Martin Dust

Techno Zen Master
The ability to shit in your own pants and not care (joking) Not really a place tho.

I also miss going to Beautiful Downtown Bramhall Lane, the sooner Warnocker leaves or dies in a pile up the better.
 
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I miss Fat Cat records in Covent Garden and the feeling of discovering amazing new records there every time I went in.... a time as well as a place.
 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
Lammermuir Hills

Half an hour south of Edinburgh. Fifteen minutes from lovely beaches at Gullane and North Berwick.

Our house was on the tree line. I could step out the door and roam for hours without seeing a car. Very rare in the UK. I used to dangle a worm into the loch you see there.

nice
 

sodiumnightlife

Sweet Virginia
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The island of Carna. Went there for a family holiday once, we were the only people on the island. It sits just below the Ardnamurchan peninsular and is simply stunning. There's a road and some villages on Ardnamurchan (highly reccomended in itself) but to the south the Morvern Hills are almost deserted. the cottage came with its own boat for the week, spent alot of time fishing with my grandpa. Amazing amazing place.
 
also miss going to Beautiful Downtown Bramhall Lane, the sooner Warnocker leaves or dies in a pile up the better.

that bit.
where is bramhall lane and who is warnocker and why do you with him/her death?
it is intriguing.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
where is bramhall lane and who is warnocker and why do you with him/her death?
it is intriguing.
I fear that you will be a lot less intrigued when I tell you that he's talking about football.
 

mms

sometimes
What does that mean?

I miss Fat Cat records in Covent Garden and the feeling of discovering amazing new records there every time I went in.... a time as well as a place.

yeah that place was live, all dark and downstairs, never knew who might come in, shrinkwrap and fresh imports, a strange haven from the outside world.
 

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
castle rock is a brewery- their pub/brewery is near the station- you could use it as a gateway to the meadows (somewhere i DON'T miss)

i haven't been out in nottm for about 6 years, but bunkers hill in hockley is a city centre freehouse with a good range of beers. or go up mansfield road to lincolnshire poacher (used to do good food too).

The Plough in Radford does (and brews, come to that) Nottingham Brewery beers which are even better than Castle Rock. Only a couple of other places you can get them, though. The Sir John Borlaise Warren on Canning Circus normally has Deuchars and Landlord on...
 

tryptych

waiting for a time
At the risk of further derailment...

Coniston Bluebird has got to be one of the best nothern ales. Get it all over the Lake District, and can find it bottled down south too.

And for real lager, Cain's Liverpool Lager is fantastic.

Young's Kew Brew is a great southern ale, although the only place that seems to sell it now is Kew gardens, at pretty steep prices.
 

ripley

Well-known member
Bjorklidden, in Sweden, above the arctic circle. I went there with my parents in 2003 in June and watched the sun slide around the horizon by a glacial waterfall.

Being a city kid, well a suburban one, but without much relationship to nature, this was the first time I just sat and watched a place empty of humans for hours.

and the total opposite: brick lane market, in all its ridiculous glory, plus those weird cheap little bagels.
 
those weird cheap little bagels.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WEIRD????!!!! (not really angry)
also, how big do you expect a bagel to be?


off to nottingham tonight, ust gonna be there overnight doing a bit of DJing but hopefully will find a good beer wherever I end up.
 

sodiumnightlife

Sweet Virginia
no they are quite weird: the salt beef one, howmuch slat beef do you need?! They're crazy! I saw si pegg in that shop, meand my friend called to him softly.
 

tox

Factory Girl
I miss The Electric Cinema in Birmingham. It's the UK's oldest working cinema and while I was there was a real one of a kind place. They showed a good selection of double features, sold homemade cakes (through necessity, none of this pretencious "Innocent Smoothie" style rustic homemade shite) and you had to buy a quaint little membership to get tickets there. The buildings facade was decorated with these weird naked fiberglass manakins staring out into the street. People would wonder in thinking it was a blue-movie place on a fairly regular basis. Needless to say, apart from the regulars, there wasn't much custom.

I worked there every Saturday for about 18 months from around 16yrs old. Then after the X-mas break 2003 I went to work as usual on the Saturday morning only to find a note on the door saying it had closed for good. Gutted.

Still miss the place, the people, and the movies to this day. Learnt loads about art, film and music hanging out there at the weekend. And they served a mean guiness cake too!

The place has now re-opened as a "luxury indepedant cinema" which is just horrible. I dragged myself there the other day to watch Science of Sleep and despite the pangs of nostalgia it just wasn't the same. Being surrounded by yuppies eating olives on leather sofas rather than the regular film nuts we used to get passing through is really disappointing.

Man I miss that place :(
 
Yeah we could do a whole thread about closed cinemas....

I grew up in Bedford which is a crap town, one good thing was it had the biggest cinema screen in the UK where I saw Star Wars, Tron etc etc as a kid. It was also used as a venue and the Beatles & Hendrix and others played there.

Then they knocked it down and built one of those multiplex places on the edge of town so you needed a car to get there, all the screens were tiny. The demolition site of the old cinema stood empty for about 15-20 years and now it's a Lidl.
 

Martin Dust

Techno Zen Master
Yeah we could do a whole thread about closed cinemas....

I grew up in Bedford which is a crap town, one good thing was it had the biggest cinema screen in the UK where I saw Star Wars, Tron etc etc as a kid. It was also used as a venue and the Beatles & Hendrix and others played there.

Then they knocked it down and built one of those multiplex places on the edge of town so you needed a car to get there, all the screens were tiny. The demolition site of the old cinema stood empty for about 15-20 years and now it's a Lidl.

Sheffield had lots of cinemas, take a look here:
http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/cinemas/cintable.html

I loved the Rex, Wednesday nights, two horror films for 50p. They never bothered if you looked underage and it was close to home.
 

petergunn

plywood violin
no they are quite weird: the salt beef one, howmuch slat beef do you need?! They're crazy! I saw si pegg in that shop, meand my friend called to him softly.

london bagels are ok...

salt beef is ok too...

however, montreal bagels and smoked meat trump them both...

a good smoked meat is better than nyc pastrami or london salt beef...
 
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