Share some info about your hometown

Hey, Moko- no chance anyone from Massachusetts- or the US for that matter, would mistake YOUR Shrewsbury for ours! We use to have a radio DJ that always said that the sandwich shoul d be called the Shrewsbury because it was reall y the Earl of Shrewsbury who invented it.

Beautiful downtown Britannia Beach, BC Canada - at one time the largest single producer of copper in the British Empire, at another the biggest source of toxic waste metals in North America.

Escape year: 1978. Regrets: none.

I posted the link to my home town on page 10 of this thread. Since then, it has reached new dizzy heights of fame. That guy who was a hobbit referred to Clitheroe as the "arse end of nowhere" on Lost a few weeks ago. I am overwhelmed. Please feel free to watch our 15 seconds of fame on YouTube

I was watching an anime the other day, and there was a signpost to Bury in it! The guy who did Akira did this one, called Steamboy.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumf...ries/index.html

Apparently has more pubs per head of population than anywhere else in somewhere, oh and queen of the south FC.

And... I will be there in three days to open an exhibition.

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/

Could't be arsed to check whether BD has already added this.

Home to Robinson's Brewery: The pub chain that single handedly keeps the UK red velour industry going.

Oh and here's the Council office bulding that they used as the Police Station exterior in Life on Mars...

http://interactive.stockport.gov.uk/pictur...ocality=Central

Plus

http://www.bridgend.gov.uk/Web1/groups/pub...ver/index2.hcst

And it's going to rain. There's lovely..

Ok here is my hometowns webpage, i'm posting 2 links, 1 to the webpage and another to a webcam link that they have going in the city square, has anybody else's hometown webpage got a webcam? This one you can move yourself around the city square.

http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/webcam/main.htm

http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/

Trichy, India

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Precisely.
However, when I do accidentally use the word "home", then I mean this place

www.freiburg.de

www.maidenhead.net

Histon, just north of Cambridge.

This is where I lived for a while as a teenager - Bryngwran. As you can see by the summer photos of 2006, there are wild flowers and an old gate in this village. It's not too far from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch, which people may have heard of and which is only marginally more exciting than Bryngwran.

This is where I grew up, Albany CA. Sorta boring but the city seal is pretty cool.

well, i could put the birth place or the first growing up place or all the other places i've lived like this and this or this or this and a load of other places ...but this is where i have lived the longest and where i would consider my 'hometown'

Born/Early Childhood: Parke County Indiana
Up until 2004: Naperville, IL. & Plainfield, IL.

Great places. Nice spacious settings with kid oriented communities (Naperville voted best place to raise children in the U.S. for several years in a row), and only 30-45 minutes from downtown Chicago.

http://www.altstadtbruecke.de/

Das Schwabenländle

this is where I'm from, nice little 'Stadt' with two beautiful lakes, close to the mountains and to the lake constance, with loads of cafes and pubs, only 20.000 inhabitants though but TWO 18-hole golf courses , a castle and one of the most beautiful baroque churches in south germany.

Virginia Beach, VA

West Vancouver, British Columbia

The official Panamanian Tourism Office webpage.
Take a look at the videos on the multimedia section.

Another nice site I found from panamanians living in Los Angeles. Some recipes and some explanations about the cultural heritage in Panama.

"Panama, the path less traveled"

¿You're from Panama? I never realised!



Looks like a nice place.

Love the use of Spanglish there! Panama is on the short list for visiting now.

a little bit of Poland - my home-city Gorzow Wielkopolski http://www.gorzow.pl/kamery/

bulwar - boulevard
ul. Hawelańska - Havelanska Street
Å?awka WEB - a bench that is monitored and shown on website
Fonatnna Pauckscha - Paucksch's fountain
Most na Warcie - a bridge over Varta River

http://www.barrowbc.gov.uk/

It Rocks

LOL, I haven't read the whole thing myself. I wonder how much the person who proofread that text charged!! Oh my, oh my.

Sara, if you ever really go down there let me know in advance and I'll try to get you a couple of nice places to go. And if I happen to be there you'll get a free tour guide!

My hometown...San Antonio, TX...miss the Mexican food, but especially a real margarita! mmmmmmmmm

http://www.sanantoniocvb.com/

Even better than a website. Here's a music video: Kankakee

One of the amazing wonders of the world is the Panama Canal. I've traveled through it many times while cruising and I highly recommend the experience as it's an amazing feat of engineering and history.

Cork City My home town back in Ireland, I miss it...

http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/home.do

I was an army brat, so grew up in quite a few places, notably El Paso, TX (blech), Honolulu (yes it is amazing), San Diego (beautiful, laid-back beach town). But I spent my most formative years (teens) in wonderful Leavenworth, Kansas.

Leavenworth's best claim to fame, by far, is Melissa Etheridge. But besides that, we have the fantastic notoriety of being host to 5 (count em, 5!) prisons.

1. Maximum security federal prison - Leavenworth (yes, you've probably heard of it in movies and whatnot)
2. Kansas State Men's Penitentiary
3. Kansas State Women's Penitentiary
4. US Army Disciplinary Barracks
5. Kansas State Juvenile Facility

Here's the Fed. Famous (or infamous) prisoners include(d) Leonard Peltier, American Indian political prisoner; Bugs Moran and Machine Gun Kelly, depression-era gangsters; and now the new home of Michael Vicks, NFL quarterback convicted of running a dog-fighting ring.



Yes, the whole town felt like one huge dark hole. For such a small town (around 35,000 people, not counting the prisoners ) there was an amazing amount of drugs, guns, and gang-related activity. Now the town is basically one massive crystal meth sinkhole, and people are leaving like crazy.

Really, a wonderful place to spend those formative teenage years. Just glad I survived!

The reason the internet was made: to show the world HUDDERSFIELD, West Yorkshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hudders...px%28RLH%29.jpg

Corpus Christi, Texas... home of the zip code with the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the state. There's really not much else to do for locals since everything's geared towards tourists.

http://www.cctexas.com/?fuseaction=home.welcome

you can take me out of the desert, but you can't take the desert outta me!

I present to you .. Tucson, Arizona!

www.visittucson.org

This website shows you the unique coupling of cactus and golf course. pukesville.

A quaint little town called Madison, IN. It looks pretty much like it did 50 years ago. They've got a one-screen movie house that's been in continuous operation probably since Clark Gable was on screen. They've got a drugstore with a soda fountain that you'd probably think cost someone a fortune to build in the style of times gone by. Except it's the same darned soda fountain that's been there since the 50's. It was just well-maintained.

You ever want to take a trip back in time...well just stop on by.

http://www.nationaltrust.org/dozen_distinc...s/list.asp?i=33

My family hails from the suburban wasteland of Katy, TX, a few miles west of Houston. Charmed, I'm sure.

http://ci.katy.tx.us/

ohhh .. but their doggy easter egg hunt does look fun!

I was born and raised in "The City of Champions" none other than Edmonton, Alberta. aka E-town.

http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt

Possibly best known for what was once the worlds largest mall, West Edmonton Mall. What a thing to be proud of...

Not rating its own homepage but at least an entry in Wikipedia: Stockbroker Bramhall otherwise known as the debtor's retreat.
We were neither... Last UK residence was in Plumley...

Our claim to fame was many many decades ago being the Capital of the Confederacy. Now we are just home to Marlboro. Nothing like cheap cigs.

Where I grew up
http://www.ci.richmond.va.us/
Where I was born
http://www.allentownpa.gov/

Well I was just looking at the BBC website and lo and behold there was a story about my diddly little home town, North Berwick

Basically, rising above North Berwick is an extinct volcanic plug referred to as "The Law". My parents live right at the base of he Law. Since 1709, and possibly for a long time before that, a whale's jaw bone stood upended on the summit and could be seen right across East Lothian and out to sea. Unfortunately, the old one was falling apart so had to be taken down in 2005. But now they have made a fibreglass replica (better than going out and slaughtering a whale) that will be taken o he summit today by helicopter and secured in place.

Made me feel all warm inside and a teeny wee bit homesick.

So I thought I'd post it here and encourage others to post a little something about the place you all home.

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Interesting thread, gives you that authentic "it's a small world" feeling:

SW1, @BTC, I spent 10 years at school in Crieff and got done for exceeding the speed limit on a bicycle down that hill in your photo (High St., if I remember correctly), it's even steeper than it looks in the picture!

SW2, @bidul, I spent three months in Gorzow in the early seventies - Category 2 Hotel, no food, bathtub full of coal, 2 Restaurants of which at least one was open every evening, one milkbar for breakfast in the morning - but shut two days a week! Choosing a meal from the menu in the restaurants was a matter of starting with the highest price and working down the list till the waiter stopped saying "Nemy" (not sure how that's spellt any more). I hit the jackpot, out of about six of us who were there over a period of about two years, I was the one who was in the restaurant when the Steak, Chips and grilled mushrooms was actually available. Oh yes, nearly forgot, 170 Zloty/day expenses (which was a small fortune then, about a couple of weeks wages, IIRC) and nothing to spend it on - and you couldn't take it out of the country. That didn't really matter too much, since it wasn't convertible anyway, but I always wondered how the customs guys divided it up amongst themselves and how much actually went back through official channels.

Still searching for some suitable "vorher/nacher" pictures of where I lived for most of my childhood, so I'll keep quiet on that for the time being. But this is where I was born and spent the first five years of my life.

Was it not King Street? I left Crieff when I was three months old and have only visited a few times since.

St. Joseph County, Indiana
Home of the University of Notre Dame, hence the God, Country and Notre Dame from the Cathredral. ND.edu
Rudy (movie) and the famous quote: "Win One for the Gipper" (Ronald Reagan, Knute Rockne film).
Home of the Studebaker (wagons then cars)
Home of the Hummer (AM General)
Home of the Singer Sewing Machine
Home of the Blue Socks All American Girls Baseball League ("A League of their Own" movie fame).
Home of Bendix, now Robert Bosch's North American Data Center.
The St. Joseph River is one of the few rivers in the world to flow north (and dumps into Lake Michigan), which is how South Bend IN got it's name. River link
In 1984, the first artificial whitewater waterway in North America was built on the St. Joe River.
South Bend sits on the continental divide of North America.
The polish population (10%) celebrates Dyngus Day the Monday after Easter.
17% claim German ancestry which is the largest population (surprised even me). One Sister city is Arzberg Germany.
Mishawaka is my birth town: The city is named after Princess Mishawaka, daughter of Shawnee Chief Elkhart. The legend of her romance with white trapper Deadshot, and abduction by her jealous Indian suitor Grey Wolf, characterizes the mixture of romance and history.
Now, I'm homesick.

I grew up in a suburban bubble where there was nothing to do. My high school classmates decided to commit armed robbery to fund their coke habit.. Good times.

Found this article comparing my home town (London) with NYC. I would say these two are in the top five of the most important cities in the world, from a cultural and economic point of view.
edit: Of course, the argument that New York is better is completely wrong

They are both overpopulated, overpriced metropolises where foreigners visit and then claim to have an understanding of your country because obviously if you have been to NYC/London you have obviously seen an accurate representation of all America/uk?

Fair point, but I don't think that's a reason to be dismissive of how significant they are.

@BTC, looking at the Crieff website, as you say that is indeed King St. However, the picture looks pretty well identical to the view from the marketplace looking down the High St., which Google Maps tells me is the A85 (I do remember the road as being the main road out of town), although it looks as though it's now been rerouted so that it no longer meets the A822 at the market. Unfortunately, the Google Maps satellite resolution here is lousy, so it's impossible to identify anything (not even the school, and it's big enough!), to be absolutely certain that I'm not getting slightly mixed up since I've only been back in Crieff once since leaving school 45 years ago!

Just been back to Google Maps and taken a closer look, High St. was indeed the main road out of town, but to the East, heading for Perth. That hill was the main road out of town heading South, so yes, you're right, it was King St. where I got done for speeding! The fact that King St. and High St. meet at the marketplace probably explains the confusion!