re: Famous people from Derby
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Originally Posted by redhugh
Hurt was born in Chesterfield I believe! However since the of our club is Derby COUNTY I think we can accept anyone from the county as being relevant to the answer. That said Swale's list does seem to iclude a load of people who I had never heard of before googling them. maybe I am out of touch with reality (shows).
If we are accepting the county as fair game, then we can add Tim Brooke-Taylor. Thomas Cooke to me seems more famous than most of the semi-celebrities on your list Swale?
More to the point, how many famous people were born in the Forest of Nottingham,!
Robin Hood,friar tuck,little john,will scarlett,maid marion,sheriff of nottingham.....XD [/quote] Cyril the squirell..
re: Famous people from Derby
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Originally Posted by roger_ramjet
Hurt was born in Chesterfield I believe! However since the of our club is Derby COUNTY I think we can accept anyone from the county as being relevant to the answer. That said Swale's list does seem to iclude a load of people who I had never heard of before googling them. maybe I am out of touch with reality (shows).
If we are accepting the county as fair game, then we can add Tim Brooke-Taylor. Thomas Cooke to me seems more famous than most of the semi-celebrities on your list Swale?
More to the point, how many famous people were born in the Forest of Nottingham,!
I would have thought that since Derbyshire has been voted as one of the beautiful counties in England but possesses the worst county town I would ask if those who you mention will accept you. :)
re: Famous people from Derby
Quote:
Originally Posted by redhugh
Hurt was born in Chesterfield I believe! However since the of our club is Derby COUNTY I think we can accept anyone from the county as being relevant to the answer. That said Swale's list does seem to iclude a load of people who I had never heard of before googling them. maybe I am out of touch with reality (shows).
If we are accepting the county as fair game, then we can add Tim Brooke-Taylor. Thomas Cooke to me seems more famous than most of the semi-celebrities on your list Swale?
More to the point, how many famous people were born in the Forest of Nottingham,!
Robin Hood,friar tuck,little john,will scarlett,maid marion,sheriff of nottingham.....XD [/quote]
To which should be added Nell Gwynn, Ned Ludd, Albert Ball, William Booth, Jesse Boot, Alan Sillitoe, Su Pollard, Vicky McClure, Jayne Torville , Christopher Dean, Carl Froch, Lee Westwood, Kenneth Clarke, Paul
re: Famous people from Derby
These were all born in the Forest????? As a point of education, what is Bendigo aside from a town in Victoria?
re: Famous people from Derby
What about Gary Lineker, Willie Thorne, and Mark Selby.... they are all from Leicester but that qualifies as Direby & Notts doesnt it ;D
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Florence Nightingale and Jason Stathem both Derbyshire born and bred
Simon Groom is a regular visitor at the ipro too and a Dethick lad
re: Famous people from Derby
So famous folk alrund then
re: Famous people from Derby
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Originally Posted by roger_ramjet
Hurt was born in Chesterfield I believe! However since the of our club is Derby COUNTY I think we can accept anyone from the county as being relevant to the answer. That said Swale's list does seem to iclude a load of people who I had never heard of before googling them. maybe I am out of touch with reality (shows).
If we are accepting the county as fair game, then we can add Tim Brooke-Taylor. Thomas Cooke to me seems more famous than most of the semi-celebrities on your list Swale?
More to the point, how many famous people were born in the Forest of Nottingham,!
Actually all are people who have done well in their professions, none became famous through reality TV and not sure celebrity and famous are necessarily the same thing, Hurt was born in Shirebrook actually but lived in Derby
re: Famous people from Derby
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Originally Posted by roger_ramjet
These were all born in the Forest????? As a point of education, what is Bendigo aside from a town in Victoria?
Bendigo in Australia isd after the famous Nottingham prizefighter William "Bendigo" Thompson. There also exists today in Nottingham a famous landmark called Bendigo's Ring which is comprised of a ring of trees on top of a hill.:)
re: Famous people from Derby
I've just come across this poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You don't know of Bendigo ?
Well that knocks me out!
Who's your board school teacher?
What's he's been about?
Chock a block with fairy tales
Full of useless cram
And never heard of Bendigo
The Pride of Nottingham
;D
