The Knowhere Guide

Skateboarding Stuff in Wokingham, Berkshire*

Wokingham, Berkshire Skateboard Shops, Skateparks, Skate Ramps, Waxed Curbs, Rails, Where to Buy Decks, Parts, Shoes

Skateboarding Spots

• police station, long hill, molly millars and eastheath avenue industrial estates
• The woods (Simons Wood) in Finchampstead is good as there are loads of jumps and things deep in the woods you just gota find them past heritage (the nudist camp)!
• marks and spencers car park when it was waitrose, and tescos lifts- tvi's ruled from the queen of the idiots !
• ermm the old tesco car park (the new carpark now) but that was always good. Also St Dusbins ramps (st crispins) they where quite good. Also the old tesco (in town) the stairs there. get a big piece of wood put it agains the stairs and u got one amazin slope to do shit off.
• the st crispins ramps are crap but good for learning and stuff, outside argos is good and behind the council building down shute end there are 2 sets 3 sets and a long 4 set and a waxed to hell curb, sometimes get kicked out though and behind tescos r a few small set of stairs with the odd one waxed
• howard park and ELM PARK!!!!!!!!!!!! no ramps but het its a great place!
• About the Egg advert, the Granny was John Martin - nice guy good skater from US on a visit. Pixie Dean was the hottest, John was the owners son, Paul Travers & Adrian Jackson were some of the first to skate in town, Tony Alva, Stacey Peralta and Bobby Peircey all visted Skateworld skate park which is now long since gone. The half pipe was moved to Aldershot, Hants (may still be there).
• St. Crispins half-pipes r ok - i broke me leg there - :) but around town there r sum cool spots - eg: the steps outside Argos.
• Mostly around the town centre and in the old tescos area or at the ramps by crispins.
• half pipes outside crispins school r a bit crap really and you allways manage to find a load of pikeys dealing just about everyting!
• The Cadbury Cream Egg skating Granny was made at Skateworld in Wokingham and he was a lad who had moved over temporarily with his parents from the states. I know cause I was one of the lads following along behind!! I also used to more or less live at the place.
• Anvil Court near the libraby - top level of the old Tesco's car park - Old librabry Youth club
• Their is a crazy concrete pond that we skated in the front garden of a house down Molly Millar's lane. It was summer and so dry as a bone. It's only about a foot and a half deep, with nice little trannies. Christ knows what the owners thought when they came back from holiday to find their pond swept clean.
• Two old Rareunit ramps at St. Crispin's Sports Center. 4ft Mini only 8ft wide (pony) and 16ft wide 6ft midi ramp. All metal, huge coping on both. The coping on the Midi has been flattened through BMX abuse and is now pretty dangerous to skaters, good for a big ollie/earlygrab session, lip tricks are pure A&E fodder.
• There is a ramp at St Crispin's School
• near wokingham there is a little place called Crowthorne .once apon a time there was a place called wellington collage and it had a 35 set with low hand rail and two triple sets in a row a concrete street divider which is very grindable a six set to two set to three set. Outside of wellington collage there is a curb waxed to infinity down near the doctors surgery which has a massive curb grass bank down slope situation.
• Also a good idea to look at Bracknell.
• I was the Skate boarding granny, the advert was shot at the skate park that was owned by the Predgen family behind Wokingham Town Football club in about 1980.
• There was a concrete park here in the seventies. The Cadbury's Cream Egg "Skating Granny" advert was supposed to have been shot there.
• Rareunit 16' wide mini, 8' wide 4' high mini. The mini ramps are located at the side of St Crispins sports centre, next to St Crispins school. During the winter they are only open weekends and school holidays.

Skateboard Shops

• wokinghm is shit for skate shops, best bet is mail order or trek it into reading
• reading
• Best place for skateboard stuff is Reading!!!
• I used to bus it up 2 hard edge in reading.
• None in wokingham. Have to get the train to half pipe sports which is near to reading station in merchants place.
• bugga all in wokingham go down to the station nd go straight 2 reading
• Reading - Half Pipe Sports has now moved to Reading, it used to be near Sainsbury and next to the Berkshire Cycle bike shop...
• Who remembers TVI?
• You have to book your ass to Reading for anything remotely skateboard like...
• Wise Guys made a valiant attempt and fell fowl of the entrenched conservatism and rumor mongering of this town. I can't see Wokingham having a skateshop until Skateboarding is a recognized Olympic event.

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Last updated: 2007-07-16