Avoid the Nottingham/Ilkeston area

comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
Faraday road is all uni halls now.

Used to live on Gregory Ave in Lenton.
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Really? I lived on Willoughby Ave last year

Yeah 15 years ago now. Bag o nails and Happy Return were my locals.

Pfft. The midlands has never been my favourite part of the country.

Give me gorgeous Yorkshire any day of the week. Easily the most beautiful part of our Nation in my opinion. Anywhere lower than Sheffield is a bit la di dah.

Bag O Nails is still popular. Good prices for students, £1 Bombs and £2 pints

Happy Return is now a working men's club now or sommat. Dog and topper is a Tesco and the grove us shut! Used to be a pub for every day of the year in Nottingham

comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
Mex lives in Ilko? It's about a racist a place as there is!
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Aye, considering how diverse Nottingham is Ilson is a pretty racist place, that said, I watched England USA there during the 2010 WC and had a great night.

Ilkeston isn't any more or less racist than anywhere else

I have to disagree on that I'm afraid.

Forest Fields is as diverse as it comes and you'd get filled in for being racist. You'll hear many a comment in the likes of Ilko, Arnold and Calverton though.

All very white is right. That's how it comes across to me anyway.

comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 56 minutes ago
I have to disagree on that I'm afraid.

Forest Fields is as diverse as it comes and you'd get filled in for being racist. You'll hear many a comment in the likes of Ilko, Arnold and Calverton though.

All very white is right. That's how it comes across to me anyway.
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Aye, I went to college with a lad from Ilson and two others from Stapleford and they said it was "a bit racist" out that way, not massively, it's not like Mississippi Burning or anything, but more BNP, EDL types then you'd find in other areas of Nottingham.

There are some bars in town you're likely to find a few EDL types, Bluebell springs to mind when its a non student night