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Quirky things about where you live

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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

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RuggerHug · 02/02/2021 11:32

I live in the only town/village in the country without a pub.AngrySad

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 02/02/2021 11:32

Does having to pass through an armed checkpoint to get to my house count as quirky? This is actually my second home in the UK to have had that arrangement. Our visitors need to get security passes.

Brendabigbaps · 02/02/2021 11:32

[quote TooManyButtons]@Brendabigbaps Sadly not that close, but yes, it's those polar bears I can see 😊[/quote]
I’d loose more hours to the boys than I would to mumsnet!

BikeRunSki · 02/02/2021 11:34

@Aethelstan and @SabrinaThwaite, ah, you live on the town between PiL’s house and a DM’s. We always stop there for lunch en route (we live 150 miles further north, and generally visit them both in same trip). The DC love the tiger connection.

Bookriddle · 02/02/2021 11:35

I live in the oldest recorded town in Britian, if they ever build anything in and around the town centre, they always find Roman ruins

trevthecat · 02/02/2021 11:46

The town I live in was loved by Hitler! And is the only town in the UK with 3 pier's!

LunarSea · 02/02/2021 11:47

My town has an Elephant Wash

LunarSea · 02/02/2021 11:49

@RuggerHug

I live in the only town/village in the country without a pub.AngrySad
Lots of the villages around here don't have pubs. Former estate villages, and the estate owners wouldn't have pubs.
ShinyMe · 02/02/2021 11:52

We have a church with a wonky tower. And we used to have a mint imperial factory that smelled amazing.

SabrinaThwaite · 02/02/2021 11:53

@RuggerHug

I live in the only town/village in the country without a pub.AngrySad
I used to live in a village that had 4 pubs - I could hit 3 of them with a pea shooter from my bedroom window.
AdoptedBumpkin · 02/02/2021 11:54

@PenCreed I've heard of it, but never been. I'm originally from SW London. Smile

ZackaryQuack · 02/02/2021 11:58

I live in a city that has its own dance routine called the "Bull and Dolphin shuffle" named after the pub it started in.
Whenever Len Boone - Love Won't Be Denied is played everyone in the building does it.... you go anywhere else in the country and no one knows the dance!!!

TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet · 02/02/2021 12:00

The sewer system connected to our old house was used to drive minis through in the original The Italian Job.

FreezerBird · 02/02/2021 12:01

@MrsMoastyToasty

We have a Bristol postcode Our postal town is Bristol We have Bristol dialling codes for landlines

We aren't in Bristol. We are in another county entirely. Our town has been in Somerset, then Avon and is currently in Bath and North East Somerset.

Our doctors surgery is in a former chocolate factory. The new road leading up to it has a Latin name.

The village I grew up in was the same (apart from the dialling code, but we've had the same bouncing from one county to another).

It's further from Bristol than you are, in fact probably closer to Bath. Growing up we were told that the reason for the postal stuff was that when the villages still had a railway, they were linked more directly to Bristol than Bath so that was the postal town.

LeahDownTheLane · 02/02/2021 12:04

Our village is a no through village so unless you were visiting you wouldn’t pass through. It’s cut through ancient woodland at the entrance and ends at the river. It’ll be ideal in a zombie apocalypse.

Halsall · 02/02/2021 12:04

Gliblet as the owner of a tortoise I would definitely be first in line for a tortoise fair

One of the many attempts on Queen Victoria's life was foiled by someone who lived in my village.

BikeRunSki · 02/02/2021 12:05

@TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet

The sewer system connected to our old house was used to drive minis through in the original The Italian Job.
We have a winner!!!
babbaloushka · 02/02/2021 12:20

We have a village cat, who wanders round and is fed and fussed over by everyone. Its a good day when you get him curled up on your lawn, if no one's seen him in a few days, a manhunt starts until he's inevitably found in someone's shed or under a bush. It's really sweet, great fun for the kids, even the primary school got them to write a diary entry imagining they were him.

Laffinalltheway · 02/02/2021 12:22

I live in a town that 'apparently' has the second most missiles from Russia aimed at it! The first target being GCHQ. What a lovely thought!!

babbaloushka · 02/02/2021 12:24

The mayor of a town nearby was filmed snorting cocaine in the public toilets, and then refused to step down.

CorianderBee · 02/02/2021 12:41

The village I grew up in is in an old Iron Age fort so a giant ring moat (without water) runs around it.

redsquirrelfan · 02/02/2021 12:42

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

We have 2 primary schools in our town. There is a river that runs through the middle of the town but not in a straight line. One school is on one side, one on the other and depending which side of the river you live on, dictates which primary school your child will go to. Even if you live much closer to the school on the other side of the river, it makes no difference, children are automatically placed in the school on their side (their catchment area). You can request a place at the closest school, but your not guaranteed one. It's pretty annoying actually.
It's like that where I live except in our case it's a canal,.
redsquirrelfan · 02/02/2021 12:48

One of my favourite bookshops was the Harbour bookshop in Dartmouth. I only discovered last year that it was run by Christopher Robin of AA Milne fame. I don't know how I didn't know that.

PuppyMonkey · 02/02/2021 12:56

My village has a “well dressing” ceremony every year. It’s an ancient tradition where you put floral decorations around all the wells, for some reason or other I’ve forgotten. It’s all a bit Wicker Man tbh but these days mainly involves a wonderful village party and fete, a scarecrow trail and everybody ending up absolutely pissed as a fart in the pub.

Sigh. I do hope it’ll be on this year.Sad

Needcoffeecoffeecoffee · 02/02/2021 13:00

@AdoptedBumpkin you cant be far from me. I remember taling about the quarantine and saying "I bet people wouldn't do that now" ...little did I know.
@PuppyMonkey I hadnt even thought well dressings were unusual Blush although dh always refers them to be very wicker man.

Not far from me is a petrifying well with things from the victorian times up to the 80s/90s in there turned to stone.
And a little further is a whole town football match on pancake day which runs the length of the town