Wye College Video 1988

[Lowland1]

Wye that was for the clever ones the Thickoes ended up at Bangor then off to the colonies.

 

[nxy]

Wye that was for the clever ones the Thickoes ended up at Bangor then off to the colonies.

I'll take that as a compliment. Agricultural business Management 87-90. Carefree days turning student grants into brewery profits. I remember the beer in the union bar was 50p a pint, though I think it went up when Wye student Union was expelled from the University of London Union for reasons I forget. Tickled Trout was just for parental visits.

 

[Jerry]

Really wanted to go to Wye, got the grades etc, but they insisted on a pre uni placement year even though I grew up on a farm and had already worked on two neighbouring farms to get dairy and pig experience myself.

 

[Pan mixer]

I'll take that as a compliment. Agricultural business Management 87-90. Carefree days turning student grants into brewery profits. I remember the beer in the union bar was 50p a pint, though I think it went up when Wye student Union was expelled from the University of London Union for reasons I forget. Tickled Trout was just for parental visits.

Fremlins was 50p a pint in the Union in 82 too, not much inflation then?

Tickled Trout too pricey although we lived in 39 Bridge Street and it was very handy. It was a long crawl back to there from the Union Bar after getting into a drinking match one evening when friends said that 33 pints was a bit too much and that I had to leave some of the last one.

Don't drink more than a pint a month now to reduce lifetime averages.

 

[Lowland1]

Really wanted to go to Wye, got the grades etc, but they insisted on a pre uni placement year even though I grew up on a farm and had already worked on two neighbouring farms to get dairy and pig experience myself.

I'll take that as a compliment. Agricultural business Management 87-90. Carefree days turning student grants into brewery profits. I remember the beer in the union bar was 50p a pint, though I think it went up when Wye student Union was expelled from the University of London Union for reasons I forget. Tickled Trout was just for parental visits.

I went to Bangor because they’d take me. My children sneer but without going there I wouldn’t be where I am today. ( Trapped in foreign country living my life on an Internet forum)

 

[Cheesehead]

I went to Bangor because they’d take me. My children sneer but without going there I wouldn’t be where I am today. ( Trapped in foreign country living my life on an Internet forum)

Bangor is a dangerous thing, my Uncle went up there for his national service photographing/filming rockets as part of the Blue Streak missile program fell in love stayed got a job though until his late 70's managing the Wellfield Shopping Centre then going to photograph race cars at his former base when it became a race track.

 

[Lowland1]

Bangor is a dangerous thing, my Uncle went up there for his national service photographing/filming rockets as part of the Blue Streak missile program fell in love stayed got a job though until his late 70's managing the Wellfield Shopping Centre then going to photograph race cars at his former base when it became a race track.

I’ve never been back even though I really enjoyed it. It was a real change from Lincolnshire but you keep moving forward I reckon.

 

[nxy]

( Trapped in foreign country living my life on an Internet forum)

ditto

 

[bobk]

I went to the pub . brother went to Bangor and Wye , forgot more than he knows

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Sadly many of the great pubs no longer exist or are Gastro pubs like the Compasses.
The Timber Batts is now a private house.

Many familiar faces in the video but harder to remember the names.

 

[Cheesehead]

Sadly many of the great pubs no longer exist or are Gastro pubs like the Compasses.
The Timber Batts is now a private house.

Many familiar faces in the video but harder to remember the names.

I thought Timber Batts was still open but on Friday, Saturday (5:30 to 10) and Sunday noon till 6.

It was where my dad took mum for her birthday where she thought he was going to propose properly after asking her to keep hold of the ring as he was worried he would lose it. She was already excited to show it off but he didn't and it wasn't until he went to drop her off when her family were already asleep that he turned to her and remarked that he thought she would have been wearing the ring did he actually slip it on. What with the incidents leading up to the wedding, the one with the reception, the 2 on the honeymoon and the first year of married life I am surprised they made it to year 2 least of all over 50 years.

 

[Lowland1]

I went to the pub . brother went to Bangor and Wye , forgot more than he knows

Alzheimer's is a terrible thing.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

I thought Timber Batts was still open but on Friday, Saturday (5:30 to 10) and Sunday noon till 6.

It was where my dad took mum for her birthday where she thought he was going to propose properly after asking her to keep hold of the ring as he was worried he would lose it. She was already excited to show it off but he didn't and it wasn't until he went to drop her off when her family were already asleep that he turned to her and remarked that he thought she would have been wearing the ring did he actually slip it on. What with the incidents leading up to the wedding, the one with the reception, the 2 on the honeymoon and the first year of married life I am surprised they made it to year 2 least of all over 50 years.

You may well be right.
It was shut for a very long time during Covid and never thought it would reopen.

 

[delilah]

Yes, Timber Batts still open but a bit 'odd', one of those pubs that exists primarily for the landlords entertainment. Wife of Bath just gone on the market. Kings Head tenancy taken on by the chap who already has the New Fly. Anyone wants to buy me a pint, Sawyers micro pub on a Thursday .

 

[Magnum Man]

I had seen this before, but not for a while. A bit before my time ('94-'97). For any old Wye students out there, I've just taken over the editorship of the old students annual again, and am keen to hear from anyone happy to pen a few words about wheat they've been doing since leaving. It's a good opportunity to make contact with old friends. Message me here or at [email protected]

 

[Pan mixer]

I had seen this before, but not for a while. A bit before my time ('94-'97). For any old Wye students out there, I've just taken over the editorship of the old students annual again, and am keen to hear from anyone happy to pen a few words about wheat they've been doing since leaving. It's a good opportunity to make contact with old friends. Message me here or at [email protected]

Unknown to me until it came out I had my photo in last years twice.

 

[Magnum Man]

Unknown to me until it came out I had my photo in last years twice.

 

[Magnum Man]

I can get it in again if you want to pen a piece for me

 

[Pan mixer]

I can get it in again if you want to pen a piece for me

I thought that I had put an X in the box for no publicity.

 

[Enry]

Watched the video, and ended up googling - I had not realised it is no more… I was at Harper in the 80’s and I have to say, I saw Seale as our equals, Ciren as….well… but Wye had a certain standard and reputation that one could only admire. Very sad to see such an iconic institution allowed to be destroyed