whats your area famous for

[remoh]

Anderton Boat Lift

The first electrically powered swing-bridge in the country.

Discovery of Polythene.

Salt mines.

Sinking houses.

The famous Northwich Victoria.

 

[Bigga]

Let's get the sh*t stuff out of the way first. Scum player 'Charlie' Brown is from my original area.

Good stuff...

John Thaw('The Sweeny', Inspector Morse') went to my primary school, 'The Boys From the Black Stuff' filmed scenes on an infamous estate(The Ansell) at the back of me mam's.

'Broken Glass'(famous Brit breakers) hailed mostly from it.

I spent a sh*t load of time with 'A Guy Called Gerald', in my youth, in that area.

And me.

 

[charliebigspuds]

middleton. Steve Coogan, The Chameleons, Paul Scholes, one of the monkees, hippo's the nightclub (it was good, honest), David May, David Gedge (lead singer of the wedding present), The Archers (as the blokes with bows and arrows from the civil war), Edgar Wood (archietect). Lees beer, .................................................................................im struggling now

 

[blusmiff]

middleton. Steve Coogan, The Chameleons, Paul Scholes, one of the monkees, hippo's the nightclub (it was good, honest), David May, David Gedge (lead singer of the wedding present), The Archers (as the blokes with bows and arrows from the civil war), Edgar Wood (archietect). Lees beer, .................................................................................im struggling now

david fkn may , now thats real fame. hippos was cool.

 

[mcfc1982]

Heywood - Inbreeding and pubs. Was once in the Guinness Book of Records for having the most pubs per head in the population (around about 5 pubs per person it seemed)

You forgot
Peter Heywood, the magistrate who, with a party of men, arrested Guy Fawkes during the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Another member of the family, also called Peter Heywood, was aboard the HMS Bounty when its crew mutinied in 1789
Plum Mill 1905, once the largest mule-spinning mill in the world under one roof.
Mellors brook chimney, it was about 4 foot out of perpendicular and once known as "The Crookedest shaft in England"
Former Oldham and Sheffield Untited keeper Paul Gerard was born in Heywood
Those twins from Shameless/Emmerdale are from Heywood.
Lisa Stansfield was raised in Heywood
July Goodyear still lives there.
Les Denis has a caravan in Ashy Valley.
It's a shithole.

heywood used to have 1 pub for each day of the year, think curry mile, but beer instead of curry and only about half a mile, no wonder les denis park a caravan up here

 

[AyrshireBlue]

Rabbie Burns
Prestwick Airport - The only bit of British Soil Elvis touched
Tatties (Ayrshire)
Colin Montgomerie (apologies)
Ally McLeod
.................f*ck what a piss poor area to come from, oh and an influx of buckie drinking neds from Paisley & Ballieston

 

[kippax casual]

middleton. Steve Coogan, The Chameleons, Paul Scholes, one of the monkees, hippo's the nightclub (it was good, honest), David May, David Gedge (lead singer of the wedding present), The Archers (as the blokes with bows and arrows from the civil war), Edgar Wood (archietect). Lees beer, .................................................................................im struggling now

The courteeners

 

[blusmiff]

Rabbie Burns
Prestwick Airport - The only bit of British Soil Elvis touched
Tatties (Ayrshire)
Colin Montgomerie (apologies)
Ally McLeod
.................f*ck what a piss poor area to come from, oh and an influx of buckie drinking neds from Paisley & Ballieston

gotta agree on the tatties mate, my missus visits family up there and always brings some back. lovely spuds.

 

[stony]

Heywood - Inbreeding and pubs. Was once in the Guinness Book of Records for having the most pubs per head in the population (around about 5 pubs per person it seemed)

You forgot
Peter Heywood, the magistrate who, with a party of men, arrested Guy Fawkes during the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Another member of the family, also called Peter Heywood, was aboard the HMS Bounty when its crew mutinied in 1789
Plum Mill 1905, once the largest mule-spinning mill in the world under one roof.
Mellors brook chimney, it was about 4 foot out of perpendicular and once known as "The Crookedest shaft in England"
Former Oldham and Sheffield Untited keeper Paul Gerard was born in Heywood
Those twins from Shameless/Emmerdale are from Heywood.
Lisa Stansfield was raised in Heywood
July Goodyear still lives there.
Les Denis has a caravan in Ashy Valley.
It's a shithole.

heywood used to have 1 pub for each day of the year, think curry mile, but beer instead of curry and only about half a mile, no wonder les denis park a caravan up here

No need to tell me mate, I've drank in all of them. The list of pubs that have shut down in Heywood over the last 20 years is frightening.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Heywood - Inbreeding and pubs. Was once in the Guinness Book of Records for having the most pubs per head in the population (around about 5 pubs per person it seemed)

You forgot
Peter Heywood, the magistrate who, with a party of men, arrested Guy Fawkes during the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Another member of the family, also called Peter Heywood, was aboard the HMS Bounty when its crew mutinied in 1789
Plum Mill 1905, once the largest mule-spinning mill in the world under one roof.
Mellors brook chimney, it was about 4 foot out of perpendicular and once known as "The Crookedest shaft in England"
Former Oldham and Sheffield Untited keeper Paul Gerard was born in Heywood
Those twins from Shameless/Emmerdale are from Heywood.
Lisa Stansfield was raised in Heywood
July Goodyear still lives there.
Les Denis has a caravan in Ashy Valley.
It's a shithole.

heywood used to have 1 pub for each day of the year, think curry mile, but beer instead of curry and only about half a mile, no wonder les denis park a caravan up here

No need to tell me mate, I've drank in all of them. The list of pubs that have shut down in Heywood over the last 20 years is frightening.

It is a shame, but I can only keep one pub afloat at a time.

 

[Bozo]

Being the town 'Royston Vasey' is based on, apparently.

 

[bluemike]

Withington - Christie Hospital.
Fuck all else I can think of!

 

[berger10]

Hat makers being so poisoned with lead that they turned mad. Nice one.

Oh, and the River Mersey starts in Stockport too - cue the old question, which ground is nearest the River Mersey? Anfield? Goodison Park? Tranmere? No, Edgely Park

Mad hat makers
River Mersey
Largest brick structure in Europe (Viaduct)

Reddish Vale
Fred Perry

 

[johnny on the spot]

i'm from stalyvegas and amongst other things we have the following: -


worlds oldest affiliated brass band

it's a long way to tipperrary was written in stalybridge band hall

yanks was filmed in stalyvegas

beatrix potter lived in gorsehall

john wesley (the creator of the methodist church) lived at stalyhall

used to have the worlds shortest named pub "Q", before it was changed

still has the worlds longest named pub, shortened to "the rifleman", its real name is "The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn"

Sgt William Booth - one of only 2 british service men ever awarded italian medal of honour

John Buckley VC - born on cocker hill in the 1800's.....went on to be deputy commissioner for ordnance in india

the first ever recognised general workers strike for low pay

samuel laycock - 1800's reknowned poet....there is a school named after him

I really miss Stalybridge.

 

[dannybcity]

Statto and the Stone Roses.

BTW wasn't the Lancaster bomber desgined in Urmston?

Edit* oh and who could forget "Bill Speakman received the Victoria Cross for valour in 1951 in the Korean War.[85] Sir Michael Pollock, an officer in the Royal Navy who rose to the position of First Sea Lord, was born in Altrincham."

 

[audiodave08]

the titanic
or george best

 

[Matty]

Hat makers being so poisoned with lead that they turned mad. Nice one.

Oh, and the River Mersey starts in Stockport too - cue the old question, which ground is nearest the River Mersey? Anfield? Goodison Park? Tranmere? No, Edgely Park

Mad hat makers
River Mersey
Largest brick structure in Europe (Viaduct)

Reddish Vale
Fred Perry

Norman Foster is from Reddish too, he's an World renowned architect, designed Wembley amongst other things.

 

[sdm]

Being the town 'Royston Vasey' is based on, apparently.

Are you in Hadfield?

 

[ROBL250]

The Highest league ground in the country at just under 1200ft, Buxton FC.
Betty Driver (Betty in Coronation Street) once owned a Pub in Whaley Bridge.
William (Bill) Jones was born in Whaley Bridge in 1921.
Tony Audenshaw (Bob Hope in Emmerdale) lives in New Mills and plays occasional local gigs with Steve Halliwell (Zack Dingle) occasionally playing drums.

 

[stony]

Being the town 'Royston Vasey' is based on, apparently.

Are you in Hadfield?

He's being "enigmatic" again, he will come on and say he's from the town that inspired it, not where it was filmed.
I think he's trying to hide the fact that he doesn't come from Manchester tbh ;-)