UK ghettos

[JockSporran]

I can remember certain parts of Glasgow - not just certain streets but whole neighbourhoods - which were real 'Mad Skull Territory'. You just didn't go into them unless you lived there. They looked threatening and menacing even from a safe distance. Miles of rising rows of terraced bleak concrete 1950s tenement flats, run down in the 1980s, seething with crime, poverty and domestic violence. They've gone now. The parts that survived demolition have been renovated almost beyond recognition. Strangely, I miss them. Are there any such places in the UK today?

[noway2]

dont know about glasgow or uk.But in Ireland we do have parts of the country that even the police are afraid to go into.

[marval]

I think there are still some, where I live in England the local news is always reporting on one such estate, in a town near me. There is one estate here where nobody wants to live, not sure how bad it really is.

[tiggerblue10]

Thornton Heath in Croydon, Surrey, is slowly going that way.

I've heard that Salford in Manchester is a pretty rough are.

[tiggerblue10]

Rough *area!

[hc4361]

Moss Side, Manchester. Keighley, West Yorkshire.

[JockSporran]

I've been checking out. Sighthill, Royston and Robroyston (all in Glasgow) are sights to behold, especially the Red Road flats in Robroyston. But on Google Streetview I've also checked outside the UK. The apartment blocks at 147 Malcolm X Blvd (Harlem, New York) make Glasgow's Red Road look like pretty cottages!