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• thinking of moving me and my 3 kids 2 felixstowe dont no anything about the place as im from derby is this a cool 2 place to live or not
• Heaven2earth is an exciting msuic project involving all the schools in the Felixstowe area for christmas 2005 The web site for this is http://heaven2earth.org It is being run by people from local churches
• Schools information A major project for autumn 2005 is heaven2earth, a music project engaging with all primary schools in the area, producing a CD, DVD and concerts at the Spa Pavilion. web site is heaven2earth.org
• as much as i hate to admit it i do have a soft spot for felixstowe, it can be a really nice place once all the tourists and coach loads of old people on thursdays leave, now live i a city, i have come to appreciate the saftey and commuity in felixstowe, but would never ever move back there!
• Kirton White Horse......few of us used to go their in our mid teens....crap beer, though fred didnt always remember to charge you for it! and who can forget Fred's Festive Feast of Fish?!
• Felixstowe - no other place like it in the world! After having moved 20 years ago from Felixstowe, and England - I long for the laziness. I long for the "you don't have to do anythingness". We never cared if we did not have "it", we never wanted it in the first place. Regrets - bring back the old Marks and Sparks, the Candy counter at Woolly's. I hate those stores that look like a box with glass windows. At least some of the originals are still there. Can't wait to visit again.
• wht does orwell school have such crap ties? and general crap school halls and gyms etc oh yes deben is so much better
• Does Clive Hudson allegedly still corrupt the local populace with his allegedly one man heroin trade? Come on, enough is enough.Allegedly. Or have the allegedly Friston allegedly Brothers allegedly taken over sapping the life and creativity out of the townsfolk? Allegedly, they all hang around The Walk in Walton, but this IS NOT FACT. Allegedly.But they do look like poisonous parasitic scumbags to me.Make up your own mind.If you still have one left.
• We need more for people who are 24 plus. No wonder we all turn out alchoholics..... nothing but pubs, clubs what about a social club or something!
• We need more for people who are 24 plus. No wonder we all turn out alchoholics..... nothing but pubs, clubs what about a social club or something!
• What a pity most of your contributers never knew Felixstowe BCS (Before Container Shipping). The Ritz and the Playhouse, Saturday slow-slow-quick-quick-slows at the Pier Pavillion, summer "shows" at the Spa, egg and chips and a cuppa for 1/10d at the Alex and numerous snogging spots (bonking being something one only fantasised about while holding a "Men Only" in the other hand). This is surely the stuff nostalgia is made of.
• schools project for autumn 2002 - www.4un2us.org.uk involving over 1000 Felixstowe children/youth
• Video Shops Blockbuster Video on Crescent Road - Usually guaranted to find an average range of vids, dvds and games, and if your lucky you can catch the staff fighting (ice-cream fights are a fave) or check out the geezer always behind the counter who looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Choices Video on Hamilton Road - A slender selection of vids but always guaranteed to find an old game for spectrum.
• Walking down on Hamilton road, a fruit shop where a guy used to sell his strawberries: "Get your lovely strawberries here, 2 pounds for a pound". Also walking on High Road West, the fire station, having a lovely black bike in the front garden with two baskets of flowers. I want to get one to put it on my garden in Panama. Being a foreigner, went to Booths and asked for alcohol, got a strange look and with no hesitation I was sent down to the nearest pub or off licence place not knowing that I meant surgical spirit!!!
• David Manning is awesome. He has moved with the times and built the trendy Forum amusement arcade. He is well respected in Felixstowe and his arcade stands out way above the rest of them. He should be very proud.
• Felixstowe began to go downhill when local council disappeared. Whichever body has been responsible for making decisions about direction the town takes over last 25 years has a lot to answer for. Building permissions, types of businesses attracted to the town, amount of money from docks taxes that gets plowed back into the place etc all need to be reflected upon. But let's not look back. The town has enormous potential and the part between Bent Hill and Cobbold Point still has it's charm. Rejuvination is required together with the right level of investment. Start by getting a multi-national hotel chain to build a five-star hotel near the beach, develop water sports, make Spa Pavilion into a top notch entertainment centre and then go from there.
• Excellent library,good selection of books, and computers for internet connection ,,,,,all free.
• In connection with the "Timed Run" to Martlesham, the 2min 56 sec time is out of the window. The new time is 2 min 27 sec (car) and 1 in 28 sec (motorbike)!!!
• Visit the Felixstowe Town Millennium Exhibition at the Deben High School in Garrison Lane 4th - 7th Aug.2000, 10.30am-4.30pm daily. Theme: Felixstowe Past,Present and Future. Something for everyone. arts/craft/models/working steam engines/enertainment/refreshments - lots to see. Almost one hundred contributors. Free entry. e mail me for more info.
• If you want to find out about the real and interesting Felixstowe ask a local historian. My e mail address is Doreen@felixstowe53.freeserve.co.uk
• GET PAID TO SURF THE WEB!!! MANY OF YOU FELIXSTOWE RESIDENTS OUT THERE WILL KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT THIS ,UNTIL NOW (YES I DO LIVE & WORK IN FELIXSTOWE)THE BIG COMPANY(S)HAVE DECIDED TO PAY PEOPLE TO SURF! WHY? BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER TO PAY YOU BETWEEN $1.00/£1.00 PER HOUR YOU ARE ONLINE THAN IT IS TO PAY SOME AD AGENCY $30,000,000 A YEAR.IT'S FREE IT'S FUN & YOU GET PAID TO SURF. FOR MORE INFO E-MAIL ME A14GAK@TOTALISE.CO.UK (MAKE FELIXSTOWE RICHER!!)
• Favourite place for sex: Lovers Hump in Langer Park, Under the Pier, In a beach hut, Languard common, cinema, coronation park (in the bushes), on the beach.
• Although most of the descriptions are fairly accurate, I can't say that I agree with the overall sentiment expressed about Felixstowe. I lived there for seven years (Cavendish Road). My local was the Felsto Arms. The favorite time of the year for my family was the winter. All of the daytrippers were gone and we'd have the beach, or should I say shingle, to ourselves. I have fond memories of my children bundled up for an arctic expedition throwing stones into the sea. My Mother-in-law and brother-in-law still live there running thier own business. Coco's is a dive, on that score you're correct. I only went there when the pubs shut and I didn't have any better sense (usually due to high alcohol intake). Felixstowe can be a wonderful place to raise a family. There's nothing like having five pubs within five minutes walk of your house. We now live in Ft. Worth, Texas were I have to put up with insufferable heat and humidity in the summer and having a concealed handgun is legal. If I win the lottery, we are buying the Martello Tower and moving back!
• May I suggest the below link for Felixstowe please.
• COUNTDOWN - an exciting project for the millenuim in Felixstowe Involving all local Infant, Primary & Junoir Schools, the project will produce a CD, CD-ROM, cassette, video and concets at the Spa pavillion The project is being run by people from local churches For more information, visit the site at http://www.btinternet.com/~rayners/countdown/
• Felixstowe the place that everyone talks about but never admits to going to, a quiet resort for the elderly and infirm, I've lived here for 19 years and can honestly say it'as a place you can still leave your back door open in. You might get a visitor, if you're lucky. Its quiet and peaceful what more could I ask for? It hasn't alot, but whatit has is enough, anymore and it wouldn't be good old Felixstowe! PS. My lad likes the clubs and pubs!
• Felixstowe isn't a bad place to live but you always get the feeling that anywhere else would be better. The beach doesn't have huge amounts of sand, but at least we've got ice-creams. The High Street isn't as dull as in some towns but if you want to buy anything decent you have to go to Ipswich. The cinema is cheap and has two screens but the films take a while to get here, i.e. two months after the rest of England's already seen it!! And the football team's not much to write home about either.
• Indeed, the Solar car park is the high spot of Felixstowe. The only other WWW reference to Felixstowe is in the Texas Homecare list of shops. Texas Homecare is also situated in the Solar car park in Felixstowe. It has a pier, a dock and lots of old people some of whom live there and lots who just pop down for the day (generally Tuesdays and Thursdays). DON'T GO THERE. IT SUCKS!
• There's not much in Felixstowe - even the convent is for OAP nuns. Need I say more? The highlight of a Saturday are the jumble sales in St. Andrews Church Hall.
• The Grove, the little wood, is great for shagging in. As was the now demolished barn at Felixstowe Ferry along the flood wall.
  Felixstowe happens to be the largest container port in the uk, and second only to Rotterdam in Europe, thus making it one of the largest in the world.
  Charlie Mannings entertainments... The dog's bollocks.
  The huge amounts of shell suits and Shazzers... Most distressing!
  The Cavendish Community Church next to Safeways is excellent.
  Felixstowe's Coolege Girls School will be sadly missed.
  Nothing much else to say, which kind of sums up the place doesn't it?!
• I totally agree that Charlie Mannings is the DB's - many a 10p has disappeared in there. Tesco's is a top establishment (I worked there for two years so I should know). I agree with what everyone else says about it being a dump, but recent visits (I now live in London) have made me feel rather nostalgic about the old place. Hence I'm a sad bastard.
• I hope the following suggestion is not considered to silly, but my family and friends have a little challenge. The backroad between Martlesham, through Brightwell, past Bucklesham, and onto the A14 (nee A45) near the Levington turn off, is great for timed runs - NOT races, but against the clock. We would like to hear of peoples times for this.. a 2 minutes 56 seconds is beatable, but then my car is only a 1 litre and so if a mountain cyclist can't beat that then I am most puzzled.
• The Grove was mentioned as a great shagging location. Well, something is amiss here since underneath the Pier arcade was not included in descriptions of places to bonk. Many of us played 'hide the sausage' there.
• I quite agree with the comments about Felixstowe, which I usually describe to people (the lucky ones, who haven't been there) as the "Arm-pit of Suffolk". I consider Suffolk to be one of the most beautiful places in Britain, and being born in Felixstowe, I suppose I'm biased. Its a shame that Felixstowe can't be towed out into the North Sea and scuttled! Mercifully, I haven't lived there since 1974, and my last visit was in 1991 (for old-times'-sake!)
• Some of the comments made by certain idiots are completely unfair- if the shopping is as bad as some people say, why do a hell of a lot of Ipswich people do their shopping in Felixstowe?
  It is one of the sunniest resorts in the UK and has one of the lowest rainfall figures - it faces south and has most of the amenities that go with a small seaside resort.
  The seafront is clean and the gardens are,in the main, kept in good order(not so good since Suffolk Coastal took over from Felixstowe UDC-they reside in palatial offices in the village of Woodbridge and are far too distant to be that interested in our fine town probably one of the most important in the UK)
  As for the person who thinks very little of the town except that the Grove is useful for sexual pursuits - he wants to think himself bloody lucky- not many larger towns afford such comfortable amenities for such pursuits.
  We have a huge quantity of food and food takeaway shops on the seafront - probably too many but we also have something of a rare breed - A Stamp Shop - on the seafront right opposite the Pier (Philately that is) - there are very few of those around these days.
  I don't live in Felixstowe (3 miles away) but I think it is the next thing to the Garden of Eden - If there ever was such a place!

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