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Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know

Hook-up Spots (That hallowed spot where everyone hangs around with their mates dreaming of the time when they can get into the pubs or clubs - a bench, a corner: you name it.)

• THE ICE RINK!! WE ALL MEET UP IN THE ICE RINK CARPARK!!
• The sundial is where all the skaters and bikers hang out. It aint as good as the market tho, cos that's where the cider drinkers hang out. Some of you people may know me as Dave O Mac, the Great One. Bye! daveomac2003@yahoo.com
• On the roof of the old factory, or at my cousin paylors house
• The old pit tip, sitting at the very top so you can view Sutton and the surroundings for miles on end... Aghhh! Quite terrible really.
• Hill Crescent playing fields.
• The market, the sundial where all the kids wear adidas bottoms with the socks high up and the cap sticking up at the from (scallies) with cheap boose!
• Sundial - the largest sundial in Europe
• sundial - macdonalds car park - market place - This allow them to show off their baggy arsed jeans and Linkin park fake tops bougght from Asian geezer in indoor market or Thoresby Market...too much gel compulsory
• The Lawn wall every other night.... Go check it for beer cans ;-)
• In the old days it was the ice rink.
• Ice rink with the boy racers
• On the corner at the junction of Mansfield Road/Stanton Hill next to the Central Social Club and Downing Street, piss off it it's you and find somewhere else to get rat arsed on cheap cider...like Sutton lawn.
• We used to sit on the wall on portland sq in the 1960's decked out in our Mods gear ( or what we could afford) waiting for the very few blokes who had scooters to make an appearance. We also went to a "coffee bar just off low st. can't remember the the name but was exotic sounding .. anyone remember?
• behind the old fire station with the girls. swimming baths 80ts ice ring mostly drunk out of are minds. in the 80ts
• There is nothing like hanging round sutton, alfreton road is a good place to start, walls, estates to trash, u no, but to find da real metal hedz then go to the sundial and meet da metal hedz, if u liv here and you know me my name is kev barker! another hook up spot is sutton centre school, its a school for most metal hedz and iz where crak pots go after closing time, they put fences up now tho, i liv on alfreton road and trust me, its one hell of a waste land, nothing to do but get pissed and listen to rock all day, what a life !!!
• All the teenagers sit near sun dial, pissed off half a bottle of cider, trying to pull.
• sundial
• used to be the balcony which ran around the top of the idlewells eons ago in the school holidays. outside sutton baths was the place to meet your date in the 80's
• In the mid 80's we used to meet up in Mav's on Outram Street, play on the Moneybelt, then go and buy a spectator ticket at the Ice Rink on disco nights to pick up girls.
• The market,at night, the place where all the future dole scroungers hang out usually at around the age of 14.
• The bus station, or on the steps near Global Video.
• The bench opposite the greyhound pub in skegby - but it was taken away circa. 1985 from overuse by overexcited teenagers
• sad 12 year old hang around the bus station
• Used to be the Lawn. Now people tend to go to each others' houses, or down town.
• I am so uneasy to relate such old time events as in 1942, but here goes. Hook-up spots, Dances, 5 days per week. Monkey Run, Sunday evening. Hillocks school youth club. Swimming club of course in summer.Hooking up for my generation was more in our minds than what really happened. Hayman Ralph in California
• Most of the yougsters that from skegby side of Sutton hang around the Spider Rec.
• The Market. Another hangout used to be the Lawn: kids could get drunk down there without getting hassled.

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