Knowhere Guide to Aylesbury

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Hook-up Spot (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.)

Record Shops

Oven Ready Records in Kingsbury Square. Good new stuff and a lot of second-hand. Also an HMV in one of the shopping centres.

Musical Instrument Shops

Clothes Shops

Skateboard Shops

Clubs (Dance Music)

Music Venues

Cinemas

Art, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

Games Shops

Bike Shops [Please specify whether person or petrol-powered]

Comic Shops

There is a very good comic shop called Neo Tokyo in the centre of town on Buckingham Street.

Newsagents

Food

• The best place to eat in Aylesbury is Chiquitos; Mexican-style, and at lunch there's an excellent help-yourself buffet at a very keen price.
  You really think that Chiquito's is the best place to eat in town????? And then you dare to post that on the internet, claiming to be a guide to what's hot or not in Ayles??? It's a bit insulting that a very poor chain of restaurants is the best we have to offer. It's very poor food, not really authentic, and apart from being the only place in the area that serves Mexican, I can't really see very much to commend it. How about some of the good curry-houses, or Bon Appetit's eat-in kebabs which really are damn nice. Food doesn't have to be expensive to be good, but I really resent the thought that that restaurant is the best we have to offer.
• There's a great Indian restaraunt called Sheesh Mehel, near Walton Pond.
• My Best restaraunt in Aylesbury is the Taj Mahal on Buckingham Street Aylesbury excellent Curry and a host of vegetarian delights!!

Pubs

• There is one good pub in Aylesbury. It's called the Watermead. Funnily enough, it's based in the Watermead estate. The only problem with it is that it's rather expensive - £2.30 a pint!!
• Why not check out the Broadleys Pub on Wendover Road next to the Police station where every Fri/Sat eve there is a 60/70s disco and on a Sunday Roast for £3.95!! A very friendly pub where everyone from the kids to the in laws go to!

Skateboard Spots

Banks, hundreds of banks. One 10' high, 3' high with grindable lip etc. Target Building sounds like a bust to us.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

Favourite Building

Demolish It Now Building

The Best Things, The Worst Things, and The Stuff We Can't Fit in Somewhere Else

• Aylesbury is great for ducks.
• Actually, not a bad town. Famous for Friars Club (now closed) that was infamous in the rock community during the late 70s /early 80s. Famous bands such as The Police, Genesis, The Jam etc all played Friars. This created a very lively local band scene, the most successful probably being the excellent Disco Students who produced 3 singles on the Yeah!Yeah!Yeah! record label. Aylesbury is also the home of Gladys Protheroe who football fans will know from her appearances on BBC Radio 5. Yeah - Aylesbury, not too bad a place.
• Hi, my name is Alan Timms. I lived in and around Aylesbury for most of my life - I emigrated to Australia nearly five years ago now. I must admit that Aylesbury was the pits: for most of that time we never had any nightclubs, hardly anywhere for bands to play and pretty much nothing else to do except meet in the mostly crappy pubs. Friars was its saving grace, those days in the 70s were some of the best times. From the Borough Assembly Hall and then to the Maxwell Hall we had some great bands come to town - it was just great having something to look forward to at the weekend. Most of the big punk bands came to town, Tom Petty, The Flamin Groovies, Bowie, Iggy etc it was an excellent scene we had going then. Is anything happening in the town now? If anyone reading this knows Pete Frame, say hi from me and tell him to get on the net.
• There's a cybercafe in Aylesbury. It's called the SurfShak, and it's at 26 Edison Road, Rabans Lane.

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