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Best and Worst in Redhill, Surrey*

Redhill, Surrey Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• the railway station, its the quickest escape from the town !
• The one containing Rhythms, the record/musical instrument shop.
• St Annes alas no more, was the first building in Redhill (not counting the station as a building)
• The old water building they knocked down (why?)
• A little cottage up White Post Hill that used to be a pub - a sort of mock tudor affair. Pretty.

Demolish It Now Building

• Belfry so I can sk8 there
• The gas things.
• The Dome. Need I say more...
• The Lombard Office. Legoland, basically. Oh, and the TDK office too. Duplo.
• Those two big gas thingys down my street.

The Best Things

• Pedestrianised shopping precincts & closeness to countryside & main routes.
• Its near London. The A23 - out of Redhill
• Nope, sorry, can't think of one!
• London on your doorstep, oh and Kevs to make fun of.
• Skate spot, train station
• Getting politely served in Burger King
• The telephone exchange. There are good shops around, the station is really excellent providing north south and east west direct travel. It's not far to the real country and London and the sea.
• It's better than Horley You can get everywhere easily (cos no-one wants to actually be here)
• Eccentric suburban architecture. Works of incredible literature that remain unclaimed in charity shops because most of the people in Redhill can't even string a sentence together.
• M25

The Worst Things

• Drab architecture and lack of core community activity.
• you can always find a fight your never far away from someone with a bulldog tattoo & hackett shirt the bouncers are always fat, bald and unreasonable wherever you go. No musical instrument shop No pubs with jukeboxes That damn market, it was better wherever it used to be situated. Sainsburys is so very dirty and beige No one ever helps anyone else out there is no town spirit its dirty run by a council that dont seem to care
• It has to be the people. This town is the result of hundreds of years of residents marrying their cousins.
• Redhill is not called "Deadhill" for nothing!
• Its drab and lifeless. The town centre hs no energy. I feel sapped as soon as I enter the wretched place.
• The girls are mainly ruff old slags and those who arn't are to scared to leave the house
• The buildings, the shops, the pigeons, the traffic ... need I go on!
• Kevs that make fun of you. Getting beaten up after closing time or after Embassy closing time on a weekend. Avoid the kebab vans behind the Abbott pub, things sometimes get hairy round there at 1am.
• Everyone who lives in Redhill try to fob off people by saying they are from Reigate - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!
• Townies hanging by McDonalds
• the assorted overhead police cameras which never seem to be in use when they are needed
• It's a bit tacky. I was born here, lived here, school here, moved away, came back and I remember it was better 20 years ago when the A23 went straight through the centre of the town. It can be dirty, needs more concerted cleaning efforts.
• Everyone takes the piss out of you for living there The time it takes you to get out of the place (I'm thinking Reigate Hill here - 30 minutes to drive a poxy mile?)
• The undeniable air of "Wow, satellite town alert".
• Severe lack of life.You can't get a drink outside the town centre after 3 pm and up to a few months ago the town centre bars and resteraunts didn't open at all on sunday.

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Last updated: 2008-05-15