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Best and Worst in Rugby, Warwickshire*

Rugby, Warwickshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The Ex-Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Caldecote Park, for about 4 months after she died. Ask the Council about that!!!
• Paradise street offie, spent many a day purchasing vodka from this oasis when I was still fresh faced.
• Rugby School - especially now it's been cleaned. Or perhaps the new library, museum & art gallery....
• The train station, as it gives me inspiration, that I will get out of here some time soon. (soon being July 2000)
• The best building is new libary which hasn't been opened yet. Looks cool though.
• Most of the shops in Regent Street (look above ground floor level)

Demolish It Now Building

• The Princess Diana Memorial Fountain....oh sorry,yeah...the Council received sooooo many complaints about it they flattened it and laid turf over it....AT WHAT TIME????? 3 o'clock in the morning!!! Totally true my friends.
• The new library. It's fecking hideous.
• As i said earlier demolish the police station with them in it.
• Bilton Middle School on Plantaganet Drive, the source of the worst years of my education.
• The hole they call chapel St.
• Every building in Rugby, and also with 90% of the inhabitants still in them.
• Next to the new libary are loads of old abandoned buildings, demolish them and build a a cinema.
• The multi-storey car park on Corporation St.
• The squirrel pub. Full of whippet fanciers and old farts playing dominos.
• The Library, whoops, they have.
• The town hall.

The Best Things

• Its close too many motorways and the trainstation which is useful when trying to leave far far away
• Ask the Council about the Princess Diana Memorial.......
• The train station (see above)
• to some extent the nightlife, only get trouble if you go looking for it. women are good looking as well.
• Nowt really its just a bit quieter than some larger places but is just as shit.
• Caldecott Park in summer. The pubs. The large number of clubs and organisations covering just about every interest imaginable (see Rugby library for info)
• Apparently the new Library. It will have a gallery secure enough to display some of the reigons top art which is currently in storage in Coventry. Hopefully some new books too.
• Rugby Theatre is well worth checking out. Although not a professional organisation, the production quality is often compared to that of a professional company, across from the theatre is a very friendly bar which has particularly good prices, and ample parking is only a few hundred yards away...
• In the Guiness Book of records for being the most densely pub'ed area in GB.
• Best thing about Rugby: loads of pubs. Worst thing is the town centre is shit for clothes shops.

The Worst Things

• there is nothing to do, none of the buildings fit in, the people are mostly arrogant and unfriendly and there are just too many roads making it impossible to cross them without being hit by blind old people
• Every 'head' (appart from a lucky few)have to go to the hossy everyday to pick up their scripts, no ifs or buts. The only doctor who might write you a script is the guy at the top of claremont road.
• Ask the Council about the Princess Diana Memorial.............
• Mullets, Rugby must have the highest percentage per capita of mullets. There must be some sort of mullet society where they have secret underground meetings in the evenings. You can wonder around town in the day and see dozens of mullets, but as soon as it gets dark they all vanish...weird Too many warehouses in rugby means too many people with bad attitudes going around. Not saying everyone who works in a warehouse is angry, but they definitely breed them.
• Not enough people using the Knowhere guide in Rugby if anyone reads it tell yer mates and lets get talking.
• I have never visited a town so full of speed bumps. Are these to slow the almost stationary traffic searching for a place to park?
• It's very exsistence
• not too many places to go to for decent dance music, need some pubs that play good music, for the hip crowd to hang about
• Uselessly signed train station entrance - not so much as a "you are here" street map. Entrance is totally bland and dull and unloved - a grim introduction to Rugby, although the station itself has cool steel vaulting for a roof.
• The scum who hang around town all night
• Too many charity shops and not enough proper shops.
• Still the people, although some of them can be great and are fantastic in either a crisis or a fight.
• Teeny place, Teeny minds. Though this is the minority, it does tend to show itself of a Saturday night. It was the first town centre to have brick proof windows throughout.

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