Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Helston is associated with the Furri Dance or Floral Dance; the lyrics were written by Katie Moss but the music of the dance acquired widespread fame with the version recorded by the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band in 1977, a year before the Terry Wogan version.
Hugh Town is the location of the annual World Pilot Gig Championships (a Cornish Pilot Gig being a six-oared rowing boat, clinker-built of Cornish narrow-leaf elm). Another settlement which hosts a regular Cornish Pilot Gig regatta is Bembridge, I.O.W.
[EDIT] Comment: apparently the "Wine Lodge" suffix was dropped a few years ago. Now it's just Yates's.
Let's hope the Cheltenham establishment maintains the venerable tradition of "champagne on draught" pioneered at the Blackpool Yates's.
Bury has a statue of comedian Victoria Wood, whose brother Chris Foote Wood was a local councillor in Bishop Auckland for forty years, and was for six years leader of Wear Valley District Council, based in Crook, County Durham.
A ‘golf ball‘ shaped weather station installed at Tunstall has allegedly been blamed for a higher rate of cancers in the area. Similarly, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant has been blamed for a higher rate of cancers at nearby Seascale.
We are aware of an issue with emails from the Forum to Microsoft-based email accounts (hotmail/outlook/live.com email addresses). This is being looked into currently, thanks for your patience meanwhile.