1. Barnsley's first ever manager in 1888 was called Alex Fairclough, who was the great grandfather of Coronation St's Rita Fairclough. It was his local newsagents that he run that gave her the inspiration to open up t'Cabin, though Alex vowed never to talk to her again for moving accross Penines to the dark side.
2. The average price for a no-net curtained Detached house in Barnsley in Dec 2005 was £187,907. This compared to £368,609 in the South East.
3. The first and only Londoner to move into Barnsley was Charlie Flashman in 1972. Despite initial protests, suspicious locals warmed to Charlie until it was discovered that Charlie committed the shocking crime of locking his front door. Charlie was stoned to death shortly after.
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Fully appreciate though that the Charlie Flashman story is more likely.....
Come on, you are getting silly now : - )
These facts are for once TRUE!
He was red carded for spitting but claimed it was not him
5. Redders is rated up there with De Deeuw, Mick McCarthy, Ronnie Glavin etc as an all time great. Check his record for us and you should buy his autobiography that's a good read.
8. I couldn't imagine a Rasta int Tarn haha. We are a white town and it's very rare you see a black or anything in Barnsley.
10. Gough is a true fan and so is Dickie Bird who always mentions us in interviews. We don't however like Michael Parkinson much, who chooses to support us when it suits (like play off final). More likely to be seen in the directors box at Reading, where he lives. You missed Sam Nixon from Pop Idol who's on television.
Loving the "facts" boys hahaha.
It is known as: E- BY -GUM
Not realizing that his now wife had actually enjoyed her work he found her voracious appetite combined with all the leg-work he had to do as mayor in the hilly town was wearing him out. One of them had to go and it wasn't to be his fair love. He ordered that all the hills in the town be flattened so that he had more energy for his nocturnal duties. He also found the language tiring compared to the fluid French he was used to and so ordered speech to be abbreviated - such examples still exist today; Instead of asking "Shall we go to the pub later on my friend." you should ask "Down T' pub, lad?".
The area was previously renowned for its tall hats, but in honour of their eccentric mayor they flattened them to the style of hat wear we know and love today. Now obsessed with flat things, his attempts to breed a whippet that was flatter, or lower, to the ground proved his undoing when one of the irritable small pups bit him and he died from the infection and so the phrase "having a short temper" was born.
Stop it - your putting me off my grapes.
27. the youth's drug of choice is setting fire to wheelie bins and sticking their heads in to inhale the fumes (true!)
Gotta love the steak bakes!
Great thread lads, made my day at work that bit more tolerable (i dont work at Greggs funnily enough)
Hope its a good game tomorrow.....which we win ;)
31. The trains that run through Barnsley are in fact converted routmaster buses donated by London transport in March 1974. Since there introduction the local economy has gone from strength tostrength and there are even plans to hook Barnsley up to the National Grid by the end of 2009.