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O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:21 pm
by brexit
Spent my first full day in Burnley for 7 years. Here are my observations
1. Less Pubs More Coffee shops
2. Seems cleaner and more security around the mall
3. Taxi Drivers ignore red signals
4. People wander across the road, ignoring traffic - normal people and kids not drunks
5. Less Eastern Europeans, more West Africans ?????
6. Traffic is horrendous, especially near the college - who planned this shambles
7. How many supermarkets does the town need.
8. The women are still terrifying
Claude 4.1 opus
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:30 pm
by Den_Perry
It’s all your bloody fault mate!
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:37 pm
by blatherwickstattoos
Den_Perry wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:30 pm
It’s all your bloody fault mate!
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 6:17 pm
by bfcmik
brexit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:21 pm
Spent my first full day in Burnley for 7 years. Here are my observations
1. Less Pubs More Coffee shops
2. Seems cleaner and more security around the mall
3. Taxi Drivers ignore red signals
4. People wander across the road, ignoring traffic - normal people and kids not drunks
5. Less Eastern Europeans, more West Africans ?????
6. Traffic is horrendous, especially near the college - who planned this shambles
7. How many supermarkets does the town need.
8. The women are still terrifying
Claude 4.1 opus
Isn't that the case more or less everywhere in the UK nowadays? Certainly, Solihull is much the same.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 6:17 pm
by morninbob
brexit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:21 pm
Spent my first full day in Burnley for 7 years. Here are my observations
1. Less Pubs More Coffee shops
2. Seems cleaner and more security around the mall
3. Taxi Drivers ignore red signals
4. People wander across the road, ignoring traffic - normal people and kids not drunks
5. Less Eastern Europeans, more West Africans ?????
6. Traffic is horrendous, especially near the college - who planned this shambles
7. How many supermarkets does the town need.
8. The women are still terrifying
Claude 4.1 opus
The college should have been built with a bridge across the road.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 8:23 pm
by Casper2
Taxi drivers have always ignored red signals
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 9:19 pm
by jrgbfc
Right about the coffee shops. Every time i go it feels like there's yet another one opened up.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 9:35 pm
by BurnleyFC
jrgbfc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 9:19 pm
Right about the coffee shops. Every time i go it feels like there's yet another one opened up.
I still can’t get my head around how a coffee can cost more than a pint of beer.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 10:49 pm
by Boss Hogg
Not that surprising. You need to grow coffee beens as you do hops. You have to source it and transport it etc. It takes longer for a barrista to make a speciality coffee than it does to pour a pint from a pump. It’s still much cheaper though than a beer in most pubs.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:06 pm
by Bullabill
Boss Hogg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 10:49 pm
It’s still much cheaper though than a beer in most pubs.
Maybe for a cup full, how about a pint of coffee?
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:12 pm
by summitclaret
brexit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 5:21 pm
Spent my first full day in Burnley for 7 years. Here are my observations
1. Less Pubs More Coffee shops
2. Seems cleaner and more security around the mall
3. Taxi Drivers ignore red signals
4. People wander across the road, ignoring traffic - normal people and kids not drunks
5. Less Eastern Europeans, more West Africans ?????
6. Traffic is horrendous, especially near the college - who planned this shambles
7. How many supermarkets does the town need.
8. The women are still terrifying
Claude 4.1 opus
You forgot the explosion in nail bars, Turkish barbers, convenience stores, takeaways and hmo.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:36 pm
by karatekid
Traffic is horrendous everywhere. The road network is simply not able to cope with the amount of cars this country has. The country is fuller than Barley on a sunny day.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:29 am
by ChrisG
BurnleyFC wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 9:35 pm
I still can’t get my head around how a coffee can cost more than a pint of beer.
I think this is an anomaly in Burnley. There can't be many places (barring Wetherspoons) across the UK where beer is as cheap as it is in Burnley. Even going a few miles up the road to Barlick, it's a good 1.50 a pint more expensive for a pint of bitter than the likes of the New Brewm etc
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:52 am
by KellyClaret
morninbob wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 6:17 pm
The college should have been built with a bridge across the road.
Doesn't help with all those AO Seafood vans parking on both sides of the pavement in the mornings
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 12:09 pm
by ecc
At least you can one item on your Wish List.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:00 pm
by ollieclarets8
Lots of coffee shops around here yet still get away with charging £3.10 for a small.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:21 pm
by Tribesmen
Hard to beat Southern Italy , €1.20 for an expresso .
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:24 pm
by ŽižkovClaret
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:21 pm
Hard to beat Southern Italy , €1.20 for an expresso .
Can't get pie and peas for love nor money, though
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:55 pm
by Row x
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:21 pm
Hard to beat Southern Italy , €1.20 for an expresso .
And a pint?
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:55 pm
by The Shire Claret
Burnley is 100 times better than anywhere else if you have a full day to spend in a town for things to do in the area and surrounding areas.
Blackburn
Accrington
Shambles these days....
Rawtenstall
Clitheore and all other smaller similar towns
Nice places but limited in comparison ... eveything they have, burnley does to , apart from a Castle but Burnley has Townley Hall
If i need anything more I go to Manchester and again Burnley has a direct train to it ....
Bury Marker is unrivaled
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 5:53 pm
by Tribesmen
Row x wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:55 pm
And a pint?
Pints not a chance maybe 400ml but that's about it at a push . Pies and pints is not the thing there but kebabs.....
.......
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:19 pm
by Row x
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 5:53 pm
Pints not a chance maybe 400ml but that's about it at a push . Pies and pints is not the thing there but kebabs.....
.......
Prefer the pizza's
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:20 pm
by Inchy
I live in Boston spa near wetherby, moved from
Leeds in December. Left Burnley 15 years ago and rarely go back other than for football or to see mates.
If it wasn’t for my wife being from over here, and the local
Schools being good, I’d have moved back to Burnley long ago.
Yes it’s rough as a badgers ar5e in some areas, and a bit run down in places, but it has a lot of pros which far outweigh the cons.
For a start I could afford a much larger house in a nice area for what I paid over here. Beers is generally cheaper. The people are the friendliest and most honest.
I love cycling and fell running. It’s flat where I live and takes me 40 mins to get to any hills in ilkley, and over an hour to get to the dales. I’d love to live so near to pendle hill, and the moors that surround Burnley.
Admittedly where I live now is a nicer place to bring up the kids, and the high schools in Burnley were terrible last time I checked.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:22 pm
by Inchy
Also the price of fish and chips in Burnley is about half the price I pay in leeds or wetherby
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:42 pm
by Belial
You're right, there are many far worse towns all over the NW than Burnley
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:16 pm
by Tribesmen
Inchy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 6:20 pm
I live in Boston spa near wetherby, moved from
Leeds in December. Left Burnley 15 years ago and rarely go back other than for football or to see mates.
If it wasn’t for my wife being from over here, and the local
Schools being good, I’d have moved back to Burnley long ago.
Yes it’s rough as a badgers ar5e in some areas, and a bit run down in places, but it has a lot of pros which far outweigh the cons.
For a start I could afford a much larger house in a nice area for what I paid over here. Beers is generally cheaper. The people are the friendliest and most honest.
I love cycling and fell running. It’s flat where I live and takes me 40 mins to get to any hills in ilkley, and over an hour to get to the dales. I’d love to live so near to pendle hill, and the moors that surround Burnley.
Admittedly where I live now is a nicer place to bring up the kids, and the high schools in Burnley were terrible last time I checked.
I think you have answered your own question Inchy as once you have a family its not all about you .
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:17 pm
by Clovius Boofus
Too many coffee shops? People getting up off their arse and opening a business or working for one - how dare they. If there isn't demand, they won't be around for long, but why have a pop at those who are willing to earn a living? Sounds like a fourth-gen feckless mindset to me.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:47 pm
by brexit
Actually had a coffee in what used to be the red lion??? £2.48 and excellent coffee. I think it's part of the new food hall and hotel.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 10:31 pm
by Slowwalker
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:21 pm
Hard to beat Southern Italy , €1.20 for an expresso .
I’m not sure you’d get an expresso anywhere in Italy.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:04 pm
by Loyalclaret
brexit wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:47 pm
Actually had a coffee in what used to be the red lion??? £2.48 and excellent coffee. I think it's part of the new food hall and hotel.
It's a quid a coffee sometimes during the week. I almost feel cheeky going to meet people for drink there.
The coffee shops on St James's St are relatively busy from early morning to late afternoon.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 6:19 am
by fanzone
Point 5. Agreed on the more west Africans but there’s a lot more Eastern European's, have a look round Lidl up duke bar or a walk round town and listen to the languages.
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 7:57 am
by ClaretOfMancunia
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:21 pm
Hard to beat Southern Italy , €1.20 for an expresso .
Madeira - 1eur for an espresso AND a pastel de nata
Re: O/T First full day in Burnley for 7 years
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 4:25 pm
by dvalley69
Row x wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:55 pm
And a pint?
From recent experiences in Italy, it's about €5/6 for a pint or a 'birra media' as they call it. As Tribesman says, it's about 400ml, or just over, so not a proper pint.
