Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 7:22 am  

Blackburn must be a magnet: you can get to it from Manchester Victotia by train using either of two different routes! One (the new route) even passes through Rochdale and Burnley.

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 9:05 am  

Hillbilly_Red wrote:

Blackburn must be a magnet: you can get to it from Manchester Victotia by train using either of two different routes! One (the new route) even passes through Rochdale and Burnley.

It's about to become the new "jewel in the crown" of Lancashire...mark my words

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 11:41 am  

Red Preacher wrote:

Just to bring it back a bit, can anyone tell me what life is like in Weaste, Seedley or Langworthy these days? Surely someone lives there or has London taken over courtesy of Media City?

Well the area is as quiet and less troublesome as I can ever remember it. So that is one thing. The top end, Buile Hill Park etc., and Salford Quays is good for a stroll or jogging.

The only mither is that there isn’t much about in regards to services. You can get by for pubs, eating out, the odd bits and pieces of shopping. However, by and large, you’ll be travelling out, either to Salford Precinct, Eccles, Quays and further afield to do stuff or get stuff done.

Decent for commuting, although buses are limited at the bottom end and the tram trawling through the Quays might do your nut in after a while. The 10 (bottom end) & 67 (top end) buses run until gone 11, so you’ll be fine getting home from Salford matches.

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 12:05 pm  

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"The 10 (bottom end) & 67 (top end) buses run until gone 11, so you’ll be fine getting home from Salford matches after queuing for many minutes in the rain and squeezing onto a single decker with 60 other fans.

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 12:07 pm  

"It's about to become the new "jewel in the crown" of Lancashire...mark my words"
But it is no longer IN Lancashire!

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Fri May 22, 2015 4:48 pm  

Chico wrote:

Well the area is as quiet and less troublesome as I can ever remember it. So that is one thing. The top end, Buile Hill Park etc., and Salford Quays is good for a stroll or jogging.

The only mither is that there isn’t much about in regards to services. You can get by for pubs, eating out, the odd bits and pieces of shopping. However, by and large, you’ll be travelling out, either to Salford Precinct, Eccles, Quays and further afield to do stuff or get stuff done.

Decent for commuting, although buses are limited at the bottom end and the tram trawling through the Quays might do your nut in after a while. The 10 (bottom end) & 67 (top end) buses run until gone 11, so you’ll be fine getting home from Salford matches.

Thanks bud. My auntie still lives in Weaste but I suspected her take on the area may not be quite right as she paints a gloomier picture. Then again she is 70+.
We had real problems with local hoodlums in Walkden who caused considerable damage to our place there. Keen not to walk into another "problem area".

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Sat May 23, 2015 3:14 pm  

Red Preacher wrote:

We had real problems with local hoodlums in Walkden who caused considerable damage to our place there. Keen not to walk into another "problem area".

It’s certain streets you need to avoiding rather than areas.

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Sun May 24, 2015 7:47 am  

Chico wrote:

It’s certain streets you need to avoiding rather than areas.

Isolated problem families you mean?
Probably worth me stating which street if we find something.

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Tue May 26, 2015 9:09 am  

Hillbilly_Red wrote:

"It's about to become the new "jewel in the crown" of Lancashire...mark my words"
But it is no longer IN Lancashire!

You're freaking me out HR, when did Blackburn stop being in Lancs???

Re: O/T Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy : Tue May 26, 2015 12:04 pm  

I used to work in Blackburn when I lived in Salford and the journey by train was an absolute nightmare due to all the single track rail north of Bolton.

But it just shows you the difference in house prices between the North and the Sarff, I doubt I could buy a plot of land down here to build a house on! Having said that, where my parents live in Seedley is still a reasonably quiet area and you could get a 3 bed terrace for that.