New Forum for Plymouth

Dane. wrote:

why are you not authorising me ? don't put me in the same bracket as that loon

You've been authorised Dane, did it just before I posted about pt.

Mrrapson wrote:

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Not sure what to do about mr thomas. He's tried joining twice now. Haven't authorised either as yet. No attempt to use  a dodgy email address though.

Let him on - he'll only use another address. He soon gives himself away. ATD has him on here all the time. In fact I have it on good authority that he constitutes about a third of our membership.

I think the Thomas and Newell examples are reasons why a forum 'as such' will not work, but with a little thought and a different perspective the problems can be got over.

knecht wrote:

Mrrapson wrote:

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Not sure what to do about mr thomas. He's tried joining twice now. Haven't authorised either as yet. No attempt to use  a dodgy email address though.

Let him on - he'll only use another address. He soon gives himself away. ATD has him on here all the time. In fact I have it on good authority that he constitutes about a third of our membership.

Against my better judgement ive let him on, will wait and see what he gets up to. He's used a genuine ip an genuine email so had to give him benefit of the doubt. a decision i may regret soon!

Nice easy registration process Mr R....... another forum will help to keep me off Farmville at least!  

mannameadbabe wrote:

Nice easy registration process Mr R.......  another forum will help to keep me off Farmville at least!  

Lol, thanks MB, all authorised.

You could become the official mediation site for the two sites Raps, a little bit of Geneva in Plymouth.

Mrrapson wrote:

mannameadbabe wrote:

Nice easy registration process Mr R.......  another forum will help to keep me off Farmville at least!  

Lol, thanks MB, all authorised.

I think it's a great idea - and it has a nice look and feel to it.

the fact the wannabe MP for hypocrisy is on it means i'll pass. Why is this forum top in the links and shorten the names chem please

Lee Jameson is not on there. There are many many Lee's around.

The lee on the site is a very close personal friend who plays on my football team.

Please don't make assumptions.

This forums the one for me, not flouncing

Hows it going ?

Slow

Slow, very few posters, oh and a prolific contributor already.  

Good idea though. I wish you all the best with it. But for me -I'm out.

Person Of Interest wrote:

Slow, very few posters, oh and a prolific contributor already.  

Good idea though. I wish you all the best with it. But for me -I'm out.

Staking his claim to be more Plymouth than anybody else no doubt.

There's this one too: http://plymouthhistoryforum.forumotion.co.uk/

I see at the top of Leigh's new site it says, "Register Now: Very Special Q&A Session Coming Soon"

Read more: http://www.plymouthforum.boards.net/#ixzz2tZhJovoq

That could mean anyone from Leigh himself, through Rosie what'sername to even Tudor Evans. One of those would be interesting. Watch that space.

Makes Celebra's effort look like facebook.  
There's no readership for it. No wonder the pannier market is on it's knees.
Old man's stuff, and IJN's participation certainly doesn't help.
Dead on it's feet.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

There's this one too: http://plymouthhistoryforum.forumotion.co.uk/

I vaguely remember seeing that yonks ago. It doesn't look like anyone has used it since May 2013. A pity - it looks a good idea.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

There's this one too: http://plymouthhistoryforum.forumotion.co.uk/

Though not a forum, this site http://www.plymouthdata.info/index.htm is excellent for any historical facts about Devon's finest City.

Hi-jacking this forum on Leigh's new site ...... does anyone remember the pub at the junction of Coburg Street and Western Approach. It stood there pre-roundabout at the junction where there were traffic-lights. I think I remember it as a Starkey's pub - it certainly had that brewery's black horse sign. It clearly was an old building.

What was it called.

I've just been reading around Starkey's ales & found this wonderful story:
"A dead rat was found floating in a beer vat at Messrs. Starkey, Knight and Ford’s Tiverton brewery on Sunday morning… Yesterday, watched by Customs and Excise officials, 1,600 gallons of beer went down the drain.

Western Morning News, 1 June 1948."

What a waste of all that beer!

The old' Porto I think, as in Oporto ? Stood all on it's own in a desert. Propped up by boards as is the Grand Theatre pub to this day.

Winter Green wrote:

The old' Porto I think, as in Oporto ? Stood all on it's own in a desert. Propped up by boards as is the Grand Theatre pub to this day.

That sounds like it. Even then, when I was young, I recognised it was a very old building. It was demolished long before I managed to get into pubs.

I wish I had taken my camera out & captured bits of old Plymouth that's no longer there or have changed completely. Like the old car sales room at the junction of Cobourg Street & North Hill. Or the indoor market next to where Burton's used to be. Or the Gaumont cinema that was where TJ Hughes was recently (my mum was proud of having seen The Glenn Miller Band there). Or the lay-out of Crownhill Road - Tavistock Road junction, complete with the Victorian barracks before the massive new road was built there.

knecht wrote:

Winter Green wrote:

The old' Porto I think, as in Oporto ? Stood all on it's own in a desert. Propped up by boards as is the Grand Theatre pub to this day.

That sounds like it. Even then, when I was young, I recognised it was a very old building. It was demolished long before I managed to get into pubs.

I wish I had taken my camera out & captured bits of old Plymouth that's no longer there or have changed completely. Like the old car sales room at the junction of Cobourg Street & North Hill. Or the indoor market next to where Burton's used to be. Or the Gaumont cinema that was where TJ Hughes was recently (my mum was proud of having seen The Glenn Miller Band there). Or the lay-out of Crownhill Road - Tavistock Road junction, complete with the Victorian barracks before the massive new road was built there.

If it's the pub you're talking about,it was called the Oporto.Before my time but it's featured in "Vanishing Plymouth" by someone called Brian Moseley,brilliant book published in 1982 [you can still get it on Amazon].It was at the top of York Street,apparently it was a Pops House pub,a local division of Popplestone and co.Must admit to having something of a fascination with old Plymouth-was York Street just about where the Copthorne is now?