Alloa Is A Great Place To Check Out The Beauty Around It
Alloa is a small town just 8 miles from Stirling in Scotland and recently received some bad press which has come under a lot of scrutiny because it has a lot to offer. If you want to read about the crap that one or two people have mouthed off about then go to the bottom of the page as that is where it should be.
So Moving On – Alloa As A Place To Visit
Alloa is a great place to visit as it has such a vast amount of places around that ar worth checking out from here. Loclly it has
Historic Stirling Is So Close By
Dollar With Its Historic Castle
Glendevon Walks
Gleneagles Golf
Tilliycoultry Glen
Alva Glen
Menstry Hills
Clackmannan Tower
Culross
Newmills
Kincardine Bridge & Forest Walk
Dunfirmline
Kinross 6 Loch Leven
Fantastic Cycling routes
Alloa Town Centre – Needs a little updating
The town centre in Alloa needs some updating and an influx of independant shops. It is jammed with a selection of the same things, some of them very predictable in places that has a lot of low income families, as they prey on these. There are also a number of properties that are empty and run down. It badly needs some life injecting into it. So far the local MP and Alloa first have failed to improve this situation. They have both done their bit, especially Alloa first, but in a place that people seem to miss out on for some reason, they cannot fill the larger prominent buildings except with bookies, which is not what Alloa needs.
The town centre itself has no issues with parking as the local council have removed the parking.
The Main Shops
32 Hairdressers & Barbers
Yes, you read that right. There are 32 of them and in some places there are 3 or 4 of them next door to each other. Alloa is over run with certain types of business and lacks others.
Around 8 Charity Shops
Although there are many charity shops they are always enjoyable to walk around with a good selection of items on display.
At Least 4 Betting Shops
These always stand out like a sore thumb as they are always in places where there is little money available. They are in the main locations in Alloa on the corner of the main streets. Way too many for usch a small place.
20+ Takeaways
Alloa is overcrowded with takeaways. They are everywhere and are a major contributor to the problems we have with health throughout the UK. Way to many in such a small town centre.
3+ Tanning Centres
Again an overkill. Like the takeaways and betting shops, way too many for such a small place.
3 or 4 Coffee Shops
Not enough coffee shops. What they have here are nice and are well used. The place could do with more.
A Selection Of Other Useful Shops
There are a good selection of smaller shops in Alloa including two opticians, a Puregym, mobile phone repairs, key cutting and shoe repairs, £1 shops and a small number of restaurants. There is also a Wetherspoons and a few other small pubs.
On the edge of Alloa are all the main supermarkets, and considering the size of the town centre there is a lot of choice. Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, plus McDonalds and Kentucky, and possibly another big takeaway opening in the future.
Alloa is very lucky in that it has a bus station right in the town centre, plus a railway line direct to Stirling and Glasgow.
Recent publicity did not do the place justice, claiming that it has issues around the bus station and with its habitants. The person who wrote this must come from somewhere special as every place I have lived and worked has its problems with society. i personally have worked in some multi million pound areas in London (Kensington) and Surrey (Kingston Upon Thames) and they all have at least if not much bigger issues than Alloa currently has.
The Upside Of Alloa
Alloa may not be to everyones liking, but with a few small changes and some of the local shops filling it could be a very nice small place.
It is in a spot the other side of the water that makes it very easy to get into the mountains to go for day trips or holidays, and is perfect for those who want to fly away being within an hour of Edinburgh and Glasgow airports. It is also on the edge of the motorways to get South if you feel the need. With a twice an hour train service to Glasgow you are very lucky to have a night or day out right on your door.
If you are into cycling or walking you can get straight onto a bike or walking route within the town centre and be into the hills or Stirling within 45 minutes by bike. You can also take the old cycle route to Dunfirmline a ride of 20kms without seeing another car.
Alloa is placed 4th worst place to live in 2023, and reading the facts mentioned, they are going back to 2020 when the list was last updated by the BBC.
The town centre of Alloa has a few problems that need sorting out. However, here are the only 3 bad press entries I could find about Alloa from this website, which I find hard to believe people still follow this shit.
Below are the only 3 entries I could find from the pile of crap website that where anyone can write what they want even though they do NoT live in the place they are talking about.
“I have never been in such a hell hole“
Really!
Then you CLEARLY have not travelled much “Dahrlin”, and what bright green bus station. You been snorting somethin “Dahrlin”. Clearly you have been looking at images from 2012 or something whey back when.
From your statement, you obviously live in a place that does not have any problems with society.
Where is that? Fuck, we all want to live there…..
You were waiting for a bus. So you cannot even afford a fuckin car. So what were you doing here in the first place? Just passing through? I don’t think so. The train comes to a dead end in Alloa and the bus stops right in the town centre from every direction, so you must have been here for a reason. We have 32 hairdressers and a bunch of bookies and takeaways in Alloa, and a few tanning salons, so perhaps you were visiting one of Alloas specialties, as it is easier to get a booking.
I have yet to find one fuckin place in the whole of the UK that does not suffer from some sort of issue here and there. And I have lived, worked and driven through most of the shitholes in the UK, and I can tell you from knowledge, Alloa does not come close to the top 100 dumps in the UK, and some of these places are million-pound house places.
Have you ever been to Kingston Upon Thames or Guildford in Surrey, both places are high society, yet they have serious problems of their own with homeless, drugs, yobs with money, and boy racers all day? These places don’t make the top 100 because their scum dont need to stand at a bus stop waiting for a bus. They have daddy’s money and boy racer BMWs and Mercs and they don’t work either.
Your statement (below) really does read like you have lived in one place only “Dahrlin”, somewhere really posh. Must be a fuckin hotel in North Berwick. WTF where you doing in Alloa?
Oh my goodness! I have never been in such a hell hole. I was stood at the bright green bus station in Alloa a few weeks back, and I could play “spot the junkie”.
There were woman walking about with their hair so slick back you could see lumps on their heads! Their eyes so drawn in you had to look hard to see. This place is so obviously a dump. As I was standing at the bus stop I got “awrite dahrlin” many times, which made me feel sick. They obviously felt high and mighty in their own ***** hole after cashing in giro cheques.
And boy racers kicking about during the day, which just shows they don’t have a job. And every female aged 8-25 had a pram/buggie or a kid round their waste. This place should be bombed and started all over again!
“A small waste bin of society“
So your not even from here mate, yet you obviously know the place well, and the traditions from around the area, and you have had time to walk around the town and check out all the bookies you fucking waster. Then you decided to spend more time here and pop into the post office and waste your time posting a card or something. You must love it here to be here for so long. You have also been here at night. Fuck, you obviously cannot stay away, you fuckin loser. Did you pop in for some buckfast in your boy racer, or where you in your work clothes looking to sign on fuckwit? You obviously have a lot of experience in dole queues as you seem to know fully how to scam the system. What a tosser… Let us know where you live nob-ed so we can all take a look at “the place to live”…
A small waste bin of Society full of down n outs and failed textile workers!!!! can it be that hard????
This is the town they send people who were too bad for the raploch too so they just become normal members of society!!!!!
God, This TOWN is just full of ****, ***** or whatever else you call junkie wannabe gangster ****, Alloa sports nothing but pubs and bookies as well as the busiest post office in central scotland. If youve never been here count yourself lucky, christ it smells as soon as your within 5 miles of it and a trip at night is only for the brave of body and mind. The worst thing is that Alloas residents are proud of their Alloaness. they say ken at the endo f every sentance and sales of buckfast are sky high even on a monday morning, perhaps even higher at such a time!!!!!!, Paces to avoid include the bottom end, and The mar (mad) policies, jesus why anybody would live in such a place is beyond me especially when it looks like a scene from a post apocolyptic Zombie movie, with real life extras!!!!!!!. the inhabitants could only be classed as dumb, withstanding the dole cheats who make a mockery of the whole system by queing to get a jiro with workmans clothes on!!!! come on tae whit!!!!!!
“Alloa, possibly the most depressing place on earth“
Mmmm. Dont think this fuckwit has been to Alloa for many years. Looks like he was here once when he was a teen or in his mums pram after a visit to the local cop shop via the old bus station and the DHS offices as he seems to remember the old places in town. Either that or he had a mate look up google maps for him so he could see what was in Alloa. He was obviously waiting at the bus stop ” AGAIN” like the first one, cannot even afford a fuckin car, listening in to what the mothers were talking about whilst eyeing up the kids. Fuckin perv. He knew his way around as he obviously had been to the dhs offices and the old CO-OP. perhaps a mate in the nearby council flats. Clearly this tool has no fuckin clue what shit holes exhist in the rest of the UK and lives at home with mum and dad watching porn . Letus know which pa
Alloa, possibly the most depressing place on earth. Which makes it perfect for ***** (or **** or Schemies as they get called up here). The town centre is a perfect example of 1960’s lack of town planning. The newest building in town is the Police Station, which is conviently on the road to Sauchie, the other neaby Chavtown.
The town boasts two bus stops where ***** hang out and drink and try to either intimidate or beg money so that they can get their next bottle of Buckfast. Nearby is the CO-OP Supermarket, where **** Mothers can be heard telling their kids to “get into the ******’ store”. Convenience itself is here – the store is near to the DHS offices, and near to the council flats. Actually Alloa is just council flats and houses. It ahs the lowest property prices in Britain, but then as Chavtown of the year, that’s hardly surprising…
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