Hello Mouldy, You,ve said all that I was going to say about Gotham, especially about the pronunciation - 'Goat-ham is correct. The tales about wise fools are widespread. The natives of Wiltshire are called 'Moonrakers' for their alleged raking the pond for the moon's reflection. Similar tales can be found in Germany centred on a town called Bochum, I believe. I once called into a cafe near there built in a former windmill. Around the inner stair wall was a mural showing the antics of the Bochumers doing the same kind of thing as our Gothamites and Moonrakers. I must stress that this was in the 1950's so I may have the town named wrongly, but the tales were the same. Perhaps a German 'Catter has further information? By the way Mouldy - Long Eaton - got a lot of memories for me. Played football on West Park many times. Plenty of other memories too. I'm a Sandiacre lad myself.