Our Glorious Golden BRITISH Jubilee

Knowing you it would probably be Patti Boulaye.

I do hope Jubilee nuts will Google this thread.

The World Cup coinciding with the jubilee is the best thing about it, in that at least something else will be all over the TV. And I have digital telly now so it's not as if I have to live by the terrestrial agendas. FWIW, the England football team commemorated the last jubilee 25 years back by losing at Wembley to both Wales and Scotland within four days - maybe the horribly anglocentric vision of the whole thing inspired the Celtic nations to play above themselves?

The Radio Times of 1977, and the radio and television programmes listed therein, reveal a nation of loyal subjects, intensely connected to their past through the mystic ties of blood and tradition. The people were kind, quiet, gentle, friendly and, above all else, loyal. I cannot believe the kind of broadcasting we have now, and the values it conveys, except that it is all around us, and we have to work out, somehow, how to get ourselves out of it. Now that the great Sir Richard Body has retired as an MP we have virtually no connection left with our former independence. If I do not survive this depressing "Jubilee Year" - actually a pale shadow of 1977 in all meaningful senses - I have asked for the phrase "He Died For England" to appear on my gravestone.

Yours etc., Lt-Col Anthony Sanderson (retd.), 31-33, Oundle Road, FOTHERINGHAY, Northamptonshire.

^^^Could have sworn I was the only person on ILX to ever mention Oundle.

Maybe I'm thinking about Olney or Little Doddington.

Has this never been discussed on ILM:

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Oundle's an odd place.

Us inner city N'pton lads never really got the chance to see it.

I mean, fucking Round Spinney was exotic to us Cotton kids.

I went to see Northampton Town once when they still played on the cricket pitch.

At the County Ground, yeah. Used to get a bus to work down that road, when I was selling magazines to the blind over at Moulton Park.

I had to catch a bus to Northampton recently! It's one of those places that I have no idea where it is, or what the people there sound like, or anything

The Northampton accent is pretty easy to obtain, just refuse to pronounce half of the letters in the alphabet, especially "g", "n", "h", and "t". "Eighteen" is pronounced, in Northamptonian, as "ay-ee"

I've been to Corby a few times, the people sound like they're from Govan.

Indeed. Northampton accent is Midlands-ish, isn't it? I only found that out recently, I thought it was Southern.

Southerners think I sound like I'm from the Midlands, Northern's think I sound like I'm from London, so, I dunno.

Corby has the biggest percentage Scottish community outside of Scotland. Completely coincidentally, it also has some of Britain's highest unemployment and heroin addiction figures.

From what I've seen if I lived there I'd try and be permanently high too.

They all went down to work in the steelworks, didn't they?

Yeah. I grew up in a little South Staffs pit town and we had a fair-sized Scottish population too.

I've been to Corby a few times, the people sound like they're from Govan.

Aye Corby's kind of mental - like a little pocket of Scotland in the middle of nowhere.

I've got (very) distant relatives in Corby!

Which were then closed down about 30 years later, yeah.

They're trying to sell Corby as the next big urban regeneration spot in the UK. Which considering it's by far the biggest town without a train station in England, and is about two hours from London, will be a bit of an achievement.
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Corby smells of dry vinegar as well. I have no idea why.

Sure it's not non-brewed condiment?

I too have relatives in Corby. My cousin's husband was born and raised in Northamptonshire and sounds more Scottish than me.

Scottish kids I went to school with would all talk in the same West Midlands accent as me until they were speaking to each other, then it was pure Glasgow.

I went to see Northampton Town once when they still played on the cricket pitch.

I think I did too. Was it when it only had three sides (the forth being open)? Or something like that.

^^^Correct. I believe this question pops up in the occasional pub quiz.

The ground had 3 sides, the fourth was on the cricket pitch and it was roped off, I think you could pay to stand there? Dom would know better than me. This was after Bradford, so due to restrictions I think there were about 400 seats in the whole ground.

xpost Yeah they were the last football league side to play on a cricket pitch but I think Sheff Utd did until the 60s maybe?

Oh, apparently Bramall Lane was used as a cricket ground until 1973.

I only ever saw two games at the County Ground, on account of only being 12 when Sixfields opened, and having a father from Palermo meant that a love of the Cobblers wasn't exactly instilled in me at birth (Giuseppe Furino, on the other hand...), so I can't exactly remember. I think you're right, though.

A friend of my Dad's was a League linesman in the late 80s/early 90s so we used to go to all sorts of comedy grounds for free.

I mentioned Oundle public school in a laboured C4rmody gag once, I'm sure.

missed my chance to buy that TG DVD set :(