What/who is your hometown famous for?

Triumph....... And fighting in town.

 

Someone once wrote "slagbonce" on the side of the multi storey car park. Now can you name the town....?

 

Wakefield. , don fox,neil fox , bill nelson ,

 

Luton,

Former winner of the Crap Towns award
Paul Young
An airport,
Some Vauxhalls were once built here,
Apparently a hotbed for Muslim extremism, and the EDL are based here.

 

Guildford
The Stranglers
Mike Rutherford
Roger Taylor
Sub focus
The Vapours
Lewis Carroll
Johnny Hollins (Chelsea legend)
David Howell (Tottenham )
Bonnie Langford
Piers Morgan

 

Now im up the road in Ripley
Where Eric Clapton lived
Paul Weller has his studio there.

 

The co-op and Lisa Stansfield......

 

Malvern

Morgan Cars - you don't realise how quick they are until you've seen the test driver at the lights in town fighting with one with a duff gearbox - hit first and thrash the thing along the 300m to the factory!!

Elgar - manic depressive - but wonderful to listen to

Water - except Schwepps/Coke have just shut the bottling plant - however my mate Rhys Humm runs Holywell Water so has kept Malvern based water alive

....and the retirement capital of the Midlands........ the only things being built are retirement flats!

 

Proudly the birthplace of Radio

Techno Towers is roughly half way between where the first radio was broadcast and where it was received



Also the home of Britvic, makers of many kinds of fizzy pop and bottled drinks and the V Festival (hey everywhere has its down side)

Famous people born here include;
Guthrie Govan, the greatest guitarist in the world
Grayson Perry, Turner prize winning artist potter, and the second best looking tranny from Chelmsford
The drummer from McFly

and me

 

Dolly, how could you forget Dawn French, Charles Dance, the legendary Plymouth Argyle (the only way is up) and me ), although I have not lived in Plymouth for nearly 30 years now, but I was born there, family is still there so I still think of myself as a Plymothian.

 

Place I currently call home (Frome) is the birth place of Jenson Button.

 

Harlow

 

Crystal Palace but I can't for the life of me think what made it famous...

 

One of the most famous quotes from British cinema was used there
" You were supposed to blow the bloody doors off' " Charlie Croker in The Italian Job.

 

I know! How awesome is that!

These are actaully really interesting articles on where we live with loads that even I didn't know including the old Grand Prix track and Alexander Graham Bell working out of the old Crystal Palace

http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/crystal-palace-park-part-one/

http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/crystal-palace-park-part-two/

 

Maldon, Essex.
Barges of the Thames variety.
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/imagelarge68306-.html

 

My mate is an oyster farmer in maldon

 

Not sure I'd want to eat them, knowing what we used to do in the river!

 

Riddings where the workshop is, Home town of Jamie Bestwick, Vert Bmx rider who has won the last 7 X-games consecutively and 7 dew cups.

 

He's got a hatchery there and then farms them from Paglesham. there's probably worse in the water around paglesham