The Best Things in Wombwell, South Yorkshire*

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• St Michaels Catholic Church, the Medical Centre
• I grew up in Wombwell and my upbringing and childhood was fantastic. There are so many green spaces and areas to go adventuring. I remember the old collieries, railways, canal etc. Growing up was a massive adventure and I fondly remember the friends I had. Its seconds from the M1 and the road links are excellent. Masses of greenbelt, close to Leeds, Sheffield etc. Twenty minutes from Meadowhall, half an hour from the Peak District, York, an hour or two from the coast. Housing is reasonable, the locals actually speak to you when you walk past them in the street. If someone fell over in the High Street someone would pick you up, someone else get you a cup of tea and no-one would go for your pockets.
• The valley because its wide open and most of the time its quiet.
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• The sado's that write this shit coz they have nothing betta t do
• the best things about wombwell is that all the people are really friendly and upbeat about everything. no one is really snobby or stuck up and there will always be someone there waiting to do you over
• I have read a few comments on this website. Some of which were very derogative. Obviously experiences are very subjective and with that I would like to present a different view from an outsider. I have moved to Wombwell in 1989 from Europe and I am still here (2004). Working in Leeds I was considering to move closer to my work a few years ago but I decided to stay for loving the place too much. With Wombwell-people it is pretty much the case of 'what you see is what you get'. People are straight, without pretence and without any frills.... just straight honest folk. Personally I do like this in the people round here. Admittedly, I have had nothing to do with the pub scene around here and my interaction with locals was either on a professional level or through local friends. So please don't be put off by the comments of the lagerlouds around here even though some of the comments may be justified there are plenty of decent folk around in this town. The good thing about Wombwell is the location of the place. Within 5 to 10 minutes you are either on the M1 or the A1. You are right in the centre of all major cities in South and West Yorkshire. Sheffield and Doncaster are 15 minutes away. Wakefield, Leeds, Huddersfield are within a 30 minutes ride. You can be in Manchester within 45 minutes if the roads are clear. Within about a 10 minutes ride on a bike or a car you can be surrounded by fantastic nature. Houseprices, although going up dramatically are still affordable in comparison to the rest of Yorkshire. Even though there is crime, vandalism etc. if you compare this area to Leeds it is nothing. May I finally say that I am convinced that this area has great potential, there are great people around here and it remains to be seen what Wombwell will be like in ten years time. I have seen a lot of change for the better in the last ten years and if this carries on it may become THE place to be in Yorkshire in days to come! Employment situation used to be really bad. Most people I know used to work outside Wombwell, either in Sheffield or like me in Leeds or were simply unemployed, things have been changing though over the last 5 years. (Note: travelling up the M1 my commuting time is less than my colleagues who come to work from the other side of Leeds.) But things are changing with the heavy investment in the Dearne Valley. A lot of industry has moved into the area and local jobs have become much more accessible.

• my teenage years were spent at wombwell.and the wanker who says were all thick is probably someone who has no friends and no life that all he fucking does is sit on his pc,typing a load of bollocks.by the way i am chief constable at wombwell hq.whats your job wanker dole waller.
• Someone two comments down from here asked me who I was and what I do now, sarcastically calling me 'Mr Successful'. Well not that it's any of your business or that it makes any difference to how crap Wombwell is, but if you really want to know - my name is Julian Roberts, and I'm now a Transmission Controller at The Disney Channel. I lived in Wombwell for 23 years (so I feel qualified to pass fair comment) and couldn't wait to leave it, along with its inbred, closed-minded, moronic people and total lack of any prospects for a fulfilled and happy life. In my comments about Wombwell I wasn't trying to come across as being aloof like 'Mr Successful' although anyone with a couple of O'levels in the town would be justified in doing so. However, I note you took up a career in sport (have YOU been successful? Are you David Beckham?) Which doesn't surprise me as with your child-like level of spelling, punctuation and grammar you'd have got nowhere in any job using your intelligence. Hey! Lucky you - you live in just the right town!
• im tring hard to think of something but to be honest i cant so i will have to say nothing
• Good transport links to Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield etc. Good commuter dormitory town, cheap property.
• Unlimited pub lock-ins to regulars, The way you can get away from all the concrete in a matter of minutes
• The best thing about Wombwell is that a man only needs a A-level to be more intelligent than 80% of the male population.
• I would like to say something, yes wombwell isnt the best place on earth and it as problems but which town doesnt???? i lived in wombwell for 16 years of my life and loved every minute, but for all these people are such know it alls and know everthing about the place you will know that not everybody is a bum, i moved away from wombwell to follow my sporting career and i come bk as much as i can and i lov coming back.... And for this person who doesnt live there anymore and slags it off who are you and wat do you do now Mr successful??????

• Places like Wombwell are actually very important. The self-important buffoon who goes on about how well qualified he is on this website and complains his career can't progress in Wombwell doesn't see the point. The point is this: Places like Wombwell are important because they concentrate all the idiots, retards and low-lifes from our society all in one place, so that the rest of us can live a nicer and more fulfilled life by avoiding the town (and all the cretins within) like the plague. That complaining bloke might have letters after his name but he doesn't have common sense enough to get out of the place. So, long story short, the best thing about Wombwell is that when you leave, everyone you meet in your new town is nicer. It keeps all the scum and scrubbers all in one place so you can stay away and never have to bump into them. I live in Beaconsfield near High Wycombe now - it's a bit snobby and far from perfect, but at least people you meet round the town don't have knuckles dragging on the ground as they walk along. Orb.
• nice people
• Penguins Most people are the same in this town, the look the same, act the same, have the same life style, generally have the same life. In fact 98% of the people could be rolled into one person. Nobody ever does anything different. They are like penguins, everybody acts and does the same
• Leaving Home When people leave home, they move into houses close to their parents, like across the road, or on the same street. 99% of people who leave home must live within the same village / area of their parents. Good god, if you are leaving home and you have got bills you might as well live in a nice place, just because your parents have lived in a shithole does not mean that you have to
• There are a large number of specialist employment positions in this town that require higher education qualifications that are equivalent to a degree or above. Such as driving a forklift truck, working in a stores department, working in a factory or on a production line, tape edges etc, returns, despatch, working in a garage, car machanics, body specialists, driving a truck, shop assistant work, cleaning up dog shit, sweeping the streets, tax drivers, fish and chip shop work, stacking shelfs, bar work. Generally loads of thicko manual jobs. But nothing for an unskilled person like my wife who is a lawyer. Well every body who does a manual job around this place seem to think it is an high skilled job, no manual position is high skilled, certainly does not require a degree to do.
• I am a director of a Wombwell company and the best thing is the hugh number of unemployed people in this town makes it easy to replace the manual workers in our factory. Every manual position in my company only requires one weeks training to be upto speed (probably the same in most factories), these positions are certainly not skilled positions, and the people that do these positions do not have any skills to bargin with. Not exactly PHD graduates are they. So I can pay them the minimum wage (I think that is too much for a manual worker anyway) and there is nothing they can do, non of them show any brains by investing some of their hard earned money in gaining qualifications, all they do is moan they are underpaid, well this is bollocks for the jobs they do.
• The people are so thick they believe anything
• Mens looks are not important when trying to pull a women in this town, the women around this town love rough looking men, but then again they have not got much choice in the metter. 99% of the men are like the back end of the bus.
• The place is full of women slappers at a weekend, but if you dont mind about pulling a second hand dart board you can;t fail.
• The day Brazil bet England in the woeld cup, I jumped around Wombwell high street taking the piss out of the thicko locals, who have made my life hell since I have lived here, it is a very racist town to be in. It is uncultured and the people are not preparedto learn about other peoples cultures. And every body around this town knows so much but as acheived so little.
• Even if you are the thickest person in the world, you will fit into this town ok. Just put a pint pot in your hand, shave your head and be pasty white.
• At least there are pletty of factories and warehouses that offer hundreds of thicko manual jobs, which gives 99% of the men in this town employment. The only trouble is that every were you go you have to mix with thicko manual workers.
• All the roads out
• The pubs. The people, who are still the salt of the earth despite 20 years of Thatcher rule trying to destroy them.
• eatin cock on toast in linda's cafe
• Beer and the people
• People are genuine and very 'salt of the earth'. It's not far from the M1!

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