Dear All,
This is the sign outside of a local shop with a local newspaper’s headline story.
Love,
Mousie
U is for criminal Underbelly
Thurnscoe has a reputation for being pretty rough, with high unemployment, drugs, alcohol and plenty of fighting. During the Miners’ Strike (1984) it was considered to be one of the most violent places of demonstration with a lot of fighting. In the last few years, it’s had televised drug busts (2007) and several stabbings (most recent April 2014).
One of Mousie’s more chilling postcards.
Well, there’s always some bad with the good – it would be difficult to explain Thurnscoe without mentioning that it has a poor reputation and is quite rundown (as under V).