Gin ladies, we NEED this!

It was. Much better than the tourist spectacle it is now.
Union street even dodgier if you were a stoodent!

 

well, i was knocking around plymouth from '88 (some friends were already there) and i went to uni in '90. i was part of the arts branch that got sent to exeter/exmouth.

 

HA! my b/f lived in mutley. he was on the oceanography course. hence why i was knocking about in plymouth and ending up going to uni there. not the best way to decide on uni place but i had a ball anyway!

used to drink in the JSV too?

and did you see the Damned play at a dodgy club on union street?

 

there was a place with a mini on the roof??? i suspect too much of my time there was spent drinking

i can'y remember the street names at all - tbh, can't even remember his flatmates names but i vaguely recall one was called jon or chris vickers. his name was (probably still is!) Matt Roberts.

I only remember the union bar (bloody massive!), James Street Vault (i think b/f lived close to in his second year) and union street feeling v scared. though exeter and exmouth were no better as they used to let 'em out of lympstone on a regular basis

can't believe you were there too!

 

ooh, the mini place sounds vaguely familiar... not sure i could find jsv now, went to plymouth last year for a day but just went around the hoe and barbican. i preferred it before i became touristy and you could get a fishing smock for a few quid from one of the old marine shops
when i got to exmouth campus i worked in the union, best way to earn money and get *******ed for free!

 

no! nobody told me about them! went on a few booze cruises and on a drinking bus - whatever that was :/

 

i went on an open top booze bus dressed in haloween gear - am sure it was an organised thing and not just me *******ed up on the top deck - who knows, either could be viable.

think i used to go to the sailing club too - before it all became poshed up. the green foamy fountain was always good for a giggle in first term. exmouth/exeter campuses were a bit quieter but getting free use of all the water sports kit was a bonus.
i got a call about 10 years ago asking alumni why they chose the uni "because i could see the beach and the sea from campus" was my answer. not sure it was the one they were looking for!

 

did you play rugby for uni team? only ask cos i shared a flat in exmouth with one of the coaches (and the uni team football manager - it was GREAT in our flat! ) and after meeting you i thought you reminded me of him a lot.

 

we used to hitch into cornwall to set up camp and 'revise' most reading weeks. wouldn't mind that life back now, no mortgage, no responsibilities ... but couldn't have afforded a camper then :/
*pours more gin*

 

It's still a beaten up old shed!

 

tried to get into Exeter , after a bit of a wild summer did not have enought work for my portfolio, so bunged in some reworked work of my fathers ......got turned down , he was right miffed, when I told him , some at me but majorly at being turned down for Exeter , he went was a RA lol !

 

And who said romance is dead??