Alphabet associations - I

[Resurrection Man]

Samuel Johnson !!

Perhaps the most famous event to have occurred in Uttoxeter is the penance of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's father ran a bookstall on Uttoxeter market, and young Samuel once refused to help out on the stall. When Johnson was older, he stood in the rain (without a hat) as a penance for his failure to assist his father. This event is commemorated with the Johnson Memorial, which stands in the Market Place, in the town centre and there is also an area of town called Johnson Road, which commemorates him.

[Resurrection Man]

Or there are these bells of St Mary's Uttoxeter

http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=43

[cloughie]

JCB were started in Uttoxeter

I'm guessing that The Bells of St Mary's was set in Uttoxeter

Sam, I draw a blank on

JCB - Bamford family from Uttoxeter
St Mary's Church has bells and has a Music festival.
Sam is the one with the Literary connection - a famous Sam had links with the town

[amateur51]

I didn't I've oly just got back - you are in the queue and no it's not Una.

Given you are displaying a short fuse about my commenting on your disappearances cloughie, it might be an idea to announce that you're planning to go & give us an idea of when you're going to be back.

Most others have managed to work this out for themselves

Hardly rocket science if I can do it

[Nick Armstrong]

Sam is the one with the Literary connection - a famous Sam had links with the town

Samuel Johnson

' A Lichfield bookseller, Johnson's father ran a stall on Uttoxeter market. One day, feeling too poorly to sell books, he asked his young son to stand in for him.

Johnson refused, and the refusal haunted him for the next 50 years.

So, when visiting Lichfield for the last time, he decided to make amends. Without a word to the friends with whom he was staying, Johnson rose before breakfast and travelled by post-chaise to Uttoxeter.

There, the elderly writer stood bare-headed in the pouring rain to "do away with the sin of disobedience".

When the market was at its busiest, he "stood before the stall which my father had formerly used, exposed to the sneers of the standers-by and the inclemency of the weather." '

[Resurrection Man]

Samuel Johnson !!

Perhaps the most famous event to have occurred in Uttoxeter is the penance of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's father ran a bookstall on Uttoxeter market, and young Samuel once refused to help out on the stall. When Johnson was older, he stood in the rain (without a hat) as a penance for his failure to assist his father. This event is commemorated with the Johnson Memorial, which stands in the Market Place, in the town centre and there is also an area of town called Johnson Road, which commemorates him.

Ummm..there's an echo here

[Nick Armstrong]

Ummm..there's an echo here

So there is, apologies... I read back as far as cloughie's summary and instantly went off to look for the literary Sam.

I prostrate myself and offer my cloak for you to walk upon to a Very well-deserved V

[cloughie]

Samuel Johnson !!

Perhaps the most famous event to have occurred in Uttoxeter is the penance of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's father ran a bookstall on Uttoxeter market, and young Samuel once refused to help out on the stall. When Johnson was older, he stood in the rain (without a hat) as a penance for his failure to assist his father. This event is commemorated with the Johnson Memorial, which stands in the Market Place, in the town centre and there is also an area of town called Johnson Road, which commemorates him.

That's it - on with the V. This crossed with the last request for Sam.

[amateur51]

Ummm..there's an echo here

Thank goodness for that I wasbeginning to doubt my reason there

[Resurrection Man]

Thanks, folks.

A V to link Cairo, AI and Usain Bolt !

An easy one

[cloughie]

Given you are displaying a short fuse about my commenting on your disappearances cloughie, it might be an idea to announce that you're planning to go & give us an idea of when you're going to be back.

Most others have managed to work this out for themselves

Hardly rocket science if I can do it

Sorry, mi 'ansome - reckon in future I'll just say I'm off - be back dreckly, mind you I might forget.

[cloughie]

Thanks, folks.

A V to link Cairo, AI and Usain Bolt !

An easy one

Is that AI as in eg Dairy cattle?

[amateur51]

Sorry, mi 'ansome - reckon in future I'll just say I'm off - be back dreckly, mind you I might forget.

fairy nuff - we do miss you, you know

[amateur51]

Is that AI as in eg Dairy cattle?

Or as in Turing?

[Resurrection Man]

No AI as in artificial intelligence