Mine is famous for:
Marmite ( That factory stinks! )
Branston pickle
Beer ( The main ones are Carling and Marstons Pedigree )
And we have a Conference football team, Burton Albion. ( The guys that got a 0 - 0 draw with Manchester United a couple of years back. )
And film actor Paddy Considine is also from my home town.
2007-04-29 19:38:17 · 60 answers · asked by Zombie Jesus 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Hi Richard. I've been past that church a few times myself. I always wondered why it was like that?
2007-04-29 19:44:11 · update #1
Ha Ha! Jeremy Clarkson hates my town too, he was born in a village about five miles away, and he says he can't stand the place!
2007-04-29 19:50:50 · update #2
Liverpool - The Beatles / 2 Cathederals / Football (Everton & Liverpool F.C.) / Few writers (Cliver Barker - Hellraiser / Gough a poet) Conductor Sir Simon Rattle of the Berlin orchestra is from Liverpool / Few actors / The Grand National / Golf (Royal Birkdale) at Southport & me!
2007-04-29 20:06:10 · answer #1 · answered by Evo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm in Swansea.Famous for Dylan Thomas,Harry Seacombe, Catherine Zeta Jones, Bonnie Tyler The Gower, The Mumbles....Swansea Jack (the dog that saved many lives, only to die from eating food that had been laced with rat poison, very sad) The Waterfront Museum,and there must be other things...but I've just woken up.....great question by the way, very interesting.
2007-04-29 19:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by CMH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Festival
Military Tattoo
Castle
Tourism
Royal Yacht Britannia
Brewing (Home of S&N)
Banking (Home of RBS)
Financial sector
Hibs and Hearts
Home of Scottish Rugby (at Murrayfield)
Sean Connory
Iain Rankine
JK Rawling
RL Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Arthur Connan Doyle
Have you guessed yet?
2007-04-29 20:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Manchester UK:
Footie...Manchester United & Man City
Universities & students
Music - Madchester in the 90's!!! Bands like Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Oasis, M people, Simply Red, Badly Drawn Boy
Boddingtons Brewery...though it's shut down now
Clubbing (Esp old clubs like the Hacienda)
Shopping - Manchester City Centre and the Trafford Centre
Eccles cakes (eeeugh they remind me of a cake full of dead flies!!!!)
We hosted the last Commonwealth Games
Mr Rolls & Mr. Royce had their first meeting here at the Midland Hotel
Shameless (TV programme)
Moss side and it's gangs and gun crime :(
The first computer was built here......it filled a room!!!
Chinatown - we have the biggest chinese population outside London....Chinese new year is great!
Moss Side carnival....good music....good food!
'Curry Mile' in Rusholme......Literally a mile of Indian eateries.....Yum!
The IRA 'bomb' which devastated manchester city centre...It's looking fab now tho!!!
The Arndale shopping centre - the ugliest shopping centre ever!!!!
A pub in the city centre (Forgot the name) which is now next to 'the triangle' that is an old higgledy piggledy black and white building....it has been moved twice brick by brick!!!!
and of course....the most famous of all......how could I forget.....THE RAIN!!!!!!! I love it!!!!
2007-04-29 20:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by Tluni 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rossevelts Mansion
Vassar College
George Washingtons Cottage
West Point
Hudson River
None of these are in my actual hometown, They made that big bronze horse here a few years ago, michaelangelos completed work or something. Also, the movie nobody's fool with paul newman and super troopers.
Fishkill.
2007-04-29 19:49:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norwich City - Delia Smith owns our football club, Bernard Matthews has a home here, Colmans Mustard (best in the world), Jeremy Clarkson hates it.
2007-04-29 19:46:55 · answer #6 · answered by chillipope 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bronte Sisters and the Worth Valley Railway
2007-04-29 20:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by dedaliuswizz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World's tallest free standing structure..CN Tower
3rd largest film production city in North America
Most ethnically diverse city in the world...( as per United Nations Study)
World's first retractable domed stadium
Live Theater
Many celebrities..Nelly Furtado (Personal Friend)
also Mike Myers,Jim Carrey,Howie Mandel,Avril Lavigne(I've chatted with her on several occasions and partied at her former residence)
MUCH MUCH MORE!
2007-04-29 20:06:40 · answer #8 · answered by HarveyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Palin, Joe Cocker, Artic Monkeys, Sean Bean, lots and lots of others actors/musicians etc. Hendersons Relish, The Full Monty, cutlery and steel. Being very green, (lots of trees and parks) the hills........lots of stuff. You worked it out yet? We have a couple of footie teams, rugby league team, basketball, greyhound track, athlectics stadium and the national institute for sport as well.
2007-04-29 19:47:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
South Beach
2016-04-01 01:46:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋