o/t Rotherham's hardest man ?

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

Let's not be ***ist either as Rotherham has had plenty of very hard ladies. In my day Lorraine and Doreen Nixon ruled the Far Lane area of East Dene. They were absolute terrors and specialised in forcing lads to hand over their conkers and marbles. I still meet Millers who turn pale at the memories and several reckon it blighted their relations with women for life. I've never been able to play a game of conkers since.

So " Lor@ and Dorra " had you by the balls monty ?

Conkers and marbles....happy days...

[rileyev.the.third]

Anthony Arkwright sounds like a lovely man, Not!
Anthony Arkwright https://g.co/kgs/RD3t11

Probably had some kind of syndrome no doubt!!!!

Of course he could have just been a really nasty horrible f@cker. Certainly overreacted to getting the sack, that's for sure.

[CAMiller]

Colburn deserved all he got, so did Anthony.
Second one served his 20yrs and he’s been out quite some time.

Didn't realise it was that long ago Casper but can't find anything on the internet about it so I guess it was before online reporting became the norm. I was friends with his brother Dino growing up.

Considering what he did it's a bit creepy to remember that Colburn once saved me from a beating. He was a Blade and we were playing them in a Yorkshire Cup pre-season game at Millmoor, mid 70s I'd guess. Game was petering out, late in the 2nd half when a bunch of Sheff Utd skinheads came marauding on the Tivoli. He was amongst them and as the crowd was pretty thin me and a mate were isolated in a corner as everone scattered. Just about the fear the worst, he looked at me and said to his mates 'leave them, they are Blades' and they moved on. Phew!

[great_fire]

Probably had some kind of syndrome no doubt!!!!

Of course he could have just been a really nasty horrible f@cker. Certainly overreacted to getting the sack, that's for sure.

That Marcus lad in the wheelchair used to hand out at the youth club they had at Wath Comp back then.

[cocopops61]

That Marcus lad in the wheelchair used to hand out at the youth club they had at Wath Comp back then.

I think the OP is after town brawlers not RUFC hard men, sickly. I can only comment on the sixties. Back then not appropriate to talk of "Rotherham" as hard nuts tended to stick to their own patches as they were loathe to spend beer money on bus fares. Two I remember well were Canklow Wayne (don't know his surname) a bruiser with the Ritson gang in Canklow and Father Barry Molloy, RC priest at St Mary's on Valley Road who would flag down cars on Saturday nights and beat up the occupants if they were Protestant. Great days.

This can't be true about the RC priest surely?

The hardest man that I knew lived about two miles away from me in Nottingham,he is called Colin Gunn and he's seriously nasty,he's doing life right now for the murder of a couple near Skegness,I was in a pub one Friday night and he walked in with a few a mates and the whole pub emptied,went from packed when I went to the toilet to completely empty when I walked out of it

[sota]

I think hard is being confused with nuts. Speaking of nuts, my old karate instructor at Temperance Hall (Ray Roberts) could hold his nuts up inside himself and would invite anyone to kick him in them lol

Anyone remember George who taught Lau Gar Kung Foo at the YMCA? He was a master in the art and was a friend of mine. Powerful guy who could do the sideways splits and had a kick like a mule. He sadly died at just 40 years old.

Freddie the paratrooper in the County Borough? Always wore his red beret. Lovely fella as hard as nails.

Hard men, but good people.

[monty_rhodes]

So " Lor@ and Dorra " had you by the balls monty ?

Conkers and marbles....happy days...

Many times, Casper. If only I'd been able to hide my nuts like sota's karate mate. If you knew East Dene in the sixties you must have encountered Sally "Headbut" Armitage? Hard as nails. Married an old school chum of mine, Pete Shanks. It seemed a match made in Heaven but it didn't work out and things sadly went down the pan.

[sota]

Wilkinsons on Valley Road? Seven**** of 'em, I think. Tony was the cock of Rotherham at one point I believe?

[monty_rhodes]

Wilkinsons on Valley Road? Seven**** of 'em, I think. Tony was the cock of Rotherham at one point I believe?

I went to school with the Wilkinsons at St Mary's, Valley Road. Always had patches of that purple Gentian Violet they used to treat skin diseases or something back then. Tony and his brother once jumped me and a bloke called Tommy Uttley in the Big Woods but let us go. They also pinched two pennies off me once at Rotherham fair. Small world, sota.

[sota]

It is indeed Monty. It's obvious that you know who I am. i hope they are still in the same condition as me, but I doubt it.