Your home town's claim to fame

[TheIronRuler]

Town was named after a famous Jewish Ukrainian poet which laid the groundwork for the further development of the Hebrew language. Many idioms and other expressions came from his writings and his work is highly regarded as the finest in its time and even now.
So... not so famous.

 

[hudsonzero]

Cramlington, so many roundabouts, also home town of ross noble.

 

[Tartarga]

My hometown was Frankfort, Ohio. Uh... I know they filmed a movie there once but aside from that there isn't anything special about it. Not a thing, it was a very boring place to grow up.

 

[robot slipper]

London, England so.... lots of stuff. I guess more specifically I was born in Hammersmith, home of the Hammersmith & City line, of Tube fame!

 

[hashtag]

Toronto. We have the CN tower. That's pretty cool. Like...it's tall and tower shaped.
Wow that sounded a lot worse than it did in my head.

 

[Shockolate]

Ignore this post.

 

[Mobius Evalon]

Birthplace of the Republican Party in the United States.

 

[Penguin_Factory]

During the Easter Rising the rebels called on towns across Ireland to rise up and overthrow the British. My town was the only one that did...... by which I mean 45 guys attacked the local police station.

There's a monument near the edge of the town, and every year someone puts a wreath up. This kind of freaks out the older generation who were alive back when the situation with the IRA was much worse, so people tend not to go near the place. I think the reason the wreath stays up for so long is because everyone is secretly afraid to get rid of it.

 

[DanielBrown]

Stockholm, Sweden.
Uhm... tons of things.... The royal family lives here. Guess that counts.

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Diamond Creek.

I have heard different reasons for why it was called Diamond Creek, with the first one being Diamonds were found in a creek.

And the actual one is... (thank you wiki) ... Huh..... Well, I preferred diamonds but it was actually that a bull drowned in the creek. The bull was called Diamond. Thank you wiki, for destroying my childhood knowledge of the town.

Anyway, because we aren't famous for diamonds, then I guess Cadel Evans.

But he's not made out of diamonds......

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Hemel Hempstead was mentioned in Broken Sword 2 and we have a funny roundabout that goes the other way.

 

[Dango]

Irvington.

Washington Irving lived here, and the town is now named after him.

 

[xplosive59]

Witham is the home of Olly Murs... we're sorry!

 

[Shock and Awe]

Warner Robins, largest Air Force Logistics Base in the country.

 

[Raijha]

Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
First prime minister of Canada's birth place. Canada's first Capital city (I think).
Also Fort Henry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Henry,_Ontario)

Fort Henry is pretty cool, I'll be visiting Kingston again last week of Dec (my mom lives there) so we're hoping to visit a couple other big sites, like that special train thats kept there and stuff

 

[MightyRabbit]

The playwright and essayist William Hazlitt was a native of the town, and the local (tiny) theatre is named after him.

A battle was fought here during the Civil War. Some of the old buildings have bullet marks on them.

Oh, and one of the areas on the town has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe.

 

[rangerman351]

OK, Staten Island New York (if any one mentions Snooki i'll break their face)
Movies filmed partially or wholly on Staten Island include:
Analyze This
The Astronaut's Wife
A Beautiful Mind
Big Daddy
Big Fan
Donnie Brasco
Easy Money
Freedomland
The Godfather
GoodFellas
He Knows You're Alone
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Little Children
Neighbors
"The Other Guys" (2010)
Scent of a Woman
School of Rock
Shamus
Sisters
Sorry, Wrong Number
Splendor in the Grass
Staten Island, a 2009 film by James DeMonaco
The Toxic Avenger
Two Family House
War of the Worlds
Working Girl

And Killmeyer's Old Bavarian Inn was a Nazi hot spot during the 30s and 40s

 

[AlAaraaf74]

The hometown of Hilary Clinton!

Other then that, not much.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

The actor who was the body for R2D2 lives in fucking Preston!

/thread.

Oh and Wade Barrett from WWE was born here, and Sir Tom Finney, Andrew Flintoff, Ian Kirkham from Simply Red, Nick Park (the guy who made Wallace and Gromit) and Colin Potter from Nurse with Wound.


Jelly?

 

[JasonBurnout16]

Southampton: WE LAUNCHED THE TITANIC!!

What happened after that was not our fault...