Talk:Biggleswade

message: I've taken the liberty to upgrade the article to C class from Start as its obviously better than Start. I think this is still conservative and maybe it's up to B class. --Rupples (talk) 13:29, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Article quality reassessment

message: Some of the entries on the list seem not to belong as the person is not notable in relation to Biggleswade. 
First to be considered for the chop, Wally Odell. He was a professional footballer and played 61 times for Wrexham in Division 3 North in the 1930s and so meets Wikipedia's footballer notability guideline and has a Wiki page. I can find no mention of him being celebrated in Biggleswade.
Second candidate for removal is John Manton. No entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
His Wikipedia page describes him as an Australian Methodist minister, school principal and founding President of Newington College, Sydney. Don't know for sure but unless Newington College is a renowned/famous school I don't think Manton is notable.
Any comments?
--Rupples (talk) 17:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable residents list

message: ==== Businesses and goods made in Biggleswade over the years ====
Years in operation	Business name	Goods produced                                     	Location   	What’s on the site now
1801-current      	Jordan's     	Flour, animal feeds, breakfast cereals, cereal bars	Holme Mill 	Still in use
1883-1945         	Franklin's   	Flour, animal feeds                                	Mill Lane  	Used as a warehouse after 1945, the mill was converted into apartments in 1982.
1949- early 1970s 	Felix Catfood	Dry cat food                                       	Potton Road	Housing, Mountbatten Drive
I am considering changing the existing text to a tabular format as above (incomplete) and would welcome any comments before proceeding further. 
Rupples (talk) 06:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed (draft) revamp of Industry section under History

message: Years in operation	Business name	Goods produced                                     	Location   	What’s on the site now
1801-current      	Jordan's     	Flour, animal feeds, breakfast cereals, cereal bars	Holme Mill 	Still in use
1883-1945         	Franklin's   	Flour, animal feeds                                	Mill Lane  	Used as a warehouse after 1945, the mill was converted into apartments in 1982.
1949- early 1970s 	Felix Catfood	Dry cat food                                       	Potton Road	Housing, Mountbatten Drive
I am considering changing the existing text to a tabular format as above (incomplete) and would welcome any comments before proceeding further. 
Rupples (talk) 06:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Businesses and goods made in Biggleswade over the years 

message: Below is the text under the Transport heading.
The Great Northern Railway opened in 1850, and Biggleswade was for a time the first and only town in Bedfordshire to have a mainline station. Later it was one of three towns in the county to have one (on the East Coast Main Line), along with Bedford and Dunstable.
Despite a good deal of searching I can find no online published source supporting these statements.  Can anyone provide  references?  I have changed the text to simply read The Great Northern Railway opened a station in 1850.  Sandy and Arlsey & Shefford Road stations  also opened in August 1950 per references on their Wikipedia pages. 
The town was bypassed by the A1 trunk road in 1961.[6]
Buses in the town were provided by Eastern National until 1952, when the western division of Eastern National was handed over to United Counties. The company had a garage in Shortmead Street opposite Ivel Gardens until 1989 when it was sold for redevelopment into flats. United Counties was acquired by Stagecoach in November 1987 and moved to the current site in Hitchin Street in 1989, which was acquired from Charles Cook. Other bus operators based in Biggleswade included Charles Cook European Travel who operated in the area between 1947 and 1998 and Fairway Coaches although both of these operators have ceased to operate.
Similarly, I was unable to find evidence to support the statements about bus companies. Any help would be appreciated.
--Rupples (talk) 07:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The Town Council website supports the 'first mainline station in Bedfordshire' claim here: https://biggleswadetowncouncil.gov.uk/biggleswade-station/ Andywebby (talk) 10:44, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Could be true as Biggleswade is a town and Langford and Arlesey stations which opened in the same year serve villages. Also Bedford St Johns railway station, which opened 4 years earlier was probably not classed as on a main line. Rupples (talk) 21:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport 

message: Removed reference to "Mark Gray, world-famous super hero" as this is possibly a lie.
Removed links to non-notable churches, football clubs, and a photography competition which are not mentioned in the body of the entry. Left links to history society.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.6.42.192 (talk) 18:15, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This page was - until fairly recently - a concise listing of relevant information about a small market town. Now it's a page choc full of useless information. Here are some examples:
# Transport history?! The section on transport history can be removed, as it is non-notable. 
# Sports and leisure can be mostly removed. A small town having various clubs and such is non-notable, unless connected to a famous person.
# Culture - the fact that a town is mentioned by Pepys does not make it worth having a 'culture' section. 
# List of schools - massively non-notable.
There are also several sections where non-wikipedian language is used, such as saying the area is 'well served' by transport routes in the introduction. Other sections are unclear - saying the town was the 'first and only' to have a train station is not logical. If it was the first, it was by definition the only. Perhaps some kind wikipedia with sense will see to correct these issues.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.213.196 (talk) 17:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Biggleswade as 'the first and only' station (in Beds) is incorrect as Bedford St Johns precedes (1846). However, it is claimed (on the Town Council's web page) to be the first mainline station in Bedfordshire. Is this enough to also claim notability? Andywebby (talk) 10:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry for Biggleswade Needs Cleanup 

message: Part of this article states that "Traditionally Biggleswade was a vegetable- and produce growing area..." And then follows this with an advert for Bedfordshire Growers. In fact for most of it's recent history, the biggest employers in the town have been industrial. It is only since the Thatcher Revolution, when actual industry was deemed to be less important than the service industries, that the factories have disappeared. Cincinatti Milacron, Gloster Saro, Maythorns, Ivel Cycles, Insumat, Green King, Berkeley, Kayser Bondor etc. etc. Cincinatti Milacron once had a factory that covered about 20% of the current  area of the town. Unless anyone objects, I'm going to rewrite this bit to show a bit more balance (and get rid of the advert).Plingsby (talk) 10:32, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If you (or anyone) has citeable/supportable evidence for this, can you tell me. I don't really want to get rid of the Bedfordshire growers advert per se, I'd just prefer it to be useful information (which obviously it can be with proper verification).Plingsby (talk) 08:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Light Industrial town 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: I don't see the point in discussing this here in any detail because the rules are legislative. They apply to all English town councils and district councils, so that the exact terms belong on the general pages about local government and don't need repeating for each town. I feel that most of this detail should come out. Perhaps look at some other town pages to see they manage it. Bmcln1 (talk) 18:15, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Town Council v. District Council

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