Weekend in Calne

[janaage]

I think I know who you might be Jan, do you have a younger brother? Did U wear a tam a shanti for the England v Scotland game in euro 96 at the jolly?

Yeah, rather embarrassingly I did, although I am the younger brother, unless there's something my mum and dad never  told me.

[Dostoyevsky]

Makes you appreciate how lucky you are living in Wiltshire once you've lived in places like St Anne's. I was born and brought up just around the corner from there in Hyson Green, which is arguable worse than St Anne's and when I moved to Wiltshire it was a real culture shock. Most of my family still live dotted around Nottingham but it's a relief to know my Children can go out in relative safety down here. As you can imagine we get lots of visits from my relatives who love this area and you wouldn't find them moaning about places like Calne. 

Good to be back in Calne. The guy I spoke to in the off license in St Annes told me not to stray into Hyson Green 
Calne is really not so bad as many on here make out. Certainly true Notts, we can go about our lives relatively unphased in Wiltshire, not having to worry unduly about where is safe or not to venture. Notts City centre is pretty good in fairness. Impressive central square, something that Swindon lacks. Infact where's our focal point?

[sonicyouth]

Haven't you heard of the seven wonders of Swindon?

http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/7wonders.html

[SuggWillSugg MBE]

Haven't you heard of the seven wonders of Swindon?

http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/7wonders.html

http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/7ws_3.html

Dr. Sugg's original design is a thing of sinuous beauty.

apparently one of my ancestors i've never heard of designed "The Double Helix of Carfax"

[Ardiles]

Infact where's our focal point?

Know what you mean.  I honestly cannot think of one.  Usually a public space outside the Town Hall or a market square etc. fronted by some architecture that means something.  If town planners hadn't butchered Swindon over the years, it might possibly have been Regents Circus...with a rejuvenated Baptist Tabernacle?

[Batch]

Infact where's our focal point?

The urinal/fountain or Wharf Green.

[Notts red]

Good to be back in Calne. The guy I spoke to in the off license in St Annes told me not to stray into Hyson Green 
Calne is really not so bad as many on here make out. Certainly true Notts, we can go about our lives relatively unphased in Wiltshire, not having to worry unduly about where is safe or not to venture. Notts City centre is pretty good in fairness. Impressive central square, something that Swindon lacks. Infact where's our focal point?

Glad you had a good weekend apart from the result, there's good and bad in everywhere just on different scales. I still enjoy going back to the places mentioned and seeing the changes, things go in cycles and areas what were once really run down aren't too bad now and vice versa. Towns like Calne are no worse than Trowbridge or Melksham, poor relations to the posher towns of Chippenham and Devizes   Anyway Dostoyevsky, you spent the night in St Anne's and lived to tell the tale  

[tans]

Infact where's our focal point?

Manny road

[4D]

Haha, how can you compare Calne to Nottingham, it's about 20 times the size.

[jayohaitchenn]

Good stuff...I got a bit confused earlier, when seeing Jayo who I thought was in Paris, but obviously not.

Sorry old boy, I'm going to Paris on Friday.

[mexico red]

I have never been to Calne and in fact I don't even know where it is.

[4D]

Just outside Brighton

[Reg Smeeton]

I have never been to Calne and in fact I don't even know where it is.

Often gets confused with Colne, which is in Lancashire, itself not to be confused with Koln, which Bomber Command reduced to dust 1942-45....Colne Dynamoes, were a sort of 80's Rushden and Diamonds, but were thwarted in their ambitions by the refusal of the Conference to admit them. I've never been to Colne, or Koln

[DMR]

Often gets confused with Colne, which is in Lancashire, itself not to be confused with Koln, which Bomber Command reduced to dust 1942-45....Colne Dynamoes, were a sort of 80's Rushden and Diamonds, but were thwarted in their ambitions by the refusal of the Conference to admit them. I've never been to Colne, or Koln

I do love a good fable Reginald but I can safely say I have never met anyone who confuses Colne with Calne

[Ardiles]

I have.