Marquis Reunion

Anyone from around Worksop going to the Marquis of Granby reunion this
Saturday?

 

Anyone from around Worksop going to the Marquis of Granby reunion this

If you've never been, then no not really - they demolished the Marquis in
1988 and built Toymaster on the site.

It used to be one of the original rock/biker pubs in Worksop during the
1970s and 1980s.
Someone had this idea of a reunion for the ex-regulars.
They've sold around 200 tickets so far' surprisingly - I didn't think that
many of us were still alive :-D

Dave

 

Rope says...

Obviously.

Had your house egged recently? Ross had any more stuff thrown at his
moped?

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"> I assume you are in this area?

Yeah. I'm from Worksop. I'm one of those sad bastards who still lives within
a half mile of where he was born......

You fancy meeting up sometime then?

Doubt it. The chavs/plankton seem to have started thriving in the last 12
months.
Is he a pest control officer?

Dave

 

Big Dave says...

I moved out of Worksop 3 years ago. I lived behind the Little Chef, in
the nice bit.

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that's around here somewhere.

 

Bear says...

One side of the A57 is really nice. The other is the main town and not
so nice. I lived in the nice bit, which is a very very small part of
Worksop.

Rope lives elsewhere, near Worksop in the sticks where the inbreds are.

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Lozzo
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backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

It was rather nice actually.

Euwwwww.

 

Beelzebub says...

I thought so, as did everyone who visited me there. It had a real
community spirit without being intrusive, and crime was virtually
unheard of. I had the best neighbours there that I've ever had. It did
help that almost everyone up my road had a bike.

Precisely

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Lozzo
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backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

One side of the A57 is really nice. The other is the main town and not

Ahh! That'll be Knigton Fields. Ten-bob millionaires the fucking lot of
them.
An estate full of strippers and schoolteachers.
Amongst others.


Inbreds....Near Worksop....Well.....
That'll either be Manton than.
Or maybe Gainsborough which isnt Worksop at all really.

 

Big Dave says...

St Annes Road area.

Same thing where I come from

Try a bit further south, just off the A1 near Markham Moor. Now you get
the picture?

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Lozzo
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GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

Try a bit further south, just off the A1 near Markham Moor. Now you get

Oh, I know where Tuxford is!
I just try not to think about it too much.

 

Rope says...

It's true though. I lived in the nicest part of Worksop. It was new,
clean, tidy, crime-free and a joy to live in. I knew that the rest of
Worksop wasn't as nice purely by reading the local rag and driving
through places like Manton. Overall the whole town was a lot nicer than
people from outside the town made it out to be. In nearly 3 years of
living there and drinking in town on a weekend I didn't see one punch
up, which is a marked contrast to the 3 or 4 I'd see every night if I
went out in Bedford.

It's all relative. While the other side of Worksop may not be as nice as
where I lived, it's all a damn sight better than Bedford.

I really liked Worksop and would move back there in a flash given the
chance. I'd certainly look for a place around where I lived before
because I know I really liked it there and still have friends in the
area.

Absolute rubbish. As Darsy once said, I'm a consumate professional when
at work.

Think 'open books'. You lay yourself wide open for it.

But you're not a local, you're a relatively new incomer. Why should this
bother you? I thought it was the local inbred youths who were giving
your family grief?


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Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

Heh, the bin compound at the landscaped end of the carpark?



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Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

1200 Bandit

Nope.
Didn't know they did them from there!

Are there any decent bike clubs in the area these days?

BTW: what the **** is a "track pixie"?

Dave

 

Big Dave says...

Dunno any more. I used to pop along to a couple of local bike meets and
have chips in Matlock bath on a Sunday. Apart from that I pretty much
roda alone or visited ukrmers.

I could tell you, but then I'd have to send the elves to tickle you.

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Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

Pixies? Elves?
Lozzo, have you been eating funny fungus?

(cue: three days of goblin/fairy/gnome jokes)

Dave

 

One side of the A57 is really nice. The other is the main town and not

Look. I'll set the record straight.
I'm born and bred (NOT inbred, before you start!) in Worksop. Its a fucking
dump. All of it. There isn't a nice part any more!
I stopped going into the town centre of an evening cos I cant be arsed with
all the trouble.
There's always some twat in, either a burberry baseball cap or a pair of
matalan sports trousers wanting to take a pop at you.
Its not fucking worth it anymore.
Its not much better out of town.
We spend three and a half grand on new doore and windows for the house.
They hadn't been in for more than two weeks before some twat smashed part of
the trim on the front door!

There were only two proper "biker" pubs in town: The Frog & Nightgown and
The Lock tavern.
The Frog is now run by some obnoxious little twat who tried to drop me and
my boys in it with the pigs.
The Lock is now "trendy" and called The Waterfront and a refuge for every
piece of scum ever put on Pubwatch.

Rant Over.
Dave

 

Big Dave says...

That's really sad to hear. A total contrast to the Worksop I knew not so
long ago. Me and my boss used to end up in that club at the bottom of
town, Avenues?. I liked it in there, eveeryone was so approachable and
you could stand and chat to some unknown burd without having a drink
thrown over you. Do the same in Bedford and you'd have a glass across
your face before you'd got the first sentence over with.

I'm honestly saddened to hear it's gone downhill so fast. I loved it up
there. Where I lived, in St Annes Way it was a proper little community,
but not in an obtrusive way.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

That's really sad to hear. A total contrast to the Worksop I knew not so

Well. There are still people like that around. They just don't bother with
the town anymore.
Even my boys (19y.o. and 22y.o.) don't bother too much.
You don't get glassed in town, but you can't stand up against 5 onto 1 odds
for very long can you?

Worst place I *ever* went drinking in was Hull.
Now that place is *really* bad.

Piss taking aside, its not a bad bit of Worksop. Did you know any of this
lot: Marc Coupe, Dave Tomlinson, Dave Wild or Sylvia May?

Amusing Footnote :
One mate of mine bought a house down there when they were first built and
paid cash for it. I mean *really* paid cash for it: He walked into the sales
office and dropped a briefcase on the desk with 75grand in it and said "I
want that one" (Well almost like that ;-) But he *did* pay in 50quid notes)

Dave

 

Rope says...

I've had some really good nights out on the piss in Hull with my friend
Mika. It's a bit rough there, but not really any worse than a lot of
other towns I've been to. Still beats Bedford for friendliness imo.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.