“It’s gone down the pan... drastically,” Thomas Beech says. He's sat nursing a can of Pepsi in Woodley Precinct.
“In the past 15 to 20 years this place has gone right down the pan, especially Mill Lane estate. It’s not what it used to be at all. It’s a no-go area sometimes - that’s not exaggerating.
“If you said you came from Woodley, people used to think you were posh. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. I suppose it’s the same with a lot of places.”
