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Inside Information in Coventry, West Midlands*

Coventry, West Midlands 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.)

• the godiva statue is gr8 to meet m8s but if u don't no any one there it can b quite scary walkin past we r nice tho
• The Godiva Statue
• us students meet up anywhere, we're not fussy like you native covonians.
• godiva statue
• the godiva statue there friendly ppl if u ain't a townie so i guess townies go find ur own place
• Under the "tent" in broadgate. Come on who doesn't meet there?
• When I was a lad, we used to meet up under the Godiva Statue, it is now under a canopy. You will incounter refugees galore now.
• the memorial park or shelton square!!
• In Coventry on a saturday or friday you cannot move for kids hanging around cathedral lanes hassling all the people walking by who actually are on a night out. They finally all disappear at bout ten pm when the last of their curfews is up!
• The Old Boys on a friday night. Get pissed for a tenner, then walk home and curl one out on King Henry VIII's cricket square. Quality hang out.
• the beat place to hang out was tile hill, jardine crescent, in the 80's, top totty place to be.
• Corley rocks or the grass outside marks and sparks
• morial park,
• we always meet under the canopy by the statue
• Lake view park or the fields at the back of the Jaguar in allesley
• It used to be at the top of the ramp on your way into West Orchards when I was younger. Or the Lady Godiva Statue was the place where all the coolest people hung out, but these days its just for the weird looking !!!!!
• Who said Mount Nod was posh. I think you will actually find that is Eastern Green that is posh and Mount Nod is just next to it. People get it mixed up. Mount Nod is where the trampy Londis is with all the graffiti and where the kids hang around down the stinkin brook spokin weed and gettin drunk. And where the rats hang out.
• There is a sound spliffhole in eastern green at the top of the first green.....everyone should go there to skin up their weed. and save us a bit on...watch out for nathan though..he's queer....if u see a boy on a scooter..bang him out.
• All people who live in Coventry are townies and tramps. I shall be walking home on the kenilworth road at 17:15, if you want to argue
• The bench opposite the Spar shop at Quinton Pool
• sitting on the railings at coventry sky dome waiting for your dad to pick you up after youve been to the cinema!
• we "GOTHS" that over run the statue are a nicer bunch than u townies ne day of the week, we only meet up there coz there is nuthin els to do, if you decided to climb out of you shells and not follow evry 1 else for a change u wuld realise that we are a decent bunch of people....if u have a problem with this, tough coz we GOTHS R here to stay!!!
• In the Cov' ghetto, the best place to smoke some concrete is to chill on the porch of NeBuLa the bad boi computer shop. Safe.
• Belgrade theater, has to be the origional meeting point for me
• Andy's chip shop on Holyhead Road
• Belgrade or Shelton square are good places to meet.Go up Bedworth to hang out though.
• Memorial Park concrete Sk8 Park!!
• BEDWORTH SKATE PARK IN THE SUMMER. BIT CROWDED ,BUT GOOD FOR MEETING OTHER SKATERS
• Memorial park in the Summer is great. Ice cream van on 24 hr standby and if you're prepared with booze you can sit in the sun all afternoon drinking and playing frizby, trying to forget about that essay you have to give in tomorrow. If you run out of booze the Rocket is just down the road where you can play pool all night till you get into a fight about who potted the white ball.
• hillfields where every one smokes weed, crack and sniff a little bit of charlie
• The Godiva statue and Gringo's are the main meeting points in Cov.
• The lady godiva staue is the amin place ppl meet up although it can get over run by goths and kosovans (no offense) also their planning to open a new covered shopping big thingy that should be cool.
• outside the Litten Tree, my house, the monument in the memorial park.
• The field, in Ernsford Grange which used to belong to the school is the place to hang out. I think its private property but we've broken down the fence and its ours!
• If you are smelly and like Limp Bizkit more than soap, hang around by the Lady Godiva statue with the other freaks.
• Whitefriar's Alehouse on Far Gosford Street.
• Godiva Statue not for townies!
• The memorial park
• annex, ansty road.have 2 agree that this the best place 4 any1 to spend their teenage years. what with 2 benchs, a log and lots of bushes, we really believed this was the one and only place to be with our bottles of cider. so any1 still only dreaming of been able to get in2 the pubs, this is the next best thing. well until u reach about 16 that is.
• tesco cark park is nuff. we are the local skaters and riders they have just took out the benchs because we nailed them but theres a nice big kurbs waxed and small kurbs
• up my arse
• Its got to be the Lady Godiva statue. Although I find it funny that people call us "goths" open your eyes...
• Outside the Leofric Hotel
• First place we and not alot of others apart from my mates went to id the Biggin hall hotel on the binley road traditional pub with good guest beers also serves a fine pint of stella absolultly no trouble. Great staff and mature atmosphere. The low down id £ rooms 1st is the bar in here u get a mix from 18 to 80 with big screen tv for the footy. then theres the lounge mainly for the older lot but has a good quiz on a monday night. and as far as pool rooms go this is a top notch room two games for a pound 1 bandit an up to date (plus old) juke box. also with a timer for speed poll this room is seperate form everything alse also upstairs her they hold partys. been voted in the best beer guide for at least 7 yrs running!!!!
• The Fountain in the centre is a good place for meeting in town easy to find and excellent for jumping in on a warm day and getting dirty looks from the older community who think we should have more sense
• Broadgate, under the canopy of Lady Godiva seems to be the place. You can watch them doing it live at http://www.cwn.org.uk/webcams/index.html
• People hang around the Godiva statue but there is nowhere decent to go really. Now that the new ice rink has opened though that could be pretty popular as a new hangout. Or loads of kids go to the memorial park statue to mess around in the summer
• Someone mentioned Mount Nod was posh. Noone mentioned Allesley, poshest of all. Posh is a relative concept in Coventry, though.
• The annex, on the Ansty Road in Wyken opposite the Walsgrave Pub. I seem to have spent the last Five years of the eightees kicking a football around that field. Most of my teenage experiences were had rolling around on that grass. there was a log at the top of the field where most of us would sit late into the night, well at least until 9.30. I still go past now and again same shit different, different setof kids. Ah well, what i would give to be 16 again.
• The Godiva Statue in Broadgate is good to meet people but better if you went to laugh at the Goths making complete arses out of themselves. The Planet is the best club but you gotta be a student so go to Fattys. Broadstreet are the best Rugby club in Coventry as well.
• Who said Mount Nod was snobby?? it's not that bad just cause there are a few big houses that dont mean shit. The people there are alright! If it's so snobby why do the kids from Tile Hill and other areas hangs around on Mount Nod's street corners?
• The bench at the end of Rochester Road. or, before they trashed Broadgate, we used to hang out sitting on the bottom of the Lady Godiva Statue.
• The War Mermorial Park, is pretty good, but can be over run by boarders, also can be fun at 1am!
• UNDER THE CANOPY OF CATHEDRAL LANES SHOPPING CENTRE!
• West Orchards Shopping center
• Theres no hook up spot as such. People just tend to vaugly saunter down to the pubs round about opening time.
• Megabowl/Crystal Maze, Walsgrave
• Tile Hill South is the best area and the Gravel Hill lot are sound. Hillfields is trampy, so is Wood End and places like that. Mount Nod is well snobby so don't go there. The best school is Bishop Ullathorne and the best clubs are the colosseum and Mr Gees on a Saturday night. BYE!!
• Caludon Castle Park in Wyken,is the legendary hanging out place of St.George (of the dragon fame). Although there's only one wall of 'the castle' left you can still find a few dragons around (usually on a Saturday afternoon).
• The Fountain in the centre of the shopping precinct is a pretty good meeting point, plenty of places to sit down, and usually something going on to help pass the time whilst you wait.
• Belgrade Square is the definitive in town mmeting spot if you are coming from the north of the city
• Pool Meadow bus station, Broadgate, esp, the statue of Lady Godiva.

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