Maghull, a skid mark on the underpants of society, a part of liverpool which really should not be part of merseyside, or mainstream society for that matter. Maghull which originally was a farming hamlet has in the last century became a place for people who think that they have made it big time. Families mainly from Kirby, Aintree and Bootle flock to Maghull because it is “an apparently nicer and posher place to live”. Well lets face a few home truths about Maghull. The council tax is exactly the same as council tax in Kirby, Bootle and Aintree so the council of Liverpool or Sefton do not recognise Maghull as a special area so its just like any other rough part of liverpool. The fact that it is on the other side of switch island and in a leafy sub-urban part of merseyside is to blame for the creation of this “myth”. So, why is Maghull such a poor place to live and why should it be placed on this website. I will explain.
Maghull is a breeding ground for a new revolutionary type of Liverpool scum called “The Wannabe Bad Boy” bascially a fella who has been brought up in Maghull who grows up to believe himself to be a hardened scally who is hard and who thinks he is a gangster. The evidence for this accusation is rife. If you go to the Meadows pub on a Sunday night or the Coach and Horses you will see lads who walk around pretending to act hard and who make out that they recieve their money from illegal means. The reality is that these boys live with mummy and daddy and who probably work for mummy and daddy’s company with no names mentioned! The “wannabe bad boy” will also drive around in mummy and daddys car in the evening pretending that the car is theirs and that they conduct their “buisiness” in it. The common car that a maghull lad now drives at the moment is either a Vauxhall Vectra, a second hand lexus, or a volkswagen GTI which again WONT be theirs. However they succeed in pulling the easy girls from the pubs in maghull because girls in maghull are mostly orange faced money obsessed slags who want to latch on to a drug dealer or doorman as soon as possible but this type of woman originates from all places in liverpool so there is no change there but more on Maghull Women later. Maghull lads, most of them are not hard. They do not deal drugs and they do not possess any type of aggressiveness or obnoxiousness about them. They are not to be feared. If you wish to see a proper hard knock scally lad who is to be kept at a distance then please feel free to visit Toxteth, Dovecot or Ackers Hall or any other romantic hotspots in liverpool. Lads from Maghull tend not to enter mainstream society, they cocoon themselves in their pubs such as the red house (which is a shed which does actually have fungus growing in it) the coach and horses, the weld blundell, the hare and hounds and most importantly the Meadows which unfortuantly missed a stray bomb in the second world war when a bomb from a dive bomber landed in what is at present the rear car park. Evidence that the Germans even know how bad the place actually is. After a the meadows has called last orders on a sunday night there is a ritual gathering outside the pub because no one knows how to get a cab home. Also girls and boys who have been drinking there on a sunday night make the arrangements on who they are going home with? Has anyone seen the American Sitcom M*A*S*H? Well my point is in this series the doctors have had all the nurses on the unit and all move from one nurse to the next swapping nurses night after night with eachother. This is exactly what happens in the Meadows, only that the lads are the doctors and the girls are the nurses. Maghull lads also tend not to go to liverpool city centre at night because they feel insecure in town, why? Because they cant pretend that they are hard or violent in town because everyone in liverpool knows that Maghull is not a violent place such as toxteth or anfield. In summary of Maghull boys, if you take away the lacoste tracksuits and mummy and daddys car and money, you would be left with a lad who would be best suited to live in poshest and wealthiest parts of the Wirral or Cheshire because these lads are too soft for their own good and would surely not survivie in a city setting away from their parent’s protection. If they were placed in a container they would drown in their own bullshit spewing from their overly pronounced scouse accent speaking mouths.
Moving swfitly on to girls from Maghull. Now girls from Maghull are just like girls from any other part of Liverpool. Most of them being orange, dangerously thin, money obsessed, self thinking peices of work. However the difference is Maghull girls are easly impressed and easily led on. Many a time have i been to the meadows and the coach and horses and have pulled girls just because i bought them ONE yes ONE drink and my car was parked outside. Thats how easy it really is and if you dont believe me try it for yourself. Girls from Maghull also believe that they too are from “da hood” that they also are hard, but the reality is they are only as hard as their current dealer or doorman boyfriend is at the time. I have spoken to many doormen and cabbies and have been told the same thing time after time after time. That the pubs in Maghull are stomping grouds for dealers and doormen from other areas in Liverpool due to the fact that it is so easy to get a shag from a girl from maghull. The more hard you are, the better car you have and the more money you have the easier it is to get a girl from their, and if you are actually a doorman or a drug dealer then you might as well never get married because you will have an ever flowing supply of Maghull Pussy. I know this because i have an ugly friend, and i mean an ugly ugly friend, he even knows himself to be very unattractive, but he drives a Range Rover HSE which even though it isnt his he once pretended that it was one sunday night and parked it right outside the meadows. We were immediatly confronted by a whord of girls smoking outside the front entrance to the meadows wereby my friend blagged that he was head doorman for the edwards bar in town. He got laid that night in the girls house as her parents were away in the lake district at the time. Need i say any more? Girls from maghull also overly dress for the pub. I mean, what girl or person would go to the pub dressed in the most revealing desinger clobber? Girls in the meadows wear practically nothing all year round and its just a pub, not a club or a bar, just an old mans pub which has a DJ in it on sunday nights. Its like going to the grafton but only that the girls age range is between 12-17, most girls from maghull over this age are usually kept behind lock and key by their dealer or doormen boyfriends. Also girls over this age from maghull have probably shagged about half the male population in the area and so therefore can no longer show their faces in such places. A final reason is that some lucky girls move to liverpool and have escaped the wrath of the cocooned maghull area and realised what fools they were to think that life in Maghull was reality.
Finally we move the fact that Maghull thinks itself to be more than it actually is. There are signs round maghull pointing to “Maghull Town Centre” MAGHULL DOESNT HAVE A TOWN CENTRE! Their apparent town centre has about 10 shops in it and a police station. That sounds more like a village to me. The only reason there is a police station in Maghull is so that Merseyside Police can keep monitoring 3 drug barons that live in Maghull, i know this because i have a few friends who are in the force.
In summary Maghull itself is not a rough place to live however it does harbour this new type of scally scum both girls and boys. If it wasnt for Maghull then clubs such as the living rooms, garlands, the newz bar and all other hives for “wanna be bad boys” would be out of buisiness.
There are some decent living folk who live there but this decent folk is comprised of mainly pensioners and white collar workers. Other people who live their simply have moved there from other parts of liverpool thinking that they are the dogs who have succeeded in life. Simply not true, i could live in Maghull right now and i am in my early 20′s. Doesnt say much does it? Anyone who is coming to liverpool for capital culture, if you cant pull in liverpool city centre or anywere else for that matter, go to Maghull. And if you fancy a laugh at the Maghull “scallies” then go for it, you wont be disapointed.
It is blatently obvious that the author of the passage has been rebuked and rejected by society as a misfit. Maybe he has had a crush on a girl from Maghull and has been mocked and used because he is as he sounds a total k .. b-head.
He sounds like an only child or at least an only boy in the family, because he sound like a proper mummys boy – definately not a crook as he like to associate himself to, but sorry ,its all in your dreams.
You dont sound as if you live in Maghull, so how do you know so much about its inhabitants and the frequenting patrons of the local pubs? What are you doing drinking in a pub with a car outside, was this you bragging tool because your face and personality get you down. Maybe you live in an area such as West Derby bordering on Croxteth/Huyton or Aughton/Kirkby. (By the way you cant spell KirKby). you are a loner with very few friends, probably hounding people for frienship and attention. It would be interesting to know how many of the above points have hit the mark.
my comment did not post in its entirely, thus I will continue:
However, I feel that you have neglected to comments on a significant proportion of the young Maghull population who are kind, pleasant and of a kind disposition. I have known more people of this persuasion than of the type attacked in your article. I know that a comment on this group is not befitting of a site called ‘chav towns’ however, it should be referred to as there are many, many nice people in Maghull. The problem is that they tend to travel to the city centre to avoid being in the company of the immigrant jokers!
Good ‘article’ and many accurate descriptions. I have lived in Lydiate (but socialised in Maghull) for around 12 years and have seen a decline in the general population which is now full of wannabe scallies and lads with attitude who drive around in Daddy’s car or their VW Passat. Im sick of it and would love scally-tipping to be legalised!
Its also true what you say about idiots from Walton, Aintree, Kirkby, etc., appearing in the local haunts due to the fact that they can ‘own the joint’ and the women as they have to deal with far more dangerous people on a regular basis, its just too easy!
I used to love going to the Meadows when I was first a legal drinker (16, lol) as part of a group of normal Maghulleans; educated, geneal and, in alll honesty, rather raw. There was a certain percentage of wise guys who frequented the pub but they were mostly students/ex-students of the Maghull schools who lived in Melling, Kirkby or Aintree. I stopped going there, bored with bumping into the same people every week. After university I went back a few times and was shocked to see how it had changed (for the worse). Every girl was scantily clad and a chain-smoker and the place was full of ‘scallies’ doing coke in the toilets and swanning round like they were carrying barrels under their arms. Needless to say I don’t bother going there anymore as it is hideous and not an entertaining place to be at all, with the exception of the most recent Christmas Day. The atmosphere was completely different with families and friends meeting up to celebrate the day, it was like a pub ought to be!
Well i have never lived in maghull, and for the millionth time, yes there are spelling errors and typos, the article was typed in haste. I dont want to say why i know the wretched place so well, i just do. Also, any one who wants to call me a nob, arsehole or whatever they are welcome to do so, but they are also welcome to go look at the evidence for my descriptions. I have said enough in my article, if you wanna ask any questions go ahead but make em clear and ill answer em as clear as i can.
I am actually Gob smacked that there is someone with so much time to waste on an article like this. To be fair you are meant to be a highly educated individual and your article is just pathetic! I live in Maghull and frankly I think you have no idea of how it really is. Wannabe scallies well aren’t all scallies just wannabes? Who actually defines what a scally is isn’t it really an individuals interpretation, so a scally to you could be completely different to what it is to me. I’m rather offended by your remarks on maghull women, I regularly drink in many of the pubs you’ve mentioned more often than not the meadows, which I would like to point out is a nice pub with a decent atmosphere and as for “pretend scouse boys” not going into town have you ever seen the nightbus from the meadows clearly not! I think you need to grow up and get a job cause clearly you have too much free time on your hands!! Finally I am completely horrified bu your generalization of girls from maghull, every city has “orange girls”, moreover it is more evident that the closer you get to the city centre there are girls worse than this the “wannabe wag” which I would like to state are the type that fill bars like Newz and Kingdom, not that I’m slating other areas, each area is different and maybe if you actually travelled more or perhaps got your passport renewed to actually come to maghull or any other area than your own and the city centre your mind would not be so narrow and chauvinistic. Seriously you have amazed me, you really have no idea about the world or even your own city!! I can’t actually believe I even wrote this reply in response to such a ridiculous article wasting my time! Just goes to show not all us girls from maghull are like that infact I think what you described is a minority so maybe get your facts and figues correct next time you actually put your name to an article like this rather than looking foolish as you do now!
your opinions dont mean f**k all you borin bastards
maghull is a better place in fact the rest of yers are tramps compaired us
maghull- weed
bootle – smack
catch my drift
smoke in peace
I am from Maghull myself. I get what you mean about the lads bit, but to be honest, you get this wherever you go. ‘Orange faced girls’ go for lads in flash cars wherever you are in the country. And ALL girls from maghull aren’t orange faced. Or slags. Or money obsessed. We just like to do well for ourselves (i.e. get a good job) Oh and it must have took whoever wrote the first comment a while to type. Why bother? Have you not got nethin else to do???? Maghull isn’t the place for scallys tbh because there is not much to do there. But you must have an in depth knowledge of the place to write that much about it, therefore you must have been quite a few times… why bother if you don’t like the place????
Firstly its Kirkby and not Kirby. Now thats out the way with I agree with alot of what is said however its not exclusive to maghull, its any are that is percieved as ‘posh’. The scum thats cant afford to move to spain/thailand end up in quieter areas and then begin to make then more desirable to the lower down sucm that look up to them. Aintree/maghull/crosby/west derby/allerton/formby are all such places, and will continue to be as long as the idiotic police cant follow a simple bit of money laundering.
Well this was certainly a very interesting and entertaining read. I think u are a very narrow minded individual to generalise and stereotype maghull in this manner. Ofcourse the place has a few bad egg, everwhere has them, and unfortunately we have to deal with that. However its not right to group the whole population of this small town as scals, fake scousers and slag gold diggers. I am a 22 year old female who lived in maghull for 10 years. The majority of my friends still live in maghull and we always go out drinking in the meadows and millys. None of wear fake tan, or dress like a dogs dinner, and we certainly don’t chase after doormen or drug dealers! I think u need to open your eyes a bit and realise that there are many individuals out there who do not fall into your embarrassing description. For someone who has been to univeristy u seem to be very uneducated.
where not posh, we just have jobs. ever heard of one?
well here i was bored in university and happened to stumble across this website. everyone is intitled to their opinion so heres mine. this has to be the most contradicting piece of text ever to be published. heres a few points why:
you bang on about how maghull boys are all fag’s and cant look after themselves but then you say the girls are with all the doormen and dealers from maghull. if maguhll is such a fag of a place would there be any door men?
you then pointlessly slag off maghull for saying its not a town centre. a town centre is any area of land that contains reail shops and a form of transport such as bus or train station. the maghull square has both of them so therefore it has a town centre.
you say maghull boys never venture into town due to us being scared of other scallys from other areas. but later on say if it wasn’t for us maghull lads certain clubs in town would be shut. which one is it?
you insist where not scouse. i think your being the most un-scouse person i’ve met. you outline maghulls problems, wanna be gangsta’s, brassy birds. sorry wake up. look at the whole of liverpool. name an area which does not have this problem.
you maintain the theory that maghull lads can not fight and are all muppets who cant look after themselves. however on one of your comments above you say “watch your arse” and being scouse that is a term we use when going into a unknown situation we say watch ya ass so ya dont get stabbed when you turn around. why would people have to worry about this if its such a queer pub?
i do not disagree with your views on maghull. however your views alter too much to be taken seriously. if its such a bad place to go then why do you know about every single pub in the area and people from here? if its that bad simply do not go. me and a few lads before we go the match meet up with mates from anfield in the elm tree. its that bad a pub we didnt go again. its simple as that don’t go. i question where your from by knowing such in-depth knowledge about the area and even naming certain people. i think that was wrong on your behalf naming certain lads that yes rightly do think there someone but still there names should not be openly said on internet where you remain behind closed doors protecting your identity.
i go everywhere with liverpool f.c. and have good friends from wezzie (west vale). when we where younger every friday and saturday they used to come down and well riots would commence. they kicked f**k out of us many a time, but the friends i now have from that area admit they got a beating once or twice. they always take the piss out of me from being from maghull but its a joke, we have a L postcode and i am proud to come from t he area. i can’t see why you have such hatred for the place and its people as its no different from the public of many areas in liverpool. my belief is you once lived here or still do, was bullied or had a tough time here and let down by a few girls and ignored, and for that reason you try get revenge. just my opinion.
Lets face it Maghull is one of the best places to live in in the north west. A lot of shit frome Liverpool send the kids to the schools in Maghull and tha brings the area down, the local Maghull kids are all smart clean and rich.
i hate scalls,you f**king suck dick lad,what a sad little ming,spending all his time spewing his daft arse opinions on how shit he thinks somewhere is,ahhh mate you need to get a life ,you piece of cow shit hahahahaha
I have lived in maghull my whole life, money doesnt interest me in the slightest, I dont do drugs/ lust after drug dealers, I am not painfully thin and I am certainly not an orange slag. I can therefore confirm that I do not belong to your ‘Maghull girl’ stereotype, though I know of a few who could.
I live around the Meadows area and went to Deyes High school, which did admittedly have a lot of ‘wannabe chavs’ attending but surprisingly had a larger number of decent people.
However you seem to miss a discription of the nicer members of the community living in this area, so I thought I would inform you that we do exist… I guess we must be harder for people like you to find, especially if they’re so focused on finding as many disadvantages as possible to post on a forum.
go on a sunday or saturday night, say get there for half 9 and then stay till closing time and you will see what i mean. The sefton in west derby were i live is a greene king pub and its supposed to be a dive compared to the meds but you will see for yourself, the sefton looks like a treasure chest when compared to the meds, watch ur arse
I am 42. I was born in Kirkby and lived there until I was 18, when my family moved to Formby. Until I was 5 or 6 the area we lived in was still rural, but over the following years more and more bad families moved in and changed the place forever.
My parents were both teachers at what was then called St Gregory’s; the fact that they were teachers marked us out as ‘different’, and we suffered trememdously because of that. My parents had bought the house from the council, but it was the only privately owned house in the street and was vandalised scores of times… not to mention the numerous times my dad’s car was stolen, and the two occasions where I was attacked in the street and injured seriously enough to be hospitalised. The council had placed a covenant on the property which meant that my parents couldn’t sell it until we’d lived there for 5 years after the purchase.
My mum and dad were determined that my younger sister and I wouldn’t go to school in Kirkby (my elder sister had done, and she’d been attacked whilst there). So – with the knowledge of the then headmistress – they gave our address as being in Melling (within the school catchment area) and sent us to Maricourt in Maghull. The other pupils knew where I really lived, and the one and only girl who acted like a hardknock was always like a faithful puppy around me – simply because she thought I must be a harder than her as I lived in Kirkby!
I have fond memories of Maghull from that time. It’s still a decent place to live, and doesn’t have more chavvy wannabe gangsters than any other town of that size; it certainly has fewer than Kirkby.
When that damned council covenant came to an end and we could finally escape the hell that was Kirkby, going to live in Formby felt like moving to a different planet. It was a few weeks before I really believed it was safe to go out on my own, and a few months before I’d actually look at anyone in the street (being so used to the fact that glancing at someone in Kirkby could lead to a totally unprovoked Kirkby kiss). The first time I looked at someone in the street in Formby – a total stranger – he smiled and said “morning!” I couldn’t believe it. Friendly, normal, nice people. After everything we’d lived through in Kirkby, to us Formby was like heaven.
In recent years Formby has lost much of its original character owing to the numbers of Liverpudlians who’ve moved there; you’re far more likely to hear the harsh scouse accent in that town now than the accentless tones of original, indigenous Formby people. As far as I can tell it remains a nice place to be.
I now live in Southport, and I don’t know if it’s on this site but I’ve certainly seen Southport talked about in similar terms to those with which you talk about Maghull – and most of what was said isn’t true. It’s all a bit of a pointless exercise really…. but I suppose if anyone has nothing better to do than slag off whichever town they dislike, then they can indulge themselves via this forum.
As an executive director of Greene King I regularly visit our establishments throughout the UK and will be making a visit to The Meadows soon. It’ll be interesting to see for myself how much of your account is fact and how much is fiction.
Cheers.
no it was me who financed meself through uni, what degree do you have might i ask?
You have some very strong and in my opinion mis-informed, ideas about hte people of maghull. I can see quite clearly that you have a lot of experience on your subject matter. Please mr. “Alan Bleasdale, Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, top scouser, hard as f**k motherfucker”, could you tell me who financed you through your blag degree? Was it mummy and Daddy? You sad little tit. Get a life! You are more of a w**ker than the little pricks you talk about.
I Was Born In Maghull, And I Say I Do Not Agree With Some Points Of This Article Because I Went 2 Deyes High In Maghull, It Was A Great School With Only A Minority Of People In Maghull So Called “Wannabe Chavs” It Is Not A Wannabe Captital Of The NW Because The Author Doesnt Even Live Their. Its A Good Place To Live Because There Are Barely Any Crime In The Area With The Odd Drug Deal And Assualt Because Of These Wannabe Chavs. I Myself Arnt One But Maghull Wont Be Chav Infested Because It Hasnt Been In The Past 40 Years From My Parents, When You Could Get Drunk And Walk 2 Miles 2 Ur Home And Not Be Stabbed/Shot/In A Fight Unlike Most Areas Of Liverpool, Ect… I Wont To Continue To Live In Lydiate/Maghull For The Rest Of My Life Because It Is A Great Place And Hope To Go Southport College. People Who Are Writing Bad Comments About Maghull Dont Even Live Their, Or Have Visited Maghull Once As It Is A Great Place To Be Unlike Toxteth, Kirkby And Other Run Down Areas Of Liverpool Which Should Be Bombed
they give degrees to anyone? tell me, have you been to university? Obviously you cant READ because i have already explained why the grammar or spelling isnt spot on, jesus, im not writing for the daily times ere sunshine