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What makes your city famous?

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

A few small facts about my hometown.

We are a World Heritage Site with more museums, galleries and Grade II* Listed Buildings (including us!) than anywhere in the UK outside London, two Cathedrals, two Premiership football teams, a filming hot-spot with over 140 films shot here in 2012 and we hold the Guinness Book of Records title for being the Capital of Pop!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The chap that designed the Spitfire. That didn't do so bad for us.

Slash from guns n roses.

Robbie Williams.

Captain Smith of the Titanic.

Oatcakes.

Sir Stanley Matthews.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Chairs.

...and our strange tradition of weighing the Mayor and entourage at the beginning of their term of office.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm Welsh we have always been famous

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We have lots of trees, yep think that's about it

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By *axandbooCouple over a year ago

Bristol

Bristol..

Brunel!

The Clifton suspension bridge

The S.S great Britain

The avon line to london.

Casualty, only fools and horses was filmed here

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Concorde ..its,maiden flight from filton airport bristol.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Llantrisant - supplied a lot of archers for the battles of crecy and agincourt.

Held King Edward II prisoner in the local castle.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm from Formby... as in George. He wasn't from here, although apparently his father adopted the surname after travelling through.

Formby had the first British lifeboat station. We also have a National Trust reserve for red squirrels. And the beach, when the sun comes out we're swamped with day trippers.

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By *eanandJulieCouple over a year ago

Doncaster

home of the St ledger horse race

home to the steam train The mallard

Jermery Clarkson born here

Brian blessed born here

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Greggs

Tyne Bridge

Alan Shearer

Get Carter

Brown Ale

Rowan Atkinson

Sting

Mark Knopfler

and the ability to with stand freezing temperatures in mini skirt and vest top

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

Def Leppard

Human League

Heaven 17

Arctic Monkeys

Joe Cocker

Pulp

Stainless Steel

One great football team and one in the suburbs

Jess Ennis

De Facto capital of Yorkshire

Hendersons relish

And us

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Glasgow....

Heart disease

Buckfast

Knife crime

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Concorde ..its,maiden flight from filton airport bristol."

And her final landing too. I was there to see that.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Glasgow....

Heart disease

Buckfast

Knife crime

"
how could you forget the Glasgow Kiss

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

George best

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oasis.

Hacienda

I'll stop there.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

old trafford

ship canal

hacienda

take that

corrie......

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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

Second largest castle of its type in Europe.

Cheese

Tommy Cooper born here. As was Joe Calzagie, Simon Weston and Matt Johnson.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"old trafford

ship canal

hacienda

take that

corrie......"
and the busby babes

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Oasis.

Hacienda

I'll stop there. "

What about close to Yorkshire?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"We are the original Washintgon....named after George Washington the first president of the USA..

His Grandparents were the landed gentry of the area and the American tourists come to Washington Hall which stands in the original village of Washington....not many people know this.

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we do now

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Stone roses

Rolls Royce

First computer

The Smiths

Etc etc

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Oasis.

Hacienda

I'll stop there.

What about close to Yorkshire?

That was obviously the next thing I was going to put down.

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By *cotsguyyMan over a year ago

Belfast

Take your pick, good or bad, haha.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Coalville (MrWho).

We have the highest number of people with 6 toes anywhere in the world. It's such a high figure that the Jeremy Kyle show is considering setting up a permanent studio here.

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By *relanddirectMan over a year ago

cheshire

U2,Thin Lizzy, the Dubliners, Guinness, gay marriage, temple bar, its inhabitants, the commitments (for those old enough)! It's friendliness, its architecture, cathedrals, kilmainham Gaol, the largest inner city park in Europe (Phoenix park) croke park stadium, Landsdowne road (Aviva) stadium x great place ! I need to visit home lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We are the Original Washington as in George Washington the first president of the USA and Washington DC

The Washington family lived here as the landed gentry.

George Washingtons grand parents lived in Washngton Hall which still stands today as a tourist attraction in the original village of Washington.

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Tor, some hippies, a bunch of local legends/claptrap... oh and there's a festival or sommat?

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By *eavenNhellCouple over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"Stone roses

Rolls Royce

First computer

The Smiths

Etc etc"

you forgot two premiership WINNING teams

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"We are the Original Washington as in George Washington the first president of the USA and Washington DC

The Washington family lived here as the landed gentry.

George Washingtons grand parents lived in Washngton Hall which still stands today as a tourist attraction in the original village of Washington."
Tyne and Wear

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oh! And Stanley Baker was born here

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Smokies

And fish?

Wow

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Im only from a small town,but we did have the smallest street in the world untill two years ago(its in scotland now),sophie lancaster died there,sam aston(chesney from corrie)was born and still lives there,and of course i live there

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By *ost SockMan over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

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By *orkie321bWoman over a year ago

Nottingham

Robin Hood.

The oldest football league club in the world.

Torvill and Dean.

Lace making.

Raleigh bikes.

Alan sillitoe (writer)

Shane Meadows lives here (film director)

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Bit like Glastonbury

But I'm 'interpreting the question'.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

a roller coaster on the beach built in 1975 on stilts as the tide comes in and still there now

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Llantrisant is a town

been a town 200 years before America was colonised

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Llantrisant is a town

been a town 200 years before America was colonised"

I let an American handle my 1685 copy of Tacitus' Annales.

I said, Here you go - that's older than your country.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A building society or bank now, Roger Hargreaves the creator of the Mr men books

Wainhouse tower, a pointlessly waste of someone's money

Home of happy valley and last tango in Halifax, the oldest listed market place in the UK,

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Def Leppard

Human League

Heaven 17

Arctic Monkeys

Joe Cocker

Pulp

Stainless Steel

One great football team and one in the suburbs

Jess Ennis

De Facto capital of Yorkshire

Hendersons relish

And us

As above.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Most expensive place to live and is the world's second largest natural harbour...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Lefties

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Llantrisant is a town

been a town 200 years before America was colonised

I let an American handle my 1685 copy of Tacitus' Annales.

I said, Here you go - that's older than your country.

Ah. The joys we have taking the piss out of americans

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Duncan Edwards and Lenny Henry, can't think of anything else

Ok I know Dudley isn't a city but I don't live in a city

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Glasgow....

Heart disease

Buckfast

Knife crime

Surely Buckfast wine is made by the monks in Buckfast Abbey, Devon?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Llantrisant is a town

been a town 200 years before America was colonised

I let an American handle my 1685 copy of Tacitus' Annales.

Is that a euphemism?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The cathedral

Stonehenge

Edward Heath

....Christopher Biggins..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Def Leppard

Human League

Heaven 17

Arctic Monkeys

Joe Cocker

Pulp

Stainless Steel

One great football team and one in the suburbs

Jess Ennis

De Facto capital of Yorkshire

Hendersons relish

And us

As above.

Oh.. and Brassed off was made here.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

So those of us who don't live in cities can't take part in this thread? The castle in Caerphilly is older than that in my nearest city.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Sheffield

Greenest city in england

British steel

Pulp

Def leapard

Jessica ennis

Kel brook

The oldest football team in the world

The mighty blades

To be fair sheffield is the greatest place on earth the only thing that drags it down is that swine flu infested dump they call hillsborough

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Rhys Ifans

Elton Johns much less famous hippie half brother

Joe from Joe and Jake (last years Eurovision entrants)

In an area of outstanding natural beauty

Part of a Hollywood movie was filmed here in 2014

It's original castle was built by Edward 1 and the oldest house in the town dates back to 1434...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Rhys Ifans

Elton Johns much less famous hippie half brother

Joe from Joe and Jake (last years Eurovision entrants)

In an area of outstanding natural beauty

Part of a Hollywood movie was filmed here in 2014

It's original castle was built by Edward 1 and the oldest house in the town dates back to 1434...

Forgot to say transport links are crap and nothing ever happens there

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Def Leppard

Human League

Heaven 17

Arctic Monkeys

Joe Cocker

Pulp

Stainless Steel

One great football team and one in the suburbs

Jess Ennis

De Facto capital of Yorkshire

Hendersons relish

And us

As above.

Oh.. and Brassed off was made here.

And The Full Monty

and Four Lions

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By *inzi LTV/TS over a year ago

The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales

The A483...

It's the road out!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A few small facts about my hometown.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Lots of stuff about my home town (not where I live now).

But one of the most famous quotes of the last 60 years was said by a Boltonian.

"They think it's all over, it is now"!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bricks.

Albert Hall is built with local bricks

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My home town is famous for its steel industry & The Full Monty was set there

Current town has a famous castle & it's a popular seaside town. James Paul Moody, the only junior officer to die on the Titanic, was also born here.

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By *pacecoastersCouple over a year ago

Cocoa Beach

Birthplace of Jim Morrison.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The following was in the local rag but I think Reading is a wonderful place.

For starters, I live nearby, come visit

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Reading awarded crap-ital city status

QUEEN Victoria is famously turning her back on Reading in a statue outside the Town Hall, and Jerome K Jerome described the place as a ‘carbuncle on the River Thames'.

But surely most of its inhabitants would agree that Reading isn't that bad? Well, apparently not.

Scores of Reading dwellers have voted the town one of the worst in the country following a six-month poll in which people nominated their hellish hometowns.

The verdict is revealed in a book published today, called Crap Towns, which features 50 towns loathed by their inhabitants.

In the book, disgruntled Readingensians told former Idler magazine writers Sam Jordison and Dan Kieran that the town was expensive and soulless, with one scribe suggesting it "smelt of wee".

And Mr Jordison said he had no hesitation in featuring the wannabe city in the run-down of the country's most terrible hives.

He said: "Reading is a prosperous Thames Valley town, a stone's throw from London.

"It's home to two internationally renowned music festivals — and it's more bland than Bran Flakes."

But there is some good news: Reading didn't scoop the coveted prize for most pitiful town, only coming in at number 36 on the list - that prize went to Hull.

Also featured in the book are Basildon, Yeovil, and Grimsby. One critic also reckoned nearby Bracknell was designed to "inflict maximum cruelty on visitors and residents".

But the judges freely admit there are worse places to live than Reading.

Mr Jordison added: "Reading is a fairly nice place to walk around, if rather bland. But it's not just about how a place looks, it's how it feels. People often celebrate their town's crapness and Reading is a great example of that - it unites people!"

‘Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places to Live in the UK' is published by Boxtree and goes on sale today priced £8.

But Reading's dignitaries are less than impressed. Mayor Councillor Jeanette Skeats - from Hull - defended both as a place to live. And she added the tongue-in-cheek review of Britain's towns and cities is potentially damaging.

The town's borough council is also unhappy and thinks the survey is based on flimsy and ill-researched facts.

Cllr Jon Hartley, the borough council's cultural head, leapt to the town's defence, saying he wouldn't live anywhere else.

He said: "People who live here know the changes that have taken place and know the great things that have always been here.

"I would imagine this has been compiled using research from the town's reputation dating back 10 or even 20 years."

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By *enard ArgenteMan over a year ago

London and France

My adopted home city is the sixth largest city in France, a UNESCO heritage site, and has the most protected architectural heritage buildings in France , except Paris.

My original home town is also a UNESCO site, world famous cathedral , and houses the oldest school in UK

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Greggs

Tyne Bridge

Alan Shearer

Get Carter

Brown Ale

Rowan Atkinson

Sting

Mark Knopfler

and the ability to with stand freezing temperatures in mini skirt and vest top

(Also Byker Grove)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Greggs

Tyne Bridge

Alan Shearer

Get Carter

Brown Ale

Rowan Atkinson

Sting

Mark Knopfler

and the ability to with stand freezing temperatures in mini skirt and vest top

(Also Byker Grove)"

I grew my facial hair one Movember in a tribute to Geoff Man from Byker Grove!

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan over a year ago

Kent

No planning permission to build more than 3 stories high (except the Marlowe)

Never more than 6 feet away from a foreign exchange student

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Jock Stein and Davie Cooper were both born in my hometown

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By *ouple4biMMFCouple over a year ago

Nottingham

We have a lovely crooked spire!

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"We have a lovely crooked spire!"

On your Avatar??

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By *ouple4biMMFCouple over a year ago

Nottingham

"We have a lovely crooked spire!

On your Avatar??

Yeah it's famous I'll have you know

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By *ewels74Woman over a year ago

Dundee/Angus/Blackpool

The Queen Mothers birth home is only 5 to 10 mind away

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By *ewels74Woman over a year ago

Dundee/Angus/Blackpool

*mins

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ruth Ellis the last woman to be hung in the uk was born in rhyl.

T.s.Lowry stayed in rhyl and painted a pic of the harbour.

Xxx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The chap that designed the Spitfire. That didn't do so bad for us.

Slash from guns n roses.

Robbie Williams.

Captain Smith of the Titanic.

Oatcakes.

Sir Stanley Matthews.

Did someone mention gnr

xxx

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By *ewels74Woman over a year ago

Dundee/Angus/Blackpool

Oh and other side of me again just 10 mins away..The birthplace of J.M Barrie (Peter Pan)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'm from Formby... as in George. He wasn't from here, although apparently his father adopted the surname after travelling through.

Formby had the first British lifeboat station. We also have a National Trust reserve for red squirrels. And the beach, when the sun comes out we're swamped with day trippers. "

Love formby my dad lived there as a boy and both sets of grandparents lived there. Spent many happy days in formby. Xxx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm sitting in the railway station.

Got a ticket to my destination.

On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.

And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band....

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Im only from a small town,but we did have the smallest street in the world untill two years ago(its in scotland now),sophie lancaster died there,sam aston(chesney from corrie)was born and still lives there,and of course i live there

Oh and juliet bravo and some of the league of gentlemen was filmed here...anybody remember juliet bravo?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oh and juliet bravo and some of the league of gentlemen was filmed here...anybody remember juliet bravo?"

I do

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

Oh and juliet bravo and some of the league of gentlemen was filmed here...anybody remember juliet bravo?"

Yes, I remember that Juliet , it's an odd surname though isn't it.

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By *ranimallxl5Man over a year ago

Winchester

Beaches, Alex James, Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, Party conferences..Gazza and Shane from Undatables

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A rather large castle...

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By *ouple4biMMFCouple over a year ago

Nottingham

Oh and juliet bravo and some of the league of gentlemen was filmed here...anybody remember juliet bravo?"

I do

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By *ouple4biMMFCouple over a year ago

Nottingham

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

Ooh I like that programme

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By *eavenNhellCouple over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"I'm sitting in the railway station.

Got a ticket to my destination.

On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.

And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band...."
widnes railwat station ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm sitting in the railway station.

Got a ticket to my destination.

On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.

And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band....widnes railwat station ?"

Ditton Station I believe

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By *ost SockMan over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"Ferndale, Caerphilly, Llantrisant are cities - who knew?

Llantrisant is a town

been a town 200 years before America was colonised"

I used to work there. I know it's a town-I have a soft spot for it, but it's not easy to mistake it for a throbbing metropolis. Compared to Ferndale maybe

This thread is about cities - just because you have a cool hat, it doesn't give you the right to take liberties with the parameters of this thread.

Your extremely pedantically (yes, I am bored)

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By *ost SockMan over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

*YOURS extremely pesantically*

(It's me, not you!)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"old trafford

ship canal

hacienda

take that

corrie......"

City

Etihad etc etc

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Jasper carrot erm erm did I mention jasper carrot oh and spaghetti junction

and of course BCFC

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By *orkie321bWoman over a year ago

Nottingham

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

References to robin hood being from Loxley only start to appear in the late 16th century. The earliest known references date from around 1260 in Berkshire so there is a possibility he was actually a southerner lol

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By *rtemisiaWoman over a year ago

Norwich

Mustard!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The chap that designed the Spitfire. That didn't do so bad for us.

Slash from guns n roses.

Robbie Williams.

Captain Smith of the Titanic.

Oatcakes.

Sir Stanley Matthews.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My city is London.

It's famous for being London.

Went there on Saturday,full of bloody foreigners (they are always asking for directions,like we are supposed to know every bloody street in London

)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My hometown is famous for its Ford's plant.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

Ooh I like that programme"

I've appeared on an episode or two

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm from Chester. The roman walls are probably the biggest thing. Then the beautiful cathedral

Red xx

Ps...I'm trying to work out what the good bits of Burton are

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Edinburgh,,,need I say more

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By *eesideMan over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea

My town Margate

Soft sand on the seaside

Fish and chips

Lots of arcade

Miles of cost

Carm quiet cost lines

Lots of fresh air

Dream land fun park

Turnar art garlley

And the song ....

down-to-margate

By chase and dave.

Y live anywhere els

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'm from Chester. The roman walls are probably the biggest thing. Then the beautiful cathedral

Red xx

Ps...I'm trying to work out what the good bits of Burton are

Their clothes can be pretty good

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By *orkie321bWoman over a year ago

Nottingham

"I'm from Chester. The roman walls are probably the biggest thing. Then the beautiful cathedral

Red xx

Ps...I'm trying to work out what the good bits of Burton are

For years the main industry in Burton was brewing so it has to be beer

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Where I live is a mix of bankers, wankers and gangsters.

The place I come from is, to coin a local phrase, fucking boss la

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bristol..

Brunel!

The Clifton suspension bridge

The S.S great Britain

The avon line to london.

Casualty, only fools and horses was filmed here "
treasure island was wrote in the Nova Scotia pub

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By *uddlybear2015Man over a year ago

BEDFORD

John Bunyan and Ronnie Barker born in Bedford. Home of Airships and where Glenn Miller took off for his last flight. Not a City by any means but a smallish county town..the river is quite nice though

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A bifew small facts about my hometown.

Was in West Derby very recently and saw gangs on motorcrossers riding around the streets wearing balaclavas... then someone got stabbed by one.... that's another fact

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A bifew small facts about my hometown.

Was in West Derby very recently and saw gangs on motorcrossers riding around the streets wearing balaclavas... then someone got stabbed by one.... that's another fact"

Was wondering how long it would be before someone highlighted the negatives, was hoping this thread could stay on the positive side, yes Liverpool has its problems, but so does every other major city in the U.K.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'm from Chester. The roman walls are probably the biggest thing. Then the beautiful cathedral

Red xx

Ps...I'm trying to work out what the good bits of Burton are

Erm... Me?!

Beard

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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

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

The major oaks in Edwinstowe so Mansfield's claimed him

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

The major oaks in Edwinstowe so Mansfield's claimed him

Robin Hood - Nottingham. No real dispute

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

The major oaks in Edwinstowe so Mansfield's claimed him

Robin Hood - Nottingham. No real dispute

You try telling all the American and Japanese tourists who flock to Sherwood forest every year, I'm telling you they wouldn't have it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Football club , Dylan Thomas, film twin town

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By *icentiousCouple over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Nearest city hasn't a university, doesn't make it famous, makes it quite sad really. Cannot think of another city that doesn't have one.

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By *ouple4biMMFCouple over a year ago

Nottingham

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

Ooh I like that programme

I've appeared on an episode or two

Have you as who?

Givemeyoursoul

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By *it couple4funCouple over a year ago

Manchester

"Stone roses

Rolls Royce

First computer

The Smiths

Etc etc"

And it's full of tits, fanny and City.

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By *uxom redCouple over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Charles Darwin.

Ellis Peters wrote the Cadfeal mysteries.

Lord Hill

Percy Thrower.

Wilfred Owen

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Shipbuilding, Celtic v The Rangers (2012), Barrs Irn Bru, Tattie Scones, gallows humour and the warmest people in the UK in my opinion.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Mountains and lakes.

Unless you mean the city I live in now, in which case it's d*unk people and hooligans I think?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A bifew small facts about my hometown.

Was in West Derby very recently and saw gangs on motorcrossers riding around the streets wearing balaclavas... then someone got stabbed by one.... that's another fact

Yehh tell that to the person stabbed by a tooled up maniac on a crosser ...like that happens in EastEnders

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My town has a massive erection on the promenade!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Mountains and lakes.

Unless you mean the city I live in now, in which case it's d*unk people and hooligans I think? "

Cardiff is a wonderful city full of wonderful people. Lucky guy!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A bifew small facts about my hometown.

Was in West Derby very recently and saw gangs on motorcrossers riding around the streets wearing balaclavas... then someone got stabbed by one.... that's another fact

Yehh tell that to the person stabbed by a tooled up maniac on a crosser ...like that happens in EastEnders

I think you've gone a little off topic, maybe start your own thread about Liverpool being the crime capital of the world

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By *hyllyphyllyMan over a year ago

Bradford

My little town's brass band got to number one with El Tel

https://youtu.be/T3Y4HufJ1oE

(Rather fitting today)

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By *andi_shopWoman over a year ago

rotherham

Rotherhams famous for;

Chuckle brothers

Paul Shane (hi de hi)

And infamous for a police scandal

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A bifew small facts about my hometown.

Was in West Derby very recently and saw gangs on motorcrossers riding around the streets wearing balaclavas... then someone got stabbed by one.... that's another fact"
quick!!... everyone move to stockton heath, its crime free, people are perfect and there isnt ever any problems!!

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By *humpa84Man over a year ago

Cardiff

Cardiff is full of happy people how couldn't we be were the 10th largest city in U.K. And the largest in Wales plus Roald Dahl

Iwan Rheon Ramsey snow GOT

Gareth Bale

Ryan Giggs

John Toshack

Colin Jackson

The Principality Stadium

Catalonia

Pritchard from jackass

Brains bitter

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By *uzy444Woman over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

it isnt...

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By *uzy444Woman over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

"it isnt...

"
actually its where the witch hunter general started his 'crusade' ipswich used to be called gypswick. the park is still haunted and so is the town centre..it got itself a university about 5/6 years ago..i think it wants to be a city (in its dreams)

ipswich town were a great football club in the 70's...

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By *uxom redCouple over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Where I grew up.. Nothing apart from the village was named after a stop for watering horses. Altered a little to houses and a lady in the village wrote a book about it.

Waterfall of yesterday.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

"Robin Hood

Lace

Raleigh Bikes

Ibuprofen invented here

Nightlife

Nottingham Castle

I'll give you most of those, but Robin Hood was actually from Loxley in Sheffield

One or two might dispute this fact, but we are sticking to it

The major oaks in Edwinstowe so Mansfield's claimed him

Robin Hood - Nottingham. No real dispute

You try telling all the American and Japanese tourists who flock to Sherwood forest every year, I'm telling you they wouldn't have it

Back in the day that forest would have stretched right up here.

Also the final proof is his airport that he used to redistribute the wealth is in Doncaster

Sorry - that's conclusive

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

Margaret Thatcher and Sir Isaac Newton.

Lots of historic stuff too

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The cathedral

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Taggart

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

the people make Liverpool great!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My hometown is pretty much famous for a stupid roundabout. Not a city but I don't care,its a silly thread anyway

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Gun crime

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Gun crime"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Kasabian

Leicester City

Showaddywaddy

King Richard III

David and Richard Attenbourough

Sam Bailey

Danial Lambert

Rosemary Conley

John Deacon from Queen

Sue Townsend

The Elephant Man

Walkers Crisps

I'm sure there's loads more

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By *icketysplitsWoman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Everything.

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By *iss.HoneyWoman over a year ago

...

Bugger all

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Gun crime"

They don't nickname it Shottingham for nothing

Also oldest pub, some thieving git and 2 crap football teams.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Most miserable place to live in the UK.

Most burgled place to live in the UK.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

And Ant and Dec

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By *irceWoman over a year ago

Gloucester

A Cathedral with a monument outside to remember a old guy and young boy burnt at the stake over religion

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The last ever trials for witchcraft in England took place in our town

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

I come from a place surrounded by largest stretch of utter desolation in the western hemisphere and it only exists for one week of the year.

Suppose: a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there...

And if, when he woke, he found petals in his hand, what then?

Black Rock City is my hometown.

Trust me, you ain't seen NOWhere like it. I spent a decade trying to encapsulate it... going round in my head. Best I could come up with was:

It's like Mad Max meets Alice in Wonderland.

But a woman I met out there said this:

"We come to some random patch of desert and, stripped to the bone, we live like rock stars."

She had such a way with words.

Vid, for people who might disbelieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vPdTEYBGQ

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I come from a place surrounded by largest stretch of utter desolation in the western hemisphere and it only exists for one week of the year.

Suppose: a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there...

And if, when he woke, he found petals in his hand, what then?

Black Rock City is my hometown.

Trust me, you ain't seen NOWhere like it. I spent a decade trying to encapsulate it... going round in my head. Best I could come up with was:

It's like Mad Max meets Alice in Wonderland.

But a woman I met out there said this:

"We come to some random patch of desert and, stripped to the bone, we live like rock stars."

She had such a way with words.

Vid, for people who might disbelieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vPdTEYBGQ "

Brigadoon?

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"I come from a place surrounded by largest stretch of utter desolation in the western hemisphere and it only exists for one week of the year.

Suppose: a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there...

And if, when he woke, he found petals in his hand, what then?

Black Rock City is my hometown.

Trust me, you ain't seen NOWhere like it. I spent a decade trying to encapsulate it... going round in my head. Best I could come up with was:

It's like Mad Max meets Alice in Wonderland.

But a woman I met out there said this:

"We come to some random patch of desert and, stripped to the bone, we live like rock stars."

She had such a way with words.

Vid, for people who might disbelieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vPdTEYBGQ

Brigadoon?"

I knew someone would say that - and it had to be you

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Brigadoon?

I knew someone would say that - and it had to be you

Watch the vid and come back to me?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Cursed the titanic

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Football Music & NightLife

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By *ildbillkidMan over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

Buddy holley born here , university, a couple of jr college's couple of historic sites , the "lubbock lights" supposed to have been ufo's

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By *iSTARessWoman over a year ago

London

Lots of history stuff and it's very expensive

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By *ighland_RoseCouple over a year ago

Brigadoon

We have a castle, lochs and mountains and lots of films have been made here

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By *ighland_RoseCouple over a year ago

Brigadoon

"Brigadoon?

I knew someone would say that - and it had to be you

Watch the vid and come back to me?

Not Brigadoon cos that's where I live!

Burning man festival is your place, I guessed from your description before I watched the vid

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The cathedral

Stonehenge

Edward Heath

....Christopher Biggins..

......Phil Harding........

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Richard Harris.

Terry Wogan.

Paul O Connell.

Munster Rugby.

The worlds first Irish Coffee.

The Cranberries.

The Rubberbandits.

Angelas Ashes.

New Yorks mapping system is based on Limericks

And for the day that's in it Sam Allardyce first mangerial job was Limerick FC

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

London:-

- We have all the places listed in Monopoly.

- Big Ben

- Bridges

- More bridges

- Lights

- More lights

- Pick Pockets

- Night life

- Lots of people

- Politiicans

- Weirdos

- Lots of Parks

And other stuff too

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Two cranes and violence

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By *lueeyedbrunetteWoman over a year ago

Wirral

Fakeness! Fake tans, fake tits, fake hair, fake lashes, fake nails girls caked in make up and weekend millionaires! Haa said in jest but yep there's loads of them and unfortunately this place is famous for it!

There are a lot of natural beauties too!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

First motorway in the UK M6 was built around Preston.

First motorway traffic jam in the UK a week later after a crash.

First KFC fast food shop in the UK

PNE "Preston North end" football club said to be the oldest continously used football ground in the world.

Preston North End (PNE) became League Champions and also won the FA Cup; the first team to achieve the double in 1888/1889 season.

Preston has claim to be the home of football. One of the reasons the National Football Museum was based there.

Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff

Wallace & Gromit creator was born in Preston

Benjamin Franklin (one of the founding fathers of the USA) apparently once owned a property on the site of a coffee bar on the corner of Cheapside and Friargate.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Kasabian

Leicester City

Showaddywaddy

King Richard III

David and Richard Attenbourough

Sam Bailey

Danial Lambert

Rosemary Conley

John Deacon from Queen

Sue Townsend

The Elephant Man

Walkers Crisps

I'm sure there's loads more

The jet engine was invented in Leicestershire (Lutterworth). Probably the most significant invention of the 20th century.

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By *otsoSnowWhiteWoman over a year ago

My Ice Castle! South Wales

A king was born in my town.

Charles Rolls of Rolls Royce is pretty famous round here

Have a famous music studio that's recorded some of the greats. Particularly Queens- Bohemian Rhapsody was.

Last Gate Bridge of its kind still standing

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

Crisps and jet engines , doesn't get much better than that

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

salt works

subsidence

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

Is it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Fakeness! Fake tans, fake tits, fake hair, fake lashes, fake nails girls caked in make up and weekend millionaires! Haa said in jest but yep there's loads of them and unfortunately this place is famous for it!

There are a lot of natural beauties too!

as Brendan Burns famously said "it's a finish love, it's a finish" lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A pub.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Kasabian

Leicester City

Showaddywaddy

King Richard III

David and Richard Attenbourough

Sam Bailey

Danial Lambert

Rosemary Conley

John Deacon from Queen

Sue Townsend

The Elephant Man

Walkers Crisps

I'm sure there's loads more

The jet engine was invented in Leicestershire (Lutterworth). Probably the most significant invention of the 20th century."

Can't beat a bit of Showaddywaddy! Been on stage with them 3 times lol

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It has a castle

Kinky

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Stella was filmed in my street, they were here filming Saturday

Is it

I probably shouldn't have said that now I think of it

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