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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 4, 2022 21:28:19 GMT
I've had a random look around various streets Crewe on Google Streetview and I have to say, it looks quite a nice place at first glance... Which streets? I'll give you the inside info.  |
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Post by Clark on Jan 4, 2022 21:35:20 GMT
I've had a random look around various streets Crewe on Google Streetview and I have to say, it looks quite a nice place at first glance... Which streets? I'll give you the inside info.  Ha, sounds like I have a Crewe native here! Oh, can only remember one - Gainsborough Road - it's looks decent enough - I'd laugh if I picked the road you lived on |
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Post by Khunanup on Jan 4, 2022 23:13:54 GMT
thank you for your contribution, Christina Earth was hard in Barnston... Raby Mere like a stone... |
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 5, 2022 11:26:20 GMT
in my opinion Barrow could be the one to tick all your boxes - extremely isolated, and deprived since the loss of shipbuilding industry, but even they have a train station. Fun fact - Barrow-in-Furness has the lowest recycling rate in the country. This assumption that Barrow is some sort of dystopian hellhole seems to mostly come from people who have never been there  It has some rough parts, but no more than most towns of its size. And the shipbuilding industry is still very much there, even if smaller than before. There are certainly more down at heel places even in Cumbria. |
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Post by rcronald on Jan 5, 2022 16:22:21 GMT
The fact that the boundary commission recommended to retain Oldham East & Saddleworth completely unchanged when it could have cut the ‘Oldham East’ part and replace it with Royton is bordering on a crime against humanity.
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Post by rcronald on Jan 5, 2022 16:32:27 GMT
I think that both Brentford&Isleworth and Feltham&Heston qualify with a large wealth gap in the former and a racial in the latter.
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Post by batman on Jan 5, 2022 16:40:11 GMT
the Feltham wards are becoming more & more ethnically diverse though. Perhaps Hanworth still the least so?
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Post by rcronald on Jan 5, 2022 16:48:55 GMT
the Feltham wards are becoming more & more ethnically diverse though. Perhaps Hanworth still the least so? Yes, but they are still significantly less ethnic then the Heston parts if I remember correctly. |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jan 5, 2022 17:28:03 GMT
"Nice people" is an interesting one - could you associate people from a particular area as nice or rude - and would anyone like to nominate any places for such an accolade?! Bonus points if anyone can name a constituency which is disparate in terms of how nice people are in its different parts! Brecon and Radnorshire. Ystradgynlais is normal, and then as you head north-east you get farmers, military types, and finally, once one reaches the Radnor Forest, abominable snowmen. |
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Post by greenhert on Jan 5, 2022 17:32:09 GMT
Bonus points if anyone can name a constituency which is disparate in terms of how nice people are in its different parts! Brecon and Radnorshire. Ystradgynlais is normal, and then as you head north-east you get farmers, military types, and finally, once one reaches the Radnor Forest, abominable snowmen.For a start yeti are a legend and secondly Radnorshire is nothing like the Himalayas! |
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Post by kitesurfer on Jan 5, 2022 17:50:57 GMT
I think the old Ealing Southall seat was quite disparate on its 1997-2010 boundaries. The Southall parts of the seat were and are overwhelmingly Labour and non-white, but Ealing Common, Ealing Broadway, Walpole and Northfields were comparatively a lot more white and very competitive for the Tories, especially in the 2006-2010 period, hence why Ealing Central and Acton was a Tory seat in 2010 on the new boundaries and they would have heavily outvoted Labour-inclined Acton. Even now, Labour only have clean slate of councillors in Walpole when they are very dominant in this borough.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jan 5, 2022 17:59:05 GMT
"Nice people" is an interesting one - could you associate people from a particular area as nice or rude - and would anyone like to nominate any places for such an accolade?! Bonus points if anyone can name a constituency which is disparate in terms of how nice people are in its different parts! Fermanagh and South Tyrone. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 5, 2022 18:11:12 GMT
Brecon and Radnorshire. Ystradgynlais is normal, and then as you head north-east you get farmers, military types, and finally, once one reaches the Radnor Forest, abominable snowmen.For a start yeti are a legend and secondly Radnorshire is nothing like the Himalayas! True. The Himalayas are more densely populated. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 5, 2022 18:16:09 GMT
Which streets? I'll give you the inside info. Ha, sounds like I have a Crewe native here! Oh, can only remember one - Gainsborough Road - it's looks decent enough - I'd laugh if I picked the road you lived on My cub/scout group met in Gainsborough Road. On the corner with Ruskin Road (and my secondary school was in Ruskin Road). Know it well. When we moved to Crewe it was considered rather posh - I had a schoolfriend who lived there; his father was a dentist. So distinctly upper-middle back then. Less so now. Now, try streetview for Stanthorne Avenue (which is not far away but has a rather different vibe). |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jan 5, 2022 18:42:49 GMT
Brecon and Radnorshire. Ystradgynlais is normal, and then as you head north-east you get farmers, military types, and finally, once one reaches the Radnor Forest, abominable snowmen.For a start yeti are a legend and secondly Radnorshire is nothing like the Himalayas! Sorry, apparently it's just big cats. |
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Post by Clark on Jan 5, 2022 19:12:05 GMT
Ha, sounds like I have a Crewe native here! Oh, can only remember one - Gainsborough Road - it's looks decent enough - I'd laugh if I picked the road you lived on My cub/scout group met in Gainsborough Road. On the corner with Ruskin Road (and my secondary school was in Ruskin Road). Know it well. When we moved to Crewe it was considered rather posh - I had a schoolfriend who lived there; his father was a dentist. So distinctly upper-middle back then. Less so now. Now, try streetview for Stanthorne Avenue (which is not far away but has a rather different vibe). A different vibe but still not that bad. My home city of Aberdeen has huge diversity - consider Powis Cres & Rubislaw Den North! |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jan 5, 2022 19:21:08 GMT
My cub/scout group met in Gainsborough Road. On the corner with Ruskin Road (and my secondary school was in Ruskin Road). Know it well. When we moved to Crewe it was considered rather posh - I had a schoolfriend who lived there; his father was a dentist. So distinctly upper-middle back then. Less so now. Now, try streetview for Stanthorne Avenue (which is not far away but has a rather different vibe). A different vibe but still not that bad. My home city of Aberdeen has huge diversity - consider Powis Cres & Rubislaw Den North! Crewe is genuinely a decent place to live. |
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Post by bsjmcr on Jan 5, 2022 21:08:45 GMT
The fact that the boundary commission recommended to retain Oldham East & Saddleworth completely unchanged when it could have cut the ‘Oldham East’ part and replace it with Royton is bordering on a crime against humanity. Even 'Saddleworth and Stalybridge' wouldn't be too bad, at least much of the landscape would be similar. |
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Post by rcronald on Jan 6, 2022 6:09:26 GMT
The fact that the boundary commission recommended to retain Oldham East & Saddleworth completely unchanged when it could have cut the ‘Oldham East’ part and replace it with Royton is bordering on a crime against humanity. Even 'Saddleworth and Stalybridge' wouldn't be too bad, at least much of the landscape would be similar. Yes, but Royton & Saddleworth is very easy to create. |
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Post by batman on Jan 6, 2022 8:47:53 GMT
Even 'Saddleworth and Stalybridge' wouldn't be too bad, at least much of the landscape would be similar. Yes, but Royton & Saddleworth is very easy to create. the Royton seat which existed before 1950, and was perhaps surprisingly held by the Conservatives in the 1945 election, would have been very similar to a Royton & Saddleworth seat were one to be created. |
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