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Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

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• anyone still alive remember the REV at sutton.we had a weekly run in with the Mods&greebos in the early 70s,iused to go with a gorgeous girl named TRACY HARDY who lived on lemo est,still think about her lots   
• Me mates 'ous   
• Used to hang around outside the ice rink in the early to mid nineties getting drunk on twenty twenty brought from the off license at the bottom of Outram Street!!! Thought it was cool to smoke fags and would go boy hunting!!   
• The sundial. That hallowed place where the teens sit and spit and drink and fight...You can't miss it, it's that massive eyesore in the middle of sutton. Some of the paving has even fallen out in places, and replaced with low-cost low-quality tarmac. Poor show guys.   
• you can pretty much hang out on the sundial, outside usa fried chicken, on the infamous sutton lawn or the amazing sundial...or for the truely daring roam between all these places   
• THE COFFEE BAR OFF LOW STREET WAS THE "BAMBOO" OWNED AND RUN BY JOGH GOUGH WHO USED TO BE THE MANAGER OF THE "PORTLAND CINEMA/THEATRE, BEFORE THAT THE "TIV" OR "TIVOLI" TO GIVE IT IT'S CORRECT NAME. THE FOUNDER OF "THE SILVER LINING CLUB"   
• we hang around all ova sutton meet ppl at mc donalds go up ta skatin or dwn on tha skate park on sutton lawn   
• Erm.....none! Unless you actually like going to The Nag   
• Get pissed up on spider reck or on skegby botts   
• We used to sit on a step between the video shop and the newsagents on the leamington drive estate where we used to get pissed and cause trouble with the police,Ive seen many groups come and go since me and my mates used to hang there(1995-1998) we also used jephson reck and bridge.Now sutton is over run with smack heads(i know as i was one untill 14 months ago)   
• jono edwards ass! for a feltching moment many can saviour! Queenboys to the rescue! Just call him! u know where he is, for that important male to male bonding! Try his brother too! Might as well, whole family's bent...   
• The lammas swings used to be a favourite spot for hanging out with mates, and usually getting drunk. Bowler, Pecker, Roy and Daz are you still there... You don't see the kids hang there much now. Happy days the early 80's.   
• prob tha market place or anywhere the kids can drink without bein caught   
• it used to be the lawn, now its either the market or sundial where the boys either have there socks tucked in their trousers or have really long greasy hair, so we go and join all the other underage drinkers in the woolpack on a friday   
• I think the coffee bar in the sixties might have been called the marianna. My Grandma said it was my mam says it wasn't,so take your pick   
• before i turned 18, i used to hang out on sutton lawn and near the new cross pub   
• we spent many hours of our wasted youth sat on the lawn wall. God knows why but it was about the most interesting place going.   
• There's nothing in Sutton that a nice big buldozer wouldn't solve.   
• market mate! cos miss a night on there mate! just hanging with my homies lol   
• the ice rink - a classic for all time   
• the best place to hook up, was probably the market, u could probably pick any thing up there, provided you didnt wish to pull any thing above a under class (lower class if lucky) cider drinkin roll up smoking yob, whos only goal in life was to be the first in line on a monday mornin to collect his giro, the girls on the other hand they tended to aim a lil higher, it was a competition to see who could have the most kids b4 they left school, feel quite sure my year walked all over other years in that on!!! still sutton was the place i was born and bred! but thanx to my mother i hung out at nappy night!!! still i didnt get pregnant and am now a university student do i didnt do too bad im sure!!!   
• THE ICE RINK!! WE ALL MEET UP IN THE ICE RINK CARPARK!!   
• The sundial is where all the skaters and bikers hang out. It aint as good as the market tho, cos that's where the cider drinkers hang out. Some of you people may know me as Dave O Mac, the Great One. Bye! daveomac2003@yahoo.com   
• On the roof of the old factory, or at my cousin paylors house   
• The old pit tip, sitting at the very top so you can view Sutton and the surroundings for miles on end... Aghhh! Quite terrible really.   
• Hill Crescent playing fields.   
• The market, the sundial where all the kids wear adidas bottoms with the socks high up and the cap sticking up at the from (scallies) with cheap boose!   
• Sundial - the largest sundial in Europe   
• sundial - macdonalds car park - market place - This allow them to show off their baggy arsed jeans and Linkin park fake tops bougght from Asian geezer in indoor market or Thoresby Market...too much gel compulsory   
• The Lawn wall every other night.... Go check it for beer cans ;-)   
• In the old days it was the ice rink.   
• Ice rink with the boy racers   
• On the corner at the junction of Mansfield Road/Stanton Hill next to the Central Social Club and Downing Street, piss off it it's you and find somewhere else to get rat arsed on cheap cider...like Sutton lawn.   
• We used to sit on the wall on portland sq in the 1960's decked out in our Mods gear ( or what we could afford) waiting for the very few blokes who had scooters to make an appearance. We also went to a "coffee bar just off low st. can't remember the the name but was exotic sounding .. anyone remember?   
• behind the old fire station with the girls. swimming baths 80ts ice ring mostly drunk out of are minds. in the 80ts   
• There is nothing like hanging round sutton, alfreton road is a good place to start, walls, estates to trash, u no, but to find da real metal hedz then go to the sundial and meet da metal hedz, if u liv here and you know me my name is kev barker! another hook up spot is sutton centre school, its a school for most metal hedz and iz where crak pots go after closing time, they put fences up now tho, i liv on alfreton road and trust me, its one hell of a waste land, nothing to do but get pissed and listen to rock all day, what a life !!!   
• All the teenagers sit near sun dial, pissed off half a bottle of cider, trying to pull.   
• sundial   
• used to be the balcony which ran around the top of the idlewells eons ago in the school holidays. outside sutton baths was the place to meet your date in the 80's   
• In the mid 80's we used to meet up in Mav's on Outram Street, play on the Moneybelt, then go and buy a spectator ticket at the Ice Rink on disco nights to pick up girls.   
• The market,at night, the place where all the future dole scroungers hang out usually at around the age of 14.   
• The bus station, or on the steps near Global Video.   
• The bench opposite the greyhound pub in skegby - but it was taken away circa. 1985 from overuse by overexcited teenagers   
• sad 12 year old hang around the bus station   
• Used to be the Lawn. Now people tend to go to each others' houses, or down town.   
• I am so uneasy to relate such old time events as in 1942, but here goes. Hook-up spots, Dances, 5 days per week. Monkey Run, Sunday evening. Hillocks school youth club. Swimming club of course in summer.Hooking up for my generation was more in our minds than what really happened. Hayman Ralph in California   
• Most of the yougsters that from skegby side of Sutton hang around the Spider Rec.   
• The Market. Another hangout used to be the Lawn: kids could get drunk down there without getting hassled.   

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