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Scunthorpe - any recommendations?

I was born in Lincolnshire and my dad's family there goes back generations but we left when I was one, so not really qualified. Also the south end in the fens.
 
I was born in Meggies. What a shit hole that's become since I left. Still better than Scunny though.
 
There’s also the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre which is worth a look if open.

If you have a car head to nearby Barton to the Ted Lewis Centre. Ted a famous pulp crime writer in the 60s & 70s who before sadly drinking & smoking his talent away wrote Jack’s Return Home…the novel which became Get Carter. The original story was set in Scunthorpe, not Newcastle.

Scunthorpe sadly is a very rough place but for whatever reason I really quite like it. The rescuing of the football club via a community ownership buy out is one of the best football stories of the year. Glanford Park is really bouncing again.
 
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There’s also the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre which is worth a look if open.

If you have a car head to nearby Barton to the Ted Lewis Centre. Ted a famous pulp crime writer in the 60s & 70s who before sadly drinking & smoking his talent away wrote Jack’s Return Home…the novel which became Get Carter. The original story was set in Scunthorpe, not Newcastle.

Scunthorpe sadly is a very rough place but for whatever reason I really quite like it. The rescuing of the football club via a community ownership buy out is one of the best football stories of the year. Glanford Park is really bouncing again.

The Ropewalk Gallery in Barton is quite nice too if heading out that way.
 
If you accidentally get as far as Immingham, DO NOT STOP YOUR VEHICLE. The locals can smell you don't belong.
If you do get to Immingham you can admire the refineries and the tower blocks. My dad commissioned them and thereby helped spoil the town.
 
Tower blocks are no more
Refinery looks pretty at night
I had some amazing pics of them from the top of the flare stacks before they were operational. Unfortunately my niece threw them out despite my repeatedly asking for them. I’m still pissed off about it.

The tower blocks were ok. Not grand in anyway but nice enough.

I guess the old tin huts have all gone.

Next time I’m in the area I must visit ming
 
The tin house is still there on Pelham Road, with a sign outside explaining what it is, would you believe. And the prefabs are still there at the far end of Pilgrim Avenue. Civic has been revamped but the flats above it are still lived in, and the smaller blocks of flats behind the Civic are still there.
 
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