The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Corby, Northamptonshire*

Corby, Northamptonshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• tennis domes
• The Steelworks. Signifies the town's existence.
• that little grassed area that used to be the council offices, a vast improvment
• Safeway, my saviour in times of cashpoint need. But now some stupid little bstarts went and burnt it down. How would they like it if we burnt their house out? Mind you if they're from the Lincoln somebody probably beat me to it.
• the beautiful town centre as a whole has my heart
• Police Station, offers some light relief . The only good people in Corby. Bus station, I know its a hellhole( WELCOME TO HELL) as someone writ, but I dont drive, so the bus station and death are my only ways out of Corby.
• The Piles of turds on the football fields of Danesholme and Kinswood
• Tresham College - spent a lot of good times there
• I myself as a graduate of urban design, cambridge, must say that the post neoclyptic design of Corby´s shopping centre is an absolute joy to behold.I believe with such great architecture Corby can continue to play the role of the jewel in Northamptonshires crown well into the next centuary
• Me favourite building is the Grampion club!!!! its the best!!!
• THER ISNT ANY
• dole office aka house of plenty
• The former Boys Club, built in 1905 by James Pain as his home called corby House the entrance used to be from Oakley rd where the grammer school was.It was sold to Stewart and Lloyds in 1937.
• gainsborogh road garage
• court
• The shop that used to be Discovery records!!
• The old post office in the village. It's got bullet holes in the wall from a German fighter or bomber plane that was going home, story has it he had some rounds left after a raid and saw a light down below and emptied out his ammo.Cool!
• Beanfield Senior School - so many memories, shame it'll be demolished in a year!
• "The Nags" Sadley it's now been flatten & replaced by an old folks home, This was "THE" place once. I think most of us in Corby will have fond memories of The Nags, Bips, Channel 2,........
• its sad to see but the Festival Hall has now been closed due to lack of use, so the council tell us but i am sure that one day someone will dust it off and re-open it and put acts on that the people want to see, maybe then it will be used.
• the old..strathclyde hotel now council buildings
• Page Three & Bips George Street Corby. Drink and Dance till you drop
• BIPS
• The Knights Lodge as mentioned above. This is a 17th Century building that was in the middle of Rockingham Forest. Great Beer, Great People Great looking building.

Demolish It Now Building

• demolish the netto its cheapy crap and do they think we is tramps in corby
• the whole of snatch hill
• all the pound shops! just cus we live in trampy corby dont mean we r tramps! ....all the estates
• The Bus Station, which is shortly being abandoned anyway.
• The old cinema (put a half-pipe or a couple a verts in it's place)
• Lincoln. Arron Way, Danesholme pretty much all of corby
• CTC I was an incumbent at this institution and it gets more like a prison every year, poor kids. I'd love to see the look on Peter Simpsons face when he turns up to work to stare at a smoking pile of rubble. Priceless.Also the CORBY CANDLE, that paint job makes it look like some sort of novelty condom.
• Glad to hear they are at last taking down that lovley blue steel,they all thought we Corby people aproved of.
• corby swimming pool and the lincoln estate
• The Jerry Lewis cinema, he must have been hard up when he came over from the states leaving Dean Martin at home with all the coke and blow and wine and doritos when he pissed over here and staggered around drunk saying "Hi deeclayreee zish(hic) aarggh fuck it bloaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhh, hopen, you spilt my bird.........."
• The boarded up garage at gainsborough road, it is an eyesore.
• Brooke Weston or C.T.C. Corby Twat Centre. The people who leave this place have NO grip on reality. Burn them, BURN THEM ALL.
• Flatten the whole town and start again
• CORBY CRAPPY COMMUNITY COLLEGE!!!!!!!
• all that horrid blue stuff in the town centre needs to go! is that supposed to be classed as an indoor shopping centre?!
• lincoln estate......the Pluto......fox & goose
• LINCOLN ESTATE, EXETER ESTATE, THE PLUTO AND RESIDENTS
• The Rock - full of assholes like john williams / wee sean / woodhead and last but not least that twat tez o' fucking neil with them innnit
• Tresham college. Corby Town Centre.
• The nightclub and old Strathclyde hotel in George Street
• The entire centre of the town, not that the local idiots, oops, teenagers havn't already tried.
• corby community college once known as the hell hole BEANFIELD
• CORBYS 70's concrete centre - depressing or what?
• The town centre . The Exeter estate.
• corby town centre
• civic
• Does the town centre count as a building? If so please get rid of it. It was crap in the 1980's, now it is just very very sad.
• Corby police station.Ahem!..well why not?
• The bus station end of the town centre, do something with it, please!
• The Council offices, oh - too late, they already have!!!!
• the corby irish centre
• The Pulse
• The Council offices are being demolished, someone must have took the advice of the Knowhere Board.
• Yippee the Council offices in the town centre are being demolished as I type.
• Well its going to happen soon anyway. THE CIVIC centre. Corby Council building in the middle of the town.
• The entire Town Centre, since sold to Tops Estates, well all I can say is if India & Pakistan want to do any more nuclear tests, here's an ideal site.

The Best Things

• all the people speak proper unlike devonshire gimps . WE HAVE DA BEST ACCENT IN DA WORLD!
• Ecky Estate kicks ass! It mite look trampy but the people r gr8!
• asda trolley porters are well nice.
• not bein in kettering!!!!!!!!!!
• The best thing about Corby is, no matter where else you go in the country, it is always better.
• Rockingham Motor Speedway. An Amazing Venue. The CTC. Not as posh as it seems and gets top class results year-on-year. Not having the annoying Kettering accent. It is possible to drive at above 30mph in Corby, just try that in Kettering Lots of open spaces/woodland etc
• Corby Womens Centre, 45 Queens Square, Corby, NN17 1PD tel 01536 263156 (above Boots adjacent to the Library.) Provides confidential services for women: emotional support, counselling, pregnancy testing, health info., condoms, and all this for FREE. Women only space. Also great place to come and change the baby, have a chat and cuppa! Call in during drop in times which are: Mon 9.30-12.30 pm & Tues, Weds and Fri 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm. Alternatively you might like to telephone to have a specially arranged one to one session with one of our counsellors at another time. Feel free to call. Corby Women's Centre has been running for 16 years in Corby and is brilliant!!!
• The sense of humour of some of the inhabitants.
• a labour councillor resigning!! the whole labour council doing the same!!!!
• Loads of Celtic fans. The fact that this place IS so bad will make you work like buggery to leave and start a new life somewhere nice. I am currently in Kabul, Afghanistan the views not upto much but theres less drugs here and no Rangers tracksuited ballbags.
• The comunity spirit, which has remained strong throughout Corbys traumatic years.
• When the rangers v celtic game is on all the police for kettering and corby get drafted over to corby which means we can have some fun in Kettering!! Thank you Corby for not being able to watch a simple football game without killing atleast 3 people.
• I think the best thing in Corby is Cameron, he is a sex god.!!!!
• Summer afternoons @ THE KNIGHTS LODGE, good beer and good company & plenty to smoke, in the garden of pleasure ya no.Ali & Cheek
• knowing i will be at uni soon
• Corby people are made of true grit,we have to be to live here and love the place.
• What? The A6003!! It leads out of Corby
• Tim Byles Gas Showrooms on Rockingham Road
• The Golden Cockerel up the Lincoln in 1982 to 85, the maple leaf down Canada Square 87 to 89. Cottingham fishing, with Jimmy Halfpenny, The gamebird 1987 to 1989, Shafts only on 2 september between 01:56 a.m. and 02:00 a.m.
• The best things about corby is the amount of car theft and motorbike theft i think it keeps corby alive. Big it up to the corby twoc'ers crew.
• Councillors dont live forever!
• Blow jobs for a tenner round the back of the pulse
• all the pubs and clubs
• Lads in Escape!!! How fit????
• everyoneknowseveryoneandisalmostascloseasthissentence!
• Carpet King..... on rockingham rd.......sound quality carpets.....and pretty cheap to , makes a change from that rip off carpet right.......fitting and delivery....i got a football rug from there 2 years ago and its still sound
• THE GREEDY PIG CAFE, THE ENGLISH MINORITY,
• canada square
• Corby has a warm heart. Good friends. old pals. It never changes. People always come back! The Corby grapevine.
• Watch the nightclub 'Channel 2' burning down
• I used to love the multi-coloured train in wessie, easy to be impressed when you are 6 years old (circa. 1976). Pity it's no longer there. Burnt out cars don't hold the same nostalgic appeal.
• da reefa
• Lodge park school
• Living 30 miles away
• the bus station to get out
• corby rocks and i dont care who said it dont either they are stupid or from kettering
• Escape & Stars, the best thing with a real Pulse, and Big In Pumping Sound.
• Well, this Isn't exactly a best thing, but it's quite interesting. It's about Corbys past. Where Corby swimming pool and Civic Centre is, I've heard that there's tunnels underneath the ground, that were used when the Steelworks were open. Now I don't know if this is true or not, but there's a door in the carpark of the swimming pool which is always locked, this is ment to be the entrance to the tunnels.
• You can walk to the countryside from anywhere in town and you can be in deep forest with deer and all sorts of wildlife.
• The people are generally friendly. Netto - Cheap and cheerful food, sells brand names too!
• Not being Kettering.
• the people of corby are the sort of the earth you will not find anyone else like them in the whole world totaly unique
• Matines (Bips!)
• Cheap Taxi`s, Kebabs at Pytchley Court Chippy.
• Taxi`s there are millions of them. Look out for a semi famous DJ. who drives Taxi`s, Dougie King.
• THE ROAD TO KETTERING
• Irn-Bru widely available owing to strong Scottish contingent
• Bips (sorry I keep metioning it but I like it), my friends, Gamebird (Raven Hotel),
• The People are sooooo friendly ! The pubs are packed ! It has a great History ! Its cheap !
• Rockingham Castle's worth a visit too.
• Also, there's beautiful countryside surrounding Corby with picturesque villages.
• You can get really good bargains at the weekend sports sale at Spencers Auctions - the sports memorabilia mentioned by the other contributer sells for an excellent price.
• The Free Parking!

The Worst Things

• nuttin corbys da best in da world!
• Lincoln is the worst estate in Corby but the people are sound as man!
• LIVIN HERE THERES NUFFIN 2 DO!
• All the scum bag kids who scare the crap out of old foke, smash everything up, then burn it. Then complain in ten years when their car insurance is so high and some little shit bag puts a scratch from the front indicator to the rear indicator, just like they did ten years ago.
• The mentality that produces the sort of drivel that populates this page.
• Most of the teenage wasters themselves (the ones who say stuff like "oh mate tap us a fag" or even "oh ya grunger, can you do a triple kicktwist and half duck grab cuzz me mates can 'n' that!"
• The People, the kids, the crime rate, the murder rate, the arson rate, the town centre, the drug dealers, the pubs, the food, the roads, the speed bumps, the houses, fuck everything!
• As with everywhere else in the world, big fat sweaty Union Jack waving Rangers fans. The drugs problem, we need some decent gear for a change. Also teenage mothers, sort it out you pill-popping, Social sponging brat factories.
• most things, the attitude of most people not to want more, people seem happy to let disaster after disaster happen in the town, constantly forsaking its peope and community. when will the council etc, be held accountable?
• Every time I rest my eyes on the entrance to Corby town centre I wonder what ever possessed me coming here 20 years ago. Most towns sell nostalgic books on what their towns used to look like 20 years ago but Corby has no need because nothing has changed, sorry! the civic centre has been demolished and you can now see the swimming pool while you wait for the bus and they have erected two cheap and nasty factory buildings with front windows and called them the Oasis park. If you were to invite prince Charles to stroll through the place culminating in the bus station i'm pretty sure it would finish him off. It's like a scene from a sureal film where time stands perpetualy still. There appears to be no plans for the future and who can blame them. If they put decent busses in the place the vandals would destroy them in no time. If you had a decent shop Say M&S who would come just for that?. No the first thing Corby needs is a police station with policemen in it and and a council with councilers in it and when crime is tackled so that people have respect for other peoples property then the Town Centre needs Buldozing and starting again from scratch. But I dont see this happening in the forseeable future.
• pretty much evre where weally i mean corby is crap pleez build a sk8 park
• The mis- managed Council, the none excistant town center, the bored inhabitants. These are the worst things about Corby.
• This sites continual insistence on giving a struggling area bad publicity. How do people expect things to change if they don't attempt to offer any more than criticism and no reform
• How every person from corby aged 18-24 heads over the Kettering on Saturday nite to start fights with everyone and everything, I have personally seen a fight started by someone from Corby over someone having the 'wrong sort' of chewing gum!!!
• Scot. You know Corby is known as little Scotland, well heres a suggestion. Why not rename it "Little Northern Ireland" Whats the difference ? both places have estates and areas who seem hell bent on fighting and destroying each other. The only difference is that in Northern Ireland each side has a reason why they act like psycopaths. In Corby all it takes is a visit to the Corinthian, twenty pints of special brew and then its afghanistan each your heart out, Come ere ya we laddie and Ill fucken kick ye ead in, were scottish and we donna fucken kerr. The best thing to do with corby would be to drop a nuclear bomb on it, hopefully that would wipe everything and every body out, but if there were any survivers, hopefully they radiation would mutate them into something better than the low life scum they are, theres a thought , can radiation get rid of a scottish accent ? if there were no food after this , I bet the scots would live on tinned food which the radiation couldnt get into (i dont mean baked beans , I was thinking more along the lines of carling, fosters, etc., that would make a change to have a diet like that for them.
• Tops Estates,they would not know how to build a town shopping area if they were shown,which the people of corby would love to do.
• All the murders and Irn Bru and Ugly Mingers
• EVERYTHING
• The people.
• Crap barbers who are big fat whingin slobs or think they're Bryan Ferry or Demis Rusos or some guy in a tent. I seem to remember two brothers at the top of the escalators scalpin me and generally fucking my hair up large style. They had some girly apprentice with pointy boots and make up called Franky who was mince. Go to Kettering for a hair cut and Corby for a hair fuck!
• Only being 8 miles from Kettering.
• dog mess in Danesholme will someone put bins out for it. Also people dumping burned out cars everywhere. The kids that hang around Safeway. The town centre. The flea market and the pound shops do they think we are all poor.
• Graffiti everywhere. Do no-one ever clean it?
• theres no good clothes/music shops, the town centre looks horrible, its really not a good idea to go out at nite.
• Having to accept the way we live is normal and never getting to shout at the prats who would like us to believe this.
• Corby Street Hangers. These are kids who hang around up the town, and do f*ck all. They hang about the taxi rank to get pounds out of trolleys. How SAD. GO HOME.
• Shitty ass gangs who think they can conquer the world.
• the merger of the schools! : (
• The monday book people....u know who u are......sitting round town when u've cashed ur book / giro giving ur kids hell
• THE SCOTTISH MAJORITY,
• People who let us down!! The town centre. Corby people deserve better than what there getting. For Gods sake will somebody invest money in our town!! We are fed up spending our cash out of this town. 10,000 cars a weekend visit the Asda site they could be going up the town centre.
• being caught with the petrol
• The lack of town planning, investment in the people of Corby, the general lack of any good news and / or luck for Corby folk.
• skag needles up the trampy lincoln
• Central Corby + Stars(and all the other names it is known under)
• corby town centre
• nothing (well it does have its fare share of arseholes)
• Tops Estates! In my own opinion,from the things I have read in the local paper over the years, the town centre has been destroyed by rising rent and many other things.Do Tops Estates have a hidden agenda?
• 97% of the town centre, too many shops are boarded up, and are too small to attract big name stores, the image of Corby alone, is enough to put anyone off coming.
• The Litter
• The Pulse
• Low pay in most of the town
• Decent Clothes shops and Shoe Shops
• All the humps in the roads, along Beanfield Avenue, Gainsborough Road, and Rockingham Road. No decent shoe shops. Low pay. Corby needs a new major industry. Bingo.
• Incomers from Kettering, with their bloody worzel accents and tightwad mentality.
• The strong scottish contingent.
• The people (their attiudes) anywhere you go you can get battered or abused for nothing. Estates fight aganist other estates. Schools hate other school, Nice place really!!! Your alright if your in with the right crowd, or if you don't leave your house.
• Its well know by people that visit Corby that it is at least 10 degrees colder than anywhere else in Northants.
• I've lived in America too long to really have any constructive opinion of Corby -- other than: I couldn't wait to leave! But now I'd give anything to be able to afford to go back and visit my friends and family there.
• The way local people put down Corby - but then I can say that because I don't live there anymore.
• The town centre and general lack of atmosphere.

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