The Best Things in Leiston, Suffolk*

If you're around, be sure to check these things out

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• The bands that came out of Leiston in the early/mid 80's. The S men, Straitjacket, Love Lies Bleeding, Rue de la Mort, The Push, Third Stone, Andrew Grout with his ranting. So much talent and energy then constuction of Sizewell B killed it. What was Valda's band called?
• The spooky view of the golf ball dome of Sizewell B
• Summerhill school rocks!!
• the pubs!!!!! gotta love a friday night down the white followed bvy a kebab (Adam knows what i mean)
• the new skatepark and the awsome talent of billy and cheese
• Rue De La Mort and The S-Men, the best bands to come out of Leiston. Where are they now?
• The fact that when the nuclear power station blows up, Leiston will be the first to suffer the full force
• Getting away!
• The health food shop. The church on the Saxmundham road --in Pevsner, check out the wooden ceiling.
• The dank smell of depression death and hatred!
• Friday and Saturday nights, aka fight night
• The History
• Summerhill School Leisure Centre
• social clubs and sports available.
• Leisure centre and Simply Delicious Cafe.
• Aldeburgh Carnival, now that rocks!
• the sports center.
• History, culture,
• Gigs at the Youth Club and Labour Hall in the 80's. These days it just boring bands playing to bored punters in the White Horse or Standard. Dodgy Sports Centre Discos on a saturday night, these days it's just the Black Horse playing old ska songs zzzzzzzzzzzzz. St Margarets playing in the Woodbridge pool league on a monday night, maybe still going but does Tabs still provide beetroot sandwiches? Friday night in the Engineers, young hearts dreaming - usually of where to go outside Leiston on the saturday night.
• sportwise almost enough to keep even me happy/ football teams /5 a side leagues /darts teams /snooker teams/pool teams/shooting club /swimming pool/good sport centre,squash badminton tennis gym
• Now Im not a sad revolting old man, but I must admit the long shop has a lot to offer, a lot of history surrounds leiston, the garret works and the steam revolution.
• Leiston Children's Centre! Leiston Gala !

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Last updated: 2009-04-06