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Inside Information in Farnworth, Greater Manchester*

Farnworth, Greater Manchester Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Hook-up Spots (That hallowed spot where everyone hangs around with their mates dreaming of the time when they can get into the pubs or clubs - a bench, a corner: you name it.)

• sat afternoon picture the Ritz
• farny park drinking white lightning, great place to get pissed before you headed off to the well missed city lites
• the local market more shifty little kids per inch than anything moved from farnworth park as when i was a kid nothing left to smash
• Farnworth Park was the place to meet. Full of us kids with our bottles of cider and 20/20. Terorising anyone who came near us!!
• In 19666 or thereabouts it was the "Green Box" at the top of Stanley RD, off Plodder Lane. It was an electrical connection of some sort. I gouged my name into the paintwork with the edge of a coin and its still there. All the later graffiti and painting hasnt been able to obliterate it. I escaped from Farnworth long ago but occasionaly visit.
• I really can't imagine such a thing in Farnworth unless your 'purple period' ran from about 1920 to about 1939, in which case you may have found like minded souls in one of the several and now mostly ruined Edwardian pubs in the area.
• the phoenix club
• Farnworth Market. I myself used to sit there with my mates getting rat-legged off a bottle of cider, wishing I was 18 so I could go to the Brit.
• Any corner in farnworth, among the hookers and drunken madmen.
• Farnworth market a favourite for young (dropouts) they have no brain and just sit on the stalls or turn them upside down and smash bottles this a sad realisation of the times we are in,there parents don't give a damn, send the kids on the street and leave the parents alone, coz they don't want disturbing, they are far to busy watching corrie or eastenders on the BOX!!!!!
• Market St Launderete
• Everyone tend to hang about near Asda, the focus of activity near the shopping precinct.

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Last updated: 2007-10-02