Woking

When I first left the station at Woking and started walking through the town centre, I was fairly underwhelmed. 'Underwhelmed' soon become 'dispirited' - which soon became 'depressed.' This was the location of my new job, and it sucked. Woking is a town of less architectural merit than I've ever seen in this country. There are possibly three or four attractive buildings in the whole town centre. The rest is a morass of shopping centres and nonentitous office blocks. The blandness of the main street, Commercial Way, is alleviated by extensive tree cover which gives the street a vaguely continental feel. There's also a superb ...

It's hard to be optimistic about the town you live in but I'll try... Woking is OK really. We've just finished building a brand new hotel in the town centre which seems to be the highlight of all the local newspapers. There are two large shopping centres, The Peacocks and Wolsey Place. Boasting all the highstreet names - Marks and Sparks, Sainsbury, BHS, Allsports, Miss Selfridge etc. Not forgetting McDonalds, Burger King or Pizza Hut We also have a huge newly re-furbished library in the town square. There is a good entertainment suite called The Big Apple which has laserquest, bowling, pool, children's playpen, cafe and arcades. This ...

Woking is not really famous. There is nothing that its really known for, inless you know about Formula 1 in which Mclaren is based there but thats it. The Shopping centre is called 'The Peacocks' and has all the famous shops there and there is something for everyone. TK Max on the bottom floor sell designer clothes are discount prices which is good. There are plenty of places to eat and on the top is a cinema with something like 6 screens with massive leg room and its cheap. Getting there is pretty easy. I live a few stops down by train and you can get there easily from Basingstoke, London etc. I don't think you could ...