used to come to Nairn for his holidays, as did that bastard the duke of cumberland who stayed here before culloden.

apparently it has the most hours of sunshine in scotland but growing up there i would probably disagree with that.

except john motson. and i'm not even sure if thats true

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played his first gig here, at the assembly hall

grew up in the next village from me.

There's nothing famous at all about the village I live in.

It has one nightclub - The Pink Toothbrush. Apparently it was the 'first ever alternative club in England'

Radiohead have played there

Madonna owns the local football club

Westlife were arrested for defacing a billboard

It is illegal to wish for a muffin

Ladders work backwards, due to being in the northern hemisphere

The only place in Britain where the soil has a pH value of 85

A goat was once voted mayor

The biggest consumer of Tic Tacs per head in West Berkshire

in the country, but i'm not sure

knife culture, a while ago
Idiot culture, just now
Glasgow'Smiles Better
Rab c nesbit
Billyy connely
Some bands, a while ago.

http://www.maldonsalt.co.uk/

The whole town is forced to work in the salt mines, and beaten to death if they try and escape.

Also, the first Tesco supermarket was built there.

FACT-O-MATIC

Was revealed recently to have been Hitler's intended choice for the German headquarters in the UK due to rural, central location.

Has the steepest and shortest railway in the UK (one of only 4 existing funicular railways).

One of Stretch and Vern comes from there as does the bassist out of the Kooks.

Sir Thomas Chippendale (the wizard of oak) born there in 17 blahdy-bloo

Posh northern town.
Famous for Betty's Tea Rooms
Hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982.

Famous footballers from Harrogate: John Scales and Andy O'Brien

(where I'm pretty much from, & y'know, all my family lives there and shizz.)
seaside
james joyce
alcohol
u2?
samuel beckett
georgian doors!
poverty, a while ago
not so much poverty, today
biggest gap between the rich and poor EVA, or something.

Brussels:
(where I've lived for the past... seven? years)
beer
chocolate
manneken pis...
chips
lace
comic books!
tintin!
the smurfs!

Luxembourg:
(where I was born)
...
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....
......
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*massive tumbleweed*

the Pilgrim's Progress was written while Chaucer was in Bedford Prison. there's a Wetherspoons named after it in the town centre. I used to get drunk in there quite a lot.

wheres he from?..someone must live there

The Rolling Stones used to play A LOt in the Red Lion pub back before they became famous.

N.B. Now the Red Lion has a custom of about 20 regulars, sawdust on the floor and they are already stroking the trigger on the shotgun behind the bar if 'outsiders' even look in through the window. We always skip it on our pub crawls.

Lee Evans was an Essex boy

it's awesome. FACT

So named because a cow once got stuck under a bridge there.

is the world's oldest continually published newspaper. It's been running since 1690.

Vikings burnt down the village once. And Windsor Davies was seen drinking a pint.

His visit didn't coincide with the visit of the Vikings.

because Sydney and Melbourne were arguing about who would be capital of australia, they just picked a suitable location about equidistant from both and made a city to base the government at.

i like this.

I don't think anyone or anything of any importance ever lived/took place in Oxford...

Oh, no, my mistake.

FIRST NEW TOWN!

along with Preston NE, are the only team that need never wear their away kit should they wish not to. this is because they are the royal team i think, or in Preston's case they were founders of the league or something. the fact that i got this from a cracker 3 years ago and can't really remember the fact makes me wish i hadn't started tying, however seeing as how i did start, and in fact took it too far means that i will post this stupid rant on this thread, because otherwise i have needlessly wasted my time, something which i never like to do, like that time that i got back froma festival once and decided to take a day off and sat around all day and turned into a massive emo and cried about something which hadn't even happened.

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I was born there!

So was Phill Jupitus.

Um, I don't know a great deal about it. But it has the greatest Mango ice cream in the world.

I find it weird after growing up in Leeds, I still don't really think of it as my hometown..

high street in Tenterden is the widest high street in the United Kingdom. FACT.

my home county(...Dorset)has no music scene and that's FACT; scientific inquirings were made but they came back negative.

No-one famous from here. Richard from Richard and Judy sometimes comes into my pub. He's the brother of my favourite english teacher at my old school.

Portsmouth has one of the highest crime rates in the UK and was labelled the number one city in the UK for sexual assaults and rapes in a May 2006 report by the think tank Reform.

The most successful bands to have emerged from Portsmouth in the past quarter of a century are The Cranes and Ricky, both of whom enjoyed critical acclaim and minor chart success. However there remains a very limited number of venues for less experienced bands to play at.

god, I love being from Pompey.

Awesome!

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