Nottingham-born Olympic gymnast Becky Downie managed 17 aerial cartwheels in front of TV cameras on CBBC's Officially Amazing programme in October 2017. The company's System X telephone exchange dealt with 1,558,000 calls in an hour through one exchange at Beeston. In June 1989 workers at GPT (later GEC Plessey Telecommunications and Siemens) set a Guinness World Record for a record number of calls. We almost got out of position at one point, but we managed to get back on track.”īeeston has a long history within the telecommunications manufacturing industry. It’s all about the position you get into. Tim said: "When we were playing we had a couple of happy accidents which made us realise how we could do it faster. More than a minute faster than the existing record, they took 9 minutes 18 seconds. Tim Young and Keren Young, of Netherfield celebrate completing survival mode in Star Wars Battlefront in under 10 minutes (Image: Nottingham Post)įather and daughter Tim and Keren Young, of Netherfield, broke the record at the now closed National Videogame Arcade in Hockley in June 2018 - a feat they'd been training for since the previous September. The successful attempt was greeted with a roar of cheers once confirmed by the adjudicator.įastest time to complete survival mode on Star Wars: Battlefront without using blasters by a team of two
Students were allowed to work in teams of five during the 30-minute lesson and had to submit a written report. They created slime with a mixture of PVA glue, borax and food colouring and also built and set off pop rockets for the two hands-on experiments they were required to perform under the rules.
During GameCity in October 2012 the pupils took part in a mass science lesson, led by local scientist Natasha Neale, in Old Market Square. He devoured 211 individual cold peas in three minutes using a cocktail stick and played in the longest table tennis rally, which lasted more than five hours.Ī total of 292 Nottingham students smashed a record set just months earlier by 276 students in Birmingham. It took him more than four hours and 129 attempts to break the previous record of 111. We've all idlily flipped a couple of beer mats in the pub but Mat Hand, a former Nottingham Trent University student, turned it into a world record when he flipped and caught a pile of 112 beermats in May 2001 at Waterstone's Bookshop. Largest stack of drinks mats flipped and caught The triplets were Katie, Emma and Sarah Wilson and Luke, Ashley and Samantha Twells in Year Seven Paul, John and Christopher Smith, and Stephen, Leanne and Carina Cantrill in Year Ten, and Stuart, David and Adam Nicholson in the Upper Sixth. Kirkby Centre School in Ashfield, set the record for five sets of triplets in the school year September 1998 to July 1999. Luckily for teachers the triplets weren't identical or that could have been very challenging. Record-breaking triplets pictured at the Kirkby Centre He managed to flip a type a whopping 11.21km (6.96 miles) over 24 hours to raise money to help cancer patients through Nottingham Hospitals Charity. Greatest distance tyre flipping in 24 hoursĭaniel Garner trained for nine months for his fund-raising feat which went on to set a world record in June 2020. Read more: Nottinghamshire Pub of the Year: stunning place to eat and drink Nottingham's then Lord Mayor Coun Joyce Donn and Sheriff of Nottingham Coun Chris Gibson took the taste test and gave the dessert a resounding thumbs-up. Hundreds of folk later tucked in to the creation, which took four days to make using cement mixers and nylon shovels to turn the huge mixture. Later at 1.3 tonnes a record-breaking lemon meringue pie, also made by Clarendon students in 1998, was a mere snack by comparison. The feat took place at Forest Recreation Ground, Nottingham, in September 1990. That's an awful lot of jelly, custard and cream. Hospitality students at Clarendon College of Further Education (now part of Nottingham College) set mouths watering with the biggest trifle ever, weighing 3.13 tonnes. The official Guinness World Records features 40,000 record-breaking facts and achievements - and a number have been set right here.Īlong with medical breakthroughs, sporting achievements and huge gatherings there's some pretty bizarre feats involving rubber rings and dressing up as Nottingham's legendary outlaw Robin Hood. Dedication, dedication, dedication that's what you need to be a record breaker and scores of people in Nottingham have it in bucket loads to smash their way into the record books.