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

Near me is a wide concrete apron off a country lane, sheltered from view because of the lay of the land and some strategically placed hawthorn bushes.

What is quirky about this site is that an escort parks up there some days for ‘car meets’ with her clients.

How do I know?

Because on her rather brazen webpage is a picture of her kneeling down on the back seat taking it doggy style with our house and treeline visible in the distance.

our town has a gibbet a real one that was used in its day and when it was in use if you could run over the nearby river you got let go free but if you came back within the town boundary you got taken back to the gibbett and beheaded anyway

BT filmed an advert in my town. It caused great amusement locally, because Kevin Bacon went in the door of one pub, but appeared in the front bar of a completely different pub in the next shot.

We have horses, donkeys and cows roaming around our villages.

Oh we have a bed race every summer too. People line the streets cheering on people running with beds

@ZackaryQuack

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!!!

My High School had this....!

It was a dance to New Order’s Blue Monday that I never ever mastered but everyone would get up in rows and do it...!

I was stunned as a student to discover it was just my tiny Perthshire High School

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies

A couple of hundred yards up the road from me, a plaque announces that, on that very spot, a bride was murdered in a bath.

When the tide is out you can pick up fossilised sharks teeth.

My great great aunt was one of the victims of the Brides in the Bath murderer! I wonder if she was the poor woman murdered near you.

I live really close to the deepest man made hole in Europe.

@trevthecat

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

Ah my hometown!

@BikeRunSki my friend who lives up the road went to your DS's school. She is not a famous as Jodie but has performed with some pretty well known people.

Nothing much happens around here but the village used to be at least twice the size it is now until the mines closed. Many houses were knocked down, the latest being around the 60s i think. School, houses, shops... all gone. It is crazy how nature takes over a it is all woodland now. So strange seeing old pictures.

@ShinyMe

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

My parents were born there. It’s football club was the last league ground to get floodlights. The same club produced an England goalkeeper who later played for my city’s club. The transfer fee was a princely £4000.

Someone in my town was the first person to receive the distress signal from the titanic. No one believed him.

Our U.K. market town was the place original Lego was invented. They were made of hard rubber rather than plastic in the 1930’s. I even had some in the 1970’s as I lived not far away from where I’ve come back to.

The Norwegian version had better marketing I guess.

Danish sorry !

@redsquirrelfan

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.

I remember seeing him in there when I was a child. Last time I walked past there was a faded Winnie-the-Pooh in the window. It’s a community bookshop now. Or was pre-covid.

@BathshebaKnickerStickers

I live really close to the deepest man made hole in Europe.

Rubislaw?

Did the visitor centre plan ever get off the ground?

@WhenPushComesToShove

Down the road is a 14th century inn used as the headquarters of Monmouth's army, during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685. In the aftermath of the failed rebellion Judge Jeffreys used the Inn as a courtroom and conducted 12 executions on the village common, as part of the Bloody Assizes.[7]

I think I know that one.

I am from the most 'normal' town in England but I don't live there anymore

@SabrinaThwaite - never did. Sport Aberdeen are using it for canoeing and paddle boarding

[quote BathshebaKnickerStickers]@SabrinaThwaite - never did. Sport Aberdeen are using it for canoeing and paddle boarding[/quote]
Ooh, I think I’d find that a bit creepy. It’s a looooong way down.

I live in an inland village 20 miles from the sea, yet we have a customs house in our village as technically you can sail up the river, out to sea and over to America, should the mood take you. Xx

Mani from Stone Roses lives here!

My town is mostly famous for horse racing.

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 !