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• Anybody who doesnt know Cleethorpes and is thinking of taking a Holiday there - DONT !!! It is a Shithole full of argumentitive arsoles looking for a fight cos theres nothing there to do. I knew a guy from Bradford who took his family oh Holiday there thinking it was ok only to find out it was Shite, he had to book a holiday abroad a few weeks later just to get over the amount of scum he saw.   
• Anybody who doesnt know Cleethorpes and is thinking of taking a Holiday there - DONT !!! It is a Shithole full of argumentitive arsoles looking for a fight cos theres nothing there to do. I knew a guy from Bradford who took his family on Holiday there thinking it was ok only to find out it was Shite, he had to book a holiday abroad a few weeks later just to get over the amount of scum he saw.   
• Sea front bin cool since i started...   
• oddballs crazy golf course opposite clee library   
• we used 2 chill around well nowere but everywere tryina look for them "children" who are actualy about 20 who sit in their cars and pull all the 13yr olds. also the people who hang about in gangs of about 50 neer forboys what pick on people in a 2 or 3. your time will come.   
• if you think grimsby and cleethorpes is shit, get to hull and scunthorpe   
• Willy's wine bar on the kingsway when Fatwax are doing there thing over two floors of Funk or if in Gy then the Boogaloo soundsystem nights at Baileys 30th Sept 2005 7.30-11pm playing latin/ska/jazz grooves with no door tax is a nice spot, no hassle   
• Bestest places to hand in grimsby are now outside saint james church, outside the beach comer on gig nights, and formally the courts for the stoners.   
• the railings in the street next to sea view street while we waited for the older looking ones to get served in the shop (in sea view street) the semi cirle the mellow on haverstoe park (great place for a smoke!) ross castle down 'boato' the leisure centre and surrounding areas (lesh besh!) the 'magic' bench in the blind garden on haverstoe!   
• Most of cleethorpes seafront is a good place to hook up. Everyone has there own spot. We meet up at a bar that shall remane nameless   
• down beach! lol meggys!   
• Middlethorpe shops, ah the joys!   
• cleethorpes is full of amazin places to go... but the best school around (lindsey) likes to spend time on haverstoe park. spend the best days of your life on there, learn how to appreciate a friday night   
• the gypos, bike park on taylors ave.   
• Hi all you Cleethorpes lot! used to go down meggies n have a laff on the big banks. went to sidney park aswell, fireworks there are hilerious.   
• virgin in grimsby town centre   
• Anywhere except for the Shed, actually thats the only place that i would be arsed to go.   
• Anywhere, the whole place is full of dirty slags and desperate w*nkers.   
• Always used to meet my mates outside of Virgin in Freshney Place, before going shopping round town. At least if my mates were late you could just go and look at what music was out, rather than looking like a sad case, waiting alone outside!   
• haverstoe park... where 'the posse' go after school n weekends! or the boatin lake on the bench near the tickle sticks!!   
• Willys... thee best place to meet up   
• avin a laff on haversto park its reli only 4 lyndsey the ppl tht go on ther r stella,jenna,nat,lyd.soph,saskia,dani,vicky,giacomo,ross,dean,trav,chris,ollie,adele and thast only half of them its shitotwith every 1 drinkin alchpops and just chillin and gettin high   
• I hear (from a good insider!!) that there are certain, shal we say, 'naughty' activities which regularly take place at the bottom of sussex street, down the alley near number 16 (!!!) Fear not!   
• Sidney park had to be the best place to hang around for all the people from Matty Humberstone. Everybody in Matthew 1998-2003 had a great laugh on Sidney Park every Friday night and somtimes every Saturday night. MHS!!!!!!   
• triangle park ;P   
• KING GEORGE 5th Stadium! Gy When we were in year 11 (MHS!!!!!) we all used to meet up there and errr, errm DRINK!!! and there were a few other things done there . . . (ill leave it to ur dirty minds to work out!)   
• I hang out with mates on the camp site thope park it is wicked and on a night we go to the show bar club on thope park and during the day we go to the theam park pleasure island.   
• sidney park rules the park is the place to be especially on friday nites when every body is pissed   
• Well i disagree i think cleethorpes is shithot me and my bst mate happen to be in the boy and girl racer gang and there great all we do is park up and ave a joint while sad people rome the arcades rading the machines,and 13 yr old girls sit on slags wall and try to pull them well to all you 13yr olds leave our lads alone says tracey from grimsby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
• the sea front, all the boy racers and there girls, chillin out and havin a laff   
• The tunnel at the bottom of patrick street is a good bet for 16 year old piss and smack heads   
• Near park lane the seat are were 15 year old boys and girls go, and they usually lose there virginity on roass Castle   
• If you're lookin 4 somewhere that kids can hang out, then THE GAMES ROOM at the BEACHCOMBER is that place!!!!!! Mandy 7 Paul are the people you'll meet there. And they are GREAT!!!!!!   
• Definitely Haverstoe Park, or the Paddling Pool before they made it all secure and fenced it off.   
• humberstone fields drinking cider leaking boot chippie before goin under pier   
• Got 2 be outside The Kebab House (and yes that is its name - witty i know!)   
• When I was 14 I was forced to hang around down the front near the leisure as I got barred from JD's as the manager saw me and my mates in our school uniform eating chips at dinner.   
• sydney park.   
• The Arcades near wonderland where EVERYONE hangs around, and wonderland which was on fire not that long ago...   
• outside macdonalds, grimsby. where u hook up with your mates cos u haven't got your glasses and would probably walk straight past them in the pub   
• Cleethorpes beach! You'll see all the young 'uns there on a night,and they're not there to do a bit of sightseeing!   
• THSI HAS GOT TO BE WITH A BOTTLE OF CIDER IN A LEMONADE BOTTEL BEHIND THE LEISURE CENTRE SAD SAD DAYS!   
• Its got to be either Haverstoe park or the Boating Lake.......   
• tescos???????   
• on the bench outside the leisure, a bit of quality, we boys taking advantage of the pissed up girls from white storm cider.   
• Cleethorpes Boating Lake is a favourite along side Haverstoe Park for the cider drinkers and, if they saved up for 2 weeks, a few tinnies brought by the big kid no-one likes who hangs outside the offy in his XR3. Other popular attractions for the park crawler are Triangle Park,just off Buck Beck, and for the more adventurous of them, just a few yards from Triangle Park, Cleethorpes Country Park.   
• Cleethorpes Leisure centre(for pre-teens) Discovery Centre(for teens) Castle near Discovery centre(for dope-heads) Country Park(for Lindsey/ Humberstone scrappers) Haverstoe Park(for Lindsey year 11's) Triangle Park(for anyone who lives near it) Buck Beck(for those wanting to hide) Lindsey School Field(for those at Lindsey) Signhills school(for those who want to drink tinnies in peace and eat a kebab on the roof Alley way near Hardys road Spar the one near the Beck(for 14 year olds wanting someone to get them booze from the Spar Trinity Field(for those who can't be arsed with the above Anywhere down the seafront(for 14 year old girls wanting a boy racer boyfriend)   
• On the top of Ross Castle with a bottle of cider that it took all week and no school dinners to save for, followed by hanging around the Rock Shop near the Pier for the girls to finish work (ah, the barmy 80's.. Heaven 17, Fun Boy Three, those were the days)..   
• On the pav carpark anybody and everybody with a car all meet up everynight. Every so often Hull cruise comes down, and all the boy races show off!   
• all the really sad 14 year olds hang around top shops on sandringham road, what they don't know is that they are being filmed by about three different cameras ( what i wouln't give to have a goo laugh at those tapes!)   
• At "Pinto" gigs. Pinto are totally rad.   
• Cool Place to Hang: On the slot machines along the front. Especially the 2p ones. You win loads and after you win enough to pay the entrance fee at JD's, take it along in your pockets.   
• Haverstoe Park is a great venue for under age drinkers especially on Fridays and Saturdays.   
• Seafront, everyone with a car hangs around here just chilling, there are some boy racers but they don't bother you   
• Under the pier drinking alcopops.   
• By the Boating Lake on a hot summer night with those sultry tourists from Doncaster   
• Cleethorpes Leisure Center   

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