I know that many people have included most towns (if not all the towns) in this greater London Borough. I thought I would make a collective viewpoint of how these chav / Ned / spidey scum start to take over. Firstly you have the central chavdom of Romford in Havering. With all these cloned town shops (JJB sports, Argos, etc) how could your average chav resist? Them at night, well Romford just becomes a place of small minded idiots getting ‘well bladdered’ at local establishments like the night club Time and Envy, where all 15 year old sluts are welcomed in by the purvey bouncers. Ohh and you may think chavs are age restricted to under 25 at the most, not here if you ever have the joy of looking in to the window of the bar Trax you can see 40 year old chavs trying to ‘chat up ‘ 15 year old girls. Also you can experience the joy of one of England’s longest running markets in Romford where you can pick up all the chav bling you could ever want. Then there is Elm Park the place where a man try to tell three chavs to not to use swear words in front of his children, they then beat him up and left the guy permanently brain damaged. Then there is Hornchurch where as another member of this web site said you can frequent the local Lloyds No 1 pub where the local chavs can drink all they want and then start fighting just outside the pub on the traffic Island letting any visitor to Hornchurch think she/he is in a war zone. If you do ever go past Romford train station, there is an electronic billboard and it quotes every now and then ‘Havering, London’s greenest borough. Instead of being pleased about being London’s greenest borough, chavs will got to local nature reserves and country parks like the Airfield in Hornchurch and set fire to as much of the bush land and woods for fun. Then there is the Mecca for chavs to live, the Mardyke, with many council tower blocks there and local 14 year old sluts offering a good time for as little as a ten pounds. Ohh and how can I forget Harold Wood where if you cycle with a helmet on, you get local chavs in their Ford Fiestas shout out at you as they pass you, to try to make you have a road accident. Also, you might as well visit Harold Hill whilst you are here, where if you stand at a local graffiti infested bus stop, you may get shot at by a chav passing by in a car with a pellet gun or a paint ball gun. For any more detail of the area including the other chav infested towns of Upminster, Collier Row and many more, just look in the weekly local paper, The Romford Recorder. This usually has all the listings of stabbings and beatings that happen in this lovely area.
By the way I have been to many other places mentioned in this web site like Belfast, Edinburgh, many other London and Essex places, Brighton, Norwich and many more places. These all have chevs/neds/spiders that are really bad, but if it’s the stare of a ‘I want to kill you’ look, then Havering tops the bill.
Having lived in Harold Hill for 21 years, all my life in fact, I have found more trouble in Brentwood, an area considered more civilised and wealthy, just 4 miles away from Harold Hill, than anywhere else. Get off your High horse and do so etching more productive with your life.
I have lived in Havering my whole life and made the mistake of buying a house in Harold Hill as it was all I could afford. When I moved here 10 years ago I thought the area’s bad reputation was unjust, but it’s gone seriously downhill in that time to the point where I no longer feel safe in my own home. The local shopping areas are plagued with gangs of hoodies and slags who shout at and intimidate others, openly smoking drugs in shop doorways. Buses to the area are full of teenagers creating non-stop havoc. Parents encourage the kids to behave badly and lead by example (most parents seem to be teenagers and/or jobless). There are a hell of a lot of really ugly, fat people on benefits, wearing crap from Primark, smoking and drinking in the street.
I’ve had my house broken into, my car vandalised, my car stolen, my neighbours’ plants uprooted. I’m woken by the racket of illegal motorbikes being ridden up and down the road and there’s a constant background noise of shouting, screaming and barking dogs.
Over the past few years there’s been a surge of Africans moving in, to the point where there are days I don’t see a single white face. Harold Hill is full of society’s dregs and should be avoided at all costs.
Blood seriously do not make me get old school, Romford is a nang place full of sexy orange birds any man says different they get slapped with a fake tan fish get me blud
Not sure about the rest of it, but Harold Hill is a nice place. OBVIOUSLY, use your bloody common sense, like you would anywhere, and you won’t come to any harm. Harold Wood a bit rougher, but still, not quite as bad as your portray
Havering is certainly a dump but the likes of Harold Hill and Rainham are a world apart from places such as Grays, Tillbury and Basildon. This is pure chavdom, even me as a Burberry clad staff owner with a 12 oz bracelet and cannabis tattoo on each forearm can see that. I mean I know Romford market is like a breeding ground for Jeremy Kyle at the best of times but believe me Basildon town centre is more like a holding pen for Night of the Living Dead extras. Its just one long dole queue of fake Ugg boots and multi coloured children. I’m backing Pitsea to take this years prestigious title of Chavtown of the year with a Tillbury a close second followed by Laindon. Trust me I know Romfords bad, but it may as well be Beverly Hills compared to that lot plus the majority of Romfords Friday and Saturday night visitors travel from areas just like the ones ive mentioned believing Romford to be “up London” only for the majority of Haverings residents to prefer places outside of the borough either in Essex or further into town such as Shoreditch, Camden or the West end. So until we meet on the muddy banks of the A12 for a “straightnah” I shall stand tall in my matching donnay tracksuit and trainers and flash a reversed V sign at the haters who dare dog the pedigree which is RM…….WOT!
I live in Upminster and as a 16 year old teenager, let me tell you, its f**king hell living in essex, you feel very unsafe walking the streets passed 9 o clock, chavs are everywhere, kill them all I say.
How whimsical! I have lived in Romford for the past three years now and it has been simply delightful.
It possesses one of London’s oldest markets, which puts farcical quandaries such as Borough Market to shame. Many of the aforementioned ‘chav’ bars and clubs are being upgraded to to more gastro-esque non-anomalies you might find in the affluent areas of Central London.
One of the largest trouble-making disco establishments has been demolished completely, allowing for the build of yet more flats and apartments. Yuppification can be seen, in fact, across the entire borough.
A note to the writer; it may be wise for you to attend evening classes, in order to brush up on your general punctuation and grammar.
Just a suggestion of course, no obligation.
Don’t you just love it.
A story about the idiots and chavs and nofpordkm answers in the foulest way possible effectively proving everything said is true.
The irony is obviously lost on the idiot.
……just listen to the thick chavscum above…..Romford is a complete chav shithole full of loudmouthed idiots like him/her or is it an it? in their stupid clothes drinking their dole money in the chavscum run down town centre….normal decent people are laughing at them in their stupid little caps…they have ruined a once great country…..
ARHHHHHHHHH YOUR ALL SUCH STUCK UP PEOPLE ,YOU HAVE A WEBSITE CALLED “chavtown” AND YOU START SLAGGING OFF EVERYWERE IN THE UK ,ITS SO SAD ,
people might chat diffently to all your little posh fuking mates but only coz they were born in a bad place in uk
all this shit about 15 year old sluts ,is not truee and its SOOO MUCH SHIT I CANT EVEN TELL YOU ABOUT IT
just coz they are pretter then all your familys you have to say they are sluts ,and the purvey bouncers ,urmmmm ever heard of under 18 nights and that means little kids that people under 18 can go in the clubs and a club is like a disco ,SO YOU ARE DUMB AS FUK AND YOU ALL SHOUD GROW UP AND GET A PROPER JOB AND STOP SLAGGING OFF PEOPLE COZ ONE DAY YOU WILL BE IN A LOT OF SHIT IF THEY FIND OUT
Hmmm… I’ve obviously been living under a rock in the 26 years I’ve been in Havering, cos apart from a few major incidents (mentioned above) there are more nice, clean, affluent areas of Havering than there are bad.
Gidea Park, Emerson Park, Upminster, Corbets Tey, Wennington, St Leonards… all clean, trouble free, family areas. Yes, there are plenty of chavs about but where in Greater London isn’t there?! Even Chelsea has council estates and murders commited.