I love Bilston, it’s one of them places you go to and suddenly feel so much better than yourself……owing to the fact it’s such a dump even if you live on your local park bench you’ll see theres worse places to be.
Firstly theres the town centre, though i prefer to think of it as a few shops selling counterfeit goods and surprisingly gorgeous chips, unfortunately thats the only thing you’ll find gorgeous around here as the locals leave a lot to be desired. The daytime consists of many a local pondering whether to spend their dole money on cheap tat on the market, or just get one of their 7 kids to steal it for them later on. The local school kids also prowl the place in their knock-off nike tracksuits intimidating the locals by swearing and playing awful music loud on their phones and mugging old ladies in broad daylight. If you do get mugged don’t expect anyone to do anything about it, everyones seen it before many a time. If you want to come here and meet a partner, and you actually have standards then forget it, the men are typically drunk by midday, smell of a combination of stale beer and body odour through having a shower once a blue moon, and the ladies are disgraceful, typically overweight, pushing around a pram by the time they’re 15 and wearing plenty of fake designer clobber and big hoop earrings (all stolen of course). Ohh and if you do end up getting frisky with one of these creatures, do keep a condom at hand theres more sti’s floating around than there are people in the local population. Local sports include running from the police (or the rozzers as they’re known locally), hurling rocks at people having a swim in the local pool, fishing for fish to sell to the local chip shop, shooting squirrels for your supper, horse riding one of the many pikey horses on wasteland, moto-x on a mini motorbike over the “fozza” as it’s locally know (a forest to you and me), hurdles which involves jumping over a row of fences having just being caught in someones shed, fencing without any protective gear and samurai swords. If you own a Jack russell, drive a battered transit tipper, drive it topless and speak with a dodgy irish accent you may qualify as a local pikey and can involve yourself on parking a caravan anywhere you fancy, then once your 2 weeks are up move 100 yards up the road and do the same again, and steal all the copper and lead you can from local factories and houses in the meantime.
Nightlife in Bilston is surprisingly good, if your old pay a visit to the Hop Pole and enjoy the sound of your peers making fools of themselves on the karaoke and then getting mugged when they pop outside to have a smoke or make a call. The market tavern which is full of football toting drunkards on a saturday afternoon is officially the worst nightspot where the sole bartender has been caught asleep over the bar on many occasions. The Sir Henry Newbolt is great for cheap beer, also has security for that peace of mind that you won’t get punched for looking at someone funny untill you walk down the road that is. The nearby Greyhound is what could be describe as a cesspit, were all the local council estate’s most hideous residents descend upon to strut their stuff and try to up their shag count. The trumpet is the residence of the die hard alcoholics it’s oldest regulars are usually dead by 45. Other hotspots are the Robin 2 which plays host to all sorts of x-factor rejects and tribute bands, and the olde white rose which is where people flock to before a band plays at the Robin 2 to get tanked up on high alcohol percantage local brew. Former hotspots were Gavins sports bar, once this chav hole’s favorite spot until it’s owner got shot outside the front door. Another hotspot was The tropical harmony club which was host to a few fatal shootings and stabbings and eventually got closed down.
Theres a few prolific estates in Bilston worth a mention. One of the most well known in “The Lunt”, which was given this name to remind it’s residents what a dump it is. Here daily life for a bloke involves waking up at 10′am in time for Jeremy Kyle, collecting your benefits in the local post office when you can be bothered, beating up your wife and going down the pub to brag about it. Women spend most their time eating cakes to keep their boobs big, nattering outside the newsagents about how their 7 kids piss them off and then eating more cakes. Kids spend their abysmal lives fighting each other, robbing bikes from outside the local shops and then smoking dodgy cigarettes.
If you think this place is bad however, take a trip to the neighbouring estate St Chads, and don’t let it’s humble name fool you this is worse. Full of pure scum if you got put here on parole after a lengthy spell in prison you’ll wish you were back inside it was once reported on in the local newspaper where an undercover reported lived with a resident and had their car ruined and was threatened and spat at in one week, because the locals didn’t recognise them.
If you ever feel the urge to visit this place please purchase a big old car, a handgun and a flamethrower and kill as many scumbags as possible, police response times typically go into days leaving plenty of time for you to escape getting your medal for services to the country.
If you really want to see what Bilston is like then check out this site http://www.chavleycourt.com It’s all about chavs in the Black Country, mostly Bilston.
what a nob now i dont live there anymore but was born and bred in the lunt for 14 years best days of my life fighting across the canal with darliston was great fun family still live in st chads and if you call my parents scum bags will rip your efing head off cock features
Ahaa bilston ay bad lol if u wanna see bad u need to come to mossley are estate will kill all your fany lil divs off u bunch ov fukin wetters mossley kills it………….big up mossley mandems (y) ahaa bilston wa a joke ahaa
Serve in Afghanistan like I have; see how hard you are then, ‘bassman’.
Can bassman read, let alone read a map? Oh I forgot, they’d also have to do it on their own initiative (which includes getting out of bed). However, I do think the likes of bassman do serve one purpose at least, and that is to show to the world exactly what type of people are living in Streets. Spoiled brats.
bassman, in my opinion you sum of what’s worst about this region and this post is all the time I’m prepared to give you. You don’t seem to offer a real opinion of your own, other than using the original one as spring-board for your mostly unintelligible babble. However without raising one fist, one weapon and not making ONE SINGLE death-threat, it looks like you’ve already been defeated by words alone, and you have made yourself and your ’cause’ look pathetic. You contribute nothing of substance, and your only recourse is from within the confines of the rock you obviously hide under. Nobody will respect your present state of mind if you can only express yourself like a moron. Have a nice day.
I work in Bilston. I love the Place. People are salt of the earth and there are some Great characters. If you think Bilston is bad then take a trip to Bloxwich.
The Town is chavvy. There are numerous Charity shops, Pound Shops, Pubs and Betting Offices and Take-away establishments.
You know where you stand with people from Bilston. I’d rather be stabbed in the chest than stabbed in the back!
The writer has got this bang on. I have the misfortune of commuting through bilston (although i’ve lived near the place all my life) and every day the sights never cease to amaze me.
Tramps drinking on the street at all hours of the day, the benefits queue at the post office before the place has even opened, groups of chavs roaming around swearing and shouting. I’m not exaggerating, some of the residents HAVE to be inbred or something, they don’t look right at all and they certainly don’t act normal. On my 100 yard walk through Bilston each day I am guarenteed to see at least one of the following on the path – vomit, half eaten takeaway, special brew cans, dog shit, urine. I’ve also come across methedone bottles, blood and human shit.
whoever wrote this your a stupid fukin prick u snobby little idoit your the disgrace if its that bad dont go round ther u dumb little loser get a life writing all this on the internet because you have no life go and suck your mom i bet thats why your so angry because your slut of a mother left you for a man from bilston go and walk round there and say it if ur bad instead of writing it on the internet its not that bad theres worse places !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing up with bilston my primary school is there NON of my mates are dole dossers all got jobs or in college/uni studying for decent jobs and a few of them live on The Lunt. Yeah ok so theres dole dossers and druggies but I garantee theres more decent, honest folk willing to help you out here than in any areas full of stuck up arse holes.
I think the Article is a load of rubbish ! Lived in Bilston for the last 16 years love it what more can you ask for. Close to all the motorways markets shops e.t.c
I came from a small so called village where there is more crime there. To me sounds like the person who wrote this article is a bit of a snob !
There’s a lot worse places to live than Bilston,
listen yeh i`ve lived in bilston for 14yrs of my life i was born there nd raised there.
at the end of the day if u dont like the place why go to bilston and the places around there and waste you time writing this stupid blog about it
lets think i`m 15 nd i`m not pushing a pram around nd i`m not a chav i dont were cheap tatty jewellery nd the jewellery i do wear i bought. so the next time you want to write 1 of these dumb ass blogs got the right facts before you post it OK .
Bilston has one of the best markets in the West Midlands, full of fresh produce and really cheap, I know people who drive from Wolverhampton to get there so they can take advantage of it. Its thriving. There’s also an excellent Arts and Crafts Gallery if you have kids, that run workshops and exhibitions.
The town centre is a bit of a hell hole and there isn’t even a train station, but the houses are cheap and you could commute for work on the metro to Birmingham or Wolverhampton. It does feel like the end of the world when you first get there, but the author’s constant reference to ‘pikeys’ really makes me question his judgement.
moved here from North Wales in February, and am planning my return to Wales. What a god damn almighty mistake I made moving here, the land that time forgot the most depressing place i can ever imagine to live. Every day feels like the twilight zone. A horrible place to live in , the back of beyond. cannot wait to get back to Wales. They go on about Rhyl being dole-on-sea and the depression city of the UK, I think not, I was never out of work in Rhyl and never depressed, now I am medically classed as clinically depressed. Get back to Rhyl and get my sanity back. every day spent here is a complete waste of my life, the worst mistake ever coming here.One hell hole of a dump.
After reading the article about Bilston, I was mortified as it contained many stereotypes of the residents of Bilston. Having lived in the area of which the writer refers to a ‘cess-pit’ for over a decade, I believe that it is these stereotypical views which give todays youths the image in which they would feel to comply with, it also deters motivation of a better life and affects the area and people as a whole.
For the paragraph where the so called ‘civilised writer’ who is so morally correct urges readers to ‘ purchase a big old car, a handgun and a flamethrower to execute the residents of this small community, suggest to me the writer is actually a lower kind of so called ‘sub -species mutant’ ( ZIM September 15, 2010 at 1:39 pm) that’s being portrayed in the article.
However finally but importantly every town and city has issues with crime and there is nowhere that is perfect and free from any problems, but to portray this community as a whole and all the residents as ‘low- life, cake eating chavs’ is narrow minded and ignorant ! (F,20)
I have been there during the day and well Id want to shoot my self if I lived in that hell hole.
From what I can tell the place is full of weird mutated creatures that must of fell in some
sort of radioactive waste at some point in there life’s.
Has anyone seen Futurama, the episodes about the sewer mutants.
That`s pretty much Bilston, except over there you can be shot, mugged, stabbed, raped all
in broad day light.
I am actually feeling quite depressed just thinking about the place
u think bilstons bad wait till u see cosely, roseville is the only good thing being close to so many stores but there are several bad things inluding a forest called “The Bowl” by nearby residents
as you said about moto-x s the bowl is given its name from the huge bowl shaped dirt ramp called “The SuperBowl” and the smaller bowl shaped ramp called “Mini-Bowl” the bowl also plays host to The wall of death a huge near vertical slope with insane roots and tipped over trees as obsticles
there are other places such as hurst hill park a.k.a St.georges feild which is another downhill slope more appropiately used by dirt bmxers.
The jubilee park a.k.a Silver jubilee park a.k.a JUBO plays host to large feilds used for football at concrete football and basketball pitch and a set of bmx/skate ramps full of wannabe dave mirras
piss rite off english knob cheese cunts!!!! ps ur a c**t!!!
Yep, I agree with all the positive aspects of Bilston so painstakingly written. Er, that’s about the chips, right?
Just walked past mount pleasant that’s cordened off with police tape after another gun death. ‘Fraid this place needs a whole bunch of hope and faith in something better than it’s got.
I pity the older residents who can’t move out and daren’t go out.