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• THE PARK END BOOZAAAA
• While you are here, try the local delicacy known as the Parmo! It's a massive chicken escalope that looks like it's been run over by a car, then drizzled in various cheesy sauces, but usually none that contain real cheese, parmesan, or anything healthy at all. Good for furring up the old arteries and speeding up a trip to James Cook's Hopsital.
• I’ve been reading the previous comments and it seems to me that Middlesbrough is the sort of place that many people have to grow up in to appreciate. I’m originally from rural Wales but had experience of living in cities such as Birmingham before I moved to Middlesbrough a few years ago. The town struck me as pretty gray, run down and horrible when I first arrived, it was the first time in my life I had ever felt posh! However in just the few years that I lived there I saw vast improvement it was like the town was regenerating before my eyes with the arrival of new university buildings, designer shops and sculptures- oh and fab new coffee places( I was suffering before Sam’s opened!) The older generation seemed to have real character and spoke fondly of past times when work was easier to find in the area and community sprit was high. The majority of people in shops extra were extremely nice and it seemed to me that a lot of people wanted to get and education , get a job and do their best just as people do everywhere else. Unfortunately Middlesbrough also has a very dark side serious violence has become so commonplace that some nights it hangs in the air, it was rear to see an argument that didn’t quickly become violent. During my time there I was witness to three stabbings, four arson attacks, one flasher, and more people getting bottled than I can remember and one hit and run. Oh and I got chased around the halls of residence by a smack head! I spent more time doing witness statements down the station than I spent in lectures. I remember walking out one morning thinking how pretty all the snow was until I came upon more than one area where the snow was pink instead of white as it had been dyed with some unfortunate soles blood. I got to the point where I couldn’t cope with it anymore and started to suffer anxiety attacks so sever that I had to move back to rural Wales, It took me over a year to regain my confidence. It appeared that my friends that had grown up in Middlesbrough had developed coping strategies so good that many times they seemed blissfully unaware what was happening at other times they could read the situation better than I could and would deal with it automatically My point is I can see why people don’t like Middlesbrough there are strikingly few amenities for a town of its size which leaves people with less to do and fewer opportunities than there are in other areas and the violence that hangs in the air can at times make it feel all the more depressing. Therefore moving there from a more affluent area really isn’t recommended. However this is not a reflection on the whole population of Middlesbrough who are grate people! Hopefully if the area carries on regenerating at it current speed and the majority of fab, hard working and funny community manages to overcome the thugs Middlesbrough could soon be a real place to be!
• A note about the hostility from the rest of the country and the prevailing lack of vision in the town. The majority of the entries here are devoted to the preservation of a divide between those in the town and those outside. There is more to the world than middlesbrough, a fact which many there need to be aware of yet refuse to be apparently due to lack of interest or pride. However, There is a lot worthwhile in middlesbrough, a fact overlooked by those to keen to condemn it. The town improves every time I visit. The history of a relatively modern industrial town is fascinating in its own right. The people are talented and friendly if you treat them with respect. Visit middlesbrough, engage people, enjoy the clubs and see for yourself. I've been to worse places.
• don't move here if you want a skilled job. there's nothing for graduates, engineers etc. but if you want a minimum wage job packing sandwiches or cleaning toilet's it's the place to be!
• THE FESTIVAL SHOP: in the dundas arcade, bought some mushrooms from there, spent the rest of the day laughing at the bagheads! had a great day! a breath of fresh air from the usual boring shop, had a great night out on these herbal highs called pep pills (just like e), have since bought some off their website
• DOES ANYBODY IN MIDDLESBROUGH OR IN TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY HAPPEN TO SMOKE MARIJUANA? ANY LOCAL DEALERS? I CAN FIND ANY DEALERS ANYWHERE

• my fav place in boro is the old marshalling yards next to the river under newport bridge
• Right. All of these bad reports on the place are beginning to P**S me off!!!! Middlesbrough is a brilliant place to live. Yes, there are a fair share of scallies and scum, but you ever been to Liverpool? Nottingham? Sheffield? Face it, scallies are EVERYWHERE!!! And another thing, this pollution lark is all a bit far-fetched. You look at Wilton Strip at night, and all lit up it looks amazing! Just to mention, also, driving down the M1 towards Sheffield, you go past two HUGE cooling towers! People say it as if Boro is the only place with Industry Plants! Get a grip...move to Middlesbrough! :-)
• I don't know where this fits... I lived in the Corporation Hotel (opposite the Town Hall) from 1954 until 1970 (My dad was the manager). My memories of Middlesbrough were the days when we went to the Nightclubs (Newport Road etc). Gambling, stage shows...brilliant. You could stay all night if you were doing well at the tables... The Boro at Ayresome Park (Clough, Ugolini, Peacock etc). Good Sat nights spent at the Rugby Club...(Pound5 jackpot on the TIC/TAC/TOE one-armed bandit). We used to use Chris Old (cricketer, later) (he was little) to put his arm up the outlet and release the money!!! Give him two bob and send him on his way....Loved Runswick Bay (had a caravan behind the 'top' pub..spent many happy summer weekends there. (Strongarm bitter, Newcastle Brown Ale, darts, girls etc) The Beehive pub out of town, the mucky duck (Black Swan) at Ormesby or was it Normany or somewhere? The fair at Stokesley once a year. Playing snooker at the Vic, drinking after work at the Bodega (closed at 8pm!!). Playing cricket for Nunthorpe. No fights, everyone having a good time, no real drugs, good times all the time. The Jazz Club at the Coatham on a Sunday night...sleeping under the Pier at Redcar. The cafes selling Espresso coffee. Being able to go out on the moors to pubs that had Pies and Peas suppers. Whitby - smell of fish, kippers and the sound of seagulls... Meeting my girlfriend every morning at 7.30 in Stewarts Park, before we went to work....marrried her in '68, divorced in '89. (she's here in Oz too) Playing golf at ICI Wilton (my first game) then Brass Castle later, with my dad and his mates. Sunday lunchtimes after golf at the Rudds Arms playing dominoes for serious money. (Before they built the 'modern' version of the pub and spoilt it completely). Working for Peat Marwick, Mitchell and doing audits of Head Wrightsons, Thornaby, all the Dorman Long plants etc...the smell of the glue factory...ugh!!!...Memories of the pubs having pints all lined up along the bars (dozens, almost full... waiting to be 'topped up') just before evening opening (5pm...) We could drink in those days!! And no hassles... The Gaumont, the Little Theatre, Binns, Hatfields sports shop, walking over the Transporter Bridge, Linthorpe Road, Albert Road, Marton Country Club....
• Who else is sick of south s**t saying middlesbrough is one of the most herion addicted, prostituted, townie places on earth??!!!!!!!!!!!I myself was brought upn in middlesbrough as were my parents, and i have never seen any one vaguely representing the above discriptions!Middlesbrough is a great place with some of the friendliest, nicest people on earth! I think every southener has been making a beeline for over the border personally...besides, you don't see us going and visiting your sh***y little places and coming back mouthing off about it!
• me very clever
• How often is this updated,most of the info is years out of date. Anyway here is my tuppence worth. Flares good for old slappers after young lads Gilzeans good for old slappers after young lads isaac wilsons good for old slappers after young lads chicago,s good for old slappers after young lads young lads,be afraid,be very afraid
• Im from boro so something good must be going on in the town

• If any one wants to disrespect middlesbrough do that but i can tell you one thing we definatly good for standing our ground cause we are all unified together and if you ever go to the cellnet riverside stdium you will get the overwhelming vibe of this which will make you realise that middlesbrough is the most patriotic part of England so fuck all of ya'll who diss us. And please everyone from boro put some good comments bout us on here and feel free to give a few disses bout london out.
• please read this. Peace out.
• Some comments made on your site by snotty nose biggots that just persume that every one in middlesbrough are smackheads and just little scallys in trackys and trainers we let me tell you something my darlings you are what you make of your own life it dos'nt matter where you are from you can make a life which creates happiness for yourself and others around you or you can be miserable and just go day by day and not have no purpose orfocus to carry out your dreams. but any way what i want to say to the person w3ho basically thinks that every one in middlesbrough resembles something along the lines of dog dirt, MIDDLESBROUGH HAD A BIG IMPACT INTO THE PERSON YOU HAVE TURNED OUT AS BECAUSE YOU DID'NT WANT TO TURN OUT LIKE THE LAD NEXT DOOR OR DOWN THE ROAD AND YOU TOOK A CHOICE TO MOVE AWAY SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THAT CHOICE AND HAVE TO MAKE THE BEST OF WHERE THEY LIVE AND HOW THEY LIVE
• Make money come to the boro and be a councillor
• touch of italy found at 18 Brentnall Street, just behind Captin Cook shops, Middlesbroughs best kept secret, great little deli they have a web site at http://www.touch-of-italy.com you gotta go and check it out!!!
• Boro is like somthing out of a second rate horror novel. Nobody likes it, but nobody leaves. Stay away.
• For Gods sake for those of you who hate Middlesbrough and it's surrounding area (i.e mostly non tax paying students) then Fu*k off back to where you are from and students quit moaning cos you pay f*ck all to live here anyway!
• if you are new to boro make sure you live on the right side of Linthorpe road (the uni side)
• I agree with all the soft southern shite, Middlesbrough is a depressing shit-hole-And iwas born and raised in the dump! Been away for 10 years and i'm never going back!! You can keep your tracksuit wearing scroungers.
• Obviously,the people who give the Boro a bad name,I.E, the comments above,these people have not lived in Middlesbrough for any length of time,and have also not had the chance to grow up there as I did. The Boro is a fantastic place to live in and grow up in, the only reason the Boro is the way it is, is due to underinvestment from the government which just happens to be in the south,But wait there so is Fleet Street,I mean it can´t be a coincidence that the papers come from there and the above mentioned people aswell, OR IS IT.
• Boro is good
• liquid and people foaming at the mouth in the royal x.
• ok, dont ever go in the car park near the old macdonalds, above "game" (unless you want to be stabbed by a syringe weelding towny of course)
• where can I find phone numbers of reasonably priced girls - please!!!
• Perhaps the best-known landmark in Middlesbrough is the Epstein statue, 'Shitting Boy', a local version of the famous 'Mannekin Pis' in Brussels.
• LISTEN ...... all use Southerners with your heads stuck up your arses can't talk. We may have bagheads but who doesnt & we may have prostitutes but again who doesnt- so shut the fuck up. Middlesbrough has a good Footy team, a good university and good shopping Facility. If anyone has been mugged ur probs just very unlucky, God if u were in Liverpool or Birmingham u wud get mugged everytime ye left you house. Without ICI, the UK's economy would feel a drastic decline, somewhere has to house it. We have the Cleveland hills nearby too. Not every town can be historic or picturesque instead we are industrial. There isnt that much pollution the cooling towers only let of steam which is condensed water, so shut up whinging. AND WE DONT WEAR K A P P A tracksuits av ye seen the clip of em, just cos ye can still buy them werever u cum from ye cant here so shut up. Middlesbrough is my home and has been for a long time, nothing of mine has been stolen, i av never been offered smack or crack or been approached by any druggi, pimp or prossie. Those of you who have probably went looking for them !!!!!!!! Oh and one last point the people of BORO are friendly & talkative, when i av been down south i find the people ignorant and impolite. My uncle has lived down south for years and misses the North like hell and is returning when he retires so fuck use!!!!! Oh and there would be more employment if it wasnt for all the refugeees that get dumped here FUCK OFF TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY, I am nationalist (we shud look after our own b4 we look after use - now get away)
• This place is the most depressing, dirty, run down town I have ever had the misforture to live. The place is full of aimless, clueless individuals who has no idea about about life outside this cesspit. I have never been anywhere like Middlesbrough for appalling educational standards. It is very rare if you meeet a local who can speak about anything else other than football, boozing and shagging. However, the town has excellent night life with plenty to offer if all you like is boozing. Don't go there for high cultural nights out, it just don't exist.
• Would just like to say to all those southerner who keep slagging the Boro off that they are welcome to their opinions, and I hope more of them read it and stay the hell out! Lived here 30 years, never been offered drugs, never been beaten up, never even been in a fight! Had some friends up a month or two back from the "lovely" south and they couldn't believe we could go to the town centre on a Saturday night and not see any bother. It's grim up north y'know? Stay the fuck out!
• this has got to be one of the most illiterate town sites i ahve ceom across on the guide, helenhutton sounds fun... would you like to share your muffin ?
• I have just come back after 13 years in the countryside - what a bloody culture shock. It is like a war torn town full of 12 year old terroists. If Ray Mallon is listening - Bring back national service for the little buggers.
• Middlesbrough owns dont listen to anyone else
• If you are thinking of coming to the Boro, don't bother. It is the biggest shit hole I have ever known in Europe. What a fuckin dump, even the 1000's of asylum seeking illegal immigrant scrounging criminal bastards that we pay for hate the place
• Ive lived here all my life 20 yrs to be exact, ansd though its not the best place in England its certainly not the worst. People here aren't too busy to have the time to spend with family and friends unlike people down south. so get a grip you freakish people!
• Hey i would just like to point out to all the southern scum who have let their mouths go about our area, that they dont have a clue what they are going on about. Point 1 we dont wear tracksuits we are home to some of the best designer shops and i have have seen a great number of states who need help with there fashion sense down in London. Point 2 I wouldnt even go out of my house or leave my car in somewhere like liverpool where everyone is a car nicker. And for your information our industry has helped you scum down there and if it wasnt there neither would our town be. The people up here are not rude i recently visited London where all the people were miserable stuck up and too busy wrapped up in there shit little world. And smack heads wot the **** u on bout where do you live again ???????? you wanna take a look around !!!!
• Strange but I miss you , you great big filthy noisy low life cauldron of bile,rancour and vitriol.
• I'd love, just once, for Middlesbrough to be featured without mention of the cooling towers or the industry but I've gone and done it myself now. They may not be pretty to some but they contribute a lot to the local and UK economy. We can't all deal in shares.
• If the map of the UK were to represent a patient, then Middlesbrough is that part of the anatomy where one would insert an enema.
• I HAVE TO SAY THAT OFF ALL THE PLACES IN THE UK I HAVE LIVED IN OR NEAR, MIDDLESBROUGH ISNT THE WEIRDEST [CONGRATUALTIONS DERBY] OR THE RUFFEST [WELL DONE NOTTINGHAM] OR THE BEST FOR SHOPPING [NO SUPPRISE, LONDON] BUT IT HAS THE LARGEST POPULATION OF KAPPA TRACKSUIT WEARING YOUTHS I HAVE EVER HAD THE DUBIOUS PLEASURE OF SEEING. I NEVER REALISED THE COLOUR COMBINATIONS THAT COULD BE ACHIEVED. THESE KIDS ARE AN INSTITUTION, AND SHOULD BE WITNESSED AND APPRICATED, BUT FROM A GOOD DISTANCE.
• fucked up place this place will seriously depress u ...if ur a student steer clear my friend and opt for newcastle...i came here and cant wait to leave...everyones such a nob...the women are uptight (not friendly for those who dont understand) .....DEPRESION will loom around u from the start i.e the start as soon as u arrive.....many leave within the first year.
• Albert park is great for the summer days to take a footie / frisbee / dog / mates / beer / blankets / blades / bikes - chill out all day, get burnt and drunk, and then finish off in a beer garden on southfield road!!! marvellous!!!
• Ive lived in Middlesbrough for 21 years and i have never been offered heroin yet so i think someones going to the wrong places. Middlesbrough has many good clubs and pubs to go to where you can have fun and dance to good music and have a few pints with your friends. Try the arena on a friday you can't beat it.
• Boro is strange. Don't come here if yr expecting a friendly/clean/drug free experience. If you want heroin and prostitutes though.....
• I would just like to say middlesbrough isnt the best place on the planet but saying "take me back to civilisation........down south" is to put it simply wrong ive visited both north and south and the friendliest people are in the north by far and i think you'll find most people agree with me please change this comment and the reason the scum who ask you for 42p just say no they wont do anything.
• Middlesbrough is the shittiest place on earth - and yes I did live there for 17 years until I thought better of it and went down South where we have a more respectable class of smack head.
• WARNING middlesbrough will seriously damage your health.
• It is well documented that Middlesbrough has a heroin problem and the authorities seem to be coming up with various idea's to fight the rising problem. One such suggestion would be to first fight the town's equally serious tracksuit a problem, which is a natural precursor to the skag epidemic.
• There are alot of girls on the game/prostitutes under albert bridge or outside the Zetland!!!
• Tarnsporter is one of 7 working transporter bridges in the world! From South America, Spain and others I can't remember.Our Tranny is the longest span and only one of cantilever design.
• this is an extemely polluted area, you enter at your own risk. the football team are crap the people are rude, ignorant, miserable and probably whacked out on crack.
• The municipal Golf Centre is a place to use but I do wish they would tighten up on dress regulations and proper kit!!
• Its the only working transporter bridge so there
• Sports and leisure:- Berwick hills swimming pool does great Aqua-aerobics classes. For beginners try Pams class and for the rest try either of the Debbie's classes.
• Stewarts Park:- excellent place to take the family has many different animals to see, flower gardens and a Great musuem showing the life of Captain James Cook.
• The local landmark, The Transporter Bridge is the only one of its kind in the world, and was built by the local steelworkers who also built The Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Golden Gate Bridge.
• Correction: I believe there is a Transporter bridge in Japan, making the one in Boro' the other one of two.
• Further Correction: Middlesbrough hasn't got the only Transporter bridge in the world, and there are more than two in the entire world. There is a much better example in the UK at Newport.
• It has the second best football team in the North East!
• Cleveland Centre, a carbunkle? yes! BUT it also features a one fifth scale (still pretty big) model of Captain Cook'S (local famous person) ship the Endeavour, which rotates slowly from a mounting point in the ceiling of the main mall. It was made in Whitby, Cook's home port, the traditional way by local craftsmen.
• Middlesbrough has THE best team in the Premier league, Not the second best!!!
• Middlesbrough are not quite in the Premiership
• For other things : a further correction to the Transporter bridge saga ... there are other transporter bridges in the country/world ... but as far as I know the one in 'Boro is the only one that works ... I have seen the one in Newport (claimed to be better- it is not it is a naff shade of green and is not tastefully lit up like ours)

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