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Inside Information in Corby, Northamptonshire*

Corby, Northamptonshire 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.)

• canada sq. shops really classy.......but watch out for terry!!!!
• in the 80's the old market square was the local hook-up spot for teenagers. So was the music shop Discovery.
• dont go to lodgey because it is full of gimps who fink ther summit special but ther not ther mums are ther antys and ther antys are the grannys fukin rednecks shud all die wellendvale pytchly shire arron way pieces of shit think ther hard cos they start fyts wiv gimps up at danesholme
• morrisons (old safeway), town centre, used to be civic but its been like fenced up for the new olympic swimming centre by the council and overtaken by chavs. people normally go down the new west glebe skate park, but there's usually trouble from chavs down there as well
• 1961-1964 bench Rockingham Rd ,top of Gretton Brook Rd( gone now) loads of us some of the boy's had moter bikes,Hondas and BSA's we would ride up and down gretton rd on back of the bikes fantastic!!!!! We never got in to any trouble,just had realy good time,talking with realy good friends
• The Band Stand in the town centre - everyone knows exactly where you mean
• on the circal or down the steep ally or da ally with da roof mabey even round da bak ov the eccy shops on da long summa nites
• theres alot of hook up places in corby but there are not really what people say they are you just have to no know the right people and not be cheeky or mouthy. not everyone are smackheads they just take drugs occasionaly lifes life live it and dont be scared of what might or might not happen.
• Golden Wonder, till they burnt it down, Safeway, till they burnt it down, The Hotel at the top of Rocky Hill, till they burnt it down. Not saying there's an arson problem at all. Oh yeah and don't forget the stone the firecrew game!
• up the eccy outside the shops, wee hingoots gettin mad dog 20/20 from armers!!!outside the social comparing crisis loans!!! corby magistrates court also a classic hingoot spot!!!
• there is no where to hang about in corby, it's dangerous!!
• Urrm i tend to go to kettering most of my friends live there and theres beter shops even though some of the people are idiots. Or outside Mcdonalds...doesnt everyone!!!! :D
• WILLOWBROOK SHOPS GET A PIZZA FOR A QUID
• lodge park sports centre go in der for a game of hunt nd terrorise sum guy dat looks like eminem in der
• a wiked place to go down clywd walk sitdown der nd up the triangle we go der evrey day init
• netball courts when the games are on,
• there is nothing wrong wiv corby! and nothing rite wiv it! it needs more places 4 kids 2 hang around, better shops, if the kids had sumthing 2 do then our streets and houses wud b safer 2 live and walk in. all these forgin people living in corby is out of order. steeling our jobs and houses. go home.
• the rock
• BOATING LAKE....CAN HAVE A BIT OF THE OTHER IN THE NEAR-BYE WOODS
• the astro at lodge park sports center but if ur there be prepared to get attacked by stobs skill with a footie or cross n ben will just cume over n try and gangster rob ya ass lol
• Skating ? What's that all about ? Growing up in Corby meant playing with Action Men around your designated estate, progressing onto a bit of football, then when you teached 13 it was a legal obligation to hang around the back of various shopping precints in groups of five or more ,drinking Merrydown. Or Old English sherry if you were flush. And that was just the girls .
• Da wessie of course.Where else can we go and drink our bottle of white lightening and smoke our 10 lambert oh yeh and hangin out down snatchy shops gettin wrecked n that before heading down to Storm which is da bomb to hook up wiv ma mates from Year 8 beanfield school wwoooooooo
• my brothers nd sister used 2 go up the quarries up the back of the exeter estate to get drunk nd hang about.
• the old odeon cinema used to be great on a saturday morning
• butterwick walk and brinkhill walk-we used to get some gear from Pat and skin up on the wall and get pie-eyed. dem were de days!
• Please tell me what is the new name for Corby Boys School. Thanks Joe Walker.TEXAS
• in corby the hookup spots are limited what with all the neighbourhood watch going on in corby there is nowhere to go
• shps...parks...twn...fields..no were 2 go 2 chill owt
• Rockingham Speedway will apparantly have a skate park built
• corby town center the 'wasteland' is no more it is where we stoners go n have a good time!!!
• When i was young corby was wicked now you just have idiots getting drunk and starting on people for no need at the end of the day don't drink if you all can not handle it
• Dont go to corby pubs full of wasters and angry men looking for tarts.
• thers no hook up spot really but when i first came to corby awe the young ones hung around the pluto there was always a few partys there naming no names thay know who they are hahahaha a miss the pubbbbbb XXXXXXX
• I LIVED IN CORBY SINCE I WAS 3 AND SO I RECKON DA BEST HANGOUT HAS 2 BE, ALL DA BUS SHELTERS.
• CIVIC RULES!!! ROCK ON!!!
• deben road
• Mac donalds!
• New road or the shop (Bledington stores)
• Let's stand bout the shops askin people to go in for drink get drunk "lets go down the alcky bench (wessie) get steaming why not nick a car go and rob some one infact why not do it all cause thats all corbys got to offer
• The best hook up spot for alternative people is down the bus station or up the civic in the town centre. Theres also loadsa people outside McDonalds and near Safeway (now Morrisons) up Great Oakley
• wessy! the palce to be if ur a teenage rebel wantin to sit n drink 3 litres of cider and not get caught by ur parents. big plus!!thers sum woods so if u do get caught u hav a chance to leg it and hide! thts onli if u dnt hit the dek while trying to run being absolutly smashed.
• All the pubs are shit. Especially The spread, the village and barcode and these are the better pubs in corby - you can understand why everyone hangs around on the streets
• i feel that most of this stuff on the website is not true i am an student at the kingswood school and feel that people just see corby for being a dump but really if we think its a dump why do we live in it. what about all the good things like the schools we have. leisure faclities, and much more and one other best bit is most of the people living in the town. people we have to look at the good sides and try and erase the bad bits think of corby as being your town where you live be proud to live here
• Corby is the best it is very environmentally friendly and there are vast areas of woodland around!
• Arran Way In its hayday was bangin lungs pils and much more
• muddy's near woodsend, back when i was little it was the spot
• I can honestly say that no where in Corby is worth hanging about at. I haven't lived there for nearly 20 years and have no aspirations to return except to visit immediate family. The whole town is a blot on the landscape of Northamptonshire. Its about time that something was sorted for this dump. The town center is a disgrace and should be levelled as well as some of the shit hole estates around the town ie The Lincoln !!!! Come on someone sort it out and make it a better and safer place to live and not like some post-war tennament.
• grungers goths and skaters etc usually hang round the swimmin baths, the only place not invaded by trendies, or of course the old bus station but theres usually police down there now which sucks cos its fun to slide down the escalators...if youre a grunger or anythin like that DONT go near any local shops like wellandvale or pytch unless the coast is clear or youll get beaten up by trendies...and beanie too, we went up there one time n my friend got beaten up by some faggot. the arran, well what can i say, it hs a reputation but i walk through it every single day and nothin has happend to me *touch wood* but my friend got mugged down there once by a women and man in their late 20's. if you think ''grebs'' are idiots with a bad attitude think again, theyre the nicest people ull ever meet, trendies however suck bad
• Corby is extremely boring!!!!!! There is no where to go and nothing to do for young people. The reason is that when Corby Council has in the past provided some where to go, the local yob element destroy it and completeley fuck it up for everyone else!! Small wonder then that Corby Council seems unwilling to provide facilities.
• Hey you fucken little pussy, stop acten tuff on the net, when u all know i was the king of that town! ya'all dont fuck around, and fleck u little nutter fucken simmer down! or ill stomp on ya
• i used to go to helenas cafe 20 odd years ago great place. i was thinking about moving back to corby after 20 years away but i think i may have changed my mind used to be a great little town shame on u
• outside the civic...
• In our younger days we used to kick about at Beanie shops, Danesholme subbies, Selsey field, Greenie etc....
• Standing next to Joe Hackett doing the E.T. in the 90's with Kenny Johnstone, unemployed and bored senseless occasionally spazzed off me baps on something
• town centre (mainly mds)
• BEST DAY OF MY LIFE WAS THE DAY I LEFT THIS SHIT HOLE OF A TOWN. HAVING LIVED THERE FOR 33YRS MY LIFE HAS JUST BEGAN. THEY SHOULD DROP A BOMB ON THE FUCKING KINGSWOOD & LINCOLN ESTATE. THEN AGAIN MAYBE NOT,IT MITE IMPROVE THESE AREA'S. SUPPOSE IT IS OK IF YOU ARE A CORBY TOWN COUNCILOR AS THEY ARE RITE THEIVING BASTARDS. AND FOR THE SCHOOLS THEY ARE ALL SHITE. ( CHECK MY SPELLING OUT )
• the green box by wellandvale shops, legendary, n triangle field best place for a saturday nite lol, speciallly if ur hangin wit da crew
• Grassys(up beenie)used 2 hav all the druggies/glue sniffers hangin bout it b4 it got burnt down probably stil does. outside shops u usually find peeps(Aka: teens finkin ther well`ard,slags,etc)during day usually grungers by swimming pool.
• The one you have been waiting for Corby town of Steel with music the story of Corby's fight to retain the Steelworks 1979, the Steel strike 1980 available on CD contact John Wood-cowling Corby he wrote it No free loaders.
• wot use chattin bwt? corbys bangin n sos ya mum. ad rather shag a slag than a hun!
• corby but is totall bollocks but if u hate littel townes come up town and all you will here come on then fucking grungers in a (my bollacs aint droped voice)up civick there is a mental 5 set
• ABBEY FIELD ITS GREAT IN THE RAIN GET A BIT MUDDY PLUS THERE A BLOODY SHELTER WHERE 5 PEOPLE PEOPLE CAN FIT UNLUCKY TO THE REST OF YOUS WHO GET WET!! HA HA!!!
• There is no where in Corby that is worthy of being called a "hook up" spot. The whole town is full of porridge wogs why don't they all return back to north of the border and give Corby back to true English people. This way it will have a better chance of making a better name for itself. I lived in Corby and couldn't wait to leave. Too many jocks and Irish and all the inter-faction hatred that comes with them. Leave that type of behaviour to the residents of the Shankill or the Bogside or even the Glasgow Tenements
• Beanfield shops, begging people to go into cellar 5 and get us a bottle of omega!! i miss those days
• Beanfield shops, begging people to go into cellar 5 and get us a bottle of omega!! i miss those days
• There is nuthin in corby it is crap. There is nowhere to go unless u want to get mugged by some little fucker who wants to buy 10 fags or a bottle of booze
• Welendvale shops to get the bottle of cider, warfedale park 2 get the goss. Abbey field wkd for the alcis and stoners.
• Me and my friends usually always hang out all over the town centre mostly outside the library skatin, or the swimin baths.
• the bus station thats where we smoke pot (duffy and joe)
• Beanfield community centre offering free courses of your choice. If your from beanfield estate come and talk to Angie and Julie at beanfield community centre Monday and wednesday between 9-4.
• I John Wood-cowling I am not loony left just a normal catholic retired steelworker,any more of that patter I'll get my lads to give you a going over!John Wood-cowling
• in woodnewton way woods with a bottle of cider and a fiver bit and ten fags thats ya nite sorted
• The green across from Studfall shops was great for kicking footballs around in the summer holidays and eyeing up the local talent. Nowadays its any street corner / row of shops in town. FFS, build us a cinema or SOMETHING!
• hangin about at the corner of burns drive near the entrance of rocky triangle... the police had been there a many
• the park next to the domino pub
• All the shops and woods are full of punkage nowadays
• The Boating Lake is a lovely place to meet. Specially nice on a sunny winters day - not so many people around
• mcdirmit
• The boating lake is a beautiful place to meet on a summers evening
• WELLANDVALE GREEN BOX!!!!!
• Back of Wellandvale Shops or west glebe park
• As if you'd want to hook up with plastic jocks.
• WELLANDVALES LEGENDARY GREEN BOX!!
• Gr8 Oakly, dwn bktrackz wit a bottle of Cida n Black!! 12 arches funny as tho wen ya reked ya can jst go mad n wlk bk thru the scary sheep!!! wkd place to camp out tho!!
• Wellandvale's green box is the place to be, theres always people down there no matter what weather. whats so interesting about it?
• Errr h000k up spto 4 m8z .... wesie!!! n old vill park!!
• everyone in corby THINK THEY ARE SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT! Especially the mad x girLfriend they all seem to have!
• Round the back of the Irish, tending to a few blowies. Gimme a should if you'd like one, only a fiver...
• EVERYWHERE IN CORBY IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME!!! PPL THINK IT'S A WELL BAD PLACE BUT IF U DONT CAUSE TROUBLE N KEEP URSELF 2 URSELF U'LL FIND IT'S A REALLY NICE PLACE!!! ALL DA LIL ASSWIPES DAT R SLAGGIN IT OFF ON DIS WEBSITE R EIVA GOBSHITES OR KETTRINAZ (SHEEP SHAGGAZ)!!
• CORBY IS A SHITHOLE, THERE ARE GREAT CLUBS IN KETTERING, WHY BOTHER WITH A MINI SCOTLAND
• seem's to be quite a gatering of hobo's out the back of co-op extra if you dont try how are you going to know if you like it or not and may i say thats a smashing blouse your wearing
• a guy called oddjob he has a party house in exeter estate hes kicked mad partys in the past everyone use to meet there---U KNOW WHO U R-----i just want to say a quick hello to-RAB A , DAZ M. MICHEAL E. BARBRA BALLBAG ITS BEEN A PLEASURE
• town centre is a bore it is filthy and an eye sore
• wessie, on the benches or behind londis, or jus walkin bout
• anywhere outside corby
• that wessy!!! pissed evrynight litre of cider!!! not forgetting the 10 L&B its just like sound ASDA!
• The "Green Mile" in Charnwood Road
• for all the stoners n my m8s like 2 sit either in bin sheds up the square, behind my m8s garden in charnwod road, back traks or woods in grt. oakly!
• WELL I HANG AROUND WITH THE PEOPLE WHO RIDE BMX'S SO WE R NORMALLY DOWN THE WESSIE OR UP THE MULTISTOREY.
• The hook-up spots where all the little boys hang around are places like green-hill rise shops, outside escape, danesholme shops, stinkin lincoln, canada square (dont go there). These places are full of midgets who think they are big boys but they aint. They are all thick little skagheads that need a good slap and are so stupid they cant even get a job in one of the many factories in Corby! Im not gonna name and shame people cuz they wont have a computer anyway but all you little f*ckers know who are!!
• well let me tell u that beanie shops, wedmore court, selsy feild , the boater woods are all classy places 4 u n ur crew to drink ur drink smoke sum dope n get a laugh. watch out for the little gimps who attempt to street rob yo ass. give them a bitch slap n send them home****
• Beany shops have gotta be one of the safest areas to hang about.hangin about n e where else is just askin for trouble.Places like canada square and the arran should be demolished in the interest on peoples health.You cant even walk through the Arran wiv out cummin out wiv a scag needle stuck in ur arm!!!
• Hellenas cafe on the corner of steve way
• The BP garage, get friendly with the staff, dont cause a fuss or hassle the customers and they dont mind you there.
• Beany Shops/ Wedmore Court
• the drinking bench down beenie, up the boater, multistorey in bad weather, colyers park n e where really wiv a bottle of "v"
• my street ...(ribblesdale) it is the best!!..only cus i live there! but i HATE THOSE STUPID SKATEBOARDERS that cant even skateboard rite and just make bangs in the morning to wake u up on PURPOSE!!! go to the wessie or summit and do it in the BMX tracks and leave me to sleep in peace!!!!! PLEASE!! or even better move!!!!! ...the town (sad i kno) swimmin pool car park! the woods in the wessie! round the back of vision! triangle! baotinlake!safeway,asda(sad i kno!)
• Not Safeway, thats for sure Outside the KFC Drive Thru
• the wessie for glue sniffers
• THE NEW SHELTER THINGY UP THE OLD VILLAGE. THE SWIMMING BATHS, THE LITTLE SKAG-HEADSALWAYS HANG UP THERE JUST TO PISS US SKATERS OFF!!!
• We have made Corby what it is so about time for some positive thoughts on this town. I have been away (Not in prison) for 20 years. I love being back in Town.
• By hook-ups of course i mean skate spots, now, my friends and i have found numerous places that are good for street and aggressive skating suck as the underground loading bay next to the bus station and just outside of the swimming pool now that that huge fuckin' building has been demolished (yay!!) , so u see the council made a good decision by demolishin' sumfin for once lol.
• There are no real hook up spots in corby, only the local shops where all the violent little fuckers hang about breaking windows and threatening old people!!
• lets all go round pytchley court shops beat some people up - then go steal a car or two.... oh then why dont we set it alight....
• OUR BLOODY BIN SHEDS
• All the young apprentices studying advanced tennants swilling & celtic top wearing, all freckle of faced (minimum entrance requirement) and ginger fright wigged by birth (entrance pre)are to be found calhooning and staggering around in the summer in the grand old tradition of the early seventies June & July mass exodus and monthly excursion to the region just bordering the western side of the town, quaintly, and indeed in an entirely ironical and satiricle fashion, locally know as, goin doon Cotty, is, where it is all at one might say. Erm, most definately.
• Used to be 'The Friday disco' in the Beanfield community centre. What 15 year old didn't walk from the V.G in Canada square with two cans of Skona lager and a straw. On arrival eat a packet of polo's, spend the next 3 hours pretending to be drunk and dancing to 'you spin me right round' and trying to get off with the famous/in Clocherty sisters. One of them wore my Nike windrunner once! Oh the joy!
• The "closed off" in Great Oakley. Possibly the single biggest pile of 'roaches from reefers in the WORLS EVER!!! Part 2. Then again theres always the one started behind CTC by Louis Brown and all the other Kettering grungers circa 1994.
• for the really sad, the old Woolworths car park
• even though i really hate corby, i loved the summers being a teenager, them 2ltr bottles of omega sitting by the big tree in lodge park woods was great, oh apart from passing pervs, druggies and the odd gluey!!!
• Wots the deal with the kids in Corby hangin at the closed garage on Gainsborough road? ITS A GARAGE FOR GODS SAKE! Not the soddin trendiest night club in town!
• Beanie shops on friday night waitihg for people to buy you cider { how nice}and 10 fags(well hard!!)]then prepare to get beaten up if you dont oblidge! the benches in town centre all them wooly hats and beady eyes! hard innit!!! and its summer waiting to c all the 13 yr olds cumming out of bips on a friday. Subway between lodgy and beanie sitting on the steps waiting to mug any one who passes.
• the dark depths underneath argos and stinkinsons..(wilkinsons)....between 1981-3 plenty of cider and fags....and a great place to hide wen the goin got tuff. the local court...great day out...refreshments....and loadsa bullshit bein spewed out from the guilty tryin to prove their innocence....the who's who of corby....
• when i was 14 i hung around cam close. It was cool at the time but the people that live in the street must have hated us!
• Th Bus Shelter down Cottingham around 1979 to 83. People used to come from all over the world to hang around there and generally discuss things like Modes of alienation,Shakespeare's use of fish imagery to ballance his use of weather imagery to allegorate mans moods,also, and perhaps more importantly, to gob through the teeth with amazing velocity and accuracy, and postulate about the possible density, colour and indeed texture of C. Murdin's bush.
• Boating lake. they all gather there with the cars they have "aquired" when they get board of creating smoke by spinning the wheels, they either create more smoke with a can of petrol and a rag , or send the car for a swim in the lake. If you ever had your car stolen and not recovered it in Corby,try 20 feet below the surface of britains only underwater scrapyard.
• Anywhere outside of Corby
• The pulse new club now extinct
• There is no where to hang around in Corby, you get dirty looks from EVERYONE and always feel under suspicion!!!!
• Canada square shops, lots of little chukkies from childs play running around setting fire to everything.
• This use to be the field down Colyers Avenue, playing football in the winter. Cricket and golf in the summer. Getting some of our older mates to buy us alcohol, from Greenhill Rise shops.
• danesholme shops where you get harrassed by under age smokers and drinkers trying to get you to buy them things with a bunch of pennies
• the hallowed FORK the swing of all swings many a daring escape many a broken bone (mine included)
• The Wessie, any local shops (but be careful lol) any local school-might as well destroy them, outside Maccy D's,
• The boating lake on hot summer nights.
• Corby is boring!!!!!!There is NOTHING to do except swim or go pubbing it.An ice rink would be ideal for the wasteland in front of the swimming pool,as the nearest one is Peterborough!!!
• The school fields of Beanfield school, taking care to dodge the dog turds in the sand pit!
• corby is crap there is nothing to do except slags and drugs.In corby drugs are just a hobby everybody does.99.99999% of people in corby smoke da reefa.even my mum.
• wellandvale, greenhillrise (although not anymore to many cameras), pluto, beanfield, pytchely, etc
• I used to love to partake in a bottle of cider sitting on a park bench at the back of Our Ladys Infants in the Wessie on a nice summers evening with my getto blaster listing to The The back in 1987. Now I sit at home watching the TV with a number of cans of lager
• Farmstead Shops (outside the chippy)
• Safeway near Great Oakley.
• Lodge Park School field. Diamond White, summer nights, lovely. Sadly it is now all fencd in like a prison.
• The real hook up spots, for the young and unemployed, are the local shops. Pytchely Court, Greenhill Rise, Welland Vale e.t.c. boyracers hoon around the car parks as semi pubescent girls look on in awe. At any given evening throughout the year you can almost guarantee on there being 15 to 30 youths (11 to 22) quite often more (50 to 60 has been recorded). This can be quite daunting....... for anybody.

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