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Walsall, West Midlands 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.)

• Used to be the fountain in front of Tesco's, aka 'The Podium', mostly just skaters and the like hang out there in the day.
• A good bonk ? THE BEST FREE BLOW JOB IN WALSALL LINDA COOPER 7 WHITE HART CALDMORE GREEN
• Bloxwich cemetary, the field at the back. Very spooky and very dangerous. Great place for kick around with mates and drink too many cans of lager when i was a kid
• walsingham street, chuckery... where all the paki druggyz hang out
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• WS2 SKATEPARK is a good hook up spot. Easy to get to, theres a skateshop there, can have a warm up on ramp before skating elsewhere.
• The 'universal meeting place' aka outside Tesco. The podium itself changes function too often, from townies, to mini-moshers, to the next new fad... Also the arboretum.
• The Bridge
• I HAVE BEEN READING PEOPLES COMMENTS ABOUT THE HIPPO IN THE TOWN CENTRE AS IT WAS MY DAD WHO MADE IT. ITS GREAT TO KNOW THAT ITS STILL THERE AS I KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO THE COUNCIL WANTED RID OF IT. WHETHER YOU LOVE OR HATE IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER TO ME ITS PART OF YOUR HISTORY AND A LITTLE PEICE OF MY OWN. DAD IF YOUR READING THIS... GET IN TOUCH, YOUR SO VERY BADLY MISSED. (AUNTY SUES AT FOREST TOWN)
• marshall still about in walsall. jacko living with his bird in leamore (also walsall). thing a lot different now. fletch
• the george bloxwich its its grab a fatty night on friday
• concrete hippo
• quaser centre, v.good coz u got a good view
• outside woolies and go 2 imperial
• by the clock
• the hippo outside tesco
• Paul Degville.... Ask him please where does he play nowadays, many happy nights in the past, Tommy Burton ( sorry late, but what an artist. in Tommy's words (piss) great great great. He knows what I mean, good old Tommy. But does Paul still perform, and where????? Please, this guy is majic. Jango. Jango .... Trev From up the pub in Canock, years ago, I think your Dad owned it , what nights Please contact. Plenty of people to bring. Trev twha@lineone.net Cheers Paul hope its the one I'm trying to find, Trev
• Outside the library....cool, and modern and there's loads of young intelligent tot that goes there
• I remember 'hanging out' at park hall shops when i was 13 hell me mum lived above the butchers, and planning fights with the pheasey lot even if i did go to school with them lol. If there is anyone that went to Barr Beacon between 91 and 96 mail me at wyldefire1979@yahoo.co.uk hell we might even know eachother lol, i left walsall in 2000 and i thank my lucky stars i did see you all soon xxx
• WS2 skatepark, opposite the new shopping center by the wharf10 bar... watch for crackheads n kev's on the way as they tend to be of the rowdy sort.. other than that the church at the top of the market is a good place to hook up.. smoking a bud theres on top though
• gaybar
• the podem infront of tescos
• kellys hair down the terminus used to be the pheasey library but theres flats there now. the pheasey terminus is a hotspot for under age drinkers and a fight with the kingstanding rocks and socks boys. doe bank park was where i had my first kiss very romantic
• the kiddies swings on Green Lane.Truely fab!
• AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MARKET GETTING PISSED OUTSIDE TESCO
• yellow boys corner in little caldmoore
• The fountain outside Mark one, where all d dirty little mingers hang out. be careful when entering Walsall u might cum bk wiv a disease!!!!!!!
• The Saddlers centre
• It has to be outside the little church where there are benches and there are floorlights aswell when it is lite up at night it looks well cool!!!
• the hippo! everyone sez its gone! its just bin moved! walk from tesco 2 the body shop and u cant miss him! he's back! (next 2 the greeb hangout)
• St Mattews Church - known as 'The Round Table' - Meh
• Theres no one in Walsall worth hooking up with, try Cannock or Wolvo, their ya best bet.
• you know people??I actually met the guy responsible for installing the hippo,there were supposed to be three of them and there is no particular reason why a hippo either.mad guy!
• chipmasters opposite the scope on lower hall lane do bostin chips.
• well coleman usually cze me on the 51 going into walslé or the 951
• LMFAO IN WALSALL? OI HOLMZY I'LL MEET YA AT BACK OF LITTLEWOODS LMAO
• outside maccies a def.
• The Hippo is still in the Square, Just on the other side now. There is a new fountain in the centre and it looks WONDERFULL at night, all lite up ! Walsall is fast becoming a nice place to go.
• ok ok so every1s already said it but the hippo was where every1 used to meet! God damn who ever took it away
• Saddlers centre steps, where ya can smoke a fag or two, watch sum fights
• The hook-up spot has definitely got to be either the hippo where all the drunkards and druggies try to hump the stone carved thing or the podium/fountain where all people try and get mashed on a small bottle of cider.
• the fountain (rockers only sorry)
• Hello again I did send a positive meesage re Walsall a while ago perhaps for the hook up spot. I recently went back to walsall on sad terms but I did find the stone Hippo that I hear about on the board Itwas the other side to B H S Chicargoes was wonderfull 21 years later and I still find the place facinating Jan Perth W A
• THE SADDLERS CENTRE STEPS ON PARK STREET IS WHERE EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON YOU FIND THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL JUST HANGING OUT TRYING TO PULL DRESSED UP TO THE NINES AND PRETENDING TO BE A LOT OLDER THAN THEY REALLY ARE!
• Jacko and Masrshalls - RIP. Where do you all hang out these days? Just keep away from my place that's all I ask!
• Fishley park
• Do those wonderful ladies of the night still stop traffic in Caldmore ?
• I have just come back to australia and had a wonder full night at Chicagoes well done walsall The hippo which i have read on about the board Has obvioulsly gone to the other side of theonce B H S I had to ask where is the Hippo I had a wonderfull time and would lve to be back
• Well, it used 2 be the hippo, but now its the saddle and hand outside 2toes.
• Birchills chill hut / hungry harry's chip shop corner! Bottom of Dalkeith street, ya know where all the fights and drug deals happen. Where big ali got shot and killed.. where all them kids act dead hard
• Walsall is the biggest shit 'ole in the world and I cannot wait until I escape it's syphilis infested population....culture-less bunch of amoebic, inbred tossers!!
• Outside Tesco
• THE CORNER OF BOB'S CHIP SHOP IN CALDMORE WHERE NUMEROUS RASTAS HANG OUT DRINKING CANS OF SPECIAL BREW AND SELLING THE WEED WHILST THE POLICE DRIVE PAST AND DO NOTHING APPARENTLY.
• The Hippo - RIP. Never again shall I be able to mount you in a drunken stupor on a Saturday night!
• The hippo, in the town centre-"meet me by the hippo" used to be a poular phrase but the council took it away.
• Gotta be the Park Hall shops, or the primary down the road
• I have to agree with everyone else it was definitely the famous Hippo. Walsall just isn't the same without him!
• Ingram rd junction of penderal used to be a good hang out for local yobs i.e garny, ish, ray, orbo, jt, holmzy, marv, the buttons(dick + daz)
• Back of St Matthews Church is a good place if you dont want to be disturbed!!
• Pelsall NOrth Common
• The famous hook-up spot is undoubtedly the stone Hippo... Which was taken away by workmen. O.K, so now just the town square.
• picnics in the lunch hour in safeways carpark, the flock and firkin - that really is as good as it gets....
• Jacko and Marshalls! Ha!
• I used to hang around the Hippo with Colin Millward, bored as hell and smoking far too many fags. We also used to hang around the Park Hall shops.
• Park Hall shops, where all of the twelve year olds gather to plan a fight with the pheasey lot.
• Gullivers - Self Named, Area close to my house if you go down the embankment by junktion 10 your there, great place to drink cheap cider when your about 12 (White Star - From Dulli's on Alumwell Road)
• Virgin
• Used to be the Hippo - Chaplins Coffee House these days maybe
• Hmmmm, the hippos not what it once was when i was a lad - just a few miserable degenerates hangin' 'bout in the rain.......St Matthews church is probably the best place for stoners and zoners alike these days...
• Gotta be the hippo. Why a hippo in walsal? live there 26yrs and I don't have a clue
• Oak park leisure centre at walsall wood. Good swimming football and gym etc.
• The Hippo is the place to converse with one's fellow drunks and druggies.
• the hippo and outside tesco where the drunks tend to be. also anywhere along park street. dull dull dull.
• The Abouretum I s'pose
• The much loved Stone Hippo, the only place to get wet if its raining or get drunk if your'e twelve.
• The Stone Hippo outside B.H.S.Fun,if you're into sitting on a stone hippo talking about drugs.

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