What has your village/town/city given to the world?

[Marc]

Apart from yourself, before the attention seeking element flip into overdrive.

My town has given Fishermen friends to the world

http://www.fishermansfriend.com/

Any people from Newton le willows are NOT allowed to say Rick Astley.

 

[tris-]

Captain James Cook
The Match Stick
Steam Engine

to name a few i can remember.

 

[Vladamir]

Birthplace of radio

http://www.tiscover.co.uk/gb/guide/...,selBlk,RBLOCKBLK,selElem,BKE6Xgb/intern.html

Fucking pwnd

 

[cHodAX]

Birthplace of the Modern Computer (Alan Turning take a bow)

Birthplace of the Stone Roses

 

[Thorwyn]

4 football national players and a bunch of actors, singers, musicians etc.

 

[Bahumat]

Birthplace of radio

http://www.tiscover.co.uk/gb/guide/...,selBlk,RBLOCKBLK,selElem,BKE6Xgb/intern.html

Fucking pwnd

Your forgetting that Essex gave the world Jade Goody lol

 

[Bracken]

Worcestershire sauce, Edward Elgar and Morgan cars

 

[Roalith]

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Aka Lewis Carroll)

Yes, my nearest major local town gave the world a raving paedo

 

[soze]

I live in Clacton and we have taken 90% of the old people from the rest of Essex so we gave essex faster moving roads?

 

[Chronictank]

gave the world the Office
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/

Britain's first black female mayor

discovery of the planet Uranus

Europe's largest trade estate in single ownership.

duno if it started here, but lots of Chavs too

 

[Jeriraa]

Town I was born in: Rathenow, Germany

Birthplace of Johann Heinrich August Duncker, inventor of the 1st machine to industrialy manufacture lenses. (Can't translate the name: Vielspindelschleifmaschine) The company he fouded in 1801 existed until the reunion of Germany and was after the 2nd WW the main source of lenses and glasses for the whole Eastblock. After the reunion the industry was bought and sold out by Westgerman competitors resulting in an unemployment ratio of nearly 30%. (Guess why I moved.)

 

[Lamp]

Increased supply of cocaine to East London

Nothing to be proud of

 

[DocWolfe]

Birthplace of the Modern Computer (Alan Turning take a bow)

Birthplace of the Stone Roses

Alan Turing invented the Turing Machine!

 

[Chronictank]

Konrad Zuse created the Z1 which was the first freely programmable computer if i remember correctly

 

[Thadius]

John Waddington - (of Waddingtons game fame)
Birthplace of Marks and Spencer
Tetley Brewery
Leeds United
Vic Reeves!
Earnie Wise
Jimmy Saville
Jeremy Paxman
Richard Whitely
Alan Bennett
Mel B
Arthur Scargill
John Craven(old school Newsround presenter)
David Batty :worthy:
Alan Smith
Kaiser Chiefs
Chumbawumba!
Chris Moyles
Vera Duckworth :worthy:
Nell Mcandrew
Science
Paul Hunter(snooker)
Arthur Ransome
Tom Wilkinson(the old bloke from Full Monty)

 

[Overdriven]

Where I was born:

The Amstrad.

 

[Aile]

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=93348

 

[Naetha]

Thad - You also forgot Joseph Priestley (discovered Oxygen amongst other things) and Burtons clothes (Montague Burton).

Where I'm from originally is home to the most productive slate quarry in the world (for a long time it was the largest), and the Super Furry Animals

(Not bad for a small village in the middle of nowhere )

 

[Marc]

John Waddington - (of Waddingtons game fame)
Birthplace of Marks and Spencer
Tetley Brewery
Leeds United
Vic Reeves!
Earnie Wise
Jimmy Saville
Jeremy Paxman
Richard Whitely
Alan Bennett
Mel B
Arthur Scargill
John Craven(old school Newsround presenter)
David Batty :worthy:
Alan Smith
Kaiser Chiefs
Chumbawumba!
Chris Moyles
Vera Duckworth :worthy:
Nell Mcandrew
Science
Paul Hunter(snooker)
Arthur Ransome
Tom Wilkinson(the old bloke from Full Monty)

As the chant by St Helens fans goes..."Ohhhhhh Johny Craven, Mel B, Kaiser Chiefs, Arthur Scargill, Chris Moyles, Tony Smith, Kevin Sinfield, your boys took one hell of a beating, can you hear us?! One hell of a beating!!!!"

 

[Amanita]

Hats! The town I grew up in was famous for making hats. They have an amazing...

Spoiler

Hat museum

 

[ilaya]

Lifeboats
Catherine Cookson
Ridley Scott

 

[Jeriraa]

Konrad Zuse created the Z1 which was the first freely programmable computer if i remember correctly

Jepp, all the good stuff comes from Germany!

 

[Thadius]

Thad - You also forgot Joseph Priestley (discovered Oxygen amongst other things) and Burtons clothes (Montague Burton).

Where I'm from originally is home to the most productive slate quarry in the world (for a long time it was the largest), and the Super Furry Animals

(Not bad for a small village in the middle of nowhere )

Pftt oxygen, whats that?

I cant see t, how do I know it exists?

 

[Melachi]

Guinness, my home town is where Arthur Guinness was born and where the Guinness family still lives.

For a multi millionaire, they appear very unconspicuos, you can usualy see the father down the town at the shops in a pair of wellys, or driving his tractor.

 

[Bahumat]

Do you think someone is gonna be able to say

"Hitler/Napoleon/Stalin/Bob Monkhouse" or some other evil so and so was born in their town.

 

[Krait]

Do you think someone is gonna be able to say

"Hitler/Napoleon/Stalin/Bob Monkhouse" or some other evil so and so was born in their town.

Does Guy Fawkes count ?

 

[haarewin]

concorde, 2 crap footie teams, massive attack, lee evans, banksy, roni size, a bridge and a big ass boat.
oh, and lots of pirates came from here. and the slave trade centred on bristol's docks. so much to be proud of!

edit: i left out the most important thing - wallace and gromit!

 

[tris-]

paul daniels and that bitch who plays pauline fowler was born here.

also either vic reeves or bob mortimer. used to live near him

 

[Cozak]

Alan Shearer and Newcastle Brown Ale, probably a whole lot more but who needs more than that?!

 

[Urgluf]

Stella Artois xD