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Best and Worst in Falmouth, Cornwall*

Falmouth, Cornwall Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The church on the main street. New museum.
• The Falmouth Hotel
• Ye oldie pubs, eg Quayside, Finns, King's head (if you ignore the horrid paint job). Also when in town look up at the second and third floors of buildings, they reveal alot of the past.
• Pendennis Castle.
• Oh. I'd have to say Old Hill. Beeeeeeeeautiful.
• Old Court House has been several club in recent history. Currently Remedies. Inside is like any other chain club, but the outside is beuatiful. Falmouth library is next door to that and that place is nice too. Just go to the Moor and look around.
• the castle is great.
• TRAGO MILLS FANTASTIC
• The pirate, Big wednesday, Outer limits(a kewl music clothes shop wiv a wicked owner nuff said!)
• Georges Archade its old fashion and really pretty

Demolish It Now Building

• Trago (and a nice new store built though).
• Shades should be purged with fire and a proper club put in there. Same goes for Club I.
• Rocket house, rancid new seafront development for the super rich and super stupid. Vile. Bay court. Home for rotting old people. Knocked down the finest georgian hotel in the world to build this mostrosity. We were all very angry.
• Ships and Castles - bring back Victor Dragos. That gleaming monstronsity has ruined the skyline for good!
• building cinema wahey
• Oh, I'd have to say Old Hill. Uuuuuuuuuuuuurgh.
• Henry Tuke House (Halls of Residence)
• Old Hill. All of them. Now...
• TRANSATLANTIC
• Ships and Castles leisure pool is pretty hideous and sticks out like a sore thumb on the cliff overlooking town. The ten pin bowl by the Docks station is a glorified corrugated iron shed, could nothing more imaginative have been done here? It makes any B&Q store look like Versailles!
• The old drill hall near the Moor, turn it into a nightclub, the sooner the better.
• the building i would like to see demolished is the whole of old hill, go there and see why
• the national maritime museum!
• THE POLICE STATION WITH ALL THE MONKEYS IN IT
• Ships & castles. But please don't build a bloddy great hotel there either. pwease. pwease.
• too many 2 mentions, but i wuld have 2 go mainly for giles sports, the street corner townie hang outs, i dont know i am sure people will add there own!
• Where do i start, loads of lame shops we dont want, too many building socities,
• old market on the moor, i know its where the pigeons and seagulls live but hey

The Best Things

• Been going to Falmouth now on holiday from the (once) industrial Midlands since the early 1960s. Would give my right arm to live there, and yes I have been many times in the winter! Fond memories of Mr Chimes's ice cream shop. Swap you any day.
• The beach.
• The sea, clean beaches, the Clipper cafe.
• 3 Daft Monkeys, the nicest band in all the world, live in Falmouth.
• The road to Falmouth don't go anywhere else - it's not on the way to anywhere, which is good. The Falmouth Film Festival.
• Great for anyone over the age of 18.
• The sheer quantity of pasty shops Trago
• beach
• The beach, the chilled-out atmosphere, the nice locals... It's a great place.
• .....in life are free.
• Chilling on the beaches without a care in the world.
• The beaches they are lovely (Apart fromthe bloke in swanpool beach cafe he is very arragont and rude) Tregullow road just to set the record straight is a very quiet road and full of nice people. we love it here and we have been here for 6 months!
• The sea and the beach, the ferrys in the summer, the atmosphere and the pubs.
• The location, on the harbour and looking out to sea. Climate - warmer and sunnier than most of rest of the country. Not far to anywhere else in Cornwall.
• Always developing and making the town an up and coming location for visitors and locals alike.
• its actually a really good looking place and is cool during the day
• The friendly, friendly locals.
• getting stoned on gillingvase beach
• FALMOUTH LABOUR CLUB BEHIND TESCO'S, GREAT PEOPLE GREAT PRICE'S' HI EVERYBODY
• Life
• ahh where 2 begin, the beachs in the summer r one of the best things,the nice generally laid back atmosphere, the good skate areas, the kewl bars and clubs, TRAGOMILLS!
• the summer atmosphere, beaches, generally surf lifestyle when skool is out, the clubs r good, good for sk8ing(v hilly!) lots of tourists(the good ones)
• the summer rocks falmouth wk is always a laff
• Dig and delve - just up the road nr tragos - mite look a bit scabby but if u search thru u can find sum wicked bargains.....
• The sea the sea the sea. lots of beaches 4 in all there well cool. weve got a castle as well can it get any better! Falmouth has a good alturnative lifestlye goin on loads of veggies environmemtalist etc, it a chilled place 2 be Trgo mills everything u need an i one huge building i love it ( never any staff when u cant find anything though!)
• it's 250 miles from the dump of a town i live in!

The Worst Things

• Different class of tourist this past 20 years or so! :-/
• The fucking art students. "oh, you're so wacky and zany! Wearing a pirate outfit! In this weather! How creative!" Cunts.
• THE DRIVING. My god, you take you life in your hands. The worst drivers in the world. Rude, aggressive, stupid. Most of the locals. Petty criminals, car scratchers for the most part. I can say that as I am local, but one of the few who is not a criminal...
• The maratime museam. It is brand new but it totally sucks so once you have been there you won't want to go again unless you are obsessed witth boats n stuff but it is crap really.
• Recent Yuppie invasion. House prices gone mad.
• most students: annoying loud little twonks spouting banal and inane rubbish constantly trying to fit in with a generally vague and dismal fashion that no one else is either interested or bothered by. thankfully they're not here during summer (back home to rich mummy and daddy up country). you'll want to smash their faces in, but don't, let a townie do it!
• Absolutly nothing!
• The bollards up the side of the still unpedestrianised main street. Far too easy to walk into on a crowded street. Some of the students who don't realise life is not one big holiday and that other people have to live (and sleep at night) too!
• The townies and the rugby players. The former are a bunch of wasters who think they're the hardest people in the country (although none of that have dared to leave Falmouth - serious!!). The latter are a ignorant wanna-be people. The combined IQ for a rugby squad of 15 falmouth/penryn players is about... er.... 14. At a push...
• ....always happen if you think about them. Seriously though probably the local sports teams after they've had their standard three Shandy's. Such lovely, cultured people. Credit to our town.
• The fucking worthless piece of shit townies who seem to think they're the hardest people in the world when in fact they've never left Cornwall, and wouldn't last a second anywhere else. Coming to get ya boys....
• Can be very dreary in the winter but its worth it for the summer!
• Old people on coaches in the summer
• Small town mentality of some of the inhabitants
• No cinema but you kinda get used to it.
• townies, go somewhere you fit in, like prison.
• TREGULLOW ROAD - FULL OF PAEDOPHILES' SMACK HEADS' ALCHOLICS, BRAIN DEAD INBREEDS, WIFE BEATER'S, DOG SHAGGER'S, KEEP AWAY FROM THIS TOTALY ANTISOCIAL LOAD OF MISSFITS YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
• boredom
• THe stunning amount of townies who do nothin but sit on street corners and smoke (cool!!) the winter months, they strange amount of utter weirdos in the town, and the amount of tourists(the lame ones)
• the winter wen it dies
• Seagulls everywhere noisey bloody things they'll steal your ice cream as soon as look at you, shoot em all i say!
• nobody lives there 'cos nobody's written in the knowhere guide about it yet.

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