BS: where is gainsborough

Subject: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,folkie
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:54 PM

Where is Gainsborough folk club.Where is Gainsborough? It sounds good enough for a visit.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 09:00 PM

Can you narrow it down to a continent or island please?

IF it's the UK, there are several location finders that let you put in the postcode of the venue you are after and then shows you the best route there. But if it's in Alabama, it doesn't work so well.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:10 AM

This is what Gainsborough looks like.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: ossonflags
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:30 AM

Thats nice Paul,I havent been there since 1945.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:33 AM

If you click on this link and then zoom out too about 100,000 to 1 you will get a good idea. It is in the UK

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=480000&Y=390000&width=500&height=300&gride=481492&gridn=390117&srec=0&coo

Here is the link to Gainsborough Folk Club website

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/gainsboroughfolk/

Pop in this Friday, you will be most welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:37 AM

I used to have a Gainsborough water heater in the kitchen. Dunno where it is now though...

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:55 AM

Didn't they make 'bodice ripper' type films in the 1940's? Fanny by Gaslight was one of theirs......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: R. Padgett
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 10:58 AM

Gainsborough is in the Uk, in Lincolnshire

I get when I can; it is held once every 2 weeks and alternates with Market Rasen FC, also in Lincolnshire

The Gainsboro club I get to via A1 travelling from the North, The Blyth (i think spelling ok) roundabout and go to Bawtry (near Doncaster) It's sort of on the border of Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire/Lincolnshire ~ (actually just in Lincolnshire) side of the Canal, on the Trent river

Anything different no doubt I will be corrected as usual

Used to be at Eight Jolly Brewers but isnt now ~ check out their thread information

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:26 AM

I had a caravn called a Gainsborough. OOPS! Not supposed to tel people that!

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:41 PM

Gainsborough Folk Club moved from the Eight Jolly Brewers over a year ago to a bigger venue - the Drovers Call (quite near to Gainsborough station). A friendly welcome assured to a friendly visitor!

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: R. Padgett
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 03:33 PM

yes I remember now turn right over the canal bridge not left!!

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:01 PM

I have a friend who lives in Gainsborough and I visit a couple of times a year but have managed to miss any musical pursuits unfortunately.There is a nice Blues Club there and my buddy says the Folk Club can be quite good at times but they won't let him join because he is under 75 and lacks the prerequisite beard.LOL.Love the Jolly Brewers Pub a stonesthrow away from Wetherspoons and the other one opposite with the Pool Table down the left hand side.

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:40 PM

Ah but the "Blues Club" is not a musical blues club

Gerry

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 01:48 AM

Then why is it called the Blues Club Gerry?

Gainsborough has got a golf club as well.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 04:01 AM

The Blues are Gainsborough Trinity (The round ball game)
We have blues at the folk club though.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 04:40 AM

Whats wrong with your cookies Mrs Sooz?

The Blues Club - didn't real;ise Gerry liked ball games !!!!. Of course I have been there a few times. Had drinks in the directors room - whooooooooooooooooo

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: R. Padgett
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 09:27 AM

Sooz
Are we to take it that your home pc is playing up and that you are accessing Mudcat from a 'borrowed' pc?

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 01:08 PM

No Ray, but I can't stay logged on for more then a nanosecond at the moment. Joe Offer assures me that its just part of Mudcats overall problems and will be resolved when all the new hardware is in service.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:06 PM

The only ball game I'm interested in,Les is Test Cricket

Gerry

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 07:20 PM

Maybe the OP should switch from Google to Ask when searching the web.

The club doesn't rate a place in the first 70 results for "gainsborough folk club" on Google but comes in at number one in Ask.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 04:50 AM

Thats a load of cobblers Guest

I just typed it into Google and it was the first on the list.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 04:51 AM

Yes gerry bring on the next test - can't wait

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 06:26 AM

Someone told me there's a festival coming up in the next few weeks? Any info? (Maybe my informant had just misinterpreted some reference to the Bakewell happening.)


Banjo-Flower, months ago I got tickets for the first three days at Trent Bridge, so I suppose I might as well turn up, even though the Aussis are on a roll (371 in the fourth innings against the best bowling line-up in the world ain't bad). Still England beat them in 1977. And that wasn't the first time. They won in 1930. And 1905. So they might at least hold out for one of those tedious draws.

I'd apologise for thread drift, except that this doesn't seem to count as drift in a Gainsborough thread.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 06:54 AM

We do have a festival coming up 21st - 23rd October
Mike and I envy your tickets for Trent Bridge Peter - this will be the first year for ages we have missed the test there. However, Notts increased the membership fee and did some jiggery pokery with ticket availability so we decided to give it a miss this year.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 12:20 PM

Stupid question. It's like saying "Where is the sun?". Gainsborough, or more specifically Gainsborough Folk Club, is the centre of the known universe, around which all other heavenly bodies circulate. Some of them even have belly button rings.
S:0)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 02:45 PM

The mind boggles.
I have neither a heavenly body nor a belly button ring. (In case anybody was wondering!)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 03:15 PM

I think Strollin' has finally flipped it LOL :-)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 05:09 PM

Someone has to ask this so it might as well be me

"HAVE YOU GOT A BELLYBUTTON RING STROLLIN JOHNNY"
and no I do n't want to see it if you have,thank you very much

Gerry

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 05:17 PM

Not so much a Belly button ring as a dull clanking sound! Strange musical instrument Johns Belly button LOL.
Gainsborough is the here and now....the bees knees....as someone said the centre of the universe. Folk Festival in October...detailds from Sooz.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 05:45 PM

Villan, not cobblers at all. Do a UK search at google.co.uk and Fenfolk is top of the list. I gave up looking for your club after seven pages.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 12:03 AM

Hi Guest
I have just done it again on Google.co.uk, which is what I always use.

GFC is top of the list.

Incidentally, it is not my club, I run the Market Rasen Folk Club. However, I do attend GFC almost every time.


What exactly are you typing in?

I am typing
Gainsborough Folk Club

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,weelittledrummer
Date: 19 Aug 05 - 05:55 AM

People are slow to give Gainsborough its due.

For me.......and other people who know Gainsborough, its right up there with Retford.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 09:26 AM

Belated thanks for the festival info Sooz. I think my next-door-neighbour was talking about something sooner than that, so maybe he was indeed confused about Bakewell, or perhaps there's a bluegrass/old-time event coming up (he's into that). Anyway, I'll pass on your link.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 05:34 PM

Gainsborough Folk Club had around thirty attenders on Friday evening last....of which 22 were performers...Not bad at all since many clubs close down during the summer months for holiday time!
Anyone on holiday in Lincolnshire or within striking distance...come along and enjoy a great evening...not to mention a first class welcome from all. I might even buy you a drink!(NO THAT DOES NOT APPLY TO REGULARS) Next meeting at the Drovers Call on Lea Road (Lincoln Road from Gainsborough) on Friday 2nd September.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: DannyC
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:07 PM

Gainesborough Farm (Route 60 West - past Versailles on the road to Frankfort) is owned by the Royals of Dubai.   I think it's become part of the broader Darley empire.

The farm got plenty of attention last year when a colt named "Smarty Jones" ran undefeated thru the Kentucky Derby and The Preakness Stakes, only to be beaten late in the cruel 12 furlongs of The Belmont.   Smarty's sire, "Elusive Quality" is a Gainesborough stallion.

They also stand "Shadeed" and "Quiet American" in their complex. It's like a garden. It's like a fortress.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 12:37 PM

DannyC - learn to spel :-)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 12:59 PM

Yes your smelling is bad.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 01:11 PM

GS
I gope you hot mlenty of poney.
I heard that chere is a toachload of 40 Homing from cull. They just couldn't piss out on you muying them a bint LOL :-)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 03:21 PM

You mean El Ted and John from Hull and Ossonflags and the delightfully beautiful "SWEETFIA"...I'll buy Sweetie a drink anyday.... Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,weelittledrummer
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:01 AM

and will we be hearing a hymn of praise to this jewel in the crown of fair Lincolnshire in the nest week or two?

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: s&r
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 06:29 AM

This is what I got on Google

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 07:21 AM

If them 'Ull lads and lasses are coming, we'd better make sure the landlord of the Drovers gets an extra barrel of binge in, I hear they're all binge drinkers.
S:0)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 03:38 PM

don't forget! some extra mirrors in the bog - for last minute adjustment to their smirks

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:25 PM

I was talking with a guy from Hull last week and suggested to him that I had thought of moving there but was completely put off the idea by the recent revelation that Hull is officially the worst place in England to live.
He told me it was all rubbish and that he had lived in Hull all his life without any real trouble coming his way.
I asked him what he did for a living and he told me he was:-.......................................................

               Tail Gunner on an ice cream van!

Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 01:20 AM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 02:36 AM

I had a chorus but I could do with some help with the verses - for the Write a Lincolnshire folksong thing

Gainsborough!
By Gum
Its all right for some
Its a nice little place to drink beer
and sit and scratch your bum

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: GUEST,Sooz sans cookie
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 03:52 AM

Is that your entry then, Al? I am completely uninspired this year and the closing date is next week.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 07:16 AM

"The Lincolnshire Bum-Scratcher" - now there's a title. Where's me pencil...................

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 01:08 PM

Typical 'strollin' so easily lead.....or is it led? LOL Now we know never to borrow a pencil from you at least.....reminds me of the constipated mathematician who could always work it out with a pencil!
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:21 PM

There was a young man called Thatcher
Who was well known for being a flasher
But one day he dropped his pants
And was stung by the ants
He's now called the Gainsborough Bum Scratcher

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:39 PM

The Gainsborough bum scratcher they say,
Scratched his bum with a pencil one day,
Pierced his bum with the lead,
Then was laid up in bed,
But for only a year and a day.

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:45 PM

An old bum scratcher called Mc Millan,
Scratched his bum until it had nil in.
He addressed the whole nation,
On his lack of constipation,
His real name you know (It's The Villan)

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Rasener
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:34 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 07:19 PM

Sorry for making you the 'butt' of my limerick Les..LOL

Subject: RE: BS: where is gainsborough
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 06:17 AM

So Guest Folkie..... are you any further forward with your quest? Has knowing where Gainsborough is helped....can we help? Where are you and are we to be graced by a visit from you?. You would be most welcome.
Best wishes, Mike.