megilleland Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Not sure if the title is right for this topic, but a place to add people who you think have put Hereford and the County on the map through their lives, careers and interests. It should be a long list - just add a name and a link for further information if you have it. I will start with John Bulmer as his photography inspired me to think about this. John Bulmer - http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/photography-biography/Photographer and film maker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megilleland Posted February 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Mott the Hoople - an English rock band with strong R&B roots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Martin Chambers,drummer with the pretenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megilleland Posted February 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 and also from the Pretenders, both of whom had tragic endings to their life. James Honeyman-Scott Pete Farndon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Denise Lloyd Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 I went to see Mott the Hoople at Presteigne lots of years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Revd John Venn. He was vicar of St Peter’s Church in the 19th century and Hereford's greatest philanthropist who worked tirelessly for the welfare of the city’s poor. He set up the Hereford Society for Aiding the Industrious in 1833 (which is still doing good work today) and brought baths, allotments, a corn mill (now Berrows House) and a soup kitchen to people in Bath Street and Portfields. Buried in Commercial St graveyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reel Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Ellie Goulding (Born: Elena Jane Goulding) Lyonshall, Herefordshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biomech Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Pffft, if you want notable people from Hereford..... Yoda ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SON OF GRIDKNOCKER Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Megilleland: Here are five more local heroes for you to add to the name of John Bulmer: Brian Hatton, Violette Szabo, Thomas Traherne, John Venn and Alfred Watkins. For my money, Violette Szabo is the most shamefully under-recognised of them all (put her name into Wikipedia's search engine to find out what she did). Finally, can I suggest an illustration to head up your dedicated website page? Tom Denny's amazing Trehearne stained glass windows in Hereford Cathedral (easily Googled). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Kevin Sheedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkester Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Um, wasn't Kevin Sheedy born in Builth Wells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkester Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Beryl Reid! Wasn't she born in Hereford? Or did I dream that one up?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Not quite Hereford but believe it or not but Horatio Nelson was from Monmouth there is a good listing here. Frank Oz like Biomech has already mentioned and Sean Hince for Visual Effects is also from Hereford and David Garrick, now on the plate pictures above it says he was born in 1716 yet on IMDB here it states 1717? Richard Hammond (Top Gear) lives in Weston under Penyard (Ross on Wye). Andy Mcnab (Author and former SAS soldier). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubique Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Grid Knocker said .............For my money, Violette Szabo is the most shamefully under-recognised of them all (put her name into Wikipedia's search engine to find out what she did) Could not agree more, a very courageous lady . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Albert Lee, one of the very best guitar players in the world, comes from Lingen in N Hfds. He occasionally plays in Hereford, when not in the studio or on tour with everyone from Clapton downwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubique Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 John Blashford-Snell (Col) - Explorer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megilleland Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Tom Spring (February 22, 1795 – August 20, 1851) was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He was heavyweight champion of England from 1821 until his retirement in 1824. Spring was born at Witchend in Fownhope, Herefordshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 I believe there is a memorial to him just off the Fownhope to Woolhope road - it's signposted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SON OF GRIDKNOCKER Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 @ Ubique: Two years ago, when the Edgar Street Grid was but a twinkle in the eye of Hereford Futures' MD Jonathan Bretherton, I wrote to him and said that towards the end of the scheme (like now), they would surely be scratching around to find names for all the scheme's walks and squares and alleyways. And wouldn't it be nice if one was named Szabo Square. Never even received an acknowledgement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 When Cllr Adrian Blackadder was pushing through the OLM, a friend met him and suggested that the '1% for art' should include a statue of John Venn, to which he responded that he'd never heard of him. Says it all really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biomech Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 I still think Yoda trumps all of those. Why don't we have a statue of Yoda in the OLM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SON OF GRIDKNOCKER Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Wishful thinking on my part, I suppose. Shoppers don't want to be reminded of a 23-year-old SOE wartime heroine executed by the SS in Ravensbruek, when there are so many more ably-qualified contenders for 'municipal recognition' across the Edgar Street Grid's pedestrianised shopping paradise. What Stanhope should give us is a Jarvis Plaza in front of the Multiplex, a Blackshaw Boulevard, a Wilcox Walk, a Phillips Passage and a very grand Olwyn Avenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Violette Szabo is commemorated with a statue on the new Greenway route, along with Elgar (again) and Paralympian Josie Pearson MBE. According to the plaque, these were chosen by the 'local community' although no one from the local community recalls being consulted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biomech Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 ^^ I hope that's not the final product? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SON OF GRIDKNOCKER Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 There's a rather fine Szabo bust of London's Embankment and of course there's the Szabo Museum at Wormelow (open April-October), but I'd still like Stanhope / British Land to cough up for something in cast bronze on a Herefordshire sandstone plinth somewhere on the ESG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SON OF GRIDKNOCKER Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Re Two Wheels' 'thumbnails' (above): like just about everything that that motley crew down at Rotherwas come up with - naff in the extreme! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 ^^ I hope that's not the final product? Actually it is. Obviously its all been under water for several weeks because the Env Agency wouldn't let them lift it a couple of feet, so that may have improved it. They're cut out of Corten, the miracle steel that goes rusty (yeah, someone fell for that marketing spiel). They're fixed into more concrete than you would put in a house foundation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 In the new "shopping centre" there should be something to commemorate what the site was before - perhaps a statute of a Hereford Bull/a little farmyard scene/the much adored Deanley Cafe where people enjoyed many a good breakfast/the very popular traders on a Wednesday where many a good bargain has been had. All very sentimental I know but we should be reminded of what once was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biomech Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Actually it is. Obviously its all been under water for several weeks because the Env Agency wouldn't let them lift it a couple of feet, so that may have improved it. They're cut out of Corten, the miracle steel that goes rusty (yeah, someone fell for that marketing spiel). They're fixed into more concrete than you would put in a house foundation. Oh wow. Personally, I don't like the statues, but each to their own. But it;s the site that I find shocking, it's looks like they've put them up in a scrap yard, just gravel and cement. Why didn't they put them on grass or lay grass or ... anything... to make it look more athestically pleasing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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