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over a year ago
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What's your town famous for with out naming you town |
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over a year ago
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Mine is Mars bars |
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"What's your town famous for with out naming you town"
Home of the Royal Navy..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Its castle, amongst other things. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Me. |
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Home town...Some swinger woman who rode a horse through town.
Now...the Magna Carte |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not much |
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Erm... Shoes.
Thats about it really |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fighting being hard rough area |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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St#£ Coll£#o£3  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Home town...Some swinger woman who rode a horse through town.
Now...the Magna Carte"
Magna Carter are you sure |
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Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically |
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"Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically "
Not to forget Devon cream  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My home town is nuts. |
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Being the butt of many jokes
And having the first set of automatic traffic lights in the UK. Cool, eh?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pasties
Mines
Pirates
Poldark |
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"Pasties
Mines
Pirates
Poldark"
Cider?? X |
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The series Gentleman Jack. Mmmm Suranne Jones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pasties
Mines
Pirates
Poldark
Cider?? X"
Rattler… |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A famous English poet. |
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"Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically "
Torquay  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And the fact that no one knows how to use the zebra crossing. I watched someone stand 3 meters away from it waiting for cars to stop  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The birth place of Charles Dickens. |
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over a year ago
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Home of U2  |
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Most number of Buckfast drinkers per capita!  |
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My home town is famous for Butlins |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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being the arse end of England |
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By *hitsbayMan
over a year ago
Whitstable |
Oysters and the first passenger railway |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Beer |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pickle |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Marmite |
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By *MattyMan
over a year ago
Naked coffee house near you - Wiltshire - Swindon |
The Railways |
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over a year ago
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Half Man Half Biscuit |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Being the butt of many jokes
And having the first set of automatic traffic lights in the UK. Cool, eh? "
And a better football team than some! |
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Lenny Henry, a zoo, a castle, having one of the most ridiculed accents in the country and peaky blinders I guess? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Kevin Keegan footballer, Lesley Garrett opera singer, Brian Blessed and the St Leger classic horse race. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well from what I've seen our town and local areas is famous for fake taxi ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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World's only submarium |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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the ancient capital of Mercia  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Well from what I've seen our town and local areas is famous for fake taxi ??"
That's great porn lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Robert Burns
Home of the only football team who's name is in the bible |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It’s summer festival & tattoos |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here |
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"And the fact that no one knows how to use the zebra crossing. I watched someone stand 3 meters away from it waiting for cars to stop "
Do the cars stop in your area? X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What's your town famous for with out naming you town"
Don’t need to name our towns, it’s there under our names |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A roundabout with a huge cock on it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Olly Murs and Dorothy L Sayers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Elton John.
George Michael.
Wham.
Bradley Walsh.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Home town! A great big mountain
Current town the original home of T in the Park |
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Elton John used to be our football teams chairman x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Uncle Joe's mint balls |
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"Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here"
Thought that she was here? Lol
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By *ax1971Man
over a year ago
St helens |
Bringing glass to the world..
So you can nosey on your neighbours.... lol... |
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Having Richard III buried under a car park [ my hometown, that is] |
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By *b69100Man
over a year ago
koh phangan |
Weve never had a King Simon....he got killed here before he got to the throne |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Adolf Hitlers intended capital... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here Thought that she was here? Lol"
More than likely, she was kept prisoner at various places |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don’t mind naming my town but it’s ‘famous’ for a high number of suicides. Bridgend. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cock... nays |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Scotland's biggest music event was here in the past |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The chase |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Roundabouts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Stonehenge. |
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"Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner here Thought that she was here? Lol
More than likely, she was kept prisoner at various places "
Ah of course! Get out of my castle Mary  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"And the fact that no one knows how to use the zebra crossing. I watched someone stand 3 meters away from it waiting for cars to stop
Do the cars stop in your area? X"
Only if you're at the zebra crossing and about to cross rather than lingering talking to your neighbour |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Whisky |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Holding the film festival |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A mixture. One half worse than the other for sure, Gary glitter and willy Shakespeare |
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The world's first moving pictures were filmed here |
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Oldest Christian map of the world.
Bulls - the four legged variety! |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"The world's first moving pictures were filmed here "
So you always liked being filmed..? x |
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over a year ago
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Fox’s biscuits |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Guns and cotton |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Frontier nightclub which hosted Tom Jones etc |
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Cement... and the grave of Pocahontas |
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And my other town has two lighthouses a narrow gauge railway and a nuclear power station...and Derek Jarman's cottage  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pasties
Mines
Pirates
Poldark
Cider?? X
Rattler…"
Proper Job |
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"Whisky"
Yes please. A stiff one! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Murderers and music |
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By *ecks74Woman
over a year ago
wrexham |
Hollywood actors own our football club |
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Our Pizza Express put it on the map, it's apparently frequented by royalty. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fish,
Dennis Nelson,
and Thomas Blake Glover - the Scottish Samurai (founder of the Mitsubishi compan). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tunnocks tea cakes |
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By *iker59Man
over a year ago
wrexhamm |
"Hollywood actors own our football club "
And dont forget the lager |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Our Pizza Express put it on the map, it's apparently frequented by royalty. "
Question. Do wokes wank in Woking? |
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By *MattyMan
over a year ago
Naked coffee house near you - Wiltshire - Swindon |
The Magic roundabout is here lol  |
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By *ynxxxMan
over a year ago
Leeds |
It's the birthplace of Rugby League, a former English Prime Minister, a former captain of the Starship Enterprise and the current Doctor Who.
And is apparently the 2nd worst UK town to live in  |
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By *enm83Man
over a year ago
Stockport |
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It's the birthplace of Rugby League, a former English Prime Minister, a former captain of the Starship Enterprise and the current Doctor Who.
And is apparently the 2nd worst UK town to live in "
As a veteran of many an ale trail, has a nice station though... |
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Resort and next town fishing industry (once was) |
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By *ynxxxMan
over a year ago
Leeds |
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It's the birthplace of Rugby League, a former English Prime Minister, a former captain of the Starship Enterprise and the current Doctor Who.
And is apparently the 2nd worst UK town to live in
As a veteran of many an ale trail, has a nice station though..."
I was gonna mention how pretty it looks from the outside. But inside it's nowt to write home about |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Where the Black Panthers victim, Lesley Whittle, was found, |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Hollywood actors own our football club "
Learn something new everyday |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine is Mars bars "
And Iain Lee. |
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We used to make a lot of chairs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I live in London so list is endless. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tennis |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Verity ----A sixty-five foot, twenty-five tonne statue of a demi-flayed pregnant woman standing on books and holding a sword aloft
You really have to see to believe on how bad it is. It taller than the Angel of the North. |
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By *ongueTwistererMan
over a year ago
telford/ shrewsbury/ bridgnorth/ wolverhampton |
Not to give too much away, but famous for an iron bridge. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ed Sheran, John Noakes, Percy Shaw.. |
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over a year ago
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Barbour clothing |
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Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park author, also wrote a novel set here… |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oatcakes and pottery |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Roundabouts I think …. "
Yep that is about it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A bank......aaand hacking heads off.. |
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Oasis, happy Mondays, new order etc etc
Cotton
The industrial revolution
Football |
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The public toilets in the town centre! Apparently they were a famous meeting place for gay men and the police set up hidden CCTV cameras for evidence purposes. Story made the national press ! ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Junkies,jute and journalism  |
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"Uncle Joe's mint balls"
Hey, they are ours hands off lol |
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Pie eaters
rugby League
George Formby / orwell
Baked beans
Uncle joes mintballs
( im only in Warrington temp, back to my home town soon) |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's the birthplace of Rugby League, a former English Prime Minister, a former captain of the Starship Enterprise and the current Doctor Who.
And is apparently the 2nd worst UK town to live in "
I always quite enjoyed popping into Huddersfield, admittedly I always left again... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Home town where I grew up is famous for Campbells Soup, importing Skoda's and being on the way to the East Coast
Home town now famous for a Prison break, rubber and corsets....... |
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Home town - George Eliot and Larry Grayson
Current town - nothing as far as I’m aware! (I’m not actually in Preston with its famous bus station!) |
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By *igers99Man
over a year ago
whitehaven |
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We have a transporter bridge. 1 of about 10 still in use in the whole world |
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Pies a pier and a ukulele player |
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Mustard
Horatio Nelson
Stephen Fry
Delia Smith |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mustard
Horatio Nelson
Stephen Fry
Delia Smith"
The Dereham Deco aka Todd Cantwell..... |
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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago
Up on them there hills |
Last of the summer wine sit com. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wilfred Owen and for having the oldest hill Fort in the UK
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Titanic sailed from here
Benny Hill is buried here
Im not from here |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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England's Glory matches
The Domesday Book
Early jet aircraft |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
The modern day co-op movement was founded in the town where I was born. And, the town where I currently live is known for (amongst other things) being the place where the first person in the UK was killed by a tiger. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here when leading the rebels southward bound. |
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Steelworks and the football team. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Where I was born: Rod Hull and Emu.
Where I live now: David Bowie |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
Johnnie Walker whisky. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The office |
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By *iggingMan
over a year ago
Oldham |
Being a once world famous cotton town but now known as a shithole. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My town is famous for snooker player John Higgins and a world record number of e-coli deaths. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Yorkshire ripper ffs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A guy from the town I grew up in featured on a very popular tv programme. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A bridge. |
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Christian Bale went to school here |
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A bridge,Someone called Banksy....And Massive Attack..... |
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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago
Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’ |
Lace.
Goose Fair.
Two football teams.
Robin Hood.
Brian Clough.
Lord Byron.
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"Pasties
Mines
Pirates
Poldark"
Yea now I want a Pastie, we got a lot of miners from your neck of the woods when the copper mines opened in my state. |
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