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Middlesbrough, Cleveland 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.)

• Old Mans park/fairy dell in coulby never goes a miss
• I'm 15 and manage to have fun by pissing people off or throwing grapes at chavs, i recommend doing this in "smackhead alley" just behind dundas however hence the name "smackhead alley" its full of them so don't get raped or stabed with some rusty needle lol.
• HEMO HILL IS WERE WE HANG AROUND IN THE EEEES N ALL WE DO IS DRINK
• this page makes middlesbrough look ridiculous and fullof hooligans and it isnt. do us all a favour and get rid of these stupid and invalid comments there will be am tribunal im sure mayor ray mallon would love to see them.
• In southbank the place to be is anywhere where the scumbags can find a plae to makea "bucket" and then the more mature lads walk round in ganags of around 30 finkin ther hard offf there faces on drugs scarboro street speshly
• well just like to say brambles farm is a nice area to live iv never had any trouble here
• we ain't all smack heads whoever put that is just gay. acklam... trimdon shops or out the back of green lane school for a bit of 16 year old pussy drinkin lambrini
• bankfield shops armed with litres of white lightning
• redcar arcades, who needs an x-box
• the boulevard
• Well afta reading a few of the comments i fink boro is da best place to be, i wouldnt move from middlesbrough my mates r from here my family is here. anyways the bestspots to knock about back in my day was albert park, in a gang, getting pissed off a bottle of mingin cider, and rileys snooker place on linney (linthorpe road).
• a large man made mound on the yorkshire side on the river tees (thats the boro side )its just off the tees barrage and from the top of it you can see for miles good spot to meet up at
• It has to be said that, HMV and Macdonalds are the most common places to meet in the good ol Boro. Although the pound shop can also be quite an interesting choice of rendevous.
• If ur on your lonsome on a tuesday around 1.15pm, get urself to burger king!!! They play loadsa really depressing music and every 1 sits there on there own, and gives ppl who are havin fun dirrrrtyyy looks. Jealousy is a very very nasty thing :S
• Middlesbrough is the largest haven for skag addicts and prostitutes that I have ever lived in, however every Friday and Saturday night me and my mates from Uni would nip over the road from Parkside West and break into Albert Park which isn't that hard. Than we'd hang off the climbing frames. You have to understand the erm...frame of mind we were in, but if pointless hanging around at 4 in the morning is your thing. I guarantee this place will be deserted.
• parkend is not full of gang fighting ive lived there for 17 years and ive not seen one gang fight at all!!!!!!! thats a pile of shite!!!
• ACKLAM SHOPS OR TRIMDON SHOPS AND PARK ! BUT THE BOBBIES AND THE SHITTY STREET WARDENS COME AFTER YA ! THE FLYING SCOTSMAN IS THE WORST ! THE BOBBIES TRY NEFIN TO CATCH YA LIKE COMING DOWN IN AN ABILANCE SO EVERY1 COMES CLOSER THEN SUDDENLY THE DOORS FLY OPEN AND BOUT 5 BOBBIES JUMP OUT ! UNDERAGE DRINKING AND USE OF DRUNGS < - - - CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT ! LOL
• Oh my god. dere is like no gd skate shops n if you can FIND 1 dere isn't a girl section n HOW EXPENSIVE??? A pair of punky fish trousers are like 35 quid in rack n rail n a scary mary t-shirt - T-SHIRIT - 26 quid. No wonder not very many people are skaters/moshers cos the clothes r so expensive. Townie clothes r cheap so it's easier to be a townie - not like i'd every be 1.
• victoria park(old mans park)
• WEll get your self to the corner house on a thursday night. Goodnight out!
• Defo ugc cinemas or showcase very nice n modern
• sat next to the bottle in middlesbrough near the pond (beware of the moshers)
• the best hook up spot for skers,goths,moshers is defiently the boulevard (the bottle) its good now coz no townies hardly ever come and if they do they like go away after 5 mins the only bad thing about it now is there is loads of lil wannabs pretending to be pissed which is s annoying.
• Right wen i was younger trimdon shops down acklam was bouncing every friday n saturday but ive heard its shite , whinney banks is a gud place to go if ur looking for fanny but it comes to my attention tht green lane is full of lasses to pull or take ads on hehehehe
• the bullivard - but nows it's bin taken ova by SHITTY TOWNIES so that kinda sux 4 ppl like me!!!!
• Albert Park or outsite the Chipp Inn on Marton Road
• Park End, too many gang fights!
• For 'Alternatives' it used to be the boulavarde, until 3 or 4 scruffers on bikes chased them away, Now they either hang around outside the arena or behind rileys pool club... For everyone else its outside HMV, or in Forbidden Planet.
• acklam shops, croft shops, al of acklam...
• Norfolk Shops, North Ormesby and Brambles Farm shops are all nicknamed Beirut by the locals. This is cos every spotty little smack head with a pulse meets up there for their nightly liase to gas about burglaries, fights and good "Gear".
• Good old chandlers ridge school field 4 a game of footy, jumpers 4 goal posts, that sorter thing!!!
• Used to be the log over the avenue of trees till the council moved it so then we started in linthorpe cemy
• i always liked stuwart park on a evening in summer...lot's of nice girls..and boys....i wish i was young again not 29 like now....
• Albert Bridge Area - Always top class ladies around and sometimes men too(tee hee).
• stewarts park.the Linthorpe hotel, where everyone mis-spent at least part of their youth.
• AVOID DA BORO COZ WE ARE SOLID AND WE WILL BATTER YOU
• NO WERE IS SAFE NOT LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS EHHH
• Tittybottle Park in normanby. No wonder the beck waters orangy/brown!
• the bottle
• WE'D USUALLY HOOK UP ON THE TRAIN TO MIDDLESBROUGH, FROM SALTBURN MOSTLY. WATCH ALL THE STEEL PLANTS GO BY, AHH SWEET NOSTALGIA.
• South Park Woods (Tittybottle park) in Normanby. Calmed down now but was class about 8 years ago!
• North Ormesby Market Place ; A haven for the youth of Middlesbrough!
• hook up spots includes union street...............i get asked everytime i walk through there...if u need to pay then thats the place...(u sick people)
• Club M the place to be in the area
• The Green, Thornaby
• Abdals local super store in thorntree great place to get your bottles he'll serve you no matter what your age.
• under the blue bridge
• Linthorpe Road certainly seems to be the place to be for begging heroin addicts. from top to bottom there are smackheads asking for '42p for the bus to Redcar' occassionally prefixed with 'I've just been locked up in the bobby shop'. KFC seems to be a focal point but it is intersting to note that around bon fire night they seem to be turfed out for scurvy ridden ten year olds doing a spot of penny for the guy, the guy usually clad in an old Kappa tracksuit top.
• If you want to live in a place where nobody gives a toss about anything apart from getting pissed. Then middlesbrough is the place for you. After six years of being around drunken uneducated slobs, I've had enough and going back to civilisation. i.e the South of England.
• Just to let you know that the Sink is no longer there. Yes it did have wonderful evenings of bottled lager for 10p a go but alas! it is now a gay bar soif you are a bigot or something similar please don't go - you have been warned!
• albert bridge, full of prostitutes
• Usually around shops ie: Norfolk shops, Penrith Shops, Ormesby bank. If kids are not hanging around the shops it's usually the Schools like Langbaurgh, Keldholme or Parkend.
• Skate: M'bro Boulevard car park about 1 o'clock.

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