Significant places in your town/city that you've never visited?

[Howardh]

Just gone past Bolton Arena, and it's now been there several years, and realised despite the number of events, from tennis matches through snooker, car shows, concerts etc, I've never set foot in it once. One day I must book a ticket for an event just to see what it's like?

No doubt Londoners will have a hundred "significant" places that they haven't been to (maybe they have as kids on school trips?) but I'd be interested to learn what you have missed out on so far in your own area; whether by design or, like me, accident?!

 

[styles]

Lived in London for years. Never been to Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera House, Wimbledon for the tennis, the Old Bailey, houses of Parliament.

 

[Trackman]

Lived in London for years. Never been to Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera House, Wimbledon for the tennis, the Old Bailey, houses of Parliament.

Do you mean you've never seen them?

Just gone past Bolton Arena, and it's now been there several years, and realised despite the number of events, from tennis matches through snooker, car shows, concerts etc, I've never set foot in it once. One day I must book a ticket for an event just to see what it's like?

It's a leisure centre by day I think, not really an events arena but can host events.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I have never been to Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, nor to Gosport's Explosion Museum.
Yet I manage to get regularly dragged around Gunwharf, by my dear wife. Maybe I need to wander off more often...

 

[Springs Branch]

Maybe not a significant place for many people in my town but - as someone who has always enjoyed a drink in a convivial bar at the end of the day - I never set foot in my "local" pub.

In my youth, when going out for a pint with mates, we invariably opted for a 'change of scenery'. That is, visited pubs a mile or more from our family homes, where we were unlikely to encounter anybody we knew (or, more specifically, who knew our parents and when our birthdays were).

Then I went away to university at age 18 and subsequently moved away for study and work. Despite coming home at holiday times, Christmas and the like, I never ventured into the bustling, popular pub at the end of the street. Not by design, it just never seemed to happen.

Decades and decades later, that pub is long closed and has become a curry house. So, no chance of correcting the errors of the past now.

 

[A S Leib]

For Newcastle, I've never been to St. James' Park, the Utilita Arena, Life Science Centre or the Hatton, Hancock or Laing Art Galleries (no interest in the former; I somehow haven't got around to visiting the latter group).

In Hemel Hempstead, I've been to the Snow Centre (before having lived there); I can't remember if I've ever been to the Frogmore Paper Mill but I moved two months after it was closed following a fire so it wouldn't have been since then.

 

[D6130]

Having lived in Hebden Bridge - for part of the year - for the past twelve years, I've never yet set foot in the town's Little Theatre. Given that it's a very small town - with less than 5,000 inhabitants - I think I've probably been everywhere else that is publicly accessible....apart from one or two shops. I've certainly been in all the pubs!

 

[Acfb]

I haven't been inside either Tynecastle or Easter Road stadiums although my sister lived in a flat on Gorgie Rd a couple of years ago that looked onto the former. I've been to Murrayfield Stadium but only the long function room at the side where I was sorting council postal votes three years ago and the Up and Under bar. I think I've done all the museums in Edinburgh and I've been in the Scottish Parliament (committee rooms etc) but not the main debating chamber yet.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Never been to the Hastings Aquarium. Was meant to go on a school trip, but we ended up going to the Safeway bakery instead.

 

[blue87]

Aston Hall despite the fact I live only 20 minutes walk away.

 

[Furryanimal]

If a local pub can be considered significant then I’ve never been in ‘The Crows Nest’ the pub on my Cwmbran estate.

 

[Tester]

Never been to the Hastings Aquarium. Was meant to go on a school trip, but we ended up going to the Safeway bakery instead.

There has to be a story there

 

[Magdalia]

Mine is more a thing that I have never done than a place I have never been.

The River Cam plays an important part in the life of Cambridge, and I have been on the river banks many times, but I have never been on the water either in a punt or a rowing boat.

 

[najaB]

I've lived in Dundee for going on twenty years, but in all that time I've only walked past the RRS Discovery (from which the city's current motto: One city, many discoveries hails.

Also never been to the Verdant Works which celebrates the city's history of jute production.

 

[Minilad]

Never been to any of the places pertaining to William Shakespeare

 

[Sun Chariot]

Never been to any of the places pertaining to William Shakespeare

What, none of the UK's pubs named The Shakespeare Inn?

 

[Minilad]

What, none of the UK's pubs named The Shakespeare Inn?

Well seeing as I'm teetotal that would be rather pointless but surprisingly there isn't a Shakespeare Inn in Stratford!

 

[side effect]

Live in London 60 odd years and never been on flying eye or Arsenal and Tottenham new stadium.

 

[Calthrop]

A bit of a "stretch", maybe -- I live, and have done for the past twenty years, in the north-eastern suburbs of Birmingham: the venue involved here, is fifteen miles south-west of where I am, and not in the big city as such -- nearest significant settlements Halesowen, and Stourbridge. However -- said place, is Hagley Hall -- still, I understand, in private ownership, but visitable. While I normally have little interest in "stately homes": Hagley is reckoned a beautiful structure, in very pleasant natural surroundings; with additionally of course, its GWR steam loco associations -- feel that I really should make the effort, and visit.

 

[brad465]

Growing up in Crayford, it had until January just gone a Greyhound track and small leisure centre attached, that I never visited for greyhound racing. As a child I went to a birthday party at the leisure centre part (mainly indoor courts and a party venue bit), but even though there were 11 years of the track being open after my 18th birthday I never had enough interest to go watch any races.

 

[BeijingDave]

Studied at Warwick Uni and never visited the castle, the only thing Warwick is really famous for.

 

[D6130]

Studied at Warwick Uni and never visited the castle, the only thing Warwick is really famous for.

But isn't Warwick University much closer to Coventry than to Warwick?

 

[BeijingDave]

But isn't Warwick University much closer to Coventry than to Warwick?

Correct. But most people who are not from the West Midlands or in higher education don't know that.

Hence the question from aunties, neighbours etc for three years: "Oh, have you been to the castle yet? Lovely castle"

 

[DM352]

Brighton West Pier when it more so existed and cost a few quid with a hard hat along a guided walkway.

 

[Magdalia]

Studied at Warwick Uni and never visited the castle, the only thing Warwick is really famous for.

You are not the only one. And did you visit Coventry Cathedral or Stratford Upon Avon while you were there?

Arguably the University is now more famous than the castle.

Brighton West Pier when it more so existed and cost a few quid with a hard hat along a guided walkway.

The key thing here is not going on the pier, it is standing on the beach at sunset to watch a starling murmuration.

 

[BeijingDave]

You are not the only one. And did you visit Coventry Cathedral or Stratford Upon Avon while you were there?

I did visit the Cathedral, but didn't bother with Stratford and the Shakespeare stuff

 

[Brent Goose]

I have never been to Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, nor to Gosport's Explosion Museum.
Yet I manage to get regularly dragged around Gunwharf, by my dear wife. Maybe I need to wander off more often...

Regularly drive past the submarine museum but haven’t been in.

(supposedly the creek one might oneself without a paddle is Haslar creek)

Despite being in Nine Elms station during construction and having been on one of the TBMs while cutting the tunnels I have never been on the NLE when in revenue service.

 

[Strathclyder]

Never been up the Titan Crane in Clydebank, despite having lived within 4 miles of it for over 25 years now. Well, one couldn't really go up it until after it's major refurb/conversion into a viewing platform in the mid/late 2000s, but let's not split hairs lol

Has been 'temporarily' closed for a while now, that said (since at least 2020, the onset of COVID closed it at first) with no word or sign of it reopening anytime soon. You'd think that with the nearby Yoker-Renfrew bridge nearing completion, that there'd be some movement on that front.

 

[Old Yard Dog]

The church in the street where I use to live and was brought up. It is no longer a place of worship due largely to changes in the religious make up of local residents. I never went in as I was of a different persuasion which meant a one mile walk.

To be honest, I'm not sure I've even been into Bradford Cathedral.