[peel] Marlo/Marlow/Marloe?

[Dougal McKinnon]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:23:30 -0000  Chris Lane <c.lane@...> 
wrote:

> Not sure - thought they might be from the Stoke area though?
> 
> I think the name is a corruption of Marl-hole - of which Stoke has many
> (where they quarry clay), in particular a nice one just round the back of
> staffs.ac.uk (Stoke site).


The Marlo that won that talent competition were from Stoke.  When they 
entered the competition they were called Mirage and were given the name
Marlo by some agent-type associated with the show for no apparent 
reason.  B'zarre.

dougal mckinnon
(d.mckinnon@...)