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A sign of my age I suppose, but the first names that came to mind were the Derby winning brothers, Blakeney and Morston, neighbouring Norfolk seaside villages.
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Is Upottery pronounced You Pottery?
Prolly not. The homepage of the village website http://www.upottery.com reads;
“The Parish of Upottery
(Up-Ottery)
in
The County of Devon”
A glance at the 1980 edition of the Hunter Chasers and Point-to-Pointer Annual sees the village, then the home of the Mid Devon point-to-point, rendered as two words rather than one.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
When I was young George Todd trained a number of horses named after villages in Berkshire, including my home village of Bradfield. I remember horses named Bucklebury, Yattendon and Thatcham and I’m sure there were more. I particularly remember a trip to Ascot when Bradfield earened me a bit of pocket money with a place in the Halifax Stakes at 100/7.
Rob
I’ve been to both Rochdale and Heywood often enough.
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How could I forget my favourite filly – Rochdale
Unlucky in the Prix Renaud Du Vivier behind Rock Noir last month, jockey went off too fast IMO
Is Upottery pronounced You Pottery?
Prolly not. The homepage of the village website http://www.upottery.com reads;
"The Parish of Upottery
(Up-Ottery)
Correct GC
Like the yank who supposedly refers to Lysester Square, ‘Youpottery’ is a little running joke down De’bn way, as Tor may appreciate
In a previous incarnation I spent a long sunny summer doing a bit of work and a lot of thisthatandtother on the Devon/Dorset coast and have been back several times since, so know the ‘otterys’ fairly well
Hi-de-Hi!
Edit: Who could forget (I did!) Otter Way and Ottery News. Won and placed in the Whitbread and the latter went on to be a good Hunter, if memory serves
I live in the GARNOCK VALLEY.
I do believe the connections had a horse called RIVER GARNOCK too.
Who could forget (I did!) Otter Way and Ottery News. Won and placed in the Whitbread and the latter went on to be a good Hunter, if memory serves.
Following a weekend in which plenty of talk was given over to how unusual victory for Overstrand would have been six years after first winning the same race, it seems proper to mention that Otter Way’s two victories for Oliver Carter in the Horse & Hound Cup were nine years apart – 1976 and 1985. Ottery News won the same event in 1981.
As regards the Whitbread, Otter Way’s 1976 win gave him a double in the same season that I don’t suppose too many horses have attained before or since. Ottery News was placed in it twice, but some of the great man’s other entrants in the race were hopeful in the extreme – weren’t Athford, Ashford Ditton and Tom’s Gemini Star all his?
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Is Upottery pronounced You Pottery?
Prolly not. The homepage of the village website http://www.upottery.com reads;
“The Parish of Upottery
(Up-Ottery)
Correct GC
Like the yank who supposedly refers to Lysester Square, ‘Youpottery’ is a little running joke down De’bn way, as Tor may appreciate
In a previous incarnation I spent a long sunny summer doing a bit of work and a lot of thisthatandtother on the Devon/Dorset coast and have been back several times since, so know the ‘otterys’ fairly well
Hi-de-Hi!
Did you maybe work at a holiday camp,Drone? I worked the holiday camp circuit in the mid to late 70s,but that was in Somerset.
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Did you maybe work at a holiday camp,Drone? I worked the holiday camp circuit in the mid to late 70s,but that was in Somerset.
Yep. Late ’70s here too, ‘twixt Exmouth and Lyme Regis. No names as the past has a nasty habit of coming back to haunt, and this forum is a tad Carlsberg-like
Not as the resident low-brow comedian you may have expected but just a humble barman in a truly hideous yellow-and-brown loud-check shirt with matching dickie-bow, and I felt about as comfortable in it as Jeffrey Fairbrother did when making eye contact with Gladys Pugh
Happy days
Butlins Minehead is/was a huge camp on the Somerset coast IIRC
I believe Minehead holiday camp still is a Butlins, Drone, and it is particularly loved by the organisers of alternative / post-punk / experimental / elctronica music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties, who host a couple of events there per year.
Only this last weekend the venue welcomed My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, De La Soul, E.P.M.D., Sun Ra Arkestra, The Horrors, Buzzcocks, Spectrum, ****** Up, Le Volume Courbe, The Wounded Knees, The Pastels, J Mascis And The Fog, Lilys, A Place To Bury Strangers, Witch, Bob Mould, Swervedriver, Dirty Three, Primal Scream, Yo La Tengo, Brightblack Morning Light, Serena Maneesh, The Membranes, Ariel Pink, Josh T. Pearson, Lightning Bolt, That Petrol Emotion, mum, Harmony Rockets, Th’ Faith Healers, School of Seven Bells, Robin Guthrie, No Age, The Robert Coyne Outfit, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Television Personalities, Gemma Hayes and The Tyde.
That’s a stellar festie line-up for my tastes, and the weekend also would have included use of chalets, all sports facilities, etc. Someone must have told ATP they’ve been overcharging in recent years, too, as the price of £160 is as low as I’ve ever seen for one of their weekenders – it was £210 a pop a few years back.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Wot no corpulent sweaty Sinatra-wannabe peering through the fug of a 1000 No.6s acompanied by the Watneyd’s shouts of ‘get off’?
Shame
‘an neeow the en is neeear an so a fyse the file cur-ayne’
Vic Reeves eechahartoot
Tenby when we had a family holiday at Manorbier Bay.
Killed two birds with one stone there Moehat. Wasn’t Manorbier a half-decent sprint handicapper from a few years ago?
The castle ruins at Manorbier is worth a visit too…
3.00pm Lingfield….Farncombe. It’s near Godalming in Surrey and has the best Curry House on the planet. Farncombe Tandoori. Anyone been there?!?!
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