It’s a shame really. This small town nestled between Rochdale and Rawtenstall could be considered a fantastic little town; the town fountain, the quirky ‘Welsh village’ buildings, and of course, it had the smallest street in Britain. Not to mention it has quite a few claims to fame and even a few celebs live or have been known to have lived there. Sounds great doesn’t it? That’s until you notice what the majority of the population are … chavs! Yes, this scumbag race has even began to infect small towns and rural areas now.
You can tell it’s a chav haven even before you get there. On the 464 bus journey to the town, the seats welcome you to the Rossendale Valley with words such are ‘f**k’, ‘Kev R has a small dick’ or ‘Chelsea was eya chillin wiv Kirsty b4u’ either scribed on, wrote on with marker or burned on with a lighter.
When the bus arrives, you will have to fight your way off the bus because ugly chavettes with prams will be pushing their way on the bus to go to Rochdale and get the weekly shopping from the pound shop. Of course, they will be arguing with the driver because there are already 3 chavettes with prams on the bus and no matter how hard he tries to explain it’s a safety risk to get another pram on, he’s always in the wrong to not let a mum with a pram on the bus.
Once you’re off the bus, you’ll be greeted by a heard of chavs perched on the benches, usually drinking. They come down from the Pennine Road Estate during the day. Why this happens is a mystery. Usually one of them owns a clapped-out Nova and parks on the taxi rank, showing off his new sound system (it’s not the bass what’s shaking the buildings, it’s the distortion from the cheap and nasty speakers!).
If you look at them for a split second, they start threatening you with “I’ll track ya down and torch yer ‘ouse!”. The most gentle of them will give you the opertunity of sparing your teeth if you give them a fag. This is the closest a Bacup chav comes to reasoning.
It gets better at night! By this time, the chavs are drunk or stoned. The males go round hurling abuse, breaking into cars or kicking the crap out of each other. The females go around mating, wearing next to nothing or screaming “I’M OFF ME FACE!! HAHAHA!” The latter seems to be a mating call because no sooner the males know the females are drunk, they’ll have their arms round them and taking them to the nearest alleyway to fertilise them. The females never seem to struggle but usually cry rape when they realise they’re pregnant.
Nearby Bacup is another council estate … Edgeside. For absolutely no reason, these two estates are constantly at war. There’s graffiti all round the valley like ‘e-side scumbags’ or ‘bacup bograts’. When a gang of Bacup chavs collide with a group of Edgeside chavs, all hell breaks loose. It’s amusing because they have no idea why they hate each other. Some will say it’s “coz they’re dickheads” or “coz they were startin’”.
Favourite chav hangouts are:
The library steps
Outside OneStop
Perched on the bus stop benches
All bus shelters
On the 464 bus
On Pennine Road/Tong Lane
The Waterloo pub (for those who are old enough to fake their age)
Did you know that Bacup has appeared in many episodes of The League of Gentlemen? Hardly surprising considering how wierd the characters are! They probably derived the phrase ‘Are you local?’ from a chav asking them ‘Where ya from? Where ya going, dickhead?’ (Hoping you’ll say Edgeside so they can kick your arse. Really … I get asked this at least once a week!)
I lived in bacup for a short time and I have to say that it is the worst place I’ve ever seen, so true that they’re all inbred they’re all ‘cousins’ so they love to say, don’t start with me my cousin will eat you for breakfast, probably true seen as their cousins spent their brekki money on smack! Bacups residents have no desire to leave their shitehole of a town as they’ve never known any different way of life because their mums and dads were the generation of chavs before them, and as for the ‘BTG’ standing for ‘BACUP TERROR GROUP’ what a set of absolute brainless idiots the worlds ever seen, made up of a load of kids all following one bigger idiot called GARRY BULBHEAD who when he’s not ‘fronting his gang’ spends his days scratching his big fat sweaty arse whilst on the way to rochdale brothel with his trusted pal ‘PADDY HOEY’, these two are the finest examples of a chav who surprisingly both have girlfriends but sadly they too are chavs so don’t really care, bacup is a dirty scruffy shithole a bomb should be dropped on it so that nobody else could be mistaken that its a nice town and end up stuck there, getting the hell away from that place is the best thing I’ve ever done and I’ll never go back not even for a visit I’d rather eat razorblades, bacup is definatly the arsehole of the universe and the chavs who exist there are the shitstains off that arsehole. Xx
I know there is a lot of joking here and an over exaggeration for a small village, mainly left by teenagers and adults who should know better. A lot of why Bacup is given a bad name is down to the reason of being high benefit friendly, low police presence and our local authority (Based in Rawtenstall) see it as a dumping ground for all the worst inhabitants in Rossendale, Rochdale and neighbouring areas and ‘group them all together’ this has gone on since the early 1980′s. The most recent is the setting up a young offenders hostel right in the centre of the village. This development and others like it breed contempt for the surrounding area causing more friction. People moan about cutbacks in this recession that we are in and unfortunately for Bacup we have always got the short straw politically. There is a community in Bacup but it is always overshadowed by what has happened in the press. This is typical stereotyping of an area that is just left to live with what the local authority have happily dumped on us. We are now experiencing the new generation who have and believe in nothing, Idiots breed Idiots through lack of options in employment, education and help from local authorities. Most people who knock this small village generally have come from a more aesthetic background who have been to Bacup briefly and think they can add to the stereotype when in actual fact are empowering themselves over an area which is at rock bottom, people still actually believe in a class system still when they are forgetting the real reason for them and their families live near to Bacup is down to the town being a cradle of civilisation of the surrounding areas in the past. People forget that towns like Bacup built Lancashire and indeed most of the trade for most of England and then when profits were drooping the powers that be took their work abroad leaving a hollow shell of a proud and dynamic town. We all have problems with ‘chavs’ but with lack of tools to deal with them and our local police force based nearly 10 miles away Bacup is left to revel in the excrement that the powers that be have happily bestowed on us. This coupled with the fact that most areas in Britan are suffering the same problems but Bacup is a beacon of the north for the surrounding areas to laugh at. Waterfoot, Whitworth, Rawtenstall and Haslignden are all in the same boat. To conclude don’t laugh at a town that the country have forgotten because the way it is going all places will be like this before long.
yeh ok, bacup is a pretty shit town, but not all of us teenagers that live around bacup are like this you know? so all i say is, the people who are like this are putting a bad name on our town and the teenagers in it, cos people like me don’t sit around f**king the neighbors and drinking and smoking in the center and knowing the local policeman by his full name
I think I’m the only 15 year old confident enough [[or stupid enough]] to walk into Bacup alone. I hate this place, I feel like a trapped animal living here and at the first glimmer of freedom, I’m getting out as fast as humanly possible.
bacup is the fuckin mecca ov rossendale some top pepole there its just that 10 percent that f**k it up by trying to bullying foke in bacup in the pubs they no ho they are but ther geting old now cant run shit fore eva bacup will boom again am sure………
i live in the shithole known as bacup, too many scumbags who hang around gettin pissed on benches all day, cocky little idiots with no brain cells who mouth off at anyone, bacup is a daily dose of shameless and cant wait to move away from all the scum here
BACUP WAT CAN I SAY ITS NOT A BAD PLACE BUT THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY RUN IT , IE GARRY BULBHEAD AND HIS TEADY BEAR GROUP (BTG) ALL FUCKIN RUNTS WHO GO AROUND SMASHED OUT OF THERE HEADS OF ANYTHING THEY CAN FIND FIGHTING AT NITE BY THE DOSSEN ID LOVE TO COME FROUNT TO FROUNT WITH 1 OF THESE DICK HEADS AND SMASH THEM RIGHT IN THE FACE AS THE DID TO MISS LANCASTER WHY DONT THEY GET A LIFE AND STOP BREEDING WITH ONE OR OTHER TO GET AN FAMLY CHAIN GOING ON GROW UP PLZ
Ive lived in Bacup all my life, fair do’s it aint the nicest place and yes it does have more than its fair share of dick head and inbreds but theres one thing it has in its defence atleast it isnt full of paki’s like Rawtenstall or rochdale.
Ive always found that its only the dickheads that get given shit or give shit, Ive never been scared or worried about walking around Bacup regardless of the time of day purely because I aint a dick so people have no reason to bother me.
Id rather live in Bacup over Rochdale or Rawtenstall any day.
after liuin there 6yrs i met a few good pepole but 99.9 r fcukin scum nothing doing in life except pay day gettin pissed stonded wrecked and breeding the town is a shit hole and stuck in a time warp thank god i got out but will defo not b returning that was a experience id rather 4 get my friend said she was offered a house up there she liues in middleton i told her stay were u are i regreated mouin there after 4 days took me 6yrs neighbour nussince and harrasment to get out off the sesspit
For strength training
wow how so true and the ppl who say it aint live and breed there lmao
different interbread scum who don’t do a day work for the joys of owning there pair of fred perry trainers!!
Rochdale is now a shite hole with nothing to show for its self and rawenstall is as bad making not so great places to live, Ive lived in all 3 places and guess what moved as far as i could to get a better life so god bless the m65 !!
Quote “If you dont like Bacup, then don’t come hear just go around.”
Lmao – I always do drive around if I can. If I never see this chave infested shit kicking little town again it will be too soon.
Rawtenstall and Rochdale are nowhere near as depressive and inbred as Bacup. By the time you have gathered the gene pool collected from the Taylor, Mulcahy and mullins family then you have just about got the Basic Bacup breeding program. Most give birth to their cousin’s children before getting their own place on housing benefit. Then just sit back, roll a joint and smoke crack!
I have seen some shitholes in my time but this hell hole is the pits. Bacup is the arsehole of the universe! I actually know for a fact that after filming a couple of episodes of a League of gentlemen, they left because the town was “too weird”, as a member of the production staff told me.
Whilst working one day in Bacup I bumped into a girl I used to go to school with who was driving around bacup with her boyfriend looking for a suitable place to live. She asked me if I could point her in the right direction, so I did. I said get on Rochdale road and dont stop until you get to the other side of Whitworth. This was around the time when the local housing authority who had loads of empty houses thought it might be a good idea to advertise in the manchester evening news lol. Result an influx of scum bag manchester chavs and criminals usually on the run from their local rochdale dealer only too happy to spend tax payers money on a 3 bed semi on Pennine Road. God help those decent people who live in Bacup I pity you.
rawtenstall and rochdale are nearly as bad!
I don’t see why you can’t just let it be said that bacup is a chav infested shithole. The League of gentelmen was in fact based on the west yorkshire and east lancashire towns/moors and a few of the scenes were actually shot in bacup. Rossendale as a whole is a pretty grim place to be and sadly it’s not a place that can just be avoided by someone wh lives there.
Perhaps being 42 gives you a different perspective on chavs because they are less likely to “start on you” but for a teenager who isnt a chav it’s near impossible to see anything good about bacup.
i,ll start with the fact i have lived hear since i was 7 yrs old, now 42, and also in the defence of Bacup to some extent.
becksiekate : no way is Bacup that bad anymore, definately one of the worst thats for sure, true it used to be rough but it is no way as near as bad now.
hajamie: the League of Gentlemen is actually based on Bacup…come on pull the other one…
gotajob:haha yeah very funny, i thought you were talking about Rawtenstall or Rochdale..
what does Rochdale or Rawtenstall have that Bacup does’nt?.
If you dont like Bacup, then don’t come hear just go around.
Well what can i say to that. Bacup is that rough even the dogs walk in pairs.
Another display of ignorance coming from a pigeon-hole near you.
God bless Bacup.
Its so funny to drive through bacup its like a scene from whacky racers ,,,but with prams. Being 16 and under, the mums from the area have to spend their hard earned government handouts on the best pram they can buy,mod it up (child included)and off they go!!.At night its like a scene from the Dawn Of The Dead ,,all the scummies come out to see wot they can steal, pillage, find and scrounge for their next fix,,the nuke idea sounds well cool.
You obviously are a chav. Pull your d*ck out of you sister and get a life.
So true…
Just thought I should say, the League of Gentlemen is actually based on Bacup. Thats not a joke. It is.
Unfortunatley, my dear fellow. Its one of the worse cases ive seen.
Goodness, Just walking through it on you own..and the chav girls are on you. Even when youre sat on a bus yuo arent safe, On the beloved 464 bus route, my friends got beaten up..becasue…they were wearing a HAT.
NUKE BACUP.Obviously let me out first, Do you live in the godforsaken town too?
becky x