| Dense User Alert. 18:46 - Apr 1 with 2296 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Being a bit of a pillock where anything remotely technical is concerned, as i no longer live in Pinewood, i would like to at some point change my user name.
How do i go about doing this in very simple laymands terms please. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Dense User Alert. on 21:21 - Apr 1 with 393 views | jeera |
| Dense User Alert. on 21:16 - Apr 1 by Lord_Lucan |
Maybe it was because I was small but I remember Eye market on the airfield thing to be absolutely huge.
I remember buying two things from there. 1/ The Boys are back in Town cassette and 2/ one of those coke cans with fake exploding froth coming out of it.
I wanted to buy a silver ingot but I didn't have that kind of dough as a 13 year old. [Post edited 2 Apr 2021 9:50]
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I'm with you on that.
Eye market was never-ending fecking massive, with a behemoth car park and thousands of people.
I remember being sent for the teas and panicking a bit when I couldn't spot the stall on the way back. |  |
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| Dense User Alert. on 21:23 - Apr 1 with 389 views | textbackup |
| Dense User Alert. on 18:49 - Apr 1 by SitfcB |
PM Gav, TriangleEstateBlueBoy. |
I like that name - I was triangle estate when I started out on here, would have been perfect |  |
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| Dense User Alert. on 21:24 - Apr 1 with 387 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Dense User Alert. on 21:21 - Apr 1 by jeera |
I'm with you on that.
Eye market was never-ending fecking massive, with a behemoth car park and thousands of people.
I remember being sent for the teas and panicking a bit when I couldn't spot the stall on the way back. |
But was it massive or were we just small?
I don't know by the way. |  |
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| Dense User Alert. on 21:34 - Apr 1 with 379 views | jeera |
| Dense User Alert. on 21:24 - Apr 1 by Lord_Lucan |
But was it massive or were we just small?
I don't know by the way. |
Bit of both I suppose.
Was an adventure for me as a kid and all a bit bewildering.
It was always dark in the morning, (in the early days), when we set off but I cannot recall if that was from when we lived in Nazeing or if it was when we came up here, as it were.
The old chap started Bury around '71/'72 and then Diss soon after, driving from Nazeing, so that was long way then! The roads then were a different thing altogether of course. [Post edited 1 Apr 2021 21:35]
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| Dense User Alert. on 21:46 - Apr 1 with 362 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Dense User Alert. on 21:24 - Apr 1 by Lord_Lucan |
But was it massive or were we just small?
I don't know by the way. |
It was massive. Certainly the largest around these parts at the time.
The only one i ever went to that was comparable was at Long Marston in Warwickshire many years ago. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Dense User Alert. on 22:30 - Apr 1 with 345 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Dense User Alert. on 21:46 - Apr 1 by StochesStotasBlewe |
It was massive. Certainly the largest around these parts at the time.
The only one i ever went to that was comparable was at Long Marston in Warwickshire many years ago. |
I think we were small. | |
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| Dense User Alert. on 23:16 - Apr 1 with 321 views | jeera |
| Dense User Alert. on 22:30 - Apr 1 by Lord_Lucan |
I think we were small. |
How far did a plane need to take off when that airfield was built? | |
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| Dense User Alert. on 11:33 - Apr 2 with 279 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Dense User Alert. on 23:16 - Apr 1 by jeera |
How far did a plane need to take off when that airfield was built? |
They were Harrier Jumpjets
And anyway, did they use the whole strip? I really can't remember to be honest.
I mean, I guess people must have travelled from all over as it couldn't have just been full of shoppers from Yaxley. | |
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| Dense User Alert. on 11:41 - Apr 2 with 276 views | jeera |
| Dense User Alert. on 11:33 - Apr 2 by Lord_Lucan |
They were Harrier Jumpjets
And anyway, did they use the whole strip? I really can't remember to be honest.
I mean, I guess people must have travelled from all over as it couldn't have just been full of shoppers from Yaxley. |
There were no shops open in those days so yes, Sunday markets were a massive attraction with people coming from miles away.
Traders would be from all over the country, but I was very young when we first went there so my memory is not to be over relied on.
For a few years, when the trading laws changed, the two markets continued simultaneously with Snetterton taking over as the main venue, being better placed as it were and more accessible.
Bloody Harrier jump jets. Should've seen that one coming. | |
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