Share some info about your hometown

How do you announciate it? Core-core-an? I am not trying to be a smart ass. I am being serious.

more like Core-crin, but with a Minnesota accent

I can never see the same Tillicoultry without thinking of Dougie Donnelly (?) and that appalling ad for the Sterling furniture store

I come from here and am proud of it!

http://www.warwick-uk.co.uk/tourist-information-centre.asp

http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk/warwick2004/index.asp

and my hometowns castle is bigger and better than all the poncey German castles put together (though I like visiting them too!!)

Best I could find for my tiny Norfolk village of Narborough

I've always found it weird how Europeans have hometowns. I moved around a lot as a child as my dad had to be mobile to make sure he got promotions and better pay. So, when Europeans ask em where I come from in South Africa, I can't really tell them.

Anyhow here the websites of the places I lived in. Not all of them since some don't have.

http://www.durban.kzn.org.za/durban/
http://www.places.co.za/html/middelburg_m.html
http://www.joburg.org.za/

When I ask people where they are from, I basically mean where did they live when they went through puberty - I think that influences you the most when growing up. I lived in 11 towns (that I can remember/know of) from birth to starting university, and have lived at my current address in Munich longer than anywhere else in my whole life, but I still have to put the wasteland of a small town in southern Wyoming as my home town. Even though my dad lives in a town I went to grade school in, going to visit him is still not "going home".

we moved around a lot as well. In fact, I have never actually lived *in* my hometown. I was born in the highlands and grew up variously in Crieff, Kirkaldy, Dalkieth and Bathgate(yeuch). But North Berwick was where many of my relatives lived. It was where my parents had their first house together and where they retired to after we had all hopped the nest. It was where we went to the seaside at weekends when we were kids and often stayed with my auntie Elspbeth to do that. And according to our family tree, my peculiar and desperately rare surname has been in the vicinity of North Berwick for over 400 years. I think that means it qualifies as my home town even tho I have never lived there.

A lot has been said about where home is. I like the one I once read...HOME IS WHERE YOUR MOTHER IS
Hence my home town web page: The Fairest Cape of them all.

http://www.cape-town.org/

http://www.gocapetown.co.za/

Indonesia...

http://www.tourismindonesia.com/

*resurrects topic from the dead*

http://www.muenchen.de/

and I guess also:

http://www.heidelberg.de/

And I've lived here as well:

http://www.ci.norman.ok.us/

Got 3 home towns

coolest web page: http://www.grenoble-isere-tourisme.com/accueil_eng.htm

quiet as a door mouse: http://www.saratoga.ca.us/

The city that does not sleep, the real one: http://www.mexicocity.com.mx/mexcity.html

I was born in Ebersberg, moved to Boulder, Colorado at the age of five, a couple of years later to Medford, Massachussetts, then back to Boulder, and from the ages of nine to 18 I was in my hometown of Ogden, Utah. I studied 5 years in Salt Lake City (2002 Winter Olympics) and then came to Munich.

I lived here on 25th Street and went to Ogden High School (Go Tigers!)

Home sweet home...

http://www.Caithness.org/

http://www.bunnik.nl

Not a very big town, but some might know it from the StayOkay hostel, a pretty hostel outside of Utrecht.

This was home...

http://www.iverparishcouncil.gov.uk/NewGallery.htm

The best times were at http://www.rpsc.org.uk/ where I played hockey and learnt how not to handle alcohol. (worked behind the bar )

What do you do if you're from Tang?

Even you've got representation, Garibaldi.

Tang

And it's a pikey free zone too.

Well bugger me with a choc ice Keydeck! I'd not known that.
Have bookmarked it now to keep an eye on references to the
Rantapine.
Ta for the info and link. My happiness can only be described
as notorious!

Re Travellers: my sister has an Aldi digital camera???

Good old St. John's. Wish German cities had such a easy to access garbage day schedule.

that is cool iain- you can also see the street cleaning days too.

Where was born and brought up. Nice Countryside with a number of Heritage sites and much History. The people are a disgrace often.

Main title-"Four Girls-one just aged 11 years old-handed anti-Social behavior orders!"

Next title is "Boy suffers head injuries after gangs Clash"

For a town of 90.000 it suffers alot from crime and violence and why I very rarely go back there!

Halifax

Glesga

Dublin born, but grew up in Celbridge, former small town on the County Kildare/Dublin border. We had Castletown House to go skulking around looking for things Satanic (the Divil disappeared into a crack in the fireplace back in the day so he did), The Wonderful Barn and Vanessas Bower to muck around in when growing up. James Joyce went to nearby Clongowes Wood boarding school, the K-Club was host to the Ryder Cup in 2006, Arthur Guinness was born there and Damien Rice and Bell X1 were in my class in secondary school. Scenes from an episode of Remington Steele were filmed there in the mid-80s, rumour has it that Arthur Matthews, co-writer of Father Ted, lived there out Hazelhatch way (there's an honorable mention in the Christmas Special and an episode of Alan Partridge) and disgraced Olympic swimmer, Michelle Smith-De Bruin, was our neighbour, The BirdMan Don Conroy was always out and about with his Peregrine Falcon and he was always really affable.



Castletown House



Celbridge Abbey



The Wonderful Barns



Clongowes Wood

But where once were forests and fields and magic, are now tracts of anonymous housing estate - truly a dormer town. But for such a wee place, there was always a lot going on and it was drummed into us in school how steeped in history the place is.

I have lived in many places too but Ipswich is where I spent most of my life. Oh how entertaining...

Here's the school I'm leaving to teach in Dresden.

and here's my beautiful beach- the place I'll miss most!

Here's the view ( of my old school) from above.

Well here's mine, what can I say Used to be great at one time.
Caister-On-Sea

Not suitable for the weak hearted, excitement levels extremely high...

Clitheroe

See the little rock almost perfectly centered between all countries (the one that isnt even acknowledged!).. thats my home town the "Isle of Man".

[img]http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/uk_colour_map.gif[/img]

A tax haven for the rich and a prison for the young!

Heres the crappy goverment website which takes forever to load:
http://www.gov.im/tourism/

Here are a few webcams pottered around the island.. usually some activity in Douglas!
http://www.manxradio.com/webcams.aspx

Although I was officially born in Trenton, I grew up just outside, in Hamilton Square (a smaller part of Hamilton Township). Here the official website:

http://www.hamiltonnj.com/

A pretty forgettable place, to be honest. I suppose the most interesting thing about my hometown is it's history. It was originally created as the "Township of Nottingham" in 1686 - I shit you not. Not many US cities that are over 300 years old.

EDIT: Here's an interesting Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Town...nty,_New_Jersey

Shrewsbury (Shropshire not Massachusetts). A country market town and home to Shrewsbury School, alma mater of Charles Darwin and Michael Palin.

Really I should put Munich as right now, I'm more attached to here than anywhere.
Can't really say that I grew up anywhere as I refuse to ha ha but I did go to school in Basildon. It was not pretty, in fact, it is concrete New Town horrible.
Wiki: Basildon
It is famous for pop stars and footballers, topless models and Joan Sims. Helen Mirren comes from nearby as does novellist Martina Cole.

My entire family and half my childhood (i.e. the bits not involving school including a great deal of weekends) was spent in Dumfries. "Naturally intriguing" it says here and that's probably true.
Wiki: Dumfries and D&G.co.uk
Was talking yesterday to someone about things that take you back to childhood, I thought of eating fresh peas straight off the vine and the smell of vegetable patches and tomato plants. That's the smell of Dumfries.
Dumfries has a particular type of sandstone, it is rock-faced red so the building have a glow to them. Unfortunately the town is booming and more brick is being used, a real shame as that red stone always said Dumfries to me.
The Guid Nychburris (Good Neighbours) festival is on 16th June this year.
As for the Burns statue, well he has several brothers around the globe - one in the twin city of Dunedin, NZ for example.
But the Dumfries one is the real one.

Urmston.

Herman's Hermits' Peter Noone, The Monkees' Davy Jones and actor Ian McShane used to live there. It's a haven for artistes.

Manchester- oh the joys of the North!!!

Its so long ago...
From the late 50s to the late 70s: Bramhall.
From late 70s until I finally moved over here: Plumley near Knutsford.

Not far from Umston

And a bit of history.

I have 3.

http://www.visitlondon.com/

http://www.mittelstenahe.de/

http://www.cm-riomaior.pt/riomaior

Å?ódź (English transcription: Lodz - means 'boat', which is the symbol of the city)

link

http://www.stpete.org/
It really is a very pretty town I come from.
[img]http://www.stpete.org/images/082405.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.stpete.org/images/110499.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.stpete.org/images/022705.jpg[/img]

Especially this past weekend if my memory serves correctly...

http://home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm

http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk/warwick200...lore_castle.htm

I suppose i should really post this one, McKinney, Texas.

Looks a nice place to be, not been yet but i think i should make the pilgrimage one day.

My Home: Go Brooklyn!...with the motto, always open

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinbane
North West of Scotland where is rains as much as it is doing in Munich today !!

Nobody cares about where I live, but check out the Lib Dem councillor (whom I've never heard or seen before today - honest):



I'm super!!! Thanks for asking!!!

A player of the pink oboe, no doubt!

Funny. My excellent gay-dar apparently works on photos as well.

Home sweet home