Your home town's claim to fame

[shane211]

Deadwood is the place where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane died. It also got it's own TV show.

 

[Mr.Petey]

Shrewsbury, England. Birthplace of Charles Darwin. Now how many cookies do I get and what flavours?

Plus I think the late great John Peel was educated here too

 

[Mordekaien]

Bratislava, capital city of Slovak Republic is famous for hmmm.... Napoleon bombarded the city.
And Hostel was filmed here.
Oh, Krav Maga originates from here.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

My hometown of Newtown, PA, was used as a set in the movie "Signs", does that count?

 

[chowderface]

Our claim to fame is that our public school sports teams are all called the "Braves" (complete with Native American mascot, because at least it's not a racist cartoon like the Redskins), so at sporting events, at the end of the national anthem everyone from here shouts "BRAVES!" instead of singing "brave".

Yeah my hometown is kind of fucking lame.

 

[werepanther7]

Portsmouth, south UK.

The UK's naval port, home to the HMS victory Nelson's favourite flagship where he died on deck during the battle of Trafalgar, also home to the HMS warrior.

Charles Dickens birthplace (literally a 2 minute walk from my parent's house).

The D-day Museum.

The UK's only island city, mainly built on portsea island.

 

[theone.boyle]

The almo

 

[regalphantom]

Owen Sound, Ontario, is effectively the home town of Tom Tompson, a famous Canadian painter who suffered a mysterious death, and Billy Bishop, who was (arguably, since there was always embellishment) the top Allied Ace of WW1 (and by worst case estimates, he was still the top Canadian Ace by a fair margin).

 

[The_Splatterer]

Am i the only one who went through this entire thread to see if anyone on here lived where i live? Two chelmsfords and brentwood wasn't bad

OT: It's where the essex people of 'Gavin and Stacey' were from
It holds the largest fireworks display in essex every year for the 5th of Nov
Lee Evans went to school here and lives here.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Collingwood, Ontario, Canada

Biggest elvis festival thing outside which ever state in the US Elvis originated from.
Other stuff too.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Started the English revolution
Most bombed English city in WW2 (Coventry is a debatable equal)
Invented the nautical clock (neighbouring village but usually acredited as the main city)
Invented the Liquid Crystal used in LCD screens
Largest fishing port in the country prior to mid 1970's
Home of William Wilberforce the main political power behind the abolition of slavery in England
Worlds first submarium (underwater aquarium)
A bridge larger than the Golden Gate

 

[95spartans]

I live in Worksop (A town in Nottinghamshire, England) so I guess we have one golfer (lee Westwood) and a football manager (Graham Taylor). Other than that I think we were heroin capital of Europe at one time.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

New Bedford Massachusetts use to be the worlds wealthiest town during the 18th and 19th centuries and apparently was visited by several abolitionists during the time.

 

[sergnb]

Lots of shit happened in Madrid.

 

[Alzam]

I dunno... the royal family popped in for a visit a few times. Also we have an obnoxious ripoff of the Hollywood sign. And a bad reputation with the rest of Blighty.

 

[Raijha]

A bunch of celebrities, although the most well known are Alexander Graham Bell and Wayne Gretzky, but there's a bunch of others too

Brantford? Holy cow I can't believe how awesome that is! =D

Yupyup, born and raised. Nice that at least someone knew it

 

[Sora_Tsubasa]

In my village of kimbolton we have the castle where catherine of aragon lived after being divorced from henry VIII

 

[blokrokker]

The general area I live in has the place where "Yankee Doodle" was written, one of the oldest churches in the nation, and the birthplace of Uncle Sam.

My specific hometown, however, is best known for having the highest concentration of white trash in the county.

Are you from Troy, New York?

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Liverpool UK, home of the longest surviving top flight football team, the largest neo classical building in England, and some band called The Beatles

Of course the city is most famous for being the final resting place of all stolen car radios in the country