The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Frome, Somerset*

Frome, Somerset Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• the wheatshef
• my house caz it has me bed in it!! na bein serious probly sounds of frome!! dpnt ask y!! caz i duna
• The Crown in the Market Place
• Public toilets top of Bath Street " you know why petal" !!!!!
• St johns church. Many a happy wedding and sexual conquest in amongst the graves in the rain during the winter
• there is a converted mill which a couple have renovated into their home. the crazy bit is that the mill now pumps electricity back into the national grid.
• LANGS WORKSHOP!
• Railway station, built for wide gauge by Brunel himself and the portway hotel where some of the D Day landings in 1944 were planned.
• Cheese & Grain
• The Crown. But better serving BEER.
• Round Tower is good. Loads of other nice buildings here
• Slaughterhouse, obviously. Refreshing lack of Vegans/Hippies/Arty-Crafty folk in this area.
• Hexagon Suite - (ASS rooms) coz that's where all the parties are held!
• The library is modern, and an example of how good Frome could be with the right vision.
• nunney castle
• So many it would take hours - you'll just have to visit - 357 Listed Buildings

Demolish It Now Building

• All the houses they keep building!!!
• frome college
• sumerfield!! is jst so old!!pluss no1 goes there
• Tax Office!
• The Night Club above safeway
• Pretty much the whole of Keyford
• the old library
• the ship at badcox,get's worse by the day
• Slaugher house - bloody eye soar and stinks! Right in town centre to. Yuk!!!
• gorehedge old peoples home. Disgusting
• Stonebridge
• Mcguinness Night Club
• the crown at keyford........knock it down..NOW!
• crown at keyford
• THE CROWN AT KEYFORDY
• Actually no major architectural crimes
• Simon Heal Estate Agents.
• New ALDI at the top of town
• Slaughter house of course. HomeBase - 'coz the bleedin' house prices are owed to this apparently!
• The Rook Lane Chapel has swallowed public money for years and years without coming any closer to finding a use. A Puzzle museum? Please...
• Pretty much unspoilt by monstrosities
• Frome community college. Also the infamous Frome criminal masterrmind Dan "SHITTER" Malones den.

The Best Things

• gr8 pll!! (sumtimes) the skools r quite gud!! but selwoods the bst!! frome colleg is gr8!! um well its a cosy lil place and thats ok wit me!!
• BEST FUKKIN THING IS UP THE FUCKIN REBELS THEYR FUCKIN BRILLIANT.
• The kebab shop in Bath Street holds fond memories after stumbling out from McGuinesses!
• Mark lives there!
• Reg
• Good live bands Some cool alternative folk
• Wonderful History and great buildings - could be restored to former beauty
• It is like Groundhog day...It never changes, The boys cars still have big exhuasts, there is a transit van in every street and everyone knows someone who works on a Tarmac gang. The Sun for being always the same
• easy access to london but still an old country town
• cup final drinking days,erm that's it
• Good pub crawls. Um, and easy to get out of town to other....better places.
• Pangs, Safeway and Ladbrokes.
• A wide range of people little or no violence
• It never changes - sleepy hollow. But the real residence must get out more each year.
• when they demolish the crown at keyford
• Rough cider
• Frome Collegians Football team, clearly the best side in frome and district. any fan of frome town who disagrees is clearly medically insane!
• Knowing that one day you will die and not have to live here any more.
• Leaving
• EGON DANK - Goth & ready FAR CUE - Punk & Playful! FRENZY - Sha la la, la la la la Psychobilly heaven INCISION - Black & Deather METAL! All Frome based bands! Comedy night at the Cheesey Groin.
• Great community Perfectly proportioned town

The Worst Things

• Piss heads who vomit up catherine hill and then take a dump!!
• smelly sumtimes!! fights all i can fink of rite na
• The amount of teens pushing their illegitimate kids around town on market day and the que for the post office on Giro day!
• I think more people should get out of frome and see the world a bit!
• Frome is full of Gypos! Half the town is related!
• Reg
• Middle class art hippies who babble on rubbish Fighting townie Kebab shops
• Having to leave before I wanted to
• Them dang kids doing 'donuts' around the car park and keeping me (and many others) awake - STOP IT PLEASE!!!!!
• Lorretta's = white see through trousers, greasy pony tails and tacky market clothes. Barry Boys = beat up Astras, Fiestas or Renault 5's, shite music and bad dress sense.
• Too many houses and run down parts not being looked after. The Wheatsheaf for selling out
• parking is a nightmare
• waking up
• crown at keyford
• There is a McDonalds now. Up next to Sainsbury's
• Council.....Mendip that is. Shoot em! Opose everything good and give to everything bad. Needs younger candidates and bump off all the grannies.
• Nowt ever changes... you go back year after year and if your lucky a new shop would have sprung up!! Also the charm about the place!!
• Traffic, Cheeseshow moved to the fields. Whats going on at the old carpet factory at Wallbridge as the river is clean?
• Still no Mac Donalds.
• the crown at keyford being demolished....and fordy not in it.
• The effects of rough cider
• Don't go for a run past the gypsy camp because they throw rocks at you
• 1. Waking up and realising you're not dead. 2. 50 illiterate teenagers belching in the shopping centre on Saturday. 3. The Mount estate
• Arriving
• Rave Nights at the Cheesey Groin Riot Vans at the weekend
• It's too sleepy. Loads of easy girls but there're dogs. Stupid boy racer types some night.
• Not anywhere near enough clothes shops

The Knowhere Guide started out as a list of places to skateboard in the UK. It is a compilation of (unedited) information and views supplied by users like yourself. It is not a conventional tourist guide!

In most cases, the information in each section has been submitted by more than one contributor (the credits at the bottom of the page list some, but not all, of the contributors) and some of it dates back to the 1970s.

We make no claims as to the accuracy of the information in the Guide - our only purpose is to provide a forum for users to share their knowledge and opinions. So please keep a large bag of salt handy and be prepared to read between the lines!

If you disagree with a comment, or information is out of date, please submit an update! The contributors come from all walks of life, and their opinions are bound to be subjective, so if your view isn't represented, please speak up and contribute to the balance of the Guide. See below in the 'Have Your Say' section for how to add your voice.

If we have helped you out or made you laugh you can buy us a pint.

Have Your Say...

You can tell us more about Frome. This is also the method to use if you want to correct some of the information already here. (But please remember you're not mailing the person who actually wrote whatever-it-is.)

You can use the add an event form to tell us about events happening in Frome.

Or, if you'd just like to leave a message for other users of this site, take a look at The Knowhere Board (handy if you're just trying to get in touch with someone).

Credits

Last updated: 2007-11-25