Basildon in General

As a child I used to visit Basildon for shopping once a week... I remember vivdly when the fantastic Toyrus opened up and the excitement that created... there was a fantastic sainsburys surrounded by a lovely indoor shopping centre with gallery shops to visit and buy the most amazing gifts and crafting items. It was, ttherefore, with real sadness then when i visited recently to find such a change... perhaps it is me, i know everything has to change and maybe I had an idealistic memory of Basildon, but the main town centre wh all of its shops seemed to have deteriorated significantly. The town centre of still has a lot of the usual well known store ...  Read the complete review

“Essex, Essex, Essex is crap, It’s an absolute abomination. Essex, may it fall off the map, It’s a boil on the bum of the nation…” -Spitting Image Essex. Butt of a thousand jokes. The ‘capital’ if you will of all derogatory British humour. Home of the Ford Escort, the satellite dish and stone cladding. Girls with short skirts and high heels, Men with enough labels to open a small department store. Yes indeed, the county which Eastern Saxons once called home has become a Mecca for derisory humour and finger pointing by those who consider it all to be..well, just a bit too tacky. Basildon, a new ...  Read the complete review

Basildon, a new town in the heart of Essex. Famous on election night as Basildon votes count, whichever way Basildon votes you find the country follows and that party wins the election. In the run-up to every general election you find the town busy with camera crews and opinion pollsters trying to gauge the Basildon vote. Oh and we always get visited by top politicians from each party. Generally though an ordinary town with a few misconceptions which I hope to lay to rest here. ~~~~ Image ~~~~ Here Basildon has to do some making up. The statue in the town centre is of a mother and child, thought by many to symbolise the amount of teenage pregnancies the ...  Read the complete review