[Magic]

Whats special about your home town?
Whats it like?

[Locke.]

The only thing good about Liverpool is the football club (the amazing one - Liverpool, not the crap one- Everton); anyway, yeah, I can't think of anything else good.

Oh! And the MTV awards are here tomorrow night!

[Magic]

We have the biggest 'illuminated' carnival in Europe, which is on Friday! Apparently 1000's come to watch it

Hometown of Robert Blake, a famous admiral man.

One of the biggest fairs around.

Its so chavvy and inbred though.

[Magic]

Oh, also just on the outskirts are the Somerset Levels which is where I live.

[pinkmichk]

my town is primarily known for its tesco , the bypass and as a after thought cos it was the first coach town apparently
its fairly small and largely populated by oaps and is fairly quiet and trouble free

[Jen]

I live in saintfield.. a small village in Co.Down Northern Ireland
My hometown had the Battle of saintfield

"The Battle of Saintfield was a short but bloody clash in County Down, in Northern Ireland. The battle was the first major conflict of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Down. The battle took took place on the Saturday of 9 June, 1798."

[Nicky.]

Ermm.. not much.. its like all historic based and stuff xD

All amthitheatres and museums and the old walls xD

Its a thrill a minute

Theres lots of shops too xD

Chester btw

[supernoodles!]

This man called Timothy Hackworth was born and lived here donkeys years ago,he has a school named after him,pubs,park,etc oh and we also have the biggest train museum in England I think,its kinda boring really lolHa and does anyone remember Zoe Birkett of pop idol?her dad has a tanning shop down the road looool.

[Princess]

I found this on Wiki

The Ormonde cinema in Greystones, which closed in July 2007, featured in the Father Ted episode "The Passion Of St Tibulus" and also in an episode of Custer's Last Standup.

Greystones featured as the backdrop for some scenes in the popular BBC series Ballykissangel.

In the 1980s, many scenes from a series called "Rose of Dublin" were filmed around the harbour area of Greystones.

The town was commonly used in the Irish programme Glenroe.

The movie Taffin, starring Pierce Brosnan, was filmed in Greystones.

Greystones featured in an episode of Dream Team, a Sky One soccer soap series.

Parts of George Gently, a 2007 British detective mini-series by BBC, were filmed around the Harbour. Martin Shaw, starred in the production which is set in sixties-Britain (Northhumberland). The Beach House pub was renamed 'The Mariner's Rest' for the occasion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystones


Damien Rice lives here as well and Ronnie Drew lived here.

I love how my town is literally named after a strech of grey stones

[Jen]

Originally posted by Princess

Greystones featured as the backdrop for some scenes in the popular BBC series Ballykissangel.

God I love that show... I have been in Ballykissangel... I was in the pub. That was such a weekend!

[bronaaaa]

There was a bomb in my town a wee while back

[Matt]

Alan Carr thinks we're homophobic and racist

[Loukas]

Ermm...?

- Leona Lewis is from here. Family still lives here and her cousin's in year 7 in my school.

- During World War II, much of the area was damaged in the Blitz

- Other Celebs Like, Barbara Windsor and Zoe Lucker were born and raised here.

- Amy Winehouse filmed her video 'Back To Black' in our local cemetery.

Here is some info from Wiki;

Stoke Newington or 'new town in the wood', has been lightly settled for many hundreds of years, close to larger neighbouring Saxon settlements near the River Lea. In the nineteenth century it was discovered that Stoke Newington Common and Abney Park Cemetery had been part of a Neolithic working area for axe-making, some examples of which can be seen in the Museum of London.

Stoke Newington is recorded as part of the Ossulstone hundred in the county of Middlesex in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the 17th century, for administrative purposes the west of Stoke Newington High Street became part of the new Finsbury division and the east part of the Tower division. Both divisions were in 1889 then incorporated into the County of London.

Sorry but

[Sarah.]

lmfao.. nothing.
the odd person in the town selling a big issue.

oh and we have a castle, and a zoo. wooo..

[Tom]

What makes it special is that the government can't decide what county its in

Geographically its supposed to be in Greater Manchester but postally its in Lancashire

Oh and its a well off area, a few Corrie people live nearby, Kerry Katona isn't so far away either, about 15 minutes

[Red Moon]

The village is very old dating back before the Domesday Book was written. It probably owes its origins to the Anglo Saxons, though Bronze, Iron Age and Roman remains have been found within the village.

There have been 3 witches in the village, 2 of which were hanged and the other took poison to avoid the hang man, and there is one ghost, a drying lady.

At one point we had a famous brewery which is now a housing estate. All the old residences are now waiting for the new houses to fall into the victorian underground reservoir that provided water for the brewery on which the they are built.

[Captain.Remy]

Marseille:
-2nd biggest city of France.
-10 times bigger than Paris intra muros.
-3 islands.
-European Capital of Culture 2013.
-Biggest French soap filmed there.
-Described as most rebellious city ever: neither Napoleon nor Hiltler invaded it.
-340 days of Sun.

Need to say more but it's the best French city waaaaay before Paris ?

[Tom]

Originally posted by Captain.Remy
Marseille:
-2nd biggest city of France.
-10 times bigger than Paris intra muros.
-3 islands.
-European Capital of Culture 2013.
-Biggest French soap filmed there.
-Described as most rebellious city ever: neither Napoleon nor Hiltler invaded it.
-340 days of Sun.

Need to say more but it's the best French city waaaaay before Paris ?

Well tbh it can't get much worse than Paris anyway

[MR.K!]

Former Capital of Scotland
A twinned city and royal burgh
Twinned with Sarastota, USA
Birthplace of Charles the 1st, king of England, Scotland and Ireland
Has a MASSIVE city park, left to us from Andrew Carnegie.
Hometown and Birthplace of the great Andrew Carnegie.
Has two very popular Theatres.
Burrial place of King Robert The Bruce.
Original hometown of Gordon Brown.
Hometown of John Anderson (Gladiators Referee) for a period.
Has one of the biggest Abbey's in the world + ruins of the ancient royal palace.

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : Tom

Well tbh it can't get much worse than Paris anyway

Paris is a nice city (some areas) but people are just terrible, cold, posh, obnoxious and don't know how to party. And it's damn dirty !
Northern and Southern people HATE each other.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Captain.Remy

Paris is a nice city (some areas) but people are just terrible, cold, posh, obnoxious and don't know how to party. And it's damn dirty !
Northern and Southern people HATE each other.

It doesn't matter about the rest, its just that its dirty that bothers me and makes me dislike it

Disneyland was good though, not as good as Florida but still good

[melanie]

Vancouver

- nicknamed "North Hollywood"
- 3rd most livable city in the world/most livable city in Canada
- weather is nice, not too hot or cold

but
- everyone and their mom owns a BMW
- real estate is too expensive
- we're bound to have a big earthquake/tsunami within the next 5 years :|

[Captain.Remy]

Message original : Tom

It doesn't matter about the rest, its just that its dirty that bothers me and makes me dislike it

Disneyland was good though, not as good as Florida but still good

Disneyland is amazing. I've been there 5 times I think.
And it's not even in Paris lol

[Red Moon]

While we are talking about France can we have Brittany back please?

I ask nicely because we don't want to have to clone duke John IV and send back over to sort out the French again.

[Tom4784]

This is what it said about my town on Wikipedia.

Pensnett is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is situated three miles south-west of Dudley and two miles north of Brierley Hill. In 1966, Pensnett joined the County Borough of Dudley which became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in 1974.


[edit] Origins
Originally, Pensnett was a village in the countryside of south Staffordshire, in the parish of St Mark's, created during the 18th century. It was largely rural with just a handful of cottages and a tavern surrounded by farmland.

Towards the end of the 19th century the face of the area began a period of dramatic change. Several factories were built in Pensnett and the factory workers were mostly employed in the iron and steel industries. Many terraced houses with shop fronts were developed along the village's High Street around the turn of the 20th century, but the biggest changes were yet to come.

After World War I, Brierley Hill Urban District Council followed the example of almost every other local authority in Britain and built houses which were to be rented out to working class families. Several hundred council houses were built in the Pensnett area between 1920 and 1966, although a large percentage of the village's homes were privately owned.


[edit] Location
Pensnett lies in the Brierley Hill DY5 postal district. Due to its proximity to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre, which was built during the 1980s, the roads around Pensnett are nowadays extremely congested. As long ago as the early 1990s, there were plans to build a relief road around Pensnett, but they have yet to come to fruition.

Pensnett is home to the Pensnett Trading Estate, which was mostly developed during the 1980s as one of a series of government enterprise zones set up to bring employment to areas in economic decline due to deindustrialisation.


[edit] Education
The local secondary school is the Pensnett High School in Tiled House Lane which was previously known as Pensnett School of Technology and Pensnett Secondary Modern School. The school changed from Pensnett School of Technology to Pensnett High School in 2007. However, shortly after the school's update, it was announced that the school will be closed in 2010 and all the children will be sent to two new academies in the Dudley area.

The local authority's Learning Support centre was situated on Birds Meadow from 1978 until 1989, within the buildings of the former Birds Meadow Infant School which dated back to the 1930s. The site was redeveloped for private housing in the early 1990s.

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