I’m a truck driver and I particularly dislike going to Scunthorpe. It’s grim 😣
Been to Southampton but I’ve never been to Scunthorpe.
Eegh.
*”It rains a bit, but it’s not far from Grimsby”*
– spoof advert for Scunthorpe in Viz magazine
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Sunny Scunny
S****horpe
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the name Viking related? I think Thorpe is a derivative of river or valley. Bollocks – now I’ve got myself confused with another shit town and the Vikings, Skelmersdale. FML.
That photo gives you an idea of just how big the steelworks is…
I’ve been to a lot of towns in England, there’s a lot of places much much worse than Scunthorpe.
Like Doncaster….
if Typhoo put the ‘T’ in Britain, who put the **** in S****horpe
“Most easy to vandalize signs since 1851”
How old is this picture?? Those garages haven’t all been red for about a decade…
I guess it was taken from the parishes car park?
Fresh road markings, habitable housing, infrastructure still working, a plant to employ people, no signs of conflict. Could be worse.
It’s more aptly named without the S at the beginning.
Looks depressing 😔
Isn’t that a photo of the Ukraine?
It’s never good if you are not 100% sure if a building is either housing or a loading depot.
Is there anywhere with a shit depressing name that is actually vibrant and pleasing to look at? It’s very much judge a book by its cover etc but everywhere that has a really shit name tends to be just as bad, from experience.
Never realised that Scunthorpe was part of the developing world.
Having grown up in Scunthorpe, the oddest thing about moving away was the fact that the clouds were not bright red most evenings everywhere else – caused by them tipping the slag from the steelworks (Scunthorpe’s motto is ‘the heavens reflect our labours”)
Never understood the “red sky at night…” phase as it was always red.
But yea, it’s really grim going back – loads of shops are closed, job prospects are poor at best. It’s just part of the country that’s completely forgotten and there’s just no real investment. Classic small-minded, little-england views are rife purely due to a lack of exposure to the rest of the world.
It’s depressing, and unfortunately, there are a lot of places in the UK like it.
Another random bit of Trivia – Scunthorpe was one of the first places in the UK to get google street view. The inital list was:
As you can tell, one of these things is not like the others (pop 60,000 at the time and no real relevance). When asked about it, it was google’s apology for heavily censoring businesses in the town due to the poor efficacy of profanity filters at the time (doing school projects was really hard when searching anything about the town was blocked)
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Scunny.
Sorry, Scunneh
I’m a truck driver and I particularly dislike going to Scunthorpe. It’s grim 😣
Been to Southampton but I’ve never been to Scunthorpe.
Eegh.
*”It rains a bit, but it’s not far from Grimsby”*
– spoof advert for Scunthorpe in Viz magazine
Username checks out.
Sunny Scunny
S****horpe
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the name Viking related? I think Thorpe is a derivative of river or valley. Bollocks – now I’ve got myself confused with another shit town and the Vikings, Skelmersdale. FML.
That photo gives you an idea of just how big the steelworks is…
I’ve been to a lot of towns in England, there’s a lot of places much much worse than Scunthorpe.
Like Doncaster….
if Typhoo put the ‘T’ in Britain, who put the **** in S****horpe
“Most easy to vandalize signs since 1851”
How old is this picture?? Those garages haven’t all been red for about a decade…
I guess it was taken from the parishes car park?
Fresh road markings, habitable housing, infrastructure still working, a plant to employ people, no signs of conflict. Could be worse.
It’s more aptly named without the S at the beginning.
Looks depressing 😔
Isn’t that a photo of the Ukraine?
It’s never good if you are not 100% sure if a building is either housing or a loading depot.
Is there anywhere with a shit depressing name that is actually vibrant and pleasing to look at? It’s very much judge a book by its cover etc but everywhere that has a really shit name tends to be just as bad, from experience.
Never realised that Scunthorpe was part of the developing world.
Having grown up in Scunthorpe, the oddest thing about moving away was the fact that the clouds were not bright red most evenings everywhere else – caused by them tipping the slag from the steelworks (Scunthorpe’s motto is ‘the heavens reflect our labours”)
Never understood the “red sky at night…” phase as it was always red.
But yea, it’s really grim going back – loads of shops are closed, job prospects are poor at best. It’s just part of the country that’s completely forgotten and there’s just no real investment. Classic small-minded, little-england views are rife purely due to a lack of exposure to the rest of the world.
It’s depressing, and unfortunately, there are a lot of places in the UK like it.
Another random bit of Trivia – Scunthorpe was one of the first places in the UK to get google street view. The inital list was:
Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol,
Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds,
Liverpool, London, Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham,
Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, Swansea, York.
As you can tell, one of these things is not like the others (pop 60,000 at the time and no real relevance). When asked about it, it was google’s apology for heavily censoring businesses in the town due to the poor efficacy of profanity filters at the time (doing school projects was really hard when searching anything about the town was blocked)