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  • #1

    what is your area 'famous' for?

    A few miles from us the annual World Pea Shooting Championships are held.

    Another few miles from us and happenng this weekend I believe is the British Ploughing Championships...

    exciting stuff I tells ya!


    So come on what 'exciting' things happen in your neck of the woods?
    Last edited by janeyo; 18-09-2009, 07:15 PM. Reason: forgot to mention
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    Edingley is about nine miles away from Sherwood Forest. Home of Robin Hood.
    It is the doom of man, that they forget.

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    • #3
      yes but that's a sensible one! I want weirdy ones lol

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      • #4
        About 10 minutes drive from us they once held the World Water-Skiing Championships! (or so I'm told!)
        Last edited by Glutton4...; 18-09-2009, 07:22 PM.
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        • #5
          The firast ever "Greenbelt" festival was held in Charsfield(my home village)...as was the home for "Akenfield"...a film in the seventies avbout village life & later an open garden a lady that had a role in said film.
          Also "Artemus 81" was filmed there...starring Sting...many a day in primary school was spent calling out to him ^ then having him pop round as I was poorly when they set fire to the vicarage.
          Got in my head there was something else.but can't right now think what?
          the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

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          • #6
            Flippin' Brontés! I don't even like most of their literary works... But everything round here seems to stick their name in the company name somewhere

            And The Railway Children was filmed near here too.

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            • #7
              Lady Chatterley's Lover was filmed near here; in Elvaston Castle.

              That's about it. We have the annual Well Dressing in the next village; but then again I believe that is quite common round these parts.

              And we have the annual oldies versus heavy metalheads in the Co-op every time Download [the new version of Monsters of Rock, plus camping] is on....which never fails to make me smile as chuffin great metalheads pick up lemon fancies and ask their skinny metalhead girlies if they can have a packet. Even better - the lemon half moon cake. Has me in stitches every year.

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              • #8
                Stonehenge, Avebury...oh and of course weirdy crop circles!

                The Barge Inn, Honeystreet, Pewsey,
                To see a world in a grain of sand
                And a heaven in a wild flower

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                • #9
                  Suicides. Beachy Head is a favourite spot.
                  Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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                  • #10
                    Early potatoes, LNG and fuel protests. The Shell Cottage part of the final Harry Potter film and Russell Crowe's Robin Hood were filmed locally.
                    Happy Gardening,
                    Shirley

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                    • #11
                      The opening war scenes in Gladiator were filmed near here. A new Robin Hood film was filmed in the same woods a few weeks ago. Thats it!
                      WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                      • #12
                        The next village to us - Toddington has a fanatastic sausage, the Toddington Thumper. It's a whopper.

                        Not exactly "famous" but we also have the Bedfordshire Clanger - similar to a Cornish pasty, but noweher near as well known.

                        We have Luton Hoo which has loads of stuff filmed there (brother-in-law's girlfriend works there so we hear all about it).

                        There's something about John Bunyan and Harlington that's "famous" but I can't remember what.

                        Lu-on airpawt of course!

                        Charles Bronson (the thug, not the film star) was born in Luton, as was Paul Young.

                        There's the Sharpenhoe Clappers about 2-3 miles from here - some fantastic views from up there.

                        The Great Train Robbery happened about 20 minutes from here.

                        I live here.
                        A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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                        • #13
                          Stilton Cheese, Pork pies(Melton Mobray 14 miles) Taylors Bell Foundry, Great central Railway, Ladybird Books(Closed) The University,The Brush (Engineering) Luddites,................................................................................& ME!
                          The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
                          Brian Clough

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                          • #14
                            Errrrmmmm...............lets see now................coal?
                            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                            • #15
                              I am LOVING these .... keep em coming! Brilliant!

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