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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Winchester cathedral

Old Durham town

White cliffs of Dover..

Almost every town or county in Ireland seems to have one

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

Sunshine on Leith...The Proclaimers

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Was it the clash who did London calling

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By *a Fee VerteWoman over a year ago

Limbo

Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

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By *ara JTV/TS over a year ago

Bristol East

When I called you last night from Glasgow

Super Trouper - Glasgow

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By *ara JTV/TS over a year ago

Bristol East

Ooops, Abba

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ccgk8PXz64

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By *a Fee VerteWoman over a year ago

Limbo

The Guns of Brixton - The Clash

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea - Elvis Costello

Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis

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

Polmont on my Mind - Glasvegas

Double points since the band are named after a place too

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By *a Fee VerteWoman over a year ago

Limbo

Cheer Up London - Slaves

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

You're Not From Brighton - Fatboy Slim

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQzOkcELa5A

Brighton Rock - Queen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxqxfVaTqc

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

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill

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

Durham town. Rodger Whitiker

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan over a year ago

Sussex

Skye Boat Song.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan over a year ago

Sussex

"Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill"

Was it them who did The Only Living Boy in New Cross?

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

Eton Rifles...The Jam

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

"Durham town. Rodger Whitiker"

And the pink panther.....Durham. ..Durham

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By *SAchickWoman over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Dagenham Dave - Morrisey

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By *SAchickWoman over a year ago

Hillside desolate

London Loves - Blur

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Song about Billericay by Ian Dury... Was it a title or line in a song

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Belfast Child - Simple Minds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhhTvcLoRw

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By *SAchickWoman over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Mersey paradise - the Stone Roses

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Song about Billericay by Ian Dury... Was it a title or line in a song"

Billericay Dickie - Ian Dury

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-JIzWFfsPk

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

"Mersey paradise - the Stone Roses "

In the same vein could do ferry across the mersey

Gerrymandering and the pacemakers

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

"Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill

Was it them who did The Only Living Boy in New Cross?"

Yep

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

Glasvegas - Polmont on my mind

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Just inspired by your location sir

On ilkley Moor ba tat

Widdecombe fair.. (Anne certainly isn't)

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

Chelsea Dagger-Fratellis

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

Long haired lover from Liverpool- Jimmy Osmond

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Isn't there a Leonard Cohen song.. Chelsea Hotel or something..

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

Mancunian Way - Take That

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

Knutsford City Limits - RobbieWilliams

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

Streets of London - Ralph McTell

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

ACDC - highway to hell. (the A666)

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

Billericay Dickie - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple over a year ago

London

Sheffield sex city. Pulp

Not in my experience.

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

"Isn't there a Leonard Cohen song.. Chelsea Hotel or something.. "

There was but it was about the New York Chelsea Hotel, as was Chelsea morning by Joni Mitchel

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

Blackpool - The Macc Lads

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

Scarborough Fair-Simon and Garfunkel

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

The A13 - Billy Bragg

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

Newcastle- Sarah Thompson

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

Birmingham- sweet home Alabama

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

Glastonbury Song - Water Boys

Stonehenge - Spinal Tap

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

Tulsa Time - Eric Clapton

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By *oodnitegirlWoman over a year ago

Yorkshire

He pained Salford’s smokey tops

Matchstalk men - Brian and Micheal

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

London's Burning - The Clash

A Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam

Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield

Camden Town - Suggs

The Liberty Of Norton Folgate - Madness

Primrose Hill - Madness

We Are London - Madness

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

Brighton Rock - Queen

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By *oodnitegirlWoman over a year ago

Yorkshire

"He painted Salford’s smokey tops

Matchstalk men - Brian and Micheal"

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

"London's Burning - The Clash

A Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam

Portsmouth - Mike Oldfield

Camden Town - Suggs

The Liberty Of Norton Folgate - Madness

Primrose Hill - Madness

We Are London - Madness"

Madness - Muswell hill too

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By *ara JTV/TS over a year ago

Bristol East

"Brighton Rock - Queen"

Rumble in Brighton - Stray Cats

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Madness - Muswell hill too "

And not to forget Selsey Bill

Both in Driving In My Car

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

Avalon? - Brian Ferry

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Men of Harlech

Gresford disaster

Cwm rhonda

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By *etLikeMan over a year ago

most fundamental aspects

"ACDC - highway to hell. (the A666)

Chris Rea - The road to hell. Inspired by his drive up the A1M

Tenuous I know.

Jethro Tull - Kyle of Lochalsh mentioned in Mountain Men

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By *etLikeMan over a year ago

most fundamental aspects

Up the (Clapham) Junction - Squeeze

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Jacobite song

Killiekrankie

Dumbarton drums

Glasgow belongs to me

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By *entish79Man over a year ago

Glasgow

St Etienne - Girl VII

Primrose Hill, Arnos Grove, Tufnell Park, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale, Kennington, Holland Park, Canonbury, Tooting Graveney, Pollard's Hill, Plumstead Common

The way Sarah says Portobello at 1:54 though....

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

"St Etienne - Girl VII

Primrose Hill, Arnos Grove, Tufnell Park, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale, Kennington, Holland Park, Canonbury, Tooting Graveney, Pollard's Hill, Plumstead Common

The way Sarah says Portobello at 1:54 though.... "

Oh yeah, love ‘Fox Base Alpha’

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By *reemindCoolMan over a year ago

between Barnsley and Wakefield

in my Liverpool home

long haired lover from Liverpool

Liverpool lullaby

Winchester cathedral

Salisbury plain

Dublin's fair city

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

Strawberry fields, Penny Lane - the beatles

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By *urchoicenowCouple over a year ago

Ashford

Birmingham blues, ELO

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By *reemindCoolMan over a year ago

between Barnsley and Wakefield

Ferry cross the Mersey

strawberry field,s

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

Madness - Muswell hill too

And not to forget Selsey Bill

Both in Driving In My Car"

Good call

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

Oxford comma - vampire weekend

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By *SAchickWoman over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Highland Cathedral

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By *r Potato HeadMan over a year ago

Manchester

Orbital - Belfast

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Ian Dury covered half of London in The Busman's Prayer:

Our Father,

Who art in Hendon

Harrow Road be Thy name

Thy Kingston come

Thy Wimbledon

In Erith as it is in Hendon.

Give us this day our Berkhampstead

And forgive us our Westminsters

As we forgive those who Westminster against us.

Lead us not into Temple Station

And deliver us from Ealing,

For thine is the Kingston

The Purley and the Crawley,

For Iver and Iver

Crouch End

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By *r. Pepper...Man over a year ago

liverpool

For what is chatteris - half man half biscuit

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

Ferry cross the Mersey. Gerry and the pacemakers

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By *ackspopCouple over a year ago

Wymondham

Battle of the Bean field - Levellers

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

No sheep til Buxton..MaccLads.

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

"No sheep til Buxton..MaccLads."

Miss Macclesfield..MaccLads.

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

Beautiful south- Rotterdam mentioned Liverpool

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

Rawtenstall annual fair-the haughton weavers

https://youtu.be/mWYVzb2iOV4

Its a shit song tbh

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

Bon Iver - Perth

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

"Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

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

Fog on the Tyne Lindisfarne

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By *r. Pepper...Man over a year ago

liverpool

Liverpool girl - Ian mcnabb

Going down to Liverpool - the bangles

Breck road lover (mentions Liverpool) - the libertines

The leaving of Liverpool - the dubliners

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

Ben Nevis...MaccLads.

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Loch load... Various but best by runrig

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Loch lomand it should have read

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By *lik and PaulCouple over a year ago

Flagrante

Portobello Belle...Dire Straits from the Communique album.

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

A day in the life- 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire

One of my favourites

Also the KLF- it’s grim up north

For all the ravers !!!!

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

Pretty sure "It's grim up north" by KLF has got you covered on this

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

There is even a song about Llanfairpwllgwyngyll etc etc gogogoch

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By *istyblue1967Man over a year ago

manchester

the pogues have loads of songs with london in title.london girl.london youre a lady. lullaby of london.dark streets of london. transmetropolitan.

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Talking of thepogues

Rum sodomy and the lash an ideal swingers album

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By *istyblue1967Man over a year ago

manchester

lol

that is fab !!!!

i think it was a winston churchill comment about life in the navy

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By *effrey45Man over a year ago

Lytham

Blackpool

Miss Macclesfield

The macc lads

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By *r. Pepper...Man over a year ago

liverpool

"Talking of thepogues

Rum sodomy and the lash an ideal swingers album"

And a superb album it is!

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By *icassolifelikeMan over a year ago

Luton

"Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

That’s Belgium

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

That’s Belgium "

Errr Waterloo Station, London

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

"Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

That’s Belgium "

Though Waterloo is in Belgium... Is not Waterloo sunset about viewing a sunset from Waterloo Bridge london

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

West end girls - Pet shop boys

Tenuous again

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Barrowland - Christy Moore

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Selsey Bill and Bracklesham Bay both referenced in Saturday's Kids by The Jam

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

Hersham Boys Hersham Boys laced up boots and cordorouys...

Sham 69

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Check-out Desk - The Freshies

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

"the pogues have loads of songs with london in title.london girl.london youre a lady. lullaby of london.dark streets of london. transmetropolitan."

Was just about to same them.myself

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

Tongwynlais - Rocketgoldstar

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By *atural-born-thrillerMan over a year ago

oulton broad

West Ham ....I’m forever blowing bubbles -cockney rejects

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

Bristol and Miami... The Selector

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

Chelsea dagger by the fratellis

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

The battle for epping forest by Genesis

Strawberry fields

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

Baker St.... Gerry Rafferty

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By *ENGUYMan over a year ago

Hull

Streets of London - Ralph McTell

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By *atural-born-thrillerMan over a year ago

oulton broad

Bodies -sex pistols ....she was a girl from Birmingham

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By *hatYorkLadMan over a year ago

York

Whippin' Piccadilly- Gomez (also mentions Manchester in the song)

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By *IGUYFORCPLESMan over a year ago

newcastle

new york new york .... frank sinatra

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman over a year ago

stourbridge area

Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor....

(Cannot remember who sang it )

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By *ir_anthonyMan over a year ago

kenilworth

Maudlin st Morrissey

Cemetery gates Smiths

Mersey Paradise Stone Roses

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor....

(Cannot remember who sang it )

I hate myself for knowing it was Fiddlers Dram

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By *istyblue1967Man over a year ago

manchester

more pogues

rainy night in soho -

white city -

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

London Calling The Clash

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

Colwyn Bay men they couldn't hang

Bottle neck at Capel Cerig half man half buiscuit

Deeside the alarm

Ha ha a North Wales theme

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By *emini ManMan over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

White Man In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

"Colwyn Bay men they couldn't hang

Bottle neck at Capel Cerig half man half buiscuit

Deeside the alarm

Ha ha a North Wales theme

Dai iawn sir

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By *ORDERMAN OP Man over a year ago

wrexham

Wish I was on the a5 again.... Stone walls and fields of green

My version of the N17

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Mull Of Kintyre - Wings

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By *istyblue1967Man over a year ago

manchester

stone walls and the grass is green

lol

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By *heIcebreakersCouple over a year ago

Cramlington

"Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 24 Minutes from Tulse Hill

Was it them who did The Only Living Boy in New Cross?"
Yes, great shout.

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By *heIcebreakersCouple over a year ago

Cramlington

"Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor....

(Cannot remember who sang it )

"
Fiddlers Dram - it's a bowdlerized version of a very filthy old session song 'On the way back / I fingered her crack / ANd slipped a length inside her..../

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By *heIcebreakersCouple over a year ago

Cramlington

"Just inspired by your location sir

On ilkley Moor ba tat

Widdecombe fair.. (Anne certainly isn't) "

Scarborough Fair - Martin Carthy

View from Stow Hill- Manic Street Preachers

Wattsville Blues - Manic Street Preachers

Girl From Tiger Bay - Shirley Basssey (and the Manic Street Preachers)

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By *istyblue1967Man over a year ago