What is your town/city famous for?

« **on:** May 26, 2005, 09:14:22 pm »

Here in Bristol we've got/had several famous landmarks/people and their names are included in company names such as:-

Avon/Severn or Brunel/Cabot this or that.

What about where you live or do you use such a name yourself?

« **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2005, 09:22:27 pm »

Ride a cock horse to banbury cross

« **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2005, 09:38:25 pm »

I was born in the potteries,
were the captain of the Titanic came from

« **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2005, 09:47:24 pm »

We live in paisley and as the saying goes "Paisleys always raining". So u can imagine whats like to be a local windowcleaner!

« **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2005, 10:18:16 pm »

:)colchester is known to be the oldest recorded roman town in england

« **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2005, 10:26:28 pm »

Very near here where I live in Brighton is a place called Whitehawk Hill which is the oldest known place to be inhabited in the Uk.

There are also more queens than any other town in the UK.

« **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2005, 10:43:08 pm »

Salisbury Cathedral spire is 404feet high I beleive Graham - that's what Fred Dibnah said on one of his programmes!

Makes Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge at 250ft above the river Avon seem quite low!

« **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2005, 11:33:11 pm »

Canterbury - my birth town - 58 years ago and I'm still here. That's not what it's famous for though

A magnificent Cathderal. an intact city wall, loads of medieval buildings and look what the Romans did for us etc.

Following the blitz where most of the southern end of the city was destroyed, modern 50s architecture took over - big mistake! Now most has been demolished and a whole new southern end has been built - extremely tasteful and every fashion shop your wives could ever want.

The home of the 60s band Caravan. Rupert Bears Mummy was born here (Mary Tourtel). Christopher Marlowe, Di ckens, Freddy Laker, Uriah Heap.

I could go on .......

John

« **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2005, 11:35:57 pm »

5 times European Champions...Liverpool.

« **Reply #9 on:** May 26, 2005, 11:56:52 pm »

Croydon, South London
More shootings than anywhere else

« **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2005, 12:57:17 am »

Hereford:-

Bulls

Hereford United Football Club ( giantkilling Ronnie Radford )

I'm sure Tosh ( Windows Chepstow ) has heard of him

Hereford Cathedral

Mappa Mundi - Oldest map of the world

Chained Library

River Wye ( the posh section )

Birth place of Nell Gwynne

Bulmers Cider ( Strongbow & Woodpecker )

To name but a few !!!!!!

« **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2005, 09:38:14 am »

Lived in Staffordshire for the last 25 years, all of them in the little market town of Stone.
Izaak Walton's cottage is about 3 miles from here.
I drove past the other day, but he was out.
Gone fishin' I suppose.

Baldeagle.

« **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2005, 07:46:19 pm »

Milton Keynes,
The concrete cows, the MK Dons
Dennis

« **Reply #13 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:24:10 pm »

yeah, what was all that cow thing about anyway ?

« **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:43:14 pm »

Puddings, but people, by mistake call them tarts!

« **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:58:01 pm »

Chepstow is famous for the Castle (I used to window-clean the shop) and the racecourse.

It's also the birth place of J K Rowling, (author of the Harry Potter books) and our Ian_Giles.

« **Reply #16 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:58:16 pm »

not a Town in particular.......but Pasty's, Cream Teas, Saffron Buns, Heavycake, Ice Cream, Tin, Clay, and Fish. No prizes for getting it though.

« **Reply #17 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:06:44 pm »

BORN IN BOSTON LINCS [Pilgrim Fathers]set sail from there before being captured
live now Robin Hood country

« **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2005, 09:31:23 am »

Spalding in Lincs, Flower Festival and Geoff Capes.

« **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2005, 06:00:09 pm »

Thetford ( Norfolk ) filmed Dad's Army here also birthplace of Thomas Paine author of Bill of Rights.

Off thread in my local rag the Bury free press there is currently a job advertised for a window cleaner salary £30,000 per annum.

Cheers Mark.

« **Reply #20 on:** May 28, 2005, 06:04:14 pm »

sounds about right.....

« **Reply #21 on:** June 01, 2005, 05:21:56 pm »

im in nottingham its famous for :-

robin hood

nottingham lace

nottingham panthers

nottingham forest f. c { many years ago } :

gun crime

« **Reply #22 on:** June 01, 2005, 06:04:39 pm »

As I started this thread and no-one has mentioned Bristol's famous folk or land-marks, here goes.

John Cabot:- Sailed to North America (Newfoundland) 1497 - a replica of his ship The Matthew is in Bristol Docks

Isambard Kingdom Brunel:- Designed/Built the Great Western Railway, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Great Britain (first ocean going screw-propeller steam ship, in Bristol Docks today) plus loadsa non-Bristol related stuff

Avon Gorge, 250ft high cliffs alongside the A4 Portway and River Avon between Bristol and Avonmouth

St Mary Redcliffe church (not a cathedral, but with a spire of 292ft) described by Queen Elizabeth the 1st as "the fairest, goodliest most famous parish church ...."

« **Reply #23 on:** June 02, 2005, 08:01:58 pm »

NUNEATON famous for novelist george eliot and larry grayson

« **Reply #24 on:** June 02, 2005, 10:00:25 pm »

I posted the below in the wrong place. I posted it in the 'where in the uk are we from' topic. Der...............

Just heard on the local news tonight that where I live, in Brighton, was the first recorded place for a person to be done for streaking in 1844.

Also, it was the first place for a man to be done for non violent sexual assault in public. He pretended to be blind and then asked young ladies for help crossing the road and then groped them. This happened in 1878.

And ........... it has the only grade one listed pier (the West Pier) that is a tangled wreck having been destroyed by the 1978 gales (I think), been set fire to 3 times and further detroyed by a force 10 last year despite there having been the money to rebuild it from day one.