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Our Blue Heaven Cast and Speedway Enthusiast Guests at Ipswich Library Sporting Memories Group - Ipswich Town News

Ipswich County Library’s weekly Sporting Memories Group will be joined by some special guests this month including the cast of the New Wolsey Theatre’s Our Blue Heaven show and speedway enthusiast Peter Rout.

Rout, who will be joining the group on Tuesday 8th May at 2.15pm, has spent a lifetime following speedway and over the last few years has been lovingly crafting reproduction race jackets for the National Speedway Museum.

You can see his collection here, while he has also created a special display which can currently be seen at Ipswich Library.

Rout also has an extensive collection of speedway-related memorabilia, including a vintage speedway bike, which he hopes to bring along next week. Anyone is welcome to come along and bring any of their own speedway memorabilia to share and discuss.

On Tuesday 22nd May at 2.15pm the group will be joined by the cast of Our Blue Heaven which opens at the New Wolsey on Friday.

It will be a great opportunity to relive Town’s 1978 FA Cup win and chat to the actors, admire their costumes and share memories and memorabilia.

As well as the speedway display an Ipswich Town memorabilia display remains on show at the library, both just inside the entrance to the library.

Sporting memories groups are now running regularly at Ipswich, Stowmarket, Newmarket and Lowestoft libraries with a new session starting on Monday 14th May at the regular Suffolk Libraries Local session at Shotley Village Hall at 1pm.

Anyone over 50 is welcome to come along to any of the sessions which also aim to help those affected with dementia, memory loss, mental health issues or who feel lonely or isolated.

Attendees can handle superb sporting images and memorabilia from local and national collections, share memories and stories of watching or participating in sport and enjoy quizzes, games and gentle activity while making new friends. More information on the Suffolk Libraries website here.

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