Saturday 7 April 2007

Scunthorpe........world's end?




I took this photo a couple of years back, out of sheer morbidity. As the letters on the side of the building indicate, this is a hotel. But no ordinary hotel. This is a Scunthorpe hotel and what is special about it, is that it perfectly captures the mood of the whole town. I swear to God that all my mental images of Scunthorpe are stored in my brain in various shades of grey. I remember thinking, when I took the snap, I really want to go in through the doors to reception and ask the girl if anyone actually stayed there. But Scunthorpe women are prone to acts of violence using glass objects, so I thought better of it.
Those in the know, please comment: which is the most unpleasant Lincolnshire town, Gainsborough or Scunthorpe?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

it was never the scunthorpe hotel it was the dragonby hotel. small hamlet just outside scunthorpe. and scunthorpe girls do not discriminate in their selection of weapons.

Anonymous said...

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The Amazing Toad said...

There are no "hamlets" around Scunthorpe - just big slums and small slums.

Anonymous said...

of course there are hamlets around scunthorpe, dragonby and high santon only have a few houses

Anonymous said...

Before this building became a hotel it was the mine offices for the Iron Stone mine at Dragonby.

I believe that it is now some sort of college.