Following this thread http://thelatebay.com/index.php?topic=6042.msg93506#msg93506 Do you have anyone famous from/strongly linked to your city?
the nearest thing to me i can think of is Lichfield where that bloke who invented the dictionary was from or summat, that's why my english is so good innit? samuel johnson? i reckon it's him they got a pub named after him in the town and everything!
Portsmouth seems to have a rich literary history, with all the following having been born or live here. Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Besan, Christopher Hitchen, Rudyard Kipling, Michelle Magorian, and H. G. Wells
I've got another one but not famous, in 1970, Susan Wallace became the first 18-year-old person to vote in the UK, during the 1970 Bridgwater by-election. That's it I think not a lot happens here's. Oh and the wurzels are yocal. Ooooh arrrr.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (b 1947), bodybuilder, actor and now Governor of California - although he never lived in Portsmouth in the 1970s, Schwarzenegger used to work out in a gym in Albert Road
Dont really want to make anyone jealous, but the lovely Rosie Jones is from my town. http://www.rosie-jones.org/
Sir Humphrey Davy (mining lamps and chemistry) Richard Trevithick (steam engines) Captain William Bligh (commander of The Bounty) General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert
Oliver Cromwell The Earl of Sandwich ...credited with 'inventing' the sarnie Darren Bent, footballer Iwan Thomas, athlete
We've got loads from this little scruffy poor northern town called Doncaster, Infact you'd be suprised at a few of em William Brewster, The pilgrim fathers who sailed to America John Francis Bentley, Architect westminster cathedral Brian Blessed, Actor Tony Christie, Singer Jeremy Clarkson, Top gear Thomas Crapper, The fushing toilet Lesley Garrett, Opera singer Kevin Keegan, Rovers turned him down as a teenager David Pegg, Man utd, one of the Busby babes who died in the Munich air crash Dennis Priestley, former darts world champion Diana Rigg, Actress former bond girl James Toseland, World superbike champion Bruce Woodcock, Boxer, former british, european and commonweath heavyweight champion Douglas Bader WW2 fighter pilot grew up here Oh and we've got Dinky as well
Ok then if we are really scrapping the barrel Nick Knowles a while ago has been DIY sosing a local lady, he has been seen picking up children from school. Recon once he has seen the true town he's out of here.
