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What’s significant about your home town/region?

My adopted hometown contains the UK’s oldest roller coaster and was apparently the birthplace of deckchairs on the beach!

The coaster is ornamental at the moment and there are no deck chairs!
 
My town of Kirkcaldy hasn't much going for it in it's current state, though I'll have a few things to list off other than the Home town of former PM Gordon Brown who just so happened to go to the same High School as I did. Anyway, Kirkcaldy is home to Ice Hockey club Fife Flyers which formed in 1938, is along with Nottingham Panthers, the oldest professional Ice Hockey Club in the UK. Actually, any ice hockey fans on here by chance?

For many of you, it is best known for hosting the Links Market, oldest running street fair in Europe since 1304. Often many a decent flat ride I've seen there, though it's kind of lonely in my neck of the woods regarding talking about theme parks and such *sigh*.
 
The succesful social media drive for Killing In The Name Of to be christmas number 1 and stop the XFactor run originated on my towns Facebook group by a resident, who became a minor celebrity for 5 minutes and was even on Big Fat Quiz of the Year. His name is Jon and I saw him at the local tip yesterday.

The queen came here once in the 80's to open an Asda. So little has happened since people still talk about it now.

That's about as significant as it gets round here.

*The Essex Boys murders which have spawned a few films and documentaries happened in the next village, but that's just glory hunting on my part really. It's a different place.
 
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Narborough was the village where the first murders to be solved using DNA technology were committed by Colin Pitchfork.

The events were made into an ITV drama titled Code of a Killer starring John Simm in 2015.
 
My hometown is (albeit disputedly) credited with being the first British lager producer due the spring water in Maesgwyn which was similar to that of the water in Pilsen. It was also sold on titanic on its doomed adventure and all other White Star ships!

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The Football Association of Wales was found here and we have the oldest international football ground still in use. The first international match was played at the Cae Ras in 1877 when Scotland visited Wales. We'll probably be famous for being the first welsh team to win the premiership now we have have Hollywood owners :p (spoiler alert, we won't we'll still be in the Vanarama conference!)

Elihu Yale, an Amrican philanthropist who Yale University named themselves after is buried at St.Giles Cathedral in Wrexham. Yale Univeristy has "Wrexham Tower" which is a building on the campus modelled on St.Giles Church.

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We have given the world Tim Vincent (Sorry), Robbie Savage (double sorry) Mark Hughes, Mark Lewis Jones (Google him, the guys is in everything), Sweet and K-Klass.

But who could forget the 99p riots :D
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25823177
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/22/real-tragedy-99p-store-riot-wrexham
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...-dismissal-say-about-our-economy-9078047.html
 
My home 'town' is not really a town, it's barely a village.

We are at one end of the Second Severn Crossing, and featured briefly in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 as one of the bleakest places visited by the trio in their attempt to track down horcruxes.

It's called Severn Beach, but there's no beach here, just mudflats. This leads to a lot of confused families showing up on warm days with buckets and spades and making a hasty retreat.

The railway station is at the end of the line and the service is so poor no one uses it. Quite often trains don't even bother to come this far because there's no point.

There are no pubs. We used to have a cafe that's now closed until further notice.

People we know have described the place as 'apocalyptic'.
 
NuttySquirrel said:
My home 'town' is not really a town, it's barely a village.

We are at one end of the Second Severn Crossing, and featured briefly in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 as one of the bleakest places visited by the trio in their attempt to track down horcruxes.

It's called Severn Beach, but there's no beach here, just mudflats. This leads to a lot of confused families showing up on warm days with buckets and spades and making a hasty retreat.

The railway station is at the end of the line and the service is so poor no one uses it. Quite often trains don't even bother to come this far because there's no point.

There are no pubs. We used to have a cafe that's now closed until further notice.

People we know have described the place as 'apocalyptic'.
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I'm pretty sure Morrissey wrote a song about your place (by the sounds of it) hahahah:

 
This will be the dullest post on this thread:

Where I grew up Yate South Glos - JK Rowling was born there (kind of, the adjoining town Chipping Sodbury but it's all the same place), home of the biggest tumble drier factory in Europe, the biggest post war 'New Town' that was never incorporated as one. 1 notable murder that made national news in the 90's. Ceremonially Gloucestershire but everyone speaks with Bristolian accents. Nothing else happens there.

Where I live Weston-super-Mare North Somerset - Jill Dando, John Cleese. Second fastest tide in the world. Big pier that burnt down in 2008. A couple of miles outside the town is the village of Sanford, famous for the home of Thatcher's cider (where they also make Ribena that makes the air smell of cannabis in the summer) and where the village in Hot Fuzz got it's name (even though the village in the movie was based in Gloucestershire and was filmed in Wells). First ASBO's in the country served to under 18 year olds where served to 2 Weston lads. Home of Banksys famous Dismaland.

As for the region itself - The Great Western Railway, Severn Tunnel, SS Great Britain, Clifton suspension bridge - almost everything from pubs and colleges to streets and office buildings are named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel who is absolutely worshipped locally. If they're not named after Brunel they're named after Edward Colston, who's statue was fished out of the harbour recently. Bristol was the heart of UK's slave trade. Also known for pirates, fictional pirates still have their accents based on local accents. Home of Banksy, his art works are all over the region. Cider is drunk like water just about everywhere in the region. Somerset levels are hard to describe, kind of gives the region a look that's quite unique. Miles away from decent theme parks and all the region's football teams are utter crap and have been for decades. All regional accents vary wildly and outsiders don't even come close when trying to replicating them (Hot Fuzz is a classic example, all the accents are a messy mix between Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristolian), only Matt Lucas has every done this successfully to my knowledge. Oh and a few years ago Bristol overtook London as the most congested city in the country as it takes a while 1 second longer to travel a mile through the city between 5 and 6pm.
 
My town, Tamworth, is the ancient capital of Mercia. Mercia being the largest ancient region on this rock in Anglo Saxon times.

So historically significant infact, our town (although not layout accurate) appeared in the video game from a year or so ago, Assassins Creed Valhalla, because of this very reason and how Mercia tied into the story of the game.

In later years, the ex Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel lived here, at his home, Drayton Manor. He is also regarded as the founder of the modern police force. The template of which is now used world wide.

The famous pig breed know as Tamworth pigs, (would you believe it) also originated from here.
 
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Ahh the Castle, how could I forget Tamworth Castle! One of the few completely watertight and not in ruin Castles in the UK I would imagine. Not on the scale of say Warwick Castle, but it sits high upon it's motte overlooking the Ladybridge at the point of where the rivers Tame and Anchor meet.

One other thing, we also have the country's first indoor real snow ski slope, aka The Snowdome.
 
NuttySquirrel said:
My home 'town' is not really a town, it's barely a village.

We are at one end of the Second Severn Crossing, and featured briefly in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 as one of the bleakest places visited by the trio in their attempt to track down horcruxes.

It's called Severn Beach, but there's no beach here, just mudflats. This leads to a lot of confused families showing up on warm days with buckets and spades and making a hasty retreat.

The railway station is at the end of the line and the service is so poor no one uses it. Quite often trains don't even bother to come this far because there's no point.

There are no pubs. We used to have a cafe that's now closed until further notice.

People we know have described the place as 'apocalyptic'.
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I actually like Severn Beach. My grandparents used to take me there to walk along the promenade with an Ice Cream when I was a kid (I like Clevedon for the same reason as my other grandparents used to take me there). I like the views of the bridge's and even went there on a school trip in Year 6 to see the building of the second Severn crossing and the redirection construction of the M4. Just find the place quite peaceful with very unique views. It's also odd that Severn Beach is surrounded by the M4, M48, M49 and M5 but doesn't have easy access to any of them!

You don't have any pubs but Severn Beach does have a railway station which I always found quite interesting and gets you into central Bristol really quickly. You also have a favourite place for train station enthusiast up the road - Pilning Station with it's 2 weekly parliamentary services making it one of the least used stations in the country.
 
Matt.GC said:
Just find the place quite peaceful with very unique views.
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Oh it's peaceful alright! Often too peaceful... No you do have a point about the estuary views, we've had some nice walks up the severn way watching the varied birdlife. Windy though!

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You also have a favourite place for train station enthusiast up the road - Pilning Station with it's 2 weekly parliamentary services making it one of the least used stations in the country.
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True, but that's not at all helpful when you need to get into town in a hurry!
 
I'll be honest here; I never knew Severn Beach was actually a town! I always thought it was, quite literally, a beach...

In spite of having lived fairly close to Severn Beach my whole life (technically in the same county, although I'm on the other side of the Severn), I'll also digress that I've never been...
 
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