Golborne Road ?

[Doodlebug]

I wondered if the name of this forum, Golborne, has anything to do with
Golborne Rd off Portabella Rd. London?

Golborne Rd is where the Saturday market was and maybe still is?

[ppppenguin]

As a typically metrocentric Londoner I would love to claim this but it just ain't so. Portobello Road and the nearby Golborne Road have nothing to do with it. GVR was conceived at a Golborne meeting of the BVWS.

http://www.bvws.org.uk/events/locations.php

GVR was born with great optimism as an "alternative" vintage forum but suffered badly in its infancy. Less said about this the better. Subsequently it was rescued by some decent and capable guys, notably Mark Hennessey and now Nick. As you can see, it's now an active and friendly place, fulfilling its original promise.

[Doodlebug]

Thanks for all that. 
I too, as an ex Londoner who spent many a happy hour in Golborne Rd looking for wireless, would liked to have thought this forum was named after that Rd.

[Yorkie]

GVR was born with great optimism as an "alternative" vintage forum but suffered badly in its infancy. Less said about this the better. Subsequently it was rescued by some decent and capable guys, notably Mark Hennessey and now Nick. As you can see, it's now an active and friendly place, fulfilling its original promise.

Not forgetting Mark Ryding of course, ('Mark The Mender'), founder of the forum, and Paul Taylor, ('TEDZED1')  who both stuck with it through thick and thin, encouraged others to do likewise, and resurrected the forum after it had been maliciously trashed. Oh, and also got back the original domain name, (as it is now).

Still here, five years on - no 'roost rulers', no 'tall poppies', no fragile egos to stroke...

Just how a forum should be really.