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On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:44 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Zathras wrote:

Up here we have the other side of the coin like 'Glasgow' Airport
(which isn't even in *Greater* Glasgow, yet) but for sheer nonsense,
it's difficult to beat Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Oh I dunno, London Gatwick and London Stanstead are rather a long way
from London. It always amused me landing at Gatwick and getting the
"Welcome to London" automated announcement thingy on the plane.

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport is.

Has anyone/anything notable ever come out of the Doncaster area, apart
from your good self and the A1 that is?
Obviously they were lacking inspiration.

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:30:49 +0000, Brian Mc wrote:

I lived in Manchester in the 70's and, before Greater Manchester was
invented the buses I used belonged to SELNEC (South East Lancashire/
North East Cheshire bus company). I don't know if this included Salford
as I was not often there!

SELNEC was a PTE. The PTEs were set up by "yer darlin' 'arold"
as an amalgamation of muncipal bus undertakings in the metropolitan
areas in 1969, with a mandate to integrate these services with those
of the subsidiary or subsidiaries of the newly formed NBC in the area,
as a pre-cursor to the creation of metropolitan authorities.

These took form as metropolitan counties under the Heath-Walker
reforms of local government on April 1st, 1974, usually covering
an expanded geographic area from the original PTE areas.

Thus the bus services of Wigan Municipal Transport were never
part of SELNEC, but became part of GMT (the renamed SELNEC)
in 1974, whereas those of Salford were already amalgamated
into SELNEC in 1969. The PTEs even had the power to purchase
private bus companies, and in 1976, GMT bought LUT, which
it ran as an independent subsidiary until it was fully absorbed
into GMT operations in 1981.

Then after 17 years of hard work by the PTEs to create an
integrated transport system within their metropolitan counties,
it was all trashed by Nicholas Ridley with the resultant
chaos and predominantly three private company cartel
which exists today.

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:36:14 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:44 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Zathras wrote:

Up here we have the other side of the coin like 'Glasgow' Airport
(which isn't even in *Greater* Glasgow, yet) but for sheer nonsense,
it's difficult to beat Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Oh I dunno, London Gatwick and London Stanstead are rather a long way
from London. It always amused me landing at Gatwick and getting the
"Welcome to London" automated announcement thingy on the plane.

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport is.

Has anyone/anything notable ever come out of the Doncaster area, apart
from your good self and the A1 that is?

The Romans founded it and then left. The River Don flows into it and
then leaves.

This list includes a number of people I've heard of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...from_Doncaster

Just a few:

Douglas Bader - Fighter pilot
Brian Blessed - Actor
George Boole - Mathematician and philosopher and inventor of Boolean
algebra.
Roy Clarke - Script writer. Credits include Keeping Up Appearances,
Open All Hours and Last of the Summer Wine.
Jeremy Clarkson - Journalist / television presenter.
Thomas Crapper - Credited with popularising the modern flushing
toilet.
Lesley Garrett - Singer
Roger Needham - Computer scientist
Diana Rigg - Actress

and a whole heap of sportspersons including Kevin Keegan.

Obviously they were lacking inspiration.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Has anyone/anything notable ever come out of the Doncaster area, apart
from your good self and the A1 that is?
Obviously they were lacking inspiration.

Yes, the Flying Scotsman, The Mallard, her out of The Avengers (Diana
Rigg?), Billy Bremner, Jez Clarkson, Kev Keegan, the bloke who was Jive
Bunney, Lesley Garrett, ohh, all sorts of notables. We have also bred a
lot of criminals, too many to list.

Bill

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:53:11 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

It always amused me landing at Gatwick and getting the
"Welcome to London" automated announcement thingy on the plane.

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport is.

Has anyone/anything notable ever come out of the Doncaster area, apart
from your good self and the A1 that is?

Thomas Crapper - Credited with popularising the modern flushing

Doncaster Crapper Airport. Yes, it has a certain ring to it.

Peter Duncanson wrote:

Douglas Bader - Fighter pilot
We used to play in and around the grounds of the Old Rectory, where he
was brought up. It's being refurbed at the moment; much activity.

Brian Blessed - Actor
He went to Bolton Sec Mod, where his English teacher was later to be my
English teacher, at the school down the road. He said Brian was a
loud-mouthed thug.

Bill

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Thomas Crapper - Credited with popularising the modern flushing

Doncaster Crapper Airport. Yes, it has a certain ring to it.

I really like that.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Thomas Crapper - Credited with popularising the modern flushing

Doncaster Crapper Airport. Yes, it has a certain ring to it.

I really like that.

Bill

Of course Doncaster did have the sand house. Had the philistine council
not destroyed it the house, grounds, and network of tunnels would be a
tourist attraction now.

Bill

http://www.doncasterviews.info/the%20sand%20house.doc

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On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:44 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Zathras wrote:

Up here we have the other side of the coin like 'Glasgow' Airport
(which isn't even in *Greater* Glasgow, yet) but for sheer nonsense,
it's difficult to beat Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Oh I dunno, London Gatwick and London Stanstead are rather a long way
from London. It always amused me landing at Gatwick and getting the
"Welcome to London" automated announcement thingy on the plane.

We were appalled when they built an airport at Doncaster and called it
'Robin Hood'. We aren't in Sherwood Forest or Notts, and Robin Hood has
no place in local history. No-one has any idea where Robin Hood Airport
is.

Has anyone/anything notable ever come out of the Doncaster area, apart
from your good self and the A1 that is?
Obviously they were lacking inspiration.

Bruce Woodcock? The chief idiot of Top Gear is also from Doncaster.
--
JohnT

JohnT wrote:


The chief idiot of Top Gear is also from Doncaster.

Yes, you see here in Doncaster he's not exceptional, but in the wider
world he's a splendid idiot.

Bill