Underwhelming or cracking bit of business : Coventry City and Wasps fans react to stadium name change
It has been announced that the Ricoh Arena will now be known as the Coventry Building Society Arena
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Today it has been announced the Ricoh Arena will change its name to the Coventry Building Society Arena - and fans of both Wasps RFC and Coventry City have been having their say.
BRADFORD has produced its fair share of acting stars who have made a name for themselves globally and here s a chance to celebrate them. Here s something to raise a debate; who is the biggest ever actor either born, or raised, in Bradford, or with connections to the city? There have been so many huge names who were born in the district but here are five suggestions, but don t take it as the definitive list, I m sure many of you will disagree with my choices and everyone will have an opinion on what s best. Instead of just criticising my list, let s get constructive and leave your suggestions in the comments section below.
The Fitzgerald Arms off Manchester Road. Who is the boy looking at the photographer? OUR recent features about Pat Paterson, the Lister’s Mill girl who became a pre-war Hollywood star, evolved from an article by Dr Paul Jennings about the mill’s dramatic society. Now Dr Jennings, author of The Local: A History of the English Pub and Bradford Pubs, writes: The interest shown in the recent pieces about Pat Paterson, whose life took her from Bradford to Hollywood, reminded me that I have this photograph of the Fitzgerald Arms in the street where she was born. Number 74 Fitzgerald Street is the address given on the record of her baptism as Eliza Paterson on May 19, 1910, at St James’s Church off Manchester Road, just over a month after her birth on April 7. Her parents are John, who was born in Lochgelly, Scotland, whose occupation is given as grease presser, and Hannah, born in Bradford.
SEVERAL members of Bradford’s pantomime Sunbeams - the junior dance troupe established by theatre impressario and Alhambra founder Francis Laidler - went on to enjoy a professional career in entertainment. But only one made it in Hollywood. That was Pat Paterson, the Frizinghall girl who appeared in films in the 1930s and 40s, starring alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Spencer Tracy. Last week we featured a scrapbook of cuttings charting Pat’s rise to fame, which had been lovingly created by her mother. The newspaper and magazine clippings, now over 80 years old, include glamorous photographs of Pat on and off screen, and her husband, French actor Charles Boyer.