The Knowhere Guide

Inside Information in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire*

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Inside Information

• No one skates in peterborough. If you see someone on a skateboard they are skating through peterborough or away from peterborough   
• "The Royol behind the market, Good Stares of varying hieght, ledges, benchs, banks, wallrides and loads of good skaters" This is just wrong wrong wrong. They put bushes over the little wallridey bits so they're unskatable. Theres a shitty little bank at the side of the stairs but no-one outside peterborough would actually call these banks. There's no benches or ledges either for gods sake. Stairs of varying height YES Nice bit of flat to roll about on YES...That is all   
• The Glass Onion, Burghley Road, Peterborough   
• That italian restaurant opposite the post office. . Wow!   
• met lounge   
• The Square.   
• town square is good to meet a few m8s or make some mates   
• herlington centre but bring some cheap booze or buy it in andy's offie   
• smelly weirdos in the guildhall every saturday afternoon, along with teenie tramp morons in the queensgate centre. lads must be wearing a fake designer cap and birds must be pushing their kid around   
• rude boys and girls hang around in the local centres in the new town areas like orton, bretton etc etc hassling people. if they get especially brave they venture to the queensgate centre and hang around at the clock. tramps and smelly grungers hang out tend to meet at the guildhall in cathedral square   
• The Guild Hall isn't a place for skaters to meet it where the wannabe skaters and metaler losers hang, just had to clear that one up.   
• The Cathedrial gardens in the summer time for chillin, as for skate spots Peterboroughs skaters the PSM don't take too kindly to the new kids on the block just tearing up the spots so if I were you id get friendly with the PSM before ripping, you have been warned...PSM03   
• Stanground college has a vacant waxed car park.   
• Wouldn't know about the townies, but the Mini (and some of the Midi and Maxi!) metallers/Sk8ters tend to congrgate at the Guild Hall in Cathedral Square.   
• A new Peterborough sk8 scene web site is being crafted as you read this it will in clude a spots guide, you may think this is pretty pointless since the boro is shit for skating but i can name over 50 half decent spots. It will also include pics of local riders, information on up-coming events and loads of other stuff. the name of the site has not been decided so keep watching this space for more details...... Mr Dan o{-</:   
• Behind the market on a saturday, nice place to sit, icecream van nearby and a good view of any fit skateboarders   
• Town Park...full of cheap teenagers drinking cider and having sex with local ruffians thinking they are cool somking drugs.   
• In the summer just hang in cathedral square theres all ways people about who are up for skating or at the skate park any other time esp tursday and saturday nights. The royal is a good place to hook up and skate on Saturday mornings.   
• If ladies of the night are your bag? I've heard the corner of Burghley Road & lincoln Road could be fruitful.   
• Before there was a skate park it was the Royol or the Passport Office what ever you want to call it. Now its the good old wood paradise thats Y2SK8 (what up Lee!) and for getting rat arsed its got to be The Met Lounge(formally Winners) yea i know its a shit hole but it rocks! saturday night only.   
• Don't forget whos the founder of the PSM boys the one and only Pat McCoubrey.   
• The Royol as a skate spot is the best hook up spot you will find.   
• In the eddys of time. There is no hook-up spot in Peterborough, just multiple solitude. Don't hang around underpasses waiting to be skanked by badmen.   
• key theatre coffee shop...mmmm so quick one day ken almost died   
• The underpass in Orton Wistow is a popular place with the teeny boppers. Want your ear pierced or a lovely run being chased by the police then go there. By the boating lake at freey medows is good for a quick shag.   
• The guildhall in Cathedral Square   
• The Royol behind the market, Good Stares of varying hieght, ledges, benchs, banks, wallrides and loads of good skaters)   

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