I cannot believe that this scumhole of the North has not yet been recorded as one of the worst chav towns in the entirety of the U.K. Halifax is a town that has, or should I say, used to have, the reputation of an honest, working man’s town, with everyone living in harmony, with very little trouble. However, following various recessions, and a lack of employment, a certain species of life came out of the dark cracks of society and reared it’s ugly head. This is the northern Yorkshire chav, and these tend to nucleate in the poorest neighbourhood of Halifax, Mixenden. On a weekday, you may not get so much trouble. The scum tend to stay indoors and drink, smoke cannabis or snort plant fertiliser using their dole money that the honest tax payer was obliged to surrender. The off licences, or offies as they are called in Halifax, are constantly out of varius alcohols such as Frosty Jack’s Cider, Kestrel and Skoll. All the stereotypical alcohols of choice of the chav scum that inhabit the area. On the weekend, trouble really does kick off. Such degeneration is rife, that even bus shelters are never spared.
Wander into a park on a weekend evening. A common sight to see in Mixenden are bottles of cheap generic brand lager that are strewn on the floor, and old bags of cannabis and other drugs are found too. The smell of urine and cannabis hang in the air, and you can hear the local slurred dialect of the parasitic chav, maybe arguing, having mannerisms such as saying ‘swear down’ after every sentence, overuse of the word ‘innit’ etc. Beware of sitting on park benches; semen from the chavs or other fluids secreted from the chav vermin may still be present on the benches after a night of drunken sex in the park. Fine examples ae always seen on the Jeremy Kyle Show; if the people have a Yorkshire Accent, chances are they hail from Mixenden or any other similar Yorkshire breeding area.
The chav demographic of Mixenden is similar to those of other infested scumholes of the United Kingdom. Male chavs from the age of 16+ tend to be found sitting on fences, smoking roll-ups, maybe with a bottle of White Star. The look in the eyes will be typical to that of the species, bloodshot and dazed. Women, once again 16+, are once again found smoking, with large ear piercings and tacky clothing, pushing along a baby stroller with a poor maldeveloped child inside (from drinking and taking drugs when pregnant). Odds are, the child will be eating a McDonald’s sandwich. Children can often be seen wearing tracksuits, and standing outside offies with money, begging you to go inside and buy cigarettes for them.
When we consider Mixenden, we feel sorry for the country. These sponges ought to be rid of. My immediate suggestion would be to close off the areas, withdraw all alcohol and tobacco from offies in the locality, and perhaps sterilising all of the women. Only by this means will we be able to move forward.
By: davey
very sad. I came from singapore with my parents in 1973 to live in mixenden. I am still here now at 43 years old. I agree there is a minority of people that are what you would call undesirable, but the majority are friendly, caring and decent people. Now back track a few years, my husband left me, so I became a single parent. I went on benefits and lived in a council house. I was called scum by outsiders and a slag. however what people did not want to see is that I did full time voluntary work in the community and attended college. I now own my home, I work , and I am still studying, but my aim is to be self employed by next year. It is all too easy to write people off. But circumstances do change and these kids do grow up. I just think it is sad that an whole village can be demonised because of an handful of silly kids. BTW I raised 4 children here and all of them work and have moved away. I spent 3 years in Ripponden and could not wait to come back )
Ive been in business in mixy for atleast 7+years running a local shop! The people around here are good. Also have you even seen the flats and community recently. Ive worked in worse areas.
Befoee people slate mixenden its the whole od britain that is f**ked and rhe reason mist people drink is becaus our f**kin government has gave away all our British rights and handed wm over ro rhe foreign scum that have taken all our jobs so before u run ya mouth about mixenden u all wanna watch it because u will be takin benefit s at some point u worthless pricks and for u ro waist ur time makin rhis s**t shows how sad your life is makin rhis bollox up my god get a grip u xhildish pricks rhis is all school s**t pffftttt
How bloody dare you with your insinuation, assume that everyone who lives in the beautiful area of mixenden are CHAVS. May I ask you were do you hail from? That way I too can research your area and nationally slate you also…… Do you live in this area and have you spent more than an hour here that has allowed you to jump to the conclusions that we locals are chavs??????
NO I didn’t think so……. I have lived in this area for the last 6 years and I not only find your presumptions insulting but my friend you couldn’t be any further from the truth…
As for the kids standing on the street begging you to get the smokes from the offy as you put it is absurd, its not an offy my friend its the village store and outside of london in the 15 years I have lived in yorkshire ovenden and now mixenden I have never heard anyone refer to the shop as an offy…… before you come here and declare this area as a cest pit actually take the time to get to know the people because they are not all CHAVS and as for stating we need sterilising how very dare you assume to dictate to us our lives now as an educated mother of three very happy little boys doing impeccably and may I state all three are on the gifted list at the local school which I hasten to add is one of the top 20 schools in the offstead report for the last couple of years i honestly believe before you open your mouth and dog an area at least do some back ground research snd in your sterotypical assumptions allow me to end this rant with the expression innit.
I’m sorry but not only do I find the report you have submitted false and absurd but I find the things you have said discriminatory and bloody ignorant and I’m sorry but you should be ashamed of yourself……HOW DARE YOU
Ye tru, fuk u been a chav is sik, mixy is fukin sterling n all u posh w**kers can sling ur hooks coz ur not wanted wiv us… fuk ma grammer who gives a s**t? Guna be in mixy fort rest of ma lyf, proper proud of my area so fuk all ya doilans!!!
I am very surprised at the above comments which show the depreciation of what was the lovely community which was my birthplace. I was born in a cottage at the Mixenden Stones in 1923 and left to join the RAF as a Pilot in 1941. I attended Mixenden council school from 1928 to 1937, this village schools education was good enough to allow me to become both an RAF Flying instructor and later a Mechanical engineer, progressing to a Manager of Projects for one of the worlds largest construction companies.
I have nothing but fond memories of Mixenden and its people who supported one another over a hard period of history.
The building of Council overflow housing has obviously blighted what was once an ideal village community and was a big mistake.
I have lived in Mixenden for nearly 30 years. My children grew up in Mixenden and now are bringing their own up in… Wait for it… Mixenden. My daughter, Caroline went to University and is now a Doctor at Bradford Royal Infirmary, The establishment does have problems, it is true, but there are good people in Mixenden, Its just the bourgeois like all of you cretins on here don’t like the poor.
My friend Ena, has lived here longer than me, she is now 97 and refuses to go into sheltered accommodation.
And the Yorkshire accent is an accent to be proud of, 10-4.
Oh dear. Unfortunately, you seem to be the cretin as you cannot understand that this website deals in multiple chavtowns of the UK. The fact is Mixenden has a lot of chavs relative to other areas of Halifax e.g. Savile Park, Skircoat Green etc. We’re not bourgeois, but common folk who cannot rid ourselves of the chav pestilence, instead we laugh at it.
I only have to take a quick look at the poor grammar of those defending the area to know that the place is in ruins. I’m a Halifax man, and I will defend it until the end of the earth, it’s a fantastic little countryside town with LOTS of history, however, Mixenden has to be, truly, one of the most God awful places I have ever ventured into and unfortunately, ruins the reputation of Halifax. I agree 100% with this article!
Mixy as it is local known is and has its problems like most other places.. The general locals have lived there since the post war years as most of the housing is of that decade.
I myself originate from this area as my great grandparents worked in the mills of this area before the council housing was built. Before it had a manor house and sandstone built cottages for the mill workers. There is a now disused reservoir at the top of the village leading down past the stone built cottages to the post war council houses and further down to the 1970`s blocks of 16 story flats that where built. six blocks where originally built. one Crag Court has since been demolished.
One of the problems this area has is that the council see the blocks of flats as a dumping ground for young people with no jobs and as such these people have nothing better to do than buy cheap lagers and such from the off licence and sit around drinking all day.
They are stuck in a vicious cycle and dont seem to be able to get out.
Most other residents of Mixenden are hard working people maybe tarnished with the same brush as the unemployed from the flats. But in all are hard working true people and should be seen as such.
ive lived in mixenden for 6 years, ive never had any trouble. yeah everyone knows everyone. and everyone looks out for everyone. people do smoke weed and drink cheap beer, but you get that everywhere you go… look at furness for example or the grove.
I was directed to this site and the comments,and can see where they are coming from…however i’d like to suggest that the reputation is ongoing due to the estate being on one of the most outstanding edges of the countryside ever,and,mostly,people stay away,so it continues to be peaceful also!I have moved back here after 25yrs away.On the edge of the estate,the waft of weed is blown away by the brisk Yorkshire gusts,as is bigotry,snobbery and a sense of isolation found in many areas of Britain.Good article…..we may avoid the tourists this year wahaay!!!:-)
I was directed to this site and the comments,and can see where they are coming from…however i’d like to suggest that the reputation is ongoing due to the estate being on one of the most outstanding edges of the countryside ever,and,mostly,people stay away,so it continues to be peaceful also!I have moved back here after 25yrs away.On the edge of the estate,the waft of weed is blown away by the brisk Yorkshire gusts,as is bigotry,snobbery and a sense of isolation found in many areas of Britain.Good article…..we may avoid the tourists this year wahaay!!!
This is brilliant. Mixenden reminds me of Beirut when I was serving in the army twenty odd years ago.
my two children went to ashgreen primary in mixenden. i hear so much bad stuff about that place but have never ONCE witnessed anything like it.although i didnt live in mixenden, i live far away but thats the school they went to and ive heard its one of the best schools. there i sbad everywhere. i live in bradford and i tell u now, theres LOADS of rough places around here! the amount of times we have gypsies at the door or u see them nicking stuff and police are alwats around
The school’s fine, but believe me, it truly is a tip. Bradford hasn’t got much going for it too, I was in Frizinghall the other day and I kid you not, a pair of gypsies were riding a horse cart with a washing machine on the back of it, going at 2 mph down Keighley Road. Mixenden is an arse end affair, that cannot be denied. Unless you’re a regular there or are around later at night, you realise it is a cesspit.
I used to live in Mixenden Hebble Court and it’s the worst s**thole going! Mixendump is a proper ‘s**thole’ and deserves it’s place on this chav towns list hahahaha I urge anybody to visit Hebble Court it’s like a war zone!
mixenden has the best primary school in calderdale with outstanding ofstead reports, and the majority of children that attend that school live local. If all people who live in Mixenden are scum, chavs and children are malnurished how would ash green primary school be so outstanding-?
ive lived in mixenden all my life, I work and go to sixth form so again how does that make everyone living in that community a dole dossing scum bag?
I- do agree with some points that youve made about having people on the dole, drinking cider and taking drugs, however even in the most affluent area’s in the UK have a minority of these people.
We are small, close community where you know who everyone is and what their all about, we -look -after -our -own!
Think you need to stop being so stereo typicall about these deprived area’s within the UK and make judgement once youve understand everyone’s personal circumstances!
I don’t think that it was implied that all of Mixenden was like that. Having said that though, I was with one of my Asian mates and we were walking through, and some guy walking on the pavement in front of us spat directly onto my friend’s jacket and called him a ‘p*** c**t’. Several people were around who I presumed to be local, they saw and heard it but didn’t say a word. I was shocked to think that not one person even told my friend they were disgusted by that guy. The idea of this website is that it is chavtownS, not just ‘the chavtown of the U.K.’. No problem about you looking after each other, but remember, chavs are everywhere, one of the places more so than other places is Mixenden.
Aha Mixenden Is Nothing Like that, yeh Theres the odd few which do this kind of stuff but if all this happened why would they be 2local primary schools as parents wouldnt want children going to a place that you just described..
True…So true, if only they would stop dropping there dirty babey’s all over the place…. Lazy worthless bitch’s.!!
We have this kind of s**t in Chester…Hate them all… Scum.!!
Cos of course they are all immaculate conceptions and no men involved, right. Stuff your misogyny where the sun doesn’t shine.
I’m sorry but dirty bitches dropping their kids everywhere you ignorant bastard how bloody dare you everywhere in the country has unwanted births but st least they didn’t abort the babies and they do have the kids and try to give them the best they can whilst ignorant arseholes like you walk away from these babies maybe if you kept it in your jeans there wouldn’t be so many unwanted kids don’t tarnish the women when dicks like you are just as responsible for helping to bring said babies into thd god forsaken world