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Best and Worst in Burnley, Lancashire*

Burnley, Lancashire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Travel Inn. they have really good showers. pity about the kids running around the pub next door. I mean Charlie Chalk is fun, but not that good
• The Pavillion at Burnley Cricket Club on Belvedere Road.
• neil's, but why be inside when you can be out in the sun? my fave spot is the bench in front of the bandstand, nearest to yates's
• Until razing it in 1998, the fountain in the town square was one of my favorites. Perfect for paddling on a drunken summer evening.

Demolish It Now Building

• bus station toilets!
• That tatty rambling structure using part of the Car Park at Burnley Cricket Club It's only used by a few people in the Winter..Pull it down & extend the Cricket Club.
• demolish mean cats now. and the keirby, if youre gonna demolish it, do it now.
• DEMOLISH THE ROUND CAFE. THE FOUNTAIN WAS LIKE, SOOO MUCH A BURNLEY THING.
• Dodgy loos on the Wirral Way.
• The multistory car parks

The Best Things

• Easy to pick slappers up down town Some really great girls -(not many though) Fair amount of down to earth people I like our accents, it isn't too rough but easy to recognise, makes me feel proud sometimes, except for the Burnihams (what I call the people who say things like
• burnley is babylon!
• Burnley's weather is one of its better points. You can guarantee that once you return after a trip, it's bound to be raining!
• The home of the Greatest football team in the world. Ian Wright
• Loads of Pubs(well for a small town anyway!)
• Pendelfin, pendel hill, sweets
• Burnley was the best place in England to buy Licorice Root and Anise Seed Balls. Also a great place to scrounge around the moors, bump into gypsies and view old Roman roads, and WWII bomb craters. Ken Stanley's was the greatest place to play table tennis.
• I used to live in Burnley ten years ago and still go back there to visit every two years. You can't beat the open market on Wednesdays and Saturdays for all sort of crap. The best thing about Burnley is the fooball club, Burnley F.C. the pride of the North (Up the clarets) there are also some good pubs of the the kebs called the sportsmans and the shoulder and mutton. Also has a good bowling alley and loads of good chippy's. I used to live just off Breifcliff Road at Duke Bar, loads of pubs and crap.

The Worst Things

• People who have Double-Whoppers for Brains Close proximity to Padiham (skankiham - skanks asylum) 10% Ethnic Population (not that I'm racist or anything, I know an honest Pakistani - Asif) Quite a few manky areas like Burnley Wood (ppl are ok just dirty kids runnin around and breaking laws n stuff!)
• Dexterity every month - we live for it
• Far too many scallies! Close proxmity to Neston
• Soot, tremendous amounts of rain, lame heating and outdoor lavs, something we just don't have in Canada.

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Last updated: 2007-10-08