Greatest Yorkshireman Vote

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Greatest Yorkshireman ever

  1. Geoff Boycott

    13 vote(s)
    16.9%

  2. Fred Truman

    13 vote(s)
    16.9%

  3. James Martin

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%

  4. Eric Pickles

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  5. Dickie Bird

    6 vote(s)
    7.8%

  6. Bernard Ingham

    1 vote(s)
    1.3%

  7. William Hague

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%

  8. Leonard Parkin

    1 vote(s)
    1.3%

  9. nota

    39 vote(s)
    50.6%
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  1. Mrs

    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    Mi Grandad good shart al bet a few have missed him and mi father anall.
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    That weren`t Joseph Priestley it were Jean-Michel Jarre.
     
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    Arthur Scargill anyone.
     
    upthecolliers, Feb 28, 2018
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    Billy Casper and what did we breath afore that bloke discovered oxygen.
     
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    None, and I mean NONE of the above!. :eek:
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    Smog extra strong.
     
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    Apart from all the medical treatments, (adam Jackson last night for example) pure oxygen is used in loads of other applications. Ask any metal worker for starters
     
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    Joseph Locke
     
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    Gets my vote , “she was the princess of the night”
     
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    James Hudson Taylor or Titus Salt

    JHT was unknowingly responsible possibly for the current Chinese ownership of BFC and links between Barnsley and China. Hudson Taylor found his calling as a missionary in China. Revered by many Chinese to this day.

    Titus Salt one of the greatest examples of a man born into wealth and privilege who, nevertheless, believed those who worked for him should be afforded dignity and treated with respect rather than exploited and discarded. An example of a philanthropist, whose paternalistic approach to employing people long term and looking after them inspired loyalty, something that modern day capitalism, Globalisation and large Corporations are no longer interested in.
    Who on Earth drew that 'shallow' list of relative nobodies up? There are many engineers e.g. Joseph Locke Joseph Bramah, scientists, e.g. Joseph Priestley writers e.g. Ted Hughes Alan Bennett J.B.Priestley, John Harrison self educated carpenter and clockmaker who solved the problem of longitudinal Navigation at sea saving tens of thousands of lives with his accurate maritime clock when all the famous scientists of the day could not William Wilberforce, and many more, any
    y number of which make the OP list look ridiculous.

    My own personal favourite is missing only because he messed up - born and raised in York - I give you Guido (Guy) Fawkes!!!
     
    Tekkytyke, Feb 28, 2018
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    Thought exactly the same Mr C
     
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    Brian Glover
     
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    Our Lass - she wears the trousers and has a cracking tash !!
     
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    Mi Dad.
     
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    They're all Tories.
     
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    I think he quite possibly could be the most undercelebrated yorkshireman in history - and quite possibly the rightful claimant to the title.

    Whilst his peers Isambard Kingdom Brunel and George Stephenson built the steam engines which brought about the industrial revolution - where would they be without the track...

    Isambard and George lye at number 2 and 65 respectivley in the greatest ever britons - but they wouldn't have got out of the starting blocks without Locke's track.

    Can you imagine the children of Portsmout and Durham not being taught about their towns greatest sons and their engineering prowess..... yet in Barnsley theres nowt in our schools about this great man. Probably becuase he had a few bob so he's obviously a Tory
     
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    Jack Fulton

    Pioneer of frozen food
     
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    William Haugue!
     
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    What no Brian Blessed?

    Awful list of candidates, if pressed I would vote for Dickie Bird.
     
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    Joan Collins fan club !
     
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