Random SMB town assessments no.1 : Scunthorpe


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Apart from being the only major place in Britain to include the c word, what has Scunthorpe done for you?
 
Scared the shit out of me when i went to watch Sunderland play there in the cup 1987-8,that's my abiding memory of Scunthorpe.
 
Used to live near there a few years back.

Not a major centre of world culture.

Was at that preseason friendly. In the prematch warmup, Chopra missed the goal and the ball hit a lady stood near me in the face.

The pub near the ground is shit, btw.
 
Used to live near there a few years back.

Not a major centre of world culture.
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Please tell us some things about it though...

Does it have a nice shopping centre or a brothel? Does it still have Wednesday closing?

Goole is Southwick with a shit local accent.

It's a scary place to be stranded as I once was

think I hid in a wallpaper shop
 
Please tell us some things about it though...

Does it have a nice shopping centre or a brothel? Does it still have Wednesday closing?
Town centre shopping centre is dismal (c.f. Peterlee). Marks and Sparks have recently pulled out, so it will be worse still now. Decent assortment of pound shops, and its own version of Jacky White's market.

There is a retail park next to the football ground, with a Tesco, B&Q, a TK Maxx and a Next last time I was there. Also one at the other end of town near the steelworks (Morrisons, Toys R Us, Pets@Home, Argos and a few others) - usual identikit stuff. Debenhams have given the town a wide berth to date.

Not aware of any brothels, as I had no need of them during the time I lived in the area.
 
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Town centre shopping centre is dismal (c.f. Peterlee). Marks and Sparks have recently pulled out, so it will be worse still now. Decent assortment of pound shops, and its own version of Jacky White's market.

There is a retail park next to the football ground, with a Tesco, B&Q, a TK Maxx and a Next last time I was there. Also one at the other end of town near the steelworks (Morrisons, Toys R Us, Pets@Home, Argos and a few others) - usual identikit stuff. Debenhams have given the town a wide berth to date.

Not aware of any brothels, as I had no need of them during the time I lived in the area.

I consider Scunthorpe assessed. It could be wiped off the map without anyone noticing
 
One other anecdote about Scunthorpe.

We were doing the weekly shop at the big Tesco opposite the football ground, and suddenly it was like World War Three.

There was a ridiculous number of coppers, more than you'd ever notice at one of our derbies with the Mags, running in all directions and turning up in troop carriers.

I enquired as to what what going on to be told that it was the big local derby with Lincoln City, and there had been bother the previous year...
 
One other anecdote about Scunthorpe.

We were doing the weekly shop at the big Tesco opposite the football ground, and suddenly it was like World War Three.

There was a ridiculous number of coppers, more than you'd ever notice at one of our derbies with the Mags, running in all directions and turning up in troop carriers.

I enquired as to what what going on to be told that it was the big local derby with Lincoln City, and there had been bother the previous year...

Aha, I am an imp myself originally, so that must have been a subconcious reason for selecting Scunny as the first town for demolition

What shall we do with the land?
 
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