That's not quite true, Churchill was born in Croydon and Mrs Thatcher once waved at it from a train. I was in Allders on Monday and it was very exciting.
The Infinity Bridge opening was featured in the Mail On Sunday Live magazine as the event of the week, a couple of weeks ago! Stockton has one of the widest High Streets in Europe too ( somebody might find that piece of info useless and irrelevant - somebody didn't, the other day :-( )
The village I live in is famous for stupid people, the stories go that years ago they built a fence around the village to keep the fog out. it's also famous for antiques (lovejoy was filmed here)