I dont think Bedworth has that many problems--- people say too many pubs --maybe but there is nowhere else to go. I think the civic hall is wonderful but wasted. A place that size could be used more efficiently, and not just for shows.
When it was built it was to be an all purpose hall for the use of everyone, all day and every day.
The adjoining Arts centre is well used during the day but the whole building need to be open at least on some evenings.
Idigress!!!
Many years ago when I lived in Leamington the bottom of the town was always 'iffy' -with noise and fights and drunks -much worse than it has ever been here in the north of the County------excepting of course the old 'Black Bedd'oth' early in the 20th century - and before that ... when the miners (it was a mining town if you haven't guessed) thought nothing of marching to Coventry on the spur of the moment when the pubs shut,to pick a fight with anyone they could find on the way-" these black faced men marching through Foleshill with shovels" as one account reads. No pit baths in those days!
Makes today seem tame!! but there are no accounts of guns or knives as we see today, just good old shovels--it makes me cringe.
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