The Unfamous Town of Bishop's Stortford
 

I moved there as a child and lived there until 2004 and now i live there again.
Some of you may have passed through Bishop's Stortford on the train to Stansted Airport, or Cambridge.

Here's the entrance to the station


Googling for pictures I found out there's a chess club in Bishop's Stortford it is held in the British Legion


In Norman times there was a "mott and bailey" castle in Bishop's Stortford, here's a picture of the castle mound

This is a picture of South Street, where most of the shops are, we have Woolworths, Marks & Spencer, and recently (about 4 or 5 years ago) a Blockbuster video opened here

This is a building site in Bishop's Stortford, you'll see a lot of these here as Bishop's Stortford is one of the fastest growing towns in the UK

This is Pizza Express arguably the finest restaurant in town, although I've never been to The Lemon Tree which is where people go if they want something a bit la-di-da

Reminds me of me.... on a girl.... having sex....

(rob's better than me at this)

This is a warehouse near my house, just to the right is the balloon factory I worked at for a week before getting fired.

How come you live there again? The only place I know in the region is Wisbech but I am rarely in that part of the world. Have you ever had an Antiques Roadshow there?

This is a picture of the Herts & Essex girls school, I walk past it every morning on my way to the station. Oh the tempations of the forbidden fruit!




Often when coming home drunk at night, if I can't wait till I get home, I urinate in those bushes you can see on the left of this picture.

Wisbech is the other side of Cambridge I think, I've never been there. I live there again because I can't afford to live in London and so I'm living at my mum's house and commuting every day. I don't know if we've ever had an antiques roadshow, but they did used to film Lovejoy round here.

Here's a picture of an old Victorian building that is just across the road from my house, it used to be part of the hospital but now it's flats. I've heard a few stories about it, apparently it's haunted, it was an insane asylum, and/or workhouse before it became part of the hospital.
The hospital got fucked over, as many hospitals did, in the 1980s as a result of tax cuts by the conservatives, nowadays the hospital has been replaced by a health centre which just a glorified GPs surgery with a geriatic ward.


Here's the hospital when they were knocking it down, I miss the hospital it was built by the americans during the war and was quite an eerie place

The timeless Ian McShane. He knew how to wear a jacket and jeans like no other.

How long does it take you to commute every day? There's a girl at work who takes the train from Brighton and another one from Reading (which is only about an hour, anyway).

This is Bishop's most famous son, Sir Cecil Rhodes, the noted slave trader and founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)




The second most famous Stortfordian is probably Ian Culverhouse who played football for Norwich City in the 80s and 90s

 

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Isn't Russell Brand from BS?

about an hour and twenty minutes to get into work, which is only slightly longer than how long it would take to get into work when i would get the number 38 bus in from clapton

He went to boarding school in Bishop's Stortford, he wasn't actually from here.
Keith Flint from The Prodigy lives here now though, his house has ramparts.

For more than 20 years there wasn't a murder in Bishop's Stortford, but in recent years there have been a few, the most recent made national headlines. My brother's friend knew one of the guys who got killed and apparently he was pretty dodgy. It was to do with drugs I believe.
Here's a picture of a forensics expert analyzing the crime scene.




The story can be read here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/aug/30/ukguns.ukcrime
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...283008,00.html

I suspected that was the case. It takes me an hour and half by bus to get to work, whereas if I walk it takes me only 1 hour, I get to throw in some exercise, and there's no stress caused by getting stuck on the bus at Bank with a bunch of depressed-looking city workers. And luckily the school kids get off the bus at the stop before mine.

awesome, did you get to walk around the building at any point?

i have an abandoned mental asylum simliar to this where i live. my friends and i used to go on mission's and explore the building at night. we once came across this corridor of padded cell's that had rat's running everywhere, and my friend actually pissed himself a little bit.