Talk:Scunthorpe/Archive 01

Urbs sine cultura

This is the town with no parish church, a theatre you could fit in your front room, no amateur orchestra, a library that looks like a factory, decimated industry and where women seem universally to be called 'Jean'. All traces of any historic buildings in the centre of town were systematically erased in the late 1960s redevelopment. Ceausescu would have been proud of it. The two music shops (Coop and Rushton's) have long since disappeared, the latter being converted into an outlet selling discount electrical appliances. Says it all: Scunthorpe must be one of the few towns in England with absolutely nothing to recommend it. I am embarrassed to say that I ever lived there.

Other towns in the same category: Codnor (Derbys), Whittlesey (Cambs), Wickford (Essex), Luton (Beds), Watford (Herts), Sandy (Beds), Peacehaven (Sussex), Cumbernauld (Scotland) etc

  —Preceding unsigned comment added by T A Francis (talk • contribs) 20:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC) 

Was it AOL that decided it wouldn't sell memberships to people from Scunthorpe, because their computer (unlike those of us who believe in normal English syllable breaks) parsed the name as obscene? I was going to mention this, but wasn't sure which American ISP it was. Vicki Rosenzweig 23:37 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No, but AOL's obscenity filter removed it from email messages of account holders.207.189.98.44 23:10, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

YES see [[1]] Archivist 23:16, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)

"[[Trevor Miichell ]drummer. world duration drumming record of 215 hours set in 1973." Not sure how I feel about such a minor person of note being present, especially since his Brown Cow record no longer stands. mat_x 21:13, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Although I see that the section on the coat of arms is quoted from a book, the only translation of the latin motto I was ever taught is 'The heavens reflect our labours'. Mark Smith 10:43 13 Jun 2006 (BST)

An Award Winning Choir

Scunthorpe is home of the winners of the 2008 BBC radio 3 Choir of the Year Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir [[2]]

MBorrill (talk) 18:22, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I have added the graffiti problem.

I have added that Scunthorpe is a dive,

I did not write the above, somebody is making out that I have made silly changes, when I havent, I wrote a geniuinely good article about Scunthorpe's graffiti problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackotheripper (talk • contribs) 15:32, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Persons of note from Scunthorpe (and surrounds)

Do Ian Botham and Kevin Keegan belong there? V 15:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Is there really such a person as Baron Scunthorpe ?

Category

I have removed the category "iron and steel mills" as there is not enough in the article on iron and steel to warrant that. If that section is expanded the category Category:Ironworks and steelworks in England should be added. Peterkingiron 13:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

few changes

The hill is called Mortal Ash, not Motlash.

The steelworks employs about 4500 people, not counting contractors.

No citation needed for reference to employment of Polish/Slovakian workers. Walk round the town and see for yourself!

The hill maybe called Mortal Ash but it is pronounced Motlash due to the local dialect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.226.217 (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality

This article is predominantly negative in many of its statements. These statements are often referenced by the high number of comments makes the article's neutrality disputed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TomGreen (talk • contribs) 22:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

The facts are as stated. They are not personal opinion nor are they lies or mis-truths. If no one can post information that is positive that should not be a criticism of information previously provided. Perhaps Scunthorpe is the kind of place that doesn't create positivity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.226.217 (talk) 19:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

book shops

i notice it says there are no book shops in the town centre, but we have a WH Smiths and The Works book shop in the main hight street —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.218.187 (talk) 11:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

As the man says you have no book shops. You need something like a Waterstones or a Borders. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.12.173 (talk) 18:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

A book shop is a shop that sells books more than anything else. The Works is clearly a book shop, albeit a low end one. There's also a couple of specialist bookshops and "Village Books" listed in Yellow Pages which seems to have an ebay shop at http://cgi3.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=beachboy2175 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.53.37.59 (talk) 11:23, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I have removed this again as there is absolutely no reason to state what is not in the location, we need to be talking about thing that the location has not what it has not. We could generate a whole long list of things that are not here and so it is pointless and uninformative. Keith D (talk) 15:14, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Parish Church

One comment ( Urbs sine cultura) says that Scunthorpe does not have a parish church ! I live in Scunthorpe and regularly attent the Parish Church of St Lawrence in Church Lane. Any explaination for this contradiction ? John —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.38.126 (talk) 08:29, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Please note that the Parish Church of Scunthorpe was St John's - it remains but has been decommissioned, just like an old nuclear power station. St Lawrence, which I also attended in the mid 70s, and where the organist was Jeffrey Blewett, is the parish church of FRODINGHAM. Please note. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.147.104 (talk) 21:44, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Saint Lawrence's is the parish church of Frodingham, not Scunthorpe, which was formed by a merger of the parishes of Appleby, Frodingham and Ashby

158.232.3.98 (talk) 12:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Scunthorpe grew rapidly in the 1860/70's due to the steelworks. Scunthorpe was a hamlet and the parish church they used was St Lawrence's. Then in 1890 St John's was built in the town for the growing population. The subsequent movement of resident's from the town centre to the suburbs and the decline in church attendance, saw St John's use fall into decline and eventual closure, it is now the 20-20 arts centre. The town is now made up of five parishes which were Ashby, Brumby, Frodingham, Crosby and Scunthorpe (Appleby is a village to the North of Scunthorpe) So St Lawrence's is now one of Scunthorpe's parish churches.

MBorrill (talk) 18:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Bot report : Found duplicate references !

In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

• "trustees" :
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  • The Charter Trustees Regulations 1996 (1996 No. 263 ) [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1996/Uksi_19960263_en_1.htm]

DumZiBoT (talk) 02:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 Done Keith D (talk) 11:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)