Tuesday 25 January 2022
Grim
We encountered a road diversion the other day and ended up driving through a area not known for being salubrious.
This is what residents really think of 'most deprived' streets in Derbyshire
It was a wet Tuesday afternoon when our reporter visited the roads in the Skeavingtons Lane area of Cotmanhay.
According to government statistics, the area is the most deprived in Derbyshire so you might think that the residents we spoke to would be in a mood as gloomy as the skies. Not a bit of it.
The linked article is fairly upbeat and visually some parts are better than others. Yet it is still depressing to see how run down some areas of the country can be in our supposedly prosperous age. The article skates over the shabby and neglected appearance of areas such as those we drove through and were pleased to leave behind.
Maybe everyone who lives there likes it well enough or puts up with it. Maybe those who don’t like it made strenuous efforts to move elsewhere. Expecting wall to wall gentrification would be crazy of course, but from what we saw, levelling up has a long, long way to go.
Grim. Even driving through it was grim.
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40+ years ago I spent a night as guest of some distant relations who lived in a terraced house in Derby itself. I remember thinking afterwards it must have been the last place God made before leaving his shovel behind! The estate in the accompanying article looks orders of magnitude better that where I stayed. Cue Monty Python's "Four Yorkshireman" sketch...
microdave - the pictures don't represent what we saw, but yes perceptions change over the decades. We see streets of terraced houses which are fine and others not so far away which are scruffy eyesores.
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