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The Best Things in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire*

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The Best Things
  • Dual carriageways heading out of town
  • The Glass Onion has brought a new sense of inspiration and meeting place for artists and likeminded individuals to hang out and/or perform. A breath of fresh air to this town.
  • Charles Bright Jewellers. everything from little pressies to the big beautiful DIAMONDS. . .
  • The roads leading out of Peterborough
  • Easy to find work here. Beer is relatively cheap. Quite a lot of good music if you scratch the surface. Getting around the town is quick and easy thanks to parkways.
  • Lots of hoars
  • RED HOT RECORDS, 15. WESTGATE ARCADE ENGLISH ROSE TATTOO'S
  • the G.N.E.R train service that gets you the F**K out of peterborough
  • Easy to get to places. Good train service. Queensgate. The market. Where I am now has a poxy market - outdoors and about six stalls.
  • A1M and gner get u away from the boro quickly to more interesting places! unbelievably easy to find work, low unemployment. its not cambridge
  • lots of open space which is nice. also fit birds which is even nicer!!
  • The Best Music Place For Musicians Is......... The Organic Underground Musicians Register Network Link . This Underground Register Has Been Going For 16yrs In Peterborough And Not Many Musicians Know Of It, Only The Ones Who Make It Famous. This Place Is So Secret That Its The Area51 Of Music+The Owners Are Like The Majestic 12. The Link To Becoming Famous In The Entertainment World Is..... The Organic Underground Musicians Register And Entertainment Network Link. To Join This Register For A Year Can Be As Much As £1000py Or As Little As £60py.
  • Speedway Proximity to East Midlands Railway station (To get away) Speedway
  • The people, Ferry Meadows on a hot day, Posh footie club, Greyhound racing, Beer Festival in August, loads of pubs, clubs and bars. Not so huge that you don't see people you know, near to the seaside. Good position travel wise to get around country
  • Good rail links to take you away from this miserable area at every opportunity.
  • NOBBY RUUUUUUUUUUULES!!!!!! sweet bus station man :o)
  • Peterborough has been infiltrated by some wicked skaters since the park opened, and the locals are really starting to shred, Quy, Little Nicky Webster, Pat
  • The Lido! oh and Pooooonaaaaaanaaaay!
  • The Call Girls and the Destructors - '70s punk bands Fat Pete's record stall in the market - presumably long gone now
  • The fit lads!!
  • The PETERBOROUGH SKATE MASSIVE, (psm 2001)
  • The PSM ( peterborough skate massive) Founded by Dan, Pat, Jonny, Bache. ring 01733 238653 and ask for Dan if you want to hook up with the peterborough skate scene.
  • The road out. If you can't get a job here, you're not trying. Stamford is just up the road.
  • Orton Goldhay on a blazing summers day
  • Hot summers in Peterborough when the air is really heavy and the grass turns to tinder. Oh and the bluebells in Bluebell Woods in may they're boodiful!
  • The embankment area of the town is beautiful,the old Peterborough is still a very interesting place.
  • The chicks, the growing skate scene (PSM) Punk scene, Planet of Sound once a month at the Park near the blood sucking Rebel. The Met Lounge. Lots of cool chilled out alternatve people. The towns not all that BAD!
  • Tursday night at the skatepark it's open real late and there,s no bladers or BMX and everyones well safe if you live in peterborough or near and you skate just grab your board, cans of beer or what ever else you might enjoy and come down.
  • The PSM (Peterborough skate massive)grows by the day now the skate park is here. if you want to hook up with the p-boro scene chat to Quy, Dan, Bache or Jonny they'll sort you out.
  • Dickens Watts and Dade - Coolest estate agents in town.
  • Peterborough is host to the best skate scene that I am proud to part of, it has its younger skaters and those how have been around for more that a decade Mike Nightingale and his boys Joe seal Chris neimc Pat McCoubrey and Jod. all those boys stand out from da rest they kick as travel learn and skate bad as fuck.
  • Y2SK8 PARK 01733 358228
  • Post-New Town green belt dark side urbania cutting up mad flavas.
  • Peterborough skate scene is starting to take of and is host to 30 or 40 kid skaters and your 20 or so good older skaters. Not bad eh!?
  • Business and individuals investing in the community, we should all do a little more to invest in Peterborough and begin by appreciating it more.
  • Charters drinks withe the theatre lads
  • The A1 north Beer Festival in August............It's why we live here.
  • women are amazingly beautifull and the skaters are amazingly good.
  • The parkways and birds!!!
  • Girls. Imagine london quality and quantity but scaled down 10 or 11 Times. Peterboroughs got some Fresh PoonTang!!
  • Cathedral
  • Peterborough United
  • Burger King (if you can stand the wait).
  • All my mates live there. The parkways. No one is on them at 3 in the morning so they are great places for races.
  • Officially the place to go for bustiest women in the UK according to the Daily Star newspaper
  • Plenty of greasy take aways for when your staggering home of a night. Nowt better than dead animal, heated up, stuffed between some kind of bread and smothered with some hot red chilli gunk when your pissed up eh!!!
  • Great place, between the culturally diometrically opposed centres of Peterborough and Stamford. Ideal for the family and a very friendly 'large village' with all the amenities for the family. Come and see.
  • Queensgate, cinema and the pubs.The park is really nice as well.
  • The Key Thatre and Ferry Meadows. Flag Fen, Railworld and A golf course.

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Last updated: 2010-08-27

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