The Worst Things in Worksop, Nottinghamshire*

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• Does anyone remember the Phelps report, and the brilliant Guardian cover that accompanied its release? Just to remind you the report listed all the thefts and backhanders that the council took, naming names and asking them questions. A lot said they were 'Ill' and couldn't remember, others pissed off quick to their second homes in France before plod's arm landed. The Guardian ran a healdine showing all their faces as thumbnails, then underneath listing their 'Problem' eg - 'Amnesiac' 'thief' 'Lost Budget' 'Out of control' 'unable to do simple maths' and so on. Brillaint stuff, but do you know despite promising to move on, new start and all that, some of them are still there?
• Here we go; the council have long been waging war on trees - hack the buggers down at every opportunity; well now they've roped both the tech college and tesco in on the act - goodbye half a dozen superb beeches on blyth road so Tesco can create parking spaces for six bicycles or something. Council sold out took backhanders and tesco's shilling. Now huge tesco on the maltings; selling their value slop and taking what they can giving nothing back. It will change the character of the whole town and the council just sat there and enjoyed it up the arse.
• Ariving
• if i had long enough ime id sit here ad tell you but i just cant
• Police do nothing about the druggies and council are running down the town
• THE HEROIN ADDICTS CAUSING MISERY AND TROUBLE FOR THE DECENT FOLK OF THIS TOWN. THE IN YOUR FACE BRIDGE STREET SURVEYORS ACCOSTING INNOCENT FOLK AT ALL TIMES OF THE DAY. VEHICLES CONSTANTLY RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE PEDRASTRIANISED BRIDGE STREET TOTALLY UNHINDERED WITH NO POLICE IN SIGHT. CYLISTS RACING UP AND DOWN BRIDGE STREET WITH NO LAWS ENFORCED. OUT OF WORK TEENAGERS OPENLY DRINKING CANS OF STRONG LAGER WITHOUT A POLICEMAN IN SIGHT DESPITE THIS BEING A NO ALCOHOL ZONE. GENERALLY A LAWLESS TOWN WHICH PUT PEOPLE OFF SHOPPING HERE.
• kiltoners n gateford estate there all stuck up
• i use to come to worksop and stay with my boyfriend , but i never liked the place , i never liked him , a lot of the people are ok but i prefer my own safe little town ,, and as for godfreys court ,, what a dump ,,, im glad i live in suffolk ,,, and dont have to come back ,,,,
• the twat on sparken hill that had a john mann sigh duk taped tothe tree outside his house. i declair war on him. egg his house and break his windows the nazi labour bastard
• "Now entering Manton, please approach with caution"
• smack heads and sams and new image piecing/ tatooing sooo 1905 style lol
• Most of it, I really recomend you to stay away unless you really really have to come!
• Living here should dig a big hole and bury all the druggy`s
• Another businessman drove out of this town this week. The man who used to be landlord of the riverside left the country as he is sick of been a victim of gun crime.
• knowing i moved here from a nice area called Send in Woking (in Surrey)
• Heroin,Heroin,Heroin. Worksop to my knowledge as always had some sort of drug culture going on but it rarely caused many problems until heroin came to town. Since it (heroin)made its debut here it has ended young lives, broke up families and possibly ended the careers of two sportsmen before they even got started. As for anyone caught dealing in heroin they should get 8-10 mandatory sentence, they know what it does to people but still sell to line there pockets so if they do the crime they should do a long time inside.
• herrion addicts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spoil worksop and interfering old bags!!!!!!!!
• Are all the women in Worksop permanently pregnant or are they still carrying last nights 15 pints of lager?
• getting verbal abuse from everyone of all ages, all the time, everywhere for no apparent reason!
• Why is/has the council taken it upon themselves, to ruin Worksop by destroying buildings with history to them, and replace them with modern crap where local squeezers =(the spotty faced yobs of today) can gather and do what ever they like, as they are the untouchables, along with gyppo,s.What is needed! The people who care how and where they live to act, this is a war.
• Chav central and manton drug circle. Dont forget its also the heroin capital of not only Britain but EUROPE.
• All of it, the god awful council, the slack-jawed mouth breathers shuffling up and down bridge street, the cataclysmic heroin problem, the charity shops, the pound shops, the lack of investment, the crime.....everything. I think it's always been dreadful - John Wesley came to preach in the town and gave up deciding the people were too dreadful and gave up any hope of saving them and Les Dawson said the worst crowd he ever performed to was in worksop - thick as pig poo and humourless - Maybe it's built on an Indian burial ground or something
• the smackheads
• Most other things....
• discovery components its like a shed
• people that call mantoners i bet half of you people dont know a mantoner
• Stupid ideas our council has, bad drivers, druggies, The Avenue, and Tescos on about moving to a landfill site!
• ALL THE MANTON SCUM WHO ROAM THE AGADOO IN THERE STRIPEY JUMPERS LOOKING FOR FIGHTS COS YOUR NOT PART OF THERE INBRED NETWORK NO NAMES MENTIONED BUT GREENY CAROL AND THAT SMALL PUG UGLY GINGER THING
• Having to stay here and watch the town die on its arse.
• the population, 90% townie scum, 8% parents of children who have left worksop, 2% the new estates full of men and women who work in sheffield and don't go further than where the tarmac has been replaced.
• The town is run by Labour as a social experiment.
• Idiots starting fights in town centre, even on christmas eve! Too many egos. lack of bowling, cinema, ice rink etc
• Worksop People are too funny..!!
• the new white swan with the witch who now owns it
• EVRYTHING BUT THERE IS OURPRICE AND THE CANAL WHICH ARE FUN TO SIT AND STARE AT
• Absolute worst thing is council. Examples: Sha**ing around with town centre traffic flow and getting rid of trade from town (changed back), town centre parking charges,Cannon Crossroad light sequence changes. Refusing signage to Worksop Town ground or Manor Lodge Pub (now shut!!). Not giving a toss about buses being withdrawn from populated areas, granting p/permission to anyone who wants to turn countryside into housing estates so that we can become a suburb of Sheffield (lets face it, its cheap to live here & easy to drive there) and....(run out of space!)
• Please, please, please will someone tell the Mantonites that when you enter a roundabout in your clapped out Nova that you indicate to turn left or right BEFORE you enter the roundabout, and not to drive all the way around a roundabout and then indicate that they are now going down the right road when leaving the dam thing!!! Worksop is the only place where you people do not follow the highway code. Am I being cruel coz you can't read? Oh, I know, you havn't had a driving test. Silly me.
• 4 year olds dragging there parents out off the pubs and pulling the needles out there arms
• The LOW LIFES, of which there are plenty !!
• lets not start
• THE FUNG-WO OWNERS NEW CAR ITS SHITE COMPARED TO HIS OLD CIVIC, WHATEVER POSESSED HIM TO BUY AN IMPREZA ESTATE.
• MANTON, PARTICULARLY IN NO CERTAIN ORDER LOWTOWN FLATS, HARDWICK ROAD EAST AND WEST, DUKERIES CRESCENT, MANTON CRESCENT,CLINTON STREET, THE APTLY NAMED RUFFORD (ROUGH HARD)STREET. ALL FLAT DWELLERS IN WORKSOP ACTUALLY DO THEY HAVE TOILETS IN THESE PLACES COS THEY STINK OF PISS NO MATTER WHICH ONE YOU HAVE THE UNPLEASURE OF ENTERING. OH AND STILLWELL GARDENS IN GATEFORD OR MINI-MANTON AS IT SHUD BE KNOWN. CONGRATULATIONS ON RUINING A PERFECTLY NICE AREA BY THROWING ANY OLD MANTON SCUM IN THERE, PRIME EXAMPLE DWAYNE CLEGG
• SIMPLE, MANTON AND KILTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• That Worksop still exists.
• the worst thing is people like DWAIN BULIVANT who is a thieving smack head burglar who has a slut girlfreind LINDSEY and a bastard kid AMBER its low life like these that deserve what they have comming to them .So DWAIN[if you can read ],the slut and the little bastard will not be touched but your time is running out
• There's not enough space to mention most things, but the worst thing has got to be Manton, Mantonners and all the other anti-socials who reside in Worksop
• All the petrol stations are closing. Is it a Govt. plot to confine the Sops to withtin Bassetlaw?
• How long have you got?
• People that go out to fight, kids on scooters, manton speed humps, no decent shops, no decent nightclub, no bowling alley, no ice rink, no multi-screen cinema, Depressed feeling whil walking down bridge street at 3:00 on any weekday (no-one there)
• The "Welcome to Worksop Home of the Dukeuries" Sign on the Way in
• That bloke with limp who twitches and says hello to you near Mcdonalds covering you in gob. Sometimes he has a buggy and chases you.
• The Police are so interested in themselves that they don't respond. Only the other day (and just days after someone had been murdered) the Police said they didn't have the resources to attend a major fight in town. That ended up with someone being very seriously hurt. This area has just had a 20%+ hike in the Council Tax for the Police precept - but that has gone on early retirement. The Police round here are a load of crap.
• KILTON DRUG DEALES
• WORK NOW STOP (Little known anagram of WORKSOP TOWN). Thought such information was quite apt due to the lack of queueing folk in the job centre, as the aforementioned can be found in the constant steady stream of dole dossers, scankers, youths, robbers, single mums (under 16), burglars, shell suit wearing heroin, germ carrying pathetic excuses for a human being (who prefer to steal from Honest Freddies as they feel more at home than in the upmarket Sainsbury's!!!)Back to the point; Giro collecters at the post office (who can also be seen in Cash converters with last night's beneficiaries, highly profitable burglary from the Sparken hill area!)GET A JOB YOU BUNCH OF SPOTTY, COLD SORE RIDDEN, OFFENSIVE TO THE EYE, EXCUSE FOR A PIECE OF SHIT!!! Yes we mean it, thanks for listening and take our advice; Leave now, good Worksop folk, while you have still have possesion of your handbag. DIE, DIE YOU HEROIN WANKERS. Much love, two young, friutful university students. P.S. for those of you who have a job, thankyou for paying for our educations!!!
• the 'ur arriving in worksop ( keep all doors locked and weld the kids in the back' sign
• macdonalds on bridge st. fast food in 30 minutes
• when your stuck there ,
• NEw Mp Johne Mann has been flexing his erm, 'muscles'. This consists of lookign at things and saying 'What a tragedy' then walking away and doing nothing. E.g.; Closure of Courtaulds 'Tragedy'.. Closure of Viyella : 'Tragedy'. Police can't respond inside 20 minutes: 'Tragedy'. and so on and so forth. But he really gets on his high horse about a major issue: Thepeed humps in Manton! Here Mann really goes to town. These (for once)are not a tragdy, instead, THEY MUST GO! Front page Worksop Guardian! What a hero, go for the really important issues Manno. Incidentally those humps were suggested by the fat bespectacled youth on the council with a shaved head (to hide his baldiness), so you'll never shift them, Manno...the Council rules round here. You'll learn. Silly boy. Mind you, better than Joe 'Shagger' Ashton - he didn't even know where Courtaulds was. Love that line of Joe's 'They've closed Courtaulds and I'm the last to know about it'. Course, you were, you soft prick - nobody ever cared for your opinion, outside the Wednesday boardroom.
• To the syphiltic repugnant Kiltonite, who got disturbed stealing the wheels off my car - I hope you die of Anal cancer. Luckily I got to my destination before the wheel actually fell of; another 100 yards and that would have been it. Drop dead, bastard.
• Queues of traffic on Saturdays and Market days at Victoria Sqaure. Council have spent thousands trying to solve it, the answer is so simple a 2-year old could crack it. All they need to do is get the traffic lights in synch. so that more than three cars can pass though at Victoria Square, while the lights on Watson Road are on green. If you want to go the whole hog and really make traffic flow, you can also widen the road slightly at Cuckoo Wharf/Victoria hardware (as was - its now boarded up). Mind this sort of concept is too simple - what you need to do is fudge it, put a huge 'think tank' on it, pay them X-thousand a year, and ten years later they've still got no idea. That's what a Communist Council does for you. Owrkso is an alright place, its the people who are its downfall. I've never coem across such an ill-mannered uncouth crowd in my life, and that's just the women and kids. Don't they have an education system in Worksop? Apparently its always been like that - John Wesley when preaching around the UK, left Worksop sharpish, saying the people were totally ignorant. Dead right John...Its the Thicko centre of the world.
• Don't think Clumber Park is everything its cracked up to be. On Summer evenings loads of Thicksops use it as a racetrack for their clapped out Novas; other thickos bring their unruly dogs/kids (hard to tell 'em apart sometimes - if in doubt the dogs are usually the more intelligent ones)for some sort of unstructured ball games. Others sit on the benches stoned out of their thick skulls, leaving tinfoil behind (the real thing , not Gilfolyle Tinfoil the Councillor). Whatever, the net result is always the same - litter everywhere, cans of cheap lager, plastic bags, broken trees, broken fencing and sometimes injured animals or ducks. What is up with this place? Does the Government pump their homes full off some sort of invisible,untraceable 'Thicko Gas' or what? I bet there is nowehere else in Europe that has such a dreadful ratio of foulmouthed 'Thickos' to reasonable people. It must be at least three thicksops for every 'O' level... 'Do you mean me, you bastard? Come over here, I'll show you who's Fu**ing hard'... etc etc etc. (to incipient boredom. Oh Mrs. Thatcher. You made one big mistake. When you shut the pits you forgot to leave this scum inside...
• let me seee......wait still thinking......................hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......oh right ive got it............EVERYTHING!!!!!!
• manton smackheads lining the streets wherever you go
• Bassetlaw district council
• Funding for special needs children or rather the lack of it.
• No facilites for the younger generations. e.g. below 18 yrs old. No decent shops e.g high street brands, no decent parks(all run down), no fun, no life. Too much crime, due to the fact council won't do anything about getting young people off the streets and into decent facilities like a cinema, bowling alley, leisure center. Its not as if they didn't have the chance to build them, they told us about there ideas in the guardian. But as usual they didnt build them beacuse the'd rather spend there cash on some seminar in some country somewhere about that doesnt involve us.
• The whole world lies in front of you, should you decide to stroll up Bridge Street on a Friday evening. Its wall to wall totty, drunk and giggling, with their knuckle-dragging boyfriends posing around, confident that they'll shortly be in for a drunken shag... From thirteen to 'old as the hills' they come out, clad inwispy bits of nylon, thin little legs encased in massive boots. tottering about on their platform heels. Now THATs entertainment. For a while they can be Posh, or Billie, or for the older ones Ava Gardner or Kathleen Hepburn. Magic, if only for a couple of hours; then its back to the sandwich factory onMonday....
• The Rates! Not only are they astronoic (and rising) but we get very little in return, except some TV cameras that have simply shifted the theft and thug problem elsewhere (I think its called 'Crime Dispalcement, Graham)AND we had to contribute to their purchase too! Any wonder that all the decent shops are clearing out? They simply can't afford to stay in a town that's shot, plus mighty expensive. If you got to spend that sort of money on rent you'd go to Harrogate or somewhere - at least you get punters spendign money. When willthe Council realise that regeneration will not come about by tryign to entice the big multinationals with their part time jobs( who will run as soon as the grants stop) but from withtin. There is a whole host of decenr pople wanting to do thjings but are debarred from doing so by high rents, lack of working capital, and the Communist Party. Oh dear, when will the cycle end? Probably never. Look around you,proud Worksopian and judge with a clear eye what the politicians have done for you.
• lack of bands, lack of decent clubs or enough pubs, aggressive people, use of any empty space for crap new houses, charity shops, no record shops.
• The Tech used to be a good place,with a degree of class; but for some reason the new Principal has sacked most of the good staff, repalced them with a yet another layer of management, chopped down the trees which gave the place a fresh and airy look, and ripped out all the mahogany panels out of the reception, painting the walls a hospital green. Erm. What happened to those highly expensive mahogany panels that had been there since Winifred Portland put the money up all thsoe years ago? Hope they're not in your house, you arboreal terrorsist person...
• Worksop's major obssesion with chopping trees down...anything in the town above sapling size MUST come down. If you struggle, the drunks will help you snap them; or the Council will send a van to hack down the offending tree, then shred it up and sling the chips on the Memorial gardens rosebeds. Could this be why 'Your park is real and greenless?' (David Bowie Aladdinsane), and you'd have to be to stay here. Christ I hope my numbers come up.
• Sprawling new housing estates which have somehow been given permission to be erected on what was once farmland or sites of scientific interest (only in Worksop). They are peopled by faceless newcomers who work in Sheffield and shop at Meadowhall. BMW 1.6 on the drive, one house dead same as the next. Hundreds of 'em. Do the council really think that this influx of people who couldn't give a shit whether Worksop lives or dies will really spark the region off into economic prosperity? Leave the green fields alone. Tommorow's sink estates can be built elsewhere.
• How come no-one's mentioned Kilton, a sort of milder version of Manton, kind of like ~French mustard compares with English. If Mantoners haven't nicked your wheels/Lawnmower/Electrical Goods etc, then Kilton should be your next port of call; that is if you haven't found them pawned on Watson Road by some druggie....
• Worksop Guardian known locally as PRAVDA or ISVESTYA. Faithfully reports and praises all wonderful deeds of Communist Council. Comrades Oxby, Gilfoyle, Barsley, Jock Napier, Taffy Walters, Thiko Shephard, Rhodes The Red, and The Two Red Mares - Avril and Vicki.
• Entering, worksop as a whole really. But especially the Worksop Guardian editor : A.A. Grundi, just shut up and stop moaning about the best place in live Worksop! It run down, boarded up and there is nothing that the "Council" cam do about it!
• Anyone walking on Lindrick golf course had best stick to the (not very well markwd) footpaths. Stray an inch off the official line, and the Club Secretary arthritically bowls his way over to you, as you patiently wait for him to make it over the last 100 yards. Arriving breathless and creaking he tells you that you are trespassing and he knows who you are, and he will take out an injunction against you forbidding you to ever walk anywhere again. He can do this (indeed he's done it before) because he once shook hands with Prince Andrew... You don't know whether to laugh, or buy him an inhaler; but whatever, Mr. Possessive secretary, I'm sure you'll get your just reward in heaven... Worksop abounds with two bob millionaires, many of them living in Lindrick - witness the mad bloke who lives in the third house down in Lindrick vale with a huge alsatian - rushes out to attack if you so much as dare drive past his house. His name is Nickolls - got a criminal record as long as your arm... but then you didn't think anyone in Worksop with money actually went out and earned it did you?
• Council leader Graham Oxby who has slagged off this site in the Worksop Guardian, and lives in a dream world where everything is OK, Stalin is still alive and everyone is happy in the Workhouse; totally ignoring the fact that businesses are leaving in droves and the place is rife with drugs. Nutter. Come on Oxo, wakey wakey. its 2001, we need some nice medium sized business units (but don't hack down a forest to provide them), some safe secure garaging for our vans and cars, (makes it harder for Manton and Kiltonites to nick them) and reasonable rates. At the moment it costs more in rates than it does in rent in some areas. And you wonder why its so hard to attract new businesses. I suppose you'll write in the Guardian that some idiot has been slagging you off, but you quite understand and you don't take it personally; well please take it personally, because you don't understand a thing.
• The Invisible town centre mananger Diane somebody or other. She presided over umpteen shop closures, then replaced them with a Netto and half a dozen 'everything £1' shops. After this peak, she cleared off to Mansfield to do the same. It'll be hard for her to replicate her success in Worksop, but good luck all the same dear. Three genrations of the same fat-arse family all chomping their way through Big Mac meals in the memorial gardens before throwing thr resultant litter in the flowerbeds, then lighting up, the grandma (all of about 36 year old) lighting one for the 12 year old. Sops, Lord, they live only for pleasure.... What about that oddly elongated 'blonde' who works in the Jobcentre and keeps trying to force you into jobs for whoch you are patently unsiutable. e.g. 'I'm a welder'. 'Ooh look here's a vacancy for a groom'. Show some imagination, love, but stay within the bounds of fantasy. Youths on bikes who ride on the pavement and have avswearing fit when you don't give way. Mouthy little Turks. You might consider giving way if you could hear/see them - no lights, no warning, over-oiled chains totally silent. I'm desperate to smack one off into some oncoming traffic...
• The people, the town centre, the pollution.
• All the stupid people from retford that are getting in the way at north notts collij and keep going on that retford is better than worksop (IS IT F**K GARTON OK) Infact have a vote on this site to see who prefers what!!
• DUNSTAN CRESENT, TRAX FM - UP FOR CRAPPIEST STATION EVER??
• the dulcit tones of "stop f***ing about Chelsea" that echo round the shoe man's stall on a Friday morning, Worksop market.
• When you do leave worksop, you always have to come back to sign-on every 2 weeks.
• Staying.
• Mantoners
• The arse who works in the job centre who tells people not to bother looking for a job as there aren't any
• Like most small towns near bigger cities, much of the life and money gets sucked out of it. Worksop is no exception, but there are still some good things about the place.
• I aint got all night.
• Unicorn
• Manton
• Having your wheels stolen by some half wit, scummy, stincking, cretinous, ignorant, losers from Manton.
• The Council, what a joke.
• Worksop is full of thieves, mouthy kids who have nowhere to go, drug dealers, and loads of buffoons who think they are all 'dead hard'. Its a thicko's town, negative as hell, and with a council that is a byword for corruption. In fact the last corrupt lot were thrown out after the 'Phelps report' and replaced by a 'Council you can be proud of' who in turn are already facing an investigation. The Councii leader is a misshapen dwarf called 'Oxby' and teh MP is a totasl woodentop (ex-communist party) Called Joe 'Shagger' Ashton. Enough said?
• Cant Get much worse can you Worksop (F**king La Di Da) College .......... Best Thing I did was leave that shit hole.
• The road which caries the most traffic through Worksop is the 'Pedestrian Zone' along Bridge Street. If you want to use a cash machine and are incapable of walking more than the width of a car then Worksop town centre is the place to be.
• People moaning about Worksop Town FC Manton
• GT Sports.
• Someone has written that Worksop Town FC are shite, but they are currently playing well and are at the top of the league.
• Manton
• The market going downhill Marks and Spencer leaving People whinging about Worksop who haven't lived or seen much of anywhere else
• If you haven't got a car its a bugger trying to get to get anywhere else.
• Too numerous to mention, but most of the town centre
• Town centre full of charity shops & '50p or less' types of places selling absolute rubbish.
• Worksop Tigers football team, who are incapable of even beating Accrington Stanley. Whenever a new division is invented, they immediately slide to the bottom of it.
• 'Extremely Old' style Labour council, somewhat to the left of former USSR & incapable of understanding or attracting business to the area. Have not had an original idea in years, hence the dilapidated state of the town.
• Milk bottle manufacturing plant (honest!) emits a constant pall of smoke which hangs over the northern end of the town.

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