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'''Earl Shilton''' is a small town in [[Leicestershire]], [[England]], some {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} from [[Hinckley]] and about 10 miles (16 km) from [[Leicester]], with a population of around 9,000 (as of 2005).

==History==
[[Image:UK EarlShilton.jpg|thumb|right|Signpost in Earl Shilton]]
For the Ancient and Medieval History of Earl Shilton: see [[Ancient and Medieval Earl Shilton]]

==Industry==
Between the 19th and late 20th centuries, Earl Shilton was a busy industrial village consisting of numerous shoe, hosiery and knitwear factories. Boot & shoe factories included Orton's, Eatough's and Pinchess's as well as other smaller operations. At one point Earl Shilton produced boots for none other than Russia's Red Army. Many of these businesses have now closed due to competition from the Far East, but a very few still continue into the 21st century. Nevertheless the Earl Shilton boot and shoe heritage provided the opportunity for other businesses to thrive alongside them, namely local carriers such as Woodwards (now the bakery distribution business) and Crowfoots [http://www.crowfootscarriers.co.uk] (still operating as a parcel carrier). Both these businesses are now located nearby in the village of [[Barwell]].

Increasingly heavy traffic flow through the village has led to the planning of a bypass. Work started in Autumn 2007 and was officially opened on 27 March 2009. [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/highways/road_improvements/major_transport_projects/a47_earl_shilton_bypass.htm].

==Earl Shilton Castle==
[[Robert Beaumont]] (''Bossu'') was present at the death of King Henry in 1135, and the Earl of Leicester became a close advisor to the new king Stephen. Unfortunately Henrys’ daughter Matilda felt that she should be on the throne, and with the aid of her half brother the Earl of Gloucester, launched a ferocious war upon her cousin Stephen.

As the defence of his lands became paramount, it is likely that Robert Bossu began the fortification of Shilton Hill. The Earl of Leicester’s’ new motte and bailey castle would protect the vale of Kirkby, along with Beaumont’s lines of communication to the South and West.

Earl Shilton's castle was built around the site of an existing twelfth century chapel called Saint Peters that lies between Church Street and Almey’s Lane. This area is known locally as ‘Hall Yard’. Nearby are the springs, from which the castle drew its water, now known as Spring Gardens.

The castle, as a fortress, lasted for 30 to 40 years before its destruction, and subsequent conversion to a hunting lodge. There are no records of a siege or fighting in the area of Earl Shilton, even during the civil war, which probably shows that the castle was doing its job (''John Lawrence''). When the church was rebuilt in 1854, the stone was used from the castle for its construction.

In 1173 it was Prince Henry who started a rebellion against his father King Henry II. Robert Beaumont the Earl of Leicester was in France when the rebellion began and eagerly joined the Prince’s faction fighting several battles. While still on the road, on October 17 at Farnham, outside Bury St Edmunds the king’s supporters attacked. Norfolk and Leicester were surprised and defeated. The miserable Beaumont was captured and carted off to prison at Falaise in Normandy.

The king now set about destroying the Earl of Leicester’s castles, and the demolition men soon moved into Earl Shilton. Only the fortress of Leicester and Mount Sorrell survived this destruction. However, Earl Shilton manor would remain, being a good source of revenue.

==Shilton Park==
Shilton Park was probably created by [[Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester]], after he became Earl of Leicester. De Montfort’s association with the village was such that he added the prefix ‘Earl’ to its name.

In medieval times the park was a rich man's playground, and definitely not for the leisure and recreation of the masses, rather like an exclusive golf club today. The original purpose of Shilton Park therefore, was to provide a hunting ground, stocked with game, for the lord of the manors’ sport and table. Internally the park was surrounded by a deep ditch, to keep the animals in, and behind it, a high fence to keep the general population out. The Earl of Leicester’s park of Tooley sat below Shilton Hill, stretching into the northwest towards Desford. It enclosed {{convert|450|acre|km2|1}} and it cost an absolute fortune to maintain.

The upkeep of the park lay in the hands of the Earl's bailiff, or ‘Keeper of the park’, a much sought after occupation, as Shilton Park generated substantial revenue to help offset its huge running costs. It supplied a rich source of timber, horses were raised, and the park provided a continual supply of fresh meat, while fees were levied on anyone wishing to graze their animals on parklands. One of the perks of the bailiff was that he could graze his own animals in the park freely, at the Earl’s discretion.

==Tudor Earl Shilton==
Following the battle of Bosworth, [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] reinstated the Park laws for Earl Shilton. Henry Churchman was appointed bailiff for the parks upkeep, and also bow bearer for the park of Leicester Firth (New Parks). George Hastings became the keeper of Earl Shilton and Hinckley Parks in 1507, and by 1560 the keeper was George Vincent.

During the reign of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], the crown gave a parcel of the lands in Earl Shilton to Trinity Hospital, Cambridge.

At the time of [[Queen Elizabeth I]] in 1564, there were ten families living in Earl Shilton, strangely a smaller population than at the time of the Doomesday book in 1086. But the old squabbles over land rights were still prevalent. During Elizabeth’s’ reign the local gentry such as Richard Grey, Richard Dylke of Kirkby Mallory, William Jervis of Peatling Magna, John Harrington and John Watters were all arguing about ownership of land in Earl Shilton between 1580 and 1594.

By the turn of the seventeenth century, Sampson Goodhall, gentleman, was the head of a well to do family living in Earl Shilton. The summer of 1608 saw the family owning several cottages, pastures, ploughlands and meadows, along with orchards and gardens. However, the Goodhalls were to suffer badly despite their wealth (''John Lawrence'').

In 1611, Leicestershire suffered from a severe outbreak of the Plague. Infected houses were marked with a cross, business was practically suspended, and there, seemed to be no one with sufficient knowledge to cope with, or mitigate, the effects of the epidemic. During the plague years Shilton suffered like most other villages.

Sampson Goodhall began burying his family at the beginning of May -
Will Goodhall, Sampsons son, buried May 9.
Rich Goodhall, another son, was buried May 10.
Anna Goodhall, buried May 9.
Maria Goodhall, buried June 1.
Ann Goodhall, Sampsons wife, was buried June 8. In total for the year 1611.

21 deaths occurred in Earl Shilton, double that of the previous year (''Parish Records'').

Sampson survived the plague, for by the Autumn of 1615, he and his new wife, Isobel, were in the law courts of King James I. George Arlington esq paid damages of £60 to the Goodhalls, in a dispute over cottages, land and all manner of tithes arising in Earl Shilton.

It is interesting to note that at this period of plague William Holdsworth, the parish curate, made double entries in the registers. This is the only time that it occurs throughout the registers. The reason for it remains unknown.

The Thomas Family also suffered during the plague - from the old registers of 1611.
Alexander Thomas, buried April 28.
Will Thomas and Wife, buried April 21.
John Thomas, son of Will, buried May 18.
Thomas, son of Will, buried May 25

==The Stuarts==
Earl Shilton’s freeholders, or principal landholders, in 1630 were Richard Churchman, Richard Veasey, Samuel Wightman, and Sampson Goodall. The crown also held some land in the village, but during the reign of Charles I, the crown sold Earl Shilton’s farm to the Earl of Ilchester, whose rents were given up to Guy’s Hospital, London, which received them for many years.

In 1636, John Wightman gave £50 for the poor of Hinckley and a field in Earl Shilton was also let, earning £3 5s per year. By 1711 Peter Cappur was the steward of the manor in Shilton and John Wightman's legacy was in dispute. At the Court Baron for that year, on October 13, Francis Thompson a tenant of Studford Close, Earl Shilton, surrendered a field of 2½ acres to Nathaniel Ward and Thomas Sansome, held in trust, for the poor of Hinckley. This charity ran for some time for in 1809, Rob Thompson and Thomas Sansome were the trustees.

'''The Purchase of Shilton Park at Tooley'''

Henry Morrison was knighted at Whitehall in 1627, and he and his wife purchased Simon de Montfort's old hunting park of Tooley. Their daughter, Letticia, married Luis Carey, Viscount Falkland and they resided for a time at the Park. Back in 1608, Tooley contained 3,500 trees worth nearly £1000.

During the crisis of the English Civil War, Viscount Falkland fought for the King in the Royalist army. At the failed siege of Gloucester in 1643, many times he exposed himself fearlessly. But later that year his luck ran out at the First Battle of Newbury. On the 20th September, he met his death leading a suicidal charge against a hedge lined by the enemy's musketeers.

From 1642 onwards the broad tract of country between Ashby de la Zouch, Leicester and the Watling Street became the buffer zone between the rival garrisons of Royalists and the Parliamentarians. One of the first shocks that the war had in store for the civilian population was the sudden increase in the number of new taxes that had to be raised for the support of these new garrisons. Records show that the Parliamentary tax for the combined parishes of Burbage and Sketchley was £2-8shillings and 4 pence per month.

Clergymen who openly sided with Parliament were easy targets for Royalist raiding parties. Colonel Hastings, with four troops of horse ‘coursed about the country as far as Dunton Bassett and Lutterworth, and took near upon a hundred clergymen and their sympathisers, carrying them as prisoners to Hinckley.

On the other side Parliament listed nine clerks from the Market Bosworth and Hinckley area who suffered sequestration for supporting the king. Thomas Cleveland, of Hinckley, and John Lufton, rector of lbstock, had offered money or prayers for the king. William Holdsworth, the curate of Earl Shilton, openly reviled the Parliament and stood accused of reading a Royal Protestation in the middle of a sermon.

Parliaments Captain Flower, while temporarily billeted at Stoney Stanton, ordered the delivery of twenty strikes of provender for his horses by the inhabitants of Burbage and Sketchley. On another occasion his troop ordered two quarters of provender from Stapleton. The largest claim for free quarter was for a force of two hundred and eleven troops and seventy two horses under Colonel Purefoy and Colonel Bosseville, when they set up camp at Hinckley in the summer of 1643. The townspeople of Hinckley also provided quartering for twenty three horsemen for a single night in 1644. While Parliamentary troopers from Astley House stood accused of taking a rapier, a swordbelt and ‘a snapsack’ worth 8 shillings, from old Sampson Goodhall when they passed through Earl Shilton. (Alan Roberts 2001)

Following the Civil War the Parliamentarians began to take revenge on their old enemies. Earl Shilton’s Richard Churchman was listed among the gentry who in 1645 “compounded” for their estates with the Parliamentary [[Sequestration Committee]], along with Thomas Crofts, another royalist. This meant he had to pay a heavy fine to restrieve his estates.

Also the local curate William Holdsworth was accused of being a royalist or “malignant”. [[John Walker (clerical historian)|John Walker]], who wrote about the Sufferings of the Clergy during the Grand Rebellion, records that Holdsworth was hauled before the County Committee in 1646 for "reviling" Parliament (see also the [[Committee for Plundered Ministers]]). His offences included ignoring the Directory set by Parliament to enforce puritan reforms, refusing sacraments to those not kneeling, allowing Sunday games and reading a royalist Protestation in the middle of a sermon. He was also accused of being “several times drunk” and using “old notes as new sermons” for the past twenty years.

==Framework Knitting==
Around this time William Iliffe changed the whole economy of the area by introducing the first knitting frame to Hinckley in 1640. He bought a knitting frame for the substantial sum of £60 and set it up in his house, thought to be located at the top of Castle Street. Stocking frames soon spread to Earl Shilton, with each stocking maker renting his frame and working from his cottage, while wives and daughters sat at their spinning wheels.

In 1694, Sir Verney Noel, of Kirkby Mallory, left £100 for the poor children of Earl Shilton to be sent to London, to be taught the art of Framework Kitting.

Things change little it seems, for payment of council tax, or community charge, has never been popular and has perennially been tarnished with tales of corruption. In Earl Shilton Vestry meetings were originally held in the parish church but later moved to the Plough Inn. Later the Baron’s Court replaced the Vestry.

==The Baptists==
There were Baptists in Earl Shilton from 1651. These dissenters from the established church met in cottages around Church Street and Mill Street as their religion was against the law. During the restoration the Baptists were still under persecution and the Shilton dissenters continued to worship in secret.
Eventually Baptist worship became licensed under an act of Parliament. King Charles II’s state papers say that licenses to Edward Cheyney and William Biges of Earl Shilton were granted.

John Goadby died in 1714, and in his will he bequethed to the ‘minister and poor Baptists in Earl Shilton - my close and its associated lands, commonly called Crowhearst. And to take any rents, fines or profits, for the disposal of the said Baptists.

Many generations of Cheneys also worked tirelessly for the Baptists, the last dying in1815. A Baptist meetinghouse was erected in 1758, which was enlarged in 1844, while the Sunday school began in 1801.

In 1861 economic disaster struck the village when the American Civil War broke out and cotton could not be exported. The Baptist minister, Reverend Parkinson, was forced to resign through lack of funds. Crowhearst and its land was eventually sold to Mr W H Cotton in 1928 and the money invested in government stock

By 1664 Earl Shilton had thirty-four households assessed for hearth tax, and during the reign of William III in 1687 there were fifty-two houses assessed in the village.

'''Licence of Cottages used for Worship in Earl Shilton'''

1720 Jeremiah Parker
1722 Johnathan Johnstone
1725 Joshua Brotherton
1726 Joseph Smith
1731 Samuel Cheney
1760 William Randen
1790 Daniel Harrold
1792 Thomas Green

Note that not all dissenters were Baptists. William Randen was known as a Presbyterian (''John Lawrence).''

==Thomas Boothby of Tooley==
In 1696, and at only 15 years of age, Thomas Boothby inherited the estate of Tooley Park. Married three times, he acquired through his wives various estates in Staffordshire. From his mother, he inherited land at Foston in Derbyshire and Peatling, Countesthorpe and Earl Shilton in Leicestershire.
The ease of his position was such that the young ‘Tom O' Tooley’ was able to devote himself almost exclusively to the pursuit of hunting. He established the first true pack of foxhounds in the country and the [[Quorn Hunt]] with a number of hounds inherited with the Tooley estate. Boothby embarked on an astonishing career of 55 seasons as Master of the Quorn Hunt.

Boothby kept a mistress, Catherine Holmes, at Groby Pool House. But a local clergyman informed Boothby's wife about her husband's mistress. After an angry wife had confronted him, Boothby got hold of the minister in question and almost drowned him in Groby pool.<ref>John Lawrence</ref>

Superstition was rife in eighteenth century England, and there are many strange tales of ghosts, witches and spirits. A woman of Earl Shilton parish declared ‘that she had been bewitched by an old woman from Aston in 1776. Her accuser saw the old woman unceremoniously thrown into the horse pond, despite her 80 years of age. Luckily the old woman just managed to escape with her life.’

There was also the strange tale that came to light in 1778. A house in Earl Shilton, was said to be plagued by its former long dead occupant. Tables and chairs were known to dance about the room, while pewter dishes jumped off the shelves. But alarm was worse when wigs and hats flew off the heads of their wearers. Villagers agreed that the disturbed spirit was a local man who could not rest in his grave because he had been defrauded in life.<ref>Palmer 2002</ref>

An Elmesthorpe farmer, complained in 1811 that, ‘it is common almost everywhere amongst the women that when they brew, they make crosses to keep the witch out of the mash-tub, so that the ale might be fine.’ He added that ‘farmers and common folk were very great believers in old popular tales of ghosts, fairies and witches, and of people and cattle being under the evil tongue.’

==Superstition and witchcraft==
Superstition was rife in eighteenth century England, and there are many strange tales of ghosts, witches and spirits. A woman of Earl Shilton parish declared ‘that she had been bewitched by an old woman from Aston in 1776. Her accuser saw the old woman unceremoniously thrown into the horse pond, despite her 80 years of age. Luckily the old woman just managed to escape with her life.’

<blockquote>
Extract from “Leicester and Nottingham Journal,
July 6, 1776:

“A woman of the parish of Earl Shilton, in the County of Leicester, has been subject for some years to a disorder resembling the bite of the tarantula, and so astonishing the ignorance of many, that they imagine that she has been bewitched by an old lady in the neighbouring village of Aston.
On Thursday, June 20th<--archaic/> last, the afflicted, her husband and son went to the old woman, and with dreadful imprecations, threatened to destroy her instantly unless she would submit to have blood drawn from some part of her body, and unless she would give the woman a blessing and remove her disorder. The son, who is a soldier, drew his sword and pointing to her breast, swore he would plunge it into her heart if she did not immediately comply.

When the old woman had gone through the ceremony they went off, but the person not being cured they collected a great many people and on Monday last returned to Aston pretending to have a warrant to justify their proceedings. Then with uncommon brutality they took the poor creature from her house, stripped her quite naked, and after tying her hands and legs together threw her in a horse pond. She was then taken out, and in this shameful condition exhibited for the sport of an inhuman mob. As she did not sink they concluded she really was a witch, and several returning the following day determined to discipline her in this cruel manner until they should put an end to her wretched existence. The posse was not sufficiently strong, so she escaped for that time. The consideration of the old woman being over 80 years of age, and of her being a pauper and friendless, render it the duty of magistrates to exert themselves to bring to punishment these atrocious offenders.
</blockquote>

There was also the strange tale that came to light in 1778. A house in Earl Shilton, was said to be plagued by its former long dead occupant. Tables and chairs were known to dance about the room, while pewter dishes jumped off the shelves. But alarm was worse when wigs and hats flew off the heads of their wearers. Villagers agreed that the disturbed spirit was a local man who could not rest in his grave because he had been defrauded in life. (''Palmer 2002)''

An Elmesthorpe farmer, complained in 1811 that, ‘it is common almost everywhere amongst the women that when they brew, they make crosses to keep the witch out of the mash-tub, so that the ale might be fine.’ He added that ‘farmers and common folk were very great believers in old popular tales of ghosts, fairies and witches, and of people and cattle being under the evil tongue.’

==Peg-Leg Watts and the Stocks==
In 1705, the payment by the Reeve for Shilton manor was £34 8s 6 1/4d. The Reeve was voted into office annually by the freeholders of the parish. There were 61 freeholders who voted in 1719, but this number had dropped to 28 by 1785.
The Overseer of the manor had various facets to his job. Daniel Marvin Overseer in 1755, made charges of 5shillings for ale at the burial of a pauper.

In 1760, Alderman Gabriel Newton, of Leicester gave to Earl Shilton and Barwell £20 16s from his charity, for the educating of 20 poor boys from each village.

James Perrott was a successful surgeon who worked in Earl Shilton. He married the widow, Lady Ann Sharpe, and they lived in the village for over 40 years, until she died 1791, at the age of 62 years.

Famous for his prowess as a wrestler Samuel Marvin also lived in Earl Shilton.

The last soul to be incarcerated in the Earl Shilton stocks was a man called ‘Peg-leg Watts’. What crime this local ‘ne’re do well’ had committed we have no idea, but the stocks were situated opposite the old churchyard. Also in the vicinity there was the village round house or gaol. Unfortunately all traces of the old lock-up have now disappeared.

An Act of Enclosure was passed in 1778. Earl Shiltons’ open fields, meadows and 1,500 acres (6 km²) of heath land were all enclosed. Thomas, Viscount Wentworth, was entitled to all small tithes vacarial dues in Shilton.

Scrymshire Boothby had the entitlement of the great tithes, payment in lieu of tithes, hay and meadow lands in Hall fields and Breach field. The following year Scrymshire Boothby sold Tooley Park to John Dod, and the remainder of the estate was divided.
Shilton Heath, famed for over a century for its steeple chasing, was gone for good.

Viscount Wentworth also had his lands in Elmsthorpe enclosed, including an extensive rabbit warren. He exchanged these after 1778 for {{convert|2|acre|m2}} of land in Shilton parish.

==The Earl Shilton Turnpike==
The Turnpike trust had two tollgates at Earl Shilton. One at the bottom of Shilton Hill, which was kept by a man called Harrison for many years. The other tollgate was where the Belle Vue road meets the Hinckley road. Travellers were said to have gone around by Elmesthorpe to avoid the gate and its tolls.

The gates were administered by the Turnpike Trusts, and were bid for every year by prospective candidates, and this led to a deal of local corruption. Bribes were offered to secure the contract, and not all of the money was spent on the upkeep of the roads. Many small parishes like Earl Shilton had a large mileage of roads within their boundaries and found it well-nigh impossible to maintain them.

Roads and pathways were very bad indeed. Cart-ruts ran deep down the main streets and the stones on the old “corseys” (footpaths) must have been very dangerous at times. Loose stone was very often strewn about, and it remained for the carts to roll them in, and in the era of the toll-gate the wider the wheels the less toll they paid to go through them. A great handicap, however, was the fact that these carts often followed in the existing ruts as a matter of course, and so made them worse than ever. Roads and repairs were paid for through the Vestry, which had replaced the Barons Court of the 17th century. The Vestry met for many years in the Plough Inn, Church Street, setting the parsons rate, church rate, poor rate, overseers rate, watch rate and the highway rate for the parish.

Stagecoaches passed frequently through Earl Shilton, it being on the route to Hinckley and Birmingham from Leicester. Coaches with names such as the Accommodation, The Magnet and The Alexander were all running in 1830. Coaches stopped at a place near to the White House in Wood Street, beside the Lord Nelson Inn. On one tragic occasion a coach overturned near to the entrance of Burbage Common and a man was killed in the ensuing wreckage (John Lawrence).

In 1800 there were 249 inhabited houses in Earl Shilton, with a further 8 uninhabited. The population stood at 1287, 655 males and 632 females. Agriculture employed 118 villagers, while the 716 souls employed in trade and manufacture showed the dramatic rise of stocking manufacture.

==The First School at Earl Shilton==
Thomas Green, succeeded to the Baptist Church in Earl Shilton and in 1801, started the villages first school, where reading and writing were taught, as well as to receive the elementary knowledge of the Christian faith. In 1850 John Green kept the school and was the master. He was given notice to quit; having displeased the Church. It was, however, cancelled and he was advised to “keep things in order.” This school kept going until 1858, when the Church of England schools were built. The Church of England Schools had room for 200 children and cost £1050 to build, the money being raised by subscription and grants. One school stood in the High Street and another in Wood Street.

==The Workhouse==
The economy of the village was based mainly on boots and stockings. A whole family would work from morning until late at night for very meagre earnings. Stocking makers worked ten, twelve and even fifteen hours a day at their frames, for seven or eight shillings per week. Frame rents were high and varied from one shilling to three shillings per week. Poverty and disease were rife. In Hinckley there was a framework knitters strike in 1824. Two years later, disorder in the town was quelled when a detachment of lancers arrived, killing one man.

The Earl Shilton village population had risen to 2017 by 1831.

Many Earl Shilton people in the 1840s became destitute and sought refuge in the Union Workhouse at Hinckley, locally known as “The Bastille.” Things had become very bad, and are spoken of as the “hungry forties.” Queen Victoria ordered an inquiry into distress, and sent in 1843 a commission headed by a Mr. Muggeridge, and afterwards much valuable information was obtained from interviews with work-people and employers. Earl Shilton frame-work knitters and hosiers, gave evidence at the enquiry of 1843. Rich Wileman, of Shilton, described himself as the oldest stocking manufacturer in the kingdom, and stated that many thousands of dozens of socks were sent to the American market every year.

At a time when a reasonable daily wage was 4/-, a report showed the weekly earnings in 27 parishes varied from 4/- to 8/- a week, Hinckley district being 5/3, Bosworth 4/6, Ibstock 4/- and Shepshed 5/6. Frame rents in the cottages were high and varied in different parishes from 1/- to 3/- per week. This rent and the addition of the vicious Truck Act (1831), made poverty and disease rife in the Leicestershire parishes (''John Lawrence''). The Truck Act stated that goods had to be paid for in cash instead of in kind and, as usual, hit the poorest the hardest. Had it not been for their allotments ground, things would have been much worse, as it was many were close to starvation.

In the year 1844 there were in Shilton alone 650 stocking frames. Mr. J. Homer, giving evidence to the commission, said that the whole of these were in the houses of the workpeople at that time. Neither the workshop, nor the factory system was in operation in Earl Shilton until after the findings of the Commission were made public.

Stocking making in the home quickly died out with the introduction of the factory system. Both the boot and shoe and the hosiery industry eagerly took to the new system of working and for the first time people began to be regulated by time, as the factory needed villagers to work in unison. The last known stocking-frame in Earl Shilton disappeared when its owner, a man named Mr. Pratt, who lived in Wood Street, died.

Earl Shilton saw its’ first hosiery strike in 1859. The employers involved were Messrs. Homer & Everard. Almost 130 operatives took strike action, and an appeal was sent out to workers of three counties for aid for the Earl Shilton strikers to fight it.

There is no doubt that the 1840s were wretched times, and sheep stealing, highway robbery and burglary were common. It was not safe to go out after dark. If a man was caught sheep stealing, he was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. Fourteen years transportation was also the sentence for anyone who was driven by hunger to take a pheasant from the woods.

A Barwell man called Bottewell was sentenced to death for robbery. But luckily, the local rector, Mr Metam, managed to get the sentence commuted to transportation to Australia. Shortly after arriving in Botany Bay Bottewell was pardoned, after another man confessed to the crime. Bottewell made the slow passage home to England, and lived out the rest of his life back in Barwell.

==Tradespeople of Earl Shilton Parish 1840 - 1849==
See [[Earl Shilton tradespeople]]

==The Parish Church==
See [[Earl Shilton Parish Church]]

==The Old Volunteers==
The traditional greeting of the Leicestershire miners was ‘old bud’ (old bird). This has now been transformed to ‘me duck’

Before the regulation of the First World War it was possible for men to buy beer before breakfast time in the village.

Many Shilton men joined the old ‘Volunteers’, belonging to the Hinckley Company; these were later incorporated in the ‘Militia’. Clad in their red jackets, blue trousers and pipe clayed trimmings with pointed helmets, it is said that on Saturday’s night Earl Shilton resembled a garrison town when everyone wore their uniform.

The Leicester Mercury was first published in 1836. Newspapers during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were very few, and many Shiltonians brought up before the Great War, can remember when one copy sufficed for several families. These were read aloud in the candlelight of the poor homes of the villagers, the few people able to read being in great demand. The old Candle House, where candles were made, stood for many years in Almeys Lane, and during renovations to the Baptist Chapel much brickwork of the Candle House was incorporated in the building.

Election days in the village were, prior to the franchise, very hectic. The candidates usually arrived at the polling stations (usually the schools) in horse cabs. They were often assaulted by the crowds, and top hats worn in those days were often sent flying. Many of the rougher element were given beer and locked up for the day to preserve the peace ''(Foster).''

Morris dancing took place on Plough Monday, when the dancers went round the village to collect money. If this was refused they entered the house and refused to quit until ransom was paid either in cash or food. Fishing nets on long canes were carried to reach bedroom windows where they had locked doors. German bands also visited the village, as did travelling bears, which danced to music.

In 1861 the village crier was Thomas Foster, who advertised sales, meetings and public news. The last man to hold this post was a blind man called Bannister, who also made baskets.

Houses in the village were rented by groups of men who, when they had finished their work, then “shopped it”, or took it, to some central depot in the village, and were usually paid each trip. Sweaters, or child labour, were often exploited, and regularly after a period of drunkenness these sweaters were compelled to sit working all night with their elders to make up for lost time. Many worked from the tender age of eight or nine, in the local term “got more kicks than half pence.”

==Old Job Toon==
In the middle of the nineteenth century Job Toon commenced trading as a grocer and licensed victualer in Earl Shilton. Job was a devout Methodist, and his shop was still trading in 1868. In 1850 he installed his first a stocking frame in his home, which laid the foundations of J Toon and Son.

He worked the stocking frame with his wife Matilda, and gradually purchased more frames and rented them out in the community. Job would pay for the stockings produced, minus the rent of the frame. Job purchased a small building just off wood Street, and the early factory was powered by steam.

Horse and drey took the factory produce to Elmesthorpe Station. Old Job Toon had three sons Alfred, James and Carey. Alfred and James went into the hosiery business, while Carey became a successful local farmer.

Alfred was the senior partner and earned a salary of £5 per week. In those early days stocking were not so delicate and were sold by weight, warmth not high fashion appears to be paramount as the heaviest were the most expensive. During this period much of Toon’s trade was with South America. Alfred had four sons, two of them died during the 1930s, and his two surviving sons, Stanley and Carey, took over the firm that now operated over 1000 machines knitting machines.

==The Wake==
The ‘Wake’, or local fair, was a holiday in Earl Shilton and held, traditionally, on the Saints day of the parish church. According to old accounts in the parish, Ale drunk on Feast Day (Wake) in 1809 was £5 12s. 0d, and in 1820 £6 5s. 6d.

The “Wake,” was always held on the last Sunday in October. People had a full week’s holiday from work, public houses were open all day, and “captains” were elected to take charge of the singing. The captain was also responsible for the whips round for beer, which entitled all and sundry to drink together and so retain the company.

The wide portion of the Hollow, nearest the Wesleyan Chapel, was the earliest site for the Wake amusements. The stalls and roundabouts extended the full length of Wood Street the wakes also incorporated a procession around the village.

Mr. Hopkins, a well-known resident of Keat’s Lane, was a proprietor of amusements
A large boat on wheels, and drawn by horses, went the whole length of the village, and was patronised very much by the children.

At the turn of the 20th century A field in Station road also became the site for the annual wake or fair. The amusement part of the “Wakes,” roundabouts, etc., were very prominent on this field.

On the other side of the road there were also numerous entertainments from time to time, including those well-known “Strolling Players” of Holloway’s Theatre. Many people enjoyed these shows and were able to see fresh plays every night during the thespians stay at Shilton. No one may now recall the plays “Maria Martin and the Red Barn,” “The Face at the Window,” “The Dumb Man of Manchester,” but they did pull in the crowds (John Lawrence).

==The Pinfold==
An old stone building, which stood near to the Baptist Chapel, was known as the Pinfold. This was a place for penning stray cattle prior to the enclosure of the common fields - 1758. It was latterly used as a place for weighing stone from the old Parish Quarry.

In the village a knocker-up was employed in the 188o’s and for over 50 years ensured that people attended the early Sunday morning classes.

==The Old Smock Mill==
The Old Smock Mill stood near to the Parish Quarry was built around 1800, at a cost of £800, and stood for over a century before being demolished. It was a noted landmark and a favourite place for rambles and picnics. There were two other mills in Earl Shilton, one stood on the Wood Street Recreational ground near the ‘Mount’, while the other was near the top of Birds Hill.

It is possible to go the whole length of “Old Shilton” without touching the main street. The paths I refer to are known as “The Backs.” Indeed Shilton is a maze of these alleys and “Backs.” The reason is, I suppose, that the old field pathways have kept their rights of way throughout the centuries, and the haphazard planning of the straggling village made desirable the small alleys leading to the main street.

Wood Street, locally known as Wood End, is the way leading to the wood referred to in the Domesday Survey, via the “Heath Lane,” which was noted in the 17th century for steeple chasing. The Raven family possessed a monster mangle. This was considered to be an outsize of its kind, and washing came from all over Shilton to The Hollow to he mangled by it.

The Workhouse Gardens and Spring Gardens are names to be conjured with in this area near the church. No doubt both had great bearing in the life of the community in bygone days. Rackett Court once stood near to the “Hill Top.” These were old Tudor buildings, and a flue sketch of them can be seen in “Highways and Byways of Leicestershire.” A recluse by the name of John Freestone was the last occupant. On the opposite side of the road is an ancient barn, which, although containing very massive oak beams, obliterates one of the best views in the county. This gives the name to this part of the locality of the Barn-end.

There are a few old Georgian three-storied houses around “Hill Top,” and a very old thatched house opposite the “Roebuck Inn,” the date on its front giving the year 1714. It is one of the very few thatched ones surviving in Shilton. Keats Lane was formerly known as “Cake Lane,” and once it contained many old-fashioned houses. It overlooks the Vale of Kirkby and also overlooks some splendid scenery. A bake-house was situated many years ago near to Whitemore’s factory, and a bell was rung when the oven was hot. This was when the bread was made at home and sent to the bakers. This is probably, too, the origination of “Cake Lane.” There was also a bake house in Candle Maker Alley, a small lane running between Almys Lane and the top of The Meadows, where between the wars, local folk would take their roasts along to be cooked in the oven.
Near to the present West Street stood the old Yew Tree Farm, prior to the erection of the present Jubilee Terrace. An old malt-house once stood on this spot, and when it was demolished a large wall was built with the bricks, facing the present “Fender Row.” This wall has now disappeared with the advent of the Council houses.

The “Dog and Gun Inn” was removed in the 1930s to another site a Keat’s Lane, a little distance from where the old licensed house had sold beer for over 150 years. This old building still stands and exists today as a private house.

There was also in Keat’s Lane, up until the 1940s, an old glove business that used hand frames, and was run by Mr Linney Spindle Hall, close by, was the last dwelling house in memory to contain the old glove frames. “Wightmans Row” and the old “Glove-Yard” have, like many more old houses, vanished from this region.

==Trade and the Civil War in America==
In 1861 the Civil War had broken out in America, and Earl Shilton was hard hit by the fact that the Northern States blockaded the ports of the Southern States, so that cotton could not be exported. Something akin to famine prevailed in Earl Shilton as the chief trade of the area was frame-work knitting. Frames could be found in nearly every house. During these devastating times the Baptist minister, the Rev. Parkinson, had to resign through lack of funds, and the Rev. Freesdon says, “that a church that could not support its minister, and a pastorate that had commenced with so many signs of blessing, ended through a war raging on the other side of the Atlantic.

The Elmesthorpe Road was commenced during these dark days as Relief Work. Many of the workers received no more thab bread and meat for their hard labours. At this time over 1,200 people were out of employment. The work was sponsored by the Right Hon. the Earl of Lovelace and his daughter, the Lady Anne Noel, and carried out in 1862-3. They also forwarded £800 to the unemployed cotton workers to work worsted instead of cotton.

The depression seemed to continue for many years, and the figures given by the Hinckley District Relief Committee in July, 1864, make interesting reading -
Subscriptions raised in Earl Shilton parish were to the amount of £161 1s. 4d, while the destitute poor received from that fund £992 10s. 4d., in addition {{convert|195|oilbbl|m3}} of flour, 30 sides of bacon, 100 tons of coal and left-off clothing were distributed by this fund in the district. (Foster)

Towards the end of the nineteenth century several parcels land were held by the parish as charitable lands namely; Town land meadow, Town Land close, the Barn Close (near Hill Top), the Old Close and part of Breach Field. These lands were rented out and the income used for poor relief.

Among other relief the poor of the parish would receive bread at Easter and Coal at Christmas. Allotments were also set-aside for the poor. One set of plots was at the bottom of Shilton Hill and a second in the Townlands off Breach Lane.

==The South Leicestershire Railway==
See [[South Leicestershire Railway]]

==Wood Street School==
In 1871 Wood Street School opened for around 30 pupils and the headmistress was a Miss Witnall. Wood Street was a very small school with only 2 classrooms. In 1907 they added 2 extra classrooms and a corridor, as village expansion led to over crowding at the school.

By 1965, numbers had risen to such a degree that they used the church hall for school dinners, physical education, music and movement

Wood Street School was partly burned down in the early hours of 17 January 1984, following a break in. The curtains were set alight which in turn ignihted an oil feed pipe, causing major damage and ultimately the schools demolition.

==The Brick Works and Gas Works==
Station road was known as Breach Lane before the railway arrived, and with the exception of “The Lodge” and a few houses near to the Hollow it was very thinly populated.

The old brickworks were situated on the site of present Metcalfe Street, which was named after Mr. James Metcalfe for many years a headmaster at the High Street, Church of England School.

The Gas Works (now dismantled) were also situated in Station road, and were built in 1866 by the Earl Shilton Gas Light and Coke Company. Mr A Lee was the manager.

==The ‘Stute’==
The Social Institute was founded at the turn of the 20th century to provide a social and sporting outlet for the young men of Earl Shilton. Its first home was accommodated in two rooms above the H.U.D.C. gas showrooms in Wood St.
A Grand Bazaar was held in Earl Shilton on 28th and 29 December 1908, at the High street school, to raise funds for a new building for the Social Institute.

In 1909 the building was erected in Station road, paid for by public subscription, and a mortgage guaranteed by local industrialists, who were the founders and formed the Management Committee. The premises on station road organised football, cricket, a rifle range, chess club, skittles and billiards.

==Harrys==
Annually Circuses and wild beast shows were in evidence in Earl Shilton, prior to the advent of the “Movies.”

The “Picture House” in Station road, began life as a roller skating rink called the Royal Rink, and was erected in 1910. Mr. H. S. Cooper started this very much-needed enterprise that would bring the glamour of Hollywood into the village.

The cinema was forever after known to all as ‘Harrys’.

Following World War II generations grew up attending the Saturday matinees at the picture house, or sessions at the new, out door. roller skating rink built beside it. The grandeur of the old Royal Rink could never match the Danilo or Gaumont in Hinckley, but it still drew a sizeable crowd. During the 1960s the running of the cinema was taken over by Mr Coopers daughter Freda, and her husband Jack Aldridge, who had previously ran a local taxi firm.

==The Catholic Church and Normanton Hall==
The Catholic Church was erected in 1908 and was situated in Mill Lane. The Catholic school adjacent was erected in 1910 for the education of 80 children, a Convent and priest’s house being added later. The church was under the patronage of the Worswick family, who had their countryseat at Normanton Hall (now demolished), which lay outside Earl Shilton on the road to Thurleston. Father Grimes was the first priest. In the years prior to the church in Mill Lane being erected the Catholics worshipped in the private chapel of Normanton Hall.

During the 1914—18 War, German prisoners were interned at Normanton Hall. After its demolition, just after the war, it was a sad blow for the Catholics and to the whole neighbourhood as many were employed there.

The Convent was several times empty during the 1930s and 40s, but was reconditioned and used in the form of a “Seminary.” It was for some years also used as a hosiery factory.

A fire destroyed Normanton Hall in 1925, and the property was subsequently sold off. Shortly after the demolition of Normanton the altar, a magnificent piece of work, was presented to Earl Shilton’s St. Peter’s Church in Mill Lane. A fire, in the 1940s, destroyed part of this building, but fortunately not damaging the altar. Father Barry-Doyle, a former priest, and a well-known elocutionist, greatly delighted local audiences with his poetry and monologues during his stay at Normanton.

==The Boy Scouts==
The first Scout troop was formed around 1916. The original Master for the Earl Shilton troop was Mr Horace Perkins, and Mr W Cotton was president

Mr Perkins recalls -
‘Much of the Scouts equipment was homemade. In the early days we water proofed heavy bed sheets and would sew them into tents’ ''(John Lawrence''). The Scout troop took part in the World Jamborbee, at [[Olympia, London]] in 1920. During the Jamboree they camped in the town of Barnet.

Mr Rudkin was a local carrier and the first man in the village to possess a motor charabanc. Bus and safety regulations were not in evidence, as the seats were ordinary chairs, set in rows and roped around the sides. Children were given free rides round the village on its inception.

==The Great War==
One thousand men from Earl Shilton served in British forces during [[World War I]]. Many men from Earl Shilton, in the Fifth Leicestershire Regiment, also served in [[Ireland]] during the 1916 [[Easter Rising|Easter uprising]]. The village factories also supplied the government with thousands of pairs of socks and army boots. These same manufacturers also supplied vast orders for the Russian Cossacks.

During the latter stages of the war, Earl Shilton held a ‘big gun week’, when a large [[howitzer]] was paraded around the village. Many were invited to buy [[war bond|War Bonds]]. Military bands often visited the village to inspire recruiting. In a very different age when information was seriously censored and patriotism was paramount, young men clamoured to join up. In one week alone 80 enlisted, and were cheered on by crowds of happy followers as they marched to [[Elmesthorpe]] station on their way to the mud filled trenches of the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].

It was all over on the 11th November 1918. All work was suspended for the day, while flags and bunting appeared in windows. Fireworks were let off and a comic band toured the streets. Watching silently were the German prisoners of war who were working in the area and billeted at nearby Normanton Hall.

A captured field gun stood for a time near the Wesleyan Chapel, and was removed for a time to a field off station road. The guns final resting place was the Wood Street Recreation Ground, which was once a sand pit, where the gun now lies buried and forgotten.

Over a hundred men from the village were lost in the conflict, and a cenotaph was erected in their memory.

On wake Sunday 1919, and for many years afterwards, the British Legion, public bodies and factories held a parade for the fallen.

==Sport==
Sport has been represented in Earl Shilton by several worthy exponents, especially at cricket. Sam Coe, Loni Brown, Joe Brown and Arthur Hampson were all selected for county honours. Billy Ball and George Panter, of an older generation, were also outstanding. Earl Shilton had a regular fixture at one period with Coventry and North Warwickshire.

Shilton Victors, a football team who had their headquarters at the “King William IV" public house, won three cups in a single day, a very noteworthy achievement. Most of the factories in the village ran sides for the benefit of the Earl Shilton Sunshine League. These matches were played after tea when work ceased, and very keen rivalry was witnessed, and good football without the frills was usually served up for the large crowds that assembled. Mr. H. Bradbnry presented a silver cup that was played for each year by knock-out competition. The venue for these hectic matches was in a field off Station Road at the rear of the Constitutional Club. By 1923 Earl Shilton had many football clubs in vogue. The church and chapel fielded useful sides, also very often second elevens. The Adult School fielded three sides for quite a long time, and rented two fields, one which was situated on The Mount

Foot racing was once very popular, and many wagers have been run for around the local fields. On one occasion the village sweep who was to cycle on his three-wheeler, challenged a well-known local runner to race from Shilton Hill to Kirkby, the runner to have the length of the hill start. The runner was easily passed down the Kirkby Lane and retired. In 1947 Mr. Macartney, was still living in the village, being over 90 years of age. He was the village sweep and carried on this occupation when he was over 80 years of age.

Between the wars Earl Shilton boasted a horticultural society, which held an annual flower and sports event in a field in Kings Walk. Cycle racing, high jumps, donkey racing and all manner of foot racing.

==World War II==
During [[World War II]] there were 192 air raid alerts in Earl Shilton. The first occurring on June 26, 1940 and the last on 20 March 1945. The village siren was erected on the factory of Toon and son in Wood Street, and known as ‘Moaning Minnie’.

The first bombing took place on the night of 20–21 November 1940, when three parachute mines were dropped. One landed in Barwell while the other two came down in the Northwest corner of Earl Shilton. One of these mines failed to explode, and both villages had a narrow escape as no one was injured and no serious damage was done. The following day a Royal Navy bomb disposal squad blew the thing up at 3 pm. This left a good size crater near the ‘Brockey’, but soon afterwards this was filled in.

More incendiaries fell in Elmesthorpe on December 4, 1940. Chased across Shilton by the RAF, the German plane was brought down near Leicester Forrest East. The Earl Shilton Home Guard were called out to the scene and prisoners were taken.

At 7am on July 27, 1942, a lone German bomber dived out of the clouds near the church and let go of three stick bombs. They landed at the back of Mr T Carter’s farm in Church Street, destroying a barn and badly damaging a house. Mr Carter had a very lucky escape himself, as he was out in his yard at the time only {{convert|20|yd|m|-1}} from the blast. A bull was so badly injured that it had to be put down. The plane went on to machine gun those unfortunate enough to be going to work.

<blockquote>
''Mr T J Langton recalls'' -

I was at Earl Shilton R.C. School, in Mill Lane, when on this particular morning a lost German plane flew low over Keats Lane and as a boy I remember as Gary Cassell was on his way to the same school as this plane flew over, low and sprayed machine gun bullets along Keats Lane. He ran into an entry and dropped his scarf. When he eventually recovered it, he noticed it contained a bullet hole. He told the story to Michael Mortimore, the son of the village bobby who also attended the school. On hearing this, Mike Mortimore said 'It was a good job he had not got it wrapped round his neck, at the time.'
</blockquote>

During the night of July 30, 1942, a {{convert|2000|lb|abbr=on}} bomb landed in Everards field near to Kings Walk, but apart from a pig being killed the bomb only rattled a few windows (Germany 1 - Pig 0). The crater was still in evidence in 1947.

<blockquote>
M''r T J Langton also recalls'' -
I was woken up early one morning and was later told there had been an explosion, close by in Earl Shilton. Later that morning, it was discovered that a bomb had fallen in the Leacroft’s, and landing on soft ground restricted it’s damage to killing a pig and a chicken, belonging to the Fullylore family. It was later reported in newspapers, but owing to the war situation, it was not given out as being Earl Shilton, only ‘a Midland’s village’.
</blockquote>

But it was not only the Germans that the villagers had to watch out for as a greenhouse in Huit Lane was hit by a stray anti-aircraft shell.

On the night of the big raid on Coventry planes passed over the village the whole night long. There was the distant sound of the anti aircraft batteries could clearly be heard and there was a huge orange glow in the sky, which marked the firestorm raining down on Coventry.

At the top end of the village, the Air Raid Patrol, ARP wardens, met in the back room of the Plough, a Public House run by Joe Lucas. They patrolled the streets checking the blackout and fire watching.

Hundreds of villagers went into munitions work, and eventually there was a munitions factory opened in the village. The village also took child refugees from Coventry, Birmingham and London.

Many villagers had shelters put in their gardens, but there were also public shelters in Wood Street, Station Road, Almey’s Lane, Keats Lane, The Hollow and Belle Vue.

The Local Defence Volunteers, later to be renamed the Home Guard, were organised in June 1940. They had their headquarters in a large house near Birds Hill called ‘Holydene’, the fire service and ambulance sharing a room here for a time. The Local Defence Volunteers were conspicuous in their denim overalls at the beginning of the war, but as time went on they were issued with army battle dress, tin hats, American rifles with bayonets and by the end of the war even boasted a couple of Lewis guns. One section of the Home Guard was on patrol every night and by the time they were stood down their strength had grown to 140 men. They were commanded in the early days by Captain Wileman and later by Major Wand of Desford.

Soldiers were billeted in most of the public buildings during the war. The military authorities requisitioned the Working Men's Club dance hall, the Adult School Hall, the Social Institute, Constitutional Club, and the Co-op village hall. After Dunkirk, the Sussex Yeomanry moved into the village, being replaced in turn by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Marines and the Pioneer Corps. The Wesleyan Chapel in the Hollow was transformed into a British Restaurant, for the troops. Training was undertaken on the recreation grounds and other open spaces around the village. Mr Astley’s sand pit in Heath Lane was used as a shooting range.

There were around 900 men and women serving in the regular British forces, of which 25 were killed in action. Their names were duly added to the war memorial.

==References==
{{More footnotes|date=April 2009}}
<references/>
* Nichols, John ''History and Antiquities of Leicestershire'', Vol. IV, pp. 774–780
*''Gentleman's Magazine'', xlvi (1776)
* Mathews, A. G. (1948) Walker Revised. London: Oxford University Press; p. 237.
* Lawrence, John N. (2006) 'Associations with Earl Shilton, a Leicestershire Village'
* Crouch, David (2002) The Normans
* The Crusades
* Foster, G. H. (1940) History of Earl Shilton Tooley Park and Potters Marston. Baxter
* Foster, G. H. (1947) History of Earl Shilton and Tooley Park. Baxter
* Morris, Mark (2003) Earl Shilton Castle. Pan Books
* Wood, Michael. The Domesday Book
* Wace. The Companions of William the Conqueror
* Schama, Simon. A History of Britain
* Leicestershire Archeological Society; Vol 28 1952
* Biggs, J. T. Leicester: Sanitation versus Vaccination

==External sources==
* [http://earlshilton.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/ Earl Shilton Town Council web site]
* Old photos of Earl Shilton can be found at http://earlshilton.multiply.com
* [http://www.1stbritanniascoutgroup.org/earlshilton Showing details of Scouting in the town]
* Further information and pictures of Earl Shilton and neighbouring town Barwell at http://www.earlshiltonandbarwell.co.uk

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Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady

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{{Infobox Album | 
| Name = Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders' First Lady
| Cover = RuffRyder'sFirstLady.jpg
| Type = Studio
| Artist = [[Eve (entertainer)|Eve]]
| Released = {{flagicon|Italy}} September 14, 1999 {{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} May 29, 1999 {{flagicon|United States}} September 14, 1999
| Length = 53:80
| Genre = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]], [[Hip hop music|East Coast Rap]]
| Recorded = 1998-1999
| Label = [[Ruff Ryders Entertainment|Ruff Ryders]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Producer = Dee Dean ([[exec.]]), Waah Dean (exec.), [[Swizz Beatz]], P.K., DJ Shok, Jay "Icepick" Jackson
| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating|4.0|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryder's First Lady |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:px4tk6jxekrf |name=Eve |work=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=2009-11-16}}</ref>
*''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' (C+)<ref>{{cite web |title=Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,64271,00.html |name=Eve |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |accessdate=2009-11-16}}</ref>
| Singles | Love Is Blind
| Last album =
| This album = '''''Ruff Ryders' First Lady'''''(1999)
| Next album = ''[[Scorpion (album)|Scorpion]]''(2001)
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'''''Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders' First Lady''''' is the debut album of Philadelphia born female rapper [[Eve (entertainer)|Eve]]. The album was released September 14, 1999 on [[Ruff Ryders Entertainment]] and [[Interscope Records]]. The album has sold over 2 million copies (according to [[Nielsen SoundScan|Soundscan]]) and is certified [[RIAA certification|Double Platinum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Singer of the Week |url=http://au.askmen.com/celebs/women/singer_60/92_eve.html |name=Eve |work=AskMen.com |accessdate=2009-11-18}}</ref> The album features singles such as "Gotta Man," and "Love Is Blind" with [[Faith Evans]]. Many of the songs on the album were written by Eve herself.

==Track listing==
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| title1 = First Lady (intro)
| extra1 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length1 = 1:36
| title2 = Let's Talk About (featuring [[Drag-On]])
| extra2 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length2 = 3:31
| title3 = Gotta Man
| extra3 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length3 = 4:24
| title4 = Philly Cheese Steak (skit)
| extra4 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length4 = 1:37
| title5 = Philly Philly (featuring [[Beanie Sigel]])
| extra5 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length5 = 3:57
| title6 = Stuck Up (featuring C.J.)
| extra6 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length6 = 3:53
| title7 = Ain't Got No Dough (featuring [[Missy Elliott]])
| extra7 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length7 = 4:17
| title8 = BM (skit)
| extra8 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length8 = 1:01
| title9 = Love Is Blind (featuring [[Faith Evans]])
| extra9 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length9 = 4:20
| title10 = Scenario 2000 (featuring [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]], [[D-Block|The Lox]] and [[Drag-On]])
| extra10 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length10= 5:33
| title11 = Dog Match (featuring [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]])
| extra11 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length11= 4:19
| title12 = My Bitches (skit)
| extra12 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length12= 1:08
| title13 = We On That Shit! (featuring P. Killer Tracks)
| extra13 = P.K.
| length13= 3:25
| title14 = Chokie Nikes (skit)
| extra14 = Jay "Icepick" Jackson
| length14= 1:04
| title15 = Maniac (featuring [[Swizz Beatz]])
| extra15 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length15= 4:22
| title16 = My Enemies (skit)
| extra16 = [[Swizz Beatz]]
| length16= 1:43
| title17 = Heaven Only Knows
| extra17 = DJ Shok
| length17= 4:29
| title18 = What Y'all Want (Remix) (Bonus Track)
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| length18= 4:05
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==Personnel==
Credits for ''Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady'' adapted from [[Allmusic]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryder's First Lady: Credits |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfwxq8kldae~T2 |name=Eve |work=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=2009-11-17}}</ref>
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* Adam "Bunnie" Grossman: Engineer
* Adam Gazzola: Instrumentation
* Charles Duffy: Art Direction, Design
* Chris Theis: Engineer
* Dee Dean: Executive Producer, A&R
* DMX: Performer
* Eric: Performer
* Eric Smith: Engineer
* Eve: Vocals
* The Icepick: Producer
* Jonathan Mannion: Photography
* Keisha Gibbs: Marketing
{{Col-2-of-2}}
* Kithe Brewster: Stylist
* Mario DeArce: Editing
* P.K: Producer
* Rich Keller: Multi Instruments, Mixing, Instrumentation
* Ron Martinez: Vocals
* Shok: Producer
* Swizz Beatz: Producer, Associate Producer
* Taryn Simon: Photography
* Tony Dawsey: Mastering
* Tony Maserati: Mixing
* Waah: Executive Producer, Art Direction, Design
{{Col-end}}

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| years = October 2 - October 8, 1999
| after = ''[[The Fragile]]'' by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
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Jim Gannon

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| fullname = James Paul Gannon
| image = [[File:Vs. Darlington (H) Apr 2008.JPG|200px]]
| nicknames = 'Jimbo', 'The Ghost', 'God'
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1968|9|7|df=y}}
| cityofbirth = [[Southwark]], [[London]]
| countryofbirth = [[England]]
| position = Centre-half; various
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| years = 1988–1989 1989–1990 1990 1990–2000 1994 2000–2001 2001–2004
| clubs = [[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]] [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] → [[Halifax Town A.F.C.|Halifax Town]] (loan) [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] → [[Notts County F.C.|Notts County]] (loan) [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]] [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]]
| caps(goals) = 17 (1) 0 (0) 2 (0) 383 (52) 2 (0) 7 (0) 48 (3)
| manageryears = 2004–2005 2005–2009 2009 2010–
| managerclubs = [[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]] [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] [[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]]
}}

'''James Paul "Jim" Gannon''' (born 7 September 1968 in [[Southwark]], [[London]], [[England]]) is an English [[manager (football)|football manager]] and former footballer. Having been made redundant as manager of the cash-strapped [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] at the end of the [[2008-09 in English football|2008-09 season]], Gannon was unveiled as the new [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] manager on 30 June 2009. He was sacked by the [[Fir Park]] side just six months later on 28 December. Gannon is currently manager of [[Football League Championship|Championship]] side [[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United F.C.]].

==Playing career==

Gannon was born in [[Southwark]], [[South London]] and moved with his family to [[Ireland]] at a young age. Gannon received his start in higher level football from the Irish club [[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]]. Gannon impressed for Dundalk, and in April 1989 was signed up by [[England|English]] team [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] where he struggled to break into the first team. After 12 months he moved to [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] where he had a distinguished ten year career. His 479 club appearances puts him in third spot in Stockport’s all-time appearance list and his 65 goals are 9th in their scoring records. He was awarded a testimonial against [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in August 2000,<ref>{{cite web|title = What A Weird Weah To Start|work = Sunday Mirror, 6 August 2000 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20000806/ai_n14511745}}</ref> but after a dispute with the club over the arrangements, he was sent out on a brief loan spell at [[Crewe Alexandra F.C.|Crewe Alexandra]], before returning to Ireland with [[Shelbourne FC|Shelbourne]].

Gannon was and still is known by Stockport fans as 'The Ghost', due to his knack of 'ghosting' in at the back of [[Penalty area|the box]] to score from crosses. He has received two distinguished honours from the club’s supporters—elected to the Stockport Hall of Fame and as Honorary Vice President of the Hatters Independent Supporters Club.

On his return to Ireland, Gannon completed his accountancy exams and had a number of successful years at [[Shelbourne FC|Shelbourne]] which included winning 2 League Championships, scoring in a [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] qualifier<ref>{{cite web|title = Reds so close to glamour tie with Boavista|work = The Mirror, 18 July 2002 |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-89200001.html}}</ref> and playing in the [[UEFA Cup]].

Jim holds the unique record of scoring in all 4 English divisions, the [[FA Cup]], the [[Football League Cup]], the [[Full Members Cup]], the English League play offs, the [[League of Ireland]], the [[FAI Cup]], the [[League of Ireland Cup]], and the [[UEFA Champions League]].

==Managerial career==
===Dundalk===

In June 2004 he was appointed to his first managerial post, taking charge of Dundalk, who were also the first club in Gannon's professional playing career. On 14 November 2005, Gannon confirmed his resignation from Dundalk after his position had been called into question as his chief supporters, vice-chairman Tom Baldwin and chief executive Sean Connolly, left the club.<ref>{{cite web|title = Dundalk manager hands in resignation|work = RTÉ Sport, 14 November 2005 |url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/2005/1114/dundalk.html}}</ref> This left Dundalk without a manager for their final match of the 2005 season, in which they had already secured a comfortable mid-table position in Ireland's second tier of association football.<ref>{{cite web|title = Ireland Republic Division One 2005 Table|work = Soccerway, 19 November 2005 |url=http://www.soccerway.com/national/ireland-republic/division-1/2005/regular-season/}}</ref> Prior to Gannon's departure, the team had drawn ten consecutive matches.

===Stockport County===
====2005-06====

After the resignation of [[Chris Turner (footballer born 1958)|Chris Turner]] as Stockport County manager, Gannon was appointed as caretaker manager with the team five points adrift of safety at the bottom of League Two,<ref>{{cite web|title = Table at the time of Gannon's appointment|work = StockportMAD, 17 June 2007|url=http://www.stockportcounty-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadgen.asp?Day=26&Month=Dec&ssnno=135&teamno=499}}</ref> facing potential relegation from the Football League. An upturn in results saw Gannon offered the job full time, which allowed him to guide County to safety, avoiding relegation from the football league on the final day of the [[2005-06 in English football|2005–06]] season.

====2006-07====

At the beginning of the 2006-07 season, Gannon and Stockport announced they had drawn up a 5-year plan to take the club to the [[Football League Championship|Championship]]. Results on the field followed this statement of intent, with Gannon leading County to a [[Football records in England|League record]] nine consecutive victories without conceding a goal. County missed out on the [[Football League Two play-offs|League Two play-offs]] due to results on the final day of the season, missing out on goal difference despite a 5-0 victory over [[Darlington Football Club|Darlington]].

====2007-08====

County finished the 2007-08 season in fourth, and on his fifth visit to Wembley, his first as a manager, Gannon guided Stockport to a 3-2 win over [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]] in May 2008 to win promotion to [[Football League One|League One]].<ref>{{cite news|title = Stockport 3-2 Rochdale|work = BBC Sport, 26 May 2008|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_div_3/7416601.stm}}</ref> Having quickly taken Stockport from the foot of League Two to promotion to League One on a meager budget, Gannon is branded one of the most highly-rated managers in the lower leagues.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gannon Emerges|work=Sky Sports, 12 November 2008|url=http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_4490295,00.html}}</ref>

====2008-09====

Gannon led County to an impressive start to the season following their promotion, and they spent Christmas in the play-off places with the best away record in the division.<ref>{{cite web|title=Football League One Table|work=20 December 2008|url=http://www.stockportcounty.com/page/LeagueTable/0,,10419~20081220,00.html}}</ref> The new year did start uncomfortably for Gannon; with media speculation linking him with a move away from Edgeley Park, and the club announcing they were in financial difficulty, he took interviews reassuring fans of his intent to stick by County.

On 24 February 2009 Stockport agreed to allow Gannon to hold talks with [[Brighton and Hove Albion]], who were seeking to fill the managerial position left vacant by [[Micky Adams]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stockportcounty.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10419~1568802,00.html |title=Official Approach For Gannon |publisher=Stockportcounty.com |date= |accessdate=4 June 2009}}</ref> Jim suggested that his family would play a large part in his decision to move clubs, with Stockport's financial troubles may impress on his own financial situation, while uprooting his family to move to Brighton may be undesirable. Gannon was made favorite to be given the job by several bookmakers,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.online-betting-guide.co.uk/news/18227808/New+Brighton+Manager+Set+To+Be+Jim+Gannon+Or+Aidy+Boothroyd.html |title=New Brighton Manager set to be Jim Gannon |publisher=Online-betting-guide.co.uk |date= |accessdate=4 June 2009}}</ref> and he met with Brighton chairman Dick Knight on the 25th, before announcing on the 26th that he had chosen not to take the job. [[Dick Knight]] had indicated that Gannon was his first choice for the job,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/4157180.Knight_setback_as_Gannon_says_no/ |title=Knight setback as Gannon says no |publisher=Theargus.co.uk |date=26 February 2009 |accessdate=4 June 2009}}</ref> and former Stockport players now at Brighton had shown their desire for Gannon to be given the job.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/4155173.Gannon_will_have_done_his_homework/ |title=Gannon will have done his homework |publisher=Theargus.co.uk |date=26 February 2009 |accessdate=4 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/4149517.Albion_ace_backs_Gannon/ |title=Albion ace backs Gannon |publisher=Theargus.co.uk |date=24 February 2009 |accessdate=4 June 2009}}</ref> However, Gannon turned down the opportunity and vowed stay with at the [[Edgeley Park]] club.
On 6 May 2009 Gannon was made redundant as manager of Stockport along with assistant boss Peter Ward. The move comes after the club were placed into administration at the end of April and were deducted 10 points in accordance with Football League rules.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/stockport/8036682.stm|title=Gannon leaves as Stockport boss |date=6 May 2009|work=[[BBC Sport]]|accessdate=6 May 2009}}</ref>

===Motherwell===
Gannon was confirmed as manager of [[Scottish Premier League]] side [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] at the end of June 2009, two days before the club's [[2009–10 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round|Europa League first round qualifying tie]] against [[Llanelli A.F.C.|Llanelli]] of Wales.<ref name="Motherwell confirm Gannon as boss">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/8111043.stm|title=Motherwell confirm Gannon as boss|date=30 June 2009|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=30 June 2009}}</ref>
After taking the job, Gannon said that he hoped to bring in up to six players, most of them from England to bolster a squad threadbare after summer exits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/8127234.stm|title=Gannon targets England for talent|date=30 June 2009|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=1 July 2009}}</ref>
On 2 July, his first game in charge in the [[Europa League]] first round qualifying first leg, Motherwell lost 1-0 against Llanelli.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8129623.stm|title= Motherwell 0-1 Llanelli |date=2 July 2009|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=2 July 2009}}</ref> However, on the away leg in Wales, the Steelmen recorded a 3-0 win to send them into the next round.Motherwell then beat KS Flamurtari 8-2 on aggregate after an amazing 8-1 victory in the home leg. Motherwell were then knocked out by Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest after two brave dislays. His first league victory was a 3 - 1 victory against Kilmarnock at Fir Park. He has kept a good running losing just 2 matches both against Hibernian on 5th December 2009. Gannon has recently had a massive fall out with the Scottish referees and Hugh Dallas with numerous decisions going against the Well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8141067.stm|title=Llanelli 0-3 Motherwell (1-3) |date=9 July 2009|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=4 August 2009}}</ref> On 28 December, Gannon was sacked by Motherwell having threatened to resign the Saturday before following a heavy 6-1 defeat to [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/8410905.stm|title=Rangers 6 - 1 Motherwell|date=2009-12-19|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=2009-12-30}}</ref> This brought to an end an unhappy spell for Gannon where he failed to settle in Scotland and brought to a head weeks of dissatisfaction with the Scottish football scene in general. Motherwell cited that Gannon was "not fully committed to the club" as the reason for their decision. No other team or manager was involved in either Gannon's or Motherwell's decision.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/8432623.stm|title=Boss Gannon sacked by Motherwell |date=2009-12-28|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=2009-12-30}}</ref>

===Peterborough United===
On 2 February 2010 Gannon was appointed manager of [[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]], following the sacking of [[Mark Cooper (footballer born 1968)|Mark Cooper]].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.ontheminute.com/news/news.php?news=20732|title=Gannon named new Peterborough boss|date=2010-02-02|work=Ontheminute.com|accessdate=2010-02-02}}</ref>

==Outspoken nature==
Gannon was one of few managers in the lower leagues to hold a full UEFA Pro Licence.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} Despite being relatively new to management, Gannon has been unafraid to criticise referees, other clubs or [[The Football Association]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}

During Stockport County's record-breaking run of nine consecutive victories without conceding a goal, Gannon hit out at [[Bristol Rovers F.C.|Bristol Rovers]] and the match referee when a fixture was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. Gannon lodged a complaint with the FA with regard to Rovers, as he felt not enough was done to ready the pitch, and also a complaint with regard to the referee's handling of the situation. Gannon was later incensed with the FA when the same referee was allowed to take charge of the postponed fixture.<ref>{{cite web|title = Double whammy angers Gannon|work = Manchester Evening News, 22 March 2007|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/stockport_county/s/1002/1002549_double_whammy_angers_gannon.html}}</ref> Rovers won the delayed match 2–1.

Priding himself on playing flowing football in the lower leagues of the English game,{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} Gannon has repeatedly spoken out against clubs he feels play too physically,{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} and referees he feels do not give his players enough protection.<ref>{{cite web|title = Get set for a thriller|work = Stockport Express, 26 March 2008|url=http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/sport/football/stockport_county/s/1042445_get_set_for_a_thriller}}</ref> Gannon was left threatening police action over a strong challenge that left Stockport striker [[Matty McNeil]] unconscious and in hospital.<ref>{{cite web|title = Hatters take Reid evidence to police|work = Teamtalk.com, 20 October 2008|url=http://www.teamtalk.co.za/football/story/0,16368,1819_4358356,00.html}}</ref>

Gannon branded approaches from [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] and [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] questionable and unprofessional after the two [[Premier League]] clubs swooped for youngsters being trained in Stockport County's development squads.<ref>{{cite web|title = City offer imminent|work = Manchester Evening News, 20 December 2006|url = http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/stockport_county/s/231/231270_city_offer_imminent.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Liverpool snatch youngster|work = Stockport Express, 15 June 2007|url = http://www.northernireland-mad.co.uk/news/loadgnrl.asp?id=341070&teamno=499}}</ref>

His open nature has also drawn criticism from his own fans, who felt some interviews shared aspects that should have been handled inside the club.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} After a touch-line argument with then-club captain [[Gareth Owen]], Gannon gave a forthright interview explaining that disciplinary action will be taken, and Owen would be stripped of the captaincy.<ref>{{cite web|title = Gannon wants Owen apology|work = Manchester Evening News, 1 October 2008|url = http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/stockport_county/s/1069917_gannon_wants_owen_apology}}</ref> Owen, who was later released by the club, did not play another game for County. Gannon also drew furore when he discussed ongoing contract negotiations in the press.<ref>{{cite web|title = County plan new Gannon deal|work = Manchester Evening News, 13 November 2008|url = http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/stockport_county/s/1079473_county_plan_new_gannon_deal}}</ref>

Gannon was sent to the stand in Motherwell's [[Europa League]] match against [[Steaua Bucharest]]; however Gannon has stated he did not know why he, or his assistant manager were sent off by [[Spanish people|Spanish]] referee [[Carlos Clos Gomez]].<ref>{{cite web|title = Gannon criticises referee display|work = BBC Sport, 7 August 2009|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/8190744.stm}}</ref>

==Honours==
===As a player===
* ''' [[Football League One]] Runners Up
** [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] 1996-97
* ''' [[Football League One play-offs|Football League One Play-Off]] Finalists
** [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] 1991-92, 1993-94
* ''' [[Football League Two]] Runners Up
** [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] 1990-91
* ''' [[Football League Trophy]] Runners Up
** [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] 1991-92, 1992-93
* '''[[League of Ireland]]'''
** [[Shelbourne F.C.|Shelbourne]] 2001-02, 2003

===As a manager===

* '''[[Football League Two play-offs|Football League Two Play-Off]] Winners'''
** [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]] 2007-08

==Managerial stats==
{{updated|6 February 2010}}
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|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!D!!L!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]]
|{{flagicon|Ireland}}
|align=left|8 June 2004
|align=left|14 November 2005
{{WDL|57|19|16|22}}
|-
|align=left|[[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|28 December 2005
|align=left|6 May 2009
{{WDL|182|79|42|61}}
|-
|align=left|[[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]]
|{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|align=left|30 June 2009
|align=left|28 December 2009
{{WDL|9|3|2|4}}
|-
|align=left|[[Peterborough United F.C.|Peterborough United]]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|1 February 2010
|align=left|''Present''
{{WDL|1|1|0|0}}
|-
!colspan="4"|Total
{{WDLtot|249|101|60|87}}
|}

== References ==

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Tim Firth

2010-02-01T13:56:16Z

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'''Tim Firth''' (born 1964, [[Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|Wirral]], [[Merseyside]]) is an [[England|English]] [[dramatist]], [[screenwriter]] and [[songwriter]].

He was born and has lived all his life in the north west of England, on the border of Cheshire and Lancashire. He attended Bridgewater High, a comprehensive school in Appleton, Warrington, and has associations with Stockton Heath and Grappenhall. He read English at [[Cambridge University]]. On leaving Cambridge, he was invited to meet [[Alan Ayckbourn]] in Scarborough and commissioned to write a play for the studio theatre for the Stephen Joseph Theatre. His plays include: Man of Letters (1991), Neville's Island (1992), The End of the Food Chain (1994), Love Songs for Shopkeepers (1998), The Safari Party (2002), Our House (2003), Absolutely Frank (2006), The Flint Street Nativity (2006)(originally made for television in 1999).<ref>{{cite web | title=Tim Firth's website | url=http://www.timfirth.com | accessdate=2008-06-01}}</ref>

He wrote the scripts for ''[[All Quiet on the Preston Front]]'', ''[[Calendar Girls]]'', ''[[Blackball]]'' and ''[[Kinky Boots]]''. He has written various theatrical productions, including the book for [[Our House (musical)|''Our House'']], featuring the music of [[Madness (band)|Madness]]. He has also worked in radio, with the series ''[[And_now_in_Colour_%28Radio_Show%29|And Now in Colour]]''.

He lived for a number of years on Ellis Lane, Frodsham.

He is to be awarded an honorary Doctorate in Literature by the Univeristy of Chester in a cemermony at Chester Cathedral on Friday, 19th March 2010.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://www.timfirth.com Tim Firth's website]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278759/ Tim Firth] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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Tim Firth

2010-02-01T13:54:53Z

195.195.128.84:

'''Tim Firth''' (born 1964, [[Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|Wirral]], [[Merseyside]]) is an [[England|English]] [[dramatist]], [[screenwriter]] and [[songwriter]].

He was born and has lived all his life in the north west of England, on the border of Cheshire and Lancashire. He attended Bridgewater High, a comprehensive school in Appleton, Warrington, and has associations with Stockton Heath and Grappenhall. He read English at [[Cambridge University]]. On leaving Cambridge, he was invited to meet [[Alan Ayckbourn]] in Scarborough and commissioned to write a play for the studio theatre for the Stephen Joseph Theatre. His plays include: Man of Letters (1991), Neville's Island (1992), The End of the Food Chain (1994), Love Songs for Shopkeepers (1998), The Safari Party (2002), Our House (2003), Absolutely Frank (2006), The Flint Street Nativity (2006)(originally made for television in 1999).<ref>{{cite web | title=Tim Firth's website | url=http://www.timfirth.com | accessdate=2008-06-01}}</ref>

He wrote the scripts for ''[[All Quiet on the Preston Front]]'', ''[[Calendar Girls]]'', ''[[Blackball]]'' and ''[[Kinky Boots]]''. He has written various theatrical productions, including the book for [[Our House (musical)|''Our House'']], featuring the music of [[Madness (band)|Madness]]. He has also worked in radio, with the series ''[[And_now_in_Colour_%28Radio_Show%29|And Now in Colour]]''.

He lived for a number of years on Ellis Lane, Frodsham.

He is to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature by the Univeristy of Chester in a Cemermony at Chester Cathedral on Friday, 19th March 2010.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://www.timfirth.com Tim Firth's website]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278759/ Tim Firth] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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