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Inside Information in Colchester, Essex*

Colchester, Essex Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

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• the roundabout by st boltophs is such a cool place to hang if you have some time on your hands (like us college peeps do). if not then the bench opposite wilko's and gellers the butchers is a cool hang out.   
• The square, Shrub End. Place where all the drugs use to be traded!   
• Spent many an happy evening sitting on a big hill behind Tollgate retail park just supping the ale and puffing on a big cigarette!   
• culver square- this place is the worst ! its full of twats who have nothing better to do in life!   
• Culver square - used to be the place to be until it was invaded by 14 year old philip morants with black hair,lip piercings and hawthorne heights t-shirt. AVOID, unless you can survive talking about Dashboard Confessional or Emo Geoff for an hour.   
• We are new to Colchester www.demonxtreme.com, we sell all extreme sports especially inline skates agressive, rec, hockey ice and roller. We have just got a large stock of skateboards and decks. Loads of hardware for you to see. Visit our website, its updated every day. If you can't see it we will add for you as soon as we can. Phone 01026 576667 for more info. It is the best shop in Colchester. A47 Cowdray Centre opposite the skate park and Leisure World. Come and see us.   
• skeleton coast in Queen street is a cool hook up spot for me and my mates. They got an upstairs chill out area where the dudes at the shop don't give you any hassle and they got a pool table and you can put your own tunes on   
• Well the main hook up spot in colchester which i can think of is the benches opposite McDonalds, you usually find a big crowd of underage garys and sharons at night showing off their new mopeds and booming out music whilst hurling abuse at people old enough to attend nightclubs.   
• me and my mates always used to meet up at st.Monance park until the old bill stopped us goin there.   
• Yo dudes. I hear that the Skate shop SKELETON COAST (Queen Street),which has all the stuff you need, is opening a ''chill out'' lounge. Me and my skater friends meet there at the moment and have shakes but if they are busy you can't always get a seat but early next year (12th Jan) You can take your shake/coffee and chill upstairs. There gonna be Pool table, arcade games, pinball and stuff and cool music of your choice. See you there dudes.   
• Couldn't really specify a "hallowed" spot in Colly, but the 'naughty wall' by angel caught is ideal for post-hippodrome-waiting-for-a-taxi fun...   
• culver square is the only place to meet, between the hours of 9 and 2 its all grungers, about 3ish townies come and think they own it, but then the goths turn up and all the townies run away, lol. it is the greatest place to be when they trun the xmas lights on, they have foam snow!   
• everybody seems to have forgotten, THE LORRY PARK!! The place where all the boyracers go, to show off there "done up" cars!!   
• defo gotta be culver square aka grungerville!   
• culver square at the fountian and the benches outside topshop,the wick ranges are good for hanging out when the red flags not up!   
• Try the Snake Pit at Old Heath. Loads of litter and dumped cars and three week session carp anglers but some stonking tincas to be had.   
• Culver Square's a good place to meet. Your mate will spot you from a mile away amongst the sea of black clothing.   
• Colchester castle park is the place to be seen in summer. The boys with their shirts attempting to have a serious footie match, while secretly checking out the girls seriously sun-batheing - but actually checking out the boys!   
• the huge white abandoned buiding on east hill. a bunch of animal protestors used to squat in it and we found it as a huge empty four storey building with working electricity- complete heaven for sleeping rough. the only hitch was the only way in was through a 4th storey window! which meant climbing up the fire escape, up a drain-pipe and along a ledge 70 foot up!   
• Two bottles of Diamond White drank on the wall outside the Hole in the Wall.   
• Itchycoo! the place to hang around smoking and drinking but you have to watch out for gary boys looking for fights (quite easy to spot though what with all those adidas trousers) Not gonna be here much longer though because theyre turning it into a nature reserve thing.   
• Itchy Coo - always a popular corner of castle park with students/stoners in the warmer months of the year.   
• culver square by the fountain alway loads of grungers there its kind of a placw where you wont be blinded by gold dangly earing and blonde streaked hair   
• Pot Hill, the Hillie Fields, Castle park. Number one and two are the druggy hangouts, castle park is for the little idiots who go into town specifically not to do anything!   
• Culver square. Seating benches all over it and is right in the center of town   
• Culver Square, where the tracksuited ones and the foolishly-trousered ones meet. It always looks like they're about to have a huge fight, but they never do. It's a shame. The Kingdom, until it was stolen. The rightful owners shall return, and restore it's former... glory. If you could call it that.   
• for most "essex girls" wouldnt it bea street corner. no its all typical stereotype us essex gals dont: stand on street corners shag anything in trousers that we r as thick as two short planks or dance round our handbags so dont think of us like that but one thing that is true bout essex gals is we r sexy!!   
• Quilters - Colchester by the river fantastic hang out place with school theme staff wear school uniform ;) good food and resonable drink - just plain pucker!   
• outside the arts centre   
• CULVER SQUARE- Vey cetralised with lots of seating MacDonalds- Even if we dont buy anything i uaually meet up with my mates here before we go out   
• castle park boasts the best range of terrain for those who prefere to skate benches, wide steps and of course the band stand   
• There's some benches outside woolworths where at around 1pm on saturday, loads of grungers meet. All the trendies seem to of taken over the fountain..that used to be our meeting place.. :( ah well...least we listen to decent music. -I hear all the trendies whip out their westlife & Oxide and Neutrino albums, holding them in the air and shouting abuse...haha- all we have to do is look at them and they'll run off..haha. We scare em, see.   
• the best hook-up spot for teenagers is rollerworld full of loadz of sexy boyz and girlz there are so many things do they you can skate go to quaser,bowl, play pool, get drunk and play in the arcades!!   
• I have to say that Greenstead is not that bad as someone said before me.   
• Dillons the off-licence has a nice field below the castle park for Smoking and chilling out, even in dark hours. Beware of stupid drunk children unless you are looking for a fight, which most of the people in Colchester are   
• Poor old thing that I am I remember THE place to be was the old Colne Lodge now an old peoples home in Crouch Street.. a video bar on one side full of oddities punks, new romantics, and the other side a biker-ish scene (circa 1983). Hilly fields was ok for school skiving but the smell of the PIGS was a bit much.   
• This may seem a bit strange, but St Mary's and Severals. Two abandonded buildings, which are great fun if you haven't got anything else to do. St Mary's is by far the better option, as it is in town, and there are only inept guards there, who can't really be bothered most of the time. Unlike Severals, which is guarded like they house the Shroud of Turin.   
• hilly fields   
• not known as a "hallowed" spot, because of its hidden nature... (that's what makes it useful). underneath the cafe/toilets in castle park is a covered cloister, out of the way of prying eyes/rain/wind. just perfect for lewd acts in broad daylight or for toking. just be careful of the punks who sometimes hang around down there also toking.   
• one of the best places to go at night has to be rollerworld thats if you r wiv your mates and !!if!! u can get away with the oldest lookin' prson gett in all the drinks or castle park if u can sneek in and not b notised by the warden when loks up the gates but u haf to b Qgood at climin to get over the wall.   
• Hilly Fields. At least, it used to be The Place until everyone cut their hair and started going to The Playhouse. Which was a shame, because Hillies was much more fun: hordes of trashed youths dancing round bonfires and fornicating in the bushes. A little old lady used to come up every Saturday with her little dog, pick up all the litter and rouse the comatose boys and girls. Ah - 1994! Wall outside the Arts Centre: a useful spot, since it was equidistant from Hilly Fields and the offies. Railings were useful to hang onto in cases of extreme drunkenness (every Friday). Unfortunately also prone to visits by the 'Greenstead Posse', who would leave us all bloodied.   
• All you srtudents / cheapsketes - looking for some cheap home furnishings? Check out the EMMAUS warehouse on Codraw Avenue (next to B & Q) Everything fgrom records to wardrobes!!!   
• Anywhere but Greenstead. Apart from it stinks, the boys there are complete w@nkers who where too much jewellry,puffs!, and chase after little girls making them pregnant with there limp sperm before the age of 10!   
• Out side the "Drome" on weekdays (Bewarned do NOT go there on Wed,Thur,Fri & Sat's for Garyboys get in the way!)   
• Leisure world skate park - this is a brand new park that opened on 3rd august 2000. the people who designed it have no idea about skating, as ther are no decent lines atall, and the grind poles are too short. the whole thing is metal, which is bad for burns   
• I have to warn you people that you should really really avoid the third friday of every month. Deep is really scary, and even more scary is the fact that its run by bible bashers!. There are girls and boys down there who wear more gold than posh spice. V.Sad... Also be warned of the 15 year old boys, who thinkthey are the hard men of colchester and start on everyone. You have been warned!   
• THe field, on St Johns Road, is the 'worshipped place' to its residents!!!. Dont go to the shops, nearby or Tesco, or you will have to fend of addidas and topshop clad youngsters, begging you to buy their Cider!. Beware of the thirf friday of every month, this is when youngsters flock to deep, very scary. Lots of Kevins and Lauras in their short short skirts, sovereign rings and gold earrings. Keep clear of them Greenstead girls with their Gold Earring brigades!!!.   
• Surprised the Hythe isn't more popular, maybe it's the bad light and dodgy looking old sea dogs which frighten normal folk off.   
• Culver Square. Everyone always meets here and nobody knows why.   
• Any street corner as I remember it. When I was 14, my friends and I would stagger through the streets with a bottle of K and a packet of fags (both of which had to be purchased by the one who looked the oldest from the offy on Crouch Street because it was the only one who would serve). What I remember most (besides the taste of foul cider - why do kids do that) was the way we'd scarper back to someone's house if any real adults tried to talk to us. What socialites. A year later we were propping up the bar at the Marquis. Lovely.   
• Try 'pot hill' next to the Mercury theatre and opposite 'the hole in the wall' pub. It's just as dodgy as the name suggests   
• Loading bay or precinct about 12 on Sunday.   
• By the 'Berlin Wall' outside Angel Court in the High Street( near the Hippodrome).   
• The wall outside the Arts Centre, especially when there's a bouncer on duty there who won't let them in.   
• The Culver Square fountain   

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