denshaw 2,871 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Can anyone recall this one. "you've got the cheek of Lambley Jack" Den. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Who was Lambley Jack? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Intrigued but not heard that one. I've heard of 'Spring-heeled Jack' from Arnold. A strange tale if there ever was one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 There was a 'Spring heeled Jack' relating to footprints in the snow , but I thought that was the 1800s and in London Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Yep. There's also a local story about such a character too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I do remember my dad saying things about "Lambley Jack" - but I have no idea what/who it refers to! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I can put all your minds to rest, I knew and use to work with a chap who we called Lambley jack only because he lived in Lambley. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Was he a cheeky bloke Bip? i heard this phrase in the sixties. Den. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I along with the rest of you (probably) have been searching with Mr G . oogle , and all I can find is a little lane in Lambley Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Can anyone recall this one. "you've got the cheek of Lambley Jack" Yep, remember it but have no idea of the origin. I wonder if he was related to Tom Pepper, as in 'A bigger liar than Tom Pepper.' Den. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 I'm sure theres been a thread re Lambley Jack here? I'd never heard of him but seems he was some sort of hobo type, lived off the land etc, lovable rogue, poacher etc? as regards spring heeled jack, the original story (can't be true can it?) was of some footprints in snow found on roofs in london with nothing in between as if he'd jumped some impossible distance from one house to another and so on? never heard of arnold one but neighbour swears blind him and his wife saw a bloke jumping thus in beeston rylands! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 lambley jack was also a local ( ? ) reference to the devil.....cheek of the........also the footprints stories all refer that way too....been an occurance for hundreds of years........which is one of the reasons folk put the horseshoes over their doors......then comes the confusion...as dif'rent areas had the horseshoe facing dif'rent directions for dif'rent reasons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 The ends point up to keep the luck in of course!!!!!!............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 then some say the devil can sit in it and wait for you......y'cant win. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 There's a bit of a reference in a local newsletter or suchlike in The Woodlark in Lambley regarding Lambley Jack. I now have a good reason to call in and do some 'research'. The Arnold story about Spring-Heeled Jack referred to this character's his penchant for tying springs to his boots and leaping over hedgerows, surprising and annoying incognito courting couples! Sounds a bit like Arnold to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Froggy 3 Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 'He's got the cheek of Lambley Jack' was said frequently in our house. I've never heard of Spring-heeled Jack. For some reason the Lambley jack saying always brings to mind another one: 'She's gorra mairth like a parish uvven'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ab&mb 0 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 The following is taken from the description of my Geocache called Lambley Jack which is located on "Back lane" Lambley The name “Lambley Jack” comes from a local story about a footpad (highwayman without a horse) who operated on the footpaths in the area. He was said to have been very generous with the money that he liberated from the local “well offs” and the peasants came to look on him as a mini Robin Hood. There’s no hard evidence that Jack actually existed but it does make a good local legend. Today the “Lambley Jack’s” are a fund raising organisation who organise events to help local charities. My family come from Lambley and the above information was passed to me from my mother/aunts/uncles Hope it helps Martyn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted March 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2012 May 6th Lambley Village hall at 12.00 tales of Lambley Jack. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Apparently Lambley Jack is the village's own legendary 'Robin Hood' figure. Read recently that he was supposed to be a footpad - a highwayman sans the horse - who operated locally. As Den mentions above, he's making an appearance this coming weekend at the Cowslip Sunday celebrations in the village! I'l be taking a little cycle over there to witness the festivities. (Just like being a kid again biking to Lambley - if only my ma was here to pack me out with a bottle of fizzy water and some snap!) Here's the link: Cowslip Sunday Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 "Just like being a kid again? Does that mean your'e a 'grown up' Stu? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Someone asked if I was going through my second childhood. I'm still enjoying my first. Sorry Stu can't help with tips. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Someone asked if I was going through my second childhood. I'm still enjoying my first. Sorry Stu can't help with tips. Me too Stu, ..........don't wanna be like them growed ups!! they is always moaning about sumfink or other, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve_k 4 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 hi folks newbie digging up an old thread. i chose this thread as my first to post on for the simple fact that "lambley jack" is a main ancestor of my family. his proper name was jack kirk also known as "jagger" kirk, he was in fact a local poacher come thief, he was well known to the locals due to the fact he got about a bit (Arnold term, "he had a bike & like to ride it"). i first stumbled across lambley jack & after hearing both my dad & my gran talk about him many years ago when i was little. a couple of years ago my (my now ex) wife looked into my family tree as there were links in her family to the kirk family (my lot) & after a while she came across the name jack kirk where it all seemed to start from. the main reason i was looking into the family history was because i had been told years ago at school in calverton that my family were one of the oldest & biggest in nottingham (heard talk of this from family members over the years. like i say my ex wife started digging & found quite a bit out but kept finding references to lambley jack. so far i am trying to piece together what i can of the family history & also what i can find about jack. so if anyone knows anything about the family name & about jack then please feel free to let me know. so, yes he was a real person who's name still lives on localy. steve. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 Welcome Steve, Your post reminded me of what my mum and dad used to say when I was a nipper.......... " Stop slaumin' around like Lambley Jack" First time I have heard of this Kirk connection ......looking on the news archives can't see a specific mention of a Jack Kirk but anyone called John was often called nicknamed Jack . There does seem to be a family of Kirks in Lambley often in trouble in the 1860s, for drunkeness and fighting in Lambley one in particular called James Kirk (James =Jagger??). Must be related in such a small village . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 There does seem to be a family of Kirks in Lambley often in trouble in the 1860s, for drunkeness and fighting in Lambley one in particular called James Kirk (James =Jagger??). He later calmed down and got a job on the "Starship Enterprise" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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