Mexborough...

[BobG]

For a little place Mexborough sure has borne a lot of well known people. Population 15000 yet look at this list:

Keith Barron - actorBrian Blessed - actorMike Hawthorn  - world champion motor bike racingTed Hughes - poet laureatePeter Kitchen - footballGeoff Salmons - footballDennis Priestley - world darts championKaz Walker - bloody stupendous footballer

There are others I've learned, but not as widely known

BobG

[BobG]

Later: why won't this thing show line spaces??? I've tried and retried but it always goes back to this shit layout.

BobG

[knockers]

Graham Oliver from Saxon

[BillyStubbsTears]

Ian Banks  - footballer
Alan Sunderland - Classic lip-read obscenities at Wembley
Kev Eley - youngest ever Rotherham Utd player
Iron Hague - UK heavyweight boxing champion

Mind, if you were born in Mexborough, you do owt you could to succeed and get out.

[danumdon]

These types of areas will always produce hungry, motivated people.

When you come from some of the more deprived areas of the borough you need to have that extra 10% to enable you to kick on in life.

Its not incidental that quite a few good boxing prospects are now starting to come out of Doncaster Metropolitan borough area.

If you can't make it academically then athletically will do just fine!

[Mike_F]

I believe the youngest Rotherham player changed last week. My son's mate's brother (tenuous enough?), Harrison Duncan made his debut for them in the Papa John's trophy against Newcastle.

Just double-checked before hitting post and I stand corrected, he missed Eley's record by a couple of months.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I also stand corrected. Apparently Alan Sunderland was from Conisbrough, the f***ing b*****d

[BobG]

Saw him score a belter at the old Molineux once upon a time - in his pre Arsenal days too. But if he's from bloody Conisbrough, well, I'll just have to forget about it won't I...?

BobG
PS. Later. Thinking about that, I have a feeling Sammy Chung was manager of Wolves at the time

[Petche]

Sally Carman from Shameless and Coronation Street fame.