I know its not Sheffield, but almost, get your thinking caps on and lets see if we can cobble together a list of famous Rotherham lads and lasses.

I'll start you all off with a couple of rouges

The Chuckle Brothers & Jive Bunny.

Please please please, lets come up with something a bit better. I am often embarressed when I get into a discussion about home towns and its famous sons and daughters. Another one I have just thought of is

Colonol H.Jones, the guy who got a VC in the Falklands :clap:

Thanks in advance.

Does William Hague count? I'd say not, but he went to my school, irritating little fart.

I grudgingly suppose he does, Wath would be considered as Rotherham.

I have just remembered another Wath boy, Toby Foster, the comedian, my wife was at Wath Comp at the same time.

was saxon from rotherham

Originally posted by SlinkyMinky
I grudgingly suppose he does, Wath would be considered as Rotherham.

I have just remembered another Wath boy, Toby Foster, the comedian, my wife was at Wath Comp at the same time.
When was your wife at Wath? I was there 70-75,probably before your time.

Think Saxon are from Barnsley.

One of the band Saxon lived just outside the school gates at Swinton Comp, I remember that well as I went to Swinton.

My wife was at Wath in the 80's she is 36 now.

Swinton was my third choice, after Mexborough. Sorry Swinton. I remember having a good old drink in the Woodman after getting my O level results.

I now live in Mexborough, I must have been a murderer in a past life for that !!! Woodman eh ! Not been in there for a while, I often go in the Kings Head though

Col. H. Jones. VC. Parachute Regiment, came from Putney nr. London. Sergeant Ian Mackay VC, Parachute Regiment, came from Wortley originally and resided near Rotherham. Please get your facts right when discussing VC holders. The least we can do when discussing men who gave their lives in service to their country.

Apologies dude. Hope you won't lose any sleep over it! If the worst thing I do in life is mix up my VC holders home towns, I am sure I will still go to heaven. Thank god I didn't say they had won a GC or god forbid a Purple Heart.

Thanks for putting me straight, I feel suitably chastised.

Youve been through enough slinky if you live in Mexborough, dont be too hard on yourself.

I lived in Denaby Main for a short while, and if I was bored I would shop in Mexborough. Well off for cheap shops and charity shops. Not the place it used to be. What happened to the Market???

How can you publicly admit to the Chuckle Bros....bout as funny as the pox!!

Thought they went to school with Cleopatra, lol

Then again...Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Rotherham, but at least Rome doesn't look like it was:clap: :clap:

How about Sandy Powell..

Can you hear me, mother??

Jeremy Clarkson

the drummer from saxon lived in kimberworth he had a kid to my mates sister and then ran off with her best mate and her mother used to work for me .....ahhh what a tangled web

what about peter elliot
or duggy brown and ivy tilsley... does paul shane count he lives in rotherham

and what about david mullet seaman

what about brian the dinasaur that sat morn charracture and iv just been told that freddy trueman was from maltby

Barry Cheese - possibly the worst comedian ever

Donald Pleasance - His father lived in the station house, and may have been the station-master at the old Ecclesfield station on Station Road, the one between Ecclesfield Common and Thorpe Hesley.

My mum recalled Donald Pleasance showing up at school i think, but they moved south before Donald was very old.

Don't know if the dates can be clarified, and anything confirmed with it being a railway anecdote ?

Yeah forgot all about Peter Elliot. Used to live next door but one to him. I played once or twice with his sister Linda, but she was a bit older than me. I remember Peter as a toddler.

Originally posted by Magneteer
Jeremy Clarkson

Thought he was from Doncaster?

Didn't Lynne Perrie (Ivy Tisley in corrie) live near Maltby?

Originally posted by valentine
Didn't Lynne Perrie (Ivy Tisley in corrie) live near Maltby?

And her brother Duggie Brown. Ivy was born at Masborough.

Jack Hampshire famous cricketer.

And Paul Hi Di Hi Shane

Peter Elliot - from the Coe,Ovett,Elliot, Cram middle distance runners of the 80's.

Tony Capstick was from Mexborough.

Gordon Banks the goalkeeper.

Duggie Brown...Paul shane ???? Maybe.

I remember reading somewhere that the Bloke who invented "white metal/pewter" came from Rotherham..and the result was-Sheffield manufacturers such as "Mappin and Webb"
"James Dixon" etc....does anyone know his name ????.

VC Ian McKay, killed in the Falklands. I know his mother who sadly lost her other two sons to cystic fibrosis. Ian was not born with this dreadful illness - how ironic it was for him to lose his life in such a dreadful way.

Originally posted by hagueok
was saxon from rotherham

Graham Oliver from Saxon went to Wath Comp.

Brian Blessed is from Bolton -on -Dearne and went to school with my dad.

Ivanhoe was from thurcroft area

alan smith (ex england phsio)

Originally posted by SlinkyMinky
I know its not Sheffield, but almost, get your thinking caps on and lets see if we can cobble together a list of famous Rotherham lads and lasses.

I'll start you all off with a couple of rouges

The Chuckle Brothers & Jive Bunny.

Please please please, lets come up with something a bit better. I am often embarressed when I get into a discussion about home towns and its famous sons and daughters. Another one I have just thought of is

Colonol H.Jones, the guy who got a VC in the Falklands :clap:

Thanks in advance.
what about sandy powel can you hear me mother
ad paul shane

Try Here

http://www.rotherhamunofficial.co.uk/famous/rotherhamfamous.htm

Michael Palin of Monty Python came from Sheffield that's very near Rotherham. (doe's it count) Also Elvis Presley lived at Greasbourough before he bought Gracelands.

Originally posted by Gepetto
Graham Oliver from Saxon went to Wath Comp.

Brian Blessed is from Bolton -on -Dearne and went to school with my dad.

Anybody know what years Graham Oliver went to Wath Comp? Or how old he is?

Wonder if he was there the same time as me?

Dont know his christian name off the top of my head, but the Bailey suite in Rotherham is named after the Rotherham man who invented the wartime Bailey bridge.

Ebeneezer Elliot - the corn law rhymer - there is a statue to him in Weston Park

http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/elly.htm

What about David Seaman, Peter Elliot ( olympic Runner ) Dennis Priestley ( world champ dart thrower )

Fred truman, famous cricketer.

Gordon banks brother boozers in the magpies............my mate goerge hand was in the glitterband........and i've supported doctor feelgood........twice.......and was nearly on calander kids once!

I think the creator of Inspector Morse, Colin Dexter, may have come from Rotherham.

Don Kiddick - or so it says on his avatar.

I was born in Dinnington so 3 places can claim me.

Sheffield - post code
Rotherham - council
Worksop - phone codes.
But I live in Rovvrem now - the posh part :D

:clap:

Also Elliott Kennedy - songwriter (Dinno lad)

Jeremy Clakeson's Mum - who made the Paddington Cuddlies

in response to Alysonpeach post re Graham Oliver. I left Wath in 1971 and Graham was the older brother of one of my firends there so I guess he was not there at the same time as you if you were there in 70 - 75

Percy Sugden, just forgot his real name lived in Micklebrough.

What about Captain Webb the English Channel swimmer?

what about brian the dinasaur that sat morn charracture and iv just been told that freddy trueman was from maltby
GGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat somebody else knows about brian the dinasaur, i'm not going mad, I have been telling people about this local rotherham hero for years and no one believes me. If I remember rightly he was a big pink dinasaur with a leather jacket that had Guns and Roses on the back. he was born just after jurassic park was out , the story went something like this. He was found down at the aldwarke sewage plant as a dinasaur egg by his "father Les Unsworth who ran the happy friar chip shop in dalton brook, he had a little brother called Derek who to brians dismay was a Take that fan.
He used to interview all the pop stars of the day and loved to embarrass the snooty ones talking in his rotherham accent...."ey up love you look alreight fancy a snog" and other such put downs. He was so famous locally that Staniforths the bakers made a brian gingerbread man.
If anyone knows of his whereabouts or more info on brian let me know he was my hero.

What about the 2 footballing brothers Ian and Glynn Snodin who were from Thrybergh, Boxer Mick Mills was from Dinnington, page 3 models Tracy Dixon and Diane Willoughby went to Thrybergh Comp.
The drummer from Muse is also a Rotherham lad I believe.

James Toseland, World Superbike champ, came from Kiveton. As Don said though, Sheffield postcode, Rotherham council and Worksop phone number!

think Eric Portman was from there

Barry cheese is the shizzle

I demand you take it back!!


or else....

Donald Coleman Bailey, inventor of Bailey Bridge, born Rotherham 1901, died 1985. (Bailey House named after him.)

Anyone remember Ronny Dukes and Ricky Lee?

Barry cheese is the shizzle

I demand you take it back!!


or else....well said Brooky!!!!!

I know its not Sheffield, but almost, get your thinking caps on and lets see if we can cobble together a list of famous Rotherham lads and lasses.

I'll start you all off with a couple of rouges

The Chuckle Brothers & Jive Bunny.

Please please please, lets come up with something a bit better. I am often embarressed when I get into a discussion about home towns and its famous sons and daughters. Another one I have just thought of is

Colonol H.Jones, the guy who got a VC in the Falklands :clap:

Thanks in advance.
tony christie.. jon parr...

tony christie.. jon parr...and joe davison who writes for the evening star....

Dean Andrews - DS Ray Carling from "Life on Mars" & "Ashes to Ashes"
Liz White - Annie Cartwright from "Life on Mars"

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Nick Banks, drummer with pulp and nephew of Gordon.

Anyone remember Ronny Dukes and Ricky Lee?

I think they lived at Cawthorne, Barnsley. Don't know where their place of birth was.

What about Captain Webb the English Channel swimmer?

He was a 'match' for anyone. You have to be an oldie to get that one.

think Eric Portman was from there

Eric was actually from the Huddersfield area. He did and still does have relatives in the Thorpe Hesley area. He was a distant relation.

Donald Pleasance - His father lived in the station house, and may have been the station-master at the old Ecclesfield station on Station Road, the one between Ecclesfield Common and Thorpe Hesley.

My mum recalled Donald Pleasance showing up at school i think, but they moved south before Donald was very old.

Don't know if the dates can be clarified, and anything confirmed with it being a railway anecdote ?

Donald Pleasence's father was Station Master at the Ecclesfield Top Station. Donald himself went to the old Ecclesfield Grammar School, and his name is still on the honours board there. He must have moved south later as his first wife was actually from the street where I live. My cousin went to school with him in Ecclesfield and, many years ago she went to New York. She and her daughter were in the street when up came Donald P and said 'I am sure you are from Ecclesfield. I went to school with you'. He took her and her daughter out one evening for dinner whilst they were in NY. Small world.

Does William Hague count? I'd say not, but he went to my school, irritating little fart.

He lived in Wentworth at the time just in case no one has mentioned it.
By the way William was far from an "irritating little fart". I thought he had a great humour as well as being very bright. Those of us that knew him better realised that.
Of course the plebs were pigged off as they were always going to end up as nothings while he had a future.

Back around 1950 I used to swim regularly at the old Millhouses Pool in Sheffield and remember that Phil Rising did some training there before swimming the English Channel, I'm sure he came from Rotherham.

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Did John Prescott not live in Brinsworth??? I remember him visiting his old house on Ellis or Duncan Street about 5 years ago?? Think he's a Hull boy but did live in Rotherham if that counts. Clarkson was from Conisbrough, not sure if that is Donny or Rotherham??

Jeremy Clarkson

Doncaster if my memory is still in working order. His mother was a Kilner (of Kilner Jar fame) from Conisborough.

Did John Prescott not live in Brinsworth??? I remember him visiting his old house on Ellis or Duncan Street about 5 years ago?? Think he's a Hull boy but did live in Rotherham if that counts. Clarkson was from Conisbrough, not sure if that is Donny or Rotherham??

John Prescott is from Ellesmere Port originally (Near Chester hence I know)

Gordon banks brother boozers in the magpies............my mate goerge hand was in the glitterband........and i've supported doctor feelgood........twice.......and was nearly on calander kids once!

Gordon Banks shouldn't be in the list.

Wasn't the late BBC presenter, Michael Cooke, of Radio Sheffield and BBC North, from Rotherham or am I just been swayed by all the work he did at Rotherham Civic Theatre?

I think they lived at Cawthorne, Barnsley. Don't know where their place of birth was.

Rikki Lee (Audrey Tomlinson) was born n brought up in Attercliffe, she went to school with my dad. My dad kept in touch & we as a family went to see them in cabaret loadsa times, always going backstage. Can remember visiting them at their home in Cawthorne. They were a wonderful couple, so full of fun & down to Earth.

Percy Sugden, just forgot his real name lived in Micklebrough.

Its Micklebring not Micklebrough and its in Doncaster not Rotherham, that also excludes one of the Chuckle brothers

Sandy Powell has been mentioned. He was a very popular comedian many years ago, and I remember talking to him in the mid-1960s. He was in that group of comics of the 1930s-1940s era that included Jewel & Warriss (from Sheffield). He did write an autobiography and I think it was called Can You Hear Me Mother?, which was, of course, his catchphrase.
On a literary note, I do believe that Anthony Trollope's wife came from Rotherham. Not many people know that!
Does anyone remember a lad from Rawmarsh called David Depledge? He was not exactly famous, but he went to London and became a literary journalist. He worked on Smith's Trade News for some years, and interviewed a number of famous authors.

What about Billie Pearce comedian, am sure he is was from Rotherham

In my earlier message, I forgot to mention John Harris, the author. John started out as a cartoonist with the Rotherham Advertiser, and was later with the old Sheffield Telegraph in a similar capacity. He was a brilliant cartoonist. He later joined the Navy, then in subsequent years, following a return to South Yorkshire (he finally left about 1954), he wrote the best seller 'The Sea Shall Not Have Them', and it was so successful that he was able to become a full-time author. He wrote nearly a hundred books, novels and non-fiction. He also wrote under other names, and I believe that his daughter has carried on one of his detective series that were penned under the name of Max Hennessey. John died quite a few years ago. He never lost his affection for Rotherham.
Another Rotherham product who was a successful author (not, perhaps, as famous as Harris) was A. Arthur Eaglestone, who for many years lived at Hague Road, Rawmarsh. Arthur attended an elementary school in Rawmarsh and started work in a local steelworks; he later worked at Stubbin Colliery, where I believe he was a timekeeper, and it was during this time that, under the name of Roger Dataller, he produced "A Pitman's Notebook". He then won a miner's scholarship to Nee College,Oxford, and he came back to Rotherham, to work for the WEA as a tutor in literature. His other works included "A Pitman Looks at Oxford", "Oxford into Coalfield", and two novels --"Uncouth Swain" and "Steel Saraband". With T.A. Lockett, his son in law, he wrote "The Rockingham Pottery".
I think he died about 1980. Today, I imagine, he is just about totally forgotten, but he deserves to be on any list of Rotherham's favourite sons --and it might be timely for the Rotherham Advertiser to pen a couple of pieces about Eaglestone and Harris. I wonder: are there any relatives of either man still living in the Rotherham area?

He was a 'match' for anyone. You have to be an oldie to get that one.

Nice one !

The chuckle brothers.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsu9BQcYq4&feature=related

What about Captain Webb the English Channel swimmer?

according to wikipedia Captain Matthew Webb was born in Dawley Shropshire,

Anyone remember Ronny Dukes and Ricky Lee?

lived in brinsworth for a while

jeremy clarkson was doncaster

sandy powell
david seaman
john lee

I think you're all grasping at straws here,even I pretty famous was born in Doncaster, :):)

my partner was famous he used to be on the itv program called soilders to be it was quite a long time ago, and myself and my partner has been on the jeremy kyle show which was good fun :)

jeremy clarkson was doncaster

sandy powell
david seaman
john lee


I've heard of one of them - although I thought Seaman was Mexborough rather than Rovvrum.

James May was at secondary school in Rotherham at Oakwood, but he wasn't born there. My dad taught him!

anyone remember ronny dukes and ricky lee?

yep won the club act of the year many times, the family , sons and nephews are still in the buisness, i went out with a niece as a youngster.

Gordon Banks shouldn't be in the list.

Gorden Banks was born or lived off West Hill, Rotherham. why should he not be mentioned ?

He was a 'match' for anyone. You have to be an oldie to get that one.

Strike a light!

according to wikipedia Captain Matthew Webb was born in Dawley Shropshire,

I think he once bought a packet of matches in Rotherham though.