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What's your home town famous for?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Salt.

    I live on a salt mine.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *Snow White Queen* wrote:
    Salt.

    I live on a salt mine.

    Isn't that dangerous? What happens if it caves in? You could drown.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *Snow White Queen* wrote:
    Salt.

    I live on a salt mine.
    Don't get it wet.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Cider :yum:

    Oh and Elgar...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    innocent_kate wrote:
    Cider :yum:
    CIDER!!!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    LacyMay wrote:
    Isn't that dangerous? What happens if it caves in? You could drown.
    I don't think so.

    Our town is slowly sinking though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *Snow White Queen* wrote:
    I don't think so.

    Our town is slowly sinking though.

    Oh thats alright then. Nothing too bad :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    HAHA. According to Wikipedia, our town is famous for these people:


    Tim Burgess of The Charlatans
    Paula Radcliffe, Marathon Runner
    Matthew Kelly, TV Presenter
    Adam Rickett, Former Coronation Street Actor
    Pete Waterman, Record Producer and Pop Idol Judge
    Gary Barlow, Former Take That Singer
    Stuart Neild, Horror Author
    Bob Carolgees, Former Kids TV Presenter
    Mike Whitlow, Former Leeds United & Leicester City Defender
    Michael Oakes, Former Aston Villa Goalkeeper
    Andy Oakes, Walsall FC, former Derby County, Goalkeeper
    Dean Saunders, Former Aston Villa & Wales Striker
    Tony Dorigo, Former Leeds United & England Defender
    Sue Townsend, Author
    Steve Hewitt of Placebo
    Lucy Meggett of The Fast Food Rockers
    Tim Kash, MTV Presenter
    Neil Hamilton & Christine Hamilton, The former was MP for Tatton, the latter a TV "personality"
    Dewi Morris, Former England Rugby Union Player
    John Greenway, MP for Ryedale
    Alan McInally, former professional footballer and now Sky Sports football analyst
    Andy Morrison, former professional footballer and now Worcester City F.C. coach
    'Father' Tommy McKenzie, name checked in the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby, Compere at Northwich Memorial Hall
    Shirley Strong, athlete

    Although I haven't heard of half of them...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *Snow White Queen* wrote:
    HAHA. According to Wikipedia, our town is famous for these people:


    Tim Burgess of The Charlatans
    Paula Radcliffe, Marathon Runner
    Matthew Kelly, TV Presenter
    Adam Rickett, Former Coronation Street Actor
    Pete Waterman, Record Producer and Pop Idol Judge
    Gary Barlow, Former Take That Singer
    Stuart Neild, Horror Author
    Bob Carolgees, Former Kids TV Presenter
    Mike Whitlow, Former Leeds United & Leicester City Defender
    Michael Oakes, Former Aston Villa Goalkeeper
    Andy Oakes, Walsall FC, former Derby County, Goalkeeper
    Dean Saunders, Former Aston Villa & Wales Striker
    Tony Dorigo, Former Leeds United & England Defender
    Sue Townsend, Author
    Steve Hewitt of Placebo
    Lucy Meggett of The Fast Food Rockers
    Tim Kash, MTV Presenter
    Neil Hamilton & Christine Hamilton, The former was MP for Tatton, the latter a TV "personality"
    Dewi Morris, Former England Rugby Union Player
    John Greenway, MP for Ryedale
    Alan McInally, former professional footballer and now Sky Sports football analyst
    Andy Morrison, former professional footballer and now Worcester City F.C. coach
    'Father' Tommy McKenzie, name checked in the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby, Compere at Northwich Memorial Hall
    Shirley Strong, athlete

    Although I haven't heard of half of them...
    And salt.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Umm.. I dunno what Gloucester is famous for, but Ieper(belgium) is probably famous for the last post and the menin gate... possibly cloth hall.. all the war stuff... mneh... it's a nice place though :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -Soundtrack of our Lives
    -Ace of Base
    -Hammerfall! (had a huge consert here yesterday...)
    -Kent (although they come from Eskilstuna, I love them too much not to mention here!)
    -Håkan Hellström, who sings worse than a horse.

    Otherwise:
    * Jan Eliasson, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
    * Ace of Base, pop group
    * Daniel Alfredsson, captain and MVP of the NHL's Ottawa Senators
    * Arvid Carlsson, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine (2000)
    * Sir William Chambers (1723-1796), Scottish architect
    * William Chalmers (1748-1811), manager of the Swedish East India Company and founder of Chalmers University of Technology
    * Ulf Dageby, rock musician
    * Mikkey Dee, heavy metal drummer
    * In Flames, melodic death metal group
    * Gunilla Florby, English lit. professor
    * Gunnar Gren, footballer, part of the Milan Gre-No-Li and 1958 FIFA World Cup runners-up squad
    * Bengt Hallberg, jazz pianist
    * Hammerfall, power metal group
    * Håkan Hellström, singer-songwriter
    * Zeth Höglund, founder of the Swedish communist movement
    * Jan Johansson, jazz pianist



    * Ingemar Johansson, boxer and World Heavyweight Champion in 1959
    * Torbjörn Nilsson, former IFK Göteborg football player, part of the 1982 UEFA Cup winning team
    * Christian Olsson (born 1980), triple jump gold medalist in the 2004 Summer Olympics
    * Elena Paparizou, Greek singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
    * Laleh Pourkarim, Persian-Swedish singer-song-writer
    * Marcus Samuelsson, renowned chef
    * Jonas Svensson, professional tennis player
    * Dark Tranquillity, melodic death metal group
    * Daniel Wahlgren (Papa Dee), musician
    * Soilwork, melodic death metal group
    * Arch Enemy, melodic death metal group
    * Evert Taube,author, artist, composer and singer
    * Jens Lekman, singer-songwriter
    * The Similou, electronic music group
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jarvey Of Suburbia wrote:
    And salt.

    :lol:

    Most important of them all. Without salt there'd be no employment.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    HA. You are probably right tbh.

    That place sucks for jobs hence why I'm never moving back there.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Flying Orchid wrote:
    Umm.. I dunno what Gloucester is famous for, but Ieper(belgium) is probably famous for the last post and the menin gate... possibly cloth hall.. all the war stuff... mneh... it's a nice place though :)

    with my group of friends it's famous for getting lost in. That place a seriously confusing road signs and systems!!

    Gloucester that is...not belgium...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well, I live in a little villiage, so going with the nearest town to me... Er, John Bunyan, who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress.

    Oh, having said that, there is a pub in my village where apparently The Beatles performed Hey Jude for the first time :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    maybe the Donauinselfest. It takes place anually in vienna and is the biggest open air festival europes with about 3 - 3.5 million people visiting over 3 days.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The city I was born in is famous for Home and Away and the bridge.

    The city I was raised in is famous for curry and riots.

    The city I live in now is famous for Ant and Dec and the Blaydon Races.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dr_pepper75p wrote:
    hmmm newport newport newport

    the transporter bridge, chartist riots of the 1830's and bob hoskins
    my brother is a bit confused there me thinks.

    He actually means Anthony Hopkins, not Bob Hoskins, and it wasn't him that was from our city, his mam lived round the corner from us.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Robin Hood
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A race riot, it's own 3% strong lager, largest council estate in North Wales and Tim Vincent. :thumb:
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    The Prodigy tbh. About it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fish and Ian Huntley.

    Interestingly, our population is spot on the national average or something like that and therefore we always get new products trialled here first.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    York - Minster, vikings, walls, flooding, Shambles, tourists, Clifford's Tower etc.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Titanic.
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    Dr PirateDr Pirate Posts: 8,303 Legendary Poster
    The worlds first ATM machine.

    And the UK's first drive through donught shop -.-

    ETA

    Also this from Wikipedia:

    The world's first solid state circuitry colour televisions were manufactured by Ferguson at their plant (now closed) in Enfield.

    Enfield has longstanding links with the Gunpowder Plot, as Guy Fawkes and his team are known to have used a safe house in Whitewebbs Lane, Enfield. He is also thought to have drunk at the King and Tinker pub, known then as The White Hart.

    Famous residents

    * Kevin Campbell
    * Charles Lamb
    * Isaac D'Israeli
    * Benjamin Disraeli
    * Sir Mortimer Wheeler
    * Boris Karloff
    * Robin van Persie
    * Dennis Bergkamp
    * José Antonio Reyes
    * Michelle Ryan
    * Richard Brittain
    * Ledley King
    * Norman Lewis
    * Mike Gatting
    * Murray Walker
    * Edward Lyne (former England batsman)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote:
    the Blaydon Races.

    I went to the Blaydon Races, twas on the 9th of June, 1862 on a summer's afternoon etc. etc.


    My home town is the home of Alfred The Great. It was also the ancient capital of England (well, Wessex) and home of the (fictitious) Round Table. It also has more pubs per person than anywhere else in the country.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you,

    Winchester.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm from a village called Camlough in South Armagh, population less than 1,000 but it has a few notable people.

    One of the 10 hungerstrikers came from here.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_McCreesh

    Famous republican Frank Aitken

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Aiken

    And a tout who got murdered for being a tout haha!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamon_Collins
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have no idea. I think one of the memebers from Muse might be from here & a memember of Coldplay. (although that could be Devon and not Plymouth)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    1983 wrote:
    Discovering Oasis, Irn Bru, Optimo, Rab C Nesbit, Robert Carlyle, James McAvoy, The Fratellis, Travis, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Billy Connolly, Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish!

    :D
    You forgot about us being the murder capital of Europe, what a claim to fame that is, not.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Where i was born - Martello towers, carpet gardens, tennis tournament, old people.
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