on the bus and as we were going over the Humber bridge, the coach driver told us where we were going. There was a stunned silence. We got there at 10.45. The coach driver said. It’s 10.45 what time do you want to meet back at the coach. One of the old biddies shouted “ 11.00 am please”. I was wetting me self laughing. I swear to god everyone was back on the coach at 12.00 midday. We called at Meadowhall on the way home as “ we cannot get back to soon.
Hull, cleethorpes and Meadowhall is
A, not a romantic mystery weekend.
B, boring.
 
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patricks148 said:
Luton used to be a good night out in the 80s, mad hatters was fantastic
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I lived there from 84 to 86. I call them my lost years.
Went in the The Hatters many times. I would not call it fantastic.
Mind you, I would be comparing it with my previous 5 years spent in the Toon Upon the Tyne where nights out down the Quayside were truly unsurpassable.
 
Tashyboy said:
Miss T once booked us on a mystery weekend coach trip, we went on a Saturday morning after I finished a 12 hr night shift. We paid 50 p each to guess where we were going. We went to Hull. Bloody Hull. There were three sisters sat on the back seat. Apparently they always did the trips and always sat on the back seats. I heard one of the old biddies. ( youngest 82) say “ did he just say Hull”. I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I was knackered and going to Hull. missis T said to me “ do you want to close your eyes”. I said “ I want to close someone’s eyes but not mine”. It was crap and boring. I sat in a Wetherspoons for 2 hrs watching Chelsea v City. That night we were in the hotel and I was talking to the three sisters. I offered them a sherry. 2 said yes please. The eldest the matriarch said “ No they have had there One sherry for the weekend“ And if they went to bed.
After they went the coach driver sat with me and Missis T. He told us where we were going on the Sunday. He said “ I think the punters will be chuffed where we are going. cleethorpes. It’s a boring dump in February. I told Missis T I am walking home.
We got on the bus and as we were going over the Humber bridge, the coach driver told us where we were going. There was a stunned silence. We got there at 10.45. The coach driver said. It’s 10.45 what time do you want to meet back at the coach. One of the old biddies shouted “ 11.00 am please”. I was wetting me self laughing. I swear to god everyone was back on the coach at 12.00 midday. We called at Meadowhall on the way home as “ we cannot get back to soon.
Hull, cleethorpes and Meadowhall is
A, not a romantic mystery weekend.
B, boring.
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I feel it’s my duty to defend Hull - but I can’t.
 
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