[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]

Originally Posted by Thurman Merman

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

[Drew.]

Where abouts??

[Benjamin]

I'm not giving you the address

[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

[RichardG]

We have a massive head.



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

Other than that the place is a chav infested mess

[Drew.]

Originally Posted by God

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

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



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