Bristol Rovers

[stan butler]

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Weston super Mare , Brean Down , those were the days

Spent a week in Brean sands around 1980 and most of my week was spent in weston watching Skinheads fighting near the beach or on the lawns by the seafront.
Great entertainment

[stan butler]

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Weston super Mare , Brean Down , those were the days

Brean down is that the the big hill with a fort on top with something like a hundred big steps to climb?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Spent a week in Brean sands around 1980 and most of my week was spent in weston watching Skinheads fighting near the beach or on the lawns by the seafront.
Great entertainment

Weston was very run down and looking in need of a paint job last time I went

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Brean down is that the the big hill with a fort on top with something like a hundred big steps to climb?

thats the one , very good fishing off there

[Des Parrot]

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st Paul's, Easton, are they rovers territory,

Mate of mine was a student at Bristol Polytechnic , lived in Ashley Down , lot of rovers fans around there

Same here Sludge, 3 years at Bristol Poly, 77-80 Easton, Ashley Down & Bishopston, all Gas territory. Some weeks I’d spend 4 evenings inside Eastville, Speedway, greyhounds & the Gas. With City & the Gas I had a double reason to dislike the red shite! They were also in the top division as well which made it worse.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Same here Sludge, 3 years at Bristol Poly, 77-80 Easton, Ashley Down & Bishopston, all Gas territory. Some weeks I’d spend 4 evenings inside Eastville, Speedway, greyhounds & the Gas. With City & the Gas I had a double reason to dislike the red shite! They were also in the top division as well which made it worse.

its called the University Of The West Of England now

Its gone all posh

[Des Parrot]

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its called the University Of The West Of England now

Its gone all posh

3 of my lads have gone to Uni and each of the 3 were ex Polys. In my opinion losing the Polys was wrong and undermines the validity of Universities. Oxford Brookes University, stop it, Oxford Polytechnic

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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3 of my lads have gone to Uni and each of the 3 were ex Polys. In my opinion losing the Polys was wrong and undermines the validity of Universities. Oxford Brookes University, stop it, Oxford Polytechnic

it is

I did a post grad housing policy course at Oxford polytechnic .......which is shit by the way .....even back then it was full of wannabees saying they are studying at Oxford

I think apart from the cowley road , Oxford is crap for students

Pubs are expensive , very poor nightlife not really that much to do

[blue matt]

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its called the University Of The West Of England now

Its gone all posh

To be fair to UWE ( at least the Frenchay site ) they have spent ALOT of money on the place, accommodation is decent
The sports Dept is crap though