Interesting facts about where you live

[Benjamin]

Some for Bristol:

A fair few of us on TiBB live here.

Banksy is from here and his work is scattered in really random places.

One of our big issue guys just got engaged to someone he gave 50p to and was on TV and radio.

It's the greenest city in Europe and top three in the world.

[Babayaro.]

Glenrothes:
Highest teen pregnancy rate across the UK
A mess
****hole
Full of junkies
"Beautiful Scotland" Award - 2012

[Drew.]

The Battle of 1066 happened here and my house is most likely on top of lots of bodies

[Benjamin]

The Battle of 1066 happened here and my house is most likely on top of lots of bodies

Oh I'm back down in battle for Christmas :laugh:

[Drew.]

Where abouts??

[Benjamin]

I'm not giving you the address :joker:

[Drew.]

I dont want the bloody address, i only meant what area Turtle

[Benjamin]

/stalker

[Benjamin]

Actually I lie, I'm going to between Battle and Westfield this year. Forgot they moved :laugh:

[RichardG]

We have a massive head. :amazed:

http://www.cheshirenow.co.uk/images_7/dream1.jpg

Also I think David Yates the guy who directed the Harry Potter films lived in St Helens too. :smug:

Other than that the place is a chav infested mess

[Drew.]

Actually I lie, I'm going to between Battle and Westfield this year. Forgot they moved :laugh:

I've been working in Westfield over the past 2 week at my bosses business.. They don't have any street lights in Westfield so everyone goes mad with Christmas lights to light it up.. It's crazy driving through.

[T*]

well
um
we have a beach (that's mostly grass)
our pier is the 2nd longest in the UK
our town centre used to be quite nice but now it's all charity shops but they're trying to sort it all out to actually make it appealing though

[T*]

oh and that grand national horse red rum is from here

that's literally it

[T*]

Blackpool is pretty fond of us but that's like saying your best friend has syphilis

We're also pretty close to Liverpool which is quite nice because I love it there

[SuperV]

In Queensland, Australia we think 29 degrees Celsius is cold...

[Josiah.]

In Pittsburgh, we are at the confluence of 3 rivers (2 of which merge to make the 3rd); and we have one of the most well known hospital chains (UPMC, which has a hospital in Ireland).

[Ammi]

..we have the smallest pub in the UK in our town...
..The Nutshell, Bury St Edmunds...

[Will.]

Winchmore Hill:

Keith Lemon lives a few streets away,
Lionel Richie owns a house a few streets,
The guy from luther lives in Winchmore Hill,
Amy Winehouse is from the area,
Adele is from Enfield (not our area but in the same borough).
Lionel Richie house was used as the XF 2013 house.


In terms of historical facts I'm not sure.

Oh the house we use to live on backed onto a woods/golf club, and there are loads of Roman ruins buried underneath the woods/golf course.

[Cal.]

The captain of the Titanic and Robbie Williams are from where I live

[Kazanne]

People who live or have lived here(Newport,Shropshire)
Barrington J. Bayley - writer
Michael J. Bassett – film director and scriptwriter
James Sutton - actor
John Meeson Parsons – (1798–1870) art collector
Francis Neilson Adam Proudlock - Former Wolves, Ipswich Town and Nottingham Forest footballer
Paul Bracewell - Former England, Newcastle United and Sunderland footballer
David Johnson (footballer, born 1976) - Former Jamaica, Ipswich Town and Nottingham Forest footballer
Reuben Jones - medallist in the Olympics for horseriding
Simon Holt - cyclist
Ryan Palmer - chess champion
Herbert Elliott - cricketer
– (1867–1961) writer (also briefly politician)
Matthew Smith – spy, intriguer and writer
Richard Barnfield – (1574–1620) poet
Ewen Henderson – (1934–2000) ceramic artist
James Hain Friswell – (1825–1878) essayist and novelist
Samuel Johnson – (1709–1784) author
Simon Bates – (1947– ) BBC Radio 1 DJ
Radzi Chinyanganya Presenter On CBBC Show Blue Peter
Thomas Brown (1663–1704) - satirist
Robert Hendy-Freegard - (born 1971) barman, car salesman, conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent
Michael Jack - chairman of the Hartington Group, which has its headquarters in the town
William Adams - haberdasher
Craig Phillips - winner of Big Brother 2000
Boughey baronets
William Cureton - orientalist
Sir Oliver Lodge - (1851–1940) invented the electrical spark ignition for the internal combustion engine, first principal of Birmingham University.
James Edward Quibell - (1867–1935) Egyptologist
Percy John Heawood - (1861–1955) mathematician
William Ick, (1800-1844), botanist
Charles Silvester Horne - MP for Ipswich
Peter Bottomley - MP for Worthing West
John Benbow - clerk of the Crown whose right to use a coat of arms was confirmed in 1622
Robert Puleston - supporter of Owain Glyndŵr, at the time of his rebellion against King Henry IV
William Kenyon-Slaney - sportsman, soldier and politician (MP for Newport division of Shropshire, a constituency created 1885, dissolved 1918).
Jeremy Corbyn - MP For Islington North and Leader of the Opposition (2015-)

Charles Dickens stayed in Newport and modelled Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1861) on Elizabeth Parker, a recluse from the town.

Christmas Guisers' Play from Newport, Shropshire [1883] is about the town.

At Harper Adams University College just outside Newport in Edgmond, on 10 January 1982 the English lowest temperature weather record was broken (and is kept to this day): -26.1 °C.

Newport was the first town in Shropshire to be on Dickinson's Real Deal.

A television documentary called The Spy Who Stole My Life showed the town as the backdrop of the Robert Hendy-Freegard story, who conned students from the town was shown by Channel Five on 7 September 2005. In Australia, this was called The spy Who Conned Me.

The Army Cadet Force has a detachment, which represented the town and United Kingdom at a ceremony where they paraded under the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium in 2005.

The town is supposedly haunted by the local ghost, Madam Pigott.

Ozzy Osbourne once owned the wine bar here , it is still called 'OZZIES'

[Kizzy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudsey

http://www.roostersbedford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Pudsey1.jpg

The most famous thing about Pudsey is Sir Leonard Hutton ( who I'm related to)
Herbert Asquith ( old prime minister is from there)

[Glenn.]

We have a sunken ship with tonnes of explosives that could blow at any time. That's literally it. It's pretty dull where I come from

[Ashley.]

We got bombed in WWII and there's still buildings that haven't been fixed because we're lazy

[Ashley.]

We're also packed to the brim with unexploded bombs which is thoroughly unsettling but fascinating

[Firewire]

All red telephone and postcode boxes were made in my town, there may be newer versions made in other towns but most of them were made pre-1984
Part of the Antonine wall ran through my town and there's a monument to recognise that
Boxed Jim Watt is from and lives here
Jenni Falconer and Amy Macdonald are from the town next to mine

[Ashley.]

Oh interesting facts lol no I've got nothing

[EspeonBB]

Charley Uchea had a furniture shop here

[jennyjuniper]

We live on an island, although the mainland is only about 100 metres away at it's narrowest point. You can walk across when it's a really cold winter and the water freezes. We have a lovely coastal area and a nature trail where you can walk all the way to Germany (from the mainland). The people here speak three languages. Their own (Danish) German, because Germany is so close and the town is full of German tourists in summer and English, which they are taught in school.

[Josy]

Umm..

we have a natural fresh water spring well.

And the blackhill transmitters

[Loukas]

Hackney -

- Fassett Square in Dalston, Hackney was the inspiration behind Albert Square in Eastenders.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/1/29/1390991325687/fassett-square-008.jpg

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- One of Banksy's first pieces of outdoor artwork was done in Stoke Newington, The mural was painted on the building so it could be photographed for the launch of Blur's 2003 single Crazy Beat. It was later partially painted over by idiots in 2009. People from the street were shouting for the painters to stop, which they did. The artwork was of a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony.

before
http://ldngraffiti.co.uk/images/content/database/streetart/sa_upload_1205/large/SNCS_ClownHouse02.jpg

how it looks now
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/05/Dezeen_Banksy-in-Hackney-2.jpg

Famous people who were born, raised, went to school or live/lived in Hackney.

- Idris Elba - Raised in Hackney
- Paloma Faith - Born and Raised in Stoke Newington, Hackney.
- Michael Caine - Went to school in Hackney Downs
- Pete Doherty - lived in a flat in Hackney which was the site of many after-gig parties for his fans
- Colin Firth - lived at Sutton Place, Homerton
- Professor Green - born and raised in Upper Clapton
- Noel Fielding - Lives in Stoke Newington, Hackney
- Leona Lewis - born and raised in Hackney, lived in Stamford Hill
- Labrinth - Went to my secondary school, his sister Jessica was in my year.
- Maverick Sabre - Born and raised in Stoke Newington
- Lord Alan Sugar - Born and raised in Clapton also invested money into a college in Hackney.
- Michael Fassbender currently lives in Hackney. (I've seen him out jogging and almost fainted :laugh:)
- Edgar Allan Poe - went to school in Stoke Newington.

[Smithy]

Housing is ridiculously expensive, for £900 a month you'll just about get a one bedroom flat
There's underground German hospitals from the occupation

Idk anything else

It's famous for its milk (apparently)

[Will.]

Housing is ridiculously expensive, for £900 a month you'll just about get a one bedroom flat
There's underground German hospitals from the occupation

Idk anything else

It's famous for its milk (apparently)

Where's this?

[Ninastar]

Harrogate is apparently one of the happiest/most romantic place to live in the EU... (but I don't believe that)

It has a Betty's which is crazy crazy popular, despite being stupidly overpriced and not even that night. Bakeries in Scotland are nicer.

We held Eurovision many years ago

Apparently Gareth Gates and Utah Saints were from Harrogate

[Ninastar]

Where's this?

Bradford

[Smithy]

Where's this?
Guernsey
Bradford

I don't know who that is

[Samm]

Charley Uchea had a furniture shop here

Winner

[Kizzy]

Harrogate is apparently one of the happiest/most romantic place to live in the EU... (but I don't believe that)

It has a Betty's which is crazy crazy popular, despite being stupidly overpriced and not even that night. Bakeries in Scotland are nicer.

We held Eurovision many years ago

Apparently Gareth Gates and Utah Saints were from Harrogate

I remember reading Harrogate has the most drink drivers once.

[Ninastar]

that too, but it's not exactly 'interesting' is it?