What/who is your hometown famous for?

I suppose my hometown is Pudsey - so Pudsey Bear - cricketers (Len Hutton, Ray Illingworth, Herbert Sutcliffe, Matthew Hoggard) and the world famous treacle mines

 

Can't beat Plymouth, Dolly... lived there for 20 years (but now live in Milton Keynes) and still miss the beaches, Dartmoor, the Hoe, Cap'n Jaspers, Ivor Dewdney's pasties, sailing in the Sound and nights out in Union Street!

 

Milton Keynes... famous for:
roundabouts

and
concrete cows!


and not much else apart from Greg Rutherford - gold medal-winning long jumper at the London Olympics!

 

A football club that isn't even based in out town.

 

I was born in Ayr (Scotland)
Probably the most famous is Rabbie Burns

• John Loudon McAdam, (1756–1836), inventor of Tarmacadam road surface
• Lee McKenzie, BBC Formula 1 pit lane reporter

 

Now that was always fun when newbies gave it a try.

 

That roundabout looks horrendous to drive round.

Im from Brighton so there is quite a list. Most recent being the first major town to introduce a blanket 20mph city wide!! :-(

 

Soft cell....

 

James Prescott Joule​

James Joule – Physicist​

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Died​

11 October 1889 (aged 70)
Sale, Cheshire, England, UK

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Its 6 not 1 and treated as such is as easy as falling off a bike.

 

My home town used to smell when you went past it on the M5 or train due to the large plastics factory And it's just a poo hole.

Oh and we have the worlds largest illuminated carnival, Anne Diamond used to work in our local paper, one off the first all concreate buildings was built here in 1851 and Birth place to Robert Blake.

 

My village is too small to be well known. But the nearby town of Alton is supposedly known for the gruesome beginnings of the expresssion Sweet FA:

On 24 August 1867, an eight-year old girl, Fanny Adams, was murdered. Her assailant, Frederick Baker, a local solicitor's clerk, was one of the last criminals to be executed in Winchester. The muder was very brutal and he cut up and distributed body parts around the local fields. Her body parts were collected and reassembled in a local building which locals claim is haunted. Fanny Adams' grave can still be seen in Alton cemetery. The brutal murder, so the story goes, coincided with the introduction of tinned meat in the Royal Navy , and the sailors who did not like the new food said the tins contained the remains of "Sweet Fanny Adams" or "Sweet F A", hence the expression which for over a century has meant "sweet nothing"

On a less icky note, Jane Austen lived in Chawton ( a couple of miles away) & Alison Goldfrapp (singer) went to the local convent school.......or and Alan Titchmarsh lives in the area as well - see him at the petrol station sometimes.

And the town is the end of the line station forthe Watercress Line steam railway.

 

And my birth town Adelaide ain't much better. But it used to hold the F1 grand pix there.

 

DEATH
Eastbourne (aka gods waiting room) for old people waiting to die & Beachy Head for people trying to die

 

Yes it was, my geography of London is poor, is it part of Chelsea ? my Dad and Mother used to drink in there , in the 60's, my parents had me quiet late, my Dad was an artist who used to sell his paintings on Hyde Park railings then the Thakeray gallery and occasional RA and he studied at the Royal College, my mother is full of tales of the people they knew and met in those times. 1974 they had me and moved to Brighton then we ended up living in a little terrace in Great Yarmouth, by the time I was 8 funny old life

 

Ooohhh, had to be the half yard eaten all by yourself after a night out!!! Good ol Cap'n Jaspers.....

 

My dad used to tell us that smell come from the camels!!!

 

The main smell was the dinosaur the other side on the M5

The main smell was the dinosaur the other side on the M5. That's Nam end off town.

 

you can smell it from here^^^^

 

Where the F1 should still be held. The Adelaide Arts Festival is pretty good though, we usually get down to that every couple of years.