Newton Rigg College

Mc115reed

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Oh yeah [emoji106] my memory ain’t what it used to be?

Maybe blues nightclub shutting down, followed by toppers have been the nails in the coffin for it [emoji848]. It’s not going to draw students if there’s no nightlife nearby ?

Was heartbreaking times when blues closed down... what a club! Go out at 16, they’d put a X on your hand to say your under 18... go the toilets and wash it off and it was drink time! If nobody wanted too dance with you there was a line of mirrors down one wall so you could dance with yourself [emoji23][emoji23]
 

Katarina

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Mid Wales
Rugby world cup1991 and I was the the only Welshman on site when we got killed by Samoa. Fifty odd empty beer cans thrown at me in the common room☹
Ha ha i got presented o wooden spoon in one of the pubs in Penrith , i think the following year. Dark times for welsh rugby but lets now talk any more bout that haha.
Rhys Parry from mid wales was there in 91 . Quiet a few welsh there when i was at the college.
 
Ha ha i got presented o wooden spoon in one of the pubs in Penrith , i think the following year. Dark times for welsh rugby but lets now talk any more bout that haha.
Rhys Parry from mid wales was there in 91 . Quiet a few welsh there when i was at the college.
Several Welsh there but not that day!
 

Bill the Bass

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Cumbria
I was there 90/91. Dave Ross,Dave Surtees,Sean Beer aswell. John Jones was going all over the country doing courses for HSE and forestry commission a few years ago. He helped design the redrock handlers btw

Harry Martin, Howard Hartley and Chris Stabbles were all great chaps. Didn’t David Ross pass away 5 years or so ago?
 

Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
Was heartbreaking times when blues closed down... what a club! Go out at 16, they’d put a X on your hand to say your under 18... go the toilets and wash it off and it was drink time! If nobody wanted too dance with you there was a line of mirrors down one wall so you could dance with yourself [emoji23][emoji23]
Have the mirrors in nightclub in local town. I've walked into them several times! :ROFLMAO: :scratchhead:
 

Mc115reed

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Harry Martin, Howard Hartley and Chris Stabbles were all great chaps. Didn’t David Ross pass away 5 years or so ago?

Yeah about 4 years ago he passed away, think he was in a car accident... Christ he was a pain too have as a lecturer we used to play a game of count how many times he said yes after his sentences [emoji85]
 

Working from home

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Very sad/bad news indeed. Houghall Collage in Durham went through a bad patch but seems to be pulling around a bit now.
It all depends on the principal or person in charge.
In about 1996 Houghall invested in a brand new parlour, milk tank etc. Not long after that a new principal took over who happened to be a vegan!!! Not long after that there was no cows and no sheep and he also said no to County Durham YFC holding the annual Rally Day there too (unless they stumped up 700quid!).
Roll on to today the collage has new people in charge, has had lots of investment and had a good tidyup and welcomes the YFC movement with open arms!!!?
 

bankrupt

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EX17/20
In about 1996 Houghall invested in a brand new parlour, milk tank etc.
Exactly the same at Seale-Hayne.

At the time, it was the biggest milk tank in Western Europe, enough to allow for a doubling of the herd, every other day collection and a 50% contingency.

Postgraduates tasked with writing up a financial plan to put before the Governors for the survival of the college were afforded every facility short of interrogating the farm manager about the milk tank.

:oops: :oops:
 

bankrupt

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the wrong ones can destroy a long established college in a very short time
Yes, we found that the 1997 silage quality at Seale-Hayne had been hopelessly degraded because their contractor went off harvesting elsewhere for a week or so, having lost patience when the Seale-Hayne buckrake couldn't be welded up of a Friday evening because the farm manager and the fitter were both on 9-5 contracts.

In fact, a new one had been made available to them for first thing Saturday morning, but no decision could be taken by anybody there to fund it until 9.00am the next Monday.
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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