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Friday, March 15, 2002
Raleigh Leaves NottinghamNottingham has always been closely associated with Raleigh Cycles. It's factory on Faraday Road was once the biggest producer of cycles in the world. Now Riff tells me that the company is to pull out from the city completely. This follows a series of takeovers and shake-ups that has for the past couple of years been wresting control away from its home town. Most people in my age group would have been the proud owner of a Raleigh bike (the lucky ones owning Choppers and Grifters). Later in adult life, I spent several years working with the company; designing product catalogues, maintaining the website and producing interactive CDs.
We've already witnessed the demise of the coal industry in the region and I know that things need to move on. But I suspect that like the Coal Industry in Mansfield and North Nottinghamshire, this rich industrial heritage will be buried and forgotten.
Links:
BBC News item
Radford and Raleigh Pics
Raleigh Pioneer Advertising Campaign 1995
Raleigh Chopper - A Childhood Classic
posted by Paul Fillingham at 10:58 AM
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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Eyeliner BoysIt's been an eventful couple of days. On Monday Gilbert was back at QMC, this time with conjuntivitis. Emerging with horrific dayglow orange eyelids from the dyes they tested him with. Conjunctivitis was the scurge of the New Romantics back in the 1980's as boys and girls shared their eyeliner. Six-month old Gilbert denies having touched his sisters makeup.
posted by Paul Fillingham at 7:21 PM
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Comet Ikeya-Zhang. The sun is setting and right behind it is a really bright star. Except that it isn't a star, it's a comet. There's an article on the BBC website. It's the brightest comet since Hale Bopp back in 1997, the one that inspired a cosmic death cult to commit mass suicide, remember? (the pun wasn't intentional).
posted by Paul Fillingham at 7:09 PM
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