What/who is your hometown famous for?

I've from Middlesbrough (yep, i'm admitting it) .

Can't really think of much Middlesbrough is famous for to be honest apart from its most well known landmark the Transporter bridge which was built in 1911:


Theres also some football team thats not gonna get mentioned.

A few celebs born in Middlesbrough include; Bob Mortimer, Paul Daniels, Chris Rea, Brian Clough, Roy Chubby Brown, Wendy Richard from Are you Being served. Captain James Cook was also born in Marton just outside Middlesbrough.

What about your hometown?

 

Clive woodward and the sisters of mercy singer, old wassisname.
And Oliver Cromwell of course, not a popular tourist destination for Irish people.

 

I live in Sheerness ( not born there) and we have Lord Beeching the axe man of British railways,Rod Hull,Sir stanley hooker ( inventor of the vtol engine)William Penney ( worked on the atomic bomb)
Transient residents include, Paul Hardcastle ( nnnn nineteen) Patsy palmer ( RICKEEEEEEEEE)Michael Crawford ( lived with his gran) and Robbie from eastenders. Oh and Bruce Brand, drummer extroadinaire.
The place is full of misfits now though.

 

Lowestoft is the most easterly point of the UK
There was the famous (to historians i guess) 'Battle of Lowestoft' in the Anglo-Dutch wars (even though it was 40 odd miles off the coast)
The Darkness hail from Lowestoft, the composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft as was the 'Big Dawg' Tim Westwood

 

Big what ???

 

My hometown is responsible for giving the world people like David Icke, Gok Wan and Monty Python's Graham Chapman. It also gave us Shawaddywaddy and Kasabian, as well as being the home of the Noble car factory.

And before some smartarse jumps in, my hometown is NOT Birmingham.

 

Indeed That must have been where his accent come from... the mean streets of Lowestoft

 

Sir Francis Drake, Michael Foot (politics) and some guy who thinks he's famous for diving but needs to learn how to drive after cutting us up in Plymouth other day ...... Tom Daley.

 

My old hanging out point as a teen was in Lowy , think it was called skallywags, I dated a bloke from the darkness for about a whole 2 weeks lol

 

In Irlam specifically we have Russell Watson. In the Manchester area generally there are thousands - too many to mention.

 

Frome
The highest number of cases of incest in the 90s

And Jenson Button was born and grew up in Frome his dad owned the jet petrol station in town

 

the first car to reach 200mph was built here 'sunbeam'. enoch powell, dave hill (slade),sir jack hayward, beverley knight are just a few from wolverhampton, also (Banks's) now Marston's brewery is just up the road... not my birth town but someones got live here

 

My home town is old Lawwdddenn tawn.........well not really -Kensington Chelsea is where I was born, the artist Lowry lived near by to my parents in the 60's , Laurie Lee and Tony Hancock, were known for hanging around the local pub....that's it I am afraid, I am sure there's loads but have googled and have found none.......I lived there for a whole six months before moving to Brighton

 

Ahhh, where I was born, virtually nobody but it has a silly name. Kirby Muxloe.
Alison King who apparently is Carla Conner in Corrie.

 

MINT CAKE!
Being from Kendal.

I now live in Lincoln famous for...?

 

I live in a village which Is famous for nothing. But the nearest town is one of the smallest towns in the country.

 

Epping is famous for its beautiful forest (used for hunting by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - her hunting lodge still stands to this day) and the UK's oldest continuous regular market.

As for famous residents, Rod Stewart seems to be the most recognised.

 

Norwich ............norwich city foot ball club, Lord Nelson, Elizabeth Fry, Amelia Opie, Harriet Martineau , artists Chrome, Cotman and Frederick Sandys . The famous Ketts rebellion led by Robert Kett, loads of withc trials, and Cathy Dennis

 

Lifted from wiki, The poisoner is about all we get.
William Palmer

In 1855, the town gained notoriety when a local doctor, William Palmer, was accused of murdering an acquaintance, John Parsons Cook (who is buried in a still visible grave in the local St Augustine's churchyard). It was claimed that Cook had been poisoned, and in the months that followed, Palmer was implicated in the deaths of several other persons, including his own wife and brother, and possibly even some of his own children. He was put on trial for the murder of Cook in 1856, and an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the trial to be held at the Old Bailey, London, as it was felt that a fair jury could not be found in Staffordshire. Palmer was found guilty of murder, and hanged publicly outside Stafford Gaol on 14 June 1856. Local legend has it that, on being instructed to step on to the gallows trap-door he asked the now famous question "Is it safe?". Furthermore, following the uproar surrounding the discovery of Palmer's activities, the town put in a special request to the Prime Minister requesting that they be permitted to change the name of the town to disassociate themselves from the murders. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister at the time was Lord Palmerston, who agreed to the request only on the condition that the town be named after him. For obvious reasons the locals declined this offer. The story of Palmer was told inThe Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998), starring Keith Allen in the role of the infamous doctor.