UK cities

[KeithPratt]

Newcastle is AWESOME. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

[Bungo the Mungo]

I'm surpised Newcastle's so popular.
Admittedly I've never been, So I'm going on rather negative impressions here. But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Biig Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

[Seymore Porn]

1/Glasgow,
2/Embra,
3/Geordieland.

My third choice, had it been there, would have been York, with Inverness fourth.

[The Prof]

But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

Homo

[Insouciant Western People]

I'm surprised Newcastle's so popular.
Admittedly I've never been, So I'm going on rather negative impressions here. But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

That's only part of it. Seriously, I think you'd like it G. The architecture of the Grainger Town area is some of the finest in any British city, especially since a lot of it's been restored and renovated in recent years. Grey Street in particular is wonderful, a crescent stretching from the Monument Square down towards the Tyne:













On the last photo, that's the branch of Waterstone's where I worked for three years in the mid-90s, and I used to sit in this square when it was nice out to have a cigarette and something to eat on my breaks. One of the happiest times of my life.

[Jumper k]

Anywhere North of Bristol is a shithole. Anywhere East of Bristol is also a shithole. No difference between Swindon, York, Leeds, Newcastle and Lancaster. Full of funny talking idiots where marrying you sister increases the gene pool.

[Insouciant Western People]

Anywhere North of Bristol is a shithole. Anywhere East of Bristol is also a shithole. No difference between Swindon, York, Leeds, Newcastle and Lancaster. Full of funny talking idiots where marrying you sister increases the gene pool.

Fuck off yokel.

[Footy]

Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits.

Aye. They're hideous, aren't they?

[Bungo the Mungo]

I'm surprised Newcastle's so popular.
Admittedly I've never been, So I'm going on rather negative impressions here. But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

That's only part of it. Seriously, I think you'd like it G. The architecture of the Grainger Town area is some of the finest in any British city, especially since a lot of it's been restored and renovated in recent years.


On the last photo, that's the branch of Waterstone's where I worked for three years in the mid-90s, and I used to sit in this square when it was nice out to have a cigarette and something to eat on my breaks. One of the happiest times of my life.

I spent many happy hours in that very branch in 1987 when I studied there. I discovered so many great writers.

I love the city, and Nick's right about the architecture. There's something in the air there.


Carlisle's nice if you like Newcastle and Edinburgh. It's similar in some ways, similar feel and architecture, not bad for shops, friendly folk.

[Diamond Dog]

I'm surprised Newcastle's so popular.
Admittedly I've never been, So I'm going on rather negative impressions here. But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

All hearty reasons to vote for it, surely?

[Insouciant Western People]

The M sign in this photo, by the way (at Monument metro station) is the one immortalised in one of the songs off Molony's first album. The one where he sings:

"I'll be waiting by the M sign, with a paper in my hand
In the rain under the monument it's good to have a plan"

I flipping love that song. Always reminds me of home.

[The Modernist]

I'm surprised Newcastle's so popular.
Admittedly I've never been, So I'm going on rather negative impressions here. But I always imagine it to be really cold with fierce winds. Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits. It seems to lack class.

That's only part of it. Seriously, I think you'd like it G. The architecture of the Grainger Town area is some of the finest in any British city, especially since a lot of it's been restored and renovated in recent years. Grey Street in particular is wonderful, a crescent stretching from the Monument Square down towards the Tyne:













On the last photo, that's the branch of Waterstone's where I worked for three years in the mid-90s, and I used to sit in this square when it was nice out to have a cigarette and something to eat on my breaks. One of the happiest times of my life.

It does look rather fetching I must say.
Have we ever had a Newcastle JU?

[The Modernist]

Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits.

Aye. They're hideous, aren't they?

They look false to me.

[bhoywonder]

Then you have the whole pissed fat birds stumbling around the Bigg Market flashing their tits.

Aye. They're hideous, aren't they?

They look false to me.

Yup, same here. But you have to remember many of the people on this thread are from the north of england, and so are a pretty classless bunch themselves.

[Insouciant Western People]

I spent many happy hours in that very branch in 1987 when I studied there. I discovered so many great writers.

They shut it down a couple of years ago, and the only Waterstone's in Newcastle is now across from there, in what used to be Dillons. Which is a lovely building too, but still, it's sad.

What used to be my favourite bookshop in the world is now a branch of H&M

[Bungo the Mungo]

Fucking hell.

[dang65]

When I left Bristol at 17 I despised the place, but I now realise that many UK cities were like that back then - basically decrepit.

When I lived in Bristol 20 years ago it was a very different place. Not sure you'd even recognise half the place today.

My parents still live in Bristol, and one of my friends does, and you're right... I don't think of it as the same place when I visit. I don't feel any association with it at all, despite having gone to school there and having my first girlfriends there and going to teenage parties and everything - all the stuff I should remember forever. It's such a different place (to me) that I may as well have never been there before in my life. But I'm not one for getting attached to places anyway. I'm attached to the UK in general though. I've found myself falling in love with this country more and more as I get older. Just not with any specific part of it.

[Footy]

But you have to remember many of the people on this thread are from the north of england, and so are a pretty classless bunch themselves.

Some of us are here only as missionaries.

[Bungo the Mungo]

Outside of London and Bristol, what big cities are worth seeing in the south?

[The Modernist]

[ I'm attached to the UK in general though. I've found myself falling in love with this country more and more as I get older.

Same here.
When I was younger I used to be one of the "it's just another country" brigade. In fact I always saw myself living abroad when I was older. I'm the opposite now and have really got interested in the history of places too.
I've got a real hankering to move back to Kent. I'm not sure what it is.