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my best mate caroline sent me a link to a group about our home town it didnt half make me smile its sooo true and funny :2431: here it is :san42:


Barrow: The Best Cul-de-Sac In The World

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So you've been bored every summer holiday, wished that it would stop raining, wanted to leave since the age of about 12.. but now, when you see the magical image of Hoad from the train, you get excited because you know you're nearly home. Things we miss about mighty Barrow: - The Accent (see How To Speak Barrovian) - Knowing every other person you pass on the street - The Legends - Tranny, Mad Russ, Cheeky Charlie etc - The Statue outside McDonalds - reuniting chavs every Saturday - The feeling of superiority when observing said chavs - Paulo Giannis - a quid a shot. Need I say more? - Not taking a coat on a night out (cuz we're well 'ard) - Hot Potato - even though they're rip off merchants - Going to town just to waste time - Andy's Chippy - Preston Street and it's inappropriate jukebox - The seagull killing wind turbines outside Tesco - Pie and Peas at parties - Being able to call trousers pants without getting funny looks - Pronouncing the L in almond - Walney Bridge - The Icecream at Roa Island - The fact that every night is karaoke night - Having a brew solves everything - Jade Fountain - all you can eat - The constant gail force wind - Having dinner at 12 and tea at 5 - The smell of sweat/vomit/urine in Scorpio - Seeing fights on Cornwallis Street - Backstreets - ah the memories - The Evening Mail - ""I'm not dead" says Dog-walker Russ", "Roose man dies in bid to reach pie", "Lamppost falls over", "Stone Thrown" - Pie Shops - The hysteria when it stops raining for a day - Joseph's House - Tacky Christmas lights - Horse-sized seagulls - Ghost hunting at the Abbey - Knowing that people from Barrow are Barrovians and people from Walney are Walneyites - The same crap music in every club on the Gaza Strip - Feeling like a traitor if drinking in Dalton/Ulverston - Being able to get a taxi straight away when you want one, not 3 hours later - Gigs in The Park - The frog slide at Dalton Baths - Taxi Drivers' life stories - Marsh's Sass - Everyone knowing everyone else's business - No matter which way you look, you see the sea - The pigeons! (Ok, I actually hate them but it wouldn't be the same without ducking your way through town..) - The bloke on the corner of Portland walk who sells the mail - The fair at Walney and it's distinct lack of safety - Being nearly run over by the street sweeping machine - A chippy on practically every street - Barrow carnival day even though it always rains - Shengs - Going to Frontierland every weekend (gone but not forgotten..) - The fact that you can get your hair cut in a different hairdressers every time because there is about 3 million of them. - The old pictures and the rumours of ghosts when it shut. - The bon bon, first stop before going to said pictures..

Recent News

Things we tell people about Barrow:
- Emlyn Hughes was born here.
- It's the most working class town in England
- Women aren't allowed in the Greengate Club
- We have our very own transvestite
- Barrow AFC won the FA trophy in 1990
- There's one road in and out
- We have a zoo and once a rhino escaped
- You can get a double vodka for £1.30
- We had an outbreak of Legionnaires
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Once a Barrow player punched a Bristol player for no apparent reason
and Alan Shearer said that if you were walking down the street in
Barrow you wouldn't expect to be punched in the face even though you
totally would and we are all very proud of that
- We are officially Lancashire even though our address says Cumbria
- Lancashire cheese from the market in Ulverston is the best cheese ever
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I was taught by an alleged murderer and he helped me paint a squirrel
on the mural outside newbarns (that's my own personal bit at the end)
- Chewits are chewier than Barrow-in-Furness Bus Station. Yes, we were on an advert.
- The manager of Thorntons was horrible about us and it was all over the paper and he got ran out of town.
- The fat bloke from the end of Harry Enfield/an occasional extras in Chucklevision is from here.
- One half of the hairy bikers is from here.
- In the first episode of Porridge, Fletcher says it's "not fair on anyone having to stay in Barrow-in-Furness".
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We're mentioned in The Likely Lads when Terry is trying to find out
Bob's middle name. It turns out to be Scarborough as that is where he
was conceived, and Terry replies 'Good job it wasn't Barrow in Furness'!
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7755877.stm




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Andrea Lucas (London) wrote at 2:27pm on April 13th, 2009 im Barrow born and bred, but now live in Norfolk. Barrow is turning into a shiit hole but still holds many good memories for me. And yes when i come to visit I do see the hoad and think I,m nearly home!!! Report

Mark Johnson wrote at 4:53pm on March 21st, 2009 Is Howe Street Chippy still there? Report

Siobhan Peters wrote at 3:58pm on March 17th, 2009 Our address is Lancashire not Cumbria. I'm at Glasgow Uni and feeling home sick at the mo however I heard a song called I love this town and it was so Barrow and it made me smile. Report

Andrew Turner (Liverpool) wrote at 4:36pm on March 12th, 2009 Second biggest doors in the world (Only Cape Kennedy's are bigger than Vickers' massive bastards) The arse of the Island of Sodor off Thomas the Tank covers Walney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maps-sodor-railways-amoswolfe.svg Top five in the world championships of having a massive Legionairre's Disease outbreak. When the ironworks was open one of Barrow's main exports was hardcore slag. Looking at Cornwallis on a Saturday I think we keep it all now. We have more harmless mentals per square mile than anywhere else in the Universe (Rambo, Mad Charlie, Percy Pickup, Mad Gary, Mad Russ, Punching Pete [RIP]). Probably. Report

Elise Cavan (Washington, DC) wrote at 3:42pm on March 5th, 2009 I live in the States now but was Barrow born and bred! I dream about meat 'n' tatie pies, Sheng's chinese and the best chippie was York Street chippie where my Mam worked. I loved it when all my friends turned 18 and we used to go to their 18th's just to eat the pie and peas then disappear to Cornwallis Street!! I worked at Hargreaves newsagents at the top of Dalton Road and then Vickers, joined the navy at 19 and never really returned to Barrow to live but my family still live there.

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Thats great, theyve packed so much in the description!!!

I pronounce the L in almond too :2445:

its soooo funny everyone does know everyone and everyones buisness too its mad it really is :san42:

aww your one of us hun :2431:

:san42: Brill, love all the info gives you a much more vivid idea of the place.

I also say the L :2445:

:san42: :san42: :san42: its sooo sad as we do have famous ppl within the town in our minds like the tranny who is forever stopping me and my dogs :2431: kiera goes for him/her

mad russ is just fecking mad lol and as for charlie my god if he asks to stroke pup once more i will scream lmao

:2445: :2445: :2445: I want a film to be made on it all

:san42: :san42: :san42: god how funny

my mum told me one day we are all kind of related in one way or the other too :2431: im glad my dads from Iran :san42: so im not as inbred

altho millom is bad nuth sheep shaggers and all :san41: :san42: :san42: :san42:

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