Your home town's claim to fame
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it used to be a important trading city back in the middle ages it,s quit boring now.
almost forgot Dutch comedian Hans Theowe (probably spelled his last name wrong) went to school here.
it used to be a important trading city back in the middle ages it,s quit boring now.
almost forgot Dutch comedian Hans Theowe (probably spelled his last name wrong) went to school here.
I live in Burbank, California. I've seen it referenced a lot in movies and tv shows considering how many studios are in this town.
OMG I totally forgot about that! We had to visit there for a history trip and everything back in the day.bahumat42 said:
I didn't think there would be anyone one the same thread from Reading! Good thing I didn't make stuff up.
I live in New York City.
That's all I need to say before everyone nods their head with understanding, love the city or not.
That's all I need to say before everyone nods their head with understanding, love the city or not.
Well I live in a tiny English village which is remarkable only in its insignificance. My nearest town would be Ashford which is also pretty useless.
It's the first place in the UK to adopt a "shared space" road system which is mostly known as a deathtrap and/or failure. There is also an old railway works which was established in the 1840s and used to build engines just like this:
But sadly the town has forgotten its heritage and they are tearing the old buildings down, which have been left to rot and now look like this:
I really wish they had taken a leaf out of Swindon's book, they didn't forget what the railways did for them. They turned their old works into a shopping centre. Brilliant idea.
Ashford does have an international railway station with high speed connections straight to London and Paris though. Pfft.
Apparently in 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. Yeah... I don't buy it.
It's the first place in the UK to adopt a "shared space" road system which is mostly known as a deathtrap and/or failure. There is also an old railway works which was established in the 1840s and used to build engines just like this:
But sadly the town has forgotten its heritage and they are tearing the old buildings down, which have been left to rot and now look like this:
I really wish they had taken a leaf out of Swindon's book, they didn't forget what the railways did for them. They turned their old works into a shopping centre. Brilliant idea.
Ashford does have an international railway station with high speed connections straight to London and Paris though. Pfft.
Apparently in 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. Yeah... I don't buy it.
Bournemouth, in England.
All our decent claims to fame seem to be writer-based. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, is from and buried here. J.R.R. Tolkein spent a good 30-ish years of his life here, writing bits and pieces of his various novels here, and finally retired here. He's buried elsewhere, though. Robert Louis Stevenson was living in Bournemouth when he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, there's a memorial where his old house used to be. Bournemouth also features pretty heavily in Tess of the d'Ubervilles and some other Thomas Hardy novels, under the name Sandbourne, which all secondary schoolers will be miserably familiar with. I think he lived here for a while, too.
We're also the setting for Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, which is more important than all of the above trivia. :3
EDIT: A quick Wikipedia search tells me Christian Bale is from Bournemouth. Who knew?
All our decent claims to fame seem to be writer-based. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, is from and buried here. J.R.R. Tolkein spent a good 30-ish years of his life here, writing bits and pieces of his various novels here, and finally retired here. He's buried elsewhere, though. Robert Louis Stevenson was living in Bournemouth when he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, there's a memorial where his old house used to be. Bournemouth also features pretty heavily in Tess of the d'Ubervilles and some other Thomas Hardy novels, under the name Sandbourne, which all secondary schoolers will be miserably familiar with. I think he lived here for a while, too.
We're also the setting for Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, which is more important than all of the above trivia. :3
EDIT: A quick Wikipedia search tells me Christian Bale is from Bournemouth. Who knew?
Highland, MI (Oakland County). We have the first high school equestrian team in the entire United States, and is the first state-recognized equestrian community.
Mostly, though, this township is mostly forest, lakes, and farms, in a vary weird mix. We're at the far edge of Oakland County, the rich northern neighbors to Detroit.
Mostly, though, this township is mostly forest, lakes, and farms, in a vary weird mix. We're at the far edge of Oakland County, the rich northern neighbors to Detroit.
Tucson!
Tucson shit happened here. We've had an attempted assassination here, a few shooting sprees, and the most famous western shootout of all time, Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral (which technically wasn't even at the Ok Corral. It was near a barber shop or something).
Yeah. Famous for death and sadness.
Tucson shit happened here. We've had an attempted assassination here, a few shooting sprees, and the most famous western shootout of all time, Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral (which technically wasn't even at the Ok Corral. It was near a barber shop or something).
Yeah. Famous for death and sadness.
