The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Hinckley, Leicestershire*

Hinckley, Leicestershire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Britania Under Cover Car Park, No Cameras lots of space and you don't get wet when it rains.
• Fabrex (house of pain) & sweat shop.
• THERE ISNT ANY, THEY HAVE ALL BEEN FLATTENED
• St mary's church and the old tudor house on Bond street!
• Macdonalds
• St Mary's Church

Demolish It Now Building

• Police Station.
• all the kebab shops and dorathy perkins come on how sad is that shop !
• COUNCIL OFFICES, Fossway Radio, Allsports.
• COUNCIL OFFICES!
• Next door (there pissing me off)
• DUNHELM UP CASTLE STREET
• Zuu!
• The Middlefield Lane Stadium - the local donkey sanctuary and vegetable patch that serves as a football ground every other Saturday - should be burnt to the ground. 'Hell-hole' isn't a strong enough word to describe the place.
• council offices, ugly post modern 70's heap full of useless beauracy
• Hinckley college
• Abiticon hosiery ltd on hill street opposite co-op car park looks more like a museum than the museum does especially on the inside, Please Please Demolish it.
• I would love to see Woolworths blown up. I don't know why
• The whole of Wykin Estate and JCC
• the council offices
• the council office.the leisure centre.
• Regent Street
• Le Venue.

The Best Things

• The Norther Perimeter Road, perfect for top speed runs (141mph), 1/4 mile times (14 flat) or 0-100 sprints (13 seconds).
• that theres all my feinds there and family and that i know this is going 2 be a great place 2 be
• its easy to get round
• Free air on the common.
• Don't forget ANDY'S store on Hinckley market. Too good to be missed!
• No sorry can't think of anything
• Are there any?
• Its Boring
• The M69, the world's quietest Motorway, perfect for comedy driving antics and _driving at the speed limit_
• JCC band. I've heard their keyboard player is superb :)
• market days monday and saturday and of course the friday market.
• Or local museum in the 17th century cottages in lower bond street, is well worth a visit. Opening times are posted on the door. Refreshments are served and i beleive that there are items on sale as souveniers.
• There is nothing good to say about Hinckley
• The Hinckley/Burbage New Year's Eve pub crawls. Everyone goes in fancy dress around Burbage's pubs & clubs.. there are coachloads of tourists from nearby towns etc etc, quite an event :)
• Hinckley United Football Club
• Generally quite cool people.

The Worst Things

• HINCKLEY IS SHIT!GET SOMETHING FOR TEENS AS AT THE MO THERE IS NOTHING!!! :)
• Hinckley Police (total bastards), Local Louts, Tossas with keys and Nitro-mor.
• is the snobbi ness about your a gypsy your a gypsy ! im like so what . its like me going up to someone innocent and saying oh look at you your a tramp you stink rotten we dont live in wagons and we dont have animals in the trailer coz we think its dirty , and were continuasly cleaning its onley the italian gypsys thats still old fashiond so please stop the bugging
• knowing alot of ppl in it lol
• The Hinckley Times ....Once a nice broadsheet. Now possibly the dullest local rag in existence.
• Proposal to tax free air on the common.
• The Council
• TOWN CENTRE NEED A TOTAL RE VAMP WHY DOSNT IT LOOK LIKE ASHBY -DEL-AZOUGH
• Nighttime in Hinckley, everyone's 2 young!
• The shite nightlife and unfriendly people, lack of entertainment for teens and big gangs causing fights all of the time!John cleveland college full of druggies.
• It's too close to Leicester
• Too many to list
• Its Boring
• Zuu. Bon Marche. Le Venue. Wykin Estate. Kids from JCC. All the factories.
• everything It is the shitiest and most boring place to live
• The crap football team. And the hordes of immature boy racers who hang around the car parks in the town centre thinking they look cool, when actually they are the laughing stock of the town.
• The nearest cinema or 'thing to do if you don't wanna get drunk' is MILES away
• The Market and the hundreds of charity shops. The fact that there is so little to do in the evenings.

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Last updated: 2007-11-12