Put your Home town/city on the map

[diamondtiling]

Whats special about your town/city past and present?

In Crewe we have Bentley motors, we used to have Rolls Royce until BMW bought them:incazzato:.

Crewe works at one time employed 14000 people making trains, they still manufacture and service but its down to 2000.

Chester barrie/Austin reed made high class suits (£500 upwards) thats now Cheshire clothing where you can buy a tailor made suit.

Head office for Focus DIY.........

We have Nantwich which goes back to the Doomsday book, Cromwell came by once, would have liked to have met that eejit down an alleyway.

And we have a very famous company..........The Diamond Tiling Co.

Famous People? Kathy Jones from "a handful of songs" :yikes: Pete Watermans Mum and some bird from big bro.

Lets have yours then.

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[DHTiling]

We had one similar to this ages ago.. would be good to get some new ones from newer members since the last one..

http://www.tilersforums.com/tilers-forums-arms/19835-what-your-town-famous.html

 

[mikethetile]

leighton buzzard had kajagoogoo

now its got me and scottley

and scottleys gone posh and moved over the river so its only me now

 

[diamondtiling]

Andy Allen just reminded me, we have Yvette Fielding from 'most haunted' in Sandbach, her driveway looks like something from Hammer house of horrors, lots of statues of vampires and angels.

 

[united]

Sunderland has the most productive car plant in Europe - Nissan

It has the busiest City centre shopping centre in the UK

St Peters Church, an Anglo-Saxon church in Monkwearmouth is one of the UK’s first stone built churches. Built in 674AD, the tower and west wall have original Saxon feature with in-situ carved decorations and is to be the UK’s nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2011.

We have an award winning coastline, with some of the cleanest beaches in the UK

We were once a proud mining and shipbuilding town (some of the best shipbuilders in the world) but sadly this all ended.

Can't really think of any more yet

 

[merlecollins]

Sunderland has the most productive car plant in Europe - Nissan

It has the busiest City centre shopping centre in the UK

St Peters Church, an Anglo-Saxon church in Monkwearmouth is one of the UK’s first stone built churches. Built in 674AD, the tower and west wall have original Saxon feature with in-situ carved decorations and is to be the UK’s nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2011.

We have an award winning coastline, with some of the cleanest beaches in the UK

We were once a proud mining and shipbuilding town (some of the best shipbuilders in the world) but sadly this all ended.

Can't really think of any more yet

:lol::lol:Notice you haven't dared mention your football team Mark:lol::lol:

 

[paulyoung666]

Stockton on Tees , the birthplace of the railway and the friction match !!!

 

[david campbell]

east kilbride has a by-pass...............:lol::lol:

seriously though home to lorraine kellydee hepburn(actress from gregories girl,i tiled her bathroom and fell out with her and husbandrrrlong story,pair of scam artists),andy cameron(comedian),ally mccoist most of you's will remember from question of sport and not his footballing abilities(family friend),john hannah((actor in mummy films etc) went to school and hung around with the old man) you can't beat a bit of name dropping :smilewinkgrin:

also home to britains first round about,is the biggest new town in scotland and has the largest undercover shopping centre

we also have rolls royce engine centre(mainly planes)

 

[united]

I forgot to add famous people from Sunderland...

Jack Crawford (1775 - 1831) Naval hero
Bobby Thompson Comedian - the 'Little Waster'
The Futureheads - Band
Kate Adie Formerly Chief News Reporter for the BBC
George Clarke - Channel 4 Restoration Man
James Herriot
Tony Jeffries - Boxer
Lauren Laverne, ex-Lead Singer of Kenickie, now a Radio and TV presenter
Gina McKee - actress 'Notting Hill', 'The Forsyte Saga'
Bob Paisley - Football legend
Denise Robertson - Novelist and TV agony aunt

 

[Dan]

We had one similar to this ages ago.. would be good to get some new ones from newer members since the last one..

http://www.tilersforums.com/tilers-forums-arms/19835-what-your-town-famous.html

I was gonna say that. And there's a similar one here too: http://www.tilersforums.com/general-chat/6620-tell-us-something-interesting-about-where.html lol

Stoke is already on the map.

We do pottery! (Or did, got Portmerion and a couple of very small independents left now, that's about it). And many of the tile firms you all know of have their head office based here. (Or did. lol) We have Johnsons and BAL now and that's pretty much it.

We have quite a few celebs and famous people from here but not one lives here as soon as they earn enough to get away. Which is a shame as there are a couple of nice spots here. Staffordshire is the greenest of all Shire's, in the sense that it has the most fields, not the least Co2 though.

And I've found no fact anywhere on this but in my opinion we have the most pot holes and road works in the whole of the world. That's not a good point, but a fair point.

 

[united]

:lol::lol:Notice you haven't dared mention your football team Mark:lol::lol:

:lol: That's because my team are in a totally different city. I could mention the stadium of light but I don't think it looks very good :lol:

 

[diamondtiling]

How could I forget the Mighty Crewe Alex? The only league club that owns its ground, training facilities and academy outright and has no debts. Plus it has been a good feeder to the mighty LFC.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Reginald Mitchell - designer of the Spitfire.

I shall say no more.

 

[merlecollins]

east kilbride has a by-pass.

And a swimming pool that my Dad tiled

 

[diamondtiling]

The original spelling of Stoke is 'Stoc' which means 'a place' thats why you had a famous nightclub called 'The Place"

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