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i've found a facebook group dedicated to exposing how bizarre and dirty the area of southampton i grew up in is.
It's called the Shirley High St Site of Special Scientific Interest Society.
The subtitle is 'The Mutant Mile'. It has its own celebrities, for example Elvis Man, who dresses up like a sort of Elvis version of a Pearly Queen. There's the colonel, who always wears alan partridge gloves, holds a stick and walks around like he's in the military:
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There's a very slow bad smelling man with a fake ear, and a big tramp lady who wees on the pavement, and there used to be an evil odd tramp in the precinct who would buy you cigarettes and tried to touch up schoolgirls a lot. etc etc.
Here are some pictures. Imagine a slightly more overweight, depressed and lonely 14 year old me wandering about this place being hassled by 'townies' as they were then known, listening to Braid on my 'walkman'. I feel depressed just thinking about it. It's a rather odd place, pretty dingy and seemingly condemned to being taken over by bookies, charity shops and violenct pubs. I've probably spent more time walking these roads than I have anywhere else, and looking at them brings back a veritable flood of memories, mostly okay, some very bad and a few ok. Part of me even misses it. Only a tiny part. Enjoy:
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http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v133/199/50/662167852/n662167852_288679_9938.jpg
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http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v132/199/50/662167852/n662167852_287034_1074.jpg
http://photos-959.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v134/36/64/202902959/n202902959_32593350_6585.jpg
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196463_5162.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196461_4594.jpg
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196462_4778.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196436_85.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196437_491.jpg
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196435_9407.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196420_1722.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196417_671.jpg
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v104/187/84/894580509/n894580509_925447_379.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v80/187/84/894580509/n894580509_801260_4356.jpg
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and finally the twin towers of southampton, which i walked past to school and college every day for 7 years. full of asbestos and lift shafts that people die in:
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v121/174/111/827190116/n827190116_1196433_1396.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v80/187/84/894580509/n894580509_725528_9282.jpg
lovely! so where did you lot grow up? pictures please!