Is the town/City where you live famous for anything?

Question

Is the town/City where you live famous for anything?

Answer 1

The longest pleasure pier in the world!

Answer 2

I live in Borehamwood. Eastenders is made here and the BB studios are just down the road too. Millionaire is recorded here. We have lots of studios!

Answer 3

I'm from Tullamore in Ireland which is famous for the whiskey called 'Tullamore Dew',  It's popular in the Europe , anyone heard of it?

Answer 4

Einstein was a refugee here in Bern, Switzerland. and worked at the Patent office. But that's all relative.

Now the town where I was born, Kendal, in England is famous for having been the residence of Katherine Parr. Women from them there parts are made of stronger stuff - she survived her marriage to Henry VIII.

Answer 5

My town is famous for being the oldest recorded town in England.

It was also a roman town as well which means there are roman ruins everywhere.

It is also a Garrison town with 2 and 3 Para living here i believe.

It is also famous for Blur.

.. i think that could be it!

Answer 6

apparently the village i live in has the most picturesque cricket pitch in Britain or something....the BBC were here filming something about it a while ago. why a picturesque cricket pitch is important completely escapes me...seems pretty random to me!!

Answer 7

Dylan Thomas

Edit:  Catherine Zeta Jones, Bonnie Tyler,  Rob Brydon,

Down the Road: Anthony Hopkins,  Michael Sheen

Can't think of anyone else!!! lol x

Answer 8

the bank in my townhad the first ATM machine

Answer 9

well i live in london , so i'll let you figure that one out

Answer 10

The beatles baby xx

Answer 11

Christmas trees, coal-fired power plants, and Jimmy Stewart

Answer 12

My town hung seven horsetheifs in the 1870's

Answer 13

I live in New York City

Answer 14

Yes continuous road works which are all too often left unattended.

Answer 15

Cape town,South Africa

it is famous because of:

Robyn island-Where during Apartheid many black south Africans where jailed there one of the more famous people are Nelson Mandela.

Seal island-Is the only place in the world where sharks jump up out of the water to catch seals.

Table mountain-Will the name says it all it is flat and looks like table and when clouds go ova it,it looks like a table cloth

Answer 16

Yes its famous for being Boring

Answer 17

Ya I am living in Tiruvarur........... My town is famous for Temples............ There is one Big temple Named "Thiyagaraja Temple" For more details log on to "www.srithiyagarajatemple.org'

Answer 18

My nearest city is Gloucester

Famous for:

being founded by an ancestor of King Arthur

Fortified by the Roman Emporer Nerva

The Cathedral, burial place of Robert Earl of Normandy (Eldest son of William Conquerer) & King Edward 2nd, murdered at Berkeley Castle 1327.

King Richard the 3rd was Duke of Gloucester

Two famous Cheeses, double and single Gloucester.

Gloucester is the UK's most inland sea port. Proclaimed by Queen  Elizabeth the 1st.

Answer 19

Being the host villiage of two Winter Olympics, including one that featured the Sports Moment of the Century according to a poll by ESPN....."do you believe in miracles?"

Answer 20

The SS Great Britain, The Matthew and the great 2 weekly bin collections.

Answer 21

Stonehaven: 6th best place to be in the world?! for the millennium... MY AR5E

Though we have got some "royal" history...

... and of course the town of RW Thompson - inventor of the pneumatic tire (and yes he did get to the patent office before Dunlop).  Also invented the "plunger" mechanism for setting off dynamite at a distance - significantly reducing the number of Americans blowing themselves up (cant cite a reference for that last part lmao)

Answer 22

Justin Lee Collins?

Answer 23

Street crime, murder, politics

Oh and the song... give me hope Joanna

Answer 24

Yea, too much to list! Some people who have done or invented famous things are:

Robert Louis Stevenson

John Logie Baird

Henry Bell

Billy Connolly

Joseph Lister

Charles Rennie MacIntosh

James Watt

Thats just to name a few off the top of my head!

Answer 25

William Wallace lived in my town with his wife. There is a statue of him stuck to the front of our main church :)

Answer 26

yes the Arbroath Smokies, heard of them?

oh and lorraine kelly, lol =]

Answer 27

I'm from Wolverhampton - Bank's Brewery (bitter)

I live in Selby - Has the original design of the American flag in  a stained glass window in the Abbey.

Answer 28

I live in Oldham which is famous for;

- birthplace of Phillip Schofield off the telly

- birthplace of Bernard Cribbins off the telly

- birthplace of the world's first test-tube baby

- home of the tubular bandage (it actually says this in a big advert on a railway bridge on the way into the town centre!!!)

- site of the first Yates' Wine Lodge (yes it's our fault)

- home of the famous Theatre Workshop, responsible for dozens of actors in Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, etc.

- first constituency of Winston Churchill

Answer 29

More like notorious than famous.

"Come friendly bombs........"