Felixstowe

Daniel Baker caught up with Cambridge City skipper Jadon Randall.

Just to have a little bit of a debrief about what went on yesterday at Felixstowe and a little bit of a look ahead.

So Jadon, a two-all draw in the end against Felixstowe and Walton.

2-0 up and then pegged back to 2-2.

A frustrating afternoon perhaps?

Uh,

With my work experience, I was in a transport office down Felixstowe and it was a good family friend who got me the place there for work because I got let down by the other place, blah, blah, blah.

And I was always looking out the window watching trucks go past up and down the road, Walton Avenue.

And he kept saying to me, he's like, when your teacher comes to assess you, you'll be staring out that window, won't you? And he was right.

Ghostly Benedictine monks are also to wander the Abbey grounds.

In Langard Fort, the historic fort in Felixstowe, which is said to have several supernatural residents, including a Victorian artilleryman, reportedly spotted in its gift shop.

Children have also claimed to see an old coach and horses travelling towards the ditch where the Fort Strawbridge once stood.

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk's famous Anglo-Saxon burial ground, has stories of ghostly soldiers appearing around its ancient mounds.

Certainly don't enjoy playing in the wind.

Memories of playing at the Grove in Felixstowe are...

Could barely stand up due to the wind.

So, yeah, I'll stop short of saying football in a windstorm, but football in a rainstorm, I do enjoy.

Harwich seafront on Sundays brings back terrible memories.

Yeah.

I guess that's probably even worse than the grove at Felixstowe.

Felixstowe, yeah.

Yes, I mean, Britain has a plethora of haunted beaches, not least Dunwich Beach, which it's possible James used as the inspiration for O Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad.

Though the fictional Burnstow has also been compared to the real Felixstow in Suffolk.

We've talked about the legend of the sunken bells of the lost city of Dunwich any number of times, including doing a whole Patreon-exclusive episode ages ago.

It's one of our first ones, wasn't it?

We're going to get to that, but Ben, where did it start for you? Where are you originally from?

So I was born in a town called Ipswich in the United Kingdom, but grew up in a town called Felixstowe, which is on the East Coast.

Mainly, I think I was born in Ipswich because Felixstowe couldn't deliver birth at the time.

This was early 1980s.

Felixstowe historically was a town, a big seaside town for Victorian times.

You know, you'd go on holiday when domestic holidays were a thing.

Now it's primarily one of the largest shipping kind of ports in the UK.

Joined a couple of those channels on a server, a couple of different servers, ended up talking to a few different folks and it turned out there was a guy called Ben White who was, I think he was running a network engineer on a network engineer for a company called KeyConnect.

You'll thank me later.

first question i've got that came out of my research which i just want to get you find out if this if this happened and how it happened is your first major shipment you had an issue with this apparently i've got notes saying that back in felixstowe you had an issue with the stock and crucially you didn't have insurance now in the early stages of business that sounds like the sort of thing that could tip you over the edge so what happened and how did you deal with it to expand on that for us

Yeah, so our first shipment from China, it came into the port of Felixstowe.

So me and Ashley, we'd hired a big looting van to go down and collect it all.

And when we turned up, the actual kind of the banksman there said, oh, sorry, I've got a bit of a problem for you.

So very much a international effort.

We see Maersk has announced a pink corridor, as they call it, between Felixstowe and Charleston.

So everybody is working on this internationally.

We're not doing it alone.