Talk:Basingstoke
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[edit] Basingstoke
Is there a reference for basingstoke becoming a sister city with LA? Neither of the following two sources confirm this to be true [1], [2] David D. (Talk) 23:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- Basingstoke categorically is not twinned with LA. Vandals from varying IP's seem to be enjoying adding that fact to this article, however — I have reverted it several times in the past. └UkPaolo/talk┐ 07:21, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Exactly how boring is Basingstoke? How would it rate on a scale of (say) 1 to 10 where 1 is the most boring place ever, and 10 would be a city of street football, free beer, pole dancing at every street corner, and The Who, The Stones, and Oasis vying for stage time in the open-air amphitheatre? Is Basingstoke more boring, or less boring, than Chesterfield? Thidwick 14:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I cant help but to find your question slightly irrelavent but as a teenager who is forced to visit it frequently i would give it a 2, 3 if you're really pushing it! Doobuzz 22:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Town planning
I was in Basingstoke for the first time today. It's tricky finding your way from the train station to the town centre (or "central area"). Why don't they just rename the whole thing, The Mall? Anyway, a section on town planning is a good idea - I thought design that favours the car went out in the '80s.--Shtove 18:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
The shopping centre was conceived as a single design in 1962 but later revised and built in two entirely seperate stages. The first, Phase 1, was built between 1967 and 1971 and is the part which has subsequently been modified and improved to become Festival Place, the second part Phase Two was built between 1978 and 1981 and is the area now known as The Walks. The reason they haven't renamed the whole thing 'The Mall', is that both are entirely seperate entities leased from the council and under entirely seperate management. It might not look like two separate shopping centres, but that's in fact what it is.Mighty Antar 23:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ruth Ellis
Seeing as there doesnt appear to be any refrance on the Ruth Ellis page about her ever having any association with basingstoke ever i have removed her from the list. Doobuzz 22:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Not sure why the above reference isn't there, other than it isn't really relevant to her crime or her punishment, but Ruth Ellis certainly did live in Basingstoke with her parents between 1933 and 1941 and attended Fairfields School. Her father worked at Park Prewett Hospital. This can be checked at The Willis Museum in Basingstoke or on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I have therefore reinstated her to the list as perhaps Basingstoke most infamous resident. Mighty Antar 23:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "It remained a Market Town until"
Whatever has changed about Basingstoke in terms of it's size and appearance, surely it can still be said to be a Market Town as long as Markets are held every Wednesday and Saturday in the Market Place and protected by act of Parliament? Either the definition of Market Town is incorrect or the above statement is. Mighty Antar 20:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
== Only fools and horses == Rodneys time at basingstoke school of arts was written by an ex Art student at Bcot (then in brookvale school )who went to work in the OFAH production. The teacher "mr stevens" who expelled Rodney him was based on an actual teacher (Brian Stevens) there from the 1970 to the present with whom the student had had a good relationship.
