Who or What's Your Area Famous For?

[Liza]

Oxford University
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
Roger Bannister
Colin Dexter/ Inspector Morse
Morris motor company
St Frideswide's
Supergrass
Radiohead
Oxfam
Boat race
George Orwell ( buried in my old village)
The Saint
Brideshead Revisited
Tomorrow never dies

[Patchninja]

Cod. The fishing boats used to go to Newfoundland or the catch!
All sorts of seafood.
More food.

[elsie-scot]

Just remembered Justin (interior designer/tv personality) from Colin & Justin, is from the Fort.

[Flummery]

Fish and Prezzer. I'm rarely depressed but I feel a bit wobbly now!

[shirlthegirl43]

I forgot - the western end of the Great Western railway is here too

[OverWyreGrower]

I'm still thinking.....

[Plot10]

Annie Lennox
Denis Law

The biggest man-made hole in Europe! (It's for sale, if you're interested!)

BBC News - Aberdeen's 'Granite City' quarry goes on sale

I'm sure there's more I can't think of at the moment

[nerobot]

Mmmm, what is Glasgow famous for?

Obesity!

[elsie-scot]

Annie Lennox
Denis Law

The biggest man-made hole in Europe! (It's for sale, if you're interested!)

BBC News - Aberdeen's 'Granite City' quarry goes on sale

I'm sure there's more I can't think of at the moment

The last Scottish team to win a European Trophy
Oil capital
Busiest commerical heliport (world) - ha, but not at the mo!
Winner of Britain in Bloom so many times, keeps getting kicked out of comp
Has the 2nd largest granite building (world)
Beechgrove garden - although now moved slightly into the sticks

[northepaul]

World's first industrial city.
Morrissey (a hundred thousand apologies and if there's anything we can do to make it up to you we'll be more than happy).
Manchester United (and City of course).
Bernard Manning (sorry again).
The Stone Roses.
The Happy Mondays.
Discovery of the electron.
First stored-program computer.
Robert Peel.
Free Trade.
Repeal of the corn laws. (largely came from these parts, though I'm sure not exclusively)
Peterloo Massacre.
Chartism.
Cotton.

So other than the minor blips with some of our less proud moments (Morrissey for one) - quite a lot really.

Not much of that will be news to anyone though.

OH how could you forget Joy Division and New Order!!!

[northepaul]

Oh and Gene Hunt

[northepaul]

My daughter did a project on this, from what I can remember with me sieve like mind:
Famous People from Southampton
Drummer from Coldplay
Craig David (sorry!!)
Howard Jones (even more sorry)
John Everett Millais (painter)


Jane Austin lived around here
and little know fact, Southampton Ice rink is mentioned in A Town Like Alice....

Oh and John Denham MP

nuff said I think!

[organic]

northepaul
So much to remember.

[scarey55]

I was bought up near and worked in Reading and frequently used to drive through Cemetry Junction made famous by Ricky Gervaise. Oh, and I've just remembered Oscar Wilde wrote the ballad of Reading jail.

[zebedee]

Isle of Wight! Music festivals - Garlic - Sweetcorn - Me!!!