The_Lizards_Jumpers
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That is the one behind the Highfield. I suppose the Highfield itself could be considered Grove Hill.
Ah yeah, so what's the one opposite the Palladium shops, just off the roundabout (The Broadway was it?)
That is the one behind the Highfield. I suppose the Highfield itself could be considered Grove Hill.
I think her point was that they’d got it wrong and it wasn’t an actual no go zone. It was in fact some where safe enough for even her parents to live in.So did I, so her claim of living in the middle of it is somewhat of a bold claim - a bit of "poetic licence" if you will....
Yes, that one is apartments now and the Red Rose is a funeral home.Ah yeah, so what's the one opposite the Palladium shops, just off the roundabout (The Broadway was it?)
I think her point was that they’d got it wrong and it wasn’t an actual no go zone. It was in fact some where safe enough for even her parents to live in.
I'm from Stockton and remember being apprehensive and anxious about going to Radio 1 Big Weekend due to the threat of violence, thought it was going to be full of kids intent on causing trouble, thankfully it was fine but I certainly feel Middlesbrough has a much worse reputation these days then when I was growing up. Too many wannabe thugs quick to pull a weapon.
Perhaps I'm just softer now I'm older and my outlooks changed since I've became a Father.
Always felt the same myself with family all over Teesside. But these days drugs has ruined lots of good areas too.Whereas I grew up in Acklam in the 80's / 90's, but had grandparents in Grove Hill and Saltersgill and can't ever remember being anxious or scared about going anywhere on Teesside - the fact that there was areas that were a little rougher than others was obvious, but I'd never give it a second thought or worrying about the threat of violence.
I think her point is that the RA team were completely wrong in their assessment.I think you're missing my point - I'm assuming that any "no go zone" in Middlesbrough wouldn't include leafy suburbs like Nunthorpe, Marton etc and so her claims that her parents lived in the middle of it would be false.
That is unless the BBC risk assessment team are ultra risk averse....
I think her point is that the RA team were completely wrong in their assessment.
It says where her parents lived, rather than where she grew up, so I imagine her parents moved.
I'm pretty sure she went to Kader school, and I've seen her parents recently in the Acklam area, so I would say she was just making a point that the BBC team had wrongly marked a decent area as no go?It says where her parents lived, rather than where she grew up, so I imagine her parents moved.
In the late Seventies/Early Eighties I wouldn't say anywhere was no go area. Some areas were rough as f**k but the worst that would happen is you'd get a good hiding if you went looking for it. Grove Hill, Easterside, Beechwood, I'd quite happily roam those areas with a couple of mates without any real fear. Not so sure nowadays though. What with knives, the gang mentality where they'll quite happily have 5 or 6 onto 1 anywhere could be a no go area!
Nowadays I wouldn't go down Parlaiment Rd/Gresham Rd - they are definite no go areas and I dread to think what Grangetown etc are like these days.
I'm from Stockton and remember being apprehensive and anxious about going to Radio 1 Big Weekend due to the threat of violence, thought it was going to be full of kids intent on causing trouble, thankfully it was fine but I certainly feel Middlesbrough has a much worse reputation these days then when I was growing up. Too many wannabe thugs quick to pull a weapon.
Perhaps I'm just softer now I'm older and my outlooks changed since I've became a Father.
I think Parliament Rd is given a bad press. I go down there sometimes, occasionally at night to use the chippy etc, and it really isn't a no-go zone.Nowadays I wouldn't go down Parlaiment Rd/Gresham Rd - they are definite no go areas
I think Parliament Rd is given a bad press. I go down there sometimes, occasionally at night to use the chippy etc, and it really isn't a no-go zone.