Famous Sons of Leeds

simong · Post by **simong** » Sun 09 Nov, 2008 8:36 pm

Trojan wrote: LS1 wrote: 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.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 3:57 am

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!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 19 Nov, 2008 9:15 am

jonleeds wrote: 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

Bramleygal · Post by **Bramleygal** » Mon 26 Jan, 2009 6:04 pm

Valerie Pitts (Lady Solti)--I went to the same schoolTom Wilkinson

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Mon 26 Jan, 2009 7:00 pm

jonleeds wrote: 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=_LdVbOlkM ... re=related

whippetgirl · Post by **whippetgirl** » Sat 31 Jan, 2009 9:59 pm

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?

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 31 Jan, 2009 11:55 pm

whippetgirl wrote: 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? see=http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... Light=1and also notice the posts from the illusive jancee lol

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 03 Feb, 2009 9:24 pm

whippetgirl wrote: 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.

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Wed 04 Feb, 2009 2:10 am

raveydavey wrote: whippetgirl wrote: 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.

wayniac · Post by **wayniac** » Wed 04 Feb, 2009 4:21 am

willo wrote: 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.