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Frank the tank
Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
edited July 2009 in The bottom bracket
Does it have any links to anyone famous, or anything interesting.

Hucknall (sh1thole that it is) off the top of my head has these links

Burial place of Lord Byron (poet)
Ben Caunt (world champ bare knuckle fighter) The bell big Ben is named after him.
Birthplace of Eric Coates (composer of the dambusters march)
Robin Bailey (actor)
The German who the film "the one that got away" was based on attempted to escape from the airfield at Hucknall (now Rolls Royce). Which is the place where the propulsion system for the Harrier "jump jet" was developed (the flying bedstead).

If I think of owt else I'll add them on later.

Appearantly Sam Weller Widdowson who invented football shin pads was a Hucknallite.
Tail end Charlie

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  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    Haywards Heath - The lead singer out of Suede grew up here.
  • tonyw43
    tonyw43 Posts: 249
    I hail from Billingham, although now live in Hartlepool:

    Paul Smith of the band Maximo Park was born in Billingham
    Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World was inspired by a visit to Billingham
    Nearly had the UK's radioactive waste dumped in the old Anhydryte mine by NIREX in the 80's
    Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) was born in Billingham
    Jet (Diane Youdale) from Gladiators was from Billingham
    Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music/Jethro Tull) Born in Billingham
    Home of the International Folklore Festical
    Billingham Town Centre was the blueprint for many town centres around the Uk (Pity it is now pants)
    Birthplace of me (Most Important :D )
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Funny you should ask.

    Last night's main swine flu news -woman airlifted to Sweden. She comes from Kilmarnock. As do I. I can honestly say I can't remember when I last heard the town mentioned in any news context.

    Only ever hear the town mentioned when the football scores are being read out. You must know the local team - Kilmarnock Nil.

    Apart from that, Kilmarnock Edition was the first published, collected works of Robert Burns and Johnnie Walker whiskey is bottled there. Although the plant is scheduled to close thanks to creeping globalisation.
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  • trickeyja
    trickeyja Posts: 202
    Cheltenham - a generally pleasant affluent town, pleasantly situated on the edge of the Cotswolds.

    Birthplace of Gustav Holst, composer of the Planets.
    Famous for its Spa waters.
    Home of the Cheltenham Races.
    Hosts a ridiculous amount of festivals (Literature, Music, Science, Horse, Cricket... bla... Jazz... you name it)
    Regency architecture, nice parks, can be seen as posh.
    We had bowsers during the floods in 2007, when we lost our water supply for two weeks.

    Lots more interesting stuff I'm sure...

    Oh there is one Michelin starred restaurant too... fine dining :)
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Wikipedia claims South Shields to be all this but apart from RIdley Scott, Wouldhave and Sir Frank Williams, I think it is all bollocks.
  • reppohkcor
    reppohkcor Posts: 111
    trickeyja wrote:
    Cheltenham - a generally pleasant affluent town, pleasantly situated on the edge of the Cotswolds.

    Birthplace of Gustav Holst, composer of the Planets.
    Famous for its Spa waters.
    Home of the Cheltenham Races.
    Hosts a ridiculous amount of festivals (Literature, Music, Science, Horse, Cricket... bla... Jazz... you name it)
    Regency architecture, nice parks, can be seen as posh.
    We had bowsers during the floods in 2007, when we lost our water supply for two weeks.

    Lots more interesting stuff I'm sure...

    Oh there is one Michelin starred restaurant too... fine dining :)

    Its not Cheltenham...... Its Cheltenham Spa 8)
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Glasgow. :D Couple of famous people went to my school. Tonnes of singers and the likes.

    Look up things on the internet if you wish to be jealous ... sorry; I mean, find out more.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Irvine, Graham Obree had his bike shop there for a while. And a certain scottish Minister, who was the first girl I ever winched. The Scots on here know what that means... :oops:
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    I'm from Manchester but was raised in Heywood, the best description of which follows:

    "It looks like a great funeral on its way from Bury to Rochdale, consisting of little more than a mile of brick-built cottages and shops. The very dwelling houses look as though they worked in factories"
    - Edwin Waugh, Lancashire Sketches, 1881

    It hasn't changed much. Monkey Town, as it's known, is home to Julie Goodyear and Christine Gaskill, 1974 Commonwealth games 100m breaststroke gold medallist. I spent many a "happy" hour paddling around in the warm pubic hair soup that was the children's pool at the Gaskill baths.....
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  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    TonyW43 wrote:
    I hail from Billingham, although now live in Hartlepool:

    Paul Smith of the band Maximo Park was born in Billingham
    Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World was inspired by a visit to Billingham
    Nearly had the UK's radioactive waste dumped in the old Anhydryte mine by NIREX in the 80's
    Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) was born in Billingham
    Jet (Diane Youdale) from Gladiators was from Billingham
    Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music/Jethro Tull) Born in Billingham
    Home of the International Folklore Festical
    Billingham Town Centre was the blueprint for many town centres around the Uk (Pity it is now pants)
    Birthplace of me (Most Important :D )

    ...and wasn't it the Billingham / ICI Wilton site which inspired RIdley Scott's vision for Blade Runner? For me, it inspired me to study chemistry...which then led to me to flee the region, never to return...!

    I grew up in Middlesbrough, so I'll claim Paul Daniels.
    Does it have any links to anyone famous, or anything interesting.

    Apologies - I'll try and think of someone else...
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    mmitchell wrote:

    "I grew up in Middlesbrough, so I'll claim Paul Daniels".

    You're tto late, Debbie got him years ago. Her and the undead...
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  • FSR Si
    FSR Si Posts: 147
    My home town for the last 15 years is mostly made up of inbreds (not the bike type) the only famous people associated with it are Nigel Short of chess fame and Laura white from the Simon Cowell show cant remember which one though.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I don't know which one you would call my home town:

    Burton On Trent (where I grew up): Beer. ('nuff said)
    Derby: most haunted town in Britain,
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    Preston has produced

    Sir Tom Finney
    Andrew Flintoff
    Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit creator)
    Jessica Taylor (liberty x singer and Mrs Kevin Pietersen)
    John Thompson (Cold Feet actor)
    Mark Lawrenson
    Ribble Cycles
    John Inman
    Kenny Baker (R2D2)
    Butch Cassidy

    And best of all its ideally situated for some of the best cycling in the country.
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    Sandhurst, Berkshire -

    Royal Military Academy Sandhurst - Where future British Army Officers (and some foreign Army Officers) are trained
    World Champion Tug-o-war team!
    "The Meadows" shopping centre - Has one of the biggest Tesco's and one of the biggest M&S in the country
    (A lot of people seem to think that the RMA and The Meadows are part of Camberley, Surrey, however the "Wish Stream" that runs through the RMA and down the side of The Meadows is the boundary between Sandhurst and Camberley. This makes The Meadows firmly inside Sandhurst and the vast majority of the RMA in Sandhurst, although a small part is in Camberley which leads to the confusion!)

    Famous people:
    Arguably a large amount of people due to the RMA, but as they are there for about a year they don't really count! i.e. HRH's Prince William & Harry, Winston Churchill, James Blunt
    Apparently Jimmy Saville used to live in Sandhurst
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    Barnsley has a very big Cricket & Sporting connection:

    Dickie Bird
    Michael Parkinson
    Darren Gough
    The Greenhoff brothers
    Mick McCarthy
    Tommy Taylor and Mark Jones (Busby Babes)

    Other notables:
    Joseph Bramah (lock inventor from 1700s)
    Brian Glover
    Joanne Harris (writer of Chocolat)
    Leonard Parkin (ITN newsreader)
    Harry Worth (comedian)
    Kate Rusby (Folk singer)
    Ian McMillan

    And not forgetting that famous toss pot - Arthur Scargill
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  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    birkenhead has (apart from loads of untermenschen)

    glenda jackson

    patricia routledge

    lily savage

    but im from liverpool :D
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • mattbass789
    mattbass789 Posts: 355
    people famous from here... as in Hull...

    Everything but the girl (that 80's 90's band)
    The Beautiful South and the housemartins.
    David Bowies guitarist was from hull. mick ronson well it was his entire backing band.
    Amy Johnson the female pilot
    Norman Cook (fat Boy slim) seen as he was the bassist from the housemartins.
    Apparently the fine young cannibals were.
    John prescott.... hoorah? nah.
    William WIlberforce.
    “If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”

    @mattbeedham
  • FyPunK
    FyPunK Posts: 160
    Blackpool
    The list from wiki..
    Blackpool has been the birthplace and home to a number of notable people, including:

    * Jo Appleby - soprano singer with Amici Forever
    * David Atherton - conductor
    * Zoë Ball - English TV and radio presenter
    * Ronnie Baxter - Darts player
    * Lennie Bennett - comedian
    * Charlie Cairoli - famous clown, born in Milan but became famous in Blackpool where lived from 1939 to his death in 1980. He is buried at Carleton Cemetery.
    * George Carman - barrister
    * Frank Carson - comedian
    * Violet Carson - Coronation Street actress who played the part of Ena Sharples. She lived in Bispham until her death.
    * Ronnie Clayton - British Featherweight Boxing Champion 1947-54, twice Lonsdale Belt winner
    * Jimmy Clitheroe - British comedy actor, lived most of his life in the Greenlands area on Bispham Road, Blackpool, where he died in 1973
    * Jenna-Louise Coleman - Emmerdale actress (Jasmine Thomas)
    * Alistair Cooke - journalist and commentator
    * Steven Croft - cricketer
    * Karl Crompton, winner of £10.9 million in The National Lottery in 1996[55]
    * Raine Davison - actress
    * John Evan - musician Jethro Tull
    * Dan Forshaw - Jazz musician
    * Jeffrey Hammond - musician Jethro Tull
    * Roy Harper - musician
    * Barney Harwood - TV presenter
    * Edwin Hughes - ("Balaclava Ned") (1830-1927), the last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava in the Crimea lived in Blackpool and is buried in Layton cemetery.
    * John Inman - actor, Lived in the Warbreck area near to Holy Family Primary School.
    * Matty Kay - footballer
    * Augustus Kenderdine - landscape and portrait painter
    * Cynthia Lennon - wife of John Lennon
    * Jacqueline Leonard - actress
    * Ian Levine - songwriter
    * Syd Little - comedian, Little and Large
    * Brian London - boxer
    * Joe Longthorne - singer
    * Chris Lowe - musician - (Pet Shop Boys)
    * Andrew Lyons - footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Wigan Athletic)
    * Gavin McCann - footballer - (Bolton Wanderers
    * Nick McCarthy - musician (Franz Ferdinand)
    * Stacey McClean - singer S Club 8
    * Vic McGlynn - radio presenter
    * John Mahoney - actor (Frasier) Born in Bispham.
    * Pauline Moran - actress
    * Janet Munro - actress
    * Graham Nash - (The Hollies, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young))
    * Bernadette Nolan - singer and actress
    * Coleen Nolan - singer and TV presenter
    * Chris Patten - politician and former Hong Kong governor
    * Daryl Peach - World Pool Champion
    * Jodie Prenger - singer and actress
    * Maddy Prior - singer (Steeleye Span)
    * Peter Purves - TV presenter
    * John Robb - musician, author and TV presenter
    * William Regal - (WWE wrestler)
    * Nikki Sanderson - actress Coronation Street
    * Michael Smith - Nobel Prize-winning chemist
    * Robert Smith - musician (The Cure)
    * Frank Swift - footballer (Manchester City and England)
    * David Thewlis - actor (Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series)
    * Ricky Tomlinson - actor (Jim Royle in The Royle Family) Born in Bispham.
    * Roger Uttley - rugby union player
    * Daniel Whiston - ice skater (Dancing on Ice)
    * Tony Williams - musician (Stealers Wheel and Jethro Tull)
    * Shelly Woods - elite wheelchair athlete
    * Scott Wright - actor Coronation Street

    Oh and we have a punk festival every year
    :wink:
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  • BikeNewby
    BikeNewby Posts: 13
    reppohkcor wrote:
    trickeyja wrote:
    Cheltenham - a generally pleasant affluent town, pleasantly situated on the edge of the Cotswolds.

    Birthplace of Gustav Holst, composer of the Planets.
    Famous for its Spa waters.
    Home of the Cheltenham Races.
    Hosts a ridiculous amount of festivals (Literature, Music, Science, Horse, Cricket... bla... Jazz... you name it)
    Regency architecture, nice parks, can be seen as posh.
    We had bowsers during the floods in 2007, when we lost our water supply for two weeks.

    Lots more interesting stuff I'm sure...

    Oh there is one Michelin starred restaurant too... fine dining :)

    Its not Cheltenham...... Its Cheltenham Spa 8)

    Neither of you mentioned Bomber Harris or Richard O'Brien. Or the guy who invented the pay-toilet.

    It's a hot bed of talent.
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    ...Burial place of Lord Byron (poet)

    Interestingly (?) Rochdale tries to claim a piece of Lord Byron (he's pictured on the small display outside the station). The tenuous claim is that he owned some mines in the area. What they don't say is that he spent most of his life trying to sell them and visted the place only once.

    Other than that..

    Lisa Stansfield
    Gracie Fields (buggered off to France first chance she got)
    Constituency of Cyril Smith (famous fat bloke - not surprising when you see the size of the average Rochdale resident)
    Rochdale AFC has been in the lowest tier of football for the longest time of any club.
    Birthplace of the Co-operative movement (so not all bad)
    pottssteve wrote:
    ...Heywood... Monkey Town...

    No one's ever been able to tell me why Heywood is 'Monkey Town'. Two versions I've heard is that -

    a - All the bar stools used to have holes in them (for the residents to put their tails through).
    b - It's so small that "One swing and you're through it".
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    pottssteve wrote:
    I'm from Manchester but was raised in Heywood, the best description of which follows:

    "It looks like a great funeral on its way from Bury to Rochdale, consisting of little more than a mile of brick-built cottages and shops. The very dwelling houses look as though they worked in factories"
    - Edwin Waugh, Lancashire Sketches, 1881

    A few miles west and you would have been raised in Bury, where I hail from, which is where the following also come from:

    Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police.
    Danny Boyle, director of Slumdog Millionaire.
    Victoria Wood, comediene.
    Peter Skelern, him of piano and brass bands fame.
    Fiona Allen, one of the Smack the Pony sketch show, and a childhood friend of mine (now married to Michael Parkinson's son).
    Reg Harris, World Sprint Champion, came from Birtle, between Bury and Heywood.
    I also should list black puddings, as these were my favourite thing about Bury.
    When you take Bury as a metropolitan borough, it includes Whitefield where Godley and Cream of 10cc fame used to go to school at Stand Grammar.
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  • Angus444
    Angus444 Posts: 141
    dmclite wrote:
    Irvine, Graham Obree had his bike shop there for a while. And a certain scottish Minister, who was the first girl I ever winched. The Scots on here know what that means... :oops:

    NS???? I'm impressed.......and a little jealous..... :D
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    edited July 2009
    ChrisNoir,

    I thought it was because of the bar stools. Or maybe the high percentage of evolutionary throwbacks living there.

    Sirius,
    I did my O level History project about Robert Peel :lol: The black puddings are yummy, but I was always disappointed at the huge volume of dog sh*t on Bury's streets.

    Apparently there's another good swimmer living in Heywood now - Keri-Anne Payne -must be something in the water :)
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  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    Buckfastleigh, Devon - serial killer Colin Ireland used to run a pub called The Globe with his girlfriend until the police arrested him. He killed a number of gay men in London during the early 90s.
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  • Does it have any links to anyone famous, or anything interesting.

    Hucknall (sh1thole that it is) off the top of my head has these links

    Burial place of Lord Byron (poet)
    Ben Caunt (world champ bare knuckle fighter) The bell big Ben is named after him.
    Birthplace of Eric Coates (composer of the dambusters march)
    Robin Bailey (actor)
    The German who the film "the one that got away" was based on attempted to escape from the airfield at Hucknall (now Rolls Royce). Which is the place where the propulsion system for the Harrier "jump jet" was developed (the flying bedstead).

    If I think of owt else I'll add them on later.

    Appearantly Sam Weller Widdowson who invented football shin pads was a Hucknallite.

    Did'nt Robin Hood do a bit of running around there Frank ?? must have had few 'Flaggans' of ale in Hucknall before going on to 'P***'in Off' ye olde Sheriff of Nottingham :lol:
  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    I come from Eastwood, not too far from Hucknall, and AFAIK it's only claims to fame is that it's the birthplace of DH Lawrence and the Midland Railway :)

    In my youth Lawrence wasn't particularly popular locally - "He worra dotty bogger" as some of his contempories would remark. My grandfather owned the house he was born in and my uncle sold it to become a museum,

    Ripley, a couple of miles the village we live now is the birthplace of Barnes-Wallis, the engineer who designed the Wellington and Lancaster bombers and whose idea the famous bouncing bomb attack on the Ruhr dams was.

    Geoff
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  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    Where would one's home town/city considered to be? Their place of birth, where they were brought up, or where they've been living for the past few years? (All 3 can be different, as in my case).
  • Hucknall or should I say Ucknll.

    As far as I can see it has been totally unaffected by the much publicised credit crunch looking at the amount of salad dodgers and smokers I see in the town.
    Busiest place in the town is always Greggs the pie shop.

    Yes, I live there and it isn't such a bad place .....








    apart from the people.
  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Hucknall or should I say Ucknll.

    As far as I can see it has been totally unaffected by the much publicised credit crunch looking at the amount of salad dodgers and smokers I see in the town.
    Busiest place in the town is always Greggs the pie shop.

    Yes, I live there and it isn't such a bad place .....








    apart from the people.

    Not such a bad place. I worked in Derby but got involved with rig tests at the Hucknall factory. I always arranged meetings first thing at Hucknall, cycled there, then cycled to Derby afterwards and home in the evening. Great stuff, as I could get 50 miles of cycling in - half of it in Rolls-Royce time :lol:

    So going to see those f**kers at Huckers had it's advantages.

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster