Sexydadbod Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Normanton, chad, allenton. Normanton isn't as bad, it's just full of Eastern Europeans always clashing with other ethnic minorities but chad and Allenton are where you get the "hard kids" like with the allenton gang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbob Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 7 hours ago, Tombo said: Take the point about Allenton because it is a rubbish area to live in but having grown up around there, I've got to say it's not as bad as certain areas of Normanton and Chaddesden. I don't think there's anywhere in Derby that's really bad, save a few streets. There's good and bad areas in each part of Derby. Having said that, there's very few places in Derby I'm happy walking around in past midnight... Not the friendliest city you'll ever see but there's nowhere that's really "the ghetto" We're middle of the road. Not that exciting but not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyMark Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Pretty rough round here I must admit lol Lot of dodgy people knocking about... And I agree Derby has never been the friendliest city in the world. But it's home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 3 hours ago, DerbyMark said: Pretty rough round here I must admit lol Lot of dodgy people knocking about... And I agree Derby has never been the friendliest city in the world. But it's home. I moved halfway through my life to Nottingham. Derby is like the Cotswolds in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 On 12/04/2017 at 10:44, StivePesley said: Funny how Derby has evolved really. Normanton/Peartree has always been the traditional area where immigrants settle, but it's not really rough in the way you describe. The poor white working class areas were traditionally Chad and Spondon, but even these have improved greatly since the 80s. Allenton is probably the grimmest bit of Derby in terms of layabout long term unemployed chavs and impoverished truants hanging around, but for truly rough you need to head out into Derbyshire towns like Shirebrook. But I suggest you don't! Yeah Normanton is lovely, no long term unemployed layabout chavs there.... just hundreds of working age men in organised criminal gangs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryDaly Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Derby as a city should put the LADY BOYS FROM BANGKOK permanently on it's city square ... CLASSY ! lol lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyMark Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 1 hour ago, reveldevil said: I moved halfway through my life to Nottingham. Derby is like the Cotswolds in comparison. Not that I can believe lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyMark Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 *now that, sorry... Good luck over in Dodge City! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 On 15/04/2017 at 20:07, PrivateDerby said: ust hundreds of working age men in organised criminal gangs. Bit like the army then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Anyone live in Bolsover, took the kids to the castle yesterday, the town centre was absolutely desolate, all the shops were open but nobody around, did we have a bomb scare around Chesterfield and nobody tell me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteHorseRam Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 On 22/04/2017 at 22:24, StivePesley said: Bit like the army then ? As far as the roughest part of Derby is concerned, the whole place, and indeed the whole of the UK, went down the pan with the end of sugar cubes and sugar cube tongs in tea shops and cafes. Sachets? Ghastly. Only with Mary Berry as Home Secretary will we be able to roll this back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 On 23/04/2017 at 10:10, LesterRam said: Anyone live in Bolsover, took the kids to the castle yesterday, the town centre was absolutely desolate, all the shops were open but nobody around, did we have a bomb scare around Chesterfield and nobody tell me? Everyone will have been in the Weatherspoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 27 minutes ago, Anon said: Everyone will have been in the Weatherspoons. it was very eerie, all the shops were occupied which is a rarity in the UK but nobody was about, how does a place maintain a full high street without custom, is it some kind of mafia owned town and these shops are a front for something sinister? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 6 hours ago, LesterRam said: it was very eerie, all the shops were occupied which is a rarity in the UK but nobody was about, how does a place maintain a full high street without custom, is it some kind of mafia owned town and these shops are a front for something sinister? Dennis spends all his MP's allowance there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRainy Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Lived on Crewe Street and worked at Nightingale in the late 80s; that was quite grim. Generally like Derby though, because there're so many good pubs. Feel much safer in Derby than Sheffield or Nottingham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, 1of4 said: Dennis spends all his MP's allowance there. Good old skinner, 85 and still going strong, bless him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyMark Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 On 27/04/2017 at 21:45, LesterRam said: Good old skinner, 85 and still going strong, bless him. Still thinks he's down Parkhouse and Glapwell pit lol Make's a change from all them Oxbridge types... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 1 hour ago, DerbyMark said: Still thinks he's down Parkhouse and Glapwell pit lol Make's a change from all them Oxbridge types... A shame there's not a lot more MPs like him in the PLP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 On 27/04/2017 at 21:06, Lambchop said: Lived on Crewe Street and worked at Nightingale in the late 80s; that was quite grim. Generally like Derby though, because there're so many good pubs. Feel much safer in Derby than Sheffield or Nottingham. Did you work with Janet & Neville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 I live just off the top of Burton Road which I guess was quite posh in the 1960/70's but is pretty mixed now. But I am a Johnny come lately having been here only 20 years. The one that made me chuckle was an article in the DET a while back with a photo of a shop front on Saddler gate with an ad in the window ... "Shop Assistants required" ....... "No West End Girls" .... equal opportunities or what ! .. what was the west end ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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