Your home town's claim to fame
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I was born in a medium-sized town in the middle of Arkansas, United States. Nothing remotely special or amazing has ever come from here.
Bon Scott from ACDC grew up in my town, Kirriemuir, J M Barrie who wrote Peter Pan was born here, David Niven claimed he was born here for some reason even though he was born in london. I think thats it.
Until the southern hemisphere's biggest bar opened, my town's one and only claim to fame was being next to the suburb where tennis player Pat Rafter and pop duo The Veronicas came from. Otherwise, the suburb is notorious for being utterly feral.
I'm from the Midlands but studying down here at uni. Have to say I like this place better than Telford.bahumat42 said:
I am from a... "farm area" (not really a farm area, but we have trees and no real shopping area) in Gothenburg area of Sweden. People 30 kilometers away does not know we exist.
Famous? I hope you're joking. If we were ever famous, no one remembers the reason for it.
A perfect place to bid my time, until I take over the world.
Famous? I hope you're joking. If we were ever famous, no one remembers the reason for it.
A perfect place to bid my time, until I take over the world.
Im from Weymouth in the UK and we have a few claims to fame although one of the most interesting is that the black death came to the UK through our port....yeah sorry about that UK
It really depends on which home town I choose. Scarisbrick where I spent my childhood years was known and feared in the medieval period for basically being a swamp and was avoided at all costs. My family has some claim to fame in the local area, where related to the Scarisbrick family and my great grandfather took the top of the spire off Scarisbrick hall because it was too tall.
Skelmersdale, where I spent my teenage years one claim too fame was that it had/has the largest roundabout in Europe if not the world.
Gloucester where I lived for a while was a Roman colony called Glevum, its also a city though its absolutely tiny with a population of around 150k. The pub next to my old flat, was called the Pig Inn the city, its actually named due to a famous event at the siege of Gloucester during the English Civil war, the Cavaliers bombarded the city for several days only killing a pig, these remains where held aloft over the cities walls as a taunt and act of defiance.
Skelmersdale, where I spent my teenage years one claim too fame was that it had/has the largest roundabout in Europe if not the world.
Gloucester where I lived for a while was a Roman colony called Glevum, its also a city though its absolutely tiny with a population of around 150k. The pub next to my old flat, was called the Pig Inn the city, its actually named due to a famous event at the siege of Gloucester during the English Civil war, the Cavaliers bombarded the city for several days only killing a pig, these remains where held aloft over the cities walls as a taunt and act of defiance.
No kidding! I'm from Portland (which to non-natives is a penisula off the coast of there). Small world...kinggingerman said:
Well Portland is known for being the source of Portland Stone (building material for many of the world's most famous buildings: St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, UN Headquarters in NY).
It's also where the sailing events for the 2012 Olympics will be held.
It's also the setting for some of Thomas Hardy's novels and other fiction.
Oh and it's part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site...
