The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Slough, Berkshire*

Slough, Berkshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The DSS is very popular in Slough. This is where girls who cant keep thier legs closed can have thier unwanted offspring paid for by the nice tax payers of Stoke Poges/ Gerrards Cross. Please see 'Britwell'
• John Crane Building (Crossbow House) -from the credits of the office and the building in which Wernham-Hogg is set. My boyfriend I had sex in there. It makes me smile every time I drive past. And the lovely smell of chocolate.
• brunel
• Horlicks it is always gonna be here so might aswel get use to it
• HORLICKS
• upton court
• The Windmill Pub what the hell happend to it!
• Slough train station is a good building
• Slough Young People's Centre
• my bredryns yard
• My favourite building in Slough was The Old Crown Building at the top end of Windsor Road and Slough High Street. It was a nice 60's retro building and you could see the spiral staircase through some large street facing windows. It opitimized the Slough of the 60's/70's and is a great loss to Slough heritage. Oposite Slough library on Stoke road, is an old small brick building. It was once used as a public toilet. You can also look through historical books for pictures of Licence Vichellers School and the Hotel which stood opposite Slough Rail station. Don't come to Slough if you want to see anything of beauty. The place has been trashed!
• brunel bus station
• Approaching the Tuns crossing from the town, there are St. Martins Place by the Montem Lights and the new purple-lit building on the left hand side.
• slough station , work of art . home of station jim,the stuffed dog on platform five . i used to look at him on my way home to hayes on many occasions .saw a programme on the tv during christmas , was,nt about slough though , never mind . fond memories of a nice town ......sod you john betjeman .
• it just HAS to be the power station towers on the trading estate. great if u wanna commit suicide in a dramatic way
• Boots on the high street. For an extra treat pop behind there at night and sometimes you might find a couple of whores there.
• St pauls church, stoke rd
• Royal Hotel Demolished by capitalists over night but they did pay a a small fine The cellnet building is there now (looks lovely)
• The only time I've seen Slough was when I was on holiday in Britain (I'm from the States) and took the train from Paddington to Windsor Castle, so I had to transfer at Slough train station. What a pretty old structure. Gives a pretty good first impression for a town people seem to like to dump on. I always wondered how the name was pronounced-thought it rhymed with "trough" and hence would be pronounced "sloff".
• BUS STATION
• St. Bernards Convent Grammar School
• All the best ones have been demolished - apart the house I was born in!!!!
• the langley towers! (in my bloody dreams)!
• Bus Station.
• ice arena or bus staion
• SYPC@thecorner
• Singh Sabha Gurdwara.
• The beautiful silver tree sculpture in the central square. OK not really a building but it's my favourite structure.
• From looking at plenty of old photographs, most of the beautiful buildings have been demolished. The old Granada cinema in Windsor Rd, the old Post Office, for example. The fact that Observatory House (home of the Herschel family) is no longer there is a disgrace.
• Library
• No highlights in Slough but the highstreet was recently refurbished and looks a lot better than it used to, almost a joy to walk through the Queensmere!
• the old Montem Middle School Building in Chalvey.....had wicked times there...our football team were the best in slough...the building was old and run down but had great memeories there.
• Brunel Bus Station - possibly the most hideous building yet conceived by man. Should not be under 'demolish it' category as it says everything about the superlative grottiness which has reached art form levels of distinction in Slough.
• It was the three screen cinema near the police station and next to the church. But the b*st*rds knocked it down when I was about 10 to build more office blocks. Slough has the most office blocks I've ever seen.
• this town has the worst architecture in Britain, believe me i lived all over the place, Leeds, Manchester, leicester, Huddersfield to mention a few.
• Virgin, Wexham Park
• Slough Ice Arena - known as "The Hangar" for obvious reasons, if you've seen it! Home of the Slough Jets (British National League), Slough Tornados (Recreational) and Slough Phantoms (Women's Premier League)ice hockey teams. Reputed to have finest ice pad in the south of England.

Demolish It Now Building

• Slough Police Station (Dont tell em first - keep em in and knock it down)
• slough concrete bock aka the buss station
• Slough Bus Station - a place not to go if you are a single female at any time and a place not to go to if you are a human being at any time in the winter! Too many places for attackers to escape after they've mugged or raped you!
• Thames Valley Uni
• Town hall it full of prats
• brunel car park equal in nastiness to beacon housing staff
• The rather dated bus station (soon to grt the chop I hear) & the 'The Office' building... its just nasty
• BRUNEL CAR PARK,BEACON HOUSING ON STOKE ROAD..BUT DONT TELL THE DOSSERS INSIDE.
• slough grammar school, i go there and im the only skater! how bloody gay is that! also no one understands any sport apart from baddmington (apart from me ofcourse)
• brunel bus station
• SLOUGH JOBCENTRE
• The bus station. Please God make it stop.
• The Harrys Bar in slough because it is shit and full of dirty old man looking for one thing and Slough tarts.
• Brunel Car Park/Bus Station... not nice...
• The bus station- it is though isn't it... please.. or there's always the hoey pot, hum yumm
• The new travel lodge that has just been built must rank as the uglist building in Slough which is saying something.
• da centre aint no white or blacks allowed up in dat place
• Brunel Car park is an eye sore. It is further eccentuauted as this building is the building that the BBC have used for the openning credits for comedy series, "The Office", which is set in Slough, is filmed. How embarressing for us 'Sluffs'. A nice row of georgian houses made way for this eyesore during the 60's/70's.
• All of CHalvey
• Bus station-horrible building
• Slough Library and the awful buildings that replaced the Royal hotel Opposite Slough Station. Also Slough College or whatever it is called now. You can smell the students from the M4
• The Octagon, Brunel Way.
• BRUNEL CAR PARK AND BUS STATION... Pull it down! Pull it down NOW!!! It is a slimy grey monstrosity with inadequate lighting and weird people hanging around in it! It is the epitome of post-war architecture gone wrong! Pull it down.... NOW!! It is the ugliest building in Berkshire by a long chalk!! I feel insecure just looking at it...
• Long Barn pub.
• langleys big scary tower blocks
• Please slough council, i beg you to demolish manor park! the small mouldy 1930's terraces loom over the hilltops! the circle of death with dumped kids bikes on it are overgrown & too near the recently vandalised youth centre! the houses have huge structural problems with visible cracks on the front. the community are too poor to fix this!
• my school langley grammar. ALL the buildings, including the porta class rooms outside.
• Thames valley university uplifted and moved a long way east so the students won't have so far to travel, if you know what i mean
• They should all be Condemned
• Chalvey shopping centre(They built it back to front you know)
• herschial grammer school, as its bloody gay
• I cant think of any buildings that shouldnt be demolished. apart from my house. and the corner shop.
• The Golden Egg complex has been flattened, as have the old shops on the opposite side of the road (and the Bull tower is being demolished as we speak!)
• most of thebuildings in slough deserve to be flattened. the council is having a pretty good go at the moment
• over the other side of posh windsor is a hellhole,its called slough,because its full of crime estates with hard nuts in em. the goodman park estate and manor park and skanky britwell. britwell is a spillover dump with hard criminal minded youths housed on it.
• all of the grey high rises in langley, theyre crime ridden & they give you nightmares.
• The Langley High-rise Flats.
• All 'bars' in the High Street, The Centre on Farnham Road and especially The Copthorne Hotel.
• The langley tower blocks in east slough are an absolute disgace. There is mould growing on the flats and theyr'e extremely dangerous.
• Chicago Rock Cafe (see under pubs).
• knock down the chalvey and langley towers before it's too late!
• the worst thing in slough are the 4 langley towers. they are disgusting and full of criminals. the panneling on the towers are peeling off and its an eyesore when you drive down the m4.they are on a run down estate and the unemployed peole who liv in the tower blocks, piss on you!
• Brunel Bus Station. Brunel obviously spent as little time in Slough as he could designing this ghastly monolith.
• Slough Town Hall. What a decaying old pit. Why do they bother with their fading "Nuclear Free Town" sign?
• Brunel Bus Station. The council keep promising to bulldoze it, but continue to not deliver on a huge scale. Oh yeah, and Thames Valley "University" over the road.
• The Queensmere. Its the most pointless drab shopping centre I have ever come across. Has any one noticed that most towns have shopping centres on two main floors??? The Queensmere is just a one floored laberinth in the part of the High Street no one goes to. Built Slough a shopping centre like the Whitgift in Croydon. And that ugly red hotel in Langley you see when coming into Slough on the A4. It's not the Marriot, I can't remember what its called.
• DEMOLISH SLOUGH PLEASE IT SMELLS
• Bus Station (what an uninviting dump)
• The bus station is to be demolished soon!! (This was written Nov. 2000)
• All the houses in Central Slough, i think they are about 200 years old and haven't been done up ever since they were erected. horrible old houses get rid of them all!
• Slough Borough Council...for their sheer inefficiency
• The Queensmere precinct: when approached from the Brunel (Isambard Kingdom Brunel must be turning in his grave)Bus station, one is greeted by members of Slough's mentally-ill community.
• John Betjeman said 'Come friendly bombs and rain on Slough......' (the rest of the poem was not much more complimentary!) There is a place for the 70s 100% concrete brutalism, that place is Slough. Why should Eastern Europe get all the glory? Why not demolish all those cosy, little house on the prairie, brand new meaningless commuter houses that are springing up like a rash by the M4, with silly names like Eton Fields.
• The highrise flats in Chalvey should go. Any high rise flats come to think of it.
• The Brunel Bus Station and car park. Bleedin orrible!
• the whole town except anything listed, i like old buildings
• Well some poet banged on about how he wished the bombs would rain down on slough, well my thoughts exactly, demolish it all cept for The Mars Bar factory, that smells nice when the wind blows in the right direction.
• Slough Grammar school, old, creepy, and i hate that school
• bus station
• Montem sports centre.
• The old Nat West Bank building at 124 High Street. I guess it will never happen as i believe it's a Grade 2 listed building. My reason (and several of my collegue's reasons)is that we spent years working for the bank at this particular branch in conditions that were worse than those described in the Monty Python sketch (live at the bottom of a lake, get up 2 hours before we went to bed, eat a cup of cold gravel, pay mill owner for the pleasure of working 26 hours a day etc.....)Believe me, they had it easy!!!!!

The Best Things

• peter leavy he is the best story teller ever to live in slough
• The best thing about Slough is its close proximity to 3 Motorways, you need never be trapped here for long.
• the cinemar is cheep
• Kings Kebabs outside Pizza Express/Library every evening. I've had many a fantastic kebab after a drunken night of excess in Moon's. Just don't take the mick out of the guy's "pullover" like a mate of mine did and then found his kebab drowned in chilli sauce!!
• i love slough - its home. Its really not as bad as people say.
• is how much you appreciate it when your gone. where i am at uni i have had more vandalism done to my car than i ever had done on the britwell, slough really is not as rough as it used to be
• Well thats a tough one is it the smog filled air or the smilling faces that want to punch your head in if you look at them wrong. God you never think i was born here
• countryside...
• Most of the people,open spaces[while they exist],wildlife...no realy...
• dragon chef(restaunt), pick your own food and put it in a box! what a brilliant idea!!!
• Makes me feel better about living in West Drayton
• traffic wardens
• da fact dat ne ppl ne age can get drink or weed wen dey step foot in da britwell!
• Ez skeet :)
• Choice of food, cultural diversity, proximity to nice surrounding areas, job market.
• skatin in slough because the few sk8ers that there r they r really friendly
• SLOUGH IZ A GHETTO, TRUST ME!
• The High Street, which has vastly improved over the years into a pedestrianised open space. The fact that you can live in Slough and pay reasonable rent and commute into London faster than you can living in an outer tube zone.
• Diss it as we may, it still is slough massive and people ahve this life that is ot seen in the small villages ( quaint as they may be) or place like sterile commuting maidenhead e.t.c.. also like the oasis that is the park just up from wexham road.... and if you need a phone there's plent of phone shops!!
• Slough is near to London, and has a really young diverse crowd.
• Loads of shops Cheap and decent pubs
• The best thing about Slough is playing spot-the-white
• The cultural diversity. It is not as bad as the North end of Birkenhead!
• The fights, drug and alcohol abuse, prostitutes for the men who live in the house down Petersfield Avenue, fights, drugs....alcohol, drugs, alcohol.... Oh! My boyfriend is the best lookin' man in Slough, does that count as something?!
• not many of the drugs users die, unlike maidenhead
• Fabulous swimmers at Montem, especially the young blond lifeguard and the old, tubby guy who wears multi-coloured shorts.
• Slough is a total shithole, don't get me wrong but there is one good thing about it - the plethora of weirdos that regularly stroll the boulevards. There's the usual selection of tramps and winos but a few stand out. Like the guy who walks up and down the high street shouting at parked cars, or the guy who sits outside the Cellnet building politely saying good morning to passers-by. There's also the big bloke who can always be seen wearing a petticoat or other fetching ladies garment, and last but not least the guy wearing laderhosen who is always sitting in the observatory shopping centre underneath one of the potted trees. Long live the freaks of Slough and the amusement they provide.
• Well, I suppose Slough is a nice place to drive past on the way to somewhere better but if you do get stuck here its accomodating enough as long as you like mediocre clothes, fried chicken and alcohol. +
• Station Jim, the stuffed dog on platform 5 of the train station. always reminds me what a relief it is to get out of slough.
• IT SMELLS OF SHIT
• New Kebana (back of Boots) for its chicken kebabs... excellent value and (almost) healthy... although I moved away from Slough some years ago, I still take a detour occasionally to enjoy this great, cheap (full) meal!
• it is cheap
• DRUGS, how readly available they are
• Ha ha ha. Is there anything good about slough. You can get hold of things cheap off of the crackheads in britwell and manor park. Oh, and its easy to get draw.
• MUSIC GIRLS FIGHTS GOOD PLACE TO BUY GEAR
• The Herschel Arms. Whilst I can't be certain that they don't let youngsters in, rest assured they're all old enough by the time the place shuts. I remember the landlord responding to the question 'When do you close?' with 'Normally over the summer when things get a little quiet.'
• Leaving
• It's about 140 miles from Wales
• the queensmere (not).
• the best fing is all d fit guys,trust me!!!
• There are tons of jobs. It's near plenty of nicer places such as the river Thames, Winsor etc. It's cheaper to live in than the surrounding areas.
• I don't live there anymore!
• The best thing about Slough is leaving. That view in the rear view mirror of your car is second to none.
• Attractive pockets exist, such as one or two of the parks, and the amazing forests: Country Park; Black Park; Burnham Beeches. HERBS grow well here.
• Great roads: M4, M25, M40, A4, A40. Fast trains to London and The West. Plenty of work. High tech jobs. Minutes to beautiful countryside and to Windsor. Plenty of green spaces. No enforcement of parking restrictions. The smell from the chocolate factory. Low council tax. Lower cost housing. Everyone thinks Slough is horrible all over so property in the better areas is cheaper.
• The fact that it is one thousand times better to live in than its reputation suggests!
• living in slough is the best thing that ever happened to me.....WHAT you SCREAM!! look at it from a job or work view we are sat in the most under employed capitol of the world "jesus" take a look at the job center for ffs. anyone says thay cant get a job in slough are one of two things.......either lazy or a liar......truth man ......truth!!!
• Great Shopping, easy to get in and out (in theory). Somethings always happening. Since moving away, I've realised just how boring the countryside is.
• Closeness to a huge chunk of green belt land Burnham Beeches, ideal from getting away from it all
• Near London, & Windsor, easy to get out of the city into the countryside.
• Montem Ice Skating arena (Look up www.montemiceskatingclub.fsnet.co.uk). Near the much-mentioned Salt Hill park: so far a safer option, if you can skate. If you can skateboard, you might, perhaps, be able to stay upright on skates. Indoor Tennis Club. In the much-mentioned Salt Hill park: it's safe inside, if you can dodge tennis balls. Langley Leisure Centre: smaller, cleaner and less smelly than the one near the ice rink. Full of squally kids at the weekends, otherwise OK After all that, you should be fit enough to dodge the yobbos in the High Street.
• eveyone knows everyone in Slough. This can be a good thing or bad thing depending on what type of person you are.
• Telling people that your from slough...some ppl respect you from coming out of that place alive
• Being able to shop for everything you need and all nearly under cover.
• Litten Tree (especially Karaoke night - Wednesday), Cinema, Phrenologist & Firkin (coz of the pool tables), Moon and Spoon (can get mashed on £20 easily), Cedar Kebabs (Kebab van on opposite side to Litten Tree), You can easily leave Slough (i.e Good train links)
• No enforcement of any parking restrictions within the borough.
• A brand new shiny silver tree sculpture full size in the middle of the high street near the Virgin cinema.
• Are the worst things plus: Fantastic shopping and food. (All you need really. Could do with more entertainment though. Bowling ally perhaps.) It's bloody name. Being close to Windsor. The different religions and cultures.
• It's cheap.
• Train track out from slough to Windsor and paddington.
• It's beautiful! Slough is like a cartoon land. A veritable melting pot, with lots and lots of parks and trees (contrary to popular belief).
• Close to London and countryside.
• It's easy to get away from. Excellent rail (125's), busses, motorway (M4), you can even cycle to Heathrow if you're really desperate (or want to catch a tube).
• In Slough High Street: "Quasar", "McDonalds", "Burger King", "Boots", "W H Smiths".I go to Slough quite a lot, and it's cool cos its got a really comfortable, friendly ethnic mix, with hardly any racism.
• In the "Observatory" - "STAR FM" (106.6 FM), Slough's local radio station based in precinct on level 2. Keen on taking voluntary workers (I was one once in the newsroom!). Also "Woolworths", "Waitrose", loads of boutiques.
• "HMV", "Pret a Manger", "C&A", "Littlewoods", "Our Price", "Mothercare" - found in "Queensmere"

The Worst Things

• Watch out for tramps sleeping on the High Street called Mark Chew. He is a bit scruffy and has brown hair a beard. He carries a rucksack round and wears torn jeans. Occasionally sleeps in banks so hold on to your money. Takes advantage of young girls and tries to sleep with them. Good for getting cheap alcohol from. If you see him passing by please kick him in the balls for the sake of humankind. Thank you. :)
• The stench of Junction 7 on the M4.
• full of chavs. have to go to uxbridge or camden to be with good people
• The people who think it is their right to shove Islam down everyone else's throats on the high street. If your table is there and I want to look, then I will - don't pressure me to look cos it offends!
• All the traffic lights on the A4 .... and can someone not redesign the B&Q car-parking nightmare. Do not even think of going there on a weekend or bank holiday. It needs an in road and an out road. One-way traffic though the entire awful complex is the only hope.
• Slough= sophisticated Windsor
• Thames Valley Uni and that network of alleyways next to it (in the brunel roundabout)
• Dont get me started well manners wouldnt go a miss and the office
• How about that certain landlord of the upstairs masionettes in Bridlington Spur. Well done for chasing out the single women from her downstairs flat. Do you know she had a brain tumor at 19 and needs to take pills every day to stay alive. Oh! that's right, you heard from your previous lodgers that she had financial problems and decided to see if you could get her masionette! Well done, your family must be very proud of you and your ability to earn money. Hello Mr.D'Cotes of Meridian Casino, you also must be very proud!!! The walls have ears!
• Being stopped on the street by random strangers (all men). Slough seems be the only place this happens. If you are a woman walking around minding your own business, in broad daylight, some men will stop and try to talk to you. Even if you adopt the "on a mission, leave me alone" posture while walking, they still do this! I would like to say to those individuals "Get lost, leave me alone!!!! A woman walking around on her own is NOT necessarily single. Highly likely not interested in YOU. She's NOT lost. Doesn't need your company. And CERTAINLY wants to be left alone!".
• The incompetence of the local traffic department - who can't even figure out how to synchronise the traffic lights on the only main road in the borough, so everyone has to stop & start & use up more petrol & pollute the air more, and then they put loads of speed bumps on the side roads to inconvenience the drivers they forced off the main road.
• People who buy land to make a quick buck..Pasture land at Farnham Royal ! people who knock down good houses to build more estates...but not near them.. Sorry but it has to be said wan....s who nick cars then race them through local estates. All dealers who sell drugs to survive at others expense.
• the whole of slough is a shit hole theres is nowt to do especially in cippenham teengaers are considered as thugs and criminals.the village in cippenham is crap everone gets barred from the shop and then the man comes out chassin us tryin to grab us then he will go in his shop and phone the police and then two minutes later pc stevan bell comes runnin tryin to arrest you for everything like having no lights on ur bike standing under a bus shelter.if you stand outside the pubs ur get bottle lobbed at you and women threatning to come out and beat you up.teenagers are trouble makers in cippenham because there is nothin to do so they go terrorizin the shops and smashing windows and dat.all i can say about cippenham is its a shithole and safe to all da westgate.and essay its only a pencil case you boffin
• Slough is what happens when politically correct left wing councils run towns. Law and order doesn't exist, you can't walk around about 80% of it at night without being harassed, mugged, stabbed or having the shit kicked out of you, but woe betide you if you park illegally or drive 5 mph over the speed limit. Sadly, a model which is spreading to the country at large.
• traffic wardens
• manor park y'all r f*cking stupid!
• ugly people in general,bigger people that wana do u over
• Chalvey, increasing violence/drug problem.
• Young Asian boy racers in their BMW 323i's,Golf GTIi's with stupid go faster bits of plastic on them>Nobody wearing their seatbelts, especially the toddlers standing on the back seat ready to go through the windscreen.Speed limit signs purely for decoration.Red lights purely optional.These tossers always slow down in the end (death, theirs or someone elses,or getting married and finally having to grow up).
• TOWNIES!!!!!!!!!!!
• THE UNEMPLOYED SCUM WHO PRACTICALLY LIVE IN SLOUGH JOBCENTRE
• Having to visit family in such a Dump..
• The lack of really late night takeaways and the amazing problem of there being no dedicated off-licences on the high street. Very bizarre.
• WANNA-BE RUDE BOYS
• where to start, I thionk I have said most, I'd say lack of anything individual, all rather chainey!!
• No decent coffee shop
• The people. They are appathetic and uninspiring! Most tend to live in socio, economic and ethnic societies. People do not mix. There are few community groups. People tend to litter the streets and Slough council allows town centre streets (the roundabout) to get taken over by hoards of large vermin. It is hard to find a house in Slough were the front lawn hasn't been concreted or patiod over to nmake way for a car?! The front lawn, flowers, plants and trees have long gone. In such an industrial area, Slough council fails to highlight to its community the advantages of oxygen encouraging greenery. You will often find street in Slough where the locals ahve used the pavement as a car park. Pensioners and children are given little consideration and often ahve to used the road to bypass. Slough council has ignored this trend. In other towns, this is illegal.
• THE TOWER BLOCKS IN LANGLEY
• The care in the community cases that wander mindlessly up and down the high street muttering to themselves, low flying pigeons, beggars, loud drunken doll bludgers who sit in the Moon & Spoon for duration of day getting p*ssed at the expense of tax payers, the close proximity of CHalvey and the smell that emanates from it, the hoards of immigrants and assylum seekers that can be seen pouring into SLough on a daily basis enjoying temselves again at the expense of hard working tax payers.
• The bus station;arguably the worst in the UK The accent
• The worst thing about Slough is playing spot-the-white and finding a nutter skinhead. werd.
• Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!
• The driving of anyone around Slough is abysmal. The burglars _ I never got burgled in Birkenhead but did twice in Slough! The gorwing crack problem.... The litter..... The roads are all in terrible state... The bus station and the pissy stairs....
• Long Barn. Some of the young kids in Cippenham who think they're 'bad' coz their parents let them stay out 'til gone 12, when really people just look at them and think they're sad. The sleezy men in Slough who think no women can resist them when the majority of men in Slough are mingin' and most women wouldn't look twice. The women aren't too hot themselves though (myself and my friends excluded of course!). Big fat birds with pineapples on their heads and crop tops letting the rolls hang out everywhere. the traffic in Chalvey does my head in aswell. Lots of bad points about slough.
• it smells and its embarrasing to tell people who are not from slough that you are!!
• LISTEN the reason so many people hate slough is becouse they come from just outside slough i.e. winsor maidenhead etc. so for 99% of these middle-class snobs this is the only "working class" area there going to see. whynot take a trip up north to solford and toxteth or maybe the estates of glasgow. or maybe go and see hackney or tottenham. then say slough is the worst place in britain. the worst thing about slough is the middle class judgemental boring wankers who surround it
• As i gently strolled down the back roads of wexham court estate, a group of asian groupies grabbed me, tied me up, & LITERALLY masturbated on my face! They ran off & left me there on the street bench all night & the passing early morning grannies didn't help me as i had ejaculation fluid encrusted on my face! I have had recent councilling to get me through this & i never want to visit my slough colleages again as i'm to scared to walk the 30's backroads!
• There are many disgusting estates to choose from but the worst would have to be Manor Park and Britwell. Manor Park is a 30's slum, full of gangs of asians who have kindly graffited on our community centre "Manor Thugs". It is very deprived, and some of the houses are boarded up. The other bad graffiti in Slough is in Chalvey where it says "Paki Power", and the Bus Station where it says "I hate your country and "Islam Will Rule". Britwell is a 50's London spillover shithole with the highest crime rate in Slough. The 3 storey flats are litterally falling down, and I was shouted at and stabbed by white and black youths.
• i got peed on under the 8 storey main flats in the britwell centre.I want to get revenge as these shallow minded youths are going to be fuuuuuutuuure criminals! britwell is sooo loud!
• no talent. everyone looks the same cos everyone shops @ sport soccer. and who's brilliant idea was it to put a GAP in SLOUGH?!?!?!
• The facted that most people do not give a flying toss about anyone in slough (although there are some good people around) somehow half of the people in slough must have been sucked through a worm hole in the space-time continium, and put in there place are these what I can only call freaks and barbarians, because some of the people are just demented and are not of this realm. SO PLEASE just be careful of you bump into at anytime of the day, you never know what might happen.
• the pigeons,
• The fact the very multicultural society doesn't exactly get on very well. Seeing 30 police and 6 mounted police on a saturday morning is enough to put any one off.
• the rest of slough
• the 6 feet tall graffiti in chalvey on the run down council estate. i got him by a turkish salesman in upton because i ignored him.
• all 7 tower blocks in langley make you feel sick, especially the 4 which are on one estate.unfortunately i had to meet my friend in one of them (albion house) and there was urine and used condoms in the liftshaft.
• Slough is a euphemism for the surrounding villages desparate to disassociate themselves from it. Stoke Poges, Farnham Common, Iver, Richings Park, Burham Beeches, Taplow, Middle Green, Eton, Datchet. All in Slough. I think it pains the residents to be reminded of that.
• to the person who lived on the britwell for 28 years: it's a disgusting loud smelly concrete dump which is full of criminals.
• Waiting for a bus in that bus station - very scary indeed
• Slough is an indian overidden urban rut with plenty of high-crime estates especially the chalvey estate, because my mate got stabbed there by a group of asian youths.
• Slough
• They demolish all the wrong buildings. They get rid of the old Granada cinema and The Golden Egg (sob) on Windsor Road, yet they leave Brunel Bus Station and Thames Valley Uni standing. For why? Answers on a postcard please...
• Its just a little too near maidenhead - this town is crap cos it is full of judgemental snobs who need to take their heads out of their arses, and also lots of kevs and sharrons who the snobs are ashamed to admit are their sons/daughters. Slough is also too close to high wycombe: people complain about how rough slough is and all the racism etc. they should go to high wycombe! it makes slough look posh (yes that is possible!)
• britwell, upton and chalvey.
• If Slough was a beauty-spot, it's name would still make it unattractive. Perhaps people should consider pronouncing it 'Sluff', as in Brough (pronounced 'Bruff') in Humberside (now possibly Lincs). It does at least provide some comedy value, of a kind.
• grungers and oaps
• The people: nasty, violent, monosyllabic, bigoted, small-minded, baleful, hate-inspired and hate-fueled. People in Slough need to be less fearful of each other and chill out and SMILE now and then.
• Bad crime. In three years living near Farnham Road: - one house break-in during the night, while house occupied, money taken and blood left on curtains - one car stolen, two car radios taken, one car window smashed, while car parked on road outside home - car door lock damaged while parked in Slough train station - big dent in back of car overnight and no note left. The parade of burnt or abandoned cars on the road between Denham and the A40. The ugly power station shadowing the middle of the west side of town. Lots of unpleasant, overcrowded, horrible housing. Trouble in pubs and town centre especially at pub closing time. I shared a house with a temporary manager of the Wetherspoon pub in central Slough. He couldn't wait to go back up north again because he found that Slough had too many psychos and nutcases determined to cause trouble in the pub. Slough has a very high Indian population, now this is OK in itself but the trouble is they will insist on messing up their houses. The houses get done up in all different ways, pillars, iron gates, wooden shutters, the effect is very confused looking streets with no character. The smell of poo in Windsor Meadows.
• The fact that it has such a bad reputation. The police couldn't give a stuff. And nor could the council.
• People giving it a bad name when trying to promote there idea of 'Working Class'. For example, the beer swilling louts who say 'yeah well I'm from Slough!!' like it's a symbol of social poverty. It's these people who keep social classism rearing its ugly head. Oh yeah, and Ali G always talking about Berkshire Police on his show. Firstly, Slough has Thames Valley Police, and secondly, Staines is in Surrey (formerly Middlesex).
• Stereotyoes about the Britwell estate, i's started as a council estate but now most of it privately owned so people take more care of their surroundings !. True there are still a few problems but you get that everywhere, and beleive me there are a lot worse places in Slough (I should know I've lived on the Britwell for 28 years !)
• The smell of sewage from Eton. John Betjemen and other snobs who visit briefly and complain.
• everyone knows everyone in Slough
• telling ppl your from slough...some ppl never talk to you again
• Nowhere to take children on a day out - you have to go further afield like Thorpe Park in Surrey and Odds Farm in Woburn.
• Erm well trying to get a bus at night from the bus station rates about top of the worst things for me. LAst time I heard the rent boys latest victim getting a bit of a beating.... DO NOT GET INVOLVED IS MY ADVICE, unless you are feeling exceptionally suicidal / mad / bored. Another bad thing would be the high street at closing time......again DO NOT GET INVOLVED IS MY ADVICE, unless you are feeling exceptionally suicidal / mad / bored.
• The stainless-steel tree sculpture in the High Street Plaza. It cost an obsene amount of money. Imagine how many real trees could have been planted in and around Slough with that money.
• Slough Council - England's most incompotent. No enforcement of any parking restrictions within the borough.
• THE Place to be asked for change.... if you aren't asked at LEAST 10 times then you are doing something wrong... It's a dump.. even the new shopping centres are crap... It's a nightmare to get too - poorly planned town, LOADS of congestion... stay well away from it at rush hours... The entire place has the feeling that something is going to go off big time... I certainly won't be coming here after dark!
• SLOUGH IS JUST FAB
• Puffy jackets. Sloughite language. 'Goodness Gracious Me' Steriotypical teenage asians. Violence between Muslims and Sikhs. Traffic. It's bloody name.
• THE SMELL OF SHIT ROUND WINDSOR MEADOWS! THAMThe area in general, you thought coronation street was dismal.
• Really hostile people out at night, and there are no skaters anywhere!
• Slough seems to be exempt from the national highways laws - at least it seems like none of the drivers have actually got licenses or road-legal cars. I can only think that they have somehow found a loophole in the law. Consolation for living in Slough perhaps?
• Slough's equal opportunity policy means that the Road and Town Planning Dept is manned by blind, retarded masochists.
  Avoid: At peak times: the Town Centre, the Bath Rd Retail park (sorry B&Q it's not your fault - see Town Planning above) At all times: the A4 between the Three Tuns junction and the Huntercombe roundabout (M4 J7) - see Road Planning above.
• Worst part is Salt Hill Park, and Slough High Street. I was walking through Salt Hill Park with two friends and some other boys came over and started hitting my friend and spat in his hat and put it on his head and took his watch off him. In the High street try not to look in anybodys eyes.
• I was unfortunate enough to live there for a few years. It's my nomination for the worst place in England.
• The town is being covered every where with those dammed speed cameras (although they don't all work all the time).
• Salt Hill Park. Two murders in past three years, I have been followed in there and a friend of mine has been mugged there.

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