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• those with any intelligence will get out,i did it at 14 and have met others around the world,trust me there is more than what you see in bridgey,good luck !
• Four fingers and a thumb? OUTSIDER! MUST KILL! It really is that bad. I was born there, often go back (family), and I have also lived many years at the arse-end of Liverpool, so I have something to compare it with when I say it is possibly the most dangerous, small-minded, inbred and (perhaps most alarmingly) illiterate place in the UK. Just take a look at some of the submissions here! I include myself in this. Its really not our fault. I think its the water.
• Well they are closing the last but one decently sized employer here. I'm moving away thank goodness, it was dead end enough anyway, everybody seems to be suicidal, now it'll be worse!
• Polden Virtual Shopping Mall on www.polden.com Shop securely from recognised UK companies
• I had the misfortune of moving to Bridgwater many eyars ago as soon as the house prices go up a bit more I'm outa here.Its ia a fact that Bridgy has the highest stats in the country for incest and its obvious to see to any poor unfortunate who finds themselves shopping in the high street,just look around you and there they are.The town is oppressive and grey and after a while of being here you can kind of see why most people look suicidal! Somerset is a beautiful county,probably one of the best but Bridgwater is the festering armpit of scum in Somerset.It has the highest amount of charity shops on the planet as pay here is poor and noone can afford "new" clothes. Avoid this town like the plague or you'll get sucked in like the Burmuda triangle!
• Charity shops there is too many ( i dont have anything against them) theres just TOO many
• Kwik Save has been shut down
• The inbreds. They're everywhere!
• If all the women in Hamp Estate were laid head to toe in one long line, know one would be surprised
• Moorland A small village also known as North Moor Green 5 miles from Bridgwater. It has a school, village hall, a church and a the Thatchers Arms pub which was the scene of a gruwsome shotgun murder a few years back, the landlord nad his dog got stabbed by a burgler on their return from their morning walk about a year later, and it sells Thatchers Red cider. Local residents may also remember a story entitle "bridgwaters sleeping man" in the bridgwater mercury in the summer of 2002, about a friend of ours who upon leaving the thatchers was so drunk that he rode only a few hundred yards before falling off his bike and smashing his face on the road, leaving his bike, hat and glasses on the river bank sparking a police search of the river and investigation into a possible suicide. But on the whole its peaceful when the river doesn't flood.
• bridgewater has britains oldest arts centre! which sadly is inefficently run by a committee whose sole purpose is to waste tax payers money,on shoddy workmanship, only booking shows that their friends wish to see, resulting in small audiances which will lead to its eventual closure, only giving gigs to those who are in with the clique, and discipline those who speak out against it.
• Strangly, there is a Surf Shop called 'Dragon Surf', but why we need a surf shop in Bridgwater is beyond me. Maybe someone is going to attempt to surf on the next Boar
• on a reacent trip to neath fair (near to where I now live now I escaped, but bridgy fair is better) I over heard a song on one of the stalls and I will quote it for you "I've not been this drunk since bridgwater fair" I think it sums up bridgy fair.
• Recent research shows that the rate of incest is indeed one of the highest in Europe and Rhode Lane in particular has the very highest incidence of incest in Europe => low IQ => really awful people => really awful town. Definately a dying town. Can someone pull it down, please? (Might actually be an idea.)AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!
• Quite frankly it is the funniest place i have ever seen. The people drink far to much, school kids are cheeky mutha fookas....typical example for a bridgy youth..."oi mate lets have a roll up".."umm, no. Piss off you little twerp"...which leads to..."my dad is neil swaynes mate" (a local hard nut psycho)..."hes going to f***ing kill you" etc...etc... Everyone has been shagged by everyone else. It is set to become the worst town in britain i believe, well so says the bridgwater mercury in aug 2003 they reported it. Hang on come to think of it, the bridgwater mercury. What are they all about. They report the bridgy crap..they even have there own crime file page..reporting people for drink driving and the like. They even reported when some gypo stole some cheese from somerfield to the value of £2.19...Hey Bridgy mercury....GO F**K OFF. There are psychopathic people in abundance....like loads of them. If i named them i would probably get killed...either by a random spout of machete chopping (everyone must remeber the infamous machete attack in St. Mary street approx 1997?) or stabbed then bottled..then probably robbed. I just love bridgwater. I know who to avoid and who to take the piss out off. Like that hair lipped bouncer from galleries night club. Does he think he is hard or what?...Ok faor play to him...but he has to stand there looking ugly getting paid probably £4.50 an hour to take abuse from the likes of me. He thinks he is hard. He isnt.
• that bridgy is a good town and people like u should stop riggin it. if u realy think its that bad go live sumwhere else and shut the fuck up!
• probably the dirtiest and least used dock in the country
• u spelt stuf rong u twat!
• Having worked for many years in Bridgwater I feel I have come to understand the reason why walking through the town centre is like being a cameraman in the bar scene from STARWARS. At the time of the Monmouth rebellion all the able bodied men in the area fought in the battle of Sedgemoor at Weston Zoyland. Most of them were killed which just left the male children, the mentally and phyically ill with all the nubile women of the area. I need not go into detail but it is an historical fact that the genepool of Bridgwater is limited but perhaps in five hundred years things will improve.
• apaarently a bomb fell on Bridgwater and did a million pounds worth of improvements!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Born and bred in Somerset. Now moved out. Feeling better now. It's a bloody dump that taste and time forgot. Knock it all down and start again. Can't make it any worse.
• Your page is interesting, and mentions contraction 'Viles' disease from Scrumpy; sounds nasty stuff. This should be spelt "Weil's disease", just in case any one contracts it.
• the governing body of the cat fancy, unfortunatly the nice ladies in the governing body of the cat fancy said i couldnt register my tabby cat despite the fact that its a very pretty cat indeed, apparently you need several generations evidence of a pedigree, im not into all this pedigree nonsense, but i would recomend anyone to make a visit to the office to see the nice ladies, perhaps taking a live cat to show them as well, there are about ten people in that office and given that they dont register non pedegree cats i wonder what they do all day.
• Hey Jeffrey has been spotted and has been cured (kinda sadly)! He roam's bridgwater and just walks around, no ripped clothes, no truck.
• No categorie on mobile DJ's???????? REFLEX 2000 can be well recomended and always liven up and Mark and Andy make a good party.
• why does only bridgwater have grey weather instead of just being either sunny,rainy,snowy or frosty?
• One Interesting Fact. Bridgwater has the largest Oxfam in the country (The Only Oxfam Superstore in the World). Also, The River Parrett and the River Severn are the only rivers in the UK to have a boar when the tide changes. But nobody cares!.
• Personally, I'd rather live here than either Burnham, which is bedsit city, Taunton aka Snobsville (except Inner and Outer circle which make Hamp Estate look like Knightsbridge but still cost more than a decent semi on Wills Road Estate or Polden Meadows) or Chard, which I gather from my Husband who was born there, really is a drunken, fighting led place.
• Bridgwater has got to rank as one of the most fucked up places in Britain. Most people there are either druggies or alchoholics. My advice to yer is avoid and go to nearby Taunton instead where pubs and clubs are rockin. If must have a night out in Bridgy then try pubs Rose and Crown, Great Escape and Holts. Go to club Palace to pull a fat slapper for cert.
• Apparently, when people are born in Bridgwater they don't just get a birth certificate....they also get a P45, a Criminal Record and a satelite dish to save time later!!!!
• The coolest teacher i ever had lived here. She's a priest now.
• People who were born & bred in Bridgwater don't realise that it ever had a smell! I moved here about 11 years ago (not through choice). It took me about 5 years to get used to living in such a dump, but it will take more than my lifetime to like it.
• You were right about it being a dump. I have lived about two miles away from it all my life, and that's close enough! Apparantly, by the year 2000, North Petherton and Bridgwater will join, and when that happens, you can rest assured that I will be moving out!!!
• I've lived in and around Bridgy for 20 years now and agree with the guide, I cried laughing at the mention of "Jeffrey", what a character!!! The people in town are all thick as shit, most of them are called "Boobyer" or "Pople" they all are related to each other without question. You have to be a really sad git if the highlight of your life is when carnival comes and you can drive your "Y" reg XR3 around with a flashing light on the roof and believe you are God for a day. Wankers.
• Bridgwater has been described on National TV (Fist of Fun) as 'The most stinky town in Britian for the last 40 years'. Also, a friend was recently in Zimbabwae, where he met an Englishman. When he (the friend) explained where he lived the Englishman replied 'Oh yeah, it smells, doesn't it?'. That was all he could remember about the place.
• 'Bridgwater was a happening place in the 70s' - yeah, and so was Cambodia.
• Other nice things about Bridgwater: apparently Bridgwater has one of the highest rates of inbreeding / incest in the country and probably Europe as well. Particularly on the Hamp Estate, so it's said. Doesn't surprise at all.
• That's an amazing description of the place I too grew up in. You forgot to mention the fighting that also goes on in St. Mary street on a Saturday night outside Toffs. You also missed out the bit about the Bridgwater smell, I never really noticed it till I returned to Bridgwater after being away for some time: it's another good reason for staying away. Bridgwater is a complete dump.
• I agree with your comments on the Arts Center - been there, done that! Remember a band called 'Cain' a few years back? Guilty! Run my own label now, much more fun - much more money!
• The town has one of the first Arts centers in the world. It's crap.
• The are large burn marks on the walls of Bridgwater Film Center (inside) which have been there for years.
• The Arts Centre was actually the first in the country, now one of the worst - run purely for ego and self gratification - political correctness gone wild. It really went down hill after the rock club was banned for putting on too many good gigs in the mid eighties. And the beer is crap. Avoid.
• I was born in Bridgwater but thankfully left in 1982 at the age of 18. The best thing about Bridgy' is that all the good people left about the same time, including my parents, albeit a few years later and only to Taunton.
  It was a happening place in the 70s'. We were the best skaters in the South West and had a good local music scene. (Sheep Worrying anyone?) Remember the Arts Centre Gigs, beer, spliff, the odd tab and anyone on stage who wanted to be.
  I can't comment on the place now as I haven't been back there for at least 6 years but 'it was good while it lasted'.
• I was born and bred in Bridgwater, but I admit the place is a dump. The best thing about Bridgwater is the fair and the carnival. Both events are up with the biggest in Europe!
• The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal has just been re-opened and at 14.5 miles long is one of the shortest in the country. It is well used for recreational purposes. But it is completely un-connected to the rest of the country's waterways, and the council won't pay for a link to the river, so is no use to boaters.
• Bridgwater was always known by travellers going on holiday for its traffic jams and the smell of British Cellophane (Courtalds now). Since the motorway was opened the traffic jams have gone and even the smell is much less.
• Bridgwater Fair on the last week in September is reputed to be the third largest in the country although it does nothing for the town only take trade away from the locals.
• Bridgwater carnival (or The Electric Light Show) is the largest carnival in Europe, consisting of over 100 carts. It takes place every year on the Thursday nearest November 5th. More people attend this free show than any other nightime event in Europe.
• The last battle fought on English soil was just outside Bridgwater. This was in 1685 at Sedgemoor.
• Bridgwater has a river with the largest rise and fall of any river other than the Amazon.
• This is a dying town. AVOID - AVOID - AVOID - AVOID - AVOID

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