Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

Quirky things about where you live

397 replies

BobISMyUncle · 02/02/2021 00:36

I have discovered, quite accidentally, that I live in a recently designated Market Town. I love this! We have one market stall, on a Saturday. It sells trousers. Sometimes, it sells plants. Sometimes it sells tartan stuff. On Thursday, but might be Tuesday, it sells fish. Sometimes, none of the above is true.
We're a Market Town now!! Do not be messing with me, I've developed webbed feet

OP posts:
dexterslockedintheshedagain · 03/02/2021 12:48

@SimonJT
Does your famous resident have the initials RT? I think I remember you mention them in passing in another post long ago, saying what a nice person they were

longwayoff · 03/02/2021 13:13

We still have a curfew bell, 10pm every night. Also one gas street light.

hardheadedwoman · 03/02/2021 13:17

Two elephants escaped from the circus in 1884 and ended up in a basement in the house behind mine where they were rescued

MrsMoastyToasty · 03/02/2021 13:22

The composer Handel bought our local church organ and gave the church its current set of bells.
The name of our town was regularly spelled out in a national radio advert.
Bill Bailey grew up here.Judd Trump played snooker in the local snooker hall.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 03/02/2021 14:19

The nursery thyme "Humpty Dumpty" refers to the cannon which sat on the town wall during the Civil War defending the two from the Roundheads. When it fell off the wall and smashed, all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men couldn't put it back together again and so the town was sacked by the Roundheads. I have no idea how a bloody great cannon accidentally fell off a wall though

longwayoff · 03/02/2021 14:29

Just remembered, a friend lives up the road from the 'most haunted Inn in England.

GreenPlum · 03/02/2021 14:41

We have 40 red kites circling above our house almost all day because my next door neighbour feeds them.

Glittertwins · 03/02/2021 14:43

@Gingernaut

I live in a street where the houses are numbered sequentially, not odd side and even side.

1 is at one end of the street, the numbers go up one at a time, reach the end of one side and then cross over, carrying on going up one at a time.

The highest numbered house is directly opposite No. 1.

My road does this too. New delivery drivers get puzzled by this
DrMadelineMaxwell · 03/02/2021 14:49

On the 2nd Tuesday of July every year since 1857 there is a Jubilee celebration. A church service in the local common and a parade through town. Bunting is erected, the fair arrives and people wave flags.

It was founded by the non-conformists as a way of promoting temperance and is now the biggest piss up of the year!

garlictwist · 03/02/2021 15:54

@BikeRunSki not any more but I used to live in Flockton

DustyasaFieldinSpring · 03/02/2021 16:28

@Twernip

OMG, are you my village?

The parish Church is Holy Trinity. And there are several hamlets suffixed Green, End, Mill and a Croft?

It's on the 'side' of the local town...

Justabadwife · 03/02/2021 16:57

We still have an annual rushbearing.
We start at the primary school with our rushes, walk around the village sing a song (that even after a 100 years no one knows the words to) then go to church, and get Grasmere gingerbread (even though we aren't in Grasmere)
Then there are sports on the school field.

ElsieMc · 03/02/2021 17:24

I live near a druid circle where I walk my dogs in the summer and take my grandkids with me. They have pagan wedding ceremonies in the circle and the procession walk towards it banging drums. They have asked me to join them. I would but it scares the kids and I fear my dogs may poo in the Circle.

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 03/02/2021 17:29

I live on an island with los of feral chickens as there are no foxes or snakes but a shit load of rats and pole cats.

SimonJT · 03/02/2021 17:31

@FreezerBird

In the town where I live now, every summer we have an influx of Orthodox Jewish families on holiday.
Aberystwyth?
Mushypeasandchipstogo · 03/02/2021 17:32

@GreenPlum I think that I must have lived near you until I moved to my sunny island. Lots of red kites snatching food off barbecues and stealing sandwiches from children in the school playgrounds.

LunaNorth · 03/02/2021 17:36

My town was the last in England to hold a witch burning.

So that’s nice.

Everythingmagnolia · 03/02/2021 17:38

@ElsieMc

I live near a druid circle where I walk my dogs in the summer and take my grandkids with me. They have pagan wedding ceremonies in the circle and the procession walk towards it banging drums. They have asked me to join them. I would but it scares the kids and I fear my dogs may poo in the Circle.
I live there too. I used to live round the corner and could see it from my front window on a clear day!
redpencil77 · 03/02/2021 18:01

King Aethelstan? Malmesbury?

redpencil77 · 03/02/2021 18:03

Eyam

redpencil77 · 03/02/2021 18:08

Or Eglywsw?

redpencil77 · 03/02/2021 18:21

You get a lot of traffic from Lymington though - the Lymington mobile carpark

Popcorn24 · 03/02/2021 18:26

Where I live is a quiet town apart from November 5th, its also where Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born & we have a school that Henry 8th founded.

CatchingStars · 03/02/2021 18:26

@Redannie118

We have Northumberlandia( The Goddess of the North) a huge landform sculpture of a woman. Its made from 1.5 million tonnes of rock and soil, is 100 ft high and a quarter of a mile long. Her boobies are flipping huge and you can walk up them, right to her nipples !
Ahh you definitely live in the same town as me!
Savvyblonde · 03/02/2021 18:46

My town hosts the biggest UK participation sporting event each year. More people take part in it than the London Marathon but it seldom gets any press coverage.