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Inside Information in Romford, Greater London*

Romford, Greater London Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Hook-up Spots (That hallowed spot where everyone hangs around with their mates dreaming of the time when they can get into the pubs or clubs - a bench, a corner: you name it.)

• The shops for the girls, but not at night... not with so many random drunk people spilling out of bars and clubs. The rocks just outside McDonalds at the top of the liberty are nice to sit on.
• MusicTek (The Tek Live Music Venue) offers under 18's nights every wednesday. I'm the owner, Dave Wright, and you can check me out at www.thetek.co.uk
• Around the Brury place, loads of teenagers hang around there.
• The air raid shelters on the corner of Mawney Park by the A12
• Skatepark ROM is proberly one of the best parks in the uk, complete with bowls, ramps, half-pipes, banks, rollings, verts, grind boxes and rails. It is open to skateboarders, BMXers and inline skates. It is open every day and has two sessions: 10am-2pm and 2pm-6pm. Skatepark ROM is located on Rainham road, next to the Cardrome.Each session is £5 and all day is £9. Come and check it out!
• Any of those little pavillions in Central Park. We had a rave there on the last day of school, just before we sat our GCSEs. The pavillions are cool to dance on top of, and you get a really good view in case the cops turn up. plus there's handy toilets nearby, coz you're bound to get completely rat-arsed.
• out side the west ham shop
• Cootons Park, the roughest filth park in romford
• Liberty II
• Most blatently 7/11's, then b2 then Budgens is the place where collier row boys and girls meet. The other great place is Lawns Park, great for meeting everyone you know and dont. Brilliant for 13-18 year olds. Its been the time of our young lives. Otherwise its the market or any shops in collier row or romford.
• The best place must be Liberty 2's. There is always groups of youngsters around there giving the large to all people with half a brain. Other places include Mcdonalds on the high street and the Market. Romford Youngsters have always had no where to gather after 7:00.
• at the moment the collier row cru hang about outside budgens(7/11)
• well for under 14s hooked on fags try sunday nights down the ice rink
• In the 15 and 16 century the place to not hang out was Gallows corner.If you hang out there for too long you use to die and the birds would eat you.
• From about 67 to 72 the place the Romford Boys use to meet was either Ashford Remand Centre or Borstel.After this it could be any number of places like the Scrubs or even Chelmsford.Actually some of the guys from then still hang around these places,sort of a second home,maybe even a first and only home,well at least you fill wanted!!You just try leaving without being asked.
• The hallowed spot as i remember was Central Park in Harold Hill where we used to get people to buy us lots of alcohol and get drunk
• In the Harold Wood area, the kids used to hang around outside the off licence in Oak Road (this was in the late 80's and early/mid 90's). Living a few doors away from there, and thus too close to parental eyes, I was unable to partake in this teenage pleasure. A few years ago the kids got moved on because the old folks home opposite kept complaining. Don't know where the current crop go, but I would guess the park.
• The hallowed spot use to be the cafe in Stones as Debanams was known till they got fed up with us unscrewing the salt lid and waiting for the next user.
• Liberty 2 - always good for a laugh if your 11-13 and think its great to get chased by butch security guards!
• The bench outside maccy d's in liberty's, plenty of little girls trying to pull blokes in cars, the sad thing is, the blokes do get pulled!!
• the wheatsheaf on the brentwood road a place where you can get wankered in an exciting atmosphere you can have a great time playing cards on a sunday lunch roast potatoes on the bar ,dead pigeons available from the local hunter,if you do get bored you can always play the barra for a tenner at pool and when you beat him he sulks and then say, thanks for your dough he is small has a short army hair cut smokes old holburn his other aliases are barry, wheelbarrow, little steve, funny hair parting man, he has speech impedament, wears jogging bottoms and a varirety of four t shirts, when you are there and you hear the cry jackos here put your fags in your pocket, "FAG ALERT" the govnor there is ok with people sleeping in the pub during the day,
• The water fountain in the center of Romford .Late 70's Were skinheads and punks would try and out blast each over with there mobile radios (wog boxes) but we can't call them that now.its still there but it's been filled in now after the council got feed up of kids putting fairy liguid in the water. boy you shuold have seen them bubbles.
• ROM SKATE PARK ROM SKATE PARK HAS NOW GOT A MINI RAMP AND IS SOON HAVING A STREET COARSE BUILT. ROM SKATE PARK JAM IS ON 3RD OCTOBER 1998 (BMX ONLY) 26TH SEPTEMBER CHRIS DAWSON

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