Plymouth & Plymouth Uni help...

Nix · 28 May 2006 at 22:23

Serj said:
Ahhh classic, i had a burger of some description from Jake's when i was down visiting a mate who goes to Plymouth Uni. I was quite drunk but i think it was called a New Yorker or something like that.....

New Yorko

Burger, chips and cheese in a baquette I do believe isn't it?

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2006 at 22:31

Nix said:
Right, I just had this e-mail come through. For those of you who are interested, here is the current Plymouth campus and the building work currently underway and being planned.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/in_the_nix/PlymouthCampus06.jpg

There is a lot going on, but it can only really ever be a good thing

Whoa, are they actually demolishing the ENTIRE student union building?

Last Friday then will be the last time I ever set foot in that building :eek:

Nix · 28 May 2006 at 22:34

[TW]Fox said:
Whoa, are they actually demolishing the ENTIRE student union building?

Last Friday then will be the last time I ever set foot in that building

I was working then! Nah, they're not demolishing the place, I think they're just expanding it. They're knocking down some walls inside I think and all those blue walls where they've closed off the top garden I think they're expanding too. I'm really not sure what's happening though mate.

Do you think they're demolishing Mary Newman?

Dolph · 28 May 2006 at 22:45

Nix said:
I was working then! Nah, they're not demolishing the place, I think they're just expanding it. They're knocking down some walls inside I think and all those blue walls where they've closed off the top garden I think they're expanding too. I'm really not sure what's happening though mate.

Do you think they're demolishing Mary Newman?

You can live in hope, Mary Newman was a dump when I was at uni

Raymond Lin · 28 May 2006 at 22:57

Dolph said:
You can live in hope, Mary Newman was a dump when I was at uni

You think that was bad, i was in Devonport Halls !

Dolph · 28 May 2006 at 23:05

Raymond Lin said:
You think that was bad, i was in Devonport Halls !

Which have now been converted into 'luxury' apartments and sold for silly amounts of money...

The mind boggles at the thought.

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2006 at 23:10

Nix said:
I was working then!

Lucky you! Can't remember it *ever* being that hot in there.. :/ The queue for the bar was pretty damn huge as well. Well queue/riot/bundle..

Nah, they're not demolishing the place, I think they're just expanding it. They're knocking down some walls inside I think and all those blue walls where they've closed off the top garden I think they're expanding too. I'm really not sure what's happening though mate.

I don't think many people do

Do you think they're demolishing Mary Newman?

I've no idea

Wish they'd build a student carpark..

Nix · 28 May 2006 at 23:27

[TW]Fox said:
Lucky you! Can't remember it *ever* being that hot in there.. :/ The queue for the bar was pretty damn huge as well. Well queue/riot/bundle..

Tell me about it, it was very uncomfortable. The air conditioning next to the bar wasn't working either. I was giving preference to anyone I knew. My flatmates took advantage of that lol.

At the end of the night when everyone was leaving, I was collecting empty bottles and for some reason, I still don't know why but some drunk decided to try and push me over as he was leaving. The funny thing was he was the one that lost his balance, not me and when I called him a few names he ran off. It's pathetic when people can't take their drink.
Perks of the job eh?

Dolph said:
Which have now been converted into 'luxury' apartments and sold for silly amounts of money...

The mind boggles at the thought.

Are they those swank looking buildings the otherside of the Barbican?

Dolph · 28 May 2006 at 23:35

Nix said:
Are they those swank looking buildings the otherside of the Barbican?

You'd be so lucky...

Devonport halls of residence was down towards the navel dockyard, about 20 -30 mins from the Uni, in not too nice an area of the city.

*is trying to remember what they are now calling the building so he can search for it...*

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2006 at 23:39

Nix said:
Tell me about it, it was very uncomfortable. The air conditioning next to the bar wasn't working either. I was giving preference to anyone I knew. My flatmates took advantage of that lol.

Yea knowing somebody behind the bar was quite useful

Nix · 1 Jun 2006 at 18:46

Well I heard last night off people I work with that the union is now going to be more like a pub, closing at 11pm each night for example. The union has apparantly bought out Pilgrimage and will use that as its night-club on fridays etc in the future. I'm assuming if the union has bought out the night-club, then they're going to furnish it better etc which I think can only be a good thing.

Were you at the leavers ball last night Fox? Just out of curiosity.

Raymond Lin · 1 Jun 2006 at 18:56

Dolph said:
Which have now been converted into 'luxury' apartments and sold for silly amounts of money...

The mind boggles at the thought.

Nooooo....how ? The access was 1 stairs with a tiny lift. Windows were crap, and basically just a corridors with rooms on either side.

Raymond Lin · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:08

Dolph said:
You'd be so lucky...

Devonport halls of residence was down towards the navel dockyard, about 20 -30 mins from the Uni, in not too nice an area of the city.

*is trying to remember what they are now calling the building so he can search for it...*

Here's my own map,

D is Devonport Halls
1 = My 2nd year house
2 = 3rd Year house
Ba = Barbican

[TW]Fox · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:10

Old view, the roundabout at the bottom of North Hill has gone now.

And a great deal of the Campus is near the Halls - Robbins lecture theatres and Cookworthy building.

Raymond Lin · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:12

Its gone? thats how you get to the uni through under the roundabout, with mandatory getting ask for change by at least 3 drunks.

VeNT · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:13

the bit thats got "B3214" is mutly, nice area for students, most of my m8s had digs there last 2 years, 1st on hill park cresent (ends by that big brown bit)
2nd on the other side of the brown bit.

[TW]Fox · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:15

Raymond Lin said:
Its gone? thats how you get to the uni through under the roundabout, with mandatory getting ask for change by at least 3 drunks.

Not anymore you don't - the roundabout has gone, the road goes around now with a traffic light controlled junction, the other side is a huge new shopping complex which opens in October.

Access to town now is via pedestrian crossings on the road.

Nix · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:23

VeNT said:
the bit thats got "B3214" is mutly, nice area for students, most of my m8s had digs there last 2 years, 1st on hill park cresent (ends by that big brown bit)
2nd on the other side of the brown bit.

I was around a mates yesterday up in Lipson. Although it took me about 30 odd minutes to stagger back to my flat, it's not a bad little area really.

Matt · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:32

As you can see, i've lived in quite a few different places over the last few years ! Typically the closest house i had to uni was when i was doing my placement year

Raymond Lin · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:36

Matt said:
As you can see, i've lived in quite a few different places over the last few years ! Typically the closest house i had to uni was when i was doing my placement year

You from ledbury ? I come from Hereford ! lol