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True dat
see if you can find your home town ...........
My hometown isn't Oxford, thats just where I live
We are also proud owners of the oldest iron bridge in the world that is still in constant use, and the only iron bridge in the UK that carries motor vehicles.
I've just moved from there, Didn't know a few of them things, Kewl!! :thumb:
It was actually the sheriff of nottingham who came from nottingham (believe it or not)
Little John is buried up in hathersage a couple of miles outside sheffield.
Moving away from Stockport - best move ever? Haha! Where abouts did you live?
The Merrill Howard Kalin Show, for your viewing pleasure
(and no, its not some cheesy made-for-youtube-shit.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=merrill+howard+kalin
And there was a really trashy looking chick from a season of american idol too apperantly
Baldwin of Exeter (d 1190), Archbishop of Canterbury
Joseph of Exeter (12th century), poet
Robert Stone (1516-1613), composer and member of the Chapel Royal.
John Hooker (1525-1601), constitutionalist
Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library
Nicholas Hilliard (c1547-1619), portraitist
John Rainolds (1549-1605), Puritan scholar
Richard Hooker (1554-1600), Anglican theologian
Henrietta Anne Stuart (1644-1670), daughter of King Charles I
Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669-1734), Lord Chancellor
Simon Ockley (1678-1720), orientalist
Francis Hayman (1708-1776), Rococo artist
John Rowe (1715–1787), merchant and owner of ship involved in Boston Tea Party
Eleanor Coade (1733-1821), inventor of Coade stone
Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), banker
David Collins (1756-1810), first Governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
Richard Parker (1767-1797), sailor and mutineer
James Holman (1786-1857), noted blind traveller
Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), political economist and Governor of Hong Kong
Samuel Cousins (1801-1887), engraver
Mary Carpenter (1807-1877), educational and social reformer
William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885), physiologist and naturalist
John Carne Bidwill (1815-1853), botanist, first Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Henry Chadwick (1824-1908), journalist, "the father of baseball"
Fred Karno (1866-1941), comedy pioneer and impresario
Irene Vanbrugh (1872-1949), actress
William Temple (1881-1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
W. G. Hoskins (1908-1992), historian of the English landscape
Cliff Bastin (1912-1991), Arsenal and England footballer
Tommy Cooper (1921-1984), comedian, was born in Caerphilly but lived in Exeter from the age of 3
Tony Burrows (b 1942), pop singer
David M. Patrick (b 1947), International organist.
Clare Morrall (b 1952), novelist
Beth Gibbons (b 1965), singer with Portishead
Michael Caines (b 1969), chef and restaurateur
Chris Martin (b 1977), singer with Coldplay
Rebecca Worthley (b 1981), singer-songwriter
(Most of these people I don't know but all thanks to Wikipedia ... )
Near the County ground, Stockport is Kewl, not bad for shopping too
Where r u then?
The place I was born is famous for gayness, the pier, an opulent Indian style building, and a popular DJ.
The place I grew up is famous for a big shopping centre, baltis, riots, mmm not sure what else but loads of things.
The place I live now smells of beer most of the time because of a brewery and there is a man who lives in a tent on the ring road. It's not really famous for much else!
Used to be an old drinking stop that turned into a town, Helen Mirren, Paul Ince, Noel Edmonds, Nigel Benn, Eva Hart (one of the last survivors of the Titanic), Mammoth skull unearthed thats in the Natural History Museum.
Also famous for being a shithole
My hometown id really Southampton, but it aint famous for much.
The Titanic's about it.
Famous people - Scott Mills and Craig David.
ah the joys of Centre parcs, carlisle isnt the big smoke but the brickyards always fun, OPM are playing soon, that made me laugh!!!
A shite football team (glad to admit that) :thumb:
Riots on the 7th July 2001 :mad:
About 10 thousand mosques
The only working class no muslim area in the country.
David Hockney
And probably the worst of the lot, Gareth Gates.
Oh, and according to government statistics in 2004 it was deemed the most white populated area in the country
Crap ain't it?
beegees were born here..
home of the TT races - one of biggest yearly bike races in the world
umm.. tons of films are filmed here - including - miss potter, the libertine, revolver.. waking ned etc etc
manx knobs :thumb:
among other things!
WHEN DA CROWD SAY BO'......
......SELECTA
In Offerton... other side of Stockport! I think the best feature is the train station taking me straight into Manchester, haha. Nah, Stockport is alright!
Offerton ay? Lived there briefly too
:thumb:
You never know...!! Haha! :chin:
You've got Brum in your profile, but isn't that Wolverhampton? Banks's Brewery and the legendary ring road tramp who sweeps the leaves outside his tent. Driven past him many a time.