Stevenage

[With these feet]

smallgun said:

Did you know Stevenage has 750 CCTV cameras

And 1 video recorder with a 30 minute betamax tape in it...

[mig25_foxbat2003]

The view from the "Holiday" Inn



The Town Museum (I st you not) and the "Holiday" Inn.

This place is a complete and utter hole. I think my least favourite part is the "Leisure Park", which is too horrible for words - and has anyone else noticed that there are VERY few non-chain stores in StevenHate? It's like they don't have the imagination to get off their arses and start businesses.

One saving grace is Baguette Express, which belies its tacky-sounding name (they're a small-ish franchise) with some top quality lunch fodder. But everything else is st.

[tonyvid]

We can give the museum a temporary pass as the curator is a very good friend of mine and is also rather gorgeous

[mig25_foxbat2003]

It's a fantastic building and at least it's not square and made of concrete. I've just never seen anyone go in (and I lived in the Holiday Inn for months!)

Can you ask your curator friend what the suicide tower next to the museum (displayed in the photo) is all about?!

[boolay]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

I've just never seen anyone go in

I've been in

It was a long time ago, I was young, I was easily lead astray

[tonyvid]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

It's a fantastic building and at least it's not square and made of concrete. I've just never seen anyone go in (and I lived in the Holiday Inn for months!)

Can you ask your curator friend what the suicide tower next to the museum (displayed in the photo) is all about?!

I will, I guess its to do with the church that sits on its roof! I did ask about the elephant and apparently it was just something someone gave them....

Most people who use the museum seem to be kids to use the bog or nick stuff or druggies who use the gardens to shoot up. At least the Holiday Inn is a spanking new one, I stayed there for a night last Dec and it wasn't bad at all

[E30M3SE]

tonyvid said:

Most people who use the museum seem to be kids to use the bog or nick stuff or druggies who use the gardens to shoot up.

Sums it up perfectly.

[tonyvid]

E30M3SE said:

tonyvid said:

Most people who use the museum seem to be kids to use the bog or nick stuff or druggies who use the gardens to shoot up.

Sums it up perfectly.

It's the only garden I have seen that comes with a "sharps bin" !!!

[mig25_foxbat2003]

Dear Mr E30M3SE,

If you own the car indicated by your username, and live in the StevenHate area;

1) Can I have a go? No? Oh well, worth a try.
2) Can you recommend a good local BMW indie? I need to replace the diff carrier bushes on my E46 (I have the dreaded "E46 Clunk") and don't want to entrust it to any old bunch of cowboys.

Thankingyouplease.

[E30M3SE]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

Dear Mr E30M3SE,

If you own the car indicated by your username, and live in the StevenHate area;

1) Can I have a go? No? Oh well, worth a try.
2) Can you recommend a good local BMW indie? I need to replace the diff carrier bushes on my E46 (I have the dreaded "E46 Clunk") and don't want to entrust it to any old bunch of cowboys.

Thankingyouplease.

1) You've answered your own question, so we'll leave it at that.
2) Auto Service & Tuning, located on Bedford Road in Hitchin, behind the Shell petrol station, speak to Claudio or one of the two Bens'.

[jon-]

I only ever hear good stuff about that garage.

[kingstondc5]

There is one good thing about stevenage and thats the round-a-bouts, good for practising on at the speed limit! and when quiet though its a shame they turned the traffic lights on permanently on the Coreys Mill roundie

[Speed_Demon]

kingstondc5 said:

There is one good thing about stevenage and thats the round-a-bouts, good for practising on at the speed limit! and when quiet though its a shame they turned the traffic lights on permanently on the Coreys Mill roundie

That's pissed me off no end. I use to have great fun round that roundabout. Not anymore. However there are plenty more. The south Stevenage A1M junction RA is good fun though.

Every notice how NO ONE can use the Hitchin roundabout? 4/5 days of the working week I have to beep someone for doing something utterly retarded.

[Cyder]

Speed_Demon said:

kingstondc5 said:

There is one good thing about stevenage and thats the round-a-bouts, good for practising on at the speed limit! and when quiet though its a shame they turned the traffic lights on permanently on the Coreys Mill roundie

That's pissed me off no end. I use to have great fun round that roundabout. Not anymore. However there are plenty more. The south Stevenage A1M junction RA is good fun though.

Every notice how NO ONE can use the Hitchin roundabout? 4/5 days of the working week I have to beep someone for doing something utterly retarded.

Used to drive me bonkers when I commuted from Hitchin to Hatfield daily. Utter cock trumpets with no idea how what the lines in the middle of the road are there for.

[With these feet]

Isnt most of the dual carriageway 40 now?
Before they built the services, the roundabout under the A1m at Stotfold was pretty good... Even a place to stop and chat under there!

[kingstondc5]

Im guessing Cyder your talking as if your coming from Hitchin and go onto the roundie where everyone in the middle lane drifts across?

I have no idea why the lights are on in off-peak conditions, ie midnight, you can see nothings coming and yet you have to wait and knowing my luck, should i jump said lights a police car would no doubt appear from somewhere

[Cyder]

kingstondc5 said:

Im guessing Cyder your talking as if your coming from Hitchin and go onto the roundie where everyone in the middle lane drifts across?

I have no idea why the lights are on in off-peak conditions, ie midnight, you can see nothings coming and yet you have to wait and knowing my luck, should i jump said lights a police car would no doubt appear from somewhere

Indeed, it winds me up no end, I beeped at someone who nearly took the front of my car off there once and he went absolutely mental at me, I have no idea why as it was him that just wandered across the lanes towards me!

[rob200sx]

It's always happening there, experience the same thing at the roundabout to get into St.Albans as you come in from Hatfield and also into Hatfield itself off the A1, each man for themselves!

Those lights have been in a perma state for the last 6 months or so I think.

[eltawater]

I think the Hitchin->Stevenage Coreys mill roundabout entrance could be signposted better....

The two lanes of the dual carriageway become three lanes without much warning, and whereas previously the nearside lane is marked "North A1(M) / A602" and offside is "South A1(M)", you get to the roundabout to find three lanes, nearside marked "North A1(M)", lane 2 "Stev A602", offside lane "South A1(M)".

If there's the usual amount of traffic waiting to enter the roundabout, you don't even see those markings until the queue has moved off. Then you get onto the roundabout and all hell breaks loose as you pass the first exit when both lane 2 and the offside lane are now marked "Stev A602". Arghhh!!!!!