Your home town
May 15th 2011, 5:34 pm
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Re: Your home town
Some1 minced a body in the local butchers back in the 70's!!! Does that count?????
May 15th 2011, 5:57 pm
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Spot on Accrington, the pals, a football team everyone takes the piss out of and the best bricks in the world are what we have to shout about.
To be fair they must be the biggest over achieving football team this season given the gates they get.
Over 500 men died in the first day of the Somme from just over 900 men in the Pals. Makes you wonder if we would have been as brave to do what they did, even if they we very naive as well
To be fair they must be the biggest over achieving football team this season given the gates they get.
Over 500 men died in the first day of the Somme from just over 900 men in the Pals. Makes you wonder if we would have been as brave to do what they did, even if they we very naive as well
May 15th 2011, 8:32 pm
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My home town has the largest timber framed town house in England.
[rushes off to extract splinters from scraping the barrel]
[rushes off to extract splinters from scraping the barrel]
May 15th 2011, 9:17 pm
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curry
May 16th 2011, 3:28 am
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Eric Bartholomew
May 16th 2011, 3:35 am
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Nice and simple one
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I actually boarding school as first home (sad really !!)
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I actually boarding school as first home (sad really !!)
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May 16th 2011, 4:03 am
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Re: Your home town
Since this is a British board, I'll ignore the fact I was born in Sydney and concentrate on where I lived in the UK for the best part of 15 years.
It's the only new town that wasn't really new, as there was already a fairly sizable town in existence when it was built (from which it gets its name).
It has a steel arch bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbour and Tyne Bridges, and will soon be home to one of the largest bridges in Europe when they build the second crossing of the river the town sits next to.
It's the home town on Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud (who I also had the misfortune of going to school with), and was where Edward John Smith, captain of the titanic owned property and planned to retire. One of the many villages that bound the modern town was also the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland.
It's also the setting for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (which when I lived with my ex, we lived just minutes walk from most of the outdoor locations). It was also the setting of 2000's police drama Merseybeat, and BBC Three 'comedy' Drop Dead Gorgeous.
It's the only new town that wasn't really new, as there was already a fairly sizable town in existence when it was built (from which it gets its name).
It has a steel arch bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbour and Tyne Bridges, and will soon be home to one of the largest bridges in Europe when they build the second crossing of the river the town sits next to.
It's the home town on Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud (who I also had the misfortune of going to school with), and was where Edward John Smith, captain of the titanic owned property and planned to retire. One of the many villages that bound the modern town was also the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland.
It's also the setting for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (which when I lived with my ex, we lived just minutes walk from most of the outdoor locations). It was also the setting of 2000's police drama Merseybeat, and BBC Three 'comedy' Drop Dead Gorgeous.
May 16th 2011, 5:36 am
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Re: Your home town
Since this is a British board, I'll ignore the fact I was born in Sydney and concentrate on where I lived in the UK for the best part of 15 years.
It's the only new town that wasn't really new, as there was already a fairly sizable town in existence when it was built (from which it gets its name).
It has a steel arch bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbour and Tyne Bridges, and will soon be home to one of the largest bridges in Europe when they build the second crossing of the river the town sits next to.
It's the home town on Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud (who I also had the misfortune of going to school with), and was where Edward John Smith, captain of the titanic owned property and planned to retire. One of the many villages that bound the modern town was also the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland.
It's also the setting for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (which when I lived with my ex, we lived just minutes walk from most of the outdoor locations). It was also the setting of 2000's police drama Merseybeat, and BBC Three 'comedy' Drop Dead Gorgeous.
It's the only new town that wasn't really new, as there was already a fairly sizable town in existence when it was built (from which it gets its name).
It has a steel arch bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbour and Tyne Bridges, and will soon be home to one of the largest bridges in Europe when they build the second crossing of the river the town sits next to.
It's the home town on Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud (who I also had the misfortune of going to school with), and was where Edward John Smith, captain of the titanic owned property and planned to retire. One of the many villages that bound the modern town was also the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland.
It's also the setting for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (which when I lived with my ex, we lived just minutes walk from most of the outdoor locations). It was also the setting of 2000's police drama Merseybeat, and BBC Three 'comedy' Drop Dead Gorgeous.
May 16th 2011, 8:35 am
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Eric Morecambe, Thora Hird and Gail from Coronation Street for "famous" people, and unfortunately Chinese cockle pickers for newsworthy fame.
