Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Wilfred Owen, Mary Webb, Clive of India...

[benjii]

your boys took a hell of a beating.

[Toadhall Saint]

Wtf?

[martyg1950]

your boys took a hell of a beating.

 

pmsl nice one

[Secret Site Agent]

your boys took a hell of a beating.

 

Benjii, I just love the classics.

[Dalek2003]

Presumably all from Shrewsbury or Shropshire ?

[The Majestic Channon]

I thought michael palin was from sheffield?

[docker-p]

Michael Palin was from Sheffield, Wilfred Owen was from Oswestry. Something a bit feeble with crowing about beating Shrewsbury.

[benjii]

Michael Palin was schooled in Shrewsbury.

[Stu Man Do]

Some people really can't take a joke can they? made me chuckle at least cheers benji an oldie but a goodie!

[dune]

Clive of india is a hero of mine.

[Hamilton Saint]

Clive of india is a hero of mine.

 

He grew up in Market Drayton. I went to school near there in the mid-60s.

[ottery st mary]

Have they all got outstanding parking fines in Shrewsbury?

[dune]

He grew up in Market Drayton. I went to school near there in the mid-60s.

 

Indeed he did.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/29/robert_clive_feature.shtml

[Baldsaint]

Clive of india is a hero of mine.

 

I believe Colin (Dr Frankenstein) Clive was a descendant of his.

[patred44]

I would have thought we would have evolved a bit more since Darwin

[patred44]

I would have thought we would have evolved a bit more since Darwin

[gaz]

2-0 in the final minutes is hardly a beating.

 

Nice effort though.

[gaz]

2-0 in the final minutes is hardly a beating.

 

Nice effort though.

[Badger]

I thought michael palin was from sheffield?

 

Perhaps he travelled through Shrewsbury before an epic adventure to crossing the Andes by Frog. *

 

*Ripping Yarns for anyone too young to know.

[Badger]

I thought michael palin was from sheffield?

 

Perhaps he travelled through Shrewsbury before an epic adventure to crossing the Andes by Frog. *

 

*Ripping Yarns for anyone too young to know.

[RonManager]

Perhaps he travelled through Shrewsbury before an epic adventure to crossing the Andes by Frog. *

 

*Ripping Yarns for anyone too young to know.

 

*Also, it is a well known fact that he is a staunch Barnstoneworth United supporter

[RonManager]

Perhaps he travelled through Shrewsbury before an epic adventure to crossing the Andes by Frog. *

 

*Ripping Yarns for anyone too young to know.

 

*Also, it is a well known fact that he is a staunch Barnstoneworth United supporter

[Badger]

*Also, it is a well known fact that he is a staunch Barnstoneworth United supporter

 

*I read he had not renewed his season ticket as he only attends when Saturday afternoons are not spent as an amateur meteorologist recording the precipitation on Denley Moor.

[Badger]

*Also, it is a well known fact that he is a staunch Barnstoneworth United supporter

 

*I read he had not renewed his season ticket as he only attends when Saturday afternoons are not spent as an amateur meteorologist recording the precipitation on Denley Moor.

[RonManager]

A distraught Palin reacts to Connolly's heartbreaking injury time winner.

 

[RonManager]

A distraught Palin reacts to Connolly's heartbreaking injury time winner.

 

[Graffito]

So Clive of India was really Clive of Shrewsbury?

[up and away]

Michael Palin was from Sheffield, Wilfred Owen was from Oswestry. Something a bit feeble with crowing about beating Shrewsbury.

 

Exactly, the moment is gone once you can no longer fit the girl pipers into the line up!

[16tons]

You Forgot Ian Hunter Mush Clive of India Hero really,not in India !!!!

[scotty]

this thread is better than psychedelic drugs.

[georgeweahscousin]

England goalkeeper Joe Hart?

[VectisSaint]

So Clive of India was really Clive of Shrewsbury?

Nope, he was actually Clive of Styche (the Clive family estate), or possibly Clive of Market Drayton. Difficult to see a connection with Shrewsbury, apart from a statue that stands in the town, I suspect he is thought of more as a Salopian (i.e. from Shropshire).

[scotty]

The Royal College for the blind used to be in Shrewsbury, but it moved to Hereford. I have a couple of colleagues who trained there. (Dull fact no.42)

[dune]

The Wrekin Giant

 

It's one of Shropshire's best-known landmarks - and legend has it, it was built by a giant with a grudge against Shrewsbury!

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/23/wrekin_giant_feature.shtml

[batterseasaint]

I'm from Shrewsbury and was in the same boarding house at school as Michael Palin (though not at the same time). If we're using this as a guideline for being a salopian, you could also say Michael Heseltine, John Peel, Willie Rushden and Nick Hancock are also salopians.

[benjii]

I toyed with the idea of including Heseltine.

 

I decided that his eyebrows had too much gravitas for this thread.

[corky morris]

Exactly where Hamilton. I live about 7 miles away from MD closer to Newport. My lads are all born in Shropshire, but are Saints fans.

[Shroppie]

Exactly where Hamilton. I live about 7 miles away from MD closer to Newport. My lads are all born in Shropshire, but are Saints fans.

 

Excellent. I've lived in Shropshire for 35 years but am still a Saints fan. I work in MD. It's beginning to look as if we have car load to go down to home matches

[jjsaint]

Charles Darwin was a Man U fan. FACT.

[benjii]

Charles Darwin was a Man U fan. FACT.

 

Apparently he was the first singer of the Twelve Days of Cantona.

 

"And an Errrriiiiicccccc Cannnntooonaaa".

[corky morris]

Excellent. I've lived in Shropshire for 35 years but am still a Saints fan. I work in MD. It's beginning to look as if we have car load to go down to home matches

 

I already have a car load!!!! 6 of us which will rise to 7 next year when youngest nipper is 4 1/2!!!!!

[Hamilton Saint]

Exactly where Hamilton. I live about 7 miles away from MD closer to Newport. My lads are all born in Shropshire, but are Saints fans.

 

Cheswardine.

[Shroppie]

I already have a car load!!!! 6 of us which will rise to 7 next year when youngest nipper is 4 1/2!!!!!

 

Assuming a bigger car would be out of the question, back to the train then. Seriously, I drive down alone sometimes so always room for a paasenger or two then.

[derry]

Cheswardine.

 

Was that the sister school of St Mary's College in Bitterne run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. As far as I remember that was in Cheswardine. They used to come down and play football against us now and then.

[Hamilton Saint]

Was that the sister school of St Mary's College in Bitterne run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. As far as I remember that was in Cheswardine. They used to come down and play football against us now and then.

 

 

Yes, called St. Edward's College. Located at Cheswardine Hall from 1950-1968.

[mancsaint]

Was that the sister school of St Mary's College in Bitterne run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. As far as I remember that was in Cheswardine. They used to come down and play football against us now and then.

 

What years were you at St Mary's College. I was 1959-64. God I feel really old now, better have a nap after all this exertion.

 

Mancsaint

[derry]

What years were you at St Mary's College. I was 1959-64. God I feel really old now, better have a nap after all this exertion.

 

Mancsaint

 

1949 to 1960

[Hamilton Saint]

What years were you at St Mary's College. I was 1959-64. God I feel really old now, better have a nap after all this exertion.

 

Mancsaint

 

1964-1965 (Form I)

 

1968-1969 (Form V)