Rugby, Warwickshire Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else
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The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else
Ask the Council "What happened to the Princess Diana Memorial"?
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THIS TOWN, YOUR NIGHTMARES WILL BECOME RECURRING VISIONS OF SHELL SUITED SHAGGY PERMED BLONDES WITH SHAVED HEADED SOVERIEGN RING WEARING THUGS.
The new Art Gallery, Museum and Library which is actually a nice building but should be demolished for the fact that the think tank who have been deciding on a name for the place for months and kept it a secret, have decided to call it The Rugby Art Gallery, Museum and Library. With imagination like that these people must be stopped even though they did surprise everyone by being rebellious and calling the Clock Towers Shopping Centre, The Clock Towers. Do yo see how they tricked us by dropping of Shopping CEntre at the end of it, well it caused a few problems I can tell you, for months people in Rugby didn't know what it was as the name and contents weren't descriptive enough for some of the inbred around here.
Rugby people are very territorial I find and love the common person.
Rugby Library and Tourist Information Centre: Little Elborow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ, Tel. 01788 542687 Open Mon & Thu 9.30 - 8.00. Tue & Fri 9.30 - 5.00. Wed 9.30 - 1.00. Sat. 9.30 - 4.00
Rugby is home to some of the most innovative rock musicians around. In particular it was home to neo-psychadelic drone gods Spacemen3. Check out the Spacemen3 Archives. Sadly they split up at the beginning of the nineties, but successors Spectrum and Spiritualized are also documented at the URL above. Also from Rugby are R&B-ers Thee Hypnotics.
Guided tours of Rugby School take place every day except Sundays and Mondays. They leave from the School Museum at 2.30 p.m. The cost is £1.75 for adults and £1.25 for senior citizens and students. Family tickets are available for two adults and their children. (There are no tours for a fortnight around Christmas). Groups are welcome at other times as well. Phone +44 (0)1788 574117 for details. Group rates are available for parties of more than 20 people.
Rugby School where the Game of Rugby was invented.
Like it, hate it: it's not the sleepy town people think it is, unless you drive through very fast. Most people know it as a train station, or so it seems.
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