Well I have only been living here for roughly 3 months but that is long enough!
The chavs here have one favarourite place the co-op. Here they congregate trying to work out how the oldest one in the group (usually about 14-15) is going to get their supplies of fags and booze. They tend to ask people who are old enough to buy it for them, which when they are told no they come out with the usual insults of “ahhh mate yer a prick” and such like.
Another favourite hang out is the kebab house. As well as being a take-away they have seating available in there, where you are sure to find chavs seated but don’t actually buy anything. Plus, of course you have the little greaseballs on the fruit machines.
If you are a person who listens to heavy metal and dress accordingly you are well advised not to go out after 9pm, as the chavs here like anywhere are a nocturnal species. With their cans of cider they chant abuse, hurl eggs,hurl anything they can lay their bling infested hands on. Like most occasions the insults are quite predictable and have been heard on many occasions. I think the word of the year is Greebo!
I was walking past the co-op the other day at about 11pm when some little shit said ” We don’t want greebos in our town” ( I on my part thought i don’t want to f**king be here don’t you worry) when he decided to punch me in the face! Not one to take this shit I smacked him back where he replied ” Im goona get my bruvs mate”. Typical.
However for the chav-spotters out there if you do visit this place ( be it at your own peril) be sure to visit the Barnham Inn. Guaranteed chav infestation. Fights every night so it doesnt matter what day you come down.
Well thats a description of Barnham a chav infested hell hole.
Just one more thing myself and my friends might be “greebos” but at least we know who our fathers are.
I live at the Murrell Arms pub and it’s not Barnham thats the probolem it’s the people that live in Yapton that filter into the Barnham Bridge Inn and go to the train station to go over to Chichester normally. Barnham itself is a reather nice place around the Murrell Arms.
Do not muddle up Barnham, Sussex with Barnham, a very small village in Suffolk
My dad now owns the Barnham Bridge Inn, it’s doing well, and slowly.. night by night the chavs steer clear, and move up the road to the Co-op. I don’ t know what its really liek, as he doesn’t like to talk about the going ons. He has had alot of trouble with the police and chavs, but my dad is a tough cookie, and is powering through. I’ve been there a couple of times, and during the day in the summer it is really nice, lots of people, especially when there is races going on, it’s a really nice place to be on a nice day, but i left before it got dark, as my dad said he didn’t want me to see the people that go there. He’s doing well… slowly but surely
I like Barnham. The 12-year old chavs provide entertainment with their “hardcore” ways, and constant “abuse”.
Amnis T……
I have reason to believe that you have no idea what you are talking about….. Having lived in Barnham myself for 8 years i found it unbelievibly dull… a bit like your comment. It is almost as if you are praising the scum of the earth that live in “scuzzy” barnham. The “middle class” parts that you mentioned are just as bad; with the curtain twitchers and window cleaners who look like gollum form lord of the rings (that’s a book by the way if any Chavs from barnham are reading this….then again, you wont be, as you cant read) The Co-Op is undoubtably the mecca for chavs and if it was a place of worship then chavs from around the world would be flocking there in silent prayer (more like random phrases rather than silent…as the cider has already gone to their head) so this is my response to your bit of blurb you have written Amnis T, I hope you find it educational and somewhat uplifting however, if you dont read it, i understand….im sure theres more inportant things going on….through your curtains. Give my regards to the window cleaner who im sure will give you a right seeing to….especially in Barnham, as theyre worse than chavs!!
Regards.
I find Barnham quite agreeable if you frequent the more middle class areas as I do. If you insist on ‘dressing accordingly’ you are obviously trying to single yourself out from them, which in turn is the reason you are having trouble with them. You’ve found yourself in a circular trap which has given you the exact result you wanted but it has come at a cost. You might find throughout your life you are faced with choices such as these which put your own safety at odds with your sense of pride and ability to express yourself. If you take the high-road and stand up for yourself, as you have, it is not gracious to complain about it afterwards. Do not let the good name of Barnham suffer as a result of you confusing the rules of etiquette.
Yes Barnham has more than its share of pondlife. Plenty of single mothers with 3 three children from 5 different fathers (yes I did get it the right way round – they accuse umpteen men of being the father of their children just to get money from them). They all live for nothing on State handouts. Queues at the Post Office are very long on Giro day. All the virgins in Barnham can fit in the phone box by the station.
How can such a small and totally worthless nothing place be so infested?
Its the surroundings what does it my lord………
Yapton, the Village idiot capital of England, Bognor Regis (to identify this Excrement-on-sea dump, you only need to remember BOG!!), Rose Green which is housing estate made of those semi-wooden clad dwell boxes for the terminally ugly, which were thrown up in the mid 70s and have now lost there cladding due to rot and subsequent re-cladding with yellowing cracking PVC (is PVC the substance that chav bones are made of?) and finally pagham…..what an appaling hole this is, full of vile beach huts made of old railway coaches, semi-dead ageing chav grans and stinkin seaweed….makes shoeburyness look like san tropez!!! so there u have it, Barnham is shit cos its in the middle of the shit-chav triangle of doom and because a right wanko-spaz called jonnie mason who lives there dont help its cause.
How can such a small and totally worthless nothing place be so infested?
Its the surroundings what does it my lord………
Yapton, the Village idiot capital of England, Bognor Regis (to identify this Excrement-on-sea dump, you only need to remember BOG!!), Rose Green which is housing estate made of those semi-wooden clad dwell boxes for the terminally ugly, which were thrown up in the mid 70s and have now lost there cladding due to rot and subsequent re-cladding with yellowing cracking PVC (is PVC the substance that chav bones are made of?) and finally pagham…..what an appaling hole this is, full of vile beach huts made of old railway coaches, semi-dead ageing chav grans and stinkin seaweed….makes shoeburyness look like san tropez!!! so there u have it, Barnham is shit cos its in the middle of the shit-chav triangle of doom and because a right wanko-spaz called jonnie mason who lives there dont help its cause.
Having lived in/around Barnham for the last 12 years, I can almost whole-heartedly agree with your brief appraisal of the chav-hole. However, I must make a couple of points clear:
1. Its not the “Barnham Inn”, its the “Barnham Bridge Inn”, formerly the “Barnham Hotel”.
This rather unforunately located public drinking house was closed down prior to its name-change due having its lisence revoked. The real reason was that there were too many stabbings/glassings/bottlings going on.
2. A “Greebo”.
This charming saying, when used in Barnham is actually a reference to a Chav who lives near the Barnham Railway Bridge and is commonly known as “Greebo-Dave”.
I do have to agree with your description of the place though, as a Chav-infested Hell-hole. It used to be quite nice, when I was a teenager, then it all went a bit pear-shaped, not sure what happenned but pretty much overnight it turned into the kind of place that you have to walk through it, you may want to wear entirely black (inc. stab-vest) and hide in the shadows for fear that the mob of Chavs that seem to always inhabit the outsides of every commonly used location in Barnham including (but not limited to):
The Railway Station, Co-op, the kiddies playpark, the Kebab House and the old Happy Shopper site.
A recent event in this Godforsaken Chavtown involved St Philip Howard High School being set fire to, it was all over the news!! I WENT TO THAT SCHOOL!! I actually live not more than 10 mins walk away!
I have recently given up on Barnham as a option to live in when i buy my own house, although i will still drive through there to see how Chavvy it really is from time to time.
If i can afford to buy the HUMVEE i need to keep me safe!!!