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| Malcolm McDowell |
Yep! he was born at Four Gables Maternity Hospital in Horsforth!!!!!!
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Yep! he was born at Four Gables Maternity Hospital in Horsforth!!!!!! |
So was I!!!
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rangieowner
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| Si wrote: |
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Yep! he was born at Four Gables Maternity Hospital in Horsforth!!!!!! |
So was I!!!
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I was transfered there after being born at the LGI!!
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| Now then fellow Loiners... Peter O'toole, I was reliably informed by a former Yorkshire and England cricketer, was born in sunny Hunslet. Peter is a huge Yorkshire cricket fan and when the two met on a match day down at Lords (Peter apparently wearing a scruffyish Yorkshire top) talk quickly turned to God's own county, and Peter's early childhood growing up in Hunslet's filthy streets. I've been told that some of his biographers give his birth place as somewhere in Ireland and some give it as Leeds, but the story as it was told to me(albeit here'say) left the distinct impression he was born and brought up here. And even though he smokes his tabs through a fancy cigarette holder, he's still a true Leeds lad at heart. |
I remember someone saying that Peter O'Toole knew all the words to the Hunslet RL anthem "We've swept the seas before boys" I certainly don't any of them (title apart) I've only ever heard it sung once and that must be over forty years ago.
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Did anyone watch the documentary about Jake Thackray last night on BBC2?
Born in Pickering but schooled in Leeds and as someone has mentioned tought at intake. |
OMG! No! I didn't know it was on. I was a huge fan. I've just been listening to the Kirkstall Road Girl by him. Many of his songs were slightly risque. But his style and delivery were brilliant. Didn't he move to Cornwall or Devon? |
Monmouthshire in South Wales according to the doc. The last few years of his life seemed fairly inconclusive. He only died in 2002 but he had given up performing in the early 90s. He kept writing a column for the Yorkshire Post though - I wonder if they've been turned into a book? The YP should at least put them online if not.
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I dunno if anyone has already mentioned this but I have just serendipitously (accidentally?) discovered that Geoffrey Bayldon of Catweasel / The Crowman from Worzel Gummidge fame was also born in Leeds.
Also the Worzel Gummidge TV show was scripted by Leeds's own Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. I was a bit young for Catweasel but I remember the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge was a very sinister character, actually the whole concept of a show about a scarecrow that comes to life is a bit freaky!
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I dunno if anyone has already mentioned this but I have just serendipitously (accidentally?) discovered that Geoffrey Bayldon of Catweasel / The Crowman from Worzel Gummidge fame was also born in Leeds.
Also the Worzel Gummidge TV show was scripted by Leeds's own Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. I was a bit young for Catweasel but I remember the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge was a very sinister character, actually the whole concept of a show about a scarecrow that comes to life is a bit freaky! |
It was on when my kids were little and they never took to it. A scarecrow coming to life is a bit Royston Vaseyish I suppose. Or like the ventrioquists dummy coming to life in the spooky "Dead of Night" film
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Valerie Pitts (Lady Solti)--I went to the same school
Tom Wilkinson
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I dunno if anyone has already mentioned this but I have just serendipitously (accidentally?) discovered that Geoffrey Bayldon of Catweasel / The Crowman from Worzel Gummidge fame was also born in Leeds.
Also the Worzel Gummidge TV show was scripted by Leeds's own Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. I was a bit young for Catweasel but I remember the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge was a very sinister character, actually the whole concept of a show about a scarecrow that comes to life is a bit freaky! |
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_LdVbOlkMlU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ApCPpFNiiLY&feature=related
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Does anyone know which area Marco Pierre White grew up in. I can only find details of him being born and raised on a Leeds council estate?
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| Does anyone know which area Marco Pierre White grew up in. I can only find details of him being born and raised on a Leeds council estate? |
Wasn't it somewhere in Moortown? I'm fairly sure he went to Moor Allerton School.
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| Does anyone know which area Marco Pierre White grew up in. I can only find details of him being born and raised on a Leeds council estate? |
Wasn't it somewhere in Moortown? I'm fairly sure he went to Moor Allerton School. |
I think he was brought up on the Seacroft estate and his real name is Mark White.
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The Great George Best once described Paul Reaney as his most difficult opponent. Did Paul live in the Cross Green area in Leeds 9? Also there was Mick Hill, the world class javelin thrower, who represented his country and the City all over the world? Ralph Thoresby didn't throw the javelin but he was a famous Leeds Historian.
Although certainly not a loiner, the infamous Harold Shipman lived on Wetherby Road in Leeds for a short while during his studying at Leeds University! |
Paul Reaney was born in Fulham but he spent most of his early life in East End Park, not Cross Green. There is a distinction for us locals, since Cross Green is on'tother side o't tracks.
Paul lived on Ecclesburn Avenue. I remember when he had signed as a junior for Leeds United and he came onto the park in a spiffy track suit and showed us how he could keep a football in the air and spin it on his little finger.
He was a very quick player, some people said he was almost a sprint champion with his pace.
Nice lad too, very modest and polite.
I used to take milk to his house when I helped the local milkman, another local legend, Dennis Rawson.
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| Does anyone know which area Marco Pierre White grew up in. I can only find details of him being born and raised on a Leeds council estate? |
It was the Lingfield estate in Moortown. He went to Fir Tree Primary (in the year below me) and then I think to Allerton Grange.
He's always been Marco, but in the Fir Tree days he had a bit of a 'hard man' image and I don't think he would have admitted to Pierre! My abiding memory of him is that he was always outside the headmaster's office for some or other misdemeanour, often with a black eye or bloody nose. I was amazed when I first heard that he was making a name for himself as a chef!
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Hmmm....sounds familiar! |
Lol!!!!!! 
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A joiner eh!? 
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cnosni
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Best bit is that Digger hasnt even copped onto this yet.
Too busy giving an interview in a sewer.
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Best bit is that Digger hasnt even copped onto this yet.
Too busy giving an interview in a sewer. |
Who you kidding?
I don't miss a thing mate
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Geoffrey Davies, probably better known as Dr Dick Stuart-Clarke in Doctor in the House, was apparently born in Leeds. Diana Coupland was another, and there's the character actor, George C. Cooper, Billy Liar's dad, and the caretaker in Grange Hill - amongst other roles. Cooper was in a recent episode of Rising Damp. Very good at 'exasperation' and 'shaking his fist'.
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A 'recent' episode of Rising Damp? 
But yes, one of those actors who pops up all over the place and as you say, good at being annoyed by pesky kids. He's 83 now.
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Aye, 'recent'...as transmitted through Doris Stokes. I wonder who her contact is now [winks]. I was also going to mention Kenneth Cope, but Wiki is adamant he's a Scouser, and he says nothing to suggest different.
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