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Want to play guess where I live?

302 replies

0RACLE · 19/07/2025 21:49

We have the oldest cinema in Britain

we have 1 restaurant for every 250 people who live here

Babes in the Wood murders happened here

Have a guess and then post your own!

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WhatColourIsMyParachute · 20/07/2025 21:33

Cattery · 20/07/2025 20:45

Bob Hope was born here. There was an horrific murder in 1993

Eltham?

spilltheteapot · 20/07/2025 21:34

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 20/07/2025 15:54

You can get a good eye test here. 😉

Oh hi neighbour!

Simplepink · 20/07/2025 21:39

Best curry in the UK
City of Culture
David Hockney

ClaredeBear · 20/07/2025 21:40

We’ve got an island, slot machines, coaches - and a British sitcom which occurred in 2007.

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 20/07/2025 21:41

VintageCider · 20/07/2025 20:34

We are part of a much larger city but people here like to pretend we’re not really a part of said city.

We have the largest, or one of the largest, urban parks in Europe.

Our MP considers himself above the riffraff (and went to court over some words).

Sutton Coldfield.

ElsieJay · 20/07/2025 21:43

ClaredeBear · 20/07/2025 21:40

We’ve got an island, slot machines, coaches - and a British sitcom which occurred in 2007.

Barry ?

Whodathoughtit2 · 20/07/2025 21:45

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 20/07/2025 18:14

I live in a village overlooked by the tallest freestanding structure in England, next to s village famous for very large pies. The next village in a different direction is home to a Dr Who!.

Scisset?

Cornishclio · 20/07/2025 21:45

Brighton.

My town is known as the Gateway to Cornwall. There is a statue erected to a renowned woman championship gig rower from the 19th century. The wife of Sir Francis Drake lived here.

Threesacrow · 20/07/2025 21:46

Bradford? Hockney had an exhibition Saltaire, lovely place.

Threesacrow · 20/07/2025 21:47

Barry!

Steelworks · 20/07/2025 21:47

overthinker001 · 20/07/2025 20:40

Home of the chavs….

Chatham

ragandbonewoman · 20/07/2025 21:49

Laska2Meryls · 20/07/2025 21:24

St Ives?

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Not quite but right county!

Steelworks · 20/07/2025 21:51

Dontcallmescarface · 20/07/2025 19:10

I've moved since but for almost 20 years I live in a town that was/is:

Home to many a "secret" (which aren't secret at all if you live here), gig.
Home to a famous F1 driver, (although I'm not sure he still races), when he was a child......who I've still not forgiven for picking the daffodils from my front garden.
Quite artisan in places, but a shithole in others and home to Pearl Lowe and the drummer from Supergrass.

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ragandbonewoman · 20/07/2025 21:52

Cornishclio · 20/07/2025 21:45

Brighton.

My town is known as the Gateway to Cornwall. There is a statue erected to a renowned woman championship gig rower from the 19th century. The wife of Sir Francis Drake lived here.

There’s a few gateways to Cornwall but I think yours is saltash!

EducatingArti · 20/07/2025 21:52

The first commercial passenger railway line in the world goes past my garden.
The queen once spent a night in the royal train in a siding here.
I love in a city which is often thought of as a suburb of another more famous city but was actually a city in its own right way before the more famous one was
I'm on the border of a place that is famous for cakes.

mambojambodothetango · 20/07/2025 21:55

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 20/07/2025 18:14

I live in a village overlooked by the tallest freestanding structure in England, next to s village famous for very large pies. The next village in a different direction is home to a Dr Who!.

Skelmanthorpe, Clayton West, Scissett, Flockton or Shelley? Got to be one of them!

mambojambodothetango · 20/07/2025 21:57

Simplepink · 20/07/2025 21:39

Best curry in the UK
City of Culture
David Hockney

Shipley

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 20/07/2025 21:58

@mambojambodothetango it's one of them

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 20/07/2025 21:58

Home of the last original temperance bar

AmusedCat · 20/07/2025 22:00

Flozle · 20/07/2025 20:15

Nope! 2005 and 2015. Sorry 🙂

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2015 yes, but I mention 2009 because of heavy flooding generally, some in Carlisle.

Alreadybroken · 20/07/2025 22:01

Painrelief · 20/07/2025 18:23

Peaky Blinders and Lenny Henry made my town famous …

Dudley, filming for some of PB was at the Black Country Living Museum ☺️

Laska2Meryls · 20/07/2025 22:01

Simplepink · 20/07/2025 21:39

Best curry in the UK
City of Culture
David Hockney

Bradford

pambeesleyhalpert · 20/07/2025 22:03

Andoutcomethewolves · 20/07/2025 18:53

You're in Brighton.

Guess mine. Pulled down a statue of a racist/ slave owner. (Yes I was there)

Bristol!

pinkpony88 · 20/07/2025 22:05

RobertaFirmino · 20/07/2025 18:05

The city I live in is famous for chip spice and pattie slappers.

Hull!

Cornishclio · 20/07/2025 22:05

ragandbonewoman · 20/07/2025 21:49

Not quite but right county!

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Padstow?

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