The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Wolverhampton, West Midlands*

Wolverhampton, West Midlands Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Civic and Planet.
• THE GREYHOUND PUB AND TOWN HALL BILSTON.
• campion house
• planet
• the building where reyners nursery shop is - locals will know why.
• Beatties.
• i love the university arts building, the crappy high rise thing that they have tried to spruce up by adding pink neon lights. its so tacky its hilarious, i thought the people who spend all their time inside it were learning about art?
• the libary,st peters
• The Royal London and it's flats.
• art block of wolves uni when it lights up
• civic
• First traffic lights in the UK were at Princes Square
• The art gallery is kinda freaky an dmy GF likes it (ha ha ha) but im not really into buildings.
• The Art gallery or St peters
• civic hall, wulfrun hall. da place 2 b if ya luv geno!
• The South Bank at Molineux before it was demolished
• the new Mander center, its all white and minimalist :) u think theyre worki on the Wulfrun center too...
• that old building where you can hear people singing church songs on a sunday thers always a big croud standing outside its old and looks like shit but i love!
• The Art Gallery and St Peters church, as these make this part of Wolverhampton 'the nice part of town'.
• The Chubb building is the business.
• Molineux
• unfortunatly i will have to say the wolves stadium it does look a lot better (ok it has a asda next to it for pre and post match booze) but i think that it looks pleasant to look at and also the chubbs buildings on the outskirts of town
• warped sports
• St. Peter's Church
• The Mander Centre. You always know you're home when you see it.
• the beautiful art gallery-shame about the cack inside though.
• CASA
• Heroes
• The Civic Hall - it's horrible really - but oh, the memories!
• Wolverhampton Grammar School is v. nice.
• The state of the art racecourse, this is really nice and modern,and the only one to have floodlights.
• Great Western Pub below the station
• Used to be The Trading Standards building. I never did get my compensation off the bastard...
• My House on Drummond St - who is that guy who plays loud music from his car???
• Wolverhamptoin Magistrates. The Chubb Buildings
• Art Gallery.
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery, but they'll be mucking about with it for the next 18 months as they're having a complete refit and a new digital image education centre or something.
• the royal london buildings because they play host to the best pub in town
• The wolves ground, never mind MUFC, THIS is the theatre of dreams ( and looks a damn site better too )
• The royal school - it was origionally an orpahage. It has a wonderful view of the wrekin.
• Sewers
• The Posada
• Molineux
• Chubb lock buildings where the local 2 screen cinema is.
• The Mander Centre

Demolish It Now Building

• MAN ON THE HORSE! DELETE IT
• Oceana.
• THE SHOP NEXT TO THE CARPET SHOP IN BILSTON. ITS BEEN EMPTY AND DERELICT SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHEN.
• brockfield house
• atlantis
• As mentioned earlier Keiths Secondhand Shop in Bilston, Keith or Keith the Teeth as he is known by most of Bilston is a total Idiot and thinks he is some kind of Antiques expert when in fact he knows absolutley nothing, his Shop smells of Damp and so does he but even worse 80/ and he never has any Money tp buy anything, good way to run a Buisness huh? He shares the Shop with a Nasty Miserable old Woman called Margaret you will know when your are within 50 Metres of it by the nasty smell. Lidls in Bilston preferably when its full of Asylum Seekers ( which is all the time.
• the old coterills shop in bilston - that crack in the front wall is kinda scary
• keiths second hand shop in the high street
• one way music they are so sad and old and slagg everyone off all they do is live at that counter . they have everything behind glass so cant touch it. i dont go there as they try to get you to buy what they have in store 1 out of 10
• Keiths second hand shop. its dirtys and nothing ever works properly. plus it smells.
• The Fox Hotel-GET RID OF IT
• TOPSHOP! as much as i like the clothes the prices are harmful to a persons state of mind and bank balance and the girls that work there need to have smiles implanted!! and the security guard needs to realise im not a thief because i like to wear the occasional hoody i just happen to be COLD!!!! oooo and those pee pee machines by littlewoods! not sure i trust them they can wash themselves and there machines! small children can't wash themselves but machines can.... next they'll be fixing themselves argghhhhhh :-p
• Wolverhampton College
• Civic Centre, demolish that ensuring all employees remain inside.
• the art block at the uni ugly
• Most of Broad Street. Catching a bus home, even in daylight, is a risky business due to groups of people hanging around causing trouble.
• Alantis - (in)breeding place for slags and twats in baseball hats.
• art block of wolves uni
• police station
• The new uni building in Wolvo, its nearly as bad as the old one they nocked down and the one next door to it isnt much better
• Atlantis night club
• All in Heath Town.
• The Bus Station. A souless place
• St Peters church. And the crappy school that goes with it.
• Where all the packies and muslims live
• The Molinuex/Legoland. Preferably when they have a rare full house.
• the gym near cinneworld annoys me!
• dj heaven should be flatten its shit
• Civic Centre (council building) cramped with incompetent employees. Crown House Jobcentre same reason as the first. Well, just say the whole town, it doesn't take long time to type.
• The Mander Centre and Dudley Street. Let's catch up with the rest of the world eh?
• Most of the town centre! ( especially by the market )
• the chubbs bulidings in heath town they look a real state i have family down by there and i am about to pay another visit and i am dreadin takin me new fella down there
• a giant monument that looks like a giant dildo
• The station, it's a right dive along with a lot of Wolves. That disgusting tram thing to brum. Where did they choose those colours!It looks like a kids toy. It takes bloody ages and it talks all the way.What a joke
• atlantis,the beach,the mander centre,social science school (with staff in it)
• CASA
• The Mander Centre
• St. Peters' Collegiate Scool.
• The giffard y do i even go there?
• Light Bar, Full of nobs loving themselves. Bus Station, full of idiots trying to rob u.
• the planet and the civic
• Sports Soccer, JD Sports, JBB
• Tough choice...probably those deserted ex-places on Worcester Street.
• The royal mail sorting office.
• C E Marshalls factory at the bottom of the ring road ( by the tramps tent). It's an utter eyesore and it's as bad inside as it is out!!
• Molineux Hotel. Either fix it up, or fuck it off.
• i would like to see courts furniture store demolished it's got really terrible furniture and the prices are way two high, i would like to see another wine bar or restraunt there as i really love my food
• Not really a building but, cardiac hill that runs up the side of the molineux needs flattening out pretty soon
• A difficult one here - by the time I'd finished the list most of the town would be in ruins.
• The dole office with all the unemployable oafs in there.
• Demolish Mike loyds where all the Greeboos go!!!!!!!! and the civic Hall!
• Molineux Hotel. Sort it out or get rid of it.
• Beatties so I don't have to work there anymore!!!
• Wulfrun Centre and the train station.
• i wouldn't hesitate in setting off the first charge placed underneath yates's, preferably with all the wankers that go there inside it
• The Hawthornes, baggy shit.
• University art building
• the mander centre - horrid shopping complex that whenever it rains they put out warning messages that the floors may be wet so take care, well why don't you put a bloody roof on it...that might have something to do with it! guaranteed a howling gale - in the middle of summer.
• Tarmac's "Roadstone House " on the Ringroad
• The terminal for the new tram system. Not even opened yet but it already looks like a terrible outdated 80s nightmare.
• Wulfrun Centre
• mander centre.

The Best Things

• all kids under 18 no eachuva or have connections with eachuva, if u walk past sum1 u always go 2 ur m8s "hus dat?" tightly nit comunity
• MOTH, Generation, Planet.
• the people
• Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Long live rock and roll - soundmasters music store rocks and so does the soundfactory recording studios and rehearsal studios. Robin to is soooo coooool
• the friendly people
• all the specialist shops on cleveland street you can buy almost everything you need on it
• Rock schools at Soundmasters Bilston. Every school holiday
• Everythings really cheap.
• The wide range of people you get.
• Tops Nosh, Cheekies, The Royal, The Planet, Bodycare (cheap soaps n shit).
• Saturday nights at Blast Off!
• Lots of choice in the city centre as far as pubs etc go.
• BLAST OFF!!!!!!!!
• all the shop that have been there years . you can buy almost all you need from friendly local shop .
• Can i say sex on the beach on a warm summers night after (or mayb before) a skini dip, or isnt that allowed?
• 90 percent of Wolves residents.
• our Accent
• Bilston Market is well worth a look on a Sunday if you are into films, some robbing Bastards there but there is a top Video stall run by a Stoned Guy who sells top titles for only £2 well worth a look he stands out cause he sells Batterys and rizlas too and usually has a spliff in his mouth Top man.
• A mecca for plebisophorouses;Bank's bitter. The Plebs opera House, St Peter's church. The library and art Gallery( The Louvre of The Black Country) The betting shops and above all Beaties; a Wilfrunian attempt at rivaling Harrods but quite adequate for the needs of the average YamYam.
• The Buses. generations of Graffiti tags and 'Toaf' written on the seats :)
• chapel ash take-aways
• noe a premiership club in the city
• Wolverplankton's thriving live music scene... (I kid you not!) - it's the centre of the moosical universe right now! This is (n't) Final Splat! The Jamplant Expansion - Revolution Unplugged! Every Monday night - including skank holiday monday May 26th! @ Revolution Vodka Bar, Princess Street, Wolverhampton. an Evening of Music (more of a Soirée really) with the Jamplant Expansion and featuring Heretic Gyros Free! (plus Love, nice smells and general tomfoolery - an ol' amigo of ours) Join the Acoustic Eclectic! Free! Bring your instrument or just your good self and come and play with us - but turn up early to avoid dissapointment! Open mic sessions during the evening. If you've got rhythm come along and grab a tambourine! (or some bongos..oo-er..) P.S. It's getting pretty popular right now, so it might be a good idea to let us know you want to come and play so.. 8 till L8 and it's Free! Live curiosities brought to you from the wilds of Bushbury and other really exotic places No Expense Spared! (cos we had no expenses to spare) Lots more to follow - new nights planned soon! an acoustic compilation C.D. of a selection of the truly wonderful artists that are emerging from this place. Possibly also a tour and free festival soon too! Contact Barrie 01902 577824 / 07763415801 http://www.interschminter.co.uk/jamplantexpansion.htm
• the people , the grass, the atmosphere, the clubs and the pubs and the cinemas and all the people in wolverhamton generally have a wicked time so get you rself down here bcaz u will love da area! its cool
• where theirs skaters rockers ect their isnt many shit head townies
• Wolverhampton Speedway at Monmore Green Stadium every Monday night from March to October
• leaving school in bushbury and moving to tipton (yeah i know not much better but a improvement all the same) and of course my family who still live down ther
• the way i moved away to bristol when i was 7 and every time i return (every couple of months due to family being there) i get goose bumps, theres nothing like the feeling you get when you return to your place of birth, i love the place, can't say exactly why but i do
• the punk scence & punk people the skaters the concerts
• The cheap beer in the Moon under Water. the cheap women in the Civic on a friday night, The Pork Joint, what a god send. All my old mates. The fact that it has not become a boom boom dance music area. Dave Cockfield, Peter Munslow, Martin Parkes, and all the girls ,
• errrrmmmmmm......nothing really unless you like grey, miserable towns with a shit council, shit selection of clubs and wanky christmas lights.
• COSTA, CASA, ROWFERS!
• The people
• Great, lively place to live, plenty of stuff to do nearby, and used to be the biggest town in Europe before it recently became a city!
• Heroes, Neil Jackson, me & thats about it
• some nice pussy in wolverhampton!
• For someone who has not lived in Wolves since I was 6, I still love the place everytime I go back. It has a nostalgic charm, you can tell it has seen better times, but it is always trying to improve. The fact that it is quite multi cultural is a plus for the town. The row boats at West Park are cool, even if the Pond is half deep in bird shit.
• The way massive fights erupt out side atlantis (opposite police station) and you never see any coppers come out to sort it.
• People who give a damn about being themselves finding a place to meet up
• It's so much better than people think. There's a fantastic mix of people and a real sense at the moment that things are on the up. We're a brand new city, there's a kicking nightlife, the uni gets stronger, our newspaper is the biggest selling local paper in the country.
• The people need I say more !!
• The parks outside the main centre (Bantock, or Tettenhall).
• The racecourse.
• home
• What-you-see-is-what-you-get. I worked in London for a while, and I always felt relieved when I returned home, away from the pretencious wannabees, and the overpriced piss-water I had to drink. In Wolves, people are pretty straightforward and generally laid-back. The town centre is buzzing at the weekend, and has come on miles in recent years. You don't have far to walk to the next bar.
• The best thing about wolverampton?(That is how to say it) - Banks's bitter. If you drink enough then life in the town begins to feel bearable
• Banks's Mild. And its price. And the fact you can drink it until it comes out of your pores and still not have a hangover the next morning.
• Well sign posted to get OUT!
• Seriously good looking women out on the town on at the weekend, plenty of nightlife and good Indian restaurants.
• Wolverhampton has got a high percentage of freaks so anything goes!
• The People!! Wolverhampton is a melting pot of many cultures and beliefs - a microcosm of Britain as a whole I feel....
• (My entry is the one below with Paignton in the text) I have to confess that I actually quite like W-ton now, having lived in crappy Devon for 2 years, and it has a good range of shops and a decent town centre. The metro is good, it's only 20 mins from B-ham and should become the new Millenium City because it's far better than Brighton & Hove !!! (Don't visit Paignton - it's a c**pheap of a place !!!)
• Decent rail links. If you get tired of the local library you can join the massive University library as an "external borrower", for about £35 (the price of a few art books).
• It's hard to believe but wolverhampton is very cosmopolitan with a varied community and influx of students, so you can be whoever you want to be without too many problems. Indentity lives on, cloning should die.
• The Civic
• the best thing about wolvo... perfectly placed for both country and city persuits, but the best thing ever is how endearingly crappy it is... everyone cringes when you tell them where you're from but as soon as they take one look at the shimmering tack of the town centre, they all fall completely, hopelessly in love.
• The Outta limits club
• The air vents at the back of the Civic Centre provide hours of lasting entertainment if you come equipped with an old plastic bottle. Watch as your rubbish is whooshed up and suspended in the air...
• The best things about Wolverhampton are those that are never appricated by those who have always lived there. Three years ago i moved away to telford, but i cant wait to come back.
• Fairly cheap beer in most pubs
• Midlands Metro rapid transit system - i.e. its now even quicker to get out of wolverhampton
• Wolves is right next door to Shropshire which is absolutely beautiful.
• I lived in Wolverhampton from 1976 -1981, till i emigrated to South Africa. It was'nt the best of places but I am proud to say I lived there and next year I am taking my South African family back to Wolverhampton to see some of my roots. Up the Wolves !
• The beauty of Wolverhampton lies in its innate 70s ness, its terminally crap yet rich football club and T. J. Hughes department store for bad taste clothes under five pounds. What else can I say? Countryside only 10 minutes away, a lot of cack nightclubs for shoes, notoriously inconsistent door policies in all the pubs and bars over from the theatre (take some shoes if you want a late drink in the theatre bar) and the Light Bar now charges you for the pleasure of getting in and having incredibly loud music forced upon you while you snake over to the bar through all the people who still insist on having pony tails and still drink Sol. Love it. Oh well, that's all I know, just don't hang round the fruit machines in the University at lunchtime, you'll have an eye out (nearly).
• Banks's Mild Ale and Indian Food
• The best thing about Wolverhampton is that it is nowhere near as bad as you think it is going to be. I came here 15 years ago and kinda stayed here.

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