I never knew that Penny Lane was named after a guy called James Penny.
Lived in a sweet shop there in the late 60's.
Fond memories of sherbert liquorice,jelly tots,ruffle bars etc etc/
dee
Sheffield has more trees per person than any other city in Europe.
Birmingham has more canals than Venice
Pontypool (where Mrs 04 was born)
From the wiki
The exact meaning of the name is unknown. Tradition however says that the name of the town is a corruption of Pont-ap-Hywel ("Howel's son's bridge"). The legend tells that David ap Howel was a stout, strong, broad shouldered parson, both "fond of a bottle and fond of a song" but well able to take care of himself. After supper one night David went down to the river and met the Devil himself; an argument followed as to who should build a bridge across the water, and it was agreed that they should join hands for a tug-of -war, and whichever should be pulled across the stream, should build the bridge. After many a pull and heave the Devil at last gave up, and the next morning the villages beheld a newly built bridge of good mortar and stone.
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Famous Residents
Members of the influential punk band, Manic Street Preachers, James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore were born in Pontypool.
Caerphilly
Caerphilly is featured in the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury. Protests and a prayer meeting were held outside the Castle Cinema on the evening of December 14, 1976, when the Pistols were playing a concert there. At this point in time, Caerphilly was one of the few city councils that would allow the group to perform (Leeds and Manchester being the others).
Caerphilly is the birthplace of Tommy Cooper,and it was home to Derby County and Wales star Robert Earnshaw, following his family's move from Zambia. Dennis Spargo, creator of the film Machen: Then & Now, lived in Caerphilly for several years until 2006.
One of its most famous residents was the writer, poet, designer and socialist William Morris, who was born there on 24 March 1834, and lived there for several years. His former house in Walthamstow is now a museum dedicated to him, while the grounds of the house are now a public park (Lloyd Park in Forest Road).
Local engineer, Frederick Bremer, built the first motor car in London between 1892 and 1894. This car is one of the claimants to being the first British built petrol driven car and in 1912 the "Motor" Magazine, after much debate, recognised the Bremer Car as the first British built petrol driven car.
The LGOC X-type and B-type were built at Blackhorse Lane from October 1908 onwards. The B-type is considered one of the first mass-production buses. The manufacturing operation later became AEC, famous as the manufacturer of many of London's buses.
Walthamstow saw lively involvement in the General Strike of 1926, with Winston Churchill's coach reportedly being overturned on Walthamstow High Street. Churchill was also given a hostile reception when he visited Walthamstow Stadium during the general election campaign of 1945.
I did'nt know any of that about my place of birth :shock:
nothin to exciting about the place i grew up -
taken fromn wikipedia
Weardale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, in England. Its principal villages include St John's Chapel, Stanhope, and Wolsingham. The River Wear flows through Weardale before reaching Bishop Auckland and then Durham, meeting the sea at Sunderland. Running roughly parallel to Weardale to the south is Teesdale. The Wear Valley local government district covers much of the valley. From 1894 to 1974 there was a Weardale Rural District
only thing there was mining now there is nothing much at all unless ya like hills
Wikipedia tells me that...
...Wirral was once an independent Viking mini-state with its parliament at Thingwall. Ancient Irish annals record the population of Wirral by Norsemen led by Ingimund expelled from Ireland and getting agreement from Aethelflaed or "Ethelfleda", Queen of the Mercian English to settle there peacefully. This can still be seen from place name evidence - such as the common '-by' (meaning 'town' in Danish) suffixes and names such as Tranmere, which comes from trani melr ("cranebird sandbank"). Similarly, archaeological finds (such as two hogback tombstones) corroborate this.
Bromborough on the Wirral is also the probable site of an epic battle in 937, the Battle Of Brunanburh, which confirmed England as an Anglo-Saxon kingdom. This is the first battle where England came together as one country and thus historians consider it the birthplace of England. It is thought that the battlesite was so large that it covered a large area of Wirral. Egil's Saga, a story which tells of the battle, may have referred to Wirral as Wen Heath, Vínheíþr in Icelandic.
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Coventry was the first place a Boneshaker cycle was ever seen in England, brought here by James Starley in 1866. Soon after, he created the Penny Farthing.
Southampton:
The home of the Spitfire Aircraft. It was devised, built and tested here saved the country during the Battle of Britain.
Benny Hill was born in Southampton.
Irvine, Scotland (mrs lyns birthplace)
It was the haunt of Robert Burns and two streets are named after him.
Mary Queen of Scots was rumored to have stayed in Seagate Castle although this isn`t confirmed.
Steve Nicol former Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday football player was born there.
But thats about it im afraid.
Bristol (mr lyns birthplace)
A distinctive dialect of English is spoken by some Bristol inhabitants, known colloquially as Bristolian. Bristol is the only large English city with a rhotic accent, in which the r in words like car is pronounced. The unusual feature of this dialect, unique to Bristol, is the Bristol L (or terminal L), in which an L sound is appended to words that end in an 'a' or 'o'. Thus "area" becomes "areal", etc. This is how the city's name evolved from Brycgstow to have a final 'L' sound: Bristol. Further Bristolian linguistic features are the addition of a superfluous "to" in questions relating to direction or orientation, or using "to" instead of "at"; and using male pronouns "he", "him" instead of "it". For example, "Where's that?" would be phrased as "Where's he to?", a feature exported to Newfoundland English.
Stanley Ellis, a long-term dialect researcher, found that many of the dialect words in the Filton area were linked to work in the aerospace industry. He described this as "a cranky, crazy, crab-apple tree of language and with the sharpest, juiciest flavour that I've heard for a long time".
To all you pirate lovers Blackbeard was from Bristol, as was Cary Grant.
Darlington is known for its associations with the birth of railways. This is celebrated in the town at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum. The world's first passenger rail journey was between Shildon (via Darlington) and nearby Stockton-on-Tees on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.
lived in darlington most of my life, but would prefer to live in the caribean lol
i do still live in darlo splendid , and i really do like it, i think its better the devil you know than you dont sometimes lol
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