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Best and Worst in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester*

Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Used to be Cromptons just before it was knocked down - We used to climb in there (really safe!?)
• st oswalds church. fantastic building even better inside(sorry for sounding to religious)
• st thomas's church
• Sir Thomas Gerard Pub, Ashton Library.
• any pub
• The Robin Hood - obvious reasons
• I WOULD SAY ASHTON MARKET BUT THAT DONT COUNT. I'D SAY THAT IT WAS ANY KEBAB SHOP.
• The library situated at the end of Wigan Road and Old Road,
• Robin
• st oswalds church

Demolish It Now Building

• KINGS ARMS. TOMS GYM. STUBSHAW CROSS. RED LION. OLD MARYS AND QUEENS.
• the empty police station what use is an mt police station?
• The old building/toilets on the Tennis Court [across from Cansfield]
• Kings Arms, Glovers Furniture "emporium".
• queens
• Byrchall High School
• Kings Head - Lancashire version of the Slaughtered Lamb. Nowt do wi foot 'n' mouth disease, it's the pub off An American Werewolf in London.
• STUBSHAW CROSS C.E. COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL!! UTTER HELL!!
• all of ashton
• Old Mary's please!
• Old Marys
• BLOW IT ALL UP!!!!
• the job centre

The Best Things

• If you have friends in Ashton they will be a mate for life. The atmosphere is quality as well. And the donner kebabs from Ashton kebab house.
• people, late drinking, good food outlets, good for a session, mixed fan base of football fans so always some freindly banter going on in the cross keys and robin hood between fans, they also show live premier league games on saturdays in the cross keys with cheap beer to wash it down with! wot more can one ask for.haydock races only a ten minute walk from town centre.
• the m6 isn't too far away
• Ashton benefits from being next door to Newton le Willows and Earlestown
• Cansfield High School really is the best school in Ashton, it has the best facilities for swimming and has some of the greatest teachers that you are ever likely to meet.
• Lots of good Pubs, eating places, Nice people. Quiet town but easy to get into Liverpool or Manchester for some "real life"
• Its near my house and possible to have a cheap night out with friends.
• warrington road way home
• lots of pubs
• beer
• Real ashtoners dont have a stupid wigan accent
• Cansfield High School! The Rugby Team who play at Bryn REC every Saturday and then go back to the Beer Hive so go support them! The bar staff at the Beer Hive - Sarah, Gemma, Divina and Nick. The nice, friendly, accepting poeple!
• the abundance of pretty women with at least 3 to 4 sisters
• Not being Wiganer enough to get called a pie eater but but being close enough to call (the mighty, mighty)Wigan Athletic your local football team.

The Worst Things

• people, the odd dodgy pint of lager now and again, the red lion pub(always a dodgy pint of lager in that place) stubshaw cross and bryn are nearby which is a bit off a shame but we all have our cross's to bear. the pavements could do with renewing as they can become an obsticle when walking home steaming at night trying to balance your kebeb in one hand and your pizza in the other(nowt worse than dropping your pizza face down in the road)
• BRITISH RAIL STINKS! A JOURNEY TO BRYN WAS AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE!!! AN ENJOYABLE EVENING WAS RUINRED BY EXTREMELY BAD TRANSPORT. PS if you're 13-16 yrs old, enjoy drinking cheap shitty lager and alchopops smashing a few bottles and generally acting stooopid - Bryn railway station is for you !! Bring yer fiends"" I'll bringa a bottle !! ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Traffic, no rail link, Haydock Park racegoers throwing up after the Races.
• When Haydock races is on and the Place floods out with cockney nobs. who decide to trash everywhere
• walking 2 miles down warrington road when your sloshed
• lots of drunks
• not enough shoe shops or clothes shops
• ASHTON DOESN'T SELL MUCH ONLY FOOD.
• when theres no beer
• The way that the kids mess up the parks,
• the traffic fullof half witted kwik save lorry drivers
• lack of identity. when i went to college, half the people from warringto and st.helens thought ii was from ashton-under-lyne.

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