b.1957 |
TORVILL
MBE & OBE, Jayne
Sport
- Ice-skating
Jayne became
hooked on skating following an after school trip to the local ice
rink when she was eight years old. She became British National Pairs
Champion at 14. In 1980 she had teamed up with Christopher Dean and
the pair won the British Dance championship. November 1983 saw the
couple's most famous routine debute at the British Championships in
Nottingham. Bolero was a masterpiece, taking ice dancing to a completely
new level, earning them an unprecedented maximum score at the 1984
Sarajevo Olympic Games.
Key Achievements:
Sports Writers'
Sportswoman of the Year 1981; BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1984;
Master of Arts Degree; OBE (2000).
Web: www.jhalle.demon.co.uk/nszjayne.html
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1909 - 1998 |
TREASE,
Geoffrey
Children's
writer
Author of 110
books during a 60 year career, Geoffrey Trease was a playwright, historian
and biographer but chiefly a children's author. His style was different
for the time,however. His 1949 book No Boats on Bannermere
was unusual because it was set in a day school rather than a public
school. He was born in Nottingham, part of the wine merchant Treases
(who still operate today). Indeed one of his stories, A Flight
of Angels, was inspired by the deep sandstone cellar-caves dug
out under Nottingham by the old merchants.
Key Achievements:
Such Divinity (1939),
No Boats on Bannermere (1949), Samuel Pepys and His World (1972),
Portrait of a Cavalier (1979)
Web:
http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/
collect/history.htm#Trease |
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