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St Albans, Hertfordshire 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.)

• Clock Tower /Vintry garden. but ONLY when you're drunk
• Meet me at the Nunnery in the early hours of a cold sunday morning, and I will provide you with hours of pleasure and delight...marry me. (i love Paul Pepper)
• francis bacon school round back there's a halfpipe, has no coping and a chain in the middle but its pretty sick and the fence has been bent so its easy to get to. but don't spend too long-eyes all around!
• Cunningham School, has sets- 3 sets to 6 sets. Smooth surface
• Outside sainsburys, the pikeys love it.
• All the skater kids, who are the mutated children of Greebo Al, hang out in Clarence Park and climb up on the bandstand. They sure are an incestuous group. The best Old skater kids are Ant, Ginger Skatey Tom, and Chucky.
• the wreck. drink cheap cider. pull townies. get into fights. no better place to be when you're 14 really.
• Clarence park! Groovy place not filled with townies (like most parks in St Albans) where me and my mates can turn up the Ska as loud as we want...
• By the lake on lazy summer evenings, when you are fourteen, and have got someones older sibling to buy you some Diamond White...Bliss!
• ice skating in the park. only when it's frozen, mind. you'll meet old guys with their ex-army modified boots
• Clarence Park, even if you are old enough to go to pubs its a great place to go with a bottle of cider on a summer evening and pretend you're 15 again!
• Sometimes, on a Saturday, Verulamium Park will fill with drunken underage skater kids, greebos, woodcraft people, and associated hangers on. They will drink of the Vodka and Sherry and Cheap Wine, and smoke cigarettes given to them by Tom. Then, accompanied by Alan and Chris and Madge and Leo and Simon and Nicky P and Tom with his burnt hair, they will stumble and be carried across the park in their drunken-ness. Then, all the skater kids will spill into the Goat, and be asked to leave by the poor long-suffering bartender. Then they will all go back to Rosanne's house for dirty skater-type activities involving people called Tom. Chucky will tell his story for weeks to all who will listen. Rosanne, meanwhile, make her way across town like "Godzilla Destroy Manhatten" only smaller and with only one clean hoodie. She is never sick, however. Emilia and Becky just fight over who can do the Three Point Plan better. Becky is more sleazy.
• behind the Beaumont bike sheds
• If you hang out on the bandstand at Clarence Park, then you can meet many cool and influential people. We once met Andrew London, who liked to join our group and be a twisted man. He has friend known as Timmy T, who wear sleeveless shirt like Paul Mc Lain, and they like both to spin Rosanne. We once also saw this girl called Suzie who likes to stalk. Madge was there once too, but not the one from Neighbours, Alan's friend instead. We also once, whilst making fire, met very rude and offensive skater kids to whom Grace denied even knowing us.
• We like to hang out on the big round bench by the Clock Tower and play BERIMBAU! and perform Capauera dance! Max Cavalera from Brazil Metal Bands comes and dance for us with his seven drummer! We love the max! He is worthy of the respecr of all delinquent St. Albans youth..
• there is a small space that exists around chequer square but apparantly you have to imagine it as hard as you can before you can truely be there. When you get there, supposedly there are dogs that lick your hands and bring you bacon rolls.
• 8:30 clock tower.
• All the "grungies" (gay wannabyes who were chains and love korn and slipknot) hang around the conspiracy skate shop, which is actually a good place to hang around
• It's cool to chill where the games are played, it's hip, it's rad, and it's Noah's arcade!
• gimp square - see the gimps dance!
• The Wick: Provider of many a hazy afternoon, that expanse of green field, the trees.....ahhhhh. Only in summer though.
• SOmeone mentioned chime square, someone else changed the sign from chime square to gimp square. Personally I think it suited gimp square better.
• We tend to cluster on top of the drunk unconscious guy in Christopher Place. Then Victor, Diana and Liam gather to eat Sushi there, watching a bunch of floppy haired teenagers in leather jackets wander in and out of the snooker club. Our joy is immesurable.
• We always like to meet on the concrete square in the park. There is a log there known as the Eternal Log, and it is a local rumour that a local cult (known as the Eternal Siblinghood) often congregate around the log, and either try to set it alight or drive it into the ground as the mood takes them. It is always interesting to visit the eternal log and see the changes that have befallen it since the last visit of the siblinghood.
• I like to meet my friends at the top of St Peter's street, near the war memorial. We then run down the street, singing songs from famous musicals like "Oliver!", with choreographed people singing with mops, buckets and trays of cakes, until we reach the eerie green town hall.
• climb the walls of the cathedral and i shall give you what you desire
• Everyone meets in many places, sometimes outside the Horn, sometimes in Dante No.2s bed, and sometimes on top of the Cathedral (not so good when you've had a couple of beers.
• I like to meet people in the park
• Alban Arena loads of benches and phones for when your mates are late
• The roof of Verulam school. one big flat great place full of tennis balls and cables
• Clarkes skate shop.
• Well if yer a goth go to the cathedral and surrounding park as other goths hang out there *:)
• The Clock Tower - Very Cool place to hang out when you are 16 The Lakes - Great place to sleep out when you are 16
• Graveyard on George Street. Apparently where Donovan learned to play the guitar from an old tramp.
• McDonalds, if you are under 16
  The Kings Arms, if you are a young drinker
  The Vintry, if you are over 18 (and own a Porsche)

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