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We visited Eye a few years ago. It appeared to be closed. We wondered if we had walked onto the set of a horror film about the end of the world.
Jo W | 11.03.20 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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Fourth photo, Eye Castle - the profile against the sky looks like a hairy man laying in bed with his head sticking out from under a duvet.
Still Anon | 11.03.20 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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Loike!
Jimmy | 11.03.20 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Only three 3-letter towns in England? What about Lye (Worcestershire), Rye (Sussex), Par (Cornwall) and Wem (Shropshire)?
dg writes: Only two of those are towns.
There are also numerous villages, and one city.
timbo | 11.03.20 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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Next time you're in Eye, check out the Bank Arts Centre. Of course Eye doesn't have an actual bank - in this region of Suffolk, going to the bank can take a 40 mile round trip. But the former bank has been turned into an arts centre, cafe and performance space. Nice that it hasn't been taken over by one of the big cafe chains.
dg writes: Eye has a Barclays Bank.
Tony Woolf | 11.03.20 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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I am probably the only one to wonder why it has two Co-ops. One is run by the Central England Co-operative Society, and the other by the East of England Co-operative Society.
Intriguing how it came to be that one Co-op opened up round the corner from another.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 11.03.20 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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But what is the third three letter town, if Rye is the second one?
Ken | 11.03.20 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Despite many of them using the same branding, Co-Ops are independent businesses, albeit all run on the same co-operative principles. The CECS and EECS are the third and fourth largest in the country, after "The" CoOp Group and the Midcounties CoOp. Due to mergers and acquisitions of other businesses (such as Somerfields) over time, their areas of operation often overlap.
timbo explains | 11.03.20 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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The 3rd is Wem.
Dave | 11.03.20 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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Wem, like Rye and Eye, has a Town Council. Both of them, along with Lye, but unlike Eye, have a "--- Town" football team.
timbo explains further | 11.03.20 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Cue eye jokes; ie the cottage in the first picture should be named Pink Eye!
Cornish Cockney | 11.03.20 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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I hope you've spotted the linguistic peculiarity in today's post.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.03.20 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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linguistic peculiarity ... every sentence has Eye or I in it
Caz | 11.03.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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Every sentence starts with I (Eye). This post read so odd that I had to stop reading halfway through and Google "Eye England" to see if this was a real town or if you were having some fun with us.
Bob | 11.03.20 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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Not just "Eye", but "Eye is".
It's like the old joke. Teacher: "Who can start a sentence with I?" Pupil: "I is...". Teacher: "No, I am...". Pupil: "Okay, I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
Ed | 11.03.20 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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Reminds me of this classic bit from Harry Hill: youtube.com/watch?v=bh3wZ8dFFAs
the wub | 11.03.20 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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I was trying to think of a funny quip on the basis of DG using the Two Eye Jack (of diamonds) as the website logo viz a viz his trip to Eye, but having a bit of writers block.
And I wonder which of the two CoOps is better (and comparison with "The" CoOp). I have a view based on shopping at an EECS CoOp elsewhere in Suffolk vs. "The" CoOp in London
MilesT | 11.03.20 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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"One is run by the Central England Co-operative Society, and the other by the East of England Co-operative Society."
Splitters!
Andrew Taylor | 11.03.20 - 2:09 p.m. | #
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Linguistic peculiarity indeed; made it pretty much unreadable.
David | 11.03.20 - 2:14 p.m. | #
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