The Toy Dolls covered Charlie Daniels Band's The Devil Went Down to Georgia with their 1997 recording "The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe".
Movies
One of the old Superman films was going to be filmed at the Slag heaps (Where superman has a fight in a srcap yard) but they got a better offer and did it some where else. Apart frm that I don't think I've featured in any films so I don't watch 'em
The Mancunian author Ted Lewis featured the town in some of his novels about low-life 1960's gangster Jack Carter. The most famous of these books, Jack's Return Home saw the main character return to the area from London to avenge his brother's death.
The film rights to this book where purchased by MGM who transferred the setting from Scunthorpe to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and released the film in 1971 as the the cult British crime thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine in the lead role. However none of the production was shot in the area, it being filmed entirely on location in Tyneside.
Television
Books
Scunthorpe in pictures.
Heroes
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq were named by the Ministry of Defence on Friday.
Corporal Ben Leaning, 24, and Trooper Kristen Turton, 27, of the Queen's Royal Lancers died when their Scimitar armoured vehicle was hit during a routine patrol in the southern province of Maysan.Leaning was from Scunthorpe and joined the Army in January 1999, while Turton came from Grimsby, joining the Lancers in 2003.
Bryan Budd, VC
Neil Barry, Premiership referee.
Darren Bett, BBC weather presenter.
Samantha Cameron, nee Sheffield, formerly of Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe: wife of the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron.
Allan Clarke, ex-Leeds United and England player, former manager of Scunthorpe United, now living in the area.
Ray Clemence, former goalkeeper of the English national football team.
Kevin Doyle, actor. Credits include 'The Lakes' and latterly 'Drop Dead Gorgeous', attended Brumby Comprehensive and JLC.
Stephen Fretwell, singer-songwriter. According to his website, "he once described [the town] as having 'no soul'".
Tony Jacklin, golfer. US open winner, 1970.
Rob McElnea, Former 500cc Grand Prix Rider and now Team Manager of the Virgin Mobile Yamaha team in the British Superbike Championship.
Iain Matthews, singer.
Joan Plowright, actress.
Martin Simpson, guitarist.
Liz Smith, actress.
Graham Taylor, former manager of the English national football team.
Alan Walker, musicologist and biographer of Franz Liszt
John Wesley, preacher. From nearby Epworth.
Sheridan Smith, actress. From nearby Epworth.
About me:
Scunthorpe (popularly known as Scunny) is a town formerly in Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire. It is also known as the 'Industrial Garden Town'. The town appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as Escumetorp, which is Old Norse for "Skuma's village". The current population is around 72,000. The town is situated at the terminus of the M181
In 1996 there was controversy when AOL's obscenity filter (among others) refused to accept the name of the town due to its inclusion of a character string which the filter rejected as obscene. Certain .. forums display the name as S****horpe. This situation is known in the computing world as the Scunthorpe Problem.
Ironstone was mined in the area as early as the Roman occupation, but the deposits lay forgotten until the 19th century. The rediscovery of iron ore in 1859 by Rowland Winn on the land of his father, Charles, resulted in the development of an iron and steel industry and rapid population growth.[1]
Iron ore was first mined in the Scunthorpe area in July 1860. Owing to the lack of a mainline railway the ore was transferred to a wharf at Gunness (or Gunhouse), initially by cart then by a narrow gauge railway, for distribution by barge or mainline rail from Keadby. Winn knew that the best way of exploiting the iron ore fields was for a rail link to be built from Keadby to Barnetby. He campaigned tirelessly for the link; construction work started in mid-1860 and was complete in 1864. He persuaded the Dawes brothers, to whose iron works the ore was being supplied, to build an iron works at the site of the iron ore fields at Scunthorpe. Construction of Scunthorpe's first ironworks, the Trent Ironworks, began in 1862, with the first cast from the blast furnace being tapped on 26 March 1864. Other ironworks followed: building of the Frodingham Ironworks began in 1864; North Lincoln Ironworks in 1866; Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company in 1872; Appleby Ironworks blew in their first blast furnace in 1876; and the last constructed being John Lysaght's Iron and Steel works in 1911, with production starting in 1912. Crude steel had been produced at Frodingham Ironworks in 1887 but this proved not to be viable. Maxmilian Mannaburg came to Frodingham Ironworks in 1889 to help build and run the steelmaking plant and on the night of 21 March 1890 the first steel was tapped.
Rowland Winn is remembered in the town by three street names: Rowland Road, Winn Street & Oswald Road. He assumed the title Lord St Oswald in 1885.
The town is occasionally known for its football team, Scunthorpe United (nicknamed 'The Iron') at Glanford Park. For most of its existence in the professional game (since 1950) it has been in the basement league of the English game.
However, they won promotion to the current League One (The third tier of English football) at the end of the 2004/2005 season, and for the first time in recent history, retained that spot by finishing 12th in the 05/06 season.
Scunthorpe enjoys relatively good shopping facilities, with both the uncovered Foundry shopping centre and the part-covered Parishes centre. The former was constructed in the late 1960's/early 1970's; the latter was constructed in the early part of this decade on the site of the town's old bus station.
However the size of the retail units reflects the size of the area's population and with larger shopping facilities within reasonable travelling distance in Grimsby, Hull, Doncaster, Lincoln and at Meadowhall, Sheffield many locals often travel to these towns for major purchases. Retail parks can be found near the football stadium and the steelworks.
All the big food retailers are represented in the area; There is a Tesco Extra opposite the football ground while Sainsbury's have their store on the site of the old football ground. Morrisons have a store at Mortal Ash Hill, on the eastern entrance to the town while Asda's are planning to relocate to a site off Glebe Road.
I got my MySpace Extended Network Banner from MrDoe.com!
Who I'd like to meet: Well the good people of 'Sunny Scunny' of course. Those that live in me and those who have managed to escape from me!
I'll meet you all in these class establishments
Bluebell, Parkies, The Old Farmhouse, The Poacher, The Light, Lord Roberts, Warren Lodge, Der Schnapps Bar. Brittanna, Bishops Bliase, Class 6, Henry Africas (or what ever itscalled these days, always Henrys to us purests), The Royal Hotel, The Wortley, The Berekly, Redburn Club, Polish Club, The clansman, Mallard, Queensway, Bar Geneva, Bar Colloini, Mary Rose, Ferry Road Club, The Comet, The Priory, Rileys, The Tavern, Please feel free to tell me your local via the comments!
Please join with me in buying back all that the Lebanese child 'Gabe' has bourght and placed under Lebanese control. I myself was bought by him and delcaired a Lebanese army base! please join with England against him!
Sunny scunny today shame i have busted foot and carnt do anything cos if not i would be walking about with my tits and beer belly out aving it large with scooter playing on my fone and a can of special brew in one hand and a staffy dog on the over and the Missis in front and me shouting at here to give me her giro
