The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else in Worksop, Nottinghamshire*

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• Worksop Guardian, - Grundi is always right! Spot on every week.
• right then were do i start!,i left good old worksop twenty odd years ago,to live in a small blink and you will miss it village in north wales,tell me is it realy that bad in worksop now?,because i will tell you this were i live now you can buy any drug you want!,(not that i do!),you can get your head kicked in on your way home on a saterday night!,everybody is related to everybody!,so if you argue with one you argue with them all!,"coz there all related!"believe me its no fun at all in the country!,i was brought up in manton till i was 18 and i remember it like yesterday!,i had proper mates!,proper things to do!not worrying about what others have and havent got!and to busy worrying about other peoples lives than there own!thats what its like here!,so please come on you mantoners,kiltoners!remember,you are all WORKSOPERS!!!so pull together as one!,and make worksop "well"the worksop i used to know!!!,go on ask "yer mam & dad"!!!,how they remember it!,to me the "19 seventies" were the golden years!,and i would love to turn the clocks of time back!,so how about it folks!,give me a good reason to come back to my "home lands"!!!.
• when i was a kid in the 1950's there were 4 cinemas in worksop, the savoy, the regal, the essalldo, and the gaiety - anyone used to go to the saturday morning pictures at the regal in the 1960's?
• WORKSOP DESPERATLEY NEEDS A CINEMA, A BOWLING ALLEY, SOME HIGH STREET NAME SHOPS (WE HAVE NOT GOT ONE) MARKS AND SPENCER WOULD BE NICE. LAW AND ORDER TO BE ENFORCED, WHAT DO WE PAY OUR COUNCI TAXES FOR?
• It makes me laugh that most of the people that are so keen to take the piss out of Worksop and Retord, have serious problems with spelling and grammer. Obviously excentuating (that means outlining) the fact that they are from somewhere equally as bad or worse. Yes, they are crap places to live, but it is where they live so put up with it you useless bastards, and to all you cunts that don't live in Worksop but have decided to have a go, you must not be living a millionaires lifestyle either if you are vistitng Worksop, probably with your 3 wives and 14 kids on you annual summer holiday spending that weeks £83.43 dole money. All in all ANYONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM WITH WORKSOP CAN GO AND FUCK THEMSELVES OR THIR MUM WHICHEVER IS EASIER FOR THEM. peace out
• Why is it that whenever someone in Worksop is murdered, or kicked to death one of the Rose family has done it? Still, it saves Police time - dead body? just arrest the nearest Rose...
• If your thinking of moving here dont, low house prices make it hard in a few years to escape YOU COULD BE HERE UNTIL DEATH especially if one of our hero`s murders you. The police have given up, louts shout abuse at them and they do nothing as the paperwork isnt worth it. They are certain to get off as their parents teach them law before they can read and write.
• too many boy racers and lambrini drinkers!
• everyone says they want to move from worksop 'cos it's not a nice place to live in, but not that many people move away from here, so is it really that bad?
• Would love a book about Worksop in the 1970's to go with all the books you seem to get about the sop's guilded past!
• sat in my front garden one balmy summers evening ,we saw a knuckle draging mouth breathing 20ish year old youth ,wearing a tatty food stained wilko,s sweat shirt turn round and yell to a toddler [who was maybe about 3 years old]"Brooklyn you little cunt get your fuckin arse up here .I smilled safe in the knowlage that the tribal instinct will be passed on from father to son
• I think all of the questions I've already answered are good enough. Although I wish whoever that was who nearly ran me over the other day, the c**t in the blue car, would crash next time so I can go over and laugh at him... c**t!!!
• Happiest memory of Worksop: taking a walk up the high street on my first weekend back home after leaving (Yeee-fucking-haaaaa!) for university and seeing a girl who'd been in my year (Hartland) until she left at 16, dragging a screaming toddler, pushing a pram, and a couple of months away from miracle number three arriving. I was right and you were wrong. YOU SAD WASTE OF A LIFE. Sad waste of many lives and a town.
• ALL I WANNA DO IS SAY HELLO !!!!MICHAELA!!!!
• Why is it that when someone in WOrlsop gets murdered, its always one of the Rose family who's done it? Preventative medicine please; bang 'em all up...at least we'll be spared their excruciating poetry, including the pathetic 'Why a man had to die' by Karl Kose. Basically Karl, because you stamped on his head when he was already down and uncosncious.
• Criminals - This place is ideal for you as the Police only come here once a month to show there are some (usually after some vicious crime to make us think we are secure). Mind you, there isnt much to nick (as if that ever stops you!). Dont come Sat night/Sun morning though cos a Police helicopter always hovers over a field near my house for a couple of hours.
• Just had look at "Studioworksop" web-site !! Talk about bloody hilarious !! It has pictures of some of it's 'models', bloody funny!! These girls have all well and truly been battered with the worlds biggest ugly stick !! Worth a look, your'e bound to know someone on there... but beware, could be your mum, sister, aunt or even girlfriend...
• I am getting totally F****d off with the amount of ignorant small penis'd gobby knobs that slag Manton off every given opportunity. Look around you kids, look at where you live, is it really that great? I doubt it very much. What makes any of you really believe you are any better than a Mantoner? The majority of us are hard working, honest and bright people, but what gets us mad and want to beat people up is meeting snotty whining little d***s like you... You are all very brave while your tapping away on your computers, saddo's, find a Mantoner and say it to their face !! By the way you were'nt one of those kids at school that had no mates and got bullied every day are you ?... Wonder why ?
• You could have a list of people who have/are being knocked off by married males and females. Not at the same time though. Although anything is possible in Worksop.
• Saddam should aim at Worksop. It's a whole in the earth. If you have any choice over whether you go there, DONT!
• Lost anything? Been burgled, stabbed? Garage broke into? Grandma mugged? Then forget Manton - its passse. Your villain will have definitely come from the home of 'Brown' either Harworth or Bircotes. The people there are lower than animals. Some can't even speak. There is talk of closing Harwoth colliery -fair enough, but before you cap the main shaft don't forget to tip the residents in...
• Bike people will find the Regal Car Park, Sparken Hill, Kwicksave Car Park if u want to Ride out and meet other Bikers
• Run down, depressing, unhealthy and almost totally lacking any culture - a grey town stuck in the 1950s
• Why is it that if you park outside the Vine Hotel, in a neat little bay, which admittedly is yellow lined, but was designed for parking in, (Worksop logic here)you get booked pronto by a passing cop car. This even though traffic is flowing freely and you are causing no harm. YET if you park your orange badge Micra right outside the Town Hall thus completely blocking Potter Street(which is TRIPLE yellow lined) no-one says anything! In fact a lot of the blocking is done by Police cars! Moral- Park on Potter Street, block half the town and its OK; park outside the Vine, cause no trouble and get booked. Worksop again. Have you noticed how those orange badge 'cripples' can sprint down Potter Street to the Cheapside Post office to cash their Giros. Its the most amamzing cure-all....
• Worksop has some good housing and is a cheap alternative to living in Sheffield - the town isnt dead yet. With a more appealing town centre it would attact a lot more people - not only to shop - but to live here. The town is ideally situated for all the big places near by without having to pay for it.
• While people are being bludgoend to death in the Unicorn Hotel with a chair leg (then their watch pinched while they wait for paramedics to arrive, what of the mighty Police force? Well, THEY are too busy blitzing illegally parked cars at £30 a shot outside the Vine Hotel. There is no Police force in Worksop; just a few dozen tax collectors who gather revenue for this mental Government. (Has anyone noticed how Tony Blair is becoming more and more boss-eyed as time goes on? Smarmy bastard). Jesus himself had little time for tax collectors; how much less would he have for tax collectors posing as police?
• If you've got as far as this, you'll knwo by now that Worksop is a sad old town, ruined by an unbroken 50 years of Labour Councils and indifferent Labour MP's. The town is dominated by louts, thickos and thugs; many are also professional thieves, liars and cowards. They can't stand to see anyone doing well, and anyone with anything of value had best hide it in a bank vault. The towen represnets the baseness and frivlousness that typifies late 20th century have-not culture. In that its perhaps no different to many other northern towns that are peopled by inbreds; but consider this: On the evening of Thursday 26th July 2001 Mr. Daffyd 'Big Dave' Thomas was kicked and bludgeoned to death by a gang of drunks at the Unicorn Hotel, top meeting placve for Worksop's finest. Over a week later, no-one has been arrested; the Police took 20 minutes to arrive (by which time Big Dave was clinically dead, and his murderers well away). In a pub packed with 250 people, no-one 'saw anything officer', proving that sops are no better than animals. All 250 of them should be arrested and charged with murder; no doubt in due course a couple of buffoons will be dragged in, and found guilty of 'Manslaughter due to diminihsed responsibility' (i.e. they were so drunk they didn't know which chair leg they were hitting him with; but not so drunk that they forgot to steal his watch). They'll be given some community service, a smart rap across the knuckles and a big compensation package for the trauma they witnessed (i.e. the one they caused by beating Big Dave with a chair leg). Worksop is f**ed, Britain is finished. I weep for this place. If you have an ounce of decency, don't come here, it is a cancer. For lack of money I'm stuck here - please pray for all who are like me are stuck in this stinking hell hole.
• How many big issue sellers does Worksop have? Why does it always take forever to get a doctors appointment.
• Bet Tony Blair heaved a sigh of relief now that Joe 'Sauna' has hung up his condoms...at least we'll be spared his asinine braying at Prime Minister's question time....Joe has probably done more than anyone to give this region a 'woodentop' image; thanks for that old boy, thirty years well spent. Have a happy retirement Joe, watching Wednesday slide down all four leagues; still every now and again the Worksop Guardian will run a 'remember old Joe' feature, so you won't be totally forgotten. Bad day for the Northampton tarts though...
• Our local council sends us a free newspaper called the Bassetlaw News, telling us of all the latest achievements they have managed. The recent one had a front page picture of the mayor and all the councilors sitting in a plush room having a lecture about how to increase profits in business. The meeting was held and organised by local company Ericcsons, who anounced three days later they were closing the Worksop factory, making everyone redundant. I would like to congratulate the council, for the speedy way Ericsons increased their profits with their help, and with such a council, im sure the whole town will be gone soon.
• Message To All Residents esp Council Workers -Council members take a look at your town, do you really think that we are all happy living here? Do you really think that the townsfolk are content? Do you really think that the facilties we have are at all satisfactory? Do you really care? Don't you think it's about time you did something for your tax payers? WE DO! Its time we got what we deserve for our money, something the public and the council will both be proud of. So that we can say that we are proud to live in Worksop. Take a look around. You'll see what i mean. Worksop Resident 15 Years
• The council have loads of empty units and literally thousands upon thousands of square feet of space. But do they want to rent it to you? No! Not unless you're prepared to shell out £16,000 a year for a titchy unit on Claylands, just about big wenough to houe a dog; oh plus same again in rates. Then they go in the local paper all puzzled and hurt as to why businesses are all leaving, and new one's aren't being started. Erm, have a lttle think Oxby and Co....Are you really so thick that you don't understand the town needs regnerating from inside out? Trying to bring in new business is a strategy for failure. They'll come in OK, into Manton Wood; they'll build new units on the green fields, and bring with them their 50 or so part time jobs. Then when the grants dry up, they're straight off again... Its so simple; but you buffoons are soooo up your your arses. By the way sack that senile git Les Hines... He spends most of his day putting his teeth in. Business adviser? I'd rather deal with Hitler. Or even Gilfolye.
• worksop isnt as bad as some people say but its pretty dismal. seems to be stuck in 80s, no future attitude prevalent among entire young population. nothing being done about it. surprising lack of bands, would expect this climate to breed music. pretty indicative of local area- retford, donny etc aren't much better. the sort of place that people deny they ever lived in - 'near sheffield,' 'notts' and even 'retford' are popular lies to avoid speaking the name of worksop. sad state.
• Why do Worksop people and their MP's and Councillors incessantly moan about the pit closures, many of which took place over 20 years ago. You'd think that after nearly quarter of a century they might have pulled their fingers out. Instead they go on TV and STILL go on about the pit closures. Lord! I supposoe to many of them the Enclosure act is recent history. In a way it is - its what made Bassetlaw a 'Rotten Borough' (returning tame MP's) and it still is....
• I have had to live here 15 years , we need a how long have you lived here section!
• You've got to leave Worksop, then come back to understand how bad it is... Are the 'Bouncer' gangs still operating? The ones who wreck your pub/nightclub unless you pay a weekly 'donation', which they then use to buy the drugs which they sell to the kids at the door...
• Thank heavens Joe 'Sauna' Sheffield Wednesday Ashton is onhis way out. Midn the new bloke Mann doesn't sound much better. For a laugh, walk up to Joe and say 'Going Down?' then watch his puzzlement as he debates whether you refer to Sheffield Wednesday or his sauna and massage antics. Joe has never lived inthe region (prefers to live in tasty part of Sheffield - can't think why) and if he spent less time in saunas and in the Wednesday boardroom, he might have a vague idea of what's going on. Rotten borough, rotten MP. Incidentally, can anyone explain Worksopian's hatred of trees? Seemed determined to chop 'em all down. Bring back that superb copper beech outside the tech college that was chopped own tto make two parking spaces for motorbikes. Bastards.
• Worksop is a sad littletown, withsoe, superb buidlings (witness Priory gatehouse) all left to rot, while sprawling westates go up in locations that are (were) the envy of the UK. Why is it that the best locations are given over to the ugliest housing? The countryside is receding faster than a yob's hairline. Worksop's people are its main problem - sorry, but in the main they're all thieves, burglars, garage breakers, druggies and layabouts. Their mouthy kids are already stacking up to take their place. They sit around all day whinging about the old times when the pits were open (20 yeas ago) and there was more to burgle.
• paret from 'all the time' the worst time in Worksop is 3.30 on a weekday - all the torrents of mouthy unwashed youth pour out of the schools. Amazing how more don't get run over. Not for lack of trying...
• Sooo glad I only visit the outskirts to see relatives nowadays. Glad I moved out.
• the worksop local learning centre must be the only training organisation in the whole country that has three managers and no trainers! Perfect for worksops inbred scab population!
• I went to Portland school back in the 70's and lived and worked in Worksop up until 1986, and I had more great times in the town than bad, much more. Most people were very friendly, there were always a few good pubs to go to.
• The unicorn is crap.
• Unicorn is pantz.
• I was born in worksop and lived there 18 years (too long). I remember when Clock Orange came out - they showed it at the regal - and overnight all the skinheads turned into Droogs. They'd wait outside school to do you in with their canes. That memory just about sums it up for me. Well, that and the time I went to see Zappa's 200 Motels at the Regal - only 3 of us turned up on the first night- so they put on LovePlay Swedish Style instead...
• Heres a limerick for worksop; There was a man from worksop, Who was probably a f'king loser, Dont go there please, I know this doesn't make sense, But I had to get the point accross somehow. There are plenty more where that came from
• Basicaly don't come to Worksop...only if you have to. It's crap.
• Amco Worksop Electrical plumbing and lighting Wholesalers and Retailers....just ask for Alf. They can also get tv's, videos, car sound systems, guitars, amps, fridges, freezers.
• I agree with everything that was wrote about worksop. I lived near there and its crap and its to close to manton which is a very bad thing
• Listen to are new radio station Trax FM on 107.9 FM 24 hour on air from 22nd November 1998 (also covers Retford)
• Avoid Manton
• Tut 'n' Shite
  What a pity that a grand old 16th century pub should have been gutted and made into an abortion. I understand that public opinion has forced the brewery owning the pub to restore its former name, The Old Ship Inn, and reinstall its former furnishings. I have many happy memories of the Old Ship. My grandfather, Eli Mumby was publican there for over thirty years until his death in 1930. G'day mate.
  [1997] The Tut'n' Shite! is indeed now the 'Old Ship Inn' again!

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