Another first for the East Coast

[Sniper]

It works well within the suffolk rivers, but accounts for all the yachts which get 'lost' going up the Wallet.
http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/gps-invented-suffolk/

 

[sailorman]

RADAR & now GPS , brilliant news

 

[Cantata]

Who writes this stuff? Can they move down here to work for our local rag, I might even buy it.

 

[sailorman]

Corporate HQ ( Friday night s)
The Greyhound
Henley Rd
Ipswich

 

[PeterWright]

Corporate HQ ( Friday night s)
The Greyhound
Henley Rd
Ipswich

That was the teachers' pub when I was at school - we had to make do with the less salubrious surroundings of the Arboretum, a couple of hundred yards further downhill. Could it be that this excellent publication is produced in the staff room at Ipswich School???

One evening, towards the end of my time at the school, I went for a drink in the Greyhound, and for my pains was expelled by the Head exactly 2 days before I was due to leave anyway!

 

[WF36]

That was the teachers' pub when I was at school

Still is, another Ipswichian here

 

[johnalison]

The Greyhound was part of our mess when I worked at the Anglesea Road wing in 1963. Non-locals were viewed with suspicion unless they worked at the hospital, when they were accepted as one of the family. When I arrived, it was a Watney's pub but fortunately it changed to Adnams almost immediately. If you asked for a beer you got given mild, for bitter you had to ask for bitter.

There was just a public bar and a smaller saloon bar. The darts was in the public bar. This was proper Suffolk darts, a much better game than the national game. The board is divided into twelve, numbered 5,10,15 and 20, each repeated three times, with 20 at the top, 4o/c and 8o/c, plus doubles and triples as usual, and bulls. The score was divided by five and scored on a cribbage board, something that soon became natural. It was an easier game for the unskilled, but the better player always won.

There were three brothers who played in the darts team and regularly bought us beers. Oddly, each brother would aim for a different 20, the eldest with extra long darts. None of the brothers bore the slightest resemblance to the others, which is probably indicative of the genetic variation in the area at the time.

 

[pvb]

None of the brothers bore the slightest resemblance to the others, which is probably indicative of the genetic variation in the area at the time.

Careful!

 

[johnalison]

Careful!

Er, yes. We had an Australian bloke working with us briefly then. His favourite term of endearment was "you b*stard". The only time he was allowed to say it in the Greyhound it was met with ear-splitting silence. This was back in '63 remember.