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Best and Worst in Brentwood, Essex*

Brentwood, Essex Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Anywhere that sells booze
• St.Thomas of Canterbury Parish Church in St.Thomas Road www.st-thomas.org.uk
• Liflands Hildingers Brentwood Train Station
• BRENTWOOD BUS SHELTER
• The Monstrosity (blue thing outside the hermit.
• WHITE HART !!!
• I can't really think of any building in particular but some of the old houses and pubs in the villages of Ingrave and Herongare are very pretty.
• Probably Pizza hut! but not 'cos of the building!
• The petrol station- there's not much else here!

Demolish It Now Building

• Any skateboarding shop. B7 (7-11) in Shenfield.
• NEW LOOK!!!
• get rid of the lighthouse on top of the Cathedral now
• the arcade by the cinema
• Jacob Schorr's house ( GET RID OF IT NOW, IT'S TOO BIG!)
• BRENTWOOD SPORTS CENTRE. FRANK BRUNOS'S HOUSE!
• The Monstosity, and the Artichoke on a Friday night.
• Burger King
• Shenfield High School!!!haha
• the new Cathedral - it's like an out-of-place Taj mahal!
• The completely over the top council offices! Please make sure the council is in session before the demo ball swings!
• Howsabout the school-turn it into a rec ground?
• Brentwood Cathedral - very tacky. Brentwood did make it on TV on the back of it though - Songs of Praise!

The Best Things

• I lived in Brentwood (Hutton) until for 10 years and can categorically say that the only good thing about the whole Goddamned place is the road out of there!!!!!
• Road links A12 and M25.
• Its not London, drinks are cheaper than London, schools are good, can walk the streets pretty safely at night with 3 bottles of wine in your belly (god this sounds like Monty Python!) and some of the loveliest people I know live here.
• The castle (playin pool) and goin to Sainsburys to spy on the skaters!
• Brentwood has been described as boaring... good, it has the lowest crime rate in the South East and unemployment is soo low the unemployment office was moved to Romford.
• If u lose your wallet someone will hunt you down to give it back to you
• The adidas London Leopards, soon to be known as The adidas Leopards because they are officially based in Brentwood now. For those who don't know them they are a Professional basketball team and can be seen regularly on Sky sports on a Saturday Night as they play in the British Basketball League
• It's in Essex and it's only 15 minutes away from Romford, Chelmsford and Lakeside!
• The White Hart - on a Friday night, and at lunch times - gorgeous food
• Everyone is so easy to talk to and polite and I can't think of anywhere with more friendlier strangers. The main sports and leisure complex, the Brentwood Centre, is also a really good aspect of Brentwood life.
• Some of the people! Near to M25, so you can escape! Lots of nice biking roads about (just mind the tractors, and the old bill!)
• Lots of people to hang about with, and places to go to!
• The people!

The Worst Things

• it is soooooooo boring. the trains and buses are all crap.
• everyone seems to know everyone
• No buses after 6pm on most routes in Brentwood, expensive fares compared to Havering! Removal of former bus routes ie, 551 to Walthamstow, also buses that use to run from Brentwood into Aldgate and parts of the West End. No fast trains at Brentwood station, no male toilets at the station or any such facility on the train (poor when it is a 40 minute journey). No direct trains from Brentwood to Chelmsford, Southend or Colchester. Train fares are too high, given that nearby Harold Wood only charges £4.70 for a travelcard, while Brentwood levies over £8 for the extra 5 minutes taken or £600 for a year!
• Snobby people, drunken Essex boys that have to tell you how much they earn and what car they drive (it makes them a nice person), sponging girls, label fetishes, NOTHING for teenagers to do, every other car being a 4-wheel drive with one kid in it.
• All the bloody trendies!
• The Trendies- they are so conservative, I didn't realise I was rebelling against my peers.
• Not a bad place to grow up but after you've been away for a bit (I've lived in Brentwood my whole life but am now at university) it seems really dull in comparison. Buses are really expensive
• EVERYTHING ( Especially Jacob Schorr!)
• The price of drinking. The children who hang around on a Friday night being obnoxious - Oh well, i guess I was there once
• Sams
• Fights over the women
• Lack of shops
• conservative but changing
• Small town mentality! Council complain about youths roaming the street, but there's little to do. Even Sams had to battle to get a very restrictive licence. I guess they've been old for so long they've forgotten what the young do..... (when I was a young.... neeeer!) Always a long wait for Taxi's at pub closing time (haven't they noticed the extra demand yet!)
• Everybody comes out when it rains, and noone wants to come out in the summer 'cos: "IT'S TOO HOT!"
• Nothing to do, especially for the 13-16 age range. British Rail (Railtrack, whatever) need to put on more late trains. If you want to go to a club or anything you have to go to London, Romford, Chelmsford or Southend, which is fine getting there on the train, but you can't get home again.

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Last updated: 2008-07-03