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New fan zone?

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by How, Nov 9, 2020.

  1. Ulysses S Grant

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    We walked the full length of the Rochdale Canal back in the first lockdown (allowable exercise I might add) starting at Castlefields at Midnight and ending in Sowerby Bridge around 1pm. We got to the area around Miles Plating about 1.30am and it was a like walking through the set of Shameless. Kids everywhere, offering us drugs as we walked past (white kids I might add) many of them in dressing gowns, smoking dope and doing whizz. I swear Frank Gallagher joined us for a while.

    Not a nice place to be, but the bonus was we made around £200 retrieving pound coins from the shopping trolleys thrown into the canal.

    I wouldn't have done that alone, in fact I wouldn't do it again, and I wouldn't go anywhere near Chapletown, Beeston or Dewsbury Rd in Leeds alone and at night and I don't think I'd walk anywhere near Gorton alone at night.

    I once dropped my daughter off at one of these "warehouse projects" in Hunslet in the middle of the day and whilst I was waiting for her and a friend to use a cash machine, was accosted by a no teeth old prossie asking if I was looking for business.
     
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  2. NorthernMonkey

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    Yeah but there are areas in Bradford that make Beirut at the height of the bombings look beautiful.
     
  3. NorthernMonkey

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    Where exactly was the cash machine? (Asking for a friend).
     
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  4. Rogered Tart

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    You could say that about any area of any major city. Of all the years I've live in Bradford I've never really felt threatened walking round it. But then I'm an 18 stone male which does make a big difference.
     
  5. Ulysses S Grant

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    In an old disused Yorkshire Bank building that was stood all on it's own in Hunslet.
     
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  6. NorthernMonkey

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    Thanks, I'll let @Hoochy-Min@Hoochy-Min know.
     
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  7. Bigrod

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    Thanks ... wasn't clear enough. Traffic in the area makes it unsafe in my view. Don't like to get my car damaged or broken into either.
     
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  9. Ulysses S Grant

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    Erm.... and were you?
     
  11. Ulysses S Grant

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    And risk my daughter blabbing to her mum ?
     
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    Fair and valid point.
     
  13. Bigrod

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    So the follow up question is, ‘Having made a detailed mental note as to the location and opportunity on offer, did you go back later without your daughter’?:innocent: Or :devil:
     
  14. Ulysses S Grant

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    I might tell you that next time we get to the Beehive ! Though, if you've ever driven near Hunslet you'd know that even a photographic mind won't get you round the Leeds loop the same way you went last time.
     
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    Did you have to pay extra for that 'Leeds Loop'?
     
  16. Storck

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    what is the difference between fan zone and Bantams Bar except entry fee?
     
  17. ahar964

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    Once upon a time I believe the ATM in Winstons had the highest turnover in the country.... so I was told
     
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  18. Ulysses S Grant

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    Is that the "club" on dewsbury Road in Hunslet.
     
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    Opposite the fire station.. .. so I was told
     
  20. Ulysses S Grant

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    I had a friend who went there once. Allegedly
     
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