While another summed it up as: ‘Bleak, terrible and pointless.’ Even popular TikToker Luke Hamnett admitted his home town was a ‘sh*t hole’. With one commenter adding: ‘I live in Stoke ...

When northeastern China was known as Manchuria, the town of Mukden (present-day Shenyang ... “Hoten, where I grew up, was an especially bleak place in that overall bleak Manchuria,” Abe ...

In particular, the historic port town of Tilbury's grey vistas featured heavily as a bleak backdrop in a recent film about a town not in Essex but famous for being a bit grim, it's even in the name - ...