Quirky things about where you live

[BobISMyUncle]

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

@mrswhiplington

There is a Moravian Settlement in the middle of the very average town where I live. Protestants from the Czech Republic fled here 200 years ago and settled. They set up their own community with a church, school, shops etc. It is still occupied today. All the streets are cobbled. I would love to live there. They use the settlement for films and TV programmes, ie Peaky Blinders. Even Michael Portillo has visited it on his train programmes.

Pudsey?

I used to live right next to it.

@Fuckititsstillraining Are you in UK or Ireland ?

Do you live near the Yorkshire wildlife park? We've been watching news on their polar bears for a while now.

I recently learnt of a small town on the usa/Canada border where the border runs through the town Derby Line Vermont. . Houses are split front garden USA, back garden Canada. Theatre half the audience is in USA half in Canada. Library you can look at books but to approach the desk you swap countries.
They have cameras allover watching the 'line'. Before 9/11it was a soft border but now properly policed.

@safclass

Do you live near the Yorkshire wildlife park? We've been watching news on their polar bears for a while now.

It must be quite disconcerting to hear the lions roar at night if you live near a zoo.

I love YWP and go every year.

@safclass

I recently learnt of a small town on the usa/Canada border where the border runs through the town Derby Line Vermont. . Houses are split front garden USA, back garden Canada. Theatre half the audience is in USA half in Canada. Library you can look at books but to approach the desk you swap countries. They have cameras allover watching the 'line'. Before 9/11it was a soft border but now properly policed.

I do wonder how border towns worldwide have coped with lockdown etc. There was one we regularly drove through, on the Dutch/German border. Fuel is cheaper in Germany... So the German petrol station was extremely busy. (Even cheaper if you didn't have to pay German tax...)

Until 1995, my town was the largest in the UK with no train station

Ginfordinner not Pudsey, it is near Manchester. There may be others around the country as well.

"The sea, the snot green, scrotumtightening sea."

According to James Joyce in Ulysses.

Dublin Bay to you and me.
It stretches from Howth Head to Dalkey Point.

@mrswhiplington

Ginfordinner not Pudsey, it is near Manchester. There may be others around the country as well.

Just googled it. It is so pretty.

Where I live is the favoured site of the historic battle of brunanburh - Saxons vs Vikings and Saxons had a great victory.

We also have some pretty interesting WWII outposts around.

The village down from us also used to be a Victorian Zoo, the bear pit is still there and you can go down into it and still see the claw marks

Close to where I live there is a plaque in the middle of a main road in memory of it being the spot they used to burn (a lot) of witches. At some stage, they had wanted to dig up the road to make developments/changes to the traffic system but they couldn't do it as they weren't certain that none of the dead had small pox and it wouldn't release spores if they were dug up. So, a jumbled traffic system and ghosts of pox ridden faux witches
(something like that, don't quote me on the scientific viability!)

My former home town in the north of England has a locally sourced salt water pool despite being far inland, I think it must be the only one in the country.

Shrove Tuesday is known as skipping day in our town. The sea front is closed off to traffic, and everybody takes their skipping ropes down their and, well, skips! Some schools even give the kids the afternoon off for it

I live in the largest city in Europe without a ringroad.

We built the Crystal Palace even though we are nowhere near London.

We have a living pub sign.

Explain please!

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

We have a living pub sign.

How does this work??? I'm so confused by your statement, please make it make sense lol

The pub (the Beehive) has a beehive as part of its sign. It's been there since 1830 apparently. With 🐝 s.

I do wonder how border towns worldwide have coped with lockdown etc.

The one that never ceases to amaze me is Baarle Hertog/Baarle Nassau in Belgium/Netherlands. Absolutely fascinating - you can be in a part of NL, that's inside Belgium, that's inside NL!

The house in the picture is in both countries.

This thread is wonderful, the Peterborough shuffle dance has absolutely made my day! Just watched YouTube videos of it, it's so wonderfully quirky

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

The pub (the Beehive) has a beehive as part of its sign. It's been there since 1830 apparently. With 🐝 s.

I wasted many hours of my youth in that pub, eating ploughman's lunches, drinking beer and listening to Hawkwind.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

The pub (the Beehive) has a beehive as part of its sign. It's been there since 1830 apparently. With 🐝 s.

Ah, I know where you live.

Is there still the odd lion clock near morrisons?

@SimonJT do you mean that bizarre thing in the shopping centre? I only moved her about 18months ago, and most of that has been Lockdown, so I don't know the town that well.