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I went to the seaside town of Horden, in county Durham, to visit the streets where houses are some of the cheapest you can buy in the UK.

I was really interested to figure out why they were so cheap and to take a look at the area. Horden is an ex mining town, and when the colliery shut down in 1987, all the work and the reason for people being there disappeared. You can imagine how busy this place would have been when that mine was open. It operated from 1900 - 1987.

Their were entire streets that were boarded up and I managed to get a look in 2 different properties which were on sale at the time of visiting.

It seems that the town suffers from a severe vandalism problem, making it hard for properties to be done up, leaving the towns looking like they do. The answer, a lovely chap showing me round one house is told me, is that it has to be local landlords or people who can respond quickly. When these houses end up in the hands of outside investors, without a care for the area, they quickly fall into this cycle of damage, try to sell, repeat and repeat.

The people up here are absolutely great, such a friendly welcoming town where everyone was up for a chat.

It is a real shame to see so many streets boarded up especially in a town so close to the sea, which I go look at in the end.

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