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A self-styled 'massive club' that after winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1986 never troubled silverware again til 1999?
Not only are we at Warrington bigger than you,i'd suggest Saints are too. (although we are a bigger club than them)
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| Quote ="WireWonder"A self-styled 'massive club' that after winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1986 never troubled silverware again til 1999?
Not only are we at Warrington bigger than you,i'd suggest Saints are too. (although we are bigger than them)'"
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| Quote ="WireWonder"A self-styled 'massive club' that after winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1986 never troubled silverware again til 1999?
Not only are we at Warrington bigger than you,i'd suggest Saints are too. (although we are bigger than them)'"
As opposed to Warrington who won the Lancashire cup in 1990 and didnt trouble the silverware again until 2009.
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| Quote ="SmokeyTA"As opposed to Warrington who won the Lancashire cup in 1990 and didnt trouble the silverware again until 2009.
Good fishing young man.'"
And look at the money you spent,or wasted rather,during your barren spell,trying,and failing,to compete with Wigan.
It lead to winning NOTHING.
Had we spent that kind of money we'd have ended Wigan's dominance that you failed to do. In fact Leeds didn't even finish in the top 4 usually. Or get to Cup Finals. |
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| Quote ="WireWonder"And look at the money you spent,or wasted rather,during your barren spell,trying,and failing,to compete with Wigan.
It lead to winning NOTHING.
Had we spent that kind of money we'd have ended Wigan's dominance that you failed to do. In fact Leeds didn't even finish in the top 4 usually. Or get to Cup Finals.'"
Other than 93, 94, and 98 you're right
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| Quote ="WireWonder"A self-styled 'massive club' that after winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1986 never troubled silverware again til 1999?
Not only are we at Warrington bigger than you,i'd suggest Saints are too. (although we are a bigger club than them)'"
And of course you are a rather a small town,if only Rugby league could expand into major cities,then it could get recognition.
Very few people throughout the country has eber heard of Warrington,other than getting on the national news for anti social oafs murdering people |
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Wrong, it's the birthplace of both Chris Evans & Kerry Katona, how can Leeds hope to compete with that?
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| Quote ="Old Feller"Wrong, it's the birthplace of both Chris Evans & Kerry Katona, how can Leeds hope to compete with that?'"
Mel B and Chris Moyles.
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Jimmy Saville,Peter O'Toole,Ronnie Hilton,Frankie Vaughn was brought up here
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John Craven too. To this day he won't get on a shuttle bus, just in case.
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Famous people born in Leeds :
Sir Jimmy Savile - Best known for presenting Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops.
Mel B (from the Spice Girls)
Alan Smith (Former Leeds United)
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1 DJ.
BEDLOM, a successful English rap outfit.
Corinne Bailey Rae - singer
Julian Barratt - actor and musician best known for his character Howard Moon in the cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh
Alan Bennett - performer in Beyond the Fringe and writer of works such as The Madness of King George
Barbara Taylor Bradford - novelist
Elizabeth Dawn (real name Sylvia Butterfield) best-known for her character Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street
Gaynor Faye - known for her character in Coronation Street and later Fat Friends
Matthew Russell, comic book author and illustrator.
Phil May - famous cartoonist
Kay Mellor - writer of TV drama including Band of Gold
Tony Harrison (b.1937 - ) - Poet
Barry Cryer - Comedian
Matthew Lewis - known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films
Malcolm McDowell - played the wizard in Just Visiting, starred in A Clockwork Orange and has appeared in Star Trek films
Peter O'Toole - actor famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia
Vic Reeves - known for his long time on screen partnership with fellow comedian Bob Mortimer
Tom Wilkinson - actor who has appeared in such films as Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Full Monty
Ernie Wise - (real name Ernest Wiseman) of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise
John Craven - presenter of John Craven's Newsround (now known as Newsround)
Caryl Phillips - a leading Black British author/playwright
Nell McAndrew - an internationally famous model.
Verbalicous - successful European hip-hop artist.
Jan Fletcher - international Business Woman
Arthur Ransome - journalist and children's author
Alfred Austin - poet laureate
Leigh Francis aka Avid Merrion, creator of the TV show Bo' Selecta!
Beryl Burton - record-breaking cyclist
Vesta Victoria - music hall star
Helen Fielding - novelist, Bridget Jones Diary
Jeremy Paxman - TV presenter
Paul Hunter - snooker player
Mark Ballard - Green Politician
Science - Big Brother UK contestant.
Jeremy Dyson - Novelist and comedy writer/producer.
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Famous people born in Leeds :
Sir Jimmy Savile - Best known for presenting Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops.
Mel B (from the Spice Girls)
Alan Smith (Former Leeds United)
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1 DJ.
BEDLOM, a successful English rap outfit.
Corinne Bailey Rae - singer
Julian Barratt - actor and musician best known for his character Howard Moon in the cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh
Alan Bennett - performer in Beyond the Fringe and writer of works such as The Madness of King George
Barbara Taylor Bradford - novelist
Elizabeth Dawn (real name Sylvia Butterfield) best-known for her character Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street
Gaynor Faye - known for her character in Coronation Street and later Fat Friends
Matthew Russell, comic book author and illustrator.
Phil May - famous cartoonist
Kay Mellor - writer of TV drama including Band of Gold
Tony Harrison (b.1937 - ) - Poet
Barry Cryer - Comedian
Matthew Lewis - known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films
Malcolm McDowell - played the wizard in Just Visiting, starred in A Clockwork Orange and has appeared in Star Trek films
Peter O'Toole - actor famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia
Vic Reeves - known for his long time on screen partnership with fellow comedian Bob Mortimer
Tom Wilkinson - actor who has appeared in such films as Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Full Monty
Ernie Wise - (real name Ernest Wiseman) of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise
John Craven - presenter of John Craven's Newsround (now known as Newsround)
Caryl Phillips - a leading Black British author/playwright
Nell McAndrew - an internationally famous model.
Verbalicous - successful European hip-hop artist.
Jan Fletcher - international Business Woman
Arthur Ransome - journalist and children's author
Alfred Austin - poet laureate
Leigh Francis aka Avid Merrion, creator of the TV show Bo' Selecta!
Beryl Burton - record-breaking cyclist
Vesta Victoria - music hall star
Helen Fielding - novelist, Bridget Jones Diary
Jeremy Paxman - TV presenter
Paul Hunter - snooker player
Mark Ballard - Green Politician
Science - Big Brother UK contestant.
Jeremy Dyson - Novelist and comedy writer/producer.
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Science - Big Brother UK contestant.
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Quote ="batleyrhino"Famous people born in Leeds :
Sir Jimmy Savile - Best known for presenting Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops.
Mel B (from the Spice Girls)
Alan Smith (Former Leeds United)
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1 DJ.
BEDLOM, a successful English rap outfit.
Corinne Bailey Rae - singer
Julian Barratt - actor and musician best known for his character Howard Moon in the cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh
Alan Bennett - performer in Beyond the Fringe and writer of works such as The Madness of King George
Barbara Taylor Bradford - novelist
Elizabeth Dawn (real name Sylvia Butterfield) best-known for her character Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street
Gaynor Faye - known for her character in Coronation Street and later Fat Friends
Matthew Russell, comic book author and illustrator.
Phil May - famous cartoonist
Kay Mellor - writer of TV drama including Band of Gold
Tony Harrison (b.1937 - ) - Poet
Barry Cryer - Comedian
Matthew Lewis - known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films
Malcolm McDowell - played the wizard in Just Visiting, starred in A Clockwork Orange and has appeared in Star Trek films
Peter O'Toole - actor famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia
Vic Reeves - known for his long time on screen partnership with fellow comedian Bob Mortimer
Tom Wilkinson - actor who has appeared in such films as Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Full Monty
Ernie Wise - (real name Ernest Wiseman) of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise
John Craven - presenter of John Craven's Newsround (now known as Newsround)
Caryl Phillips - a leading Black British author/playwright
Nell McAndrew - an internationally famous model.
Verbalicous - successful European hip-hop artist.
Jan Fletcher - international Business Woman
Arthur Ransome - journalist and children's author
Alfred Austin - poet laureate
Leigh Francis aka Avid Merrion, creator of the TV show Bo' Selecta!
Beryl Burton - record-breaking cyclist
Vesta Victoria - music hall star
Helen Fielding - novelist, Bridget Jones Diary
Jeremy Paxman - TV presenter
Paul Hunter - snooker player
Mark Ballard - Green Politician
Science - Big Brother UK contestant.
Jeremy Dyson - Novelist and comedy writer/producer.
Read more: regions.famouswhy.com/leeds/#ixzz1Jnpr0CED'"
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Sir Jimmy Savile - Best known for presenting Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops.
Mel B (from the Spice Girls)
Alan Smith (Former Leeds United)
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1 DJ.
BEDLOM, a successful English rap outfit.
Corinne Bailey Rae - singer
Julian Barratt - actor and musician best known for his character Howard Moon in the cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh
Alan Bennett - performer in Beyond the Fringe and writer of works such as The Madness of King George
Barbara Taylor Bradford - novelist
Elizabeth Dawn (real name Sylvia Butterfield) best-known for her character Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street
Gaynor Faye - known for her character in Coronation Street and later Fat Friends
Matthew Russell, comic book author and illustrator.
Phil May - famous cartoonist
Kay Mellor - writer of TV drama including Band of Gold
Tony Harrison (b.1937 - ) - Poet
Barry Cryer - Comedian
Matthew Lewis - known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films
Malcolm McDowell - played the wizard in Just Visiting, starred in A Clockwork Orange and has appeared in Star Trek films
Peter O'Toole - actor famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia
Vic Reeves - known for his long time on screen partnership with fellow comedian Bob Mortimer
Tom Wilkinson - actor who has appeared in such films as Batman Begins, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Full Monty
Ernie Wise - (real name Ernest Wiseman) of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise
John Craven - presenter of John Craven's Newsround (now known as Newsround)
Caryl Phillips - a leading Black British author/playwright
Nell McAndrew - an internationally famous model.
Verbalicous - successful European hip-hop artist.
Jan Fletcher - international Business Woman
Arthur Ransome - journalist and children's author
Alfred Austin - poet laureate
Leigh Francis aka Avid Merrion, creator of the TV show Bo' Selecta!
Beryl Burton - record-breaking cyclist
Vesta Victoria - music hall star
Helen Fielding - novelist, Bridget Jones Diary
Jeremy Paxman - TV presenter
Paul Hunter - snooker player
Mark Ballard - Green Politician
Science - Big Brother UK contestant.
Jeremy Dyson - Novelist and comedy writer/producer.
Read more: regions.famouswhy.com/leeds/#ixzz1Jnpr0CED'"
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Francis Mathews, 50s-60s film and tv actor
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| Quote ="WireWonder"After Wigan we are the second biggest club in England.
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I've heard sine outlandish claims on this board over the years (Richie Spedding) but this takes the biscwit. |
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| Quote ="lionarmour87"Francis Mathews, 50s-60s film and tv actor
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Actually, apparently Francis Matthews aka Paul Temple / The voice of the original Capt. Scarlet was born in York ... But that's still Yorkshire.
Isn't the original Jack Shephard aka TV's Wycliffe born in Leeds (or Otley, which is a Leeds Post Code) ?
Actually, come to mention it, the other Jack P Shephard from Corrie was born in Leeds, so when it comes to famous Shephards, we've got flocks !
There's always Joseph Priestley who discovered Oxygen in Leeds and without which Wire would be choking far more often ?
And least we should mention the Admiral's succesful gameshow TV appearance .... |
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| Quote ="AdmiralHanson"
There's always Joseph Priestley who discovered Oxygen in Leeds and without which Wire would be choking far more often ?
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Wasn't Priestley was working in Wiltshire not Leeds when he "discovered" Oxygen? (Britons will say it was Priestley, the French will say it was Lavoisier).
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He invented a quick way of getting out of Lancashire? What a hero.
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Surely Priestley was born in Morley?
Which some would say is not part of Leeds.
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Francis Mathews lived for quite a while in Bramley,he attended Christ the King School.
Joseph Priestley also emmigrated to the America and helped to write the constitution
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| Quote ="Old Feller"Surely Priestley was born in Morley?
Which some would say is not part of Leeds.'"
Born Birstall. More M62 connections. |
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| Quote ="SmokeyTA"As opposed to Warrington who won the Lancashire cup in 1990 and didnt trouble the silverware again until 2009.
Good fishing young man.'"
And Warrington isn't even in Lancashire ... The 'Lancashire Cup' eh ? All the credability of the so-called 'Champions League' ... |
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| Always wondered why more famous bands have not originated from Leeds....apart from Wedding Present, Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detectives (oh ! and Soft Cell of course)...who else is there ?
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| Quote ="nantwichexile"Always wondered why more famous bands have not originated from Leeds....apart from Wedding Present, Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detectives (oh ! and Soft Cell of course)...who else is there ?
So many more from Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. Why ?
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| Quote ="nantwichexile"Always wondered why more famous bands have not originated from Leeds....apart from Wedding Present, Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detectives (oh ! and Soft Cell of course)...who else is there ?
So many more from Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. Why ?
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| Quote ="nantwichexile"Always wondered why more famous bands have not originated from Leeds....apart from Wedding Present, Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detectives (oh ! and Soft Cell of course)...who else is there ?
So many more from Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. Why ?
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A distinct lack of live music venues throughout the 60s and 70s saw off that era, very few small venues for local bands to kick start in and the only large venues for touring bands being the Queens Hall (probably the worst music venue for acoustics in the country) and the Town Hall - both of which had a 96db limit slapped on them in the early 70s thus writing them off for any band worth its entrance money.
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