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Bristol has its M32 but being Bristol that's not so much an escape road as a getaway road.
Scunthorpe - any recommendations?
- Thread starter Boris Sprinkler
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ps -- despite everything negative I have said -- only me and Monkeygrinder's Organ are allowed to take the piss out of scunthorpe. if you aren't from there (or v close) then it is an offensive cliche. or at least it is just a shit comedian's hack joke.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Grimsby is fair game though obv.
Steel Icarus
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Hold my beer etc
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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I've long thought this forum needed more hilarious local Lincolnshire bantz tbh. I'm actually from nearer Gainsborough so have at it.
As it goes I'm currently planning on doing Scunthorpe parkrun on Christmas Day, it's a pretty good one.
As it goes I'm currently planning on doing Scunthorpe parkrun on Christmas Day, it's a pretty good one.
steeplejack
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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.
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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Monkeygrinder's Organ
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The Ropewalk Gallery in Barton is quite nice too if heading out that way.
Steel Icarus
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If you accidentally get as far as Immingham, DO NOT STOP YOUR VEHICLE. The locals can smell you don't belong.
Boris Sprinkler
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I’m on shanks pony, always.
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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.
Steel Icarus
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Tower blocks are no more
Refinery looks pretty at night
Steel Icarus
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Dude, I've lived in Ming since 2007
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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
Steel Icarus
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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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Of those three I’d only go to Scarborough. I lived there and, although I was seriously broke, it’s a nice place to stay.
DJWrongspeed
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Some live Scunthorpe news coming in. A friend of mine is out for Christmas lunch in a pub there and has just sent us a picture of Santa being arrested.
