Can you please tell me 1 interesting fact about where you live?

Question

where I live King Charles the 1st stayed in a local mansion during the Civil War inthe 1600's.

Answer 1

I live on the river. It's one of the entrances where the romans successfully invaded britain. Also it's where the prison ships were moored centuries ago.

Answer 2

The Green Lion public house
1968 to 1986 and during the many alterations
they had there it was discovered that the building was
at least six hundred years old, This was confirmed by
an environmental officer who we called down and by
looking at the roof timbers he confirmed it was
fourteenth century; that was in 1969.
In the cellar there is an archway bricked up and
when the home in between the pub and the church
was built the workmen uncovered a passageway that
ran from the cellar to the church. When the tiles on
the roof were removed in the l970s workmen
discovered a ‘priest hole’ with several clay pipes and
an old rickety bench in it. people hid there to escape the authorities, as the Green Lion was
an old coaching house and this makes sense.
Annie Kitney, who used the pub from the age of
eight years until she died well into her 90s, told
that the highwayman Dick Shepherd was captured in
the bar of the Green Lion he was hung in the Town.


I often drink in this pub.... never lost my head...become legless though on many occasions.... he he J x

Answer 3

Queen Victoria stayed in a Mansion for some time near me in a very big park (Biggest walled Park in Europe) called the Phoenix park in Dublin. All the staff were local and to give the town work she paid for them to build the catholic church in the little village beside the park. It gave everyone a job and boosted the towns peoples lives no end.

Answer 4

I couldn't find a interesting fact so this will do:


At the centre of Mid Devon lies the market town of Tiverton, which boasts a castle, historic almshouses and an award-winning museum. An ideal way to relax whilst spending time in Tiverton is to take a trip in a horse-drawn barge along the Great Western canal.

Answer 5

The house that I live in was converted into the local school during WW2. The house at the end of the road used to be the local pub.

Answer 6

Michael Parkinson, Dickie Bird and the late Charlie Williams and Stan Richards all came from here as did the Olympic athlete Dorothy Hyman.

Answer 7

I come from portugues coloney called goa in india,but i live in liverpool -i got the army barrik's close to me,they had the famous tele serial made close to me about 6 streets away from me called-brook side.
Not far from my safe home is berute head quarters in liverpool near the princess pub which i watch get burnt out then knocked down and we got a new tescos that stands there now.
hey you know what liverpool is liverpool and there are a lot of very nice people here ok,so if you think liverpool is not a good place then please don't think so because not all scoucer's are bad.
i love my second home called liverpool.not too far up the road i watch the liverpool team training for the football match in mell wood.

Answer 8

Cwmtwrch-The name Cwmtwrch (Valley of the Wild Boar) derives from the “twrch trwyth” (mythical wild boar) of King Arthur’s legends and the ancient tales of the Mabinogion in early Welsh literature. The legend relates to one of Arthur’s tasks: to rid the western Brecon beacons of the pack of wild boars that were terrorizing the people. Arthur chased the boars from Dyfed eastward towards Powys. On the Black Mountain, he picked up a large stone (carreg fryn fras) and cast it towards the wild animals, striking dead the leader of the pack on the edge of a the valley near Craig-Y-Fran Gorge. The big boar's body rolled down the valley and into the river which is now the River Twrch.

Answer 9

I live within sight of HMS Victory - Lord Nelsons flagship used in the battle of trafalgar (with a plaque showing the exact spot where he was killed) Next door is the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII's Flagship and next to that there is HMS Warrior, the first Iron hulled warship.

Answer 10

We have the first ever mini roundabout at longlands in middlesbrough , Roy chubby Brown was born here / lives here ,we are known as " smoggie`s " even though we now breath more cleaner air than London / Newcastle . Englebert humperdinck ( Arnold Dorsey ) used to date my mam back in the 60`s ! the list is endless... email for more info famous people etc .

Answer 11

Bristol is where the expression 'cash on the nail' came from. There is a covered market there and there are 3 Brass 'Nails' outside. They are like single leg tables where prices for goods were established. The deal was struck by banging the money on the nail - hence cash on the nail!
There are lots of interesting facts actually - but thats one to be going on with!