What's your town famous for?

[jamesy boy]

my home town of Stockton-On-Tees is "famous" as the home of the safety match, and the first passenger railway (along with Darlington), What's your town famous for? The barmier the better!

[THECORBYLOON]

Can I just say Corby and the Corby Trouser Press are NOT connected. 

Stewarts & Lloyds built the PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) for the Allies in WWII and the 4 lines caried fuel across The Channel.

The Rangers Club in Corby is the largest outside Glasgow.

Prior to a change in the law that made the number of Black Cabs propotional to population, we had more taxis per person than anywhere in Britain. 

[jeepster]

My home town of Calne is famous for Harris' bacon/sausage/pork pie/or anything else you can make from a pig factory.Fortunately(for pigs and me(being a veggie)) the factory closed in the 80's. I can still remember the stench and squeals of the pigs(I was quite young!)

[milly143]

Ducks! yes ducks (I'm from aylesbury) and I don't even know why. All I know is nearly every pub around here is called a variation of 'The Aylesbury Duck' and that whenever I tell someone I'm from Aylesbury they say, 'oh yeah, the duck place'.

[milly143]

Isn't duck a really strange word.

[secretsquiz]

my charming little home town of bracknell is famous for the met office (for now)
and nothing else...
ever...

[evertonsue]

BANBURY - 'Ride a **** Horse' Nursery Rhyme

[Gemma1984]

im in banbury too you pipped me to the post with the banbury cross, we also have that new statue next to it but i dont know what its for!

[jakesi]

Frederick Walton, the man who invented linoleum (Lino)was from my hometown of Staines, and I think the Magna Carta was  signed somewhere around here.

[littleoldme]

My birthplace of Woking is famous as the birthplace of Paul Weller and the location where the Martians landed in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Most of them now have jobs with Woking Borough Council.

Bognor Regis, the nearest town to where I now live, is famous for the International Birdman Rally (i.e. idiots in home-made winged costumes throwing themselves off the pier), and for being the place that King George V so famously wanted to bu**er (and I don't mean butter).

[Xollob]

Just wondering if "Jimmy Clitheroe" will get past the Asterisk Monster...

[spudqueen]

The small village where I live has (reputedly) the most haunted house in Britain.

[gazzawazza]

Middlesbrough, birthplace of Captain James Cook (he can't have liked the place much,he couldn't wait to get away, in fact he went half way round the world to escape from it). 

The Transporter Bridge (which Terry Scott of Terry and June fame drove off one night).  It's also the birthplace of 'Ole Big 'Ed himself Lord Brian Clough and bits of bridges all around the world.  Middlesbrough docks were where the parts of Saddam Hussein's "supergun" were discovered and as a consequence the Boro gets a namecheck in Frederick Forsyth's "Fist of God."

Hey, jamesy boy, what about the widest high street in Europe for Stockton?

[jamesy boy]

What about most �1 shops on the High Street, you mean, Gazzawazza! ( I might get a parmo later, and I bet there's only us who know what that means.)

[slimjim]

Reading used to be famous for the 3 B's. Beer (Simonds followed by Courage), Bulbs (Suttons Seeds) and Biscuits (Huntley & Palmers). Some people claime it should be 4 B's as Reading was a big producer of bricks in the 19th century.

[slimjim]

Spudqueen, there are probably many villages that claim this, but do you live in Littledean?

[gazzawazza]

Mmmm, Parmo...  Did you see that prog last year where a group of lads and lasses from Manchester had a night out in Boro and Stockton?  The lads tried the delicacy that is the parmo before they went out on the town at about 8pm and thought it was disgusting.  However when they got back to their hotel (about 3am) they scoffed the lot and couldn't get enough of it!!! 

I know what you mean about the �1 shops though!

[spudqueen]

No slimjim I live in Goosnargh, Lancashire, which is also famous (?) for Goosnargh cakes and Goosnargh duck, and also for when we were at threat of nuclear war, the 3 minute warning was to have been given from Reading, but if Reading had already been conventionally bombed then the 3 minute warning would have come from Goosnargh! There's a nuclear bunker for sale at the moment!

By the way, the haunted house is Chingle Hall!

[cat woman]

My town is the First Garden City, not Welwyn as people might have thought. Also my town had the very first round about.  :-)

[thikasabrik]

My home town is famous for Dracula. In the book he came ashore on one of our beaches and stayed in a house in a street that does exist in the town. What makes me laugh is how many tourists think that he was a real person!

[jamesy boy]

If that's Whitby, Thikasabrik, you could also have the 199 steps, the whale bones, and the joke shop over the bridge.(Well, it's famous to me!)