Never mind bumfights, for chavfights come to the waterside gardens of sunny Brentford, home of Brentford FC and more burberry caps than are strictly necessary….
Brentford, Middlesex, is a riverside town well known for its Arts Centre, a football team, a number of pubs, a legendary Griffin, and being the former home of the writer Robert Rankin, who recently said he wouldn’t live there now.
On a recent visit I could see why he wouldn’t.
The riverside path was infested by a large group of chavs, both sexes, all clutching lager tins and arguing very loudly about something, the kind of argument that could turn very nasty and you don’t want to be there when it does.
Later on I went into the council estate bit of Brentford and wished I hadn’t. Chavs and neds were on every corner: the knockoff sportsgear, the vulgar jewelery, the baseball caps, some even in the Burberry check, and of course the perennial favourite: unhealthy-looking teenage couples snogging frantically in driveways. All this in mid-afternoon, I add.
I pedalled swiftly away to the relative safety of the extremely grotty Brentford High Street. Brentford is supposed to be up and coming – all I can detect is some very ugly new developments along the Kew Bridge Road, the flattening of the Plough pub for yet another development, and a terrible chav infestation.
Brentford is like any area – it has it’s good and bad bits. I’ve lived here all my life and have never felt threatened or afraid to go out after dark. Yes, there is a thriving chav community, like most towns these days, but it’s not all bad. The problem lies with the govenment making it so easy for people to sit on their arses. I think if you started by demolishing all the sink estates and segregating these lazy, ignorant fuckers and gave them food vouchers that they couldn’t spend in the offie, then we might get somewhere in irradicating these parasites, or at least it might piss on their parade : )
Brentford has always been a predominantly council town but when I was a kid people had respect for their neighbours and they always went out to work. Nowadays Hounslow council seem to put the dregs of society and as many immigrants as they can fit in to the area, making sure to avoid putting Chiswick out by dumping them there!
I still don’t think it’s a bad place to live though, I’d take it over anywhere in North London or the likes of Slough any day.
AH, but the Beehive is an amazing pub -en route to kew gardens, richmond park via kew bridge-or syon park. Ok thats the romantic view, the reality is very different-what a total dump!
The area is full of mad bastards on day release-chavs a plenty-and yuppies who will pay 650,000 for a 3 bed flat on kew bridge rd!
They should have stuck to Chiswick-oh well…