Silverpigeon is in Guernsey? There's not much mtbing there surely?
It has the smallest park in the UK
I Live in Brum. Apart from the aforementioned canals, it has the first ever ODEON cinema in the world, just down the road from me. And loads of smackheads. Mainly down the aforementioned canals.
Market Drayton is the home of gingerbread and Muller yoghurt
Birmingham may have more canals than Venice but Buxworth (just down the road from me) has the only survivng tram/canal interchange in the UK therefore it beats Birmingham (in just about every way possible TBH...)
Pronouced Bugsworth by the locals crazy-legs.
Stockport- famous for the 'Christie hat works', where the saying 'mad as hatters' came from, as producing the bowlers and top hats mean't using mercury.
The famous Cheshire square mile, containing, Wilmslow, Prestbury and Alderley Edge, have more millionaires than anywhere else in Britain. Also the local wine shop in Alderley Edge villiage sells more champagne than any other shop in Britain.
I agree Crazy-legs, but i'm betting we have the edge on Buxworth in the smackhead/horse smoker stakes. They're everywhere. But mainly down the aforementioned canals.
Spelt Buxworth, pronounced Bugsworth.
And yes, Birmingham beats it in the drug addict stakes.
God, i'm so proud.
Barry is famous for a few things, apart from Gavin and Stacey being set and partly filmed here, also a few episodes of Dr Who part filmed.
Bob Hope was born in Barry.
Also many of the steam engines which were rescued to be restored were from Woodham Brothers scrapyard, which is where my house is built on.
oooh I could go on......
Newton-Le-Willows is famous for many things English Civil War and railway related. However our most famous son is... [b]RICK ASTLEY!!![/b]
I think we can close the thread right now.
With an estimated total of over two million trees, Sheffield has more trees per person than any other city in Europe: 61% of the city is greenspace
Dunoon is home to the worlds largest highland gathering, the Cowal Games.
You'd better like bagpipes to live here!
Celebrated rabbit breeder Mary Tofts lived in a town just down the road from me.
And in case you think what - clicky link is worth a read....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tofts
I think she was a mentler.....
Prestwick is the only place in our isles where Mr Elvis A. Pressley set foot.
[i]The famous Cheshire square mile, containing, Wilmslow, Prestbury and Alderley Edge, have more millionaires than anywhere else in Britain.[/i]
per square mile perhaps. Per head - it's Woldingham.
also a few episodes of Dr Who part filmed.
Hmph, well that's not gonna impress someone from Cardiff 🙂
Our village is inhabited by the most evil woman to ever walk the earth, who's withholding my conjugal rights from me just because it's taken me three years to put up a greenhouse.
The village is also famous for its plum trees. [i]Plowmans[/i] is the local variety. Makes good jam. The crop failed last autumn.
Ray Mears is from croydon.
East croydon train station had the most reported mugging over the rail network
charles darwin lived asbout 5 mins away from my house
Balham SW London
...Balham has been settled since Saxon times, and is named after a farm that once covered the area.
...there has been a Sainsbury's in Balham since 1888
... Sarah Beeny - presenter of Channel 4's Propoerty ladder lives in Balham
...One of the first theatres to show only films was the Balham Empire , launched as a Pathé exclusive house in 1907.
Turin Brakes are a little duo with a big BIG future ahead of them they were nominated for a Mercury Music Prize 2001 and they are from yep... you guessed it! BALHAM....Olly Knights and Gale Paradganian first began making music together a local church choir in Balham when they were eight.
JIMMY HILL (the chin!) was born in Balham. Clubs: Reading (amateur), Brentford, Fulham Coventry City Manager 1961-66 Former Fulham Chairman Chairman PFA 1957-61
Slugwash-that really made me lol. As the same is happening in our house.
The frame has been delivered the glass is waiting. The seeds are crying out to be planted. Just waited 2 years though not 3.
[i]Cork is the second largest natural harbour in the world (don't know which is the largest)
Are you sure? I thought that was Mahon in Menorca (Sydney being the largest)
What about Scapa Flow? 140sq miles
Silverpigeon is in Guernsey? There's not much mtbing there surely?
Not very much at all unfortunately. There is a lively race scene though. Remember when you used to be able to go racing every weekend and see the same faces. It's like that here.
that herts shore is in hertfordshire 🙂
Cant believe this much known fact has not been posted: Simon & Garfunkell wrote Homeward Bound in the waiting room at Wigan North Western Station. Apart from that its Uncle Joes Mint Balls and pies, wonderful, wonderful pies!
Exeter contains the narrowest street in the UK. It's about 5mm narrower than a pair of pro tapers.....
Simon & Garfunkell wrote Homeward Bound in the waiting room at Wigan North Western Station
Actually it was written at Widnes station.
NBT (grew up in Wigan)
Also Ray Reardon, the dracula looking snooker player was from Market Drayton