Who or What's Your Area Famous For?

[ginger ninger]

I live in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. We have quite a lot of thing/people that are famous from round these part's, Dicky Bird the cricket umpire, Michael Parkinson T.V presenter, Mick McCarthy Ex Ireland manager famed for his fall out's with Roy Keen.
Barnsley Chop, not far of half a lamb on ya plate , and one of my favourites KES, which was filmed down my OH street where he was born (John Edwards St, Honeywell), it's was pulled down not long after Kes was filmed we also had the fantastic Brian Glover Actor. I'm sure there's lots more but at the moment I can't think of them.

So Who or What's your area famous for??

[shirlthegirl43]

Ooh, where to start???

Apparently Suggs went to school locally, Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen is from round here (some say but he doesn't seem to lay claim to that).

They filmed the Shell cottage bits of the last Harry Potter movies here and some other thing with Russel Crowe (both on the same beach).

and last, but deffo not least - Pembrokeshire early potatoes

Nearly forgot - the very best thing about here is that Madmax was born here

[scarey55]

Volvic water and the Michelin man!

We are about an hour away from Clermont Ferrand which is the home of Michelin tyres and we are not too far away from the volcanic mountains that you see on the Volvic ads. I should just mention here that they have been extinct for a long time so they probably won't give you a problem if you want to fly anywhere

[jackie j]

The beatles came to Teignmouth when I was young. There was a film shot in Teingmouth ( a car went into the river ) what was the film called ? and who was the star ??? some comedy bloke that I cant stand ???? I will be thinking of this all night now grrr. Keats ( poet ) lived in Teignmouth. Struggling with Newton Abbot though will have to find my book about what went on here.

[Scunny Zeb]

3 England captains have played for Scunthorpe United

Ray Clemence, Kevin Keegan and Ian Botham

[mogs]

Potholes - In a Beatles song and after this Winter's snow - it is sooo living up to it's name!

[binley100]

Aah Coventry ...what can I say?
Lady Godiva
The Specials
Chavs
We once had a Football Team that won a Cup
We used to be the home of the Motor Industry
Mary Queen of Scots spent a night incarcerated here
We have two cathedrals (thanks to a certain Austrian/German chap)
Home to James Starley inventor of bicycle industry
We were the city of Warwickshire then they moved us to the West Midlands.........

[janeyo]

Oliver Cromwell

[Jeanied]

West Drayton? I think Sewer Rat once had a drink here. I met a Slumdog Millionaire Oscar winner up the road from here. Air Traffic Control used to live here on a RAF base.
Buuuut...
It is 20 minutes to Paddington - 5 minutes to the M4,9 minutes to the M40, 10 minutes to the M25 and about 10 minutes to Heafrow!! Good for a stay-at-home gal eh?

[elsie-scot]

Around the area:

- highest mountain (UK) , deepest loch (UK), longest glen (Scotland), deepest pothole (Scotland), most westerly point mainland Britain

- film site for Harry Potter, Local Hero, Highlander and a few more

-famous people? Charles Kennedy, MP

-end of the West Higland Way

-hosts the mountain bike world cup

and probably a lot more, but I am new to here!

[elsie-scot]

[QUOTE=binley100;658930]Aah Coventry ...what can I say?
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One of the scariest underpass systems to get into centre of town (or it used to have)

[binley100]

One of the scariest underpass systems to get into centre of town (or it used to have)

What the ring road? It's great fun ..........

Forgot to say that some of that telly programme with Hyacinth Bucket was filmed in one of the more salubrious areas of the city

[pjh75]

Where I hail from... Frank Bruno - used to drive into his cul de sac on my driving lessons when I was 17

where OH hails from, where we live now... Jamie Redknapp - they were born in the same hospital (although it wasn't a hospital, it was some sort of birthing centre?!)

[elsie-scot]

What the ring road? It's great fun ..........

Forgot to say that some of that telly programme with Hyacinth Bucket was filmed in one of the more salubrious areas of the city

the bit the people walk through to get into town. I was on a course, and from B&B into town, I was glad there were two of us to walk through the tunnel thingies

[chris]

No idea... there's a statue of Tommy Cooper and some walk named after him here (Caerphilly) so I guess he had something to do with this place.