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over a year ago
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Willenhall... was once known as Humpshire due to humpbacks.
Humpback were common in Willenhall due to the lock industries apprentices who would be sitting over lock parts filing them |
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Another was during the war all the houses down a certain street had no windows due to bombings... all except one... which happened to be my grandparents.
My grandma told me the only reason they still had windows is because my grandad "never did bother" to reputty them so they just shook instead of shattering! Haha |
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I grew up in a quiet rural village but from such a humble (and small) environment a global celebrity was also brought up. A few years apart so our paths never (knowingly) crossed. |
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In the 2007 federal election it was part of the second time in Australian history where a sitting Prime Minister lost his seat. (Before that it happened in 1929)
... Where I grew up is super uninteresting and this was a stretch, man  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Famous for The Specials and two tone music, Jaguar cars and the legend of Lady Godiva.
I get depressed just thinking about that City."
I like living here  |
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"Famous for The Specials and two tone music, Jaguar cars and the legend of Lady Godiva.
I get depressed just thinking about that City.
I like living here "
I was born there, tbf I haven't been back since the 90's. Has it changed much?
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
Famous for snow stopping a cricket match in June,the largest indoor riding stables and freestanding dome(Duke of Devonshire's,at the time),apple trees don't fruit-too cold for the blossom to set,Roman spring water baths,the highest market Square in England and two of the most dangerous roads. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Famous for The Specials and two tone music, Jaguar cars and the legend of Lady Godiva.
I get depressed just thinking about that City.
I like living here
I was born there, tbf I haven't been back since the 90's. Has it changed much?
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The city centre has changed a lot. I like the community I live in, where I work and I am close to some of my family that remain here and I’m never bored, always something to do. The only thing I don’t like is the knife crime seems to be a big problem. |
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"Famous for The Specials and two tone music, Jaguar cars and the legend of Lady Godiva.
I get depressed just thinking about that City.
I like living here
I was born there, tbf I haven't been back since the 90's. Has it changed much?
The city centre has changed a lot. I like the community I live in, where I work and I am close to some of my family that remain here and I’m never bored, always something to do. The only thing I don’t like is the knife crime seems to be a big problem. "
"I think knife crime is a problem in every UK city. I still haven't recovered from being forced to go to Highfield Road every other week. If that isn't child abuse, then I don't know what is |
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By *odkajemWoman
over a year ago
Liverpool |
Liverpool has some little known subterranean tunnels constructed around 200 years ago and there are lots of theories but nobody knows for a fact why!
Very quirky place and worth a visit if you're ever in these parts www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/ |
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Slough ~ it’s shit
Here’s a fact about Slough
‘Station Jim’
There is a stuffed dog which stands proudly in a glass case on Platform 5 at Slough train station.
The dog was a canine collector for the Great Western Railway Widows and Orphans Fund from 1894 until his death in 1896.
After his death, he was placed on display in a glass case with a money box to allow collection for the fund after his death.
Station Jim was brought to the railway station aged three months old and when he was small, he was carried in the railway's porter’s pocket.
He was first taught to use the footbridge rather than crossing the rails which he continued to do until his death. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Don't know my immediate area that well.. but in Birmingham - Ready Player One (Spielberg Film) was filmed around Digbeth and Spaghetti Junction (Well, underneath) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When I moved here I realised that the tiny village up the hill is referred to as “upper ramsbottom” which still tickles me years later…
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I went up there the other day.
The hill!!!!! |
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ex One Direction Louis Tomlinson, actress Diana Rigg and where the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard were built
I’m going to Hell for that . . . 
