| The best year of your life…. 13:37 - Sep 25 with 6804 views | Bloots |
….1996 for me.
My GF moved out, my best mate moved in.
Got a big promotion at work.
Earning proper money.
Music was at its peak.
Oasis at Knebworth.
I’d just finished a football ban.
Euro 96.
Football’s coming home.
Chemicals were plentiful and cheap.
Heady times.
Choose life.
A general feeling of positivity around the country.
Lovely stuff.
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| The best year of your life…. on 00:50 - Sep 26 with 1605 views | judespiveyg |
Could be any of the last three years really but I'll go for 2022.
Last of the Covid restrictions disappeared around the turn of the year just as I was turning 20 so really started to enjoy uni and begin to love the city of Sheffield.
Got the chance to study abroad for a year in the US, half of which was that year, loads of excellent travel including a cracking week in Vegas as well as time in California.
Met my current girlfriend.
Town started winning and playing nice football more than I'd ever seen in my time as a fan.
2022-24 have really all been brilliant years, met loads of fantastic people, done an awful lot of travelling, great uni results, played loads of football and cricket, and most importantly, Ipswich are finally good at football. |  |
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| The best year of your life…. on 05:04 - Sep 26 with 1515 views | Benters |
My favourite year was 1976/77 it was really hot that summer I was about to start big school as we called it,my dad had taken delivery of his Scania 111 double sleeper cab,and we went from Harwich to Cornwall in it.
Our school had a catchment area of Mersea Island and the girls were beautiful,they liked a bit of rough from the council estate which was nice. |  |
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| The best year of your life…. on 09:04 - Sep 26 with 1438 views | positivity |
| The best year of your life…. on 00:50 - Sep 26 by judespiveyg |
Could be any of the last three years really but I'll go for 2022.
Last of the Covid restrictions disappeared around the turn of the year just as I was turning 20 so really started to enjoy uni and begin to love the city of Sheffield.
Got the chance to study abroad for a year in the US, half of which was that year, loads of excellent travel including a cracking week in Vegas as well as time in California.
Met my current girlfriend.
Town started winning and playing nice football more than I'd ever seen in my time as a fan.
2022-24 have really all been brilliant years, met loads of fantastic people, done an awful lot of travelling, great uni results, played loads of football and cricket, and most importantly, Ipswich are finally good at football. |
yes, these are the days.
incredible couple of years for ipswich town,
and this year so far has seen:-
-an incredible promotion
-an end to 14 years of tory misrule
-olympics
-paralympics
-all the music from 1997, 1983, 1934 etc is available much more easily plus a load of fabulous stuff since then
-same with tv & film
there may be worries, but there always is, enjoy what we have now! |  |
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| The best year of your life…. on 09:54 - Sep 26 with 1378 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Ho ho
Music peaked in 1970 with a chance to see Hendrix at the Isle of Wight though for Ipswich residents it was probably 1971 when Led Zeppelin appeared at St matthew’s Baths and Wheeley was closer to home
1970 World Cup = still the best ever and England’s finest team ever
And Bobby Robson was beginning to work his magic | |
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| The best year of your life…. on 10:04 - Sep 26 with 1365 views | brazil1982 |
| The best year of your life…. on 09:54 - Sep 26 by ElephantintheRoom |
Ho ho
Music peaked in 1970 with a chance to see Hendrix at the Isle of Wight though for Ipswich residents it was probably 1971 when Led Zeppelin appeared at St matthew’s Baths and Wheeley was closer to home
1970 World Cup = still the best ever and England’s finest team ever
And Bobby Robson was beginning to work his magic |
I'll go for 2003 please, a year "off" for travelling with my then wife - parts of Asia, Australia, NZ and South America. Not a stress in the world, everyday was eye-opening and different. The days of internet cafes (listening to Ipswich commentary when I could), portable CD players, film cameras, guide books.
Oh for the days of waking up in a campsite in NZ not knowing what to do that day. |  | | |
| The best year of your life…. on 10:23 - Sep 26 with 1342 views | DinDjarin |
1992 - Peak Rave scene and also DJ'ing at lots of illegal raves / clubs across East Anglia.
Not a care in the world. |  | | |
| What happened in late October? (n/t) on 11:34 - Sep 26 with 1269 views | Bloots |
| The best year of your life…. on 21:19 - Sep 25 by Lord_Lucan |
1983 - up to late October. |
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| The best year of your life…. on 11:41 - Sep 26 with 1239 views | Benters |
| The best year of your life…. on 09:54 - Sep 26 by ElephantintheRoom |
Ho ho
Music peaked in 1970 with a chance to see Hendrix at the Isle of Wight though for Ipswich residents it was probably 1971 when Led Zeppelin appeared at St matthew’s Baths and Wheeley was closer to home
1970 World Cup = still the best ever and England’s finest team ever
And Bobby Robson was beginning to work his magic |
That’s where I fell lucky being one of four children and the youngest by eight years,I was introduced to their music at a young age,and still listen to it now.
A few of my friends in Benters went to the Weeley Festival,looking at it the line up was fantastic. | |
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| The best year of your life…. on 13:07 - Sep 26 with 1153 views | victorywilhappen |
| The best year of your life…. on 09:54 - Sep 26 by ElephantintheRoom |
Ho ho
Music peaked in 1970 with a chance to see Hendrix at the Isle of Wight though for Ipswich residents it was probably 1971 when Led Zeppelin appeared at St matthew’s Baths and Wheeley was closer to home
1970 World Cup = still the best ever and England’s finest team ever
And Bobby Robson was beginning to work his magic |
Wally from Weeley was rumoured to be Stan who frequented The Black Buoy until early this century...but maybe that was a rumour the old boy started himself.
I visited the pub last week. It is still a strange place, and the village seems to have been swallowed up like the surrounding 'villages' into the Twilight zone. Somewhere between Labour Colchester and reform Clacton a liminal zone for commuters in vans. [Post edited 27 Sep 2024 7:46]
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| What happened in late October? (n/t) on 21:48 - Sep 26 with 997 views | Lord_Lucan |
| What happened in late October? (n/t) on 11:34 - Sep 26 by Bloots |
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I met my current wife. |  |
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| The best year of your life…. on 22:48 - Sep 26 with 969 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
2004, Junior was born and finally there was a reason for living. |  |
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| The best year of your life…. on 04:27 - Sep 27 with 914 views | Benters |
| The best year of your life…. on 13:07 - Sep 26 by victorywilhappen |
Wally from Weeley was rumoured to be Stan who frequented The Black Buoy until early this century...but maybe that was a rumour the old boy started himself.
I visited the pub last week. It is still a strange place, and the village seems to have been swallowed up like the surrounding 'villages' into the Twilight zone. Somewhere between Labour Colchester and reform Clacton a liminal zone for commuters in vans. [Post edited 27 Sep 2024 7:46]
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The locals bought the pub when it closed down and re opened it.So you get a few in there think they own the place,and I guess some of them do!I quite like Wivenhoe,well the old part anyway,it’s a expensive place to buy a property though.
The Rose and Crown is ok on the front to,that is always changing hands mind. | |
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| The best year of your life…. on 07:41 - Sep 27 with 851 views | victorywilhappen |
| The best year of your life…. on 04:27 - Sep 27 by Benters |
The locals bought the pub when it closed down and re opened it.So you get a few in there think they own the place,and I guess some of them do!I quite like Wivenhoe,well the old part anyway,it’s a expensive place to buy a property though.
The Rose and Crown is ok on the front to,that is always changing hands mind. |
The Greyhound is by far the best pub in Wivenhoe. The Wivenhoe Black Buoy does a good pint but allows locals to vape indoors.. The Rose & Crown does have the best position, but its beer and food are not good.
Over the River, the Whalebone in Finger in the Hoo is very good and seems a million miles away from any big city.
PS- it's Lower Wivenhoe. [Post edited 27 Sep 2024 7:42]
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| What happened in late October? (n/t) on 07:45 - Sep 27 with 832 views | victorywilhappen |
| What happened in late October? (n/t) on 21:48 - Sep 26 by Lord_Lucan |
I met my current wife. |
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| The best year of your life…. on 09:00 - Sep 27 with 771 views | Benters |
| The best year of your life…. on 07:41 - Sep 27 by victorywilhappen |
The Greyhound is by far the best pub in Wivenhoe. The Wivenhoe Black Buoy does a good pint but allows locals to vape indoors.. The Rose & Crown does have the best position, but its beer and food are not good.
Over the River, the Whalebone in Finger in the Hoo is very good and seems a million miles away from any big city.
PS- it's Lower Wivenhoe. [Post edited 27 Sep 2024 7:42]
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Yes indeed I have often stopped in The Whalebone for a pint,then came back once over the bridge along the Wivenhoe trail on my bike and either stopped at one of those pubs for refreshments.
Yes of course it’s ‘Lower Wivenhoe’.
I have only been in The Greyhound once when the music thingy was on in Wivenhoe,it seemed alright. [Post edited 27 Sep 2024 9:02]
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| The best year of your life…. on 10:55 - Sep 27 with 710 views | TheBlueGnu |
| The best year of your life…. on 16:54 - Sep 25 by Illinoisblue |
It was indeed! Galaxy Publications, based in Freebournes Road. The owners were basically living off money made in the glory days of the 70s and 80s when some of the best selling mags had circulation in the hundreds of thousands. Used to spend hours in the boardroom looking at the leather-bound volumes of the old mags. Back then they were proper mags with actual articles and mainstream (mostly alcohol and cigs) advertisers. I vividly recall a feature on Stirling Moss and his high-tech home of the future.
I joined at the start of their decline - insert your own jokes - but obviously no way the high cost of print production could keep up with free filth online. Still, it was a great four years there. |
Ah, the good old days when you could find a magazine in a bush, and a bush in a magazine. | |
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