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Tigers at Layer Road 21:11 - Sep 23 with 69282 views

In a strange twist of events l found myself in conversation with a young lady who had attended Layer Road for a match against Hull City in our first season in The Championship. The 5-1 encounter.

We were attending a promo evening for a band called The Datsuns in North London in 2008.

During the evening she explained that she had been present at a party that made the national news due to the tragic death of someone by the name of Mark Blanco.

The incident occurred in December 2006.

This incident will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday night at 22.00 in an hour long documentary and several people known to me have made contributions.

It may be of interest to some.

I am very much hoping that the police will reinvestigate the death of Mark Blanco as a result of what will be included in the content.

I know that what l was told by this young lady 15 years ago has been instrumental in the making of this documentary.

Tigers at Layer Road on 20:47 - Feb 1 with 844 views

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Tigers at Layer Road on 20:28 - Feb 1 by SparkfilmsTV
I've only just heard about the terrible car accident in Magdalen Street early this morning in which four people were killed. The car hit what used to be Carter's second hand building and has caused huge damage. The vehicle was unrecognisable. It must have been travelling at very high speed.

Just spoke to someone who lives nearby and was woken in the early hours by what appeared to be an explosion....sounds as though the deceased are possibly teenagers.

I can't recall a town ( city? ) centre motor accident on the scale of this in Colchester.

Tigers at Layer Road on 12:09 - Feb 2 with 773 views

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I've just come back from the scene of the accident in Magdalen Street.

Local and National media are there. To the Eastern elevation of the building there is a fenced off area where the demolished parts of the building are piled almost 10 feet high. This includes the original support beams, pipes, gutters, bricks and roof tiles.

The impact was on the North West elevation and it appears that another property back towards the town centre was also struck.

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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:29 - Feb 5 with 570 views

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I have been working on some collage compositions utilising the tool kit and materials l purchased in auction here in Colchester that were part of Zacron's studio.

My intention initially was to sell on a lot of the work but as l delve further into Zacron"s mode of research and design l would like to produce some pieces 'In the manner of' or 'After Zacron'.

Some of his drawings that other bidders acquired have come up for sale online and the prices quoted are 100 times what was paid for some of the pieces at auction!

Tigers at Layer Road on 21:43 - Feb 5 with 545 views

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Back to the beginning of this thread that deals with the Mark Blanco case.

It's possible a film may be made about the life of Mark Blanco.

One of people who was present on the night Mark died is involved with this along with a former journalist of a national newspaper.

Tigers at Layer Road on 10:54 - Feb 7 with 478 views

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This might be of interest to music fans....as l understand it 'Only a Shadow' by Martin Newell of The Cleaners from Venus ( Wivenhoe based ) has hit in excess of 10 million listens on Spotify!

The song was written around 1982 so it took a while to grow on people.

Fully deserved Martin!

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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:34 - Feb 7 with 430 views

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Price tag on Swindon Town F.C. tonight is £12 million.

A bid of £6 million awaits.

Not sure what Colchester United may be valued at.

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Tigers at Layer Road on 16:06 - Feb 9 with 330 views

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Many thanks to new visitors to the 'Tigers' thread ...not sure how you arrived here but hope any time you spend scanning all this stuff is worthwhile.

One of my favourite finds was the notebook for taking food orders that l discovered on the pavement on North Hill.

Another one was the note pad from a cleaner at an establishment in North Station Road which is supposed to be some kind of hotel but has regular visits from Essex Police....and the ambulance service.

It was fun to share some of the text from those finds on here.

I pick things up off the ground that l discover on dog walks - some of them, like a pair of 3D glasses are used in collage work.

One of the most interesting finds a few years ago in Castle Park was a phone belonging to a drug dealer that l managed to get back to him after tracking his moves a few days later.

Another discovery involved possibly saving the life of an individual along with a fellow dog walker while we took instruction over the phone from paramedics.

He was drunk, had taken a lot of substances and having an epileptic fit.

Tigers at Layer Road on 18:29 - Feb 10 with 262 views

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ITV News Sport - Anglian division, amazing how they condensed down the highlights from Saturday's match against Walsall into about eight seconds, several seconds each for the Colchester goals and a view of what looks like a scene from Glastonbury in the monsoon season.

Unrelated to this is an announcement l once heard at Lords during a final when Essex were playing....'Would Peter Sensible return to his vehicle and turn the engine off'....and something from a newspaper around the time time ( at least 30 years ago ), 'Gavin Innocent found Guilty of theft'.....l think Gavin was of no fixed abode and wonder what became of him.

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Tigers at Layer Road on 11:48 - Feb 11 with 210 views

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Tigers at Layer Road on 18:29 - Feb 10 by SparkfilmsTV

I am speculating, but have you considered that “Peter Sensible” and “return to his car” might be code words alerting security staff to a type of incident and a specific location without alarming other spectators?

In modern times, the proliferation of personal radios or other alerts render this unnecessary. But in bygone days, coded words over the public address system were often employed to reach security, fire or other marshalls.

Tigers at Layer Road on 18:57 - Feb 11 with 170 views

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Tigers at Layer Road on 11:48 - Feb 11 by noah4x4

That might be so Phil....

It was a strange name which stuck with me.

And here is another.

I was pushing one of my daughters on a swing in the top park ( Castle Park ). She was about two years old so this must be around 1983.

There was a woman calling her son. His name was 'Marmaduke'. I thought poor little xxxx being called that and l turned around to see him running towards her.

He looked quite normal as it happened.

So maybe Marmaduke is around his early forties now but likely changed his name 'cause l haven't come across him again.

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Tigers at Layer Road on 19:06 - Feb 11 with 157 views

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I was in a rush today to pay by Bank Transfer for some vinyl records purchased in the mega sale of Bill Allerton's collection up at Omega Auctions in Scouseland.

I ran to Lloyds Bank in the High Street from Riverside Estate and took the dog ( who scares some folk ),

The Cashier said 'I don't think that's a guide dog is it' - l said, 'No, sorry, I've got builder's in and they are scared of him'.

Then l said, 'As it happens l've forgotten my card so will have to go back home'.

TBC

Tigers at Layer Road on 19:27 - Feb 11 with 137 views

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So about 20 minutes later l arrive back in Lloyds Bank.

I say to the Cashier....'I ran back home and left the dog as the builder's had finished for the day'.

She didn't say anything.

Then l said....'And l ran all the way back too....not bad for someone who was told by Doctors he would never run again'.

Then she said 'Where do you live?'

I said 'In the Cornish pasty shop next door'.

She thought that was funny and laughed quite a lot as it happens.

If my old friend Frank Carson was still with us l would have emailed that true scenario to him...think he would have liked that and could have told it much better than l.

Tigers at Layer Road on 21:34 - Feb 11 with 119 views

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This is not my story. I wish it was. It was conveyed to a musician way back in the early seventies.

A male, around mid twenties is hitching back to London from the Cheltenham area.

After a few minutes a black car stops with a female in a white dress - a wedding dress. She is distraught. Her make up is running and so is she - from a twenty minute marriage.

Very little is said on the trek back to the capitol.

They arrive back at a pad in West London, perhaps Ladbroke Grove and Mrs X stays the night.

When the substitute husband wakes up in the morning she is gone.

Peter Brown wrote a song about it but l can't recall the title. I think he set it in Scotland.

Peter Brown wrote lyrics for Cream in the late sixties among others.

Tigers at Layer Road on 18:34 - Feb 12 with 35 views

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I negotiated the circuit that resembles Milton Keynes en route to Colchester's ( or Stanway's ) Stanes Park Retail Outlet mid morning.

For a few moments driving into the complex l did sense a hint of a city on the outskirts of a town.

Did a hike around B&Q and actually found what l was looking for.

Next stop Aldi. My first venture into this store and managed the self service without any mishaps.

Dropped off the carrier bag of supplies in the car and spotted a Greggs.

Made my way towards it when l saw a horse.

Only it wasn't a horse.

But a very big dog.

Went close up to inspect him.

Fantastic animal.

Went into what l thought was Greggs but found myself in a deli - quite European.

Should have gone to Specsavers.

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