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race riots
council scandals
benedictine consumption
thats about it
also Boston Stump is one of the tallest churches in england
and the pilgrim fathers travelled through boston
and Julian Jocian (dunno if thats the right spelling but its the footballer bloke) is from boston
and whatshisface came and play for the football team, cant remember his name though
She must be a loser.
I've been twice. Its an annoying dump. The instructions on the map to get where we needed to go were superb. Go straight ahead at the first 15 roundabouts. Then turn left at the sixtenth. We all lost count and got lost. :crazyeyes
My lecturer is American
Famous for fuck all.
Florence Nightingale was buried in Wellow though, my neighbouring village.
Now Wolverhampton University and not much better...
My dad also lived next to the Molineux (football ground) occasionally, when the park benches were already full
The not very famous football team held Manchester United to a draw at home last year but then were knocked out of the FA Cup when they went up to Old Trafford.
Branston Pickle was also invented in this place.
Olivia Murphy (England Netball Captain) is also from here ... and I used to play against her.
Riveting, eh? Any guesses where I'm from then?
I think you should spread the humour filled story :shocking:
Burton Albion - which must mean Burton-on-Trent?
apartly Wiliam wordworths Mum was born and live here, mary the Wife of Pm Harold Wilson, and Charlie hunnam (Pete Dunham inGreen Street) lived here too!!!
hey not bad at all!!!
Famous people include, Harold Wilson PM, Zoe Lucker, Gordon Kaye (from Allo Allo!) and Roy Castle! Famous for being the biggest town in the UK as well as covering large amounts of countryside within the area. Most famous landmarks are the Victoria Tower at Castle Hill above Huddersfield and the train station ('a stately home with trains in it' some well known old architecture bloke said). Huddersfield also has the longest canal tunnel in the world and the third largest rail tunnel in Britain apparently.
All fascinating stuff....
ETA I have just remembered what the town near my home is famous for - broadcasting the World Service :thumb: and there was a MacDonald's advert that featured it and everyone thought they meant Coventry or something.
Kelly Brook was born in Rochester.
Rik Waller in Gillingham
and
Lee from Blue in Chatham
HURRAH
but famous people include Peter Kay (come on now, everybody knows hes from Bolton)
Vernon Kay
Sara Cox
Danny Jones from McFly
Ian McKellen
thats probably about it.
It is indeedy!!!!
Horrible town, i really hate it!!!
I lived in Burton for 8 years. I actually really like it there. Where abouts do u live?
ETA: Whereabouts did you live?
Bridgnorth: Severn Valley Railway, Cliff Railway ( ),
Clun: Castle, and...er...they did a show of Double Act (the Jaqueline Wilson book) which was filmed there. Yeh. Loads of my friends were in it . Also, Offa's Dyke. Yeh.
And the generalness of Ironbridge and stuff like that. Yeh. And Robert Plant lived in Kidderminster. Although technically Kidderminster is in Worcestershire .
Oscar Wilde - playwright.
Samuel Beckett - noble prize for literature.
Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy).
Henry Francis Lyte (hymn writer - Abide With Me).
Apart from that, the IRA put my town on the map, when they decided to bomb a Remembrance Day memorial in 1987, without warning, killing 11 civilians. I was two years old, and just before the bomb my mum had wheeled me away from the cenotaph in my buggy, because I was crying, and the silence was coming up. Pretty disturbing. My town was a popular target for the IRA over the years, but nothing compared to that.