The Raleigh Chopper was designed and manufactured in Nottingham in the 1970s..... please log in to view this image Brings back memories of pulling "wheelies" and putting football cards in the spokes to make it sound like a motorbike!....Ah, happy days.
William Booth who founded the Salvation Army, was born in Nottingham. The late actor Richard Beckinsale (of Porridge & Rising Damp fame) was also born there.
My parents wouldn't let me have one as they were 'too dangerous'. It's amazing what crap you're expected to believe as a youngster. ......and Asking a friend if you could have a ride on his chopper was such an innocent request in those days
Me and some of the lads once went to Nottingham even though the game at Notts County had been called off. We did not go by train and went incognito in a big blue transit van which we had already hired, parked up in the West End of London had Friday night on the town clubbing it, ending up in an illegal drinking den full of Millwall in the early hours, then on to Nottingham in the morning, condensation was dripping down the inside of the van as there were eight of us in it. Went to the ground left our calling cards and then went on to the Old Jerusalem pub for some pints of Old Roger. we all bought jackets as well in the Nottingham market to go out on the town Saturday night and having a right knees up, before comeing home on Sunday. Great days.................not sure if this on topic for the thread but...........its sort of about Nottingham!
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Alan Sillitoe the writer was born in Nottingham 4th March 1929. He wrote books like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which was about the rebellion of a borstal boy who could run and his first book, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was about a young lad faced with inevitable end of his youthful philandering. Your not related SB are you ?
They are the only Football Club in England who have asterisks in their name.... apart from ******* Pompey!
That's the beauty of asterisks. They can mean whatever you want! "Magical" would be a very useful attribute at Fratton, at the moment.
Scunthorpe. Old Norse, Escumetorp. Skuma's home and I think, a better name then the unfortunate one, the town has now. So nearby Cleethorpes must be the home(s) of a Viking called Clee, or something similar. Yet again, it's an area that owes it's existence to mining, so let's not go spelunking again. I always find it sad, when a team relocates to a new stadium. I can't think of one instance where the new location is more interesting than the old. Scunthorpe's former home, the Old Showground was the first to have a cantilevered stand and to the club's credit they did try to move it to the new ground but it proved impossible. Scunthorpe's record attendance of 23,935 was set at the Old Showground on 30 January 1954 for an FA Cup 4th round tie against, guess who? Portsmouth! It's a bloody supermarket now! I can imagine how the fans might have felt, as the wanton destruction of the lovely cricket ground in Hastings, to be replaced by a shopping centre is one of my most melancholic sporting memories.
Are you including Saints new home within that comment, meowth ? If so, watch out, as LordDuckHunter will complain bitterly - that ruins his comments re. attendances, and if he gets miserable, his wife will moan at him even more.........
I've ben searching high and low on t'interweb for some-thing interesting to add, but can only reach the conclusion that there is nothing interesting to say about Scunthorpe. Hey ho, roll on Yeovil, in Zummerzet!
