Be Excellent To Each Other

Tell me stuff about Lincoln that I might find interesting/useful for no admitted purpose.

He didn't have the booming, deep and imperious voice he's always given on telly and in re-enactments. His voice was described as rather thin and shrill - still effective, but not in the same way - by his contemporaries.

It's in Lincolnshire

Heh, the town.

There's a very good Go Karting track there. Very good

Sincil Bank (football stadium) is to be avoided, if you take your girlfriend there she will dump you soon after.

I was going to say it was a nice quaint little place, but then I realised I was thinking of Boston. Mr Russell is the man you want here.

I live near it.

And there is one of the original copies of the Magna Carta in the castle.

Judging by the telly, they have a player who is completely up his own arse. Celebrations after scoring are all well and good, but you re playing for Lincoln, mate.

http://www.lincoln.com

It's just an expensive Ford really. Notoriously poor build quality in the 80s too.

S'all about the Navigator, dawg. Uh uh, yeah yeah.

I'm from it. Ask specific questions and I'll answer them.

There was a really pretty girl in the Mind charity shop last time I went. She had bright red lipstick and a red beret. There's an old church just to the left out of the train station and if you turn left after that you'll cross the train tracks and be around quite a few charity shops and things. And studenty area. More modern bit that.

The CEX there has a basement and is next door to Gamestation.

There's an attractive large gothic water tower thing near the cathedral.

Steep Hill really lives up to its name.

There used to be a shop full of old ham radio equipment and stuff up steep hill which I found really interesting because of all the nick nacks and whatchamacallits in the window.

The odeon there is quite attractive and is in front of the river but is also rather expensive. All the screens there are upstairs.

YOU FUCKING WHAT?!?!??!!?!??!?!!?!?

The ham radio shop is still there. And three of the screens in the Odeon are downstairs.

And GY: they've spent a lot of money these last few years doing up the Brayford waterfront, so it's actually not as bad any more.

I've got a friend who lives in Spalding. He says he likes it.

It is a shade of green usually associated with Robin Hood.

Me and Barratt went to the Christmas Market there.

Famous Lincolnshire people:

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Piccaver
Barnabe Googe
Benjamin Huntsman
Bernie Taupin
Charles Wesley
Charlotte Schreiber
Colin Dexter
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Elizabeth Jennings
Frank Pick
George Boole
Halford MacKinder
Hardicanute
Henry IV
Isaac Newton
Jennifer Saunders
Joan Plowright
John Franklin
John Haigh
John Smith
John Wesley
Madge Kendal
Margaret Thatcher
Matthew Flinders
Neville Marriner
Nicholas Parsons
Sheridan Smith
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tony Jacklin
William Cecil

I am the only person really helping Mali A learn all about Lincoln(shire).

Lincolnshire is very flat and has very little dual carriageway.

Did you know that chinese people don't have cataracts?

It's because they all have rincoln or chevroret.

Is it a pink cataract?

No, they've pissed a lot of money away on a chavvy cinema, shit student pubs like the waterfront and faceless homogenised chain bar/restaurant crap, blocking the view of the cathedral and dwarfing the nice little pub that's always been there. I'll grant you a lot of development was needed but they couldn't have done it any more like every other place in the UK than they did. A pathetic waste, given how unique a place Lincoln has always been compared to other towns of the size.

The high street it chain pub hell now, too.

I'm a fan of their sausages

There's a rock band named after one of it's parks

Ah those lovely walks in Van Halen Park...

prush reather seats

Lacist.

I prefer silk.

You can prove anything with facts. Yes I remember now some screens are downstairs. I usually end up upstairs though. I said 'used' mainly because I didn't know whether or not it was still there.

I didn't say it was good. Just not as bad as it was

If by that little pub you mean the Royal William, then I have just started drinking in there the last few months. They have an excellent music quiz on Tuesdays, run by the same chap who does one up the top end of the city in the Lion and Snake.

Other Lincoln facts (for MaliA): Also at the top of Steep Hill is a shop that sells nothing but bags of dried tea leaves. And a lot of second hand book shops.

There is an art gallery called the Usher gallery.

One of the bridges over the Brayford is nosey, and on one side demands "where are you going?". For your return it demands "where have you been?"

The Odeon cinema charges £7.30 for a standard cinema seat. Not a premier seat. A standard one.

The Ritz cinema is now a Wetherspoons.

A chap drowned in the river last year having a drunken swim with the swans.

A man was stabbed a couple of months ago outside Chicken Cottage (a few metres from the river).

The Da Vinci Code was filmed partly inside the cathedral.

The Engine Shed plays host to acts of increasing celebrity as time goes on.

The Drill Hall hosts small time comedians like Lee and/or Herring.

The high street is looooong, as I found to my peril when my old car was towed to the south end, and the train station was at the north end.

Seriously, fucking



It was still there when we were there over the summer with friends. All the boys stood transfixed. The girls couldn't quite understand.

Also, the castle is really quite expensive to get in.